Gotham (TV Series)

Mad City: New Day Rising (2016)

Michael Chiklis: Nathaniel Barnes

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• [Captain Barnes tells Jim Gordon to stay away from the Mad Hatter] 

  Nathaniel Barnes : This is an active investigation. You go anywhere near him, I'll have you arrested.

  James Gordon : For what? No law against two private citizens having a chat. I'll come by later to pick up my check.

  Harvey Bullock : [as Gordon walks out of Barnes' office]  I bet I'd make a kick-ass P.I.

  Nathaniel Barnes : Get out.

• Nathaniel Barnes : Why is it that every time something hits the fan around here, I inevitably find you at the center of it?

  James Gordon : I was just working a job. Her brother asked me to find her.

  Nathaniel Barnes : Yeah. You're some sort of P.I. now? Is that it?

  James Gordon : I'm whatever pays the bills.

• Nathaniel Barnes : [about the mayoral race]  Can you believe Penguin might win this thing? Whole city's going to hell in a handbasket.

• Nathaniel Barnes : Look... you've caught some bad breaks. Blackgate. Lee. I don't know what happened when you went to see her, but I can take a pretty good guess. But at some point, you're gonna have to make peace with the decisions you've made.

  James Gordon : And what if I can't?

  Nathaniel Barnes : Take it from me, you don't want to wake up one day and realize that twenty years has gone by.

• Nathaniel Barnes : You want to explain yourself?

  Harvey Bullock : I was following a lead.

  Nathaniel Barnes : You were following some misguided notion about friendship. James Gordon is gonna get you killed one day, you get that?

  Nathaniel Barnes : Maybe. But until that day, I will never turn my back on him.

• [last lines] 

  Nathaniel Barnes : [Captain Barnes walks under the pipe that Alice died on, when a drop of her blood drips down onto his eye, in a low voice]  No.