(..) Why? Talia. My mother named me Talia, before she was killed... the way I would have been killed, if not for my protector... Bane. Goodbye. I climbed out of the pit. I found my father... and brought him back (..)

(..) Innocence cannot flower underground. It has to be stamped out. One day... the doctor forgot to lock the cell. But the child had a friend... a protector... who showed the others that this innocence was their redemption. It was to be prized. The mother was not so lucky. This is Bane's prison now. (..)