Batwoman quotes

Luke Fox: Why didn't you tell me about Cartwright?

Kate Kane: Honestly? Sometimes I feel like you think I'm some infallible hero that makes the right choice every single time. I just ... I didn't want to see the look on your face when you realized you were wrong.

Luke Fox: I'm not wrong.

Kate Kane: I broke Batman's code.

Luke Fox: You think you're the only one? Ever wonder why the Joker hasn't reared his head in five years? He's not in Arkham, Kate. Both you and Bruce stared into the abyss. The question is how long are you gonna let it stare back at you?

Mouse: You poisoned me? Why did you do that?

Alice: Be ... Because I couldn't let you leave me. Not you, too.

Mouse: This, this wasn't even real?

Alice: If only pain could turn to ash with the strike of a match. But my pain is a part of me the way my family is a part of me, and you could never understand why I need to enact my revenge because you've never experienced true betrayal. At least not until now. Goodbye, my sweet Mouse. My brother, my everything. I'll see you again in Wonderland.

Ryan Wilder: [after Mary and Luke use the Batsuit's GPS to confront her] Guess you're in on it, too. I saw her plane go down, put two and two together. I'm really sorry.

Mary Hamilton: Well, the suit has GPS, so you might as well just give it back now, Miss...

Ryan Wilder: Wilder, Ryan. And I'm not done yet.

Mary Hamilton: That suit is meant for a hero, not the lost and found.

Ryan Wilder: You tell that to the bored billionaire who found it in Batman's lost box?

Luke Fox: You don't know the first thing about Kate Kane, and you sure as hell don't know anything about that symbol.

Ryan Wilder: Trust me, I know I'm not a symbol or a name or a legacy.

Mary Hamilton: Exactly, so why do you think you're worthy of wearing it?

Ryan Wilder: Because I'm a number. I am the 327th baby of a black woman who died during childbirth that year. I'm a $20 a day check to a group home. I'm Inmate 4075, serving eighteen months for a crime I didn't commit. But I can live with all those numbers because the mama who adopted me, I was her number one. But it turns out she's just one of a quarter million murders in this country who have not seen justice, and that is a number I can't live with, so you can have this damn suit back when her killer is dead.

Alice: I tried being reasonable once. I was tethered to reason. I was calculated, precise, planned, and look where that got me. Sharing a roof with Bruce lame.

"Bruce Wayne": On what planet do I agree to live with a woman who just told me her plan to have her father kill her twin like it was some kind of April Fool's joke?

Alice: On my planet. Because on my planet, you are still Tommy Elliot, and if I so much as breathe a word, Bruce Wayne goes from being the meat in a top model sandwich to the guy with a steak for a face! Trust me, Tom-Tom. An Alice with a goal is so much sweeter than an Alice unmoored.

Ryan Wilder: You're not Bruce Wayne.

"Bruce Wayne": And you're not Batwoman.

Ryan Wilder: I didn't design the damn suit.

Victor Zsasz: I can tell because I don't see the Batwoman in you, and maybe that's because I don't see the you in Batwoman.

John Diggle: Your old man's Lucius Fox, right? Put together some details when you were having that friendly game of hold 'em. You lost your old man young. That's, that's hard, man. That's real hard. My old man was a marine deployed overseas when I was a boy, killed in action.

Luke Fox: I'm sorry to hear that.

John Diggle: It's all right. But it left me with a lot of questions about him and me, so I get it when those questions become more important than anything else in the world, man. Believe me, I get it. What you have to remember is that we all end up in the same place eventually, man, and you'll see your father soon enough. What changes with time is what you get to tell him you did while you were on the earth.

Luke Fox: Okay, so I'm just supposed to ignore the fact that I'm still angry as hell?

John Diggle: No, brother. Don't ignore it. Use it. You carry the torch for the great Fox family. You stand for justice. You're gonna need anger to win that fight.

Alice: You want me to come back to Coryana with you? Well, that depends. Do you have any non-smoking rooms available? No, because I'm pretty sure that I turned your little island into an all-inclusive ashtray.

Safiyah Sohail: Not for much longer. Coryana will soon be abloom with Desert Rose once more thanks to a small cutting from one of Poison Ivy's vines. Its rather aggressive growth properties will soon turn my one Rose into thousands.

Alice: Poison Ivy, huh? Didn't know you had the green thumb girl on speed dial.

Safiyah Sohail: I don't. I simply struck a gentlewoman's agreement with a new friend to procure it for me. You see, she was all to eager to help me once I had a sword driven through the powerful man who had wronged her along with the men who condemned her to Arkham, where she was trampled.

Alice: Circe Sionis.

Safiyah Sohail: Oh. You didn't really think you'd gotten your sister back, did you?

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.