Batman Beyond (TV Series)

Babel (2000)

Kevin Conroy: Bruce Wayne

Quotes 

• Bruce Wayne : I wouldn't blame you if you stayed home. Not after what all those ingrates have been saying.

  Terry McGinnis : I didn't get into this for gratitude. I have a feeling you didn't either.

• Bruce Wayne : Tell me, what if you hadn't figured out how Shriek was using the towers? Would you have handed yourself over to him at midnight?

  Terry McGinnis : In case you haven't noticed, we've got a suit to repair here.

• Terry McGinnis : How did you know Robin would get there in time to save you?

  Bruce Wayne : I didn't.

  Terry McGinnis : Then for all you knew, you were walking into a trap with no way out.

  Bruce Wayne : Sometimes you have to.

• Bruce Wayne : [Watching the ungrateful citizens demand that Batman surrender himself to Shriek on the news]  Spineless fools.

• Commissioner Gordon : He wants Batman. That's his price.

  Bruce Wayne : If he wants Batman, he can have me.

• Bruce Wayne : [with Terry in the Batcave]  He's using a jamming signal. I'm sure of it. The problem is finding out where the signal's coming from. Here are the places where the effect was most severe. But it's still gonna take some time to isolate the...

  [his phone rings] 

  Barbara Gordon : Bruce, the truce is only temporary.

  Bruce Wayne : Why am I not surprised?

• Terry McGinnis : [looking at blueprints of the city]  That's it. That's how he's doing it.

  Bruce Wayne : How? How's he doing it?

  Terry McGinnis : [getting into the Batmobile]  I'm sure of it. He's found a way to adapt the kilmmas bay for kamma.

  Bruce Wayne : What? He must've started the interference again. I can't...

  [Terry indicates something on his wrist and takes off] 

  Bruce Wayne : [spotting what Terry saw]  The towers. He's using them as a giant tuning fork.

• Bruce Wayne : What are you saying, Barbara? That I should hand Terry over to Shriek?

  Barbara Gordon : No. Give him to me. I'll figure out something. I had some pretty good teachers, remember?

  Bruce Wayne : I remember, but you work for a mayor who'd sell out the kid at the drop of a hat.

  Barbara Gordon : Look, if you've got a better plan...

  Bruce Wayne : All I know right now is this: that kid's done a lot for this city. It's time for the city to do something for him.

  Barbara Gordon : We're trying, Bruce, but we've only got 'til midnight. What then?

• Bruce Wayne : You're not thinking of handing yourself over to him, are you?

  Terry McGinnis : That's not my first choice, no.

• Terry McGinnis : Doesn't make any sense.

  Bruce Wayne : It might. The disturbances started at midnight and ended at 2:00. At the same time, the military reported interference on certain sonar frequencies.

  Terry McGinnis : So we're talking sound here.

  Bruce Wayne : And you know who that means.

• Batman : [communicating in writing]  It's happening all over town. Everyone's... going... nuts.

  Bruce Wayne : Shriek must've... found a way to interfere... with the vibrations of air molecules.

  Batman : Huh?

  Bruce Wayne : Air molecules carry the vibrations... of human speech.

  Batman : [verbally, to himself]  That's what I get for sleeping through Physics.

• Bruce Wayne : In case you haven't noticed, we've still got a lot of this shrapnel to deal with. You'd think that someone in a suit like this would be able to dodge a simple hand grenade.

  Terry McGinnis : I did dodge a hand grenade! Problem was Mad Stan had two.

• Bruce Wayne : By the way, thanks.

  Terry McGinnis : For what?

  Bruce Wayne : For reminding me why I got into this. It's been so many years now.

  Terry McGinnis : But you never really forget, do you?

  Bruce Wayne : No, you don't.

• Terry McGinnis : Shreeve was discharged by that mental hospital he was in. They say he cured him.

  Bruce Wayne : Cured him, huh? Do you believe that?

  Terry McGinnis : As the guy he blames for his hearing loss, I'd say no.

  Bruce Wayne : It had to have been Shriek. But why?

  Terry McGinnis : And how? That suit of his was pretty powerful, but I don't see how it could've affected that much of the city.