Basic fifty-fifty option. You get him off, you both go free. He goes down, you take the fall with him.
Amusing idea, what? Kidnapping you to be Batman's attorney?
Personally, I suggested a quick slug between the eyes... but I lost the coin toss.
“Trial” · Season 2, Episode 3
In this episode: Janet Van Dorn (5), Mad Hatter (4), Joker (3), Two-Face (2), Scarface (2), Batman (1), Harley Quinn (1), Poison Ivy (1)
Court is now in session! The Good People of Arkham Asylum vs. the Self-Righteous Vigilante Called Batman! Our prosecutor is ready, likewise our fair and impartial jury.
Hang him!
Shoot him!
Hit him with a rock!
And now, all rise for the most honorable, most benevolent, most merciful Judge Joker!
GUILTY!
I was promised a chance to defend my client!
Oh, very well. Like it'll make a difference.
I suppose that you, like your friends, claim that Batman drove you to be a criminal?
He did.
And yet, as I recall in your case, you brainwashed and kidnapped a woman who rejected you.
Batman forced me to do it! He was going to take her away from me! I had no choice!
You could have respected her wishes and left her alone.
I'D HAVE KILLED HER FIRST! [gasps and covers his mouth, then turns to the Joker] I'd like that last statement stricken from the record, please.
Record? Is someone supposed to be writing this down?
And so it's Batman's fault you lead a life of crime?
He should have let me bump off Harvey Dent. We'd all have been better off - wouldn't we, Harv?
[muttering while flipping his coin] Why, you rotten little...
But Miss Isley, isn't the real motivation for your crimes your obsession with plants? That you prefer them to people?
I love plants, honey, but a rose is a rose.
Then it doesn't bother you when someone, let's say the judge here, [plucks the flower from the Joker's robe] ruthlessly plucks a defenceless flower from the warm green earth?
No!
Even knowing he's given it his death sentence? That its petals must die? [starts pulling its petals out]
Stop it...!
One by one, withering, falling. One by one till it's all gone, honey.
[She crushes the flower so that it crumbles apart. Ivy attacks her, and the Scarecrow and Mad Hatter rush in to restrain her]
Miss Ivy, please!
You look beautiful when you're angry.
[Ivy smacks the Ventriloquist in the face, and Scarface laughs]
I used to believe Batman was responsible for you people. But now I see nearly everyone here would have ended up exactly the same, Batman or not. Oh, the gimmicks might be different, but you'd all be out there in some form or another bringing misery to Gotham. The truth is, you created him.
Well done, counsellor. You've proven that Batman didn't create us - that we, in fact, messed up our own rotten lives! And as we are so rotten, vile and depraved... we're going to waste you anyway!
[The inmates cheer and close in on Batman and Janet]
A-bi-a-bi-a-bi, that's all, folks! [bangs down a rubber chicken] Let's mambo!
I see now there's a need for the things you do. But I'm still going to work towards a city that doesn't need Batman.
[smiling] Me too.
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