Quem estava alimentando os prisioneiros do Pit in the Dark Knight Rises?

Não é evidente a partir do roteiro, nem da novelização quem está alimentando os habitantes do Pit. Há uma breve menção do médico sendo "pago" para manter Bruce vivo e parece haver pão e outros alimentos na prisão, sugerindo strongmente que alguém (capangas de Bane? A Liga das Sombras? ?) estão largando comida de vez em quando, em quantidades suficientes para alimentar os habitantes.

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}}