Batwoman (TV Series)

Off with Her Head (2020)

John Emmet Tracy: August Cartwright

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• Kate Kane : We need to call the GCPD and get him arrested.

  Colonel Jacob Kane : Based on what? Some crazy horror story you and I tell the very same police commissioner who wrongly accused me of murder no less than four months ago?

  Kate Kane : It's the truth.

  Colonel Jacob Kane : Which can only be corroborated by a lunatic who everyone in Gotham thinks is dead. We need to think this through.

  Kate Kane : What do you suggest, we kill him, bury his body, and go on with our lives?

  Colonel Jacob Kane : [Cartwright coughs and wakes up]  Rise and shine, you son of a bitch.

  August Cartwright : I was expecting Alice.

  Colonel Jacob Kane : Well, you got one meaner. Do you want me to start with your nose or your kneecaps?

• Kate Kane : [pulling Jacob off Cartwright]  If you kill him, then we are no better than he is.

  August Cartwright : Not to mention you'll never find out where Alice is being tortured. Hoo. I can only imagine the darkness she has inside of her. I have a feeling I know exactly who's paying her a visit.

  Kate Kane : Who?

  August Cartwright : Mommy dearest.

• Kate Kane : Who is "Mommy Dearest"?

  August Cartwright : Well... Alice is playing games against the master of games. No. I'm not going to let her win.

  Kate Kane : You don't know Alice like I do.

  August Cartwright : Hmm. I know I spent the last six years fooling Gotham, your late wife, and the both of you.

• August Cartwright : After so many years apart, the only way my son and I could start our life anew was if he believed Alice was his enemy who destroyed our family. He was quite suggestible to the idea after I used a little concoction from an old colleague. You may have heard of him. Dr. Jonathan Crane?

  Kate Kane : Fear toxin. Scarecrow's M.O. Triggers your greatest fear.

  August Cartwright : And now Alice is his. Much like the rest of Gotham, Mouse thinks that Alice is dead. Seeing his greatest fear manifested in front of him, Mouse will undoubtedly snap. My guess is by now he's dosing her with insurmountable amounts of the hallucinogen himself. Unless adrenaline is administered soon, she'll be gone forever.

  Colonel Jacob Kane : Where is she?

  August Cartwright : I'll tell you where she is... in return for my freedom.

  Kate Kane : Not happening.

  August Cartwright : Alice has until now been focused. Her plans are always calculated, pointed. Collateral damage is minimized, but this type of chemical exposure will undo all of that. Any wisps of sanity Alice is clinging to will dissolve in the wind. If she doesn't jump off the nearest rooftop, well, then... I imagine she'll unravel completely, out herself to Gotham in the process of going nuclear. I would hate to be in the blast radius when that happens.