Kate quotes from Batwoman

Kate

Bruce gave me a great piece of advice once. 'Grow into the person you needed as a kid.

Kate

My dad was running from his pain, but I was running, too, toward everything that didn't want me. A military academy, a private army, my own father. I spent fifteen years searching for a place I fit, and I think I've finally found it. Some see fear, others hope. I see the freedom to be myself, to play by my own rules.

Kate

[voice-over] Maybe it was fate watching her drown in a river the way everyone assumed she had years ago, and maybe i was meant to stand by and watch it happen all over again. After all, my dad was right. Alice was a monster. She was a liar, a manipulator, a killer, but despite all that. She was still my sister.

Kate

[voiceover] Your friend Tommy wants to kill you, Bruce, and since you're not here, it looks like I'm gonna have to kick his ass on your behalf. And send a message to anyone else who'd come after you, but to do that, I need to be honest with the city that I'm not you. I'm me.

Kate

[voice-over] A wise woman once said "hurt me with the truth, don't comfort me with a lie." Yes, Bruce, I'm quoting Rihanna. Because I'm not a liar, I have never hidden who I am. I came out when Brad Morrison taught all the kids at school that I was gay. I said "yeah... and?" Then punched him. Ever since then, I've been out and proud as long as I can remember. So how the hell am I supposed to wake up every morning and hide who I am?

Kate

[voice-over] Lies don't make anyone comfortable, especially the one telling them, but no one said anything about this job being comfortable. If I'm going to embrace the Bat, then I'm going to have to embrace hiding a part of myself from the outside world. Living this double life is a sacrifice, but our city is worth it.

Kate

You wouldn't listen then, and you won't listen now, and an innocent man is gonna pay the price for it.

Kate

[voice-over] Batman was praised and revered, but Bruce Wayne not so much. No one knew the man beneath the cowl. You didn't let them in, Bruce, for good reason. Because even the people we love are still people at the end of the day. They act out of fear, pride, hope, pain, and sometimes, they let us down, but you know better than I do that no one can be a lone wolf forever. I have to let people in even if it's just one person and one small piece of myself at a time.

Kate

We both know there's no Batwoman without Luke Fox.

Alice

"Tell us a story," said the March Hare. "Yes, please do," pled Alice, and so the Dormouse began "Once upon a time, there were three little sisters."

Kate

What did you do?

Alice

You don't remember why we'd each have to get our own waffle when we came here?

Kate

Because you don't like to share.

Alice

Exactly. And you are my sister, Kate!

Sophie Moore

Is this you?

Kate

What? This-this dude in the picture?

Sophie

The person in this picture dressed as Batman who saved my life the other night. Was that you?

Kate

Anyone who knows me knows I hate Batman.

Sophie

So does your dad. Which would make putting on the suit makes an incredibly reckless move.

Kate

Wasn't me. Beside, if I were going to save you in a dramatic fashion, I would totally dress as Wonder Woman.

Luke Fox

Did you get the suit wet?

Kate

Okay, so I couldn't find the auto-dry function.

Luke

Yeah, because that's not a thing.

Kate

$10.8 million suit. Kind of feels like an oversight. Just saying.

Kate

[narrating] Luke was right, Bruce. Gotham needed something to believe in. They wanted hope just as I started to lose mine. I spent half my life looking for my sister, and today, I found someone else, someone I didn't know or recognize. For the first time in fifteen years, I felt something other than hope. I felt doubt.

Alice

[narrating] It may have taken you years, sweet, darling Kate, but you found me eventually; even if I'm not the girl you expected me to be. I had my secrets just as you have yours. But do be careful, my dear sister. Putting on that suit and all the darkness that comes with it... makes you just as crazy as me.

Luke

[holds up Desert Eagle] This is a Desert Eagle Mark IX .50 AE, one of the most powerful handguns in the world. It can literally blast a hole through anything. [shoots at the batsuit] Doesn't make a dent.

Kate

Yeah, it stings a little. Just for reference.

Kate

How do you know who he is?

You mean Batman? [feigning surprise] Oops! Did I say that out loud?

Kate

How do you know that?

Oh, because a few months ago, I paid a man to riddle me the answer. Gotta love the honorable Bruce Wayne for designing a fail-safe so he could never become too powerful in a super-suit. Such a great guy.

Kate

He's your best friend.

Yeah, he was. The bestest. Nothing could be average with Bruce. Even had to have more dead parents than me.

Kate

Because he saved your mom's life?

Oh, yeah. No, I am aware. Thanks to him, instead of collecting my inheritance, I was left wiping the spittle off of a jabbering madwoman's lips for 13 years.

Kate

You wanted him dead, why wait until he's in a bulletproof suit?

Because Bruce didn't ruin my life. Batman did. Do you know what it's like to have the villain of your story be the hero of your city? He is a monster who left me anchored to a repulsive, gold-digging bitch, and now he's gonna die.