Gotham Season 1 quotes

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.

Edward Nygma

[about to open Strange's secret lab] What do I get if I do it?

Jim Gordon

You get to live.

Edward Nygma

...Fair enough.

Jim Gordon

You any good at defusing bombs?

Lucius Fox

I don't know yet. You?

Jim Gordon

Meh.

Harvey Bullock

Jim! Hey, Jim! Where are you goin'? We've got monsters to find.

Jim Gordon

And you'll find 'em. You got this, I know you do. And I have more important things to do. And Harvey?

Harvey Bullock

Yeah?

Jim Gordon

You're the boss now. Maybe, get a haircut?

Harvey Bullock

How many escapees you brought in now? Hmm? Six? Five grand a pop? That's not too bad. What happens when there aren't any more?

Jim Gordon

I don't think Gotham's running out of monsters anytime soon.

Oswald Cobblepot

[about Mooney] Why didn't she kill me when she had the chance? I was powerless. She must have a larger goal. I-I need to know what she is doing.

Edward Nygma

Do you? When Alexander encountered the Gordian knot, a knot so complex no one had ever been able to untangle it... he just removed his sword and cut it in two. Details can be distracting. Sometimes, a simple solution is best. See, no matter what she is planning, just remember: Penguins... eat... fish.

Selina Kyle

You okay, Butch? World getting you down?

Butch Gilzean

[sighs] Yeah, I'm fine, kid. And you're too young to be in here. Scram.

Selina Kyle

Jeesh. Just trying to be nice. [leaves]

Butch Gilzean

[to Cobblepot, about Tabitha] Just seeing her kills me, you know?

Oswald Cobblepot

Get over it. And that child just stole your wallet.

I implore the people of Gotham: If you love your family, if you love your children, find Fish Mooney. Until then, no one is safe.

Capt. Nathaniel Barnes

I don't know which one of you I wanna bash over the head with this cane more. [to Gordon] I get it. Life disappointed you. So what? Does that make you special? I'm done with you. You cross me again, I will have you skinned alive and your head put on a pike. [to Bullock] And you. When I came back, I saw the way you handled things while I was away. I swear I had this feeling right here. I thought I was having a heart attack. But it was pride, Bullock. In you. The next time I have that feeling, I'll know it was just gas.

Valerie Vale

I have a proposition...

Jim Gordon

Not interested.

Valerie Vale

Oh c'mon. Think of it as a way to say "I'm sorry for handcuffing you to a car door."

Jim Gordon

Except I'm not.

Valerie Vale

So, this is where you live. Anyone considering a career in bounty hunting should see this, preferably wearing a Haz-Mat suit. You don't bring women here, do you?

Barbara Kean

Jim. I had a dream about you the other night. You were in this horrible accident, and you lost both of your legs, and then I had to push you around in a giant baby carriage.

Good seeing you, Barbara.

Oswald Cobblepot

This is it, Butch. She's finally cornered, like a rat!

Butch Gilzean

Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? The cops are already there.

Oswald Cobblepot

GCPD is not Gotham. Gotham listens to me.

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.

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.

Jervis Tetch

[while hypnotizing a victim] Lock sense away, let loose the rascal. When I say it is so, your home is my castle.