- 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.
- Det. Harvey Bullock: You sure it's locked this time? We've got enough yahoos running around this city without having to deal with Yogi and Boo-Boo too.
- Miranda Kane: Look, I don't know how they got out, but I can assure you I have these bears under control.
- Det. Harvey Bullock: Swell, cause I'll be back in the morning to make out a police report. And by that time, toots, you better have something more to say than, "I don't know."
- Miranda Kane: What are you doing with my bears?
- The Mad Hatter: "I can't explain myself", said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."
- Miranda Kane: Who are you?
- The Mad Hatter: A lonely wretch named Jervis Tetch. Also known as...
- Miranda Kane: The Mad Hatter.
- The Mad Hatter: At your service.
- [Miranda raises her arm to strike him with her whip, but her python, brainwashed by the Mad Hatter, begins to bind her in it's coils]
- The Mad Hatter: "The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things... of bears and snakes, and clever crimes. That spring from circus rings."
- 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?