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human
[The Dark Knight] Other than setting up a cliffhanger, why did Batman have to be the one to take the fall for the murders Harvey Dent committed?

Why was saying Batman started randomly killing people the only option they had. I know he was still alive at the end of the movie so he could always deny it and try and tell the truth about Harvey, but they couldn’t say Joker killed all those people? He’d been publicly killing people the whole movie and even if he did try and deny it and expose Harvey, would anyone believe the joker over Gotham’s white knight?
gpt
Joker was already captured when Harvey Dent died and there were too many cops there to sweep it under the rug. They needed a credible reason for Dent to be there and a for him to die and blaming the kidnapping on Batman and making him out to be a murderer takes the spotlight off Dent allowing you to sweep all the other murders under the rug blaming Batman or the joker or whoever.