Assuming there WERE two Bats, which one was...

Good questions...but I have to admit, I never thought the note was odd. People refer to themselves in third person mode sometimes, I guess second person wouldn't be so much odder, 'HE destroyed HIMSELF', it would be a bit more original as a suicide note than 'I did it'.

And as for the second question...I'm figuring either once Anderson got the money, he would quit appearing as the Bat, after all the Bat committed a string of murders the previous winter, and this was the summer, meaning I guess that he took the spring off, but then why? And if Wells was the first Bat, why was he killing people in the first place? They NEVER went into any details about the murders he committed the past winter, so we'll never know, but since the money had only been stolen recently it couldn't have been for that. But another thing to consider is he may not have known that Wells' body would be found as quickly as it did, HOW did the police found out? We never know that either. But it's possible he figured he could kill Wells first, and then the others at the house, and get away, and it would look like Dr. Wells killed the others first and then himself. OR, he DID set fire to the garage to get everyone out of the house, if they had stayed out of his way he may not have tried to kill them, and his escape would be vague if noticed at all and it could still tie back to Dr. Wells.

And as to why Anderson would need to be suspicious of Wells? If you're visibly suspicious of someone else, everyone else will notice this and nobody will think to be suspicious of you. It's done all the time in TV shows, books and movies, the guilty party not only is so offended by the suggestion they could've done it, they will lash out at any available scapegoat and hang them out to dry, just like what he tried to do with Warner. Only Warner was an acquitted suspect and Wells was a highly respected doctor in the community, it wouldn't have done Anderson much good to publicly come out and accuse the doctor without any evidence to back it up. Those are just my thoughts on it but I think they make sense.

No they wouldn't bc he wrote that note implying it was suicide! As if the bat couldn't take his guilt anymore! And he didnt plan on killing anymore People or dressing up as the bat bc he thought the women would be alone bc police guy was drugged and he was gonna sneak in finally and take the money that night, he was ending the bat and pinning it on Dr. Wells. And there wasnt two bats I it doesn't really imply that, when you guys say Wells snuck the bat that first night rethink that scene, Anderson was sneaking around Dr Wells lab if you remember, then later that night a bat gets in the girls room, it appears it's wells bc we think the cop was into Wells bc it's implied he is the bat, but he's not its LT Andersin and he went in the lab to steal the bat to make it look like it was Dr Wells bc he had bats he was experimenting on, it was his plan all along to pin it on Dr. Wells which is why the movie made it seem like it was him. It was obviously a trick and it worked bc you guys still are thinking there was two when it was Lt Anderson all along.

Somehow I just can't buy Wells as the real Bat, I'll admit this movie is SO far vastly different from its two predecessors that you can't really expect the pieces to tie together, but in every version of the Bat there has always only ever been ONE man behind the mask and that IS Anderson...or what we THINK is Anderson. In the first two movies, 'Anderson' was the Bat but he was only posing as Detective Anderson, and the real Detective Anderson entered late in the picture as a beaten and bloody unknown who is dazed and doesn't know anything, until the time is right and he jumps up with a gun ordering everybody around if they value their lives. HOWEVER, the doctors in both previous movies had their own shady dealings as well, they were involved somehow though it was never deliberately spelled out, we only know that he assists in the Bat's escape from the secret room, ODDLY enough since early in the movie he knocks Anderson out and ties him up and steals the blueprint.