Batman Beyond (TV Series)

Ascension (1999)

Cary Elwes: Paxton Powers

Quotes 

• Paxton Powers : Did you really expect me to believe you'd ever give me power? That I'd ever have an ounce of control as long as you were alive? You taught me by example, Dad. The only way to get power is to seize it!

• Batman : You made a bad enemy tonight.

  Paxton Powers : What are you going to do? Testify against me in that mask?

  Batman : Oh, I wasn't talking about me. I'm the least of your worries.

• Paxton Powers : Let me guess. You've thought of an even more demeaning grunt job for me.

  Derek Powers : Does acting chairman of the board sound like a grunt job?

  Paxton Powers : How stupid do you think I am?

  Derek Powers : It's in title only, at least at first. I'll tell you what I want done, and you'll do it. If you perform well, real power will follow. I need your help, son. I'm no longer able to face the public.

  Paxton Powers : What are you talking about? What's going on?

  [removing his sunglasses and revealing the radiation in his eyes, Derek pulls off a section of skin from his wrist] 

  Paxton Powers : Oh, dad.

• Paxton Powers : My father's doctors have been working on this for a while. It's called a pinch cell. Turn it on, and it sucks up radiation like a sponge.

  Batman : Get to why I should care.

  Paxton Powers : I'm having a net built to connect to this cell. If you can find my father and lure him into the net, the cell can weaken him enough to hold him.

  Batman : You want me to catch him for you?

  Paxton Powers : He needs medical attention. His condition's affected his mind. There's no reasoning with him, even if we knew where he was. I know this is strange, asking you. But from what I hear, you may be the only one who can find him.

• Paxton Powers : Mr. Mendez. How are the fish biting these days?

  Mendez : That's what I was about to ask you.

  Paxton Powers : Batman's in. But I doubt he'll cooperate when things hit the fan. Be ready to kill him, too.

• Blight : Paxton! Get my doctors down here! Where is everybody?

  Paxton Powers : Dad, settle down.

  Blight : I have to get out of the city. I need my skin!

  Paxton Powers : Dad, let me talk. I'll get you help, but putting the skin back on isn't the answer.

  Blight : [hearing him dialing]  What are you doing?

  Paxton Powers : I'm sending an ambulance.

  Blight : You fool! They'll arrest me! Now I can't even stay here.

  Paxton Powers : Listen to me. Now that the truth is out, let's get help. Your doctors didn't have the answer, so...

  Blight : You've always been a fool. Now I see I'm on my own!

• Batman : [with Blight caught in the pinch-cell net]  Enough. Turn it off. That thing's gonna kill him.

  Paxton Powers : You want this as much as I do.

  Batman : No. I wouldn't have agreed to this. You said you were gonna help him.

  Paxton Powers : I lied.

• Paxton Powers : "No more pollution". How do they expect us to make a profit?