Fish Mooney quotes from Gotham

Fish Mooney

[to Gordon] You're just a little sinner like the rest of us. I'm almost kind of sad about that.

Fish Mooney

You know, I owned this club once, ran protection on the side. Every first of the month, people would pay me. Every once in a while, someone would come up short. They would say, "Mooney, I don't have the money", "Mooney, I need more time". They would cry and cry. And then I discovered that if I squeezed them and squeezed them and squeezed them, they always had more. You are going to fix me, or I swear to God I will make you pray for your death.

Fish Mooney

You have a little danger in your eye. I wonder what you plan to do with that.

Jim Gordon

You'll have to wait and see.

Fish Mooney

I'll play this thing loyal and bide my time. But I swear, Butch, on my sainted mother's grave, some day soon, I am going to kill that old man with my bare hands and my teeth.

Butch Gilzean

I'll be holding your shoes.

Fish Mooney

I grew up not too far from here. One bedroom, cold water. Just me and my mama. I used to sleep in a bed behind the curtain. It's where I would hide when she entertained men. And that's where I was when he killed her. One of Falcone's men. Didn't like the service. I hid there, silent, until morning. With my mama two feet away from me. That night, I made a promise.

To get revenge.

Fish Mooney

To never again be powerless. To never let any man, any man, be over me. This is about keeping that promise to that little girl.

Oswald Cobblepot

[sniffing Mooney] Lilacs. Mmm. You smell good.

Fish Mooney

You don't.

Oswald Cobblepot

Snappy as ever. Oh! Well, good-bye then. Sorry you're grumpy with me. But, reaching out in friendship is never wrong. [leaves]

Butch Gilzean

Man, that dude's creepy.

Fish Mooney

Hello, Sal.

Sal Maroni

Hey.

Fish Mooney

You sound surprised. Let me guess, your little friend Penguin told you I was dead.

Sal Maroni

As good as.

Fish Mooney

I'm just on vacation for awhile. I'm not gonna lie, I thought I was going to end up on top, but I got played. Turns out Penguin has been Falcone's man the whole time. They played us both for suckers.

Sal Maroni

Is that right?

Fish Mooney

Indeed. He told me himself right as I was about to gut him.

Sal Maroni

You understand why I might be skeptical, considering it's you telling me this.

Fish Mooney

Oh, wake up, dummy. You mean to tell me this whole time that you haven't suspected anything? That he hasn't made one slip that he's had to explain away? Or maybe even you wanted to believe his lies. But it still gnaws at you, the doubt.

Sal Maroni

Maybe a couple of times.

Fish Mooney

It's time for you to get your house in order, Salvatore. And remember who put you wise.

Fish Mooney

I've gone great lengths to meet you, Doctor.

Indeed you have. I must say you have a remarkable constitution. I wish I could say that same of all my patients.

Fish Mooney

Oh. So I'm a patient now? No longer a prisoner?

I confess I don't know what you are. You seize control of the basement, take one my guards hostage, then scoop out your own eye. What am I to do with you?

Fish Mooney

Every night when I close my eyes, I pray to God that the nightmare doesn't come. That living, breathing man stitched together with arms and legs that weren't his. That nightmare you created. I've faced dangerous men, but none like you…Dollmaker.

So, you would rather take your own life than end up one of my creations?

Fish Mooney

Yes.

Well, Ms. Mooney, try anything like this again, and your nightmare will come true. I will bring you back from the dead if I have to, and make you into something the world has never seen.

Fish Mooney

My name is Fish Mooney.

Hugo Strange

I'm sorry. Could you please repeat that?

Fish Mooney

I said, my name is Fish Mooney, bitch.

Hugo Strange

Miss Mooney, you have special talents. Some form of psychotropic chemical agent on your skin, I imagine. You are marvelous. Truly marvelous.

Fish Mooney

Always was.

Hugo Strange

Indeed.

Fish Mooney

I'd love to chat about me, but we have a bus to catch.

Hugo Strange

Ah, no. Miss Mooney, if you and the others on that bus were to appear in public, you would cause a revolution. An apocalypse. I simply can't allow you to just walk out of here.

Fish Mooney

Watch me.

Hugo Strange

Please don't go! Please. You're breaking my heart. I love you like my own daughter. No one could love you more, but I will have to kill you before I let you go. Please, choose life.

Fish Mooney

You would have made a great pimp.

Oswald Cobblepot

Why didn't you kill me? I have gone over that night 1,000 times, and it doesn't make any sense. Why didn't you kill me? I would've killed you in an instant. Answer me!

Fish Mooney

Because you're mine. You were my umbrella boy, remember? You rubbed my feet when they were tired. And now look at you, the terror of Gotham. Everything I've done in my life, possibly the best thing was turning Oswald Cobblepot into... the Penguin. I couldn't destroy that. [looks to Hugo Strange] Ask him. He understands what it is to bring something into being. It is a part of you. Forever.

Oswald Cobblepot

[lowers his gun with tears in his eyes] Goodbye, Fish. Don't come back.

Butch Gilzean

Hiya, Fish. How you been?

Fish Mooney

Well, let's see: I was alive, then I was dead, then I was alive again. Things are looking up.

Hugo Strange

He has it. It's in his eyes. [laughing] He has the virus!

Fish Mooney

Really. So tell me, James, what's it feel like?

Jim Gordon

Like it's taking all my willpower not to kill you.

Fish Mooney

Oh, my!

Harvey Bullock

Sweet Mother Mercy!

Fish Mooney

You... damn... fool!

Oswald Cobblepot

FISH! [he runs to her side as she collapses, Gordon drops the katana]

Fish Mooney

Oswald...

Oswald Cobblepot

It's okay, it's-it's- we, we can get you some help-

Fish Mooney

No, no... I've done this enough times... to know I'm finished.

Oswald Cobblepot

Do not say that. We will get you help-

Fish Mooney

Listen to me! [convulses in pain] Listen to me. Make this city yours... or you burn it to the ground.