Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Deep Freeze (1994)

Dan O'Herlihy: Grant Walker

Quotes 

• Grant Walker : As I said, I've studied you and your work. Do you realize that in your frozen state, you'll age much slower than an ordinary human? You're practically immortal, my friend!

  Mr. Freeze : Yes, eternal life trapped in this wretched shell. What a miserable joke.

  Grant Walker : Oh, miserable to you, but a godsend to me! Look at me, Mr. Freeze, I'm an old man. I've created wonders in my lifetime, but there is still so much to do! I want to change as you have, to become like you, a being of blessed eternal cold!

  Mr. Freeze : You're insane.

  Grant Walker : Only you have the know-how to duplicate the accident that made you what you are - what I long to become!

  [Freeze seizes Walker and holds him aloft] 

  Mr. Freeze : You want to live like this? Abandoned and alone? A prisoner in a world you can see, but never touch?

  [Freeze drops him and turns away] 

  Mr. Freeze : Old and infirm as you are, I'd trade a thousand of my frozen years for your worst day.

• [Walker reveals his plan for "Oceania", a utopia ruled by him while the rest of the world is frozen] 

  Grant Walker : My world will have no crime, violence, or pain.

  Robin : You can add free will to that list, too!

  Grant Walker : A small price to pay for order.

  Batman : Your order, for your select few!

  Grant Walker : Excuse me, but I fail to see the problem with that.

• Grant Walker : Every time I open a park, I get gate-crashers.

  Batman : We've seen your insane vision of the future, Walker.

• Mr. Freeze : Nora.

  Grant Walker : I was a major investor in GothCorp a few years back and put up some money for their cryogenics program. I trust you know the young lady behind the glass.

  Mr. Freeze : My wife.

  Grant Walker : The GothCorp execs think she perished in the fire, but my men got her out. I have the technology to restore her, my friend. All you have to do is grant my wish.

  Mr. Freeze : Very well.

• Grant Walker : Welcome, friends. Thanks to all our hard work, Oceana's nearly up and running. Now, while most folks believe Oceana's just another theme park, we know better. Fact of the matter is, it's not too nice out there anymore. Crime, hatred, violence; things keep going on like that, it could mean the end of civilization. That's why I decided to build a city where good folks can leave in peace, a new Garden of Eden, you might say, from which a new race of people can spring. Now, of course, you can't have spring without a little winter. About five years of it, I'd say. Now, don't anybody worry. We'll all be warm as toast in here. As for those folks outside, well, it's sad, but I'm only speeding up what they were doing to themselves.

  Robin : Brother. He's all heart, isn't he?

  Batman : Walker's a madman.

• Grant Walker : What are you doing? That's the main power core. An overload will blow this city out of the water.

  Mr. Freeze : Exactly.

• Grant Walker : I think you'll find that suit is a perfect duplicate of your original. Automatic temperature control, increased cybernetic strength. Even the cold gun works.

  Mr. Freeze : [using it on one of Walker's robots]  Yes. Logically, I should do the same to you.

  Grant Walker : Just hear me out, please.

• Dr. Victor Fries : Impressive.

  Grant Walker : Impressive? You gaze upon all this and can only say "impressive"? Though perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. I've made a hobby of studying your chilly history, Victor Fries.

  Dr. Victor Fries : And you are?

  Grant Walker : Grant Walker at your service, sir. This is Oceana, my prototype vision of the future, a vision that you shall help make a reality.

  Dr. Victor Fries : Doubtful.

  Grant Walker : We'll see.

• Grant Walker : This is my dream, my vision! I cheated death to make it real, and you won't stop me!

  Mr. Freeze : You may live forever, Grant Walker, but your mad dream dies now.