Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

House & Garden (1994)

Peter Strauss: Dr. Steven Carlyle

Quotes 

• Bruce Wayne : What do you want?

  Plant-Man : I do the talking. Bring 5 million in cash to the docks tomorrow, midnight. Come alone or the kid is history. Nod if you understand.

  [Bruce does so] 

  Plant-Man : Smart boy.

• Dr. Steven Carlyle : I was her doctor at Arkham. She said she wanted to reform. I trusted her, let her get too close.

  Poison Ivy : One little kiss, and dear Steven was my slave. He was useful in signing my release papers, and for supplying certain raw materials for my experiments. But the marriage was, well, a fake.

  Batman : And these mutations?

  Poison Ivy : Our children, Batman. Plant-based lifeforms enhanced with Steven's DNA. They're not truly human. In fact, their life spans are somewhat like certain rare flowers that blossom and die in a few days.

  Batman : I see. At first it looks like a child. Then it resembles Dr. Carlyle. And in its final phase...

  Poison Ivy : In its final phase before it burns itself out, the creature becomes my willing enforcer and bodyguard.

  Batman : Thief and kidnapper is more like it.

  Poison Ivy : It costs money to raise a family.

  Batman : You haven't changed a bit.

  Poison Ivy : Yes, I have. I meant it when I said I wanted a family that loves me. I just wanted it on my own terms.

• Plant-Man : Keep driving, or your neck gets a new air hole.

• Plant-Man : Wayne, kick the case over here.

  Bruce Wayne : Let me see the boy.

  Plant-Man : [dangling Dick out]  The money. Now!

  Bruce Wayne : [kicking the case over]  Send out the boy.

  [nothing happens] 

  Bruce Wayne : You hear me?

  Plant-Man : [appearing above him]  I hear you.

• Commissioner James Gordon : Dr. Carlyle is our liaison between the board at Arkham and the police department.

  Batman : You also teach classes on criminal psychology at Gotham State. I've read some of your works. They were very impressive.

  Dr. Steven Carlyle : Thank you. But I get the feeling this isn't a social call.

• Batman : Someone is poisoning and robbing wealthy young men. As painful as it sounds, all clues point to your wife.

  Dr. Steven Carlyle : That's outrageous. Pamela hasn't...

  Dr. Pamela Isley : Darling, please. Batman, I don't doubt that I was your first and probably only suspect. Over the years, you and I have had a rather intense relationship. But that's all in the past. Believe me, I look back on what I was, and I shudder. Locked away in Arkham with the obsessed and the insane, and me just as lost as any of them. And then I met Steven. His love and guidance brought me into the light again.