The New Batman Adventures (TV Series)

Animal Act (1998)

Mathew Valencia: Robin, Tim Drake

Quotes 

• Robin : Nightwing! What are you doing here?

  Nightwing : Oh, just following a pattern of obsessive behavior instilled on me at an early age.

  Batman : You should work on your stealth skills. I heard you coming halfway across the roof.

  Nightwing : Good to see you, too.

• Tim Drake : [Regarding the Haley's Circus]  This must've been such a cool place to grow up.

  [Dick looks up, noticing acrobats performing on the trapeze] 

  Dick Grayson : ...It was.

• Dick Grayson : Tim said he wanted to see what circus life was like, so I arranged for him to spend the rest of the week with Miranda.

  Bruce Wayne : He's going to help train animals?

  Dick Grayson : Not exactly.

  Miranda Kane : [as he mucks out a cage]  When you're done there, I still have the bears' cage.

  Tim Drake : [unenthused]  Great.

  Dick Grayson : Man, I miss it.

  Bruce Wayne : What?

  Dick Grayson : Show business.

• Dick Grayson : [seeing Batman's looming shadow]  You could knock.

  Batman : I did a little computer tracking of the Hayley Circus tour for the last six months. Seems that each town the circus played in was visited by a series of inexplicable robberies. Electronic items like chips, microtools, circuitry.

  Dick Grayson : There's no way Miranda had anything to do with these robberies.

  Batman : She had the time, experience, and access to train the gorilla.

  Dick Grayson : I know her.

  Batman : You knew her. A lifetime ago.

  [the communicator on his belt beeps] 

  Batman : What?

  Robin : Computer just picked up a silent alarm at the SharpAlert car locator factory.

  Dick Grayson : That's only ten blocks away.

  Batman : [heading to the window]  Coming?

• Tim Drake : So, you train the animals?

  Miranda Kane : Some, like Peaches here.

  [she pets her head, then stops Dick as he tries to do the same] 

  Dick Grayson : She remembers me.

  Miranda Kane : Circus policy. No one touches the animals but me. Insurance premiums have just gotten too high.

• Dick Grayson : [visiting the circus, a clown offers Tim a flower]  Go ahead.

  Tim Drake : [as he leans in to smell it, it ejects rubber snakes]  Whoa! You could have warned me.

  Dick Grayson : Where would the fun be in that?