Batman Black And White Motion Comics (2008) s01e04 Episode Script
Case Study
Batman - Black and White Motion Comics S01E04 - Case Study One week later, the entertainment world is still reeling from the Joker's attack on Gotham's Creative arts center.
While there has yet to be an official statement, it is expected Gotham's most notorious criminal will again be found mentally unstable and returned to Arkham Asylum.
God in heaven.
How many times are we expected to play zookeeper for that animal? Arkham can't suffer another bloody spree.
The Joker problem again, Dr.
Rubin? What else? I hate giving up on any patient, Ahmet.
But after so many years and so many failures, I don't think there's any way to pierce that man's psychosis.
Then let me volunteer a rather uncoventional theory.
What if the Joker is not insane? That's not possible.
I recovered parts of a report that suggest otherwise.
Who's the recording doctor? There's no name on the report as it was never officially filed.
But the notes reveal observations gathered not only through a study of the Joker himself, but also through interviews with other criminals.
Sure, I remember Joker.
First to come in when there was something dirty to be done, first to take his cut, first to split.
Liked keepin' his hands cleen, if he could.
Smart guy, real smart.
I remember this one time he starts up with this chick Debbie something or other, who just happens to be a sweetheart of one Tommy Doyle.
Now Doyle is only the toughest boss in Gotham at the time.
Instead of keepin' his fling on the Q.
T.
, Joker practically announces it to the world.
We all figure he's nuts! Joker lays low for about a month, when one freezin' cold night he insists on draggin' Debbie out to a new club.
Somehow or other Deb's mink gets pinched, so our boy gallantly bundles up the lady in his own hat and coat to wear back to his place.
Naturally Tommy is waitin' there for the Joker.
Poor dumb Tommy.
He's still starin' down in shock at Debbie as the cops pull him away.
Before you know what Tommy's on death row and Laughin' Boy is runnin' his mob.
Like I said, the guy was smart.
Once Joker took over Doyle's territory, he was careful to keep himself a step back from the dirty work.
He was smart enough to hire the slickest mouthpieces and they always got him off.
Even though the boss was now able to keep himself clean, he missed the thrill of the early days.
So he came up with a disguise.
A big metal hood, kind of like two-way infrared glasses.
He could see out, but no one could see in.
Then one night we planned to hit the payroll at the monarch playing card company.
The Bat got wind of it and was waiting for us.
Knowing it would be all over if he was unmasked, the boss took the only way out.
He dove into the chemical vat, swam through the waste drain and escaped down the river.
Once again the boss had got away clean.
Gone was the gangster's anonymity and with it the cruelly fun, largely effortless way he run his usurped empire.
He had a new mission now.
Just as Batman adopted a fearsome image to wage war on crime, the Joker would hide behind a mask of madness.
It was the physician's opinion that the Joker chose to enact his vendetta against Batman in ways that seemed irrational, but were in fact meticulously researched and brilliantly orchestrated.
I agree with this doctor's final summation that the Joker should be retried as mentally competent declared sane, sent to state prison and executed.
Harleen, how do you know what's in this file? It's mine, silly! I started compiling those theories when I first interned here.
Back then I thought I knew all the answers.
But it wasn't until I started doing personal sessions with Mr.
J that I discovered how complex he is.
Here, Ahmet.
Lock it away or burn it.
I don't care which.
You don't believe it? Every word.
Sure as I believe he left that file just where we would someday find it.
He knew it would never stand up in court.
Allows us a moment of hope before yanking the rug out from under us.
Whether he is truly sane or not, I'm afraid there's only one certainty with the Joker that applies to us.
HE'S BACK.
While there has yet to be an official statement, it is expected Gotham's most notorious criminal will again be found mentally unstable and returned to Arkham Asylum.
God in heaven.
How many times are we expected to play zookeeper for that animal? Arkham can't suffer another bloody spree.
The Joker problem again, Dr.
Rubin? What else? I hate giving up on any patient, Ahmet.
But after so many years and so many failures, I don't think there's any way to pierce that man's psychosis.
Then let me volunteer a rather uncoventional theory.
What if the Joker is not insane? That's not possible.
I recovered parts of a report that suggest otherwise.
Who's the recording doctor? There's no name on the report as it was never officially filed.
But the notes reveal observations gathered not only through a study of the Joker himself, but also through interviews with other criminals.
Sure, I remember Joker.
First to come in when there was something dirty to be done, first to take his cut, first to split.
Liked keepin' his hands cleen, if he could.
Smart guy, real smart.
I remember this one time he starts up with this chick Debbie something or other, who just happens to be a sweetheart of one Tommy Doyle.
Now Doyle is only the toughest boss in Gotham at the time.
Instead of keepin' his fling on the Q.
T.
, Joker practically announces it to the world.
We all figure he's nuts! Joker lays low for about a month, when one freezin' cold night he insists on draggin' Debbie out to a new club.
Somehow or other Deb's mink gets pinched, so our boy gallantly bundles up the lady in his own hat and coat to wear back to his place.
Naturally Tommy is waitin' there for the Joker.
Poor dumb Tommy.
He's still starin' down in shock at Debbie as the cops pull him away.
Before you know what Tommy's on death row and Laughin' Boy is runnin' his mob.
Like I said, the guy was smart.
Once Joker took over Doyle's territory, he was careful to keep himself a step back from the dirty work.
He was smart enough to hire the slickest mouthpieces and they always got him off.
Even though the boss was now able to keep himself clean, he missed the thrill of the early days.
So he came up with a disguise.
A big metal hood, kind of like two-way infrared glasses.
He could see out, but no one could see in.
Then one night we planned to hit the payroll at the monarch playing card company.
The Bat got wind of it and was waiting for us.
Knowing it would be all over if he was unmasked, the boss took the only way out.
He dove into the chemical vat, swam through the waste drain and escaped down the river.
Once again the boss had got away clean.
Gone was the gangster's anonymity and with it the cruelly fun, largely effortless way he run his usurped empire.
He had a new mission now.
Just as Batman adopted a fearsome image to wage war on crime, the Joker would hide behind a mask of madness.
It was the physician's opinion that the Joker chose to enact his vendetta against Batman in ways that seemed irrational, but were in fact meticulously researched and brilliantly orchestrated.
I agree with this doctor's final summation that the Joker should be retried as mentally competent declared sane, sent to state prison and executed.
Harleen, how do you know what's in this file? It's mine, silly! I started compiling those theories when I first interned here.
Back then I thought I knew all the answers.
But it wasn't until I started doing personal sessions with Mr.
J that I discovered how complex he is.
Here, Ahmet.
Lock it away or burn it.
I don't care which.
You don't believe it? Every word.
Sure as I believe he left that file just where we would someday find it.
He knew it would never stand up in court.
Allows us a moment of hope before yanking the rug out from under us.
Whether he is truly sane or not, I'm afraid there's only one certainty with the Joker that applies to us.
HE'S BACK.