Gotham Season 1 quotes

He has nothing concrete. Just faces, newspaper articles. There's no grounds for an investigation, just suspicion, cobbled together theories…nothing.

Has he had outside council?

I don't think so.

And his caretaker, Mr. Pennyworth?

He's in the hospital.

For how long?

If he lives, a few weeks, give or take. [with difficulty] Now's the time to make a move on the kid.

Thank you for your service, Mr. Payne. I doubt we'll meet again.

He's just a kid…a good kid.

Goodbye, Mr. Payne.

Barbara Kean

You're a true beauty. Something you can use to your advantage. Your appearance can be a weapon, as powerful as any knife or gun.

Selina Kyle

Yeah? What good's it done you?

I'm just like the phoenix. I'll just rise again and again and again.

Bruce Wayne

[reading to Alfred] And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in the glittering multitude...

Harvey Bullock

You sure about this, Penguin? You're telling me this is where Loeb keeps twenty years of dirty secrets? Doesn't feel right.

Jim Gordon

Well, maybe that's the point. No one would suspect it.

Oswald Cobblepot

Which would you prefer, Detective Bullock? A sign saying "Super secret blackmail hoard"?

Harvey Bullock

You know, the last time the three of us took a ride, you were in the trunk. I liked that better.

Harvey Bullock

You tell yourself, "I'll just do this one bad thing. All the good things I'll do later will make up for it." But they don't.

Fish Mooney

I've gone great lengths to meet you, Doctor.

Indeed you have. I must say you have a remarkable constitution. I wish I could say that same of all my patients.

Fish Mooney

Oh. So I'm a patient now? No longer a prisoner?

I confess I don't know what you are. You seize control of the basement, take one my guards hostage, then scoop out your own eye. What am I to do with you?

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

New case?

Jim Gordon

Sort of. It's an unsolved homicide that a uni asked me to look into. It's an odd one.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

Ooh, how so?

Jim Gordon

I thought you were hungry.

Dr. Leslie Thompkins

What can I say? You had me at homicide.

Jim Gordon

Harvey, the victim deserves justice.

Harvey Bullock

Yeah, and I deserve a mute supermodel who likes pasty Irish guys and loves to cook. It's not happening.

Fish Mooney

Every night when I close my eyes, I pray to God that the nightmare doesn't come. That living, breathing man stitched together with arms and legs that weren't his. That nightmare you created. I've faced dangerous men, but none like you…Dollmaker.

So, you would rather take your own life than end up one of my creations?

Fish Mooney

Yes.

Well, Ms. Mooney, try anything like this again, and your nightmare will come true. I will bring you back from the dead if I have to, and make you into something the world has never seen.

Gabe

I still don't get. Why all this trouble for this pile of bricks?

Oswald Cobblepot

This was never about money, Gabe.

Gabe

Not about money? What else is there?

Oswald Cobblepot

All kinds of things motivate people. Lust, ambition, envy.

Gabe

Okay. What motivated you? Why do you want this place so bad?

Oswald Cobblepot

It's simple: This is where I'm going to kill Don Maroni.

Selina Kyle

Could've smashed your head in with a brick, you know?

Bruce Wayne

Why would you do that? Why'd you even say that?

Selina Kyle

Just thought you should know.

Edward Nygma

I can start a war, or end one. I can give you the strength of heroes, or leave you powerless. I can be snared with a glance, but no force can compel me to stay. What am I?

You got me.

Edward Nygma

Love.

Oswald Cobblepot

You tell Sal it's over. The guns are bought. The killing room is waiting. He doesn't know it, but he's a dead man.

Jason Lennon

The person that I am now, I created. I brought him into being. I can do the same for you. Aren't you tired of playing games? Of hiding?