03x01 - Barbara Gordon

[bunniefuu]

- Holy sh*t.
- [computer beeping]

Holy sh*t. Holy sh*t, I f*cking got you!

[officer over recording]
Oh, my God! It's the Joker!

[officer ] I got three officers down!

[officer ] Hang on, Alvarez!

I need a medevac right now, God damn it!

[dispatch] This is Gotham - .
We have a chopper in the area.

- Do you have eyes on the Joker?
- [officer ] No.

Thank Christ. He's gone.

[officer ] Hey! Watch your back!

[feedback over recording]

[Joker laughing maniacally]

[men shouting]

[officer ] Where's Batman?

[line ringing]

[cell phone ringing]

[sighs]

- Hello.
- I got him, Bruce.

I got the Joker dead to rights, man.

[Bruce] What?

Some cops stumbled onto him

answering a bullshit break-in call.

The clown torched the
pigs and left, right?

But I tracked him with the
audio from city surveillance

and I triangulated his location.

He's at the old amusement
park near the pier.

He's right f*cking there, Bruce!

I won't be back until morning.

Stand down, Jason.

- Bruce, I...
- Stand down.

Bruce, listen to me.

I got this.

I can do this.

This is the Joker, Bruce.

All the more reason
you're not going alone.

I'm not afraid of him.

I'm not afraid of anything anymore.

It's not about whether
you're afraid or not.

When are we gonna get another
chance to nail him like this?

No.

Okay, I got it.

[sighs] Loud and clear, boss.

I'll see you in the morning.

- [inhales]
- [bubbling]

f*ck the Joker.

[bell dinging]

- [carnival music playing]
- [laughing maniacally]

[Joker laughing]

[laughter continues]

- [Joker grunting]
- [clown exclaiming]

[theme music playing]

Yes. Oh, yes.

This is it.

- [clanging]
- [guard groans]

["Ca plane pour moi" playing]

[guard grunts and groans]

Damn it!

[guard groaning]

[guard grunts and groans]

[guard] Get him now!

[gasping]

[low growl]

- [roars]
- [guard screams]

[guard] Take 'em out!

[barks]

[guard ] Oh, sh*t.
What the hell is that?

[guard ] Fire! Fire!

[guards groaning]

Ah.

I know.

I'm hot.

You, stop him!

Hey there, big guy.

Yeah? Wait till you get a load of this.

[g*n powering up]

Krypto, speak.

[barks]

No! [screaming]

- Good dog, Krypto.
- [Krypto barks]

What were they after?

Oh, its street name's "the Clench."

It's a bioengineered strain of Ebola

that struck Gotham a few years
back, but it was contained.

Gizmo was looking to sell
it to the highest bidder.

What was Dayton Labs doing
with it in the first place?

Research... I hope.

We really appreciate what you and
the Titans have done for the city.

- Thanks.
- Hmm. [chuckles softly]

[officer] Uh, excuse me, Superboy. Uh...

can I get your autograph?
My son will go nuts.

Oh. Sure.

You want mine, too, right?

Oh, um, I'm good.

It's hard to top a Super.

[chuckles] You heard the man.
"It's hard to top a Super."

Unbelievable.

We're live at the scene where
the Titans have once again

provided a major assist
for our very own SFPD.

The mayor has called you and the Titans

San Francisco's guardian angels.

How do you respond to that?

[Starfire] Well, the
Titans are happy to do

everything we can to protect the city.

But the real angels are the
men and women without powers.

They show us that if we
all do our part together,

we can really create change.

Where's Nightwing?

Oh, um... he's around.

- [chuckles]
- [cell phone ringing]

So sorry. I have to take this.

- Thank you so much. Good seeing you.
- Yeah.

Hello?

You're a Titan.

Explains so much.

And this is?

Justin Colt. Las Vegas.

Disco lights and champagne.

I'm a therapist.

Oh, Justin. Hi.

How are you?

Uh, stunned, to say the least.

I, uh... I definitely
knew you were special,

but I didn't expect to see you on TV.

[chuckles]

I guess I could have been
a little more forthcoming.

No, no, it's awesome.

How are you?

Good. Yeah. Things got a little, um...

rough after our last meeting,

but I'm doing much better. You?

Still practicing.

Turns out a lot of people need therapy.

Ugh, tell me about it.

I noticed you never called me.

[exhales] Yeah, I, um...

I wasn't in a good place.

I mean, I get it. You
had a lot on your plate.

Well, maybe now we can catch up.

No champagne, no disco lights.

Just a real talk.

I'd like that.

'Course, maybe a little champagne.

Old time's sake.

[both chuckle]

I'll call you.

I promise.

[Nightwing] Nice work back there.

The reporters loved you.

Yeah, especially when
you love them back.

Batman and I never waited around
for the press back in Gotham.

Maybe that's why the press was so bad.

Maybe.

[comms chiming]

Hello.

What?

[siren wailing in distance]

"Why a... why a bat?"

Because bat's hear everything.

[cell phone ringing]

[sighs]

Hi, Mom.

[speaking Cantonese] _

_

_

[siren chirps]

[in English] Mom, I'll call you back.

[siren beeps]

[officer ] It's way past curfew, kid.

What are you doing out here?

Twenty-four-hour delivery.

Here.

[sighs] Try some dumplings. On us.

[officer ] What's that?

I'm a fan.

[officer ] Batman's a sociopath

in a rubber S&M outfit.

Pick better heroes, kid.

It's not rubber.

What'd you say?

Yes, Officer.

- [dispatch] All units. I repeat...
- That's what I thought.

...all units. Report to
Farrelly Amusement Park immediately.

This is a direct order
from Commissioner Gordon.

- [officer ] Let's go.
- [officer ] Go home, kid.

It's not safe on the streets.

[siren wailing]

[sighs]

It is with Batman and Robin.

♪ No tears for the young ♪

♪ A b*llet if you run away ♪

♪ Another lost one ♪

♪ Like father, like son we pray ♪

♪ Rolling with the times ♪

♪ Don't be late... ♪

[siren wailing in distance]

[woman] We've been holding
dinner. Where have you been?

Delivering, like, a million orders.

It's not my fault people love your food.

[sniffs] Mmm.

- Any trouble?
- No, Dad. All good.

Really? 'Cause I could swear I saw

you talking to two of Gotham's finest.

It was a curfew thing.

But then they saw I was
working, so they backed off.

I gave them some dumplings.

They'll probably be back with
their families this Sunday.

You're welcome.

- Anyone I know?
- Nah, Dad. These were new guys.

- Why you gotta be like that?
- Why not?

[clears throat]

No, man, I don't want any of that.

Relax. All right?

You said you wanted some new kicks.

Buy yourself some new kicks.

You can't be walkin' around
school with that off-brand sh*t.

- What do you care?
- About school? Nothing.

About you?

Can't have people thinking my
cousin's not put together, all right?

You're welcome.

[newscaster on TV] We go now live to Gotham
Pier with a breaking news story.

[reporter on TV] Batman's ally,
Robin, was found dead tonight

along with a security guard.

The Joker, who was waiting for police,

was taken in without further incident.

The Joker was sent
back to Arkham Asylum,

where he escaped from
earlier this month.

Gotham Police had engaged with
the Joker several hours earlier...

Oh, no.

Now there might be crime in Gotham.

Tim, I'm so sorry.

[reporter] No word yet on how Batman

is dealing with this terrible loss.

["Meet Me In The Woods" playing]

♪ I took a little journey to the unknown ♪

♪ And I've come back changed
I can feel it in my bones ♪

♪ I f*cked with forces
That our eyes can't see ♪

Home sweet home.

