Batman Beyond (TV Series)

Hooked Up (1999)

Will Friedle: Terry McGinnis, Batman

Quotes 

• Terry McGinnis : How do I tell her no?

  Bruce Wayne : You're asking *me* for advice on handling women?

  Terry McGinnis : Ah. I see your point.

• Terry McGinnis : I can't believe I got her involved in this.

  Bruce Wayne : Now you sound like Batman.

  Terry McGinnis : What?

  Bruce Wayne : I've been right where you are, more times than I care to count. And like you said, there is no way you could have stopped her.

• Terry McGinnis : There's Donny. I'll feel better when I rip spellbinder's location out of his face.

  Bruce Wayne : Or you could cool your jets and just tail him.

  Terry McGinnis : Oh, I guess that's a good idea too.

• Max : Rough night?

  Terry McGinnis : Aren't they all?

  Max : Maybe you need someone out there with you. You could do worse you know.

  Terry McGinnis : Forget it.

  Max : Why should you have all the fun?

  Terry McGinnis : Max, it's not fun.

  Max : What? Flying, intrigue power? Yeah, you're right. It's a drag.

• Batman : [confronting a purse snatcher]  Give back the bag. It doesn't go with your shoes.

• Batman : You can't live your life in a fantasy world.

  Max : Why not? What's so great about reality?

• Terry McGinnis : It's me. Yeah, she's fine. I'm letting her rest a bit and then...

  [he gets hit over the head] 

  Terry McGinnis : Uhhn!

  Bruce Wayne : Terry!

  Max : Whoever you are, when he wakes up, tell him I'm sorry.

• Batman : I got a problem. It's with Max.

  Bruce Wayne : The girl? What?

  Batman : Well, she wants to get more... involved.

  Bruce Wayne : Over my dead body. And if you think you're gonna overrule me on this...

  Batman : Will you relax? I feel the same way you do. For once.

• Max : [finding the front door of Donny's apartment unlocked]  Hmm. The Grassos never were big on home security.

  [entering] 

  Max : Mr. Grasso! Mrs. Grasso!

  Terry McGinnis : [seeing the mess inside]  Looks like they're not big on cleaning, either.

• Terry McGinnis : Your whole family lives here?

  Max : "Whole family" is just me and my sister most of the time. The folks split up when I was a kid. And mom's on the road a lot for work. I guess you and I both have our secrets. Except mine seems kind of pathetic right now.

  Terry McGinnis : Hey, at least you don't have to wear tights.

• Max : Nothing like a visit to Donny's to make me appreciate my own mom and dad.

  Terry McGinnis : I know what you mean. Now let's see where Donny was spending his creds.

  [Max inserts the card into a hand-held device] 

  Terry McGinnis : Vrroom?

  Max : VR Room. It's an arcade downtown. Donny was spending his creds escaping reality.

  Terry McGinnis : [dryly]  Can't imagine why.

• Terry McGinnis : Hover VR?

  Max : Pretty schway, huh? Total freedom of movement, total sensory immersion. Latest-gen.

  Terry McGinnis : Think this is what's frying kids' brains?

  Max : Come on, Ter. If it was dangerous, you think they'd let kids do it? Anyway, we're here to investigate, aren't we?

  Terry McGinnis : *I'm* here to investigate. You had your chance with Donny's parents, and you blew it.

  Max : Yeah, but I got us here, didn't I?

• Batman : I think that's Donny Grasso.

  Bruce Wayne : Who?

  Batman : Kid from school. Ran away last week. Guess he didn't run far.

• [last lines] 

  Virtual Anchor : And now that doctors have studied Spellbinder's VR technology, they're successfully treating the psycho psychologist's remaining victims.

  Max : You can say it already. I almost got us both killed 'cause I wouldn't butt out.

  Terry McGinnis : It worked out okay.

  Max : I just wanted to be a part of something.

  Terry McGinnis : Well, congratulations, 'cause you're a part of it now, but we'll take it a little slower from now on.

• Batman : Max, what are you doing?

  Max : Go away. You wouldn't understand.

  Batman : I understand Spellbinder's got you hooked and you're stealing for him.

  Max : So what?

  Batman : So, keep at it and you'll end up a veg. Listen to me!

  Max : You don't have a clue how good it feels, Terry. Everybody wants you in there. And the second you're back out here, your whole body hurts for more. I just wanna get back inside.

  Batman : It's an addiction, Max. He's messed up your brain chemistry. Come on, let me help you.

  Max : If you wanna help me so much, then leave me alone.

• Bruce Wayne : Most of them have turned up in hospitals with overdose levels of serotonin in their brains. They're comatose, but stable.

  Terry McGinnis : And they were all runaways?

  Bruce Wayne : That's why I thought of it when you mentioned your friend Donny.

  Terry McGinnis : Except he's not comatose.

  Bruce Wayne : Not yet, anyway.

• Kip : You don't know what you're missing, McGinnis.

  Donny : Yeah. Spellbinder hooks us up real good.

  Terry McGinnis : [alarmed]  Spellbinder?