Gotham · Season 1
There's so much I haven't told you. So much that I'm ashamed of. I was a criminal. I've done horrible things. Hurt people, manipulated, lied. For power. For revenge. I've killed people, father.
Our lives together started the moment I met you at the cemetery. Nothing before that concerns me. I forgive you for all your past transgressions. Be free of them, and live here in peace.
Your heart?
I have a hole in it. It keeps getting bigger apparently. I think my demons are feeding on it.
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.
I know something you don't know.
Yeah? What's that?
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?
Okay. Choose life.
Good.
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.
Bullock, this is your one and only chance to tell me where he is.
Hand to God, Cap, I got no idea.
Stop it! You're not smart enough to play dumb.
We both know Jim did not kill Pinkney!
I know that a court found him guilty. He wants to prove his own innocence, great. I hope he does. The public, the people of Gotham, the people you and I serve, they have to know, they have to see we're impartial, you understand?
"The people of Gotham" can eat my socks!
Without fingers I point, without arms I strike, without feet I run. What am I?
You're a clock.
If you keep releasing lunatics so liberally, you're going to get a bad reputation.
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.
You know what she's going to do, don't you?
I don't, actually. But I do know it will be interesting.
Turns out staring into the cold, dead eyes of the man who killed your parents doesn't bring the right amount of closure.
[Nygma has a gun on Gordon]
How did this happen to you? How did you become this?
You dummy. This is who I am. It was just finally admitting the truth to myself. Well, that and murdering some people.
I don't believe that.
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.
I was your friend.
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."
Completely insane.
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.
Death.
Right again. Goodbye, Jim.
Did I not make myself clear last night?
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.
Let me guess. You're gonna talk to the Lady for me, get the information I need, if I just, what, trust you?
No one likes a smarty-pants. What's your plan, then?
My plan?
Mmm-hmmm.
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.
The Gordon special. I remember it well.
She was our first. One small stroke on the canvas of possibilities. Such promise. Do you remember?
I remember the orderly she maimed, and the two she killed.
Creation is always so violent.
I'm going out there, with or without you.
Imagine my surprise.
What do you care, after everything that's happened? Let's say you've changed. Why do you care what I think?
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.
You want to be a better person.
Yes.
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.
Your father started Pinewood, Bruce. His intentions were good, but the man in charge took advantage of him. He didn't realize the truth until it was too late. Pinewood was his burden, but it doesn't have to be yours.
It's not a burden. It's who I am.
Thank you.
For what?
I can read tells too. You're lying. I needed to be sure you were behind all this. And now I am.
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