Upon rewatching the plane scene from the dark knight rises for the 20th time, I've finally understood a certain chain of dialogue that was so badly put together I never understood what was even being discussed.
When CIA gets bane and bane's henchmen on board the plane, he wants information from them.
Being a CIA agent he has to operate under certain rules and can't just murder them.
When he says:
>"anyone who talks gets to stay on my aircraft"
he is threatening to throw anyone who doesn't talk, out of the plane.
But he is bluffing, it's an empty threat, after he interrogates the first guy and he stays silent, CIA fires his gun and claims:
>"he didn't fly so good",
pretending he shot the man and threw him out the plane, CIA thinking the hostages would believe him as they are blindfolded and could hear the gunshot.
When CIA brings over the second man to interrogate, he doesn't talk either, CIA is surprised that he would remain silent under the threat of death and says:
>"That's a lotta loyalty for a hired gun."
Then Bane says:
>"Or perhaps he is wondering why you would shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane".
Bane implying that the henchman is silent because he's not stupid enough to think that whole threat of being shot and thrown from the aircraft is actually real. Bane is questioning the logic of why you would shoot someone when they will already die from the fall, for any other reason than to make a scary noise to entice a reaction from the other blindfolded men who think CIA has actually killed somebody.
>Captcha: select all airplanes
