1 00:01:16,805 --> 00:01:18,530 - Miss Welbeck. - Yes, Mr. Mockridge? 2 00:01:19,942 --> 00:01:21,504 Has Edward Nygma come in yet? 3 00:01:21,744 --> 00:01:23,021 I don't think so. 4 00:01:23,244 --> 00:01:26,662 Good. If you need me, I'll be down on the eighth floor. 5 00:02:13,702 --> 00:02:15,132 What's going on here? 6 00:02:20,877 --> 00:02:23,563 Where's my office? My door was right here. 7 00:02:23,981 --> 00:02:25,411 "Was" is right. 8 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:30,395 What's the meaning of this? 9 00:02:30,622 --> 00:02:32,478 What does it look like, Eddie? 10 00:02:34,125 --> 00:02:37,477 You're out of here. You're history. You're fired. Comprende? 11 00:02:38,064 --> 00:02:40,302 Have you lost what passes for your mind? 12 00:02:40,566 --> 00:02:42,805 You can't afford to do without me, Mockridge. 13 00:02:43,202 --> 00:02:45,343 I can if you're gonna sue me for royalties. 14 00:02:45,605 --> 00:02:48,477 I created the "Riddle of the Minotaur" game. 15 00:02:48,776 --> 00:02:51,396 This company is making millions from my genius. 16 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:55,013 Competitron Software's success didn't come from the product. 17 00:02:55,483 --> 00:03:00,189 Competitron is a corporate attitude. Its strength is in the deal, the contract... 18 00:03:00,589 --> 00:03:03,974 specifically the work-for-hire contract you signed. 19 00:03:07,831 --> 00:03:11,030 You're a fool, Mockridge, to think you can get away with this. 20 00:03:11,335 --> 00:03:14,850 Your amoral greed is no match for an intellect like mine. 21 00:03:15,372 --> 00:03:17,676 Oh, yeah? Then tell me something, Eddie. 22 00:03:17,976 --> 00:03:21,274 If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? 23 00:03:24,450 --> 00:03:29,058 So I've made sure that Competitron owns all rights to "Riddle of the Minotaur." 24 00:03:29,421 --> 00:03:31,878 Considering all the licensing and merchandising... 25 00:03:32,158 --> 00:03:35,063 Heck, we just built an amusement park outside the city. 26 00:03:35,362 --> 00:03:37,698 If we'd had to pay royalties to the creator... 27 00:03:37,965 --> 00:03:42,279 You can stop pitching. I want this deal so I can move Competitron to Gotham. 28 00:03:43,104 --> 00:03:45,823 This city desperately needs the jobs it'll create. 29 00:03:50,346 --> 00:03:51,557 What's he trying to? 30 00:03:53,883 --> 00:03:54,883 What did you say? 31 00:03:56,953 --> 00:03:58,448 Mockridge, are you okay? 32 00:03:58,788 --> 00:03:59,999 Mockridge! 33 00:04:04,728 --> 00:04:08,790 We'll have to wrap this up later, guys. Something's come up. 34 00:04:11,302 --> 00:04:12,798 Excuse me. 35 00:04:15,607 --> 00:04:18,545 Well, whatever that meant, it sure rattled his cage. 36 00:04:19,078 --> 00:04:25,161 "Why do multi-million dollar deals break down in the wasteland?" 37 00:04:35,398 --> 00:04:37,123 It has to have a double meaning. 38 00:04:37,767 --> 00:04:42,789 Master Dick, that must be quite a game, to be worth tying up a $50-million computer. 39 00:04:43,506 --> 00:04:45,580 Not a game, Alfred, the game. 40 00:04:46,175 --> 00:04:47,834 "Riddle of the Minotaur." 41 00:04:48,078 --> 00:04:52,042 It's cool, look. Not only do you have to avoid all these traps... 42 00:04:54,518 --> 00:04:56,592 you've gotta solve all these riddles. 43 00:04:56,854 --> 00:05:00,337 "What is the shortest distance between a point in Nome, Alaska... 44 00:05:00,658 --> 00:05:02,602 and a point in Miami, Florida?" 45 00:05:02,860 --> 00:05:04,771 A straight line. What else? 46 00:05:08,568 --> 00:05:14,268 Begging your pardon, sir, but mightn't the answer on a globe be a curved line? 47 00:05:16,142 --> 00:05:18,446 Wasteland... wasteland... 