After watching The Dark Knight one of the big questions on nearly everyone’s mind was whether or not Two-Face was really and truly dead. It was a few weeks after the film’s debut that Aaron Eckhart, the actor behind Harvey’s missing face answers the question definitively, telling us all that the character was “dead as a doornail.” Now though, with rumors indicating that Chris Nolan has finally started work on the story for a sequel, Eckhart seems to be backpedaling a little.

MTV caught up with Eckhart at the Golden Globes, where they asked that same old “will Harvey Dent” return question and to everyone’s surprise got a different response. Said Eckhart, ““I think Harvey — if he’s not dead — is in a serious coma.” The window is now open! Ok it’s not open by much, but that certainly leaves him more wiggle room than “dead as a doornail”.

It’s probably too little too soon to start speculating that Nolan might be working him into the sequel. Even if he is, it’s unlikely that Aaron would even know about it at this stage. Still, maybe there’s a slim ray of hope here. Movie characters have survived far worse falls than the one Two-Face suffered in TDK and with Heath Ledger gone it makes a certain sort of sense to bring Two-Face back. Originally the rumored plan was to have Joker return for some small part in the second film, since that’s no longer possible why not use Harvey Dent as the connecting tissue between the two films?