The New Batman Adventures (TV Series)

Animal Act (1998)

Loren Lester: Nightwing, Dick Grayson

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.

• Tim Drake : [Regarding the Haley's Circus]  This must've been such a cool place to grow up.

  [Dick looks up, noticing acrobats performing on the trapeze] 

  Dick Grayson : ...It was.

• Batman : You all right?

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

• Nightwing : [facing two giant brown bears]  You take the brown one, I'll take... the other brown one.

• 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 : [freeing Peaches the gorilla]  Good girl. You're my ticket out of here.

  Nightwing : [knocking his hat off with a whip]  Hats off in front of a lady, right, Peaches?

  [cracking the whip again, he destroys Hatter's hat] 

  The Mad Hatter : [drawing a gun]  Ha! I hate having to resort to such a base, pedestrian form of violence, but you leave me no choice.

  [Batman knocks the gun out of his hand with a batarang, and Peaches hits him with the cage door, then jumps on top of him] 

  The Mad Hatter : Ah! Oof! Ah! Ah! Oof! Get her off! G-g-get her off! Get her off!

  Nightwing : You, uh, gonna stop her?

  Miranda Kane : Eventually.

• 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.

• Miranda Kane : What are you doing here?

  Dick Grayson : I heard about the bears on TV. I figured they must be yours.

  Miranda Kane : And that gives you an excuse to break into my trailer?

  Dick Grayson : I... I didn't break in. The door was open.

  Miranda Kane : Hmph. Seems like I'm having problems with locking doors these days.

  Dick Grayson : Is that what happened? You forgot to lock the cage?

  Miranda Kane : No, I didn't forget. I may not be as careful about my own door, but I locked those cages.

  Dick Grayson : Then... how?

  Miranda Kane : Someone's messing with my animals. That's how. And I'm gonna find out who it is.

• 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?

• Tim Drake : So, you train the animals?

  Miranda Kane : Some, like Peaches here.

  [she pets her head, then stops Dick as he tries to do the same] 

  Dick Grayson : She remembers me.

  Miranda Kane : Circus policy. No one touches the animals but me. Insurance premiums have just gotten too high.

• Dick Grayson : [visiting the circus, a clown offers Tim a flower]  Go ahead.

  Tim Drake : [as he leans in to smell it, it ejects rubber snakes]  Whoa! You could have warned me.

  Dick Grayson : Where would the fun be in that?