48 00:05:22,717 --> 00:05:23,995 My word! 49 00:05:24,385 --> 00:05:26,809 Oh, that. That's the Hand of Fate. 50 00:05:27,089 --> 00:05:31,282 When you make a mistake, it picks you up and takes you to another part of the maze. 51 00:05:32,327 --> 00:05:35,592 Doesn't Mockridge own a club downtown called The Wasteland? 52 00:05:36,265 --> 00:05:37,728 The Wasteland! 53 00:05:39,370 --> 00:05:41,313 Right. The Wasteland. 54 00:05:41,571 --> 00:05:44,126 I mean in the game. It's a dead end, see? 55 00:05:45,476 --> 00:05:48,960 Come on. Daniel Mockridge is walking into a trap. 56 00:06:06,167 --> 00:06:07,378 Nygma? 57 00:06:10,104 --> 00:06:11,316 Nygma. 58 00:06:11,539 --> 00:06:16,398 Decode that message all by yourself, Mockridge, or did you have help? 59 00:06:16,978 --> 00:06:19,402 You're trespassing, Nygma. Get out. 60 00:06:19,681 --> 00:06:20,958 You can't kill this deal. 61 00:06:21,183 --> 00:06:24,033 I'm selling out to Wayne, and you can't stop me. 62 00:06:24,453 --> 00:06:25,698 Of course I can't. 63 00:06:25,955 --> 00:06:29,056 You don't understand. I have a proposition for you. 64 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:31,254 You've come up with a new game? 65 00:06:31,495 --> 00:06:36,901 This? No, this puzzle is far more than any mere game. Wouldn't you agree? 66 00:06:37,301 --> 00:06:39,474 Or do you need to try it yourself? 67 00:06:39,738 --> 00:06:42,391 Solve it. Then we'll talk. 68 00:06:42,674 --> 00:06:45,262 Oh, for crying out loud. 69 00:06:56,723 --> 00:06:58,929 What is this, some kind of extortion scheme? 70 00:06:59,193 --> 00:07:01,049 You think I want money? 71 00:07:01,362 --> 00:07:02,640 Not anymore. 72 00:07:02,864 --> 00:07:04,392 What I want now... 73 00:07:05,033 --> 00:07:06,375 is you. 74 00:07:17,982 --> 00:07:19,357 Empty. 75 00:07:23,988 --> 00:07:26,893 Well, well. "Bat" something-or-other, isn't it? 76 00:07:27,192 --> 00:07:28,786 Who invited you? 77 00:07:30,561 --> 00:07:33,281 You know what happens to gatecrashers? 78 00:07:35,034 --> 00:07:37,108 They have to match wits with... 79 00:07:37,605 --> 00:07:39,199 The Riddler. 80 00:07:45,679 --> 00:07:47,142 The Riddler? 81 00:07:48,048 --> 00:07:51,728 What is that, Nygma, some kind of joke on your name? 82 00:07:52,653 --> 00:07:58,375 My, my. Can we actually have a brain beneath that pointy cowl of ours? 83 00:07:59,128 --> 00:08:02,546 So tell me, have you brawn to match? 84 00:09:06,271 --> 00:09:09,055 I love that trick, but I can never make it work. 85 00:09:24,726 --> 00:09:28,340 Let's consider you handled for now, shall we? 86 00:09:37,606 --> 00:09:39,037 Coming through. 87 00:09:51,355 --> 00:09:53,015 Well done, Batman. 88 00:09:53,257 --> 00:09:56,904 But have you wits enough to save two people at the same time? 89 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:04,270 It's my own variation on the Chinese finger puzzle. 90 00:10:05,470 --> 00:10:10,079 Batman, you gotta help me. I can pay you, Batman. Anything you want. 91 00:10:10,777 --> 00:10:12,666 Batman! 92 00:10:24,427 --> 00:10:29,352 Hey, it's getting hot in here. Get me out of this thing! 93 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,341 What did you mean, a joke on his name? 94 00:10:33,603 --> 00:10:34,848 You know who he is? 95 00:10:35,073 --> 00:10:39,681 I figured the creator of the Minotaur game was behind this when I saw that billboard. 96 00:10:40,043 --> 00:10:42,434 I read about him in the company records. 97 00:10:43,014 --> 00:10:46,497 His name's Nygma, Edward Nygma. 98 00:10:46,852 --> 00:10:50,979 I get it. "E. Nygma," meaning a puzzle or riddle. 99 00:10:51,323 --> 00:10:54,621 An enigma. At least we know who we're looking for. 100 00:10:56,363 --> 00:10:57,705 Hey, Bruce, look. 101 00:11:16,052 --> 00:11:18,388 The lights. Why are they all flashing? 102 00:11:18,721 --> 00:11:20,151 It's Morse code. 103 00:11:37,710 --> 00:11:39,621 That should get their attention. 