Jim Gordon quotes from Gotham

Jim Gordon

"Zardon". That spelled how it sounds?

Two a's.

Jim Gordon

Close enough.

Jim Gordon

[about "collecting a debt" for Cobblepot] You'd do the same thing.

Harvey Bullock

Me? I'd serve a sandwich to Beelzebub, but that's me.

Harvey Bullock

[about Jerome] He's probably been planning this Maniax shtick since you sent him away.

Jim Gordon

He was just a kid.

Harvey Bullock

Every evil bastard in the world was "just a kid" once.

Jim Gordon

You son of a bitch!

Jerome Valeska

True, but not the point. Let's talk about what I want: $47 million, a helicopter, obviously, the dry cleaning I left at Mr. Chang's - be careful, the man is a crook - and, oh, I don't know, a pony. You got 10 minutes or I start killing people. And remember, this is being broadcast to every home in Gotham, so, y'know, don't let people die. Bye! [laughs hysterically, hangs up] I think that went well.

Harvey Bullock

It's the onions that bring it together. The sweetness and the acid, am I right?

Jim Gordon

I hate stakeouts.

Harvey Bullock

Mmm, half of good police work is the ability to sit on one's ass when it's called for.

Jim Gordon

If that were true, you'd be commissioner.

Jim Gordon

And now he's dead. Nice work, Bullock.

Harvey Bullock

Oh yeah. My kicks did it? Maybe it's because he's fried like a taquito!

Jim Gordon

You tell us what the hell is going on with Penguin, or we leave you with Zsasz.

Butch Gilzean

You can't do that.

Jim Gordon

Bullock?

Harvey Bullock

We can totally do that.

Theo Galavan

I had high hopes for you. I thought you were prepared to make the hard choices, to do whatever it takes to rid Gotham of its monsters.

Jim Gordon

I am. I've just decided I'm gonna start with you.

Jim Gordon

I don't like this any more than you, but it is the only way.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

No. This is you, Jim. This is all you. She sucked you right back in, didn't she? Because she still has a hold on you. Her sickness and yours feed off each other.

Jim Gordon

What sickness? I'm not sick.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

You see an abyss and you run toward it. That's not healthy.

Jim Gordon

I'm just doing my job.

Jim Gordon

He's a psychopath, Barbara. He's using you. He's laughing at you. And when he's done with you, you're just a loose end. He'll kill you.

Barbara Kean

You really don't like this Galavan guy, do you?

Jim Gordon

You good?

Harvey Bullock

Anything that makes Captain Barnes tight-ass nervous, I'm all for.

Jim Gordon

I nearly crossed the line.

Captain Nathaniel Barnes

The line? Let me tell you something about the line. My third tour, we're stationed in the desert. We captured three insurgents, when this sandstorm kicks up. Zero visibility. Then we start taking fire. We're getting lit up. Suddenly, I'm alone. I come across one of our prisoners. He's a kid. His hands are zip-tied. But he figures what the hell, he's gonna use the sandstorm to try to escape; so I jump him. And I take my gun and I jam it in his mouth. I figured it was just a threat; show him who's boss, you know? Next thing I know... I just pulled the trigger. Blew his head off. That kid woke me up every night for years. Until I made my peace with him. See, I come to find out I'm just a man. And at the right moment, a man might do anything. Any man. There is no line. There's just the law. That's what separates us from the animals.

Captain Nathaniel Barnes

Does the universe usually like you this much, detective?

Jim Gordon

First time.

Harvey Bullock

Just when you think Gotham's shown her last jewel, she reveals herself like a flower.

Jim Gordon

You're mixing metaphors.

Harvey Bullock

I'm in a freakin' sewer.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

You keep trying to kill yourself. Did I have you all wrong? Are you just crazy?

Jim Gordon

Of course not.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

You're on the run from the law. You want to attack the mayor with the help of a depraved sociopath. That's not crazy?

Oswald Cobblepot

[offended] I can hear you.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Shh. Don't speak.