Batman: The Animated Series, Season 1

[Batman infiltrates an office in GothCorp headquarters and sees a file with a videotape and medical records of a woman named Nora Fries. He plays the tape on a nearby VCR]

Victor Fries:
[on the tape] My name is Doctor Victor Fries. I am recording what I pray would be mankind's first step toward immortality. [camera pans to a large machine with a glass capsule and a woman inside it] Behind me, you see the CC-100, a cryogenic freezing chamber of my own design. I created it for the express purpose of freezing subjects stricken with inoperable ailments. Subjects like... my own beloved wife, Nora. Once a remedy has been found-- [reacts to a loud banging on the door]

Ferris Boyle:
[Behind the door] Open this door! Open it now! [A security guard kicks the door down, Ferris and another guard step into the room. Boyle confronts Fries angrily.] Get away from that equipment! [Orders his guards] Shut this stuff down.

Fries:
[Panicked] Stop! This is my experiment!

Boyle:
Your unauthorized experiment. I ordered funding suspended weeks ago! I'm already three million in debt thanks to you!

Fries:
You can't stop it now! My wife is in there!

Boyle:
So bring her out!

Fries:
You can't interrupt the process now!

Boyle:
[to guard] Open it.

Fries:
[desperately holds on to Boyle] It's her only chance!

Boyle:
[shrugs off Fries] This is my equipment! MINE! I have every legal right to use it or not use it as I see fit. I say this project ends now!

Fries:
[grabs pistol from security guard and aims it at Ferris] NO! Stay away from her, murderer!

Boyle:
Victor... I'm sorry... I lost my temper. It doesn't have to come to this. We can talk! [Fries calms down and Boyle kicks him into a table of cryonic chemicals. Victor screams in pain as the cloud of volatile chemicals engulf him. Boyle steps away in fear and runs out of the room with his guards] Get out. Get out!

Fries:
[Clinging to his freezing chamber, screaming through the glass] Nora! NORA...! [passes out. The tape ends]

Batman:
[Horrified] My God!

[A voice rings out--it's Mr Freeze, who just snuck in the room]

Mr. Freeze:
Yes. It would move me to tears if I still had tears to shed. [freezes Batman with his cryo-gun]