What does not make sense to fans of "The Dark Knight," and what is probably sparingly mentioned because of their love for the movie, are the identities of the five people Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Two-Face killed.
"Five dead? Two of them cops?" Gary Oldman's Jim Gordon says toward the end of the movie, even though the character's math is a bit fuzzy to anyone who kept count. This might be a screenplay snafu that director Christopher Nolan did not deny or confirm during The "The Dark Knight BD Live Screening" on December 18, saying that he would clarify the identity of the five bodies at another time.
Harvey Two-Face's first confirmed victim in the movie is Detective Michael Wuertz (Ron Dean), who is the Gotham City police officer that drives the soon-to-be-crazed district attorney to the warehouse where his face is scarred.
That is one of the two mentioned cops.
Next on Harvey Two-Face's hit list is the man driving Eric Robert's Sal Maroni, whose murder causes the car they are in to swerve out of control and then flip over. What is not seen in "The Dark Knight" is Maroni's fate after the crash, the death of which could be included in Jim Gordon's five-man body count. That would make three.
Before Harvey Two-Face shoots Maroni's driver, the mobster out of fear for his life shares that Detective Anna Ramirez is the police officer that drove Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) to the warehouse where she was killed in an explosion. But when Harvey Two-Face confronts Ramirez, the result of a coin flip dictates that he simply knock her out with his gun. Maybe his gun fatally hit Ramirez in the temple.
That leaves a generous body count of four people, with one person accounted for in Jim Gordon's estimate.
Could the last murder, or other murders, be explained in a sequel to "The Dark Knight"?
Such a revelation about Harvey Two-Face would be in accordance with Nolan's style of making movies about complex characters, and a physical deformity or a personal tragedy is too simple of an explanation as to why someone so altruistic snapped.
Maybe he snapped earlier than fans of "The Dark Knight" think.
It is also not unprecedented in terms of past DC Comics storylines to have Harvey Dent whacking people before his face is scarred.
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