Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Blind as a Bat (1993)

Kevin Conroy: Batman

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• [Bruce Wayne/Batman has been temporarily blinded. Leslie orders him to take rest to recuperate] 

  Bruce Wayne : No way, Leslie! Not as long as the Penguin has that chopper.

  Alfred Pennyworth : [clears throat]  If there's some question, Master Bruce, I urge you to resolve it straightaway.

  [looks out the window and sees the signal] 

  Alfred Pennyworth : You have a call on your private line.

  Bruce Wayne : Then let's go!

  Alfred Pennyworth : In your condition, sir?

  Bruce Wayne : If you think a little inconvenience like this is going to stop me...

  [he knocks over a lamp] 

  Alfred Pennyworth : Indeed.

• The Penguin : This is the Penguin speaking. I have taken control of your precious Raven and intend to be paid handsomely for its return. I will contact the mayor's office with the instructions for delivery of the ransom.

  [saving Dr. Lee from gunfire, Bruce is knocked back by an exploding car hood] 

  Bruce Wayne : Aah!

  The Penguin : As of this moment, the most dangerous bird in the sky is the Penguin.

• The Penguin : Your aim appears to be a little off today, Batman. I don't think you can hit the broad side of a barn, let alone the broad side of this bird. You're blind as a bat. Sightless and helpless.

  Batman : [kicking a metal barrel at him]  You got one right.

• Batcave Computer : [as the Batplane is shot down]  Red alert! Red alert! Traumatic impact! Heat damage to fuselage. Breach to hull. Extensive structural damage.

  Batman : Tell me something I don't know.

• Batman : Those ZVF components I gave you, you wired them into this thing?

  Dr. Leslie Thompkins : I know how to follow instructions. Just be careful with that power pack. You have to keep recharging it.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Will it work, sir?

  Batman : Only one way to find out.

  [going through an obstacle course, ending with kicking a workout dummy in half] 

  Alfred Pennyworth : Well done, sir.

  Batman : I was aiming for its head. It isn't perfect, but it will have to do. I can only pray that the same technology that created this crisis can help me put an end to it.

• Mayor Hamilton Hill : Just what I was afraid of. According to the comptroller's office, we can't come close to putting that ransom together, not without shutting down basic municipal services.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : So what other options do we got?

  Batman : [emerging from the shadows]  None, gentlemen. Which is why you're going to do exactly what the Penguin wants you to.

• Alfred Pennyworth : [after an explosion]  Master Bruce!

  Bruce Wayne : Home, Alfred. Now.

  Alfred Pennyworth : But, sir, you need medical attention.

  Bruce Wayne : No! I don't want the Wayne Tech doctors examining me. Call Leslie. Have her meet us at the house.

  Alfred Pennyworth : [helping him to the car and driving away]  Begging your pardon, sir, but why so secretive?

  Bruce Wayne : Because I don't want anyone to find out... that I can't see.

• Dr. Leslie Thompkins : [removing Bruce's bandages]  I'd feel a lot better about this if you'd listened to me.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Master Bruce?

  Dr. Leslie Thompkins : Well?

  Alfred Pennyworth : [dropping his newspaper]  My word, sir! Surely you're not...

  Bruce Wayne : [catching it and looking at the front-page article on Penguin's re-incarceration]  No, Alfred. I can see just fine. And right now, I've never seen anything prettier.