“Power” quotes from Batwoman

Black Mask: Fair citizens of Gotham City. Black Mask here. I ask you to look past this ghoulish veil and realize it is not the affectation of a madman but rather the necessary concealment of an altruist, so ... How does one fix a broken city? Well, I've heard the phrase "Defund the Police" bandied about. Please. The GCPD can't afford the hole in its doughnut. Well, what about Arkham Asylum, that house of horrors that you fund with your tax dollars, or Blackgate Prison, too violent for Jacob Kane, loving father of lunatic at large Alice of Wonderland? Well, how about Gotham City Hall then or the judges or the D.A. or the banks, all chock full of predatory degenerates so crooked they've got to screw their pants on in the morning? And don't even get me started on Batwoman, operating without checks or balances, leaving the collateral damage of an untold number of innocents in her wake. Why are we allowing these self-serving bandits to dictate to us what the terms fair and just mean? We should be dictating these terms to them, so I'm asking you to join me for an evening of anarchy. Help me raze every single one of these moldering institutions to their foundations. I've dropped masks at a dozen street corners. Stand up, strap one on, become your own vigilante, and when the dust finally settles over our failed system, well, Black Mask will still be standing, ready to lead you to your liberation because you know what they say about power, huh? Use it or lose it.

Alice: I just realized why your mail's in my sister's loft. You "live there" now. You read my mail. Relax. It's just a supersexy power bill, postcard from Angelique, she sends her X-Os. Oh, and, uh, don't forget you have a parole board hearing tomorrow at 9:15. They really let anyone be a superhero these days, don't they?

Ryan Wilder: Trust me. You're not the only one in the car shocked I've served more time than you.

Alice: Oh, I'm serving my time, dear, just not in the traditional sense.

Ryan Wilder: Remind me to get the name of your lawyer.

Alice: Safiyah's punishment is worse than a stint at Blackgate. By killing Ocean, she made sure I would spend the rest of my life in agonizing grief. She didn't let me say good-bye.

Ryan Wilder: [pulls the Batmobile into an alley and parks] Okay. We're here.

Alice: I'm saying I get it. I get why you hate me. [follows Ryan and she exits the car] Hey! Hey! I said I'm sorry.

Ryan Wilder: What do you want, forgiveness because you know what it feels like to have the one person who cared about you ripped from your life? Get this through your head. You don't deserve my forgiveness.

Alice: Why? Because you're the hero and I'm the villain? You're not a hero, Ryan, but you already know that, which is why I'm here, which is why you're so desperate to get Kate back. Because your city is falling apart, and you can't save it.

Ryan Wilder: Put on your mask.

Alice: What kind of hero kills the first woman they've ever met?

Ryan Wilder: What are you talking about?

Alice: Your biological mother died in childbirth, right? See, when a girl leaves me at the whims of a madman with a fingernail extractor, my first task upon escaping is to learn everything about her, and I know that your first act on this earth resulted in Mommy's death, so if you want to point fingers at who killed the moms in your life...

Ryan Wilder: [slaps Alice] We are gonna find Kate. Then I'm gonna do everything in my power to dump your ass behind bars.

Ryan Wilder: [when asked if and how she has changed at her parole hearing] Have I changed? Honest answer ... No. I haven't changed. I am still the good, caring, intelligent human being I was the day I was wrongly arrested and the day I met my cellmate and the day I was dumped before this board and told I had a 75% chance of being a repeat offender, but since I know this committee wants to do the right thing today, allow me to give you the answer you need. Yes, I've changed. I've changed because I stopped seeing myself the way you see me and started seeing myself for who I am. A woman who has found her power.

Ryan Wilder: That suit changed my life in more ways than one, and it has been an honor to be able to wear your symbol.

Kate Kane: I put that suit on to give back to my city. You put it on to survive. You know better than anyone what that symbol means to people who have no hope left.

Sophie Moore: So you and me and timing, huh?

Kate Kane: Maybe in another universe, we were meant to be together.

Sophie Moore: But in this one?

Kate Kane: In this one, I think we both deserve something a little easier.

Sophie Moore: Well, whoever that is for you, I really hope for your sake that she can compete with this.

Alice: Well, here you have it. Alice behind bars, the jumpsuit, embarrassing lack of shoelaces, a neighbor who's crazier than me. Is it everything you'd hoped for?

Ryan Wilder: I just wanted the system to work for once.

Alice: Right.

Ryan Wilder: It finally did. This is justice for my mom. Just happy I got to see it with my own eyes. I hope we never see each other again.

Alice: Funny you should mention mothers actually. You remind me almost daily that your adoptive mother is dead, but maybe there's a little wiggle room for bio mom.

Ryan Wilder: What?

Alice: Oh. You don't know. Well, maybe it's time someone told you. Your mother didn't die in childbirth, Ry-Ry. Mommy dearest is still very much alive.