Jim Gordon quotes from Gotham

Lucius Fox

People, surely we should have a backup strategy, given the strong possibilities of failure.

Oswald Cobblepot

Au contraire, Mr. Fox. Failure is not an option!

Jim Gordon

What he said.

Lucius Fox

As you like.

Jim Gordon

That's the good news?

Harvey Bullock

No. But I thought "bad news and more bad news" didn't have the same ring.

Harvey Bullock

Winter stakeout at the looney bin. Fabulous.

Jim Gordon

Nora doesn't have long. Fries knows that. He'll come soon.

Harvey Bullock

He better. We could freeze to death waitin'... which would be ironic.

Edward Nygma

Any news on the Kringle front?

Jim Gordon

Uh, no. Damn. Sorry. I've been a little busy. I'll get into, don't worry.

Edward Nygma

[chuckles] Me, worry?

Jim Gordon

I'll let you know as soon as I know anything. [leaves]

Edward Nygma

[to self] You'll let me know. I'll bet you will. Acting like you forgot all about Kristin Kringle. I'm sure you forgot! You suspect me somehow. That must be it. You're trying to lull me into a false sense of security while the claws of your investigation close around me, eh? Is that it, my little man? You take me to be a fool? We'll see about your clever little plan, Jim Gordon. We'll see. I can make plans of my own.

Jim Gordon

How's Lee? She's been writing to me a lot. The letters stopped a few weeks ago. Know why?

Harvey Bullock

I didn't wanna be the one to tell you this.

Jim Gordon

Tell me what?

Harvey Bullock

Lee lost the baby, Jim. I'm so sorry.

Watch this one. He just lost a child. Makes him mad. That's right. i hear everything. I see everything. Everything you know, I know.

Jim Gordon

I know something you don't know.

Yeah? What's that?

Jim Gordon

I know what kind of man you are.

Don't give up hope. I feel your sadness, I do, but you gotta choose life, y'know?

Jim Gordon

Okay. Choose life.

Good.

Jim Gordon

Listen, kid, when you get better, you learn a lesson here and you stay the hell away from me. I'm not a hero, and I'm not your friend. I'm just a convict.

Edward Nygma

Without fingers I point, without arms I strike, without feet I run. What am I?

Jim Gordon

You're a clock.

Jim Gordon

How did this happen to you? How did you become this?

Edward Nygma

You dummy. This is who I am. It was just finally admitting the truth to myself. Well, that and murdering some people.

Jim Gordon

I don't believe that.

Edward Nygma

You don't believe it? Why, Jim? Because it would make you incompetent to know I was under your nose the whole time? Or you don't want to admit there's a monster in all of us - because you of all people should know that! That's what made it so easy to frame you.

Jim Gordon

I was your friend.

Edward Nygma

Were you? Were you my friend, Jim? Or did you just pity me? "Oh, poor weird little Ed with his little silly word play and his riddles."

Jim Gordon

Completely insane.

Edward Nygma

Yeah, it's probably easier for you to think that. How about one last riddle for old time's sake? A nightmare for some, for others, a savior I come. My hands cold and bleak. It's the warm hearts they seek.

Jim Gordon

Death.

Edward Nygma

Right again. Goodbye, Jim.

Jim Gordon

Did I not make myself clear last night?

Barbara Kean

Oh, you did, and I wanted to respect your boundaries. But I was wondering if you knew that this is a women's only club. Plus, its members are of a, shall we say, criminal persuasion. Didn't think so. Which is why I'm here.

Jim Gordon

Let me guess. You're gonna talk to the Lady for me, get the information I need, if I just, what, trust you?

Barbara Kean

No one likes a smarty-pants. What's your plan, then?

Jim Gordon

My plan?

Barbara Kean

Mmm-hmmm.

Jim Gordon

My plan is to stick a gun in the Lady's face and have her beg me not to pull the trigger, until she tells me everything I want to know.

Barbara Kean

The Gordon special. I remember it well.

Jim Gordon

What do you care, after everything that's happened? Let's say you've changed. Why do you care what I think?

Barbara Kean

Because when I woke up from that coma, the first image I saw was your face as you were holding onto me from the church window. You were trying to save me, because in that moment you didn't see the monster. You just saw me. That's what I've been holding on to. If you could just look at me like that again, I'd be okay. I'd make it.

Jim Gordon

You want to be a better person.

Barbara Kean

Yes.

Jim Gordon

That's your choice to make. I can't be there for you. You tried to kill Lee. I can't forgive that. I won't.

Jim Gordon

Thank you.

Hugo Strange

For what?

Jim Gordon

I can read tells too. You're lying. I needed to be sure you were behind all this. And now I am.

Edward Nygma

Hello, Jimmy.

Jim Gordon

Go to hell, Ed.

Edward Nygma

Oh, you've already put me there - here. But not for long, my friend. I'll find my way out, 'cause this place is just one big puzzle, and puzzles are my forte. Nobody beats me.

Jim Gordon

I did. See ya never, Ed. [leaves]

Edward Nygma

That's what you think.

Edward Nygma

[about to open Strange's secret lab] What do I get if I do it?

Jim Gordon

You get to live.

Edward Nygma

...Fair enough.

Jim Gordon

You any good at defusing bombs?

Lucius Fox

I don't know yet. You?

Jim Gordon

Meh.