Gotham (TV Series)

Mad City: New Day Rising (2016)

Morena Baccarin: Leslie Thompkins

Quotes 

• [Alice tells Leslie Thompkins about the connection between her blood and her brother] 

  Alice Tetch : If a person comes into contact with my blood, it changes them. It affects every person differently. My brother believes it brings out a person's true nature.

  Leslie Thompkins : Is your brother infected? Is that why you're so terrified of him?

  Alice Tetch : Jervis isn't infected. He believes we're connected. Two sides of the same coin. My way is the blood, and his, the mind.

  Leslie Thompkins : Hypnosis.

  Alice Tetch : It goes way beyond that. He preys on fear, anger, regret. And if he gets in your mind... you're doomed.

• Leslie Thompkins : I don't know what I would do if something happened to you.

  James Gordon : You'd be fine.

  Leslie Thompkins : Do you really believe that?

  James Gordon : You seemed to have moved on okay.

  Leslie Thompkins : Yes, I moved on, Jim. What choice did I have? I went through the most painful period of my life alone. I cried myself to sleep every night. And like an idiot, I would wake up thinking, hoping that the next day, you would show up at my door. But you never did.

• Leslie Thompkins : After everything that's happened, you really have nothing to say to me?

  James Gordon : The past is the past. There's nothing I can do to change that.

  Leslie Thompkins : Alice told me that her brother preys on anger and regret. I really don't want that to be all that's left of us.

  James Gordon : You mean all that's left of me.

  Leslie Thompkins : Barnes asked me to put you on a 48-hour suicide watch. I've already signed off on it. I know that we can't change the past, but there's a difference between moving on and letting go.

• Mad Hatter : We both know what you really want. I saw it in your eyes the first time we met.

  [the Hatter's voice echoes] 

  Mad Hatter : You want to be free. Free from the pain. And you can be. Stop fighting and let go.

  James Gordon : [flashback]  The past is the past. There's nothing I can do to change that.

  Leslie Thompkins : [in the flashback]  There's a difference between moving on and letting go.

  James Gordon : [breaking the spelll]  No!

• Leslie Thompkins : Tweeds really did a number on this place. Guess I'm medical examiner slash medic.

  James Gordon : Slash resident therapist.

• James Gordon : Lee. There's something I... need to tell you. Something I should have told you the moment I saw you back in Gotham. Everything you said today...

  Leslie Thompkins : I'm sorry about that.

  James Gordon : Don't... You were right. And after everything that happened today... This is harder than I thought.

  Leslie Thompkins : What is it, Jim?

  James Gordon : I'm happy for you.

  Leslie Thompkins : You are?

  James Gordon : Trying to be. Maybe we can start there.

  Leslie Thompkins : Yeah. I think we can do that.