Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Riddler's Reform (1994)

Kevin Conroy: Batman, Bruce Wayne

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Quotes 

• [last lines; after Bruce explains how he escaped] 

  Dick Grayson : [chuckles]  Nice going, Bruce. Man, I'd have never thought of that.

  Bruce Wayne : Neither would the Riddler.

  [cut to the Riddler, who is back in Arkham] 

  The Riddler : It's impossible, I tell you! Impossible! My trap was perfect! HOW DID HE DO IT? I have to know! Somebody tell me! It's not fair! There was no way, I tell you! No way he could have gotten out! Somebody tell me! Do you hear me? SOMEBODY TELL ME HOW HE DID IT! I have to know! I HAVE TO KNO-O-O-O-OW!

• Batman : You can play all you like. You and I both know that I'm going to put you away, because you can't help yourself. You can't stop. And I'll be waiting.

• The Riddler : There's no way you could have escaped from that explosion! How did you get out?

  Batman : That's my little riddle.

  The Riddler : Please, you must tell me!

  [pause] 

  The Riddler : All right, you win. You'll tell me what I want to know, and I'll tell you what you want to know. Okay?

  Batman : [smiles]  You mean where you've hidden everything you've stolen?

  The Riddler : Certainly. I'll even tell you how I committed all those robberies. Deal?

  Batman : [pauses]  No.

  [holds up one of Riddler's two-way radios] 

  Batman : Did you get that?

  Commissioner James Gordon : We got it.

  [Gordon and the police enter] 

  Commissioner James Gordon : This ought to be enough to prove a parole violation. You're going away for good this time. All right, get him out of here.

  [the police handcuff Riddler and lead him to the door] 

  Commissioner James Gordon : [re: the radio]  My compliments. This is a great little idea.

  The Riddler : [stops]  Wait a minute! Aren't you gonna tell me how you did it? That's not fair!

  [the police drag him out] 

• The Riddler : I know what you're thinking, but those silly riddle crimes are a thing of the past, ancient history that's gone now. I'm a new man. But you probably won't figure that out until it's too late.

  Batman : Do you know who you're dealing with here, Baxter?

  Charles Baxter : Yes. A man who's going to make my company millions. Everyone's heard of the Riddler. You can't buy that kind of market recognition. Leave him alone, or I'll swear out a complaint against you for harassment!

  The Riddler : [tossing a puzzle to Robin]  Here's a little something for the kid.

• Robin : It's after 10:00. He should've been here by now. You know, maybe we're reading into this thing. Maybe he wasn't sending a riddle at all.

  Batman : [remembering Riddler's commercial]  He flipped it over.

  Robin : What?

  Batman : The number. He flipped it upside down when he turned the chalkboard over.

  Robin : "10 Leslie"?

  Batman : It's an address.

  Robin : We're in the wrong place.

• The Riddler : I don't believe you were invited.

  Batman : I'm onto you, Nygma.

  The Riddler : Ah. You're still chasing riddles.

  [behind his back, he clicks a small, round ball] 

  Batman : You're still giving them.

  The Riddler : Is that what you believe? Well, how do you know what to believe, Batman? Maybe I'm not giving clues at all. Maybe you're seeing things that aren't there. But then again, maybe I am giving you clues. I could be giving you a clue right now, couldn't I?

  [surreptitously, he presses a button under a desk] 

  The Riddler : Of course it's possible that you're just...

  [a bookcase slides open] 

  The Riddler : ...paranoid. By the way, did you see my latest toy? It's a two-way radio.

  [Baxter's guests laugh] 

  The Riddler : Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet the great Batman. He's here because he hasn't got a clue.

• The Riddler : Hey, folks, wouldn't it be great to be a kid again, enjoying all those wonderful moments of childhood with your favorite toys?

  [taking a toy away from a child] 

  The Riddler : Not like that. You'll break it.

  [clearing his throat] 

  The Riddler : Yes. Well, you can recapture your childhood with Wacko Toys. All you have to do is pick up one of the Riddler's puzzles at your favorite store, then go back to where it all started... with toys. Come on. Be a kid again.

  Bruce Wayne : [turning the TV off]  He's going to hit the Gotham Convention Center.

  Dick Grayson : How did you figure that?

  Bruce Wayne : Because of the clue he's deliberately giving me.

  Dick Grayson : What clue?

  Bruce Wayne : He said "Go back to where it started... with toys."

  Dick Grayson : The toy fair.

• Batman : Up to your old tricks already, huh, Nygma?

  The Riddler : Whatever are you talking about, Batman?

  Robin : [indicating the box on which Riddler is sitting]  The last time you delivered one of these, it almost killed Commissioner Gordon.

  The Riddler : What's your point?

  Batman : What's in the box?

  The Riddler : None of your business.

  Batman : I'm making it my business.

• Bruce Wayne : [to Dick and Alfred at Wayne Manor after Riddler's arrest]  His accomplices plea bargained immediately, told the police where all the stolen goods were, and even agreed to testify against Nygma.

  Dick Grayson : But what I don't get is, how did you escape from that explosion?

  Bruce Wayne : [pauses]  Well,

  [flashback to Batman at the Gotham Convention Centre] 

  Bruce Wayne : all the exits were blocked,

  [Batman watches the doors and windows get sealed with heavy metal doors and looks up at Riddler's bomb on the ceiling] 

  Bruce Wayne : and I was out of time. There was only one thing to do.

  [Batman runs to a nearby safe and jumps inside it] 

  Bruce Wayne : I jumped inside the safe.

  [Batman closes the safe door, just as the building explodes]