[Edward is having a conversation with an Oswald hallucination]
[reading the front paper newspaper] "Chess Killer." How terrifying! How will anyone sleep knowing that the "Chess Killer's" on the loose?
It's just a name dreamed up by some hack. Today will change everything.
This is a mistake what you're doing.
I don't recall asking you.
I showed you how to be Ed Nygma, and then who can run the underworld and operate in plain sight, but what you are planning is madness!
No, it's a way forward. And the fact that it scares you gives me all the confirmation I need!
Ed, you're not sleeping. You're taking drugs, you're having a conversation with your dead friend! JUST ADMIT you are lost without me or you will destroy everything!
I have to go.
[music starts playing; a stage appears; Oswald hallucination begins music number]
[confused and disoriented] What are you doing?
[singing seductively] He’s fierce in my dreams seizing my guts / He floats me with dread / Soaked in soul he swims in my eyes by the bed / Pour myself over him / Moon slipping in, and I wake up..alone...
ENOUGH! I admit killing you killed a part of me! But I will find a way forward no matter the cost! I will be born anew. And I will leave you behind!
Penguin saw you, Ed. He was the only one, he made you! [Edward leaves; shouts] There is no Edward Nygma without the Penguin!
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