It appeared that Batman had sacrificed himself in the explosion.Batman's heroic death was mourned and commemorated at a short private ceremony at Bruce Wayne's gravesite near the Manor, led by Commissioner Gordon, calling him he true hero of Gotham.The film also employed he first pan shots (in scenes eight and nine), and the use of an ellipsis (in scene eleven).The terrified man is left hanging there to witness the death.He gazes down on the pinwheel-shaped body of the policeman flattened on the pavement.The image of the man suspended here - dangling helplessly from the rooftop and downward-looking - [his rescue is never displayed] will be the overriding, symbolic, emotional and psychological position that he will remain in throughout he rest of the film...Joe died flying, didn't he? That was his job.He just wasn't good enough.That's why he got it.Dutchy: I ain't built like you are, Geoff.I shouldn't be in such a business.We can't go on like that...Oh, Geoff! You're a hard man, much too hard.Geoff: Cut it out...Cut it out!..What's the use of feeling bad about something that couldn't be helped?...I told you, Joe just wasn't good enough.If he hadn't got it tonight, he was bound to get it sooner or later.Dutchy: Then you had no business to let him fly.Geoff: What, ground that kid? Say, he'd sooner be where he is than quit.Revealing his own deeper, inner feelings and sympathy, Geoff offers to send Joe's sister in the States $100 that he owes him - but Dutchy knows better: "You don't owe him no money, Geoff.