- Chief O'Hara: Commissioner Gordon is on the other phone with Batman, Mr. Wayne. Perhaps, if we put the two phones together, you could talk to him yourself?
- Bruce Wayne: Alright, Chief, I don't have much time...
- [O'Hara moves over to the other desk and puts the horn of his regular phone up against the Batphone]
- Bruce Wayne: Batman?
- Batman: [talking back and forth into his regular phone and the Batphone] Yes, Mr. Wayne. Have you heard Mr. Freeze's scurrilous demands?
- Bruce Wayne: Just briefly.
- Batman: If Robin and I act as go-betweens are you prepaired to make the telecast at midnight and pay the ransom, Mr. Wayne?
- Bruce Wayne: I... have no choice, Batman.
- Batman: Then may I suggest you tape the broadcast from the Commissioners office an hour earlier. And we will have a dummy package of money.
- Bruce Wayne: A dummy package of money? That sounds risky.
- Batman: Risk is our business, Mr. Wayne!
- Bruce Wayne: Of course, Batman, I have the same faith in you that all of Gotham City has.
- Batman: I hope Robin and I are deserving of that faith. I'll make the necessary arrangement and meet you at the Commissioners office at eleven.
- Bruce Wayne: Fine.
- Batman: Did you get all that, Commissioner?
- [O'Hara hangs up the line with Bruce Wayne without another word]
- Commissioner Gordon: Indeed I did, Batman. We'll set up the tape telecast and have the dummy package of money waiting. See you at eleven tonight.
- [hangs up the Batphone]
- Commissioner Gordon: Two fine men. So dissimilar in many respects and yet... yet so similar in others.
- Narrator: [narrating] But while the Batmobile glisaades towards police headquarters, Mr. Freeze is having his own icy sport with Professor Isaacson.
- Mr. Freeze: Your secret formula for frozen ice, Professor, that's what I want! Where is it?
- [the professor taps his left temple]
- Mr. Freeze: You mean it isn't written down?
- Professor Isaacson: To keep it a secret formula, it's bottled up. In here. And memory is a strange and intangible thing, you frosty-faced fool!
- Mr. Freeze: Remove ze professor.
- [walks towards deep freeze]
- Mr. Freeze: He should be stone cold by now.
- [the henchmen open the door and the professor walks out, totally unaffected]
- Mr. Freeze: You're not even chilly!
- Professor Isaacson: I'm an Icelander, you frostbitten baboon! A slight drop in temperature makes little difference to me.
- Chief O'Hara: [gasps] Sufferin' icicles! It's a list of demands from Mr. Freeze, he's holding Professor Icaacson for ransom.
- Commissioner Gordon: [reading from paper] At midnight tonight, Bruce Wayne, head of the Wayne foundation, is to make a televized broadcast...
- Chief O'Hara: From this office...
- Chief O'Hara: ...that the money's ready to be paid...
- Commissioner Gordon: He'll only deal directly with Batman and Robin, they're to be ready at midnight too, to act as intermediaries.
- Chief O'Hara: Otherwise...
- Commissioner Gordon: Otherwise it may be the blackest midnight that Gotham City has ever known, Chief O'Hara. I'll call Batman on the red phone, you get Mr. Wayne on the other.
- Chief O'Hara: Right.
- Bruce Wayne: [picks up phone] Dick?
- Dick Grayson: [on other line in phonebooth in back of police headquarters] Yes, Bruce.
- Bruce Wayne: I slipped an Anti-Eavesdrop-Batplug into the telephone just in case, I suggest you do the same.
- Dick Grayson: I already have.
- Chief O'Hara: It looked as though we were in for a long, cold winter, Commissioner, but now, I think we're due for a sudden change in the weather!
- Commissioner Gordon: Begorrah!