]The film""s premise is that a pretty, but penniless, fortune-hunting, scatter-brained wife, who is at odds with her inventor husband, may travel to Florida to obtain a divorce, and - with her beauty, ingenuity, luck and appealing charms - live the ""good life"" in Florida and obtain monetary support ($99,000) from a multi-millionaire o advance the good of her husband""s career." She also offers two cups for their drinking.Marlowe can""t believe he quick transformation, and greets her with an exaggerated "Hello," before hey enjoy an afternoon dalliance together - suggested by the film""s fadeout.The jumper afterwards yelled: "He""s out of his mind, he tried to kill me." Later, Riggs told his exasperated partner that he wasn""t afraid to die, and the only reason he didn""t kill himself with a hollow-pointed bullet was "the job...I""m Batman").The newly-elected, determined District Attorney Harvey Dent (Billy Dee Williams) vowed with Gotham City""s Mayor Borg (Lee Wallace) and Police Commissioner James Gordon (Pat Hingle) to rid the streets of criminals (a syndicate called a "nest of vipers") led by kingpin crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) and his second in command, chief enforcer-henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson).