Batman Beyond (TV Series)

Meltdown (1999)

Michael Ansara: Victor Fries, Mr. Freeze

Quotes 

• Mr. Freeze : Stay where you are.

  Batman : You've got to get out of here, Fries! The whole place is going to go!

  Mr. Freeze : Believe me, you're the only one who cares.

• [after Stephanie's cold-blooded attempt to murder and dissect him, Freeze turns the tables and appears in a suit of armor] 

  Dr. Stephanie Lake : We were only trying to help you...

  Mr. Freeze : [repeating her words]  Remember, there may be some momentary discomfort.

  [cut to outside the building, hearing the hum of Freeze's cold guns, and Stephanie screaming] 

• [Dr. Lake goes into a lab where Mr. Freeze's head is being stored] 

  Mr. Freeze : Take a good look, doctor. I've been like this for nearly fifty years and I haven't aged one day. I have become what many men have dreamed of: an immortal. And yet, there hasn't been a day, an hour, a minute, I haven't thought about death. It obsesses me. Even now.

• Derek Powers : Dr. Lake and I have taken every precaution, Victor. Let me assure you...

  Mr. Freeze : Save your breath. I am neither afraid nor capable of being comforted by your banal words.

• Mr. Freeze : There's enough energy here to destroy the whole compound, Batman. I suggest you find a way out.

  Batman : Fries, think. This can't be what you want. You'll only cause more pain, more suffering.

  Mr. Freeze : No, I end it. When this goes, I go, too.

• Victor Fries : I'm calling it the Nora Fries Foundation, named after my former wife.

  TV Host : And you intend to fund it yourself?

  Victor Fries : Before I went to prison, my legitimate earnings were put in a blind trust. After all these years, it comes to quite a significant sum.

  TV Host : A half-billion, I hear. That's some charity.

  Victor Fries : Not charity. Justice.

• Derek Powers : [seeing Freeze in his cold suit]  Fries! How...?

  Mr. Freeze : It's something I've kept in cold storage.

  [Powers and Stephanie flee; as Powers dodges a blast of ice, he slips on the patch of floor it hits] 

  Derek Powers : You have this all wrong.

  Mr. Freeze : Do I?

• Dr. Stephanie Lake : What if I said I could give you life? A normal life.

  Victor Fries : Bah.

  Dr. Stephanie Lake : Victor, an incredible mind like yours deserves a body.

• Sniper : No, no! He's gotta die! The monster's gotta die!

  [Batman removes his mask] 

  Sniper : How could you save him? After what he did. What he did to me.

  Victor Fries : What did I do?

  Sniper : You destroyed my life, my family, years ago. Gone. Frozen. Forever.

  Batman : We'll let the police take care of him.

  Victor Fries : No. I've done this man enough damage.

  [untying the restraints from his legs] 

  Victor Fries : No words can express my sorrow for the pain I've caused you. I beg your forgiveness. It was another life, though that's hardly an excuse. I can only promise you this: I will do the best I can to make reparations to you and everyone I've ever hurt.

• Derek Powers : Welcome back to the living.

  Dr. Stephanie Lake : [Fries gets out of bed]  I don't think you should...

  Derek Powers : Let's see what he can do.

  Victor Fries : [touching a snowy window]  Cold. It feels... cold.

• Victor Fries : How fitting that that diseased skull of mine should be buried like this.

  Dr. Stephanie Lake : Frankly, I couldn't think of anything else to do with it.

  Victor Fries : It was the right thing. It symbolizes the end of a life and the beginning of a new one.