- Clio: But Maxie, please, you know I love you!
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Clio? I'm sorry. I... I can't... Thou art no longer fit to be among us!
- Stavros: Please! It's not what you think. I wasn't going to say anything, honest.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Silence! First you transgress against me. Then you force me to descend to the mortal plane. And now you say I know not what I think?
- Stavros: No!
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: To the depths of Tartarus with you!
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: [seeing the Batplane approach] Who dares? Of course. Like the shadow of ebon-winged night, he rises from the dark realm.
- [the canopy opens and Batman climbs out]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Behold, the coming of my brother, Lord Hades!
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: [after Clio is strapped to the EDC] Be not afraid, my muse. Once thou hast been cleansed by the fire from Olympus, thou shalt be as a goddess at my side throughout eternity!
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: So, no longer like an eagle against the sky, but as a worm crawling through the dirt does Lord Hades try to regain Olympus. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
- Clio: The grand jury is building another case, and I can't stop them this time. There are allegations of bribery, extortion, and racketeering, all pointing back to you, Max. Sure, I'm your assistant, but there's only so much I can do on my own. Max? Maxie. Come on, Max, look at me when I'm talking to you.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: You bore me with these tales of petty human concerns.
- Clio: You're doing it again, Maxie.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: You are Clio, my muse of history. Amuse me with tales of ancient times, when mortals trembled at the name of Zeus.
- Clio: You want a story? I got one. Seems there was this guy named Max who, because he had been lucky so far in the smuggling racket, believed himself to be untouchable, superior, godlike.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: There's a cynical edge to your voice I don't appreciate. Know you not I am above mortal constraints of right and wrong?
- Clio: No one is above the law, Max.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: I make my own laws.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Welcome, Lord Hades.
- Clio: Be serious, Max. That's Batman.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: But Batman is a mere mortal, and what mortal could reach the summit of Mount Olympus and survive? Come, dark brother. Avail yourself of the nectar of the gods.
- Batman: No, thanks.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: [putting Batman through Herculean labors] So, you have survived my hydra, but many more challenges await.
- Commissioner James Gordon: His name is Yanni Stavros.
- Batman: He works for Maximillian Shipping Lines as a scheduler.
- Commissioner James Gordon: You know him?
- Batman: He's been under Interpol investigation for selling vital shipping schedules to hijackers.
- Commissioner James Gordon: That fits. Stavros had offered to give me some information so he could cut a deal with the feds.
- Batman: What kind of information?
- Commissioner James Gordon: Ever hear of something called an E.D.C.?
- Batman: The Electron Discharge Cannon, a fourth-generation energy weapon being developed by a combined U.S./European alliance.
- Commissioner James Gordon: [playing a video for him] Then you probably know this prototype was stolen last month while it was being shipped overseas.
- Batman: And you think Stavros was either involved in the theft or knows who was?
- Commissioner James Gordon: I pray that he does. Because if that infernal device falls into the wrong hands...
- Batman: Maybe it already has.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Heracles bested twelve labors before I received him. And so it shall be with you, bat demon!
- Doctor: He's a lucky guy. If those tires hadn't absorbed the shock, he...
- Commissioner James Gordon: Just a minute. The weather was perfectly clear tonight, and you're telling me that man was struck by lightning?
- Doctor: I guess you'll just have to ask him what happened whenever he wakes up.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: An electron discharge cannon?
- Batman: You run one of the world's largest shipping firms. I thought you might know how the hijackers were able to move it.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Why should Zeus be concerned about the weapons of man? When he can call forth thunderbolts of his own?
- [branding his lightning bolt staff, he melts one of his figurines]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: This audience is at an end. Awake, my harpies!
- [his gargoyles turn and brandish automatic weapons from their eyes]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: Begone, Lord Hades. Get thee back to thine own realm. Do not come again to Olympus until bidden.
- Batman: I think I get the message.
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: [about Arkham] Now this is truly Olympus. Surely there can be no other place.
- [sees Poison Ivy]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: There's beautiful Demeter, goddess of the harvest.
- [sees Two Face]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: and double-faced Janus, lord of beginnings and endings.
- [sees The Joker]
- Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus: and merry Hermes, the trickster of the gods. Now at last, mighty Zeus is home.