Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

A Bullet for Bullock (1995)

Robert Costanzo: Detective Harvey Bullock

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Quotes 

• Det. Harvey Bullock : Let's get something straight from the git-go, I think you're a freak and a menace, and those are your good points, but the Commish says you serve a purpose, so I go along.

  Batman : I appreciate your honesty.

• Det. Harvey Bullock : [about to push a button while riding in the Batmobile]  What's this for?

  Batman : Passenger ejector seat.

• Summer Gleeson : [discovering Bullock rummaging in her office]  Aren't you a piece of work!

  Detective Harvey Bullock : You gotta help me, Gleeson. I need to find Vinnie the Shark.

  Summer Gleeson : You wanna find a shark? You can jump in Gotham Bay! You've blown it big-time, Bullock. Don't ever come to me again.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Summer, cut me some slack. This guy's lookin' to whack me.

  Summer Gleeson : Look on the bright side: you'll make the 6:00 news.

• Lt. Renée Montoya : Bullock, you okay? You don't look so good. I mean, you never look good, but today you look worse.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : After fifteen years workin' in this cesspool, I'd like to see how good you look.

  Lt. Renée Montoya : Well, you're sure full of holiday spirit. What are you doing for New Year's?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Same thing I did for Christmas: my laundry.

• [Bullock's stalker is finally unmasked - his apartment super] 

  Det. Harvey Bullock : Nivens?

  Nivens : Why wouldn't you move? Why wouldn't you get out?

  Det. Harvey Bullock : You wrote me those letters?

  Nivens : Do you have any idea what your apartment is worth these days?

  Det. Harvey Bullock : You wanted my apartment? You mean, this whole thing was about rent control?

  Nivens : No, no, no! I wanted you gone! You're not a tenant, you're a pestilence! You insult me, you treat me like dirt! NO JURY IN THE WORLD WOULD HAVE CONVICTED ME!

  [starts laughing hysterically] 

  Nivens : They wouldn't have convicted me!

• Nivens : [seeing the mud Bullock has trailed inside]  There's a doormat outside, Mr. Bullock.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Really? I thought you were the doormat around here, Nivens.

  Nivens : [Bullock throws a used toothpick at him]  Icch!

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Don't crowd me, dork, or I'll wipe my feet on you.

  Nivens : Take out your garbage once in a while. Your apartment stinks! I won't have roaches in my building! And turn the heat down when you're out all day!

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [ignoring him]  Happy holidays, Nivens.

• Detective Harvey Bullock : Somebody's got it in for me. Tried to give me a fender massage last night. It ain't the first time. Last week, too.

  Batman : Any suspects?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : So many they could have their own zip code. I put a lot of guys away, and they hate me for it. Looks like one of them hates me enough to do something about it.

  Batman : Why me? Why not just go to the department?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : I step on a lot of toes. I don't want Internal Affairs lookin' at me too close. They might find some things I don't want found.

  Batman : Are you on the take?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Watch it, freak! I never took a dime from nobody! I just bend the rules a little sometimes. You understand. We're not all that different.

  Batman : We're on the same side, but we're not the same. I'll help you find out who's after you, but you've got to collar them clean.

• Detective Harvey Bullock : Merry Christmas, Vinnie! And happy new year!

  [picking up his gun and taking aim] 

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Just call me Santa. And guess who's on top of my "naughty" list.

  Batman : No, Bullock!

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Relax, cowl-head. This dirtbag don't get off that easy. The rest of the gang?

  Batman : Taken care of.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Good. I'll radio for a wagon.

  Batman : You think it's over?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Had to be Vinnie. Yeah, it's over.

  Batman : It's your call.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : By the way, I still think you're a freak. But... thanks.

  [he's surprised to see Batman gone] 

• Detective Harvey Bullock : They say confession's good for the soul. You wanna tell me why you sent me those letters?

  Vinnie : You've taken one too many shots to the head, Bullock. What letters?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Listen, scumface, I don't feel like playin' games. I got a pile of paperwork, and Internal Affairs is all over me like a cheap suit. So spill it!

  Vinnie : What are you gonna do, send me to jail? I'm tellin' ya, I don't know what you're talkin' about!

• Detective Harvey Bullock : Need a favor, Gleeson. That shoot you did down in cracktown...

  Summer Gleeson : You still owe me for the last favor I did you.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Hey, Summer, where's your Christmas spirit? You know you can trust me.

  Summer Gleeson : I trust you about as far as I can throw you.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Come on, Gleeson.

  Summer Gleeson : You're lucky I talk to you at all, Bullock.

• Batman : Are these all the threats you received?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Yeah. I'm thinkin' of startin' a scrapbook.

  Batman : You dusted them for prints?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Yep. Nada. Hand-delivered to my mailbox.

  Batman : Someone's gone to a lot of effort to scare you, but I don't think they're trying to kill you.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Yeah? That attack last night seemed pretty sincere.

  Batman : A professional hitman would do you here, not on the street.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : So what? Guy who gets whacked by an amateur's just as stiff as a pro job. When you gonna get me that list of names?

  [just catching the end of his cape disappearing] 

  Detective Harvey Bullock : I wonder how Gordon puts up with this.

• Batman : [pulling up in the Batmobile]  Get in.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [getting yanked in]  Hey! Unh! You got a serious attitude problem, freak.

• Batman : I have some questions.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Later. After my shift. Where do I find ya?

  Batman : I'll find you.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [seeing he's vanished]  Showoff.

• Detective Harvey Bullock : Somebody like Vinnie wants to pop me, that's no surprise. This...? You know, it's funny. I was thinkin' of movin' anyway. Neighborhood's really been going downhill lately. Look, um, I guess I owe you for this.

  Batman : Forget it, Bullock. You've got enough problems.

• Detective Harvey Bullock : You got what I want, pointy-ears?

  Batman : You were right, Bullock. A lot of people don't like you. The list of suspects was a long one. Does the name Vincent Starkey mean anything to you?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Vinnie the Shark? Yeah. The dirtbag threatened me in open court. Ran a drug lab in South Gotham. I broke it up when I was in Vice. He got ten to twenty in Stonegate.

  Batman : Starkey was a model prisoner. He only did eight years. He's out, Bullock.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : I cost him an empire. He'd love to see me take a dirt nap. Where do we find him?

  Batman : I'm working on it. I want you to follow up on a lead.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : Hey, what am I, some wet-eared rookie? Nobody tells me how to conduct an investigation!

  Batman : [grabbing him]  Do you wanna live, Bullock?

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [he nods] 

  Batman : Then pay attention. Summer Gleeson did an exposé on South Gotham crack houses last week. She might have heard something about Vinnie.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : So, see the woman, huh? What are you gonna do?

  Batman : Make a few... inquiries.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [watching him leave]  Inquiries? Like what? Hey, pal, this is my life we're talking about here! Bats! Bats!

• Detective Harvey Bullock : What are you doin' here?

  Batman : Watching your back. Good thing, too.

  Detective Harvey Bullock : I asked you to find a name, not hold my hand.

  Batman : You're welcome.