Jim Gordon quotes from Gotham

Jim Gordon

Sorry, Harv, I know you had a thing for her.

Harvey Bullock

I don't got a thing for nobody. My thing is for me.

Jim Gordon

You notice I don't ask you about your love life.

Harvey Bullock

My love life is an open book and a short and nasty one. But I'm working on the vic's friend in the phobia support group, and unless she's the killer, I think I'm in there.

Jim Gordon

You see why I don't ask?

Jim Gordon

How long have you been here?

Selina Kyle

Just last night... and a couple times before. I knew your girlfriend was gone, and I heard that you got sent to guard that loony bin, so I figured better here than sleeping on the street.

Jim Gordon

Have you seen Barbara?

Selina Kyle

No. Oh, so things are over between you two, huh? Sure you should be here, then? Maybe you're the one breaking in.

Jim Gordon

Get your things. I'm taking you someplace safe.

Selina Kyle

"Someplace safe", like Wayne Manor? That was your last great idea.

Jim Gordon

So someplace else. You're still the only witness to the Wayne murders.

Selina Kyle

Hmmm. You haven't talked to Bruce since you got back?

Jim Gordon

No, why?

Selina Kyle

Because I told him already. I didn't see anything. I lied. [pause] Sucks about your girlfriend. She's got some really nice stuff.

Jim Gordon

Three dates, and I still haven't been to your apartment.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Well, what particular room in my apartment are you interested in?

Jim Gordon

Oh, I don't know. How's the kitchen?

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Small.

Jim Gordon

Living room?

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Dark.

Jim Gordon

What about the bedroom?

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

The bedroom I think you'd like.

Jim Gordon

Do you know why you're here?

Jerome Valeska

Did you find out who killed my mother?

Jim Gordon

You killed your mother, Jerome.

Jerome

[stunned] Me?

Jim Gordon

You killed her up on that hill, and Mr. Cicero let you clean up in his trailer. He told you to scratch the Satanist stuff on the hatchet, and throw it off the bridge.

Jerome Valeska

Sir, that's absurd, and offensive.

Jim Gordon

But it's the truth. [looking at Cicero] What I don't know is why this man risked so much to help you. I think he's your father.

Jerome Valeska

You don't know what you're talking about. My father was a sea captain.

Jim Gordon

Am I wrong, Mr. Cicero?

Yes.

Jerome Valeska

He was a sea captain. His name was Sven Carlson, and he died at sea.

Jim Gordon

What was the name of his ship?

Jerome Valeska

He worked on a lot of different ships.

Jim Gordon

The one he went down in.

Jerome Valeska

[pause] She never said.

Jim Gordon

We can do a blood test to prove I'm right. It takes only half an hour to get a foolproof result. Isn't that right, Dr. Thompkins?

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

That's right.

Jim Gordon

Save yourself a needle.

I do hate needles. I'm sorry, Jerome.

Jerome Valeska

What are you talking about?

He's right. I am your father.

Jerome Valeska

No you're not! Why would you say that?

You must have suspected the truth.

Jerome Valeska

You're not my father. My mother would never have...

Your mother was a cruel woman. She was often unkind to me. But she did once love me, in her way. And she loved you very much. That's why she gave you a better father.

Jerome Valeska

My mother was a coldhearted whore who never loved anyone, and she'd never touch a pathetic old creep like you.

All these years, do you think I was kind to you because I'm such a good man? If I wasn't your father…would I would have helped you as I have after what you did?

Jerome Valeska

[pause] My father. Hmmm, I’ll be damned. That’s very funny. [laughs and makes a rimshot noise] Looks like the bitch got me with the zinger in the end.

Jim Gordon

Why did you kill your mother, Jerome?

Jerome Valeska

Oh, you know how mothers are. She just... kept... pushing. And I’m like, "Fine, mom, be a whore. Be a drunken whore, even. But don't be a nagging drunken whore" ...you know? "Don't come yell at me to do the dishes, if you've been banging a clown in the next room! [punches the table] You know? [laughs maniacally]

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

There are plenty of things in this world that can't be explained by rational science.

Jim Gordon

Yeah, people who enjoy folk dancing, for instance. Doesn't mean ghosts exist.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

You say you want a strong woman to share this crazy life you've chosen, but when push comes to shove, you want me to stay home and bake cookies.

Jim Gordon

Not cookies, necessarily. Pie. Any kind of pie.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Ha, ha!

Sarah Essen

Wait, back up a little. So you set the snake loose?

Jim Gordon

Yes, ma'am.

Sarah Essen

To track down the body?

Jim Gordon

Yes, ma'am. 'Cause snakes have an excellent sense of smell.

Sarah Essen

Well, now I know. And your prime suspects are a clown and an acrobat?

Jim Gordon

Yep.

Harvey Bullock

Ain't this one a doozy?

Jim Gordon

Hey. Sorry the date went south.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Are you kidding? Best date ever. Who gets to see a circus brawl?

Harvey Bullock

You sure about this, Penguin? You're telling me this is where Loeb keeps twenty years of dirty secrets? Doesn't feel right.

Jim Gordon

Well, maybe that's the point. No one would suspect it.

Oswald Cobblepot

Which would you prefer, Detective Bullock? A sign saying "Super secret blackmail hoard"?

Harvey Bullock

You know, the last time the three of us took a ride, you were in the trunk. I liked that better.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

New case?

Jim Gordon

Sort of. It's an unsolved homicide that a uni asked me to look into. It's an odd one.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Ooh, how so?

Jim Gordon

I thought you were hungry.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

What can I say? You had me at homicide.

Jim Gordon

Harvey, the victim deserves justice.

Harvey Bullock

Yeah, and I deserve a mute supermodel who likes pasty Irish guys and loves to cook. It's not happening.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

I would never try to change you, Jim. Your sense of mission--it's part of what I love about you.

Jim Gordon

I thought it was my devastating good looks. That's a joke.

[of the Ogre] Promise me, when you find him, don't arrest him. Kill him.

Jim Gordon

You got it.

Carmine Falcone

That was your father's. He gave it to me a long time ago. A spur-of-the-moment birthday gift. I said no. Such a beautiful knife, and I have men with guns to protect me. He said take it. A knife is a good friend when you have no other.

Jim Gordon

You were that close.

Carmine Falcone

At one time. The point of the story, Jim--your father was the most honest men I ever met. But he carried a knife.