The New Batman Adventures (TV Series)

Animal Act (1998)

Kevin Conroy: Batman, Bruce Wayne

Quotes 

• Robin : Nightwing! What are you doing here?

  Nightwing : Oh, just following a pattern of obsessive behavior instilled on me at an early age.

  Batman : You should work on your stealth skills. I heard you coming halfway across the roof.

  Nightwing : Good to see you, too.

• Batman : You all right?

  Nightwing : Yeah, what's a couple of ribs?

• Nightwing : Awfully quiet.

  Batman : Which way is her trailer?

  Nightwing : This way.

  Miranda Kane : [screaming nearby]  Help, somebody!

  Nightwing : On the other hand, that way might be good, too.

• Nightwing : Miranda!

  Batman : It's no use, Nightwing. She can't hear you. She's under Mad Hatter's control.

  The Mad Hatter : Exactly right, Batman. Like everyone in the confines of this tent. I suppose that makes me the true ringmaster.

• The Mad Hatter : Do cats eat bats? Do bats eat cats? Good evening, Batman. You'll excuse me if I don't tip my hat.

  Batman : It's over, Hatter.

  The Mad Hatter : And I was so close.

  Nightwing : Close to what?

  The Mad Hatter : Perfection. My mind control with animals had progressed to where I could control them from great distances, see what they saw, direct their every movement. People, though, that's another story. With people, I still need proximity.

• Dick Grayson : Tim said he wanted to see what circus life was like, so I arranged for him to spend the rest of the week with Miranda.

  Bruce Wayne : He's going to help train animals?

  Dick Grayson : Not exactly.

  Miranda Kane : [as he mucks out a cage]  When you're done there, I still have the bears' cage.

  Tim Drake : [unenthused]  Great.

  Dick Grayson : Man, I miss it.

  Bruce Wayne : What?

  Dick Grayson : Show business.

• Dick Grayson : [surprised to see Batman is his apartment]  I'm thinking of having an alarm installed.

  Batman : Good news. I managed to get the security video. Want to see what those bears were after?

  Dick Grayson : [watching]  Smart bears.

  Batman : Too smart.

• Dick Grayson : [seeing Batman's looming shadow]  You could knock.

  Batman : I did a little computer tracking of the Hayley Circus tour for the last six months. Seems that each town the circus played in was visited by a series of inexplicable robberies. Electronic items like chips, microtools, circuitry.

  Dick Grayson : There's no way Miranda had anything to do with these robberies.

  Batman : She had the time, experience, and access to train the gorilla.

  Dick Grayson : I know her.

  Batman : You knew her. A lifetime ago.

  [the communicator on his belt beeps] 

  Batman : What?

  Robin : Computer just picked up a silent alarm at the SharpAlert car locator factory.

  Dick Grayson : That's only ten blocks away.

  Batman : [heading to the window]  Coming?