You couldn't leave it alone, could you, March? You've recreated the mutagen.
[aiming a tranquilizer rifle at him] Recreated it? I've refined it! At night, on my own, so the others wouldn't know. I still believe only a creature like a Man-Bat can survive the next evolutionary cataclysm - and it will! My new serum could be even more powerful than Kirk's!
[after disarming March] "Could be"? What do you mean?
I needed to test it, but before I had the chance--
You mean you haven't taken it?
Of course not! The experimental batch was destroyed. I'll have to--
Destroyed? How?
I'd been working through the night. I was just completing the final combination. [remembers incident at his lab as he drops the beaker of mutagen upon Francine's surprise entry] Francine burst in. I was startled. You have to understand I was very tired, I accidentally dropped the beaker. The whole night's work, ruined! Francine never guessed what I was doing, she even helped me clean up the mess. All that... glass! [recalls Francine licking her finger after it is pricked by a small shard of glass] Oh... oh, my lord... Francine! The mutagen - it's in her bloodstream now! [breaks down at his folly as Batman loads a tranquilizer into a pistol of his and then gives March the formula paperwork]
Is that what it's going to take? Your daughter's life, before you end this insanity?
[Later that night, March burns the files]
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