There’s a line in “The Dark Knight Rises” I keep coming back to when I think about the sad ending to Dwayne Haskins’ journey in Washington, which culminated in his release Monday morning.
“There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die,” Michael Caine’s Alfred Pennyworth intones. “But sometimes a man rises from the darkness.
“Sometimes the pit sends something back.”
And I think about it not because I see a heroic parallel between Dwayne Haskins and Batman or anything like that.