Batman Beyond (TV Series)

Shriek (1999)

Will Friedle: Terry McGinnis, Batman

Quotes 

• Terry McGinnis : Tell me something: Why were you so sure those voices weren't comin' from you?

  Bruce Wayne : Well, first, I know I'm not psychotic.

  Terry McGinnis : I hope your other reason's more convincing.

  Bruce Wayne : And second, the voice kept calling me Bruce. In my mind, that's not what I call myself.

  Terry McGinnis : What do you call yourself?

  [Bruce gives Terry a long stare] 

  Terry McGinnis : Oh, yeah. I suppose you would.

  [Voice sinking to Batman's tone] 

  Terry McGinnis : But that's my name now.

  Bruce Wayne : Hmm. Tell that to my subconscious.

• Walter Shreeve : It's getting late, and I still have things to do, so...

  Terry McGinnis : Wait. What about those, you know, sound vibrations?

  Walter Shreeve : Sound vibrations?

  Terry McGinnis : Yeah. I heard about 'em the other day. Someone can knock over a tree?

  Walter Shreeve : So they say.

  Terry McGinnis : So, you know anything about 'em?

  Walter Shreeve : [striking him over the head]  Who are you? What do you really want?

  Terry McGinnis : Hey, man, I didn't mean nothin'.

  Walter Shreeve : [Pins him to the floor and holds one of his vibration devices near him]  You want to know about sound vibrations? Would you like to see how they can split your skull?

  [Terry struggles for a moment and then gives up an upward mule kick off and he runs away] 

• Terry McGinnis : [leaving a Wayne-Powers stockholder meeting]  Too bad Shreeve is too freaked out to testify against that weasel.

  Bruce Wayne : Maybe when his hearing comes back, if it ever does.

• Batman : Yeah, the source is definitely in here somewhere.

  Shriek : Not somewhere. Right behind you.

  Batman : You don't have to do this, Shreeve.

  Shriek : But I do. And the name's Shriek now. I'll show you why.

• Bruce Wayne : That theatre: it was where my parents and I went the night they were...

  Terry McGinnis : I think you'd want it torn down, so after all these years you could finally forget.

  Bruce Wayne : Do you want to forget what happened to your father?

• Terry McGinnis : [picking Bruce up after a meeting]  How'd it go?

  Bruce Wayne : The way I wanted.

  Terry McGinnis : Must've been pretty important to get you out of that house. Especially in daylight.

  Bruce Wayne : I'll show you.

• Bruce Wayne : Can you believe it? They want to keep me in here overnight!

  Terry McGinnis : Why don't you relax and make it a little vacation? And while you're here, I'll figure out who that guy in the suit was.

  Bruce Wayne : So you're a detective now?

  Terry McGinnis : Been watching you long enough. Besides, I got a lead.

• Terry McGinnis : Okay, we know it's some kind of sound generator. So now what?

  [inserting it into the Batcomputer] 

  Terry McGinnis : Computer, analyze the metal this thing's made of.

  [nothing happens] 

  Terry McGinnis : Computer?

  Bat Computer : Incorrect command.

  Terry McGinnis : Uh, do the thing where you figure out what it's made of.

  Bat Computer : Request for spectrographic analysis?

  Terry McGinnis : Uh, yeah, that's it. What you said.

• Derek Powers : Who else can take care of his affairs? He has no wife, no children.

  Terry McGinnis : Me. I could do it.

  Derek Powers : Awfully young, aren't you?

  Terry McGinnis : Awfully slimy, aren't you?

  Derek Powers : Careful. The courts are very strict about slander.

  Terry McGinnis : Yeah? Then let's see how they handle assault.

  [lunges at Powers and starts to grapple with him before orderlies pull him off and restrain him] 

  Derek Powers : You should know something about the psycho ward here: there's always room for one more!

• Bruce Wayne : I've been hearing these voices.

  Batman : I know.

  Bruce Wayne : They think I'm crazy.

  Batman : We'll talk about it back home.

  Bruce Wayne : We're not going anywhere until I figure out where the voices are coming from.

  Batman : But the orderlies could come in at any second.

  Bruce Wayne : Check the light fixture. There might be a speaker hidden in it.

  Batman : You can't be seri...

  Bruce Wayne : Check it!

  Batman : [firing a laser blast]  See? Nothing.

  Bruce Wayne : Then the sound's got to be coming from the walls. Strip 'em.

  Batman : I can't strip the...

  [getting an idea] 

  Batman : Wait a minute.

  Bruce Wayne : What are you doing?

  [Batman yanks the bandage off his head] 

  Bruce Wayne : Ow!

  Batman : Big bandage for such a small wound. It's a two-way radio. Guy named Shreeve makes them. He's the one who knocked down the police station.

  Bruce Wayne : He probably bribed a nurse to put that thing in the bandage. Still think I'm crazy?

  Batman : It never occurred to me.

• Terry McGinnis : What's this?

  Walter Shreeve : Put it to your ear.

  Terry McGinnis : [doing so]  Hey, music!

  Walter Shreeve : A microfilament transmitter/receiver. Picks up radio signals.

  Terry McGinnis : Cool! What's this do?

  Walter Shreeve : Don't touch that!

  [all sound stops; as he presses a button, it returns] 

  Terry McGinnis : What was that?

  Walter Shreeve : Sound masking. See, sound moves in waves. The masker instantly plays back whatever sound it picks up, slightly out of phase, so the waves cancel each other out. No waves, no sound.

  Terry McGinnis : Schway!

• Terry McGinnis : [taking an analysis print-out]  "Copper, iron, and acoustium"? Computer, acoustium.

  [taking another printout] 

  Terry McGinnis : "A new alloy that amplifies sound vibrations." Makes sense. "Developed by Shreeve Sound Laboratory, Gotham City." And the old man thought I couldn't do this stuff on my own.

• Batman : Looks like the radio signal's coming from that factory by the hospital.

  Bruce Wayne : And from there, I've got a feeling it's gonna lead to Powers.

  Batman : Doesn't take a detective to figure that one out.