♪ Now the darkness got a hold on me ♪

♪ Oh, the darkness got a hold on me ♪

♪ I have seen what the darkness does ♪

♪ Say goodbye to who I was ♪

♪ I ain't never been away so long ♪

♪ Don't look back them days are gone ♪

Bruce?

♪ Follow me into the endless night ♪

♪ I can bring your fears to life ♪

♪ Show me yours and I'll show you mine ♪

Bruce?

♪ Meet me in the woods tonight ♪

[vocalizing]

The Flying Graysons.

[thudding]

[gears cranking]

Bruce, you down here?

[bats squeaking]

Bruce?

Bruce?

[computer beeping]

The blood.

It's hard to get out.

I'm sorry.

The Joker's back at Arkham?

Yes.

I'm glad the cops got to him first.

Me, too.

Can I help with any of the arrangements?

No. It's all been taken care of.

So, when's the funeral?

It's already happened.

What do you mean,
"It's already happened"?

The mortuary delivered
the coffin last night.

I had him buried in the
family plot, next to Alfred.

Look, I understand.

This is difficult for
all of us, especially you.

Couldn't you have at least waited...

He had no family.

He had us.

What are you doing?

There's a new player in Gotham.
He's k*lled seven already.

Bruce, come on.

Can't we just talk
about this for a minute

before you jump back in to work?

What was Jason doing studying chemistry?

I don't know.

He barely read the back of a cereal box.

Doesn't matter, d*ck.

Jason's dead.

There's nothing we can say
now that will bring him back.

You know, when Donna d*ed, you
told me not to bury my emotions.

Not to experience grief alone.

It was good advice.

That advice was meant for you, not me.

People are different.

- Bruce, you can't just...
- Life goes on.

We both know that.

Come on, I'll make us some lunch.

Lunch?

So the Joker just k*lled him?

Mmm-hmm.

Sounds like Jason went after him

the same way he went after Deathstroke.

Alone and unprepared.

I'm so angry.

At the Joker?

No, at Jason.

Jason? Why?

Because he never learned.

When Jason left the Titans to go
to Gotham, he was alone and angry,

and I get that, but...

d*ck was hoping he figured things
out with Bruce, but he never did.

He clearly just kept making
the same mistakes over and over,

and it finally got him k*lled.

Jason never evolved.

He never grew past his
own worst instincts.

Don't let that happen to you.

Keep learning.

Keep growing.

[sighs]

First, Donna, now Jason.
I'm sick of losing people.

Oh, look out, crab.

That's right. Octopus gonna mess you up.

Dang, cheetah.

What'd that gazelle ever do to you?

What do you think, Rachel?

The snake was really cool.

Hmm...

What should I do for an encore?

That's right.

You're on an island somewhere
trying to bring Donna back to life

because that's a thing.

Some bad stuff's happened
while you've been gone.

So, it's time to up my game.

[scoffs]

Nothing tops a Super.

That's total bullshit.

Well, I know that. And you know that.

But... [sighs]

You can be any animal you
want, just believe in yourself.

Not sure if it really works that
way, but... [chuckles softly]

[screeching]

[growls]

[screeching]

I just miss you.

[indistinct chatter]

[officer] We got two more right down
here in front of the damn station.

[dispatch] Copy that.

Hey, excuse me. Commissioner Gordon?

Over there.

Thank you.

Barbara.

Welcome back to Gotham, d*ck.

Commissioner.

That one's just like the others.

Wrapped up in cellophane
like last night's leftovers.

Thanks, Jones.

Give me a minute.

I'm sorry about Jason.

Me, too. And the Joker?

He was waiting for us by the body.

Took him back into
Arkham without a fight.

He did the same thing after me.

That's what he does.

He stole Bruce's chance to get justice.

That's the game those
two play, like always.

And we're all the casualties.

How are you doing with all this?

Honestly, not great.

Tell me.

Last time I spoke to
Jason was three months ago.

- It's like once Bruce took him back...
- He was his problem?

Why would Jason have
gone out on his own?

