Det framgår inte av manuskriptet, och heller inte novelleringen som är riktigt vem som matar Innehavarna av The Pit. Det finns ett kort omnämnande om att doktorn är "betald" för att hålla Bruce levande och det verkar finnas bröd och andra livsmedel i fängelset, vilket starkt föreslår att någon (Banans hantlangare? Skuggans liga? Lokala bybor ?) droppar mat av och med i tillräckliga mängder för att mata invånarna.
Bruce grimaced. He lay miserably atop the cot, from which he hadn’t stirred for who knew how long. Feverish and weak, he’d lost all track of time, drifting in and out of awareness. His head pounded, and the searing pain in his back was a constant companion, even in his sleep. Existence had become an endless ordeal he could never escape. He could not even clean himself.
“Do it for the pleasure,” he said bitterly. But the nameless European placed a stale piece of bread to Bruce’s lip. He shrugged apologetically.
“They pay me more than that to keep you alive.”
- The Dark Knight Trilogy: Official Novelisation
PRISONER: He asks if you would pay us to let you die. I told him you have nothing.
WAYNE: Do it for the pleasure.
[The Prisoner puts bread to Wayne’s lips.]
PRISONER: They pay me more than that to keep you alive.
[A chant gets Wayne’s attention. He rolls his head painfully to watch a Tattooed Prisoner hand a thick rope to a Strong Man, who ties it around his chest, watched by other Prisoners.]
- The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays