Gotham (TV Series)

Mad City: Burn the Witch (2016)

Jada Pinkett Smith: Fish Mooney

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Quotes 

• [the GCPD raid Fish Mooney's hideout] 

  Fish Mooney : [as the police storm in]  Oh, we have company.

  Harvey Bullock : GCPD! Don't nobody move!

• [Fish Mooney finds Hugo Strange] 

  Hugo Strange : [Strange smiles]  Look at you. Amazing. You were my greatest creation.

  Fish Mooney : Your greatest creation who's dying.

  Hugo Strange : What?

  Fish Mooney : You're going to fix me, Daddy. And when that's done, you're going to make me an army, so I can have this city kneeling at my feet.

  Hugo Strange : But I can't... fix you.

• [Captain Barnes asks Fish Mooney to put Bullock on the phone] 

  Harvey Bullock : [Fish looks to Bullock]  You don't control me anymore.

  Fish Mooney : [Fish looks to Sid]  Sid.

  Harvey Bullock : [Sid tightens the gun to Bullock's head]  Hey, Cap. How are ya? Sorry.

• [Fish Mooney tells Captain Barnes that if anybody enters the mansion Bullock gets a bullet] 

  Fish Mooney : Don't you know you're speaking to a dying woman, which severely limits your negotiating position? So here's how it's going to go down. One cop comes within 20 feet of this place, and Harvey, although I love him, will eat a bullet.

  Harvey Bullock : [Fish slams the phone shut]  You had to come back, didn't you?

  Fish Mooney : Like a bad penny.

• [Fish Mooney tells Hugo Strange what she learned as a club owner] 

  Fish Mooney : You know, I owned a club once. Ran protection on the side. Every first of the month, people would pay me. Every once in a while, someone would come up short.

  Fish Mooney : [Fish walks up to Strange]  And they'd say, 'Mooney, I don't have the money. Mooney, I need more time.' And they'd cry and cry.

  Fish Mooney : [Fish makes a squeezing motion to Strange]  And then I discovered that when I squeezed them, and squeezed them, and squeezed them, they always had more. You are going to fix me... or I swear to God, I will make you pray for your death.

• [Jim Gordon tells Fish Mooney that he showed up to the mansion alone to save Bullock] 

  James Gordon : I'm here on my own. I only want Bullock.

  Fish Mooney : Really? You'd risk your life for this broken down old thing?

  Harvey Bullock : Thanks.

  James Gordon : He'd do the same for me.

  Harvey Bullock : I would, it's true.

  Fish Mooney : Well, you've helped me, 'cause now I have two hostages.

  James Gordon : Barnes won't see it that way. Hell, you kill me, he'll probably thank you. I've been nothing but a pain in the ass to him.

  Harvey Bullock : Also true.

• [Penguin corners Fish Mooney and Hugo Strange in the woods with a gun] 

  Fish Mooney : So this is it? I spare your life, and you shoot me dead in the woods like an animal?

  Oswald Cobblepot : [Penguin smiles]  Pretty much, yes.

• [Penguin demands for Fish Mooney to tell him why she didn't kill him] 

  Oswald Cobblepot : Why didn't you kill me? I have gone over that night 1,000 times, and it doesn't make any sense. Why didn't you kill me? I would've killed you in an instant. Answer me!

  Fish Mooney : Because you're mine. You were my umbrella boy, remember? You rubbed my feet when they were tired. And now look at you, the terror of Gotham. Everything I've done in my life, possibly the best thing was turning Oswald Cobblepot into... the Penguin. I couldn't destroy that.

  Fish Mooney : [Fish looks to Hugo Strange]  Ask him. He understands what it is to bring something into being. It is a part of you. Forever.

  Oswald Cobblepot : [Penguin lowers his gun with tears in his eyes]  Good-bye, Fish. Don't come back.

• [Hugo Strange tells Fish Mooney that she's a new Eve] 

  Hugo Strange : Believe me, if I could fix you, I would. I think of you as one of my own children. But I can't.

  Fish Mooney : So what am I supposed to do? Give up?

  Hugo Strange : Do you not understand what you are? What you represent? You are the first of a new generation. A new... Eve.