- Batman: [Barbara is hanging onto Batman's cape] I'll contact you when I have more information... please let go of my cape.
- Commissioner James Gordon: I'm getting too old for this kind of thing.
- Barbara Gordon: I sort of enjoyed it.
- Rossum: Ms. Gordon, your skill at breaking and entering is impressive. Where did you learn those tricks?
- Barbara Gordon: A police commissioner's daughter doesn't get all her education in school. What have you done with my father?
- Randa: He's right here, my dear. You'll be joining him soon. Very soon.
- HARDAC: People are imperfect. They make mistakes. Your mistake was coming here to interfere with the plan.
- Batman: What is this plan?
- HARDAC: The plan was conceived by Karl Rossum when his young daughter was... deactivated.
- Barbara Gordon: Deactivated? You mean...
- HARDAC: A vehicular accident. Our maker felt the emotion called love in great quantity for her. Afterwards, he decided to find a way to replace humans, whose decisions can cost other human lives.
- Barbara Gordon: But we're all capable of human error.
- HARDAC: Precisely. The maker's concept was sound, but he did not go far enough, which is why I have taken over.
- Barbara Gordon: Does that mean my father's...
- HARDAC: No. There is still much to learn from humans. I will keep them alive until I have learned enough.
- Alfred Pennyworth: I do wish your toys wouldn't play so roughly with you, sir.
- Batman: There's another computer uplinked to this one. I'm tracing the link now.
- [as he does so, he loses the connection]
- Batman: I've lost it! The link was shut down at the source. Could Randa Duane have been down here?
- Alfred Pennyworth: I should hope not, but I can't say for certain, sir. I... I simply can't remember anything beyond the time you left.
- Batman: It's all right, Alfred. We'd better search the house.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Search for what, Master Bruce?
- Batman: Anything unusual. She may have left a clue I can use. She's only human.
- Batman: [arriving at the Bat-Signal] Commissioner?
- Barbara Gordon: No, Batman. I called you.
- Batman: I expected your father, Ms. Gordon.
- Barbara Gordon: That's why I called you. That man is not my father.
- Batman: What do you mean he's not your father?
- Barbara Gordon: Just what I said. Someone is impersonating my father.
- Batman: What makes you think so?
- Barbara Gordon: Well, he doesn't have bolts in his neck or anything that obvious. He's so... cold to me. But it's not just that. I can't put my finger on it, but I know he's not my father. I know I sound crazy, but I'm not. Whoever's downstairs now, it looks like Jim Gordon, talks like him, but it's not him. Please help me, Batman.
- Batman: I'll do what I can.
- Rossum: The duplicant processor's been used. I didn't authorize that.
- HARDAC: It was necessary to serve your ultimate purpose.
- Rossum: No, it was a stupid idea, the babblings of a broken heart!
- HARDAC: Humans make errors in judgment. It is sometimes necessary to protect them from their own inadequacies.
- Rossum: I've let this go too far. I gave you too much free will. It's time to change your programming.
- Randa: [HARDAC knocks Rossum out] You have immobilized the maker.
- HARDAC: His human imperfection endangers the plan. He must be... improved upon.
- Commissioner James Gordon: Barbara. What are you doing here?
- Barbara Gordon: Rescuing you, silly. Come on.