Especially after Bruce told him not to.

Jason Todd doing something impulsive?

That's a real head scratcher.

I found a chemistry book in his room.

- So?
- Jason's not a reader.

If you're looking for a mystery
to solve, there isn't one.

I loved Jason.

He drove me f*cking crazy.

Wanted to k*ll him half the time.

But I loved him.

He went out there because he
felt he had something to prove,

and he got k*lled.

That's it.

Mystery solved.

[sighs] Have you talked to Bruce?

Briefly, at the morgue.

And how did he seem to you?

At the morgue, Jason's
body was laid out on a slab.

I would characterize him as subdued.

But did he seem off or weird?

Yeah, he always seems weird.

He's a weird guy.

I don't think he's processing
this very well... or at all.

Do you remember Alfred's funeral?

You and I were a mess.

There he was the whole time.
He was quiet, reserved, stoic.

He's in denial.

Yeah, that's what he does, d*ck.

It's the only way he
can keep being Batman.

You know how many times he's
talked to me about my father?

Zero.

So his behavior today is
the same that it always is

when somebody close to him dies.

He just pretends to forget them.

No, it's different this time.

I'm worried about him.

Really worried.

Would you talk to him?

God damn it.

Don't make me do that.

We have kept it strictly
professional since I hung up the cape,

and my life is so much better for it.

That's why it would mean a lot to him.

Please?

Okay.

After work.

And I have no idea how long I'll be.

Great.

I'll see you later.

Yeah.

Oh, uh, thank you.

sh*t.

[Barbara laughing] So, then

Jason corners the Mad Hatter
and he starts swearing at him,

like, going off.

"You short f*cking hat-wearing f*ck.

f*ck you."

And Hatter stands there,

stunned that Robin's cussing him out.

And then Bruce came in,

and do you remember
what you said to Jason?

What?

Watch your language.

[all laughing]

I heard you found another body today.

That makes eight in as many weeks.

Any clues to the identity of the k*ller?

You never stop, do you?

Can't we just have a drink?

No new clues... yet.

But I'll be sure to turn
the signal on if we need you.

Your father and I had
better communication

when we were fighting this w*r.

w*r?

You still call it a w*r?

It is a w*r. For the soul of this city.

I don't know, Bruce.

Calling it a w*r feels like

trying to justify all the
lives that have been lost.

Your father knew protecting
Gotham required real sacrifice.

My father d*ed from a heart att*ck

after being frozen in a block of ice

by a man wearing a
f*cking refrigerator suit.

- Mr. Freeze.
- I know who he is.

That's how you see my father,
isn't it? As a sacrifice?

You dragged him into this insanity,

just like you did d*ck and Jason.

It was a long time ago.

You know what he did to you, d*ck.

You almost lost yourself because
Bruce weaponized your grief.

And Jason... [scoffs]
You took another kid

who was lost and angry and alone,

and convinced him that he'd be
invincible if he put on a mask.

No more Robins, Bruce.

I chose to put the cowl on.

To go out there as Batgirl.

When the Joker sh*t me,
it wasn't your fault.

But you drove d*ck away.

We worked it out.

Whether you've forgiven him or not,

he drove you away and he
put Jason in the ground.

You would think that after everything

that the Joker's done to so many people,

you would've found a way
to keep him locked up.

But part of me, a big part of me,
believes that you want him to escape

so you can keep hiding from
yourself behind that mask.

You're as crazy as the f*cking Joker.

[d*ck sighs]

[sighs deeply]

Hey.

What?

What the hell was that?

I asked for help.

I am helping.

Who?

Whoever he would have brought
into this madhouse next.

He recruited Jason one
week after you left, d*ck.

One week. And he replaced you
like he was replacing a pet.

Come on. The last thing Bruce is gonna

do is drag another kid into this mess.

He won't admit that he failed Jason.

The Titans failed Jason
more than anyone, Barbara.

