Gotham (TV Series)

Wrath of the Villains: Azrael (2016)

BD Wong: Hugo Strange

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Quotes 

• [Hugo Strange and Ms. Peabody watch over Theo Galavan's condition] 

  Hugo Strange : Strong as an ox, fast as a snake.

  Ethel Peabody : Mad as a hatter. There's not much use bringing back the dead if they come back crazy.

  Hugo Strange : Oh, he's not crazy. He just doesn't know who he is.

• [first lines] 

  Theo Galavan : [Theo Galavan claws at the wall talking to himself]  Rally to me. Rally to me. St. Dumas will deliver us. Dumas will deliver us. Rally. Heathens. And Dumas will protect us. Heathens, idolaters, Spawn of Satan, prepare to die! No. No. No, don't. Please. Sister? Speak to me, please. Please speak to me. Who are you? Huh? Who are you?

  Ethel Peabody : [as Ms. Peabody and Hugo Strange watch from behind the glass]  Has there been any improvement since he woke up yesterday?

  Hugo Strange : No. But he's wonderful, isn't he?

• [Jim Gordon asks Hugo Strange about Pinewood Farms] 

  Hugo Strange : Pinewood Farms was started by Thomas Wayne in an attempt to cure humanity's greatest ailments on the genetic level - Old age, disease, even death.

  James Gordon : But that's not what happened, is it? Karen said the program tried to play God, and you ended up creating monsters.

  Hugo Strange : I was just a researcher with no knowledge of that until it was too late.

  James Gordon : A man of your skill and expertise a lowly researcher. Find that hard to believe.

  Hugo Strange : [Hugo Strange smiles]  But it's true. Mr. Wayne excelled at compartmentalizing every aspect of his life. Within Pinewood, the left hand often didn't know what the right hand was doing.

• [Hugo Strange asks Jim Gordon during their interview why is he there] 

  Hugo Strange : Why are you really here, Mr. Gordon?

  James Gordon : Excuse me?

  Hugo Strange : This whole city has turned its back on you, despite you risking your life to save it over and over again.

  James Gordon : I'm not here for a therapy session, Professor.

  Hugo Strange : No. It's more like an interrogation by a man who's no longer a police officer. Who no longer has the right to demand answers. The only reason you're sitting in that chair is because I allow it. So let me ask you, why... are... you... here?

• [Hugo Strange tells Jim Gordon he's lost everything and calls him a liar] 

  Hugo Strange : You've lost everything. You're trying to make up for the sins of your past, and you believe that this case will somehow bring about your own personal redemption.

  James Gordon : No.

  Hugo Strange : You're not doing this for your client. You're doing this for yourself.

  James Gordon : You're wrong.

  Hugo Strange : [Hugo Strange smiles]  You just exhibited several tells - facial ticks expressions and eye movements that people involuntarily betray themselves with when they lie.

• [Jim Gordon asks Hugo Strange where Victor Fries' body is and calls him a liar] 

  James Gordon : This is a court order signed by District Attorney Dent to exhume Fries' body. Where is it buried?

  Hugo Strange : [Hugo Strange smiles]  He was cremated.

  James Gordon : Thank you.

  Hugo Strange : For what?

  James Gordon : I can read tells, too. You're lying. I needed to be sure you were behind all this, and now I am.

  [as Gordon walks out, Hugo Strange opens the empty envelope Gordon carried] 

• [Edward Nygma tells Hugo Strange that everyone has a story] 

  Edward Nygma : Everyone has a story, and they just want to be listened to. My God! I should be the shrink!

  Hugo Strange : [Nygma laughs]  What did you say?

  Edward Nygma : I'm sorry. Was that too far?

  Hugo Strange : Everybody has a story.

• [Hugo Strange gives the reanimated Theo Galavan the name of Azrael] 

  Hugo Strange : I am your father and your lord. And he who has another birth, brought forth from the cold grasp of death shall rise again and serve my Order. I say this, and it becomes. And I will give him the name of...

  Theo Galavan : Azrael!

• [Hugo Strange tells Ms. Peabody the story of the knight Azrael] 

  Hugo Strange : He's Azrael now. A fabled 12th century knight who died for the cause of his feudal Lord, Adam Dumas. This Dumas character was made a saint, performed a lot of miracles and so forth. And one of the miracles was bringing Azrael back to life.

  Ethel Peabody : I still prefer Thorazine.

  Hugo Strange : