Batman: Vengeance

Mr. Freeze:
Hope, Mr. Evers, will never warm cold blood. Only wrath could even stir it.

Alfred Pennyworth:
Good evening, Master Bruce. I do hope you're getting along, despite my absence.

Jim Gordon:
Y'know, it's funny. I somehow feel safer knowing the Joker's alive. A living madman is at least human. But dead, he's the stuff nightmares are made of... How did you know? Batman?

the Batman:
Any evidence that Mary could come up with five million dollars?

Batgirl:
No way. That's insane.

the Batman:
Joker's insane. But not stupid. He must know something about Mary we don't.

the Joker:
Look out, Mary. Heh-heh. Toby or not Toby? That is the question. Catch the Joker of save the boy? Aye, there is the rup.

Mr. Freeze:
It seems the good doctor was making bad medicine.

the Joker:
Oh well. Kill and the world dies with you; die and you laugh alone.

Batgirl:
Where are you going?

the Batman:
Funnybones Warehouse.

Batgirl:
What are you looking for?

the Batman:
I don't know.

Batgirl:
Every cop in the city is looking for you...

the Batman:
The police are looking for Batman. He's not going.

the Joker:
Careful, Harley. You'll kill him.

Harley Quinn:
But...

the Joker:
But nothing. You're my hench-wench. Less wench, more hench, you molly-coddling little twit. Nobody kills the bat but me. Like so...

the Joker:
Seems like old times, eh, Bats? You, me, a vat of chemicals?

Harley Quinn:
Murderer.

the Batman:
Harley...

Harley Quinn:
No. Leave me alone. I'm through.

Harley Quinn:
No more love. No more crime. No more nothing. I'm through... (sobs)

the Batman:
Joker.

the Joker:
Heck of a joke, huh, Bats?

the Batman:
Hilarious. What's the punch-line?

the Joker:
Hmph. Some detective. Here's the joke: I'm not dead, and Gotham is. The punch-line: It's all YOUR fault, Batsy.

the Batman:
The gasworks. The prometheum. It was all you.

the Joker:
That was me, but... Small potatoes. I wanted help, if I wanted to murder a whole city.

the Batman:
Harley.

the Joker:
Sure. Harley had you wrapped around her little... whatever... But I needed more! But I needed more! That's where you came in.

the Batman:
The gasworks.

the Joker:
Ooh. Nice work with that one, Bats. Opening up those valves did wonders for this little "Burning Down Gotham" idea I've been kicking around.

the Batman:
But what about Ivy?

the Joker:
Hah! I've met yams with a higher IQ than that wenchtable! But it was the quietest way to make as much Joker Toxin as I needed...

the Batman:
And the Prometheum?

the Joker:
Well that's the burning question, isn't it?

Batgirl:
Did you find anything?

the Batman:
All I know is that the Joker's not dead, and if we don't find him soon, he'll be the only one in Gotham who's not.

Batgirl:
I've managed to find the tracking device you gave to Harley when she was wrapped up in her Mary act. Somebody's tagged it on the Mayor, and I just saw him give some big heavy in a trench coat a huge case of money.

the Batman:
The Mayor? What's he buying?

Batgirl:
I don't know... Wait. Trench coat's just got on a north-bound El-Train. I'm tailing him...

Batgirl:
Oh-NO. Batman, I need back-up--NOW. They--They're not even human...

Batman:
You're going to Arkham.

The Joker:
Huh, in a coffin or not at all.

Mr. Freeze:
I'll shatter your frozen body, like glass.

the Joker:
Ah, Batsy, back again? You can't erase all your hard work now! It's all flames and giggles from here on out!

the Joker:
No, No, NO! No fair! Somebody kill the Bat! I'll handle Gotham myself...

the Batman:
Any news about Harley?

Batgirl:
None. She hasn't come out of Funnybone's warehouse since that night on Gotham Bridge. She's acting as though the Joker's really... dead.

Batgirl:
He was working on some kind of miracle drug called Prometheum. But he lost federal funding. They said Prometheum was too unstable.

the Batman:
Unstable? How?

Batgirl:
I'm not sure, but unstable enough to cause the government to cut funding for his research. This is where it gets interesting. After that, every increase in Evers' bank account was preceded by a major bank-job by the Joker.

the Batman:
Joker was funding Evers' research?

Batgirl:
He's done stranger things.

the Batman:
Not without a punchline. Keep me posted.

Mr. Freeze:
I will crush you like a child's dreams!

the Batman:
Isaac Evers?

Dr. Isaac Evers:
Please! I didn't want it to go this far!

the Batman:
You! This is your show! You're the one trying to burn down the city!

Dr. Isaac Evers:
No! Not the city! I never wanted to hurt anyone!

the Batman:
It's a little late for that.

Dr. Isaac Evers:
It was an insurance scam! just wanted to burn down Gotham Industrial! After Freeze destroyed my lab, I tried to collect for the damages, but I couldn't without revealing the names of my financial backers.

the Batman:
And you couldn't do that because the Joker was funding you. So you decided to burn it all. You hired the Joker's men and used the Joker's toys to throw the cops off your trail.

Dr. Isaac Evers:
It was all I had left to do. But the clowns stopped listening to me. I can't control them anymore. They tied me up; they were trying to burn down the whole city! I swear, I never wanted to hurt anybody.

the Batman:
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