We saved this city from certain damnation, but will we receive any thanks for our loyalty, for our selfless bravery? Of course not!
I don't want their thanks or their respect. You know what I felt, standing shoulder to shoulder with those people out there? Nothing. I feel absolutely nothing for those drab, boring people. That was me, once. Minimum wage at a thankless job at the GCPD. "Yes, sir." "No, sir." "Thank you so much, sir." Picking up scraps from my master's floor. Shy, awkward, pathetic Ed. Common criminals. Never again! I've shown this city who I truly am once before, and I'll do it again! They will bow to the Riddler, and they won't get up until I permit them to!
You're right. Our accomplishments erased. Our brilliant minds underrated. If they had let me run this city the way I wanted to, it would not be in ruins now. I had the men, the money, the guns...
Gordon took them. Why? Because he still sees you as Fish Mooney's umbrella boy, and he always will. I only came back to help him save the city so I could take it myself!
We would be strong together. No one could stop us.
Perhaps.
Let's make a pact, here and now. We will take what we want from who we want, and we will suffer no fools.
Shall we shake on that?
Please, we're brothers. A hug.
A hug it is.
[they embrace, and draw knives on each other, but cannot bring themselves to strike]
Life begins anew.
Shall we get to work?
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