as well as the third-highest-grossing film of 2012. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2012 by the American Film Institute. It is considered one of the greatest superhero films of all time, one of the best films of the 2010s, and one of the best threequels of all time. Plot Eight years after the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, a former member of the League of Shadows, Bane, leads an attack on CIA's plane over Uzbekistan to abduct nuclear physicist, Dr. Leonid Pavel, while planting a corpse as the scientist's decoy in the crash. Meanwhile, organized crime has been eradicated in Gotham City by legislation giving expanded powers to the police. Police commissioner James Gordon has kept Dent's killing spree as "Two-Face" a secret and allowed the blame for his crimes to fall on Batman. Bruce Wayne, still mourning the death of Rachel Dawes, has become a recluse and Wayne Enterprises has stagnated. Bane enlists businessman John Daggett to buy Bruce's fingerprints. Hired by Daggett, cat burglar Selina Kyle steals Bruce's prints from Wayne Manor. Daggett later double-crosses Kyle and she alerts the police, who pursue Bane and Daggett's henchmen into the sewers while Kyle flees. The henchmen capture Gordon and take him to Bane, but he escapes and is found by officer John Blake. Blake, an orphan who has deduced Bruce's secret identity, persuades him to resume his vigilantism. Bane attacks the Gotham Stock Exchange and uses the fingerprints in a series of fraudulent transactions that leaves Bruce bankrupt. Batman resurfaces while intercepting Bane and his subordinates. Bruce's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, fears that Bruce will get himself killed fighting Bane, and resigns in the hope of saving him, but only after admitting that he burned a letter that Rachel left for him saying she was going to marry Dent. Bane expands his operations and kills Daggett while Bruce and Wayne Enterprises' new CEO Miranda Tate become lovers. Kyle agrees to take Batman to Bane, but instead leads him into a trap under Wayne Tower. Bane gloats that he intends to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's mission to destroy Gotham City before defeating Batman, then breaks his back before taking him abroad to an underground prison cave in Jodhpur, where Ra's al Ghul's child was born and raised before escaping — the only prisoner to have done so. Back in Gotham, Bane traps the police forces