- Barbara Gordon: This is important. I won't be easy for you to hear... but it's about a job I took on recently.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Barbara, please. Sweetheart, you're capable of making your own decisions. You don't need me to approve or even acknowledge them. And in this case, I can't. All you need to know is I love you. All of you.
- [kisses her]
- Commissioner James Gordon: And that is all I have to say on the subject.
- [Gives her a wink]
- Barbara Gordon: Daddy...
- [Hugs him]
- Bruce Wayne: [Picking up the phone] Yes?
- Commissioner James Gordon: Wayne.
- Bruce Wayne: Commissioner? What can I do for you?
- Commissioner James Gordon: Drop the act. Ten minutes on Barbara's computer told me everything. Like a fool I allowed you to run wild on your private crusade. A psychotic misfit playing masked hero. Now I've paid for it with Barbara's life.
- Bruce Wayne: Jim, believe me. I know how you feel.
- Commissioner James Gordon: You can't.
- Bruce Wayne: You know how I lost my parents. The only way I could hold on to my sanity was to take matters into my own hands.
- Commissioner James Gordon: That makes us even.
- Detective Renee Montoya: Freeze! Richard Grayson, you have the right to remain silent.
- Nightwing: Waived.
- Commissioner James Gordon: There's no place to run, Wayne.
- Bane: Good, I want to finish him slowly.
- [Gordon shoots a warning shot near Bane's feet]
- Commissioner James Gordon: I want him alive! Alive, to rot away in Arkham. Surrounded by the monsters he's created.
- Bane: Poetic, but no.
- [lunges at Gordon and swats the gun away]
- Commissioner James Gordon: We had a deal!
- Bane: Thought about it. Didn't work for me.
- [Knocks Gordon over the edge, leaving him dangling for life]
- Bane: Please, give your dear Barbara a kiss from me.
- Det. Harvey Bullock: Seal the building! No one gets in or out! I want SWAT teams in place, helicopter backup!
- Commissioner James Gordon: Harvey, we both know we'll never catch him. Not that way.
- Det. Harvey Bullock: So what do we do?
- Commissioner James Gordon: What I should've done years ago.
- Tim Drake: They've got him downtown. I figure we break in, take out the guards, and spring Nightwing and Alfred at the same time.
- Batman: No.
- Tim Drake: What do you mean?
- Batman: It's over, Tim. Gordon feels betrayed, and maybe he was. He won't give up until he gets me. You have to leave me now. Give yourself up. No one will blame you for what happened.
- Tim Drake: What about you?
- Batman: ...I don't know
- Nightwing: I never thought it would end this way. For us or for Barbara. I still don't know everything that happened.
- Batman: I'll never forget. I see it as clearly as the day of my parents' murder. Scarecrow had seized control of City Hall. While we polished off his goon, the maniac ran. Barbara went after him...
- Mayor Hamilton Hill: I'm sorry, Jim. That's the way it has to be.
- Det. Harvey Bullock: Commish?
- Commissioner James Gordon: I can either hand my badge in now or wait until the grand jury roasts me. Either way, I lose Batman.
- TV Host: Enemies of society or victims of a revenge-crazed vigilante? You decide, on "Gotham Exposed."
- Harley Quinn: [sobbing] I have such horrible dreams! Every night, there's a gigantic black figure chasing me, his eyes blazing like fire! I try to run, but there's no escape! He grabs me and...
- [pantomiming throttling herself]
- Harley Quinn: ...oh!
- The Mad Hatter: [giving her a handkerchief] The truth is none of us would have turned to crime if it had not been for Batman. We were helpless, lost souls, crying out for understanding. What we got was a beating from a self-righteous madman! Our civil rights were clearly abused! Now that we finally know the face behind the mask, we demand justice! We demand satisfaction!
- Harley Quinn: We demand money!
- The Mad Hatter: [agreement from Riddler and Scarface] Quite so. On advice from legal counsel, we have launched a billion-dollar lawsuit.
- Lawyer: If the Bat's on a spree, Wayne must pay the fee.
- Det. Renee Montoya: Batman! Don't.
- [seeing Gordon approaching from behind, Batman grabs Robin and jumps off a cliff]
- Robin: Whoa!
- [as they fall]
- Robin: We are gonna die.
- Batman: Jim...
- Commissioner James Gordon: How could you? I worked with you, trusted you... And you never told me?
- [Batman looks down]
- Commissioner James Gordon: She was my daughter. My daughter!
- [Batman goes to console him, but is stopped at gun point by Bollock]
- Det. Harvey Bullock: That's as far as you go, murderer.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Mmm, mmm! Keep cooking like that, you'll have me looking like Harvey Bullock.
- Barbara Gordon: Dinner wasn't the only reason I wanted to see you tonight.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Oh?
- Barbara Gordon: Dad, have a seat.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Uh-oh.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Oh, no, Wayne. No vanishing act this time.
- Alfred Pennyworth: [jumping on him as a distraction] No!
- Commissioner James Gordon: Arggh!
- Batman: Alfred.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Keep going, sir. Keep going!
- Det. Harvey Bullock: Knock it off, Jeeves. I'm warnin' ya!
- Mayor Hamilton Hill: My heart goes out to you, Jim, believe me. If it had been my child...
- Commissioner James Gordon: It wasn't.
- Mayor Hamilton Hill: No. And while I feel for your loss, you have to realize how bad this makes us look. Yes, Batman has helped the city, but he still operates outside the law. We've looked the other way before, but now that everyone knows your daughter was part of his team...
- Commissioner James Gordon: What are you saying?
- Mayor Hamilton Hill: The D.A.'s office wants a full investigation. They want you to step down.
- Barbara Gordon: Oh, thank God you're not dead.
- Batman: Is that what you saw?
- Barbara Gordon: You and my father, at each other's throats because I was killed without ever telling him...
- [holding up her Batgirl suit]
- Barbara Gordon: ...about this.
- Batman: Your deepest fear brought to life by the Scarecrow.
- Robin: He gassed you right before we nailed him. You've been out all night.
- Barbara Gordon: It seemed so real.
- Alfred Pennyworth: To you, it was.
- Barbara Gordon: I've ignored this fear for too long. I have to deal with it.
- Batman: I understand.