[BATMAN is listening through his radio while speeding thru Gotham in the Batmobile.]
BATGIRL: [on radio] So we're supposed to call my dad and tell him all the city figures are under threat from a gang of dominatrixe-is it dominatrixes? Dominatrixii?
BATMAN: Dominatrices.
BATGIRL: I don't even want to know.
BATMAN: I pushed the panic button. But it may be too late.
Damian, find the mayor. BG, McCaskill. I'm on my way to Gordon's.
DAMIAN: What about Wayne Manor?
BATMAN: Alfred's on it.
BATGIRL: I'll take Gordon.
BATMAN: Look-
BATGIRL: I'll take Gordon.
BATMAN: Fine. McCaskill is still working at City Hall, converge there once we've secured the other targets.
Damian, tell me when you get to the mayor's mans-
[DAMIAN is in an elegant-looking bedroom]
DAMIAN: I'm already here.
I was too late.
[MAYOR ANDERSON is dead, strung up on his bed, arm's strapped to each bedpost, red-white-blue firecrackers shoved into his mouth.]
BATMAN: BG, report in when you can.
[on the phone in his helmet]
This is Batman. Amy, where are you? ... Get out of the building, now! Your life is under threat.
[BATMAN arrives at the City Administration building, uses grappling hook to fly up the side of the building.]
BATMAN: She's on floor 7.
[He crashes through the window burst into the dark council chambers room. MCCASKILL is at the center, seemingly alone.]
MCCASKILL: What is going on?
BATMAN: [Still, evaluating situation.]
Don't move.
FURY: [off-panel] Bad advice.
[Women rappel from the ceiling to surround MCCASKILL]
BATMAN: ARRRGGHH! [He tackles one woman while using a batarang to subdue another and uses a grappling hook to knock a third off her feet.]
BATGIRL busts into her father's home. Silently, she runs through to the kitchen, to find that Gordon has subdued and restrained two of FURY's women, holding one at gunpoint with a shotgun.]
GORDON: I don't know who these girls are, but at least they brought their own handcuffs.
[BATMAN is fighting his way to McCaskill. While he is punching one of FURY's women, a whip wraps around his wrist as he pulls back. He rips his hand forward, flipping the whip over, but another FURY gang member grabs it and pulls his arm down. He uses his other hand to knock the first woman unconscious but is slowly being bound by FURY's gang.
Meanwhile, gang members have trapped MCCASKILL with whips and are laying her out on a table.
FURY GANG MEMBER 1: Get her wrists!
Police arrive at the City Administration lobby, but some of FURY's women topple a giant stone Lady Justice statue inside the lobby, blocking the doors.]
DEPUTY SMITH: We can't get in, hostages are on the 7th Floor. Gonna have to deploy choppers.
Think we can keep them in the air this time?
BATMAN is finally subdued. FURY approaches MCCASKILL and uses her two whips to wrap around her neck.]
FURY: Where were you, sister?
[FURY throws her whips to two other gang members who keep them tight around MCCASKILL's throat. FURY pulls out a switchblade.]
FURY: They say there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
[FURY lowers face to MCCASKILL.]
FURY: But what part of hell could be worse than here?
This is mercy. Sister.
BATGIRL: [From the spectator gallery, a balcony above them.] Hey Fury!
[BATGIRL holds some sort of starter switch in her hand.]
Pledge allegiance to this.
[BATGIRL presses the button which sets off charges around them all. The entire floor has been rigged to collapse. All of Fury's women are caught off-guard and tumble to the next floor. BATMAN grabs two of the whips being used to restrain him, uses one to wrap around the balcony and stop himself from falling, uses the other to save MCCASKILL. The women are mostly knocked unconscious, BATGIRL jumps down to restrain FURY.]
[She then jumps up to join BATMAN and MCCASKILL. BATMAN is helping untangle MCCASKILL]
MCCASKILL: You rigged city hall with explosives?!
BATGIRL: All over the city, just in case someday. I thought he was nuts.
BATMAN: Glad I can finally say I told you so.
MCCASKILL: And who the hell are they?
BATGIRL: A gang of elite prostitutes lead by a legendary dominatrix.
BATMAN: They're the Uncle Sam murderers. The killings were for revenge.
MCCASKILL: OK, I'll pretend that all just made sense.
BATMAN: [to BATGIRL] There are other targets. Go now. Keep comms open.
[BATGIRL flies away.]
BATMAN: [On his comms] AP, come in.
[Cut to ALFRED, looking out from a high floor on Wayne manor. In the yards, all of FURY's women are lying unconscious.]
ALFRED: Our defense systems worked flawlessly. They'll wake up in 24 hours remembering nothing.
BATMAN: Very well.
MCCASKILL: If they went after me they'll go after Anderson.
BATMAN: Anderson's dead.
Your mayoral term will begin early.
MCCASKILL: Yeah, it's going to be the shortest term in Gotham history.
BATMAN: I don't think so.
Follow through on your platform.
MCCASKILL: That includes arresting you!
[BATMAN looks down, sees that FURY has gotten away. Before he jumps to look for her, he turns his head.]
BATMAN: Who are you going to appoint to replace Tanner?
MCCASKILL: [close-up] Oh, I think you'll like the names I've got in mind.
[BATMAN jumps to the lower level, to find that FURY is leaping out a window. He follows her, finding that she has gotten to the roof of the city administration building, which has a giant statue of one of Gotham's colonialist founding fathers. It's dark, raining, and police helicopters swirl nearby.]
BATMAN: Fury, it's over.
FURY: That was impressive.
BATMAN: No one else needs to get hurt.
FURY: You know, I used to think I was helping them. All these men with such responsibilities and pressures. Every night, I used to be so proud. Such a fool.
What do you think you're fighting for!? This system that tortures and kills the unfavored?
BATMAN: No. For justice.
Justice is the only tool that can protect the weak from the powerful. Even when it's just an ideal. Even when it's just a hope.
FURY: Where was your justice? Your justice is a joke. Force is the only tool that counts in this life.
[Through tears.] They were people! They had dreams, they had flaws. They mattered! I just want to hear someone say that!
BATMAN: They matter.
FURY: So what, you have all the answers?
BATMAN: I don't.
FURY: They mattered. [She collapses into sobs on the ground.]
[BATMAN places his hand on her shoulder.]
