You think you know what I want. That it's the same for you and me. Of course you do. I guess this game was made for men like you. Like my father. Same winners, same losers. That's why everyone expected me to die in Arkham. No one even considered that I might learn something there. How to play new games.
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I can't do this alone no more. You have to promise me that you're gonna make something of yourself. That you'll get me every goddamn thing I deserve. Lord, I ain't gonna make it! I don't know how else I can live with this, Oswald! But you'll make me happy, 'cause I deserve a happy life! Don't I? Don't I, Oswald? Tell me!
Of course you do, Ma. You deserve the best life. And I'm gonna get it for ya. I promise. And I ain't gonna quit 'til I do.
RCRex Calabrese
If Oz is what you say, well... Guys like him? They can serve a purpose. Go on to do big fuckin' things, especially in my line of work. But you gotta know how to control them. Mostly, guys that come to me say they're looking to make money. Now that's fine. But greed don't buy loyalty. If I want loyalty, I bring in guys who are looking for a father. Guys like that got a void to fill. They'll do anything for me. Now, Oswald... He don't need a father. He's got you. He's devoted to you. You can use that. Foster what he's got, embrace that, raise it. Maybe he'd be great. Or maybe not, I dunno. You'd have to bet on him to see.
I see you, Ma, in ways that other people don't. I see the way you smile when you want people to think you're enjoying something you ain't. I see how you smoke more when you're thinking, or you drink more when you're sad. I see how hard you work. How smart you are. And how you wish the people who matter would notice... or the people like that wouldn't matter at all. No one else believes in you like me. No one else is gonna give you what you deserve.
LLink
Watch what you say. You gotta know your place, or you're gonna catch a bullet. Then you really don't matter.
I just wanna know... was it worth it?
Fuck you.
Did he give you everything that you wanted?
Fuck you!
Did he fulfill his promise?
Ma! Ma!
Or do you wish you would've let Rex take him for that ride? What did you lose by keeping him alive? I know what I lost. What he took from me. He deserves to know what he did to you. How you feel about him and how... how angry you are! Tell him. Tell him.
I had enough to give, Oswald. I had enough to give all three of you. You didn't have to lead 'em down there, you didn't have to take 'em from me. They were my babies! My world! Your brothers! You're a disappointment. You're a waste of space. I wake up every goddamn day, sick that I'm your mother. She's right. She's fuckin' right. I should've let Rex kill you when I had the chance. [Francis breaks a beer bottle and stabs Oz in the abdomen with the shard.] You're the devil. You're the goddamn devil.
Goddammit, Oz, listen to me! You gave people jobs in Crown Point! You got the power back on!
Yeah?
Nobody did that! Alright? Nobody else did that! Nobody even tried! You gave people dignity! Bliss, that's bigger than Bliss! Alright, so... Get the hell up, let's go! Get your shit together and, uh... you know. Be you!
You, you, uh... You practiced that, huh?
Shut up.
No, no, that's good. That's good. You gotta, uh, project more, you know? From your gut.
CHCouncilman Hady
You wanna be welcome? You gotta look clean.
As a fuckin' whistle. Pal.
What did you say to get Link to turn? I'm sure you... Promised him something.
Yeah, yeah what you and the Dai Lo never would. A shot. A chance to be somebody. Link was tired of being overlooked. He ain't the only one, neither. Years of being brushed aside, laughed at, told to eat shit and fuckin' like it? It breaks ya. Makes you wanna break somebody else. Figured you would've understood that, considering. But you? You and your kind, you're so busy filling your own fuckin' plate, you don't see that everyone around you is starving. You got no idea what it feels like, born into nothin'. Havin' to smile at the person whose boot's on your neck. Hopin' one day they'll look down, see you there and just let up? You know what people'll do to push that down? Anything. Anything to push down that feeling!
You think I don't understand that? Right. It doesn't matter... Oswald Cobb, man of the people...
That's right.
That's what you need to believe, huh?
You're never gonna find peace, you know that? A sick fuck like you... You're going to hell, sweetheart.
I'll save you a seat.
I, uh... I can't bring you with me this time.
What do you mean?
[Oz puts his hand around Victor's throat.]
I mean that's the thing about family.
Oz...
It's your strength.
Oz, what are you--?!
It drives you. But fuck if it don't make you weak, too.
Oz! Oz!
And I can't have that no more.
Oz! Please, please!
I can't have that shit, I can't!
Please, please! Oz! Oz! Oz!
It's too much...
Please!
Too fuckin' much!
Oz--!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're a good man, Vic. You got a good heart.
[Vic finally goes limp.]
It wasn't for nothing.
Gotham's yours, sweetheart. Nothing's standing in your way now.
Goddamn right.
[As Oz and Eve dance, the camera pulls outside Oz's new apartment. After a beat, the Bat-Signal lights up in the sky.]
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