Hugo Strange quotes from Gotham

Ethel Peabody

I know you say there are no hopeless cases.

Hugo Strange

And there are none. The beauty of life can spring forth from even the harshest of climates. We simply need to be more... aggressive in our treatment.

Ethel Peabody

If you keep releasing lunatics so liberally, you're going to get a bad reputation.

Hugo Strange

I'm not looking for a good reputation. We're releasing Barbara Kean into the wild to observe her behavior. She's a beautiful experiment.

Ethel Peabody

You know what she's going to do, don't you?

Hugo Strange

I don't, actually. But I do know it will be interesting.

Hugo Strange

She was our first. One small stroke on the canvas of possibilities. Such promise. Do you remember?

Ethel Peabody

I remember the orderly she maimed, and the two she killed.

Hugo Strange

Creation is always so violent.

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.

Hugo Strange

I want to increase voltage to her cortex. 200 percent.

Are you certain, sir? It'll be like she's being struck by a bolt of lightning.

Hugo Strange

Well, how much more damage could we possibly do? She's dead.

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

You've been searching for the man who killed your parents, but the answer has always been right in front of you. Bruce, your father orphaned you. His actions fired the bullet that killed him and your mother. He knew what he was doing, and he did it anyway. I'm begging you not to follow his path.

Bruce Wayne

You want to know if I wish my parents were alive? Of course. Would I give anything to have them back? Yes. But my father fought and died for what he believed was right. And if necessary, so will I.

Edward Nygma

Just between us, who does run Wayne Enterprises?

Hugo Strange

I could tell you, but then I would have to lobotomize you.

Edward Nygma

So, moving forward, sir, I would be more than happy to help you with any of your other cases.

Hugo Strange

You would be a wonderful addition to my staff, Ed, a wonderful addition, if you were only sane.

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.

I should cook him.

They want him alive.

So I'll just cook part of him.

Hugo Strange

Oh no, my dear, let's be calm...

You don't have that kind of control.

And you do? In my hands this flamethrower is a scalpel.

Fine. We each take a foot. Whoever goes above the ankle loses.

You're on!

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!

Nyssa al-Ghul

Rest easy, Eduardo. I made you a promise when I found you in that hole in Pena Dura, and I intend to keep it. To give you a true purpose, and the strength to see it through.

Hugo Strange

However, I'm afraid this process will be agonizing and, unfortunately, quite lengthy. Apologies in advance.

Nyssa al-Ghul

You're going to be reborn, and then you'll be the bane of the unjust. The bane of the corrupt. The bane of anyone who opposes us.