104 00:11:42,848 --> 00:11:45,533 But why? You got the guy you wanted. 105 00:11:49,823 --> 00:11:51,930 Batman knows who I am. 106 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,778 We have to put him and his snot-nosed cohort out of the way first. 107 00:11:57,632 --> 00:11:58,910 Come on. 108 00:12:00,436 --> 00:12:01,713 What did it say? 109 00:12:01,937 --> 00:12:05,256 "When is the minotaur's owner as high as an elephant's eye?" 110 00:12:10,814 --> 00:12:14,908 Well, Mockridge owns The Minotaur, but what's as high as an elephant's eye? 111 00:12:15,351 --> 00:12:16,727 Corn. 112 00:12:22,059 --> 00:12:23,270 Corn? 113 00:12:23,495 --> 00:12:26,345 It's from an old song lyric, before your time. 114 00:12:26,631 --> 00:12:29,732 So, what's he saying? "When Mockridge is corny"? 115 00:12:30,036 --> 00:12:31,826 "When Mockridge is in the corn"? 116 00:12:32,506 --> 00:12:34,995 What's another word meaning "corn"? 117 00:12:35,475 --> 00:12:37,037 Kernel? Cob? 118 00:12:37,578 --> 00:12:40,963 Maize. "When Mockridge is in the maize." 119 00:12:41,349 --> 00:12:44,580 - The maze at the amusement park. - Exactly. 120 00:12:51,159 --> 00:12:52,437 Where's Mockridge? 121 00:12:52,661 --> 00:12:56,144 In the center of the maze, along with the minotaur robot. 122 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,760 I've programmed it to destroy him at exactly 4:30 a.m. 123 00:13:03,539 --> 00:13:07,252 Which gives you less than 10 minutes to run the maze and find him. 124 00:13:07,578 --> 00:13:10,963 But first, throw down your utility belts. 125 00:13:11,382 --> 00:13:15,062 It'll be more interesting that way, don't you think? 126 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:17,530 Now you may enter. 127 00:13:27,902 --> 00:13:32,379 Oh, and by the way, you'll have to answer the Riddle of the Minotaur too. 128 00:13:32,740 --> 00:13:34,268 I can't wait. 129 00:13:34,976 --> 00:13:37,050 How far did you say you got in the game? 130 00:13:37,312 --> 00:13:39,419 I'm not sure, maybe halfway. 131 00:13:39,715 --> 00:13:41,571 Already I love this. 132 00:13:45,988 --> 00:13:48,925 - Now where to? - I'm thinking. I'm thinking. 133 00:13:51,562 --> 00:13:53,538 Could you do it more quickly? 134 00:13:54,498 --> 00:13:58,495 Oh, the griffin. That just blocks off the way you came, that's all. 135 00:14:02,674 --> 00:14:06,025 Except I've added an improvement of my own. 136 00:14:23,731 --> 00:14:25,488 "Losers ahead"? 137 00:14:25,933 --> 00:14:27,244 Duck! 138 00:14:29,004 --> 00:14:33,416 "Loses a head." I don't know what's worse, the traps or the puns. 139 00:14:39,950 --> 00:14:42,253 I guess this isn't a good time to tell you... 140 00:14:42,518 --> 00:14:45,390 nobody's ever made it to the center of the maze. 141 00:15:06,379 --> 00:15:09,698 I'll find Mockridge if I have to tear this place apart, Nygma. 142 00:15:10,017 --> 00:15:11,425 I doubt it. 143 00:15:11,752 --> 00:15:14,089 I made sure the perils are quite lethal. 144 00:15:14,689 --> 00:15:17,211 You have eight minutes, gentlemen. 145 00:15:17,493 --> 00:15:21,872 Then Mockridge becomes the only good corporate shark: A dead one. 146 00:15:26,436 --> 00:15:29,602 Great. You don't happen to know Arabic, do you? 147 00:15:30,206 --> 00:15:33,056 No, but I can translate it. 148 00:15:36,112 --> 00:15:37,837 "Which way to the eating place? '" 149 00:15:38,349 --> 00:15:41,286 Oh, terrific. Let's just pick one and move! 150 00:15:45,523 --> 00:15:49,301 We're going the wrong way, because here comes the Hand of Fate! 151 00:15:59,006 --> 00:16:04,247 Of course! We went to the left, but in the Arab world, you eat with your right hand. 152 00:16:08,117 --> 00:16:11,436 - We've gotta use one of these keys. - Yes, but which one? 153 00:16:11,887 --> 00:16:14,606 And why are they labeled A, C and D? 154 00:16:14,957 --> 00:16:16,071 Don't look at me. 155 00:16:16,426 --> 00:16:17,802 Let's try D. 156 00:16:23,601 --> 00:16:24,846 Look out! 157 00:16:27,605 --> 00:16:29,363 - Try another one. - Okay. 158 00:16:30,109 --> 00:16:31,572 A this time. 159 00:16:31,809 --> 00:16:32,890 No, wait! 160 00:16:33,712 --> 00:16:36,234 Turn that key and there'll be three blades. 