Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Day of the Samurai (1993)

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.: Alfred Pennyworth

Quotes 

• Kyodai Ken : You are strong... but not strong enough!

  [administers the Touch to Batman, who falls over with a gasp] 

  Alfred Pennyworth : NOOO!

  Kyodai Ken : Farewell... Batman!

• Alfred Pennyworth : I couldn't see through the smoke. Was Kyodai...?

  Bruce Wayne : I don't know, Alfred. I wish I did.

• Alfred Pennyworth : I should enjoy our return to Nippon more without this unfortunate business.

  Bruce Wayne : So would I, Alfred. But giri cannot be denied.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Ah, yes, giri; honor, duty, obligation.

• Alfred Pennyworth : I saw him use the fatal touch on you, Master Bruce. Did he somehow miss?

  Bruce Wayne : [revealing a pad underneath his suit]  No. I found his practice dummy. There was a soft spot on it; a place jabbed many times. I protected that spot on my own body.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Most ingenious, sir.

• Alfred Pennyworth : Shall I pack for our return to Gotham City, sir?

  Bruce Wayne : I'm afraid not just yet, old friend.

  Alfred Pennyworth : I thought that with the recovery of the young lady and the destruction of the scroll, your chores here were finished.

  Bruce Wayne : Kyodai has the part of the scroll that describes the o-nemuri touch.

  Alfred Pennyworth : I'm afraid my Japanese is a bit rusty, Master Bruce.

  Bruce Wayne : It means "big sleep." A better translation might be "eternal sleep."

• Bruce Wayne : Once upon a time Alfred, 500 years ago to be exact, there was a fighting master who learned how to manipulate the ki lines, the currents of life force. He called the art Kiba-No-Hoko; "the way of the fang." It was such an efficient and terrible fighting art that the master decided it was too dangerous to teach. A mere touch could render a man unconscious or cripple him. There was even a touch that was fatal. So the master hid the only copy of the instruction scroll for Kiba-No-Hoko in one of the thousand caves on the slopes of Mount Kajiki. He told no one but his eldest son. The location has been kept a family secret for 500 years.

  Alfred Pennyworth : And Yoru Sensei?

  Bruce Wayne : Is the great-great-great-grandson of the man who created that forbidden art, and the only man who knows the location of the scroll. Yoru Sensei has no sons. When he leaves this world, the secret leaves with him.

  Alfred Pennyworth : And the kidnapped girl?

  Bruce Wayne : Yoru's star student. Kyodai wants to trade her for the knowledge of the fang.

  Alfred Pennyworth : To use against you, I expect. Well, perhaps our cowled friend can persuade him otherwise.

  Bruce Wayne : It's not that easy, Alfred. He's after Batman, as well.

  Alfred Pennyworth : But why?

  Bruce Wayne : He fought Bruce Wayne and Batman. Fighting styles are like fingerprints. Kyodai knows that we're the same man.