Birds of Prey (TV Series)

Premiere (2002)

Dina Meyer: Barbara Gordon, Oracle, Batgirl

Quotes 

• Barbara Gordon : Before I was ever Oracle, I had another name, another identity, another... self. I used to work with a man, Helena's father. He was Gotham's greatest champion... and most people never even knew he existed.

• Helena Kyle : You know, I'm the one that does all the night sweeps. I'm the one that does all the fieldwork. I'm the one with bruises in really embarrassing places. Would it kill you to go to the grocery store every once in a while?

  Barbara Gordon : What is this obsession with food?

  Helena Kyle : You try fighting the forces of evil when your blood sugar's low!

• Barbara Gordon : She knows how to get in. What if she knows who we are?

  Helena Kyle : We could kill her.

  Barbara Gordon : We're the good guys. We don't kill innocent people. We don't kill... anyone.

  Helena Kyle : Speak for yourself.

• [last lines] 

  Barbara Gordon : Sometimes I close my eyes and I can almost feel it. What it was like to race across rooftops under the moon.

  Helena Kyle : Cold, wet, and hell on your nails.

  Barbara Gordon : I guess I never really let go of who I was... before.

  Helena Kyle : It's a hard thing to lose. I can't ever be what you were.

  Barbara Gordon : Good. Just be yourself instead. You're way cooler than I ever was, anyway.

  Helena Kyle : I know.

• Barbara Gordon : I've been calling for hours. Where have you been?

  Helena Kyle : That shrink thing, remember? Being punished for destroying city property while chasing your bad guy.

  Barbara Gordon : Yeah, well, you know, you could have gone around the fire hydrant.

  Helena Kyle : Doesn't it ever bother you? We spend all our time trying to save the city...

  Barbara Gordon : Shh.

  Helena Kyle : ...fighting crime lords and supervillains, for what? Lousy hours, nonexistent pay, no recognition, and traffic tickets.

  Barbara Gordon : That's the downside of having a secret identity; the secrecy.

• Wade Brixton : Never really got into Shakespeare. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet. I mean, he's a glorious romantic, but then the lovers always end up dying. Not the ideal way to finish a date.

  Barbara Gordon : [amused chuckle]  Well... maybe you should try the comedies; people wandering around in disguises, mistaking each other's identity, only to find each other and live happily ever after. Does that sound better?

  Wade Brixton : Definitely. I'm a sucker for happy endings.

• Barbara Gordon : Huntress, it's Oracle. Do you copy?

  [no response] 

  Barbara Gordon : You've gone offline again, haven't you? God, this is so like you. It's a transceiver, not a Walkman. Huntress? Huntress?

• Barbara Gordon : I need you to go on sweep tonight. There's been another death.

  Helena Kyle : You mean another suicide.

  Barbara Gordon : No, it's murder. Neither of these guys had any history of psychological illness, no reason to even consider suicide.

  [passing another bar patron] 

  Barbara Gordon : Excuse me. I'm telling you, there's something wrong here. I can feel it.

  Helena Kyle : Is your spider-sense tingling?