In reaction to the threats of the Joker, Bruce Wayne first classifies him as a criminal like any other, and that the key to defeating him would be in understanding just what it was the Joker was seeking. Alfred, Bruce's loyal aide, didn't believe this to be the case, suggesting that the mob did not fully understand the man that they had hired. The Burmese bandit was never physically in the film, but was simply a background story of Alfred's to assist Batman.