Gotham (TV Series)

Wrath of the Villains: This Ball of Mud and Meanness (2016)

Lori Petty: Jeri

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Quotes 

• [Bruce Wayne arrives at the Celestial Garden seeing Jeri perform on stage] 

  Jeri : [singing]  I got a feeling inside of me / It's kind of strange, like a stormy sea / I don't know why, I don't know why / I guess these things have got to be / I got a new rose, I got her good / Guess I knew that I always would / I can't stop to mess around / I got a brand-new rose in town

• Jeri : [re: Matches Malone]  You gonna give me a good reason to tell you where he is?

  Bruce Wayne : Justice.

  Jeri : [laughs]  Please.

  Bruce Wayne : Money.

  Jeri : Nope. I don't care about money. Try something else.

  Bruce Wayne : I have a gun.

  Jeri : That's a good reason.

• Bruce Wayne : Please, tell me where he is.

  Jeri : [rolls her eyes]  Come on, kid!

  [she grabs Bruce's gun hand and points the barrel at her own forehead, Bruce carefully keeping his finger off the trigger] 

  Jeri : You ain't even pointing it at me!

  [She releases his hand, and he lets the gun drop again] 

  Jeri : What is your problem?

  Bruce Wayne : I've been told it's unwise to point a gun at someone if you're not ready to shoot them. And I'm not.

  Jeri : Very wise, young man.

• [Jeri finally gives up Matches Malone's location to Bruce Wayne] 

  Jeri : Matches is gonna be happy to see you. You, my boy, are the childish hand of fate. Well, that makes me God in a way, doesn't it?

  [laughs] 

  Jeri : And who doesn't like to play God?

• [Jim Gordon questions Jeri on where she sent Bruce Wayne] 

  James Gordon : [Jeri plays with her handcuffs in the interrogation room]  Where is Bruce Wayne?

  Jeri : You are so angry. I'm sensing a personal relationship. Maybe like a surrogate father type of thing.

  James Gordon : Where is he?

  Jeri : He is... he's a really good kid. He's got steel in him. He's gonna grow up and be a strong man one day. Well, if he lives long enough.

• [Jim Gordon tries threatening Jeri with his anger] 

  James Gordon : This is gonna go a lot better for you if you don't make me angry.

  Jeri : Angry is your natural state, isn't it? You are the infamous Jim Gordon? Everybody knows about your temper.

  James Gordon : This isn't about me. There's a kid out there in danger.

  Jeri : Oh, there's lots of kids out there in danger! Why does this poor little rich boy got your special attention?

  James Gordon : You're trying to make me angry. Do you want me to hurt you?

  Jeri : Could you? I got nowhere else to be.

  James Gordon : No.

  [Jeri drops her hands in disappointment] 

• Jeri : Killing people isn't, you know, that easy. Hey, maybe you've killed people before. You killed people before, blood? No.

  Bruce Wayne : No. But no one's killed my parents before.