The film opens with a swarm of bats before entering the past of Bruce Wayne playing with his friend Rachel Dawes. Through the course of their game, Bruce falls into a well, where he encounters a group of bats and develops a fear of them. The film then cuts to the present, showing an older Bruce languishing in a Chinese prison. Following a prison brawl, Bruce is approached by Henri Ducard, who invites him to join an elite vigilante group, the League of Shadows, led by Ra's al Ghul. Freed the next day, Bruce travels to the league's headquarters on a snowy mountaintop to begin his martial arts training. Cutting back to the beginning of the film, the young Bruce Wayne accompanies his parents to a production of Mefistofele, which features actors dressed as bats. Frightened by these bat-like portrayals, he urges his father to leave the opera. Outside the theater, a man named Joe Chill mugs and kills Bruce's parents. Although Chill is later arrested that same night, Bruce blames himself for his parents' deaths. Back in the present, Bruce continues to train with the League of Shadows. Having heard the tragedy of Bruce's parents, Ducard asks Bruce why he never avenged their deaths. Cutting back several years, an adult Bruce returns to Gotham City from Princeton University, intent on killing Chill, whose prison sentence is being suspended in exchange for testifying against crime boss Carmine Falcone. Before he can act, however, one of Falcone's assassins kills Chill. When Bruce tells Rachel about his foiled plan, she is disgusted and tells him that his father would be ashamed of him. Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that he is ignorant of the nature of crime, so Bruce decides to travel the world for nearly seven years to understand the criminal mind. He is eventually detained for theft (ironically of Wayne Enterprises products), wrapping up to the beginning of the film. In the present, Bruce finally completes his training, culminating in overcoming his childhood phobia of bats. Ra's states that he plans to have Bruce lead his men to destroy Gotham, which he claims to have become a breeding ground for criminals and the corrupt and is beyond saving. As a final test, Bruce is asked to execute a criminal. Bruce refuses, and instead turns on the league, setting the temple on fire and killing Ra's in the process. Bruce rescues an unconscious Ducard from the wreckage and leaves him at a nearby village.
Bruce returns to a Gotham City ruled by Carmine Falcone, and plots his war against the city's corrupt system. He seeks the help of Rachel, now an assistant district attorney, and police sergeant Jim Gordon, who consoled him after his parents' death and one of the few good cops left in Gotham. After reestablishing his connections to Wayne Enterprises, Bruce acquires, with the help of former board member Lucius Fox, a prototype armored car and an experimental armored suit. In his first night, he disrupts a drug shipment, and leaves Falcone tied to a searchlight, forming a makeshift Bat-Signal. He also disrupts an assassination attempt on Rachel, leaving her with evidence against a judge on Falcone's payroll. While investigating the drugs in the shipment, Batman is stunned by Dr. Jonathan Crane, an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist on Falcone's payroll, who sprays him with a powerful hallucinogen. Bruce's butler Alfred Pennyworth rescues him, using an anti-toxin developed by Fox to save him. Crane later poisons Rachel after showing her that the toxin, which is lethal in vapor form, is being piped into the city water supply. Batman saves her and attacks Crane with his own poison. Batman interrogates Crane, who claims to be working for Ra's al Ghul. Before Batman can ask further, the police swarm Arkham to arrest Crane, and Batman escapes with Dawes in the Batmobile. After administering the antidote to her in the Batcave, he gives her two vials of it for Gordon — one for inoculating himself and the other for mass production.
Later at Wayne Manor, Bruce is confronted at his birthday celebration by a group of League of Shadows ninjas led by Ducard, who reveals himself to be the true Ra's al Ghul, and that the man killed earlier was a decoy. Ra's, who had been conspiring with Crane the entire time, plans to destroy Gotham by distributing the toxin via the city's water supply, and vaporizing it with a microwave-emitter stolen from Wayne Enterprises. Ra's reveals the League of Shadows have attacked many cities such as Gotham for centuries, acting as a check against human corruption. Ra's also reveals they had even attacked Gotham before, creating an artificial depression to financially cripple the city. However, the deaths of Bruce's parents had galvanized the rich and wealthy to take action, and saved the city from destruction. Bruce dismisses his guests by insulting them while pretending to be drunk, and fights briefly with Ra's while the League lights the Manor on fire. At the last minute, Bruce escapes the inferno with Alfred's help. Batman arrives at the Narrows section of Gotham to aid the police in battling psychotic criminals — including Crane, now calling himself "Scarecrow" — whom the League set free. Rachel is briefly confronted by Crane, but quickly wards him off with a taser before being chased by more inmates. After saving her, Batman reveals his identity to her, and leaves to go stop Ra's. Ra's has boarded an elevated train to carry the microwave-emitter to the city's central water hub at Wayne Tower, which would create a chain reaction that would vaporize all the water lines in Gotham. Batman leaves Gordon in control of the Batmobile to stop the train. Batman battles Ra's aboard the train, then escapes just as Gordon topples the elevated line using the Batmobile's missiles, leaving Ra's on the train to perish in the ensuing explosion.
Following the battle, Batman becomes a public hero in Gotham. Bruce gains control of Wayne Enterprises and installs Fox as the new CEO. However, he is unable to hold onto Rachel, who cannot reconcile her love for Bruce with his dual life as Batman. Newly-promoted Lieutenant Gordon unveils a Bat-Signal for Batman. Gordon mentions that they will have their hands full finding all of the psychopaths released from Arkham by Ra's, as well as the possibility that Batman's presence could actually result in an escalation of crime. Gordon also mentions a criminal, who has "a taste for theatrics," that leaves Joker playing cardBlogger: Free Movie Download - Create Posts at all of his crime scenes. Batman promises to investigate it. As Batman prepares to leave, Gordon mentions he never thanked Batman for all he's done. Batman replies that he'll never have to, and flies off into the night.
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