- Terry McGinnis: Tell me something: Why were you so sure those voices weren't comin' from you?
- Bruce Wayne: Well, first, I know I'm not psychotic.
- Terry McGinnis: I hope your other reason's more convincing.
- Bruce Wayne: And second, the voice kept calling me Bruce. In my mind, that's not what I call myself.
- Terry McGinnis: What do you call yourself?
- [Bruce gives Terry a long stare]
- Terry McGinnis: Oh, yeah. I suppose you would.
- [Voice sinking to Batman's tone]
- Terry McGinnis: But that's my name now.
- Bruce Wayne: Hmm. Tell that to my subconscious.
- Walter Shreeve: It's getting late, and I still have things to do, so...
- Terry McGinnis: Wait. What about those, you know, sound vibrations?
- Walter Shreeve: Sound vibrations?
- Terry McGinnis: Yeah. I heard about 'em the other day. Someone can knock over a tree?
- Walter Shreeve: So they say.
- Terry McGinnis: So, you know anything about 'em?
- Walter Shreeve: [striking him over the head] Who are you? What do you really want?
- Terry McGinnis: Hey, man, I didn't mean nothin'.
- Walter Shreeve: [Pins him to the floor and holds one of his vibration devices near him] You want to know about sound vibrations? Would you like to see how they can split your skull?
- [Terry struggles for a moment and then gives up an upward mule kick off and he runs away]
- Terry McGinnis: [leaving a Wayne-Powers stockholder meeting] Too bad Shreeve is too freaked out to testify against that weasel.
- Bruce Wayne: Maybe when his hearing comes back, if it ever does.
- Bruce Wayne: This company has always meant a great deal to me. But now, I'm ashamed of it. Ashamed of the way it's forgotten its history. Ashamed of how it's gonna rip the heart out of this city. I'm referring to a plan by the current leadership of Wayne-Powers to purchase Gotham City's historical district and then bulldoze it to make room for another soulless industrial complex. Is that what we want? Or do we want a city that remembers its history? A city where ideals flow from the past, defining our present and shaping our future.
- Bruce Wayne: That theatre: it was where my parents and I went the night they were...
- Terry McGinnis: I think you'd want it torn down, so after all these years you could finally forget.
- Bruce Wayne: Do you want to forget what happened to your father?
- [Powers enters his office, where Shreeve is waiting for him in his sound suit]
- Walter Shreeve: The police know about me. I'm a wanted man. I can never go back to my lab again. And it's all your fault.
- Derek Powers: That's not going to help.
- Walter Shreeve: No, but it'll make me feel better.
- Derek Powers: You should be feeling fine anyway.
- Walter Shreeve: And why is that?
- Derek Powers: Because your costume gives you power. Real power. Ever had that before?
- Walter Shreeve: No. Not really.
- Derek Powers: It's no small thing. Trust me.
- Walter Shreeve: But I can't show my face anymore! Or use my name!
- Derek Powers: The face is no loss, and if you miss your name, I'll give you another one. One that fits your new persona... "Shriek".
- Bruce Wayne: [hearing his dog Ace whine] Kind of quiet out there, huh, boy? But you hear something, don't you?
- Terry McGinnis: [picking Bruce up after a meeting] How'd it go?
- Bruce Wayne: The way I wanted.
- Terry McGinnis: Must've been pretty important to get you out of that house. Especially in daylight.
- Bruce Wayne: I'll show you.
- Bruce Wayne: Can you believe it? They want to keep me in here overnight!
- Terry McGinnis: Why don't you relax and make it a little vacation? And while you're here, I'll figure out who that guy in the suit was.
- Bruce Wayne: So you're a detective now?
- Terry McGinnis: Been watching you long enough. Besides, I got a lead.
- Walter Shreeve: How was I supposed to know Batman would be there?
- Derek Powers: Batman's everywhere these days. Everywhere.
- Walter Shreeve: At least I knocked down one of those buildings for you.
- Derek Powers: [sarcastic] Well, whoop-de-do. It's the *land* I want! And unless I can shut Wayne up, the stockholders will never authorize the purchase.
- Walter Shreeve: Don't worry. Next time, I'll get him. Guaranteed.
- Derek Powers: Haven't you been listening? It's over! Wayne's in the hospital now with guards. There's no way you could get to him.
- Walter Shreeve: I wouldn't be so sure of that.
- Terry McGinnis: Okay, we know it's some kind of sound generator. So now what?
- [inserting it into the Batcomputer]
- Terry McGinnis: Computer, analyze the metal this thing's made of.
- [nothing happens]
- Terry McGinnis: Computer?
- Bat Computer: Incorrect command.
- Terry McGinnis: Uh, do the thing where you figure out what it's made of.
- Bat Computer: Request for spectrographic analysis?
- Terry McGinnis: Uh, yeah, that's it. What you said.
- Walter Shreeve: Look at this sound suit. I just finished it. It's got four built-in sound generators...
- Derek Powers: How's it any better than an old boom box?
- Walter Shreeve: Different kind of boom. Watch. It generates ultra-low frequency vibrations, which I can aim in any direction.