[Barbara sighs]

He had a lot of problems, and we
didn't have the patience for him.

We wanted the Titans to work
so badly, we gave up on him.

The Titans?

Your West Coast superhero school?

It's not a school.

We're a family.

Go back to San Francisco, d*ck.

I'm not leaving Gotham
until I figure out

what Jason was doing before he d*ed.

I just told you what he was doing.

He was being manipulated
and used by Bruce Wayne.

Don't let him do it to you again.

Okay?

Go home.

Goodbye, d*ck.

[sighs]

[sighs]

"B."

Harris Place B?

[lock clicks]

[breathes deeply]

[sighs]

What were you doing, buddy?

What were you doing?

[sniffs]

- f*ck it.
- [door rattling]

[both grunting]

Who are you?

Who the f*ck are you?

I sell in this building.

I heard someone's cooking
something new here.

Didn't want the competition.

- But if it's you...
- [d*ck chuckles]

I'm not selling dr*gs,
and neither are you.

You come here peddling your sh*t again,

I'll throw you out the f*cking window.

- Do you understand?
- Yeah.

- [bone cracks]
- [man screams]

[man whimpering]

[computer beeping]

All right. Let's see what
you were messing with, Jason.

[computer beeps]

[automated voice] Chemical
compound unknown.

[groans]

[sighs]

[computer whirring]

What?

[door opens]

Who are these kids?

Who are they?

Potential recruits.

How can you even think
this is a good idea?

You want to do to them
what you did to me?

Turn them into a sidearm, a w*apon?

f*ck them up in the head, or even
worse, get them k*lled like Jason?

Do you know what this is?

No.

It's an unidentified chemical.

- A drug Jason was manufacturing, or trying to.
- What?

He had a loft in Gotham.
Did you know that?

- Probably not.
- No.

A lab.

So I'm guessing this is what
pushed him over the edge,

what sent him out there to get
his f*cking skull bashed in.

Oh, I, uh... I didn't know.

You didn't know because you don't care.

It doesn't matter to you.

You were already looking
for a f*cking replacement.

You want to be Robin again?

[breath trembling]

Do I want to be f*cking Robin again?

No, I don't want to
f*cking be Robin again!

You know, Barbara was right.

You're just as bad as the Joker.

You and he have been
poisoning this city together.

[breath trembling] d*ck, please.

I can't do this alone.

Then don't do it anymore, Bruce.

[jazz music playing]

[drink pouring]

Mmm.

Another way Earth has Tamaran b*at.

To Jason.

[gasping]

[horn blaring]

- [metal clatters]
- [breathing heavily]

[Bruce] He started it, I ended it.

Ended what, Bruce?

But you know what he was
doing as I caved in his skull?

He was laughing.

He laughed at me because he won.

You and Barbara were right.

It's all a game I should have
stopped playing a long time ago.

It's over for me now.

It's over.

[breath trembling]

You see things I don't.

You saw that Jason was in trouble,
that he was involved in something.

Because you cared more than I did.

The city is yours now.

You save it.

Do what I couldn't.

Be a better Batman.

Bruce.

Bruce.

["Dangerous Again" playing]

♪ Eye to eye ♪

♪ Face to face ♪

♪ You're gonna want to
Keep me in a cool, dry place ♪

♪ Blood on blood ♪

♪ Skin on skin ♪

♪ Now that we got
Dangerous again ♪

♪ Take me apart ♪

♪ Come do me in ♪

♪ Don't you wanna get
Dangerous again? ♪

♪ I wanna get dangerous again ♪

♪ I dress you up ♪

♪ You dress me down ♪

♪ We slip and slide
In a fishbowl town ♪

♪ Desert skies ♪

♪ Are calling me ♪

♪ Sink your teeth
Into my bones ♪

♪ Gonna get set free ♪

♪ Blood on blood ♪

♪ Skin on skin ♪

♪ Now that we got
Dangerous again ♪

♪ Take me apart... ♪