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(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

What's keeping him?

(WIND HoWLING)

Commissioner Gordon?

(GASPS)

-Forget it, Stavros. -Your meeting's been canceled.

He's on his way, boss.

No! No!

(CRYING)

(CRYING HYSTERICALLY)

Please, please. It's not what you think.

l wasn't gonna say anything. Honest.

Silence!

First you transgress against me.

Then you force me to descend to the mortal plane.

And now you say l know not what l think?

No!

To the depths of Tartarus with you.

-(THUNDER RUMBLING) -(sTAvRos scREAmINc)

He's a lucky guy. If those tires hadn't absorbed the shock, he-

Just a minute. The weather was perfectly clear tonight,

and you're telling me that man was struck by lightning?

l guess you'll have to ask him what happened whenever he wakes up.

His name is Yanni Stavros.

BATMAN: He works for Maximillian Shipping Lines.

As a scheduler.

-You know him? -He's been under Interpol investigation

for selling vital shipping schedules to hijackers.

That fits. Stavros had offered to give me some information

so he could cut a deal with the feds.

What kind of information?

Ever hear of something called an EDC?

The Electron Discharge Cannon.

A fourth-generation energy weapon

being developed by a combined US-European alliance.

Then you probably know this prototype was stolen last month

while it was being shipped overseas.

MAN: (ON _V) Th�s film contains cIassified information

on defense project 406562, the Electron D�scharge tannon.

for author�zed personnel only.

And you think Stavros was either involved in the the Ft or knows who was.

(CANNoN PoWERING UP)

GORDON: l pray that he does,

because if that infernal device falls into the wrong hands...

Maybe it already has.

CLlO: The grand juy is building another case,

and l can't stop them this time.

There are allegations of bribery, extortion and racketeering,

all pointing back to you, Max.

Sure, l'm your assistant, but there's only so much l can do on my own.

Max? Maxie? Come on, Iook at me when l'm talking to you.

You bore me with these tales of petty human concerns.

You're doing it again, Maxie.

You are Clio, my muse of history.

Amuse me with tales of ancient times,

when mortals trembled at the name of leus.

You want a story? l got one.

Seems there was this guy named Max,

who, because he had been lucky so far in the smuggling racket,

believed himself to be untouchable, superior, godlike.

There's a cynical edge to your voice l don't appreciate.

Know you not l am above mortal constraints oF right and wrong?

No one is above the law, Max.

l make my own laws.

Maxie, please. Don't look at me as if you don't know me.

What's happened to you? To us?

AFter all we've been through together. After all we meant to--

(AIR CRAFT WHINING)

What's that?

Who dares?

Of course.

Like the shadow of ebon-winged night, he rises From the dark realm.

Behold, the coming of my brother, Lord Hades!

Welcome, Lord Hades.

Be serious, Max. That's Batman.

But Batman is a mere mortal.

And what mortal could reach the summit of Mount Olympus and survive?

Come, dark brother. Avail yourself of the nectar of the gods.

No, thanks.

l just want to ask you a few questions about-

Hold. The words of the gods are not for the ears of mere muses.

Yep, that's me, just a lowly muse. Whatever.

Now, my brother, what brings you to me?

Has Lord Vulcan been causing you trouble again?

The Batman? Upstairs?

What do we do?

lf His Lordship wants us, he'll holler.

You're taking this too lightly, Alex. We're in trouble.

Maxie's worse than ever.

When was the last time you saw him wear real clothes in the office?

You know the boss and Greek stuff. It's his thing.

Well, his thing is about to blow this shipping firm out of the water.

And maybe Maxie with it.

An Electron Discharge Cannon?

You run one of the world's Iargest shipping firms.

l thought you might know how the hijackers were able to move it.

Why should leus be concerned about the weapons of man

when he can call forth thunderbolts of his own?

This audience is at an end.

Awake, my harpies.

Begone, Lord Hades. Get thee back to thine own realm.

Do not come again to Olympus until bidden.

l think l get the message.

(AIR CRAFT WHINING)

Oh, Max, what's happening to you?

Hey, you called, boss... l mean, thou didst summon us, O great leus?

lndeed l did.

For you are to be among the first pitiful mortals

to bear witness to the dawn of a new age.

(BEEPS)

Soon all mortals will tremble once more

at the fury of Zeus reborn!

Come back to me, Maxie.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

What do you want?

The same thing you do.

To help Maximillian Zeus.

He wasn't always this way, you know.

But then business got bad and he started handling cargo for the mob.

After a while, with the pressure, the tension, things got con Fused.

He's not living in the real world anymore.

Maybe you can relate to that.

You're the only one who can get me close enough to help him,

while some of the man you knew still exists.

This is as far as l can take you. Now you're on your own.

Batman?

This isn't the roof.

Sorry, Ms. Droukas. Boss's orders.

This is as Far as you go.

Like Bellerophon astride winged Pegasus,

yon Foolish mortals dare encroach on sacred Olympus.

-Does he mean us? -Get thee back unto the mortal plane!

No, Maxie! Not the cops!

(CRACKLING)

l don't believe it.

WOMAN: It's on fire! MAN: It's gonna crash.

WOMAN: It's gonna explode. MAN: Oh, no!

Get back!

(INDISTINCT SHoUTING)

Feel the wrath of Zeus, thou insignificant--

Max, what have you done? You could have killed someone!

How dare you speak with such disloyalty!

But, Maxie, please, you know l love you.

Clio? l'm sorry. l can't...

Thou art no longer fit to be among us!

Tie her to the thunderbolt of Zeus.

But, boss, don't you think you may be carrying things a bit-

(YELLS)

Alexander, will thou do my bidding?

Nothing personal, Ms. Droukas.

(MUFFLED PRoTESTS)

So, no longer like an eagle against the sky,

but as a worm crawling though the dirt does Lord Hades try to regain Olympus.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

(EXCLAIMS)

(GRUNTING)

MAX: Heracles bested 12 labors before l received him.

And so it shall be with you, bat demon.

(HISSING)

(GRUNTING IN PAIN)

(GRoANING)

MA_: So, you have surv�ved my hydra. But many more ehallenges await.

(GRoWLING)

(GRoWLING)

(CLoPPING HooVES APPRoACHING)

(ANIMAL SQUEALING)

(YELLS)

MAX: Alas.

Farewell, my dark brother.

Be not afraid, my muse.

For once thou hast been cleansed by the Fire from Olympus,

thou shalt be as a goddess at my side throughout eternity!

(MUFFLED SHoUTING)

Let the heavens scream!

Let the earth tremble!

Let mortals know the gods of old live again!

lt's over, Maxie.

Alexander, destroy the bat demon.

-But, boss, maybe we shouldn't- -Traitors! My harpies, awake.

Destroy all who oppose me!

(CANNoN PoWERING UP)

(MAX GRUNTS)

(GRoANING)

Ah.

Thank you, Bat... Look out!

Begone, thou foul bat demon!

Get thee back to the underworld where thee belongs!

Such is the fate of all who dare to thwart the gods.

Oh, no.

lt's going to fire!

No!

That's mine!

(GASPS)

Maxie, no!

Get down!

(MAX SCREAMING)

Now, this is truly Olympus.

Surely, it can be no other place.

J There's beauti Ful Demeter goddess of the harvest.

And double-faced Janus, Iord of beginnings and endings.

And merry Hermes, the trickster of the gods.

Now at last, mighty leus is home.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)