- [destroying a block of concrete]
- Walter Shreeve: Imagine the time and effort this suit would save construction workers, road builders.
- Derek Powers: Dynamite's cheaper.
- Walter Shreeve: But...
- Derek Powers: Shreeve, you're just not a practical guy. All that's ever mattered to you is your research, which is why I had to bail out your company, and now it's time for me to see some return on my investment. I want you to solve a problem for me.
- Walter Shreeve: What?
- Derek Powers: Not what. Who.
- Derek Powers: It has been moved and seconded that Wayne-Powers tender an offer to the city in order to expand into the historical district. All in favor.
- [a few "ayes"]
- Derek Powers: Opposed?
- [more than a few "nays"]
- Derek Powers: [trying to hide his disappointment] The motion is defeated. Meeting adjourned.
- Derek Powers: Take it from me, it's better to be feared than loved.
- Shriek: Shriek.
- Derek Powers: Now go forth and do damage, but don't forget, you still owe me Bruce Wayne.
- Shriek: What if Batman gets into it again?
- Derek Powers: Kill him.
- Derek Powers: Who else can take care of his affairs? He has no wife, no children.
- Terry McGinnis: Me. I could do it.
- Derek Powers: Awfully young, aren't you?
- Terry McGinnis: Awfully slimy, aren't you?
- Derek Powers: Careful. The courts are very strict about slander.
- Terry McGinnis: Yeah? Then let's see how they handle assault.
- [lunges at Powers and starts to grapple with him before orderlies pull him off and restrain him]
- Derek Powers: You should know something about the psycho ward here: there's always room for one more!
- Bruce Wayne: I've been hearing these voices.
- Batman: I know.
- Bruce Wayne: They think I'm crazy.
- Batman: We'll talk about it back home.
- Bruce Wayne: We're not going anywhere until I figure out where the voices are coming from.
- Batman: But the orderlies could come in at any second.
- Bruce Wayne: Check the light fixture. There might be a speaker hidden in it.
- Batman: You can't be seri...
- Bruce Wayne: Check it!
- Batman: [firing a laser blast] See? Nothing.
- Bruce Wayne: Then the sound's got to be coming from the walls. Strip 'em.
- Batman: I can't strip the...
- [getting an idea]
- Batman: Wait a minute.
- Bruce Wayne: What are you doing?
- [Batman yanks the bandage off his head]
- Bruce Wayne: Ow!
- Batman: Big bandage for such a small wound. It's a two-way radio. Guy named Shreeve makes them. He's the one who knocked down the police station.
- Bruce Wayne: He probably bribed a nurse to put that thing in the bandage. Still think I'm crazy?
- Batman: It never occurred to me.
- Walter Shreeve: It's a neglected sense, hearing. And it shouldn't be, because all too often, our first warning of danger is sound.
- Derek Powers: Shreeve, what are you trying to...
- [hearing a rumbling engine, he gasps as a train horn blares in front of him]
- Derek Powers: SHREEVE!
- Walter Shreeve: [turning a flashlight and another device off] See, Mr. Powers? Just an illusion.
- Derek Powers: Uh, I knew that.
- Walter Shreeve: Of course. But after all the research money you've given me, I thought you deserved a demonstration.
- Derek Powers: Frankly, I was hoping for more.
- Terry McGinnis: What's this?
- Walter Shreeve: Put it to your ear.
- Terry McGinnis: [doing so] Hey, music!
- Walter Shreeve: A microfilament transmitter/receiver. Picks up radio signals.
- Terry McGinnis: Cool! What's this do?
- Walter Shreeve: Don't touch that!
- [all sound stops; as he presses a button, it returns]
- Terry McGinnis: What was that?
- Walter Shreeve: Sound masking. See, sound moves in waves. The masker instantly plays back whatever sound it picks up, slightly out of phase, so the waves cancel each other out. No waves, no sound.
- Terry McGinnis: Schway!
- Bruce Wayne: Go away! I don't want to hear you!
- Walter Shreeve: It's for your own good. Now get up.
- [Bruce does so]
- Walter Shreeve: Go to the window.
- Bruce Wayne: What for?
- Walter Shreeve: Go!
- [Bruce does]
- Walter Shreeve: Open it.
- [hearing various voices repeating the command, Bruce does]
- Walter Shreeve: You know what you have to do.
- Bruce Wayne: [trying to fight it] Who are you? Why are you saying these things to me?
- Walter Shreeve: I want to help you. I'm you.
- Bruce Wayne: No.
- Walter Shreeve: Who else could I be?
- Bruce Wayne: You can't be me!
- Terry McGinnis: [taking an analysis print-out] "Copper, iron, and acoustium"? Computer, acoustium.
- [taking another printout]
- Terry McGinnis: "A new alloy that amplifies sound vibrations." Makes sense. "Developed by Shreeve Sound Laboratory, Gotham City." And the old man thought I couldn't do this stuff on my own.
- Batman: Looks like the radio signal's coming from that factory by the hospital.
- Bruce Wayne: And from there, I've got a feeling it's gonna lead to Powers.
- Batman: Doesn't take a detective to figure that one out.