161 00:16:36,515 --> 00:16:38,973 - But how do you...? - It's the C key. Trust me. 162 00:16:48,695 --> 00:16:49,940 It's a musical puzzle. 163 00:16:50,264 --> 00:16:51,859 They key of D has two sharps. 164 00:16:52,133 --> 00:16:53,563 The key of A has three. 165 00:16:53,801 --> 00:16:56,258 But the key of C has no sharps. 166 00:17:11,655 --> 00:17:16,067 "The shortest distance between two points on a globe." That one I remember. 167 00:17:16,427 --> 00:17:18,600 One minute, Batman. 168 00:17:20,297 --> 00:17:21,542 Stay here. 169 00:17:21,766 --> 00:17:23,623 - But that's the wrong door. - I know. 170 00:17:23,868 --> 00:17:26,259 - But the hand! - That's what I want. 171 00:17:45,259 --> 00:17:47,978 Batman. Batman, where are you? 172 00:17:48,329 --> 00:17:52,107 Forget it, kid. I handed him his walking papers. 173 00:17:55,471 --> 00:17:56,716 Get on. 174 00:17:58,474 --> 00:18:01,094 Just one question: How? 175 00:18:01,511 --> 00:18:03,301 I linked it to my palmtop computer. 176 00:18:03,781 --> 00:18:09,798 That is grand-scale cheating, Batman. You can't tamper with the Hand of Fate. 177 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:12,411 I don't believe in fate. 178 00:18:12,691 --> 00:18:15,311 You probably don't believe in minotaurs, either. 179 00:18:15,595 --> 00:18:18,379 But you'll still have to answer the riddle. 180 00:18:18,663 --> 00:18:22,409 I have billions of eyes, yet I live in darkness. 181 00:18:23,604 --> 00:18:28,147 I have millions of ears, yet only four lobes. 182 00:18:28,509 --> 00:18:33,182 I have no muscle, yet I rule two hemispheres. 183 00:18:33,815 --> 00:18:35,507 What am I? 184 00:18:36,685 --> 00:18:38,890 That's simple. The human brain. 185 00:18:41,023 --> 00:18:43,130 Billions of optic and auditory nerves... 186 00:18:43,392 --> 00:18:45,150 four lobes and two hemispheres. 187 00:18:45,495 --> 00:18:48,629 And it's the only thing Edward Nygma respects. 188 00:18:48,933 --> 00:18:51,356 A lucky guess, that's all. 189 00:18:51,802 --> 00:18:53,810 But it won't save you, Batman. 190 00:18:54,070 --> 00:18:55,665 Destroy them! 191 00:19:16,931 --> 00:19:20,065 I solved your riddle, Nygma. Now here's one for you. 192 00:19:20,567 --> 00:19:24,182 How do you take out a minotaur with a single blow? 193 00:19:24,572 --> 00:19:25,653 Like this. 194 00:19:45,730 --> 00:19:47,105 You're through, Nygma. 195 00:19:47,665 --> 00:19:50,001 Sorry, boys, but you'll never find me. 196 00:19:50,301 --> 00:19:52,442 I'm not even in the amusement park. 197 00:19:52,705 --> 00:19:54,878 And by the time you get out of the maze... 198 00:19:55,507 --> 00:19:57,451 I'll be out of the city. 199 00:20:05,318 --> 00:20:07,906 I guess the mayor's happy about this. 200 00:20:08,556 --> 00:20:12,389 Bringing in $5.5 million a year in new jobs will do that. 201 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,724 But that creep Mockridge got to pocket a cool $ 10 mil from the buyout. 202 00:20:17,099 --> 00:20:18,442 What a burn. 203 00:20:18,834 --> 00:20:24,240 Maybe. But we've been searching for The Riddler for months, and he's still out there. 204 00:20:42,327 --> 00:20:45,843 Mockridge may have his money, but he won't be sleeping well. 205 00:21:04,352 --> 00:21:07,486 How much is a good night's sleep worth? 206 00:21:08,023 --> 00:21:10,447 Now, there's a riddle for you.