Gotham (TV Series)

Mad City: New Day Rising (2016)

Ben McKenzie: James Gordon

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• [Captain Barnes tells Jim Gordon to stay away from the Mad Hatter] 

  Nathaniel Barnes : This is an active investigation. You go anywhere near him, I'll have you arrested.

  James Gordon : For what? No law against two private citizens having a chat. I'll come by later to pick up my check.

  Harvey Bullock : [as Gordon walks out of Barnes' office]  I bet I'd make a kick-ass P.I.

  Nathaniel Barnes : Get out.

• Nathaniel Barnes : Why is it that every time something hits the fan around here, I inevitably find you at the center of it?

  James Gordon : I was just working a job. Her brother asked me to find her.

  Nathaniel Barnes : Yeah. You're some sort of P.I. now? Is that it?

  James Gordon : I'm whatever pays the bills.

• James Gordon : I need to find Jervis Tetch.

  Barbara Kean : Oh, you mean 'The Great Jervis Tetch, Hypnotist Extraordinaire'? You believe it actually says that on his business card?

  James Gordon : Number's been disconnected. Where is he?

  Barbara Kean : I don't know. Magic shop, bunny farm... someplace where everyone wears top hats and drinks tea?

• Barbara Kean : You know, I'm not sure I like this new thing of you storming in here every time you need something. It's almost like we're married. Scary thought.

  James Gordon : [grabbing her wrist]  I need a favor.

  Barbara Kean : Oh... Then you must be monumentally screwed. What happened? Did he hypnotize you? Make you bark like a dog?

• [Barbara Kean tells Jim Gordon that the Mad Hatter was looking for some flair] 

  James Gordon : What'd you tell him?

  Barbara Kean : [Barb smiles]  It's Gotham, baby. We've all got flair.

  James Gordon : [Barb laughs]  Thanks. Always a help.

• Nathaniel Barnes : Look... you've caught some bad breaks. Blackgate. Lee. I don't know what happened when you went to see her, but I can take a pretty good guess. But at some point, you're gonna have to make peace with the decisions you've made.

  James Gordon : And what if I can't?

  Nathaniel Barnes : Take it from me, you don't want to wake up one day and realize that twenty years has gone by.

• James Gordon : I need to find your brother.

  Alice Tetch : You turn me in, and now you want my help.

  James Gordon : I was hoping we could help each other.

  Alice Tetch : He's still in your head, isn't he?

• Alice Tetch : There's usually a trigger that brings on the hypnotic state. What's the last thing you remember?

  James Gordon : He pulled out his watch. Asked if I could hear it ticking.

  Alice Tetch : That's it, then. His watch. Anything resembling the ticking will trigger the impulse. He's made you a prisoner in your own skin.

• Leslie Thompkins : I don't know what I would do if something happened to you.

  James Gordon : You'd be fine.

  Leslie Thompkins : Do you really believe that?

  James Gordon : You seemed to have moved on okay.

  Leslie Thompkins : Yes, I moved on, Jim. What choice did I have? I went through the most painful period of my life alone. I cried myself to sleep every night. And like an idiot, I would wake up thinking, hoping that the next day, you would show up at my door. But you never did.

• Leslie Thompkins : After everything that's happened, you really have nothing to say to me?

  James Gordon : The past is the past. There's nothing I can do to change that.

  Leslie Thompkins : Alice told me that her brother preys on anger and regret. I really don't want that to be all that's left of us.

  James Gordon : You mean all that's left of me.

  Leslie Thompkins : Barnes asked me to put you on a 48-hour suicide watch. I've already signed off on it. I know that we can't change the past, but there's a difference between moving on and letting go.

• [Harvey Bullock relays a message to Jim Gordon from Leslie Thompkins] 

  Harvey Bullock : Yeah. She also told me if you check out on my watch, it's my head.

  James Gordon : Guess you're gonna have to trust me.

  Harvey Bullock : Remember to chisel that into my tombstone.

• Mad Hatter : We both know what you really want. I saw it in your eyes the first time we met.

  [the Hatter's voice echoes] 

  Mad Hatter : You want to be free. Free from the pain. And you can be. Stop fighting and let go.

  James Gordon : [flashback]  The past is the past. There's nothing I can do to change that.

  Leslie Thompkins : [in the flashback]  There's a difference between moving on and letting go.

  James Gordon : [breaking the spelll]  No!

• Leslie Thompkins : Tweeds really did a number on this place. Guess I'm medical examiner slash medic.

  James Gordon : Slash resident therapist.

• James Gordon : Lee. There's something I... need to tell you. Something I should have told you the moment I saw you back in Gotham. Everything you said today...

  Leslie Thompkins : I'm sorry about that.

  James Gordon : Don't... You were right. And after everything that happened today... This is harder than I thought.

  Leslie Thompkins : What is it, Jim?

  James Gordon : I'm happy for you.

  Leslie Thompkins : You are?

  James Gordon : Trying to be. Maybe we can start there.

  Leslie Thompkins : Yeah. I think we can do that.