- Spellbinder: To feel the love you never get in the real world. It's no surprise that addiction follows so quickly.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spellbinder: Rise and shine, Donny. Time to pay the piper.
- Donny: Please, put me back in. It hurts out here. Please!
- Spellbinder: Now, now... love like that doesn't come cheap. You want more, you know what you have to do.
- 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?
- Spellbinder: On your feet. I'll put you back in once you run some errands. First, dump this mess across town.
- [turning Jessie over with his foot]
- Spellbinder: Then find me some new recruits.
- Donny: That's all I could do. Batman was after me. Please, hook me up again, just... just for a little while. I promise I'll get more later.
- Spellbinder: Yes, Donny, you will. Now come... your fans are waiting.
- 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?