Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Zatanna (1993)

Kevin Conroy: Batman, Bruce Wayne

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Quotes 

• [as Zatanna appears on stage, Bruce and Alfred are in the audience] 

  Alfred Pennyworth : How long has it been? Ten years, twelve?

  Bruce Wayne : And a whole other lifetime.

  Alfred Pennyworth : She and her father were very fond of you.

  Bruce Wayne : I was a different person then.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Yes. Intense, driven, moody... she'd never recognize you now.

  [Bruce gives him a look] 

• Zatanna : Here, pick a card. I'll tell your future.

  [Bruce does] 

  Zatanna : Hmm, I see intrigue, danger... two of hearts.

  Bruce Wayne : [looks]  Joker.

  Zatanna : Oh, it's a dumb trick anyway!

• Zatanna : [puts a hand to his mask]  What happened to you that made you put this on?

  Batman : A painful memory and a promise.

  Zatanna : I'd say you're keeping that promise pretty well. And for what it's worth, Dad would have been proud of you tonight.

• Zatanna : You never wrote.

  Batman : I meant to, really...

  Zatanna : Hey, it's okay. I can see you've been busy.

• John Zatara : You have the makings of a great magician. I'm truly sorry you have to leave us.

  Bruce Wayne : Me, too. It was an honor to study with you, Zatara.

  John Zatara : But to what end? Three months ago you showed up on my doorstep, with no interest in performing, and yet dying to become an escape artist...

  [laughs] 

  John Zatara : And for some reason, I ended up teaching you secrets I've never shared with another magician.

  Bruce Wayne : You could have sent me away.

  John Zatara : No. There was something inside you I had no right to deny. Something deep, and painful.

• Zatanna Zatara : Nice car.

  Batman : Thanks.

  Zatanna Zatara : You know, I didn't love the idea of spending the night in jail, but this does technically make me a fugitive. I believe I'm looking at some prison time now.

  Batman : I heard about the mint robbery. I can help prove you didn't do it.

• Zatanna Zatara : Only another magician would've known how to rig that trick.

  Batman : Or someone who knows their methods. Like Montague Kane.

  Zatanna Zatara : He's been ripping off illusionists for years. I thought I finally had a trick even he couldn't expose. Wrong.

  Batman : I'll settle with Kane. Meantime, I'd better drop you someplace safe.

  Zatanna Zatara : Oh, no. Kane played me for a sap, and I'll see him go down for it.

  Batman : All right. But it could be dangerous. You're sure there's no one you want to call first? Uh, friends, family, a husband, maybe?

  Zatanna Zatara : Me? Who's got time for a relationship when you're pulling rabbits out of a hat 52 weeks a year?

• Zatanna : [Batman rappels down into the mint with Zatanna]  This place is surrounded by cops!

  Batman : Just relax.

  Zatanna : [Points to where Batman is looking]  That's where the money was.

  [Turns to walk in the opposite direction; broken glass is heard. Batman and Zatanna look at her feet, where there is broken glass and scrape marks on the floor] 

  Batman : Look, this line was recently scraped into the floor. Whatever made it left shards of glass too.

  Zatanna : [Examines a piece]  That would've been one mighty big piece of glass... Or mirror!

  Batman : Like the one you used to reflect the hologram of the vanished mint.

  Zatanna : Oh, sure, take all the mystery out of life.

• Bruce Wayne : I don't know the future, but I know I'll see you again someday, Zanna.

  Zatanna Zatara : You're the only one who ever calls me Zanna. I really hate it.

  [he turns to leave] 

  Zatanna Zatara : No goodbye hug?

  [putting his arms around her] 

  Zatanna Zatara : See? It's not so bad.

  Bruce Wayne : I'll write you.

  Zatanna Zatara : No, you won't.

  Bruce Wayne : I promise.

  Zatanna Zatara : You can't. I locked your hands to the wall.

  Bruce Wayne : What?

  Zatanna Zatara : Looks like someone's missing their plane tomorrow. But, hey, if you were any kind of escape artist, you'd be out of those cuffs and through the door by now.

  [seeing he's gone] 

  Zatanna Zatara : Now you see him, now you don't.

• Batman : I think the money was stolen before you got here. The thief reflected a hologram of the cash while you did your trick, then quickly hid the mirror when it was over.

  Zatanna Zatara : How'd he get rid of a mirror that big?

  Batman : He didn't. It's still here.

• Dr. Montague Kane : Take a last longing look, gentlemen. We're heading to a place where the climate is warmer, the people are friendlier, and the extradition laws are nonexistent.

  Batman : The only place you're heading is to a prison cell.

  Dr. Montague Kane : Well done, Batman. You not only eluded my trap, but solved my clue as well.

  [to his thugs] 

  Dr. Montague Kane : Get rid of him.

• Dr. Montague Kane : With all reverence for the departed, Zatara himself couldn't escape those locks. Still, between the two of you, you might be able to loosen a few chains before you hit the water.

  Batman : Take my hand.

  Zatanna Zatara : Scared? That makes two of us.

  Batman : Trust me, Zanna.

  Zatanna Zatara : [surprised]  Zanna?