On the 22nd of July, when The Dark Knight was still on the forefront of everyone’s mind, we wrote a spoilerish piece arguing a certain plot point in the film and why we thought people were missing the point.

Today, via Coming Soon and Superhero Hype!, Aaron Eckhart has crushed our well-crafted theories.

We wrote:

So, in response, we want to clear something up: Two-Face isn’t dead. There is absolutely NO WAY that Two-Face is dead.

Nolan’s script has planted hints all through it, telling the viewer that Harvey most-likely survived the fall at the end of The Dark Knight.

1. Maroni was dropped by Batman from a much higher spot and it only broke his leg. Nolan even gave the character dialogue highlighting that someone can’t die from falling from a few stories.

2. Batman also falls and survives. He grunts and seems in pain, for sure, but jointed-Kevlar isn’t exactly going to absorb a significant amount of impact. Scientifically (and this is splitting hairs) Harvey would have had to land on the exposed skull on his Evil Face to possibly fracture his skull and kill him. But, the film makes a point dramatically of having Bats turn Harvey’s head, indicating that he landed on his back, not his skull.

3. No body, no coffin? Not dead. Gordon was dead for about half-an-hour there and we even got to see his wife get lied to in order to “protect her.” After Batman escapes on the BatPod at the end of the film, it makes just as much sense for Gordon to tell his cops: “Give him the Jim Gordon Fake Death Special.”

4. Jim Gordon right to Bats before Bruce takes a jump into the Joker’s final battle: “I have to save Harvey.” And he will, by throwing the mysterious Two-Face in Arkham and telling Gotham what they need to hear: Dent is dead.

5. Batman can’t kill anyone. That’s like, the whole point of the movie, people.

And Aaron Eckhart speaks to Coming Soon:

CS/SHH!: Is Harvey Dent alive?
Aaron Eckhart: No. He is dead as a door nail.

CS/SHH!: So he’s not coming back?
Eckhart: He ain’t coming back baby!

CS/SHH!: I was hoping he would.
Eckhart: No. I asked Chris [Nolan] that question and he goes, “You’re dead” before I could even get the question out of my mouth. “Hey Chris, am I?” “You’re dead!” Alright, cool.

CS/SHH!: That’s not a problem in comic book movies. You could still come back.
Eckhart: I think in contract negotiations it’s a problem.

CS/SHH!: So you were never signed on for another film?
Eckhart: No, I’m not coming back. I think unfortunately, Heath [Ledger] was supposed to go on and that didn’t work out. I’m nobody. I’m a cog. I have no say over this sort of stuff. I’m sure that there’s so many other characters that they could whip together. I heard Angelina Jolie was going to be Catwoman or something like that. I thought that was a great idea. I’d like to be in that one.

All we have to say is: Two-Face isn’t dead. We’re going to stick by this one. If you have time to sit down and read The Dark Knight screenplay that we linked to, you’ll see that it’s well-crafted without a lot of unnecessary and/or throwaway lines. There is just to much planted evidence that Two-Face could possibly be alive if the franchise needs him.

We just can’t believe that Batman actually killed Harvey after he refuses to kill anyone else. Also, the height of the fall still bugs us.

Aaron Eckhart and Christopher Nolan may have THOUGHT that Two-Face was dead, but one doesn’t even need to stretch the imagination to believe that he was locked up in the beefed-up Arkham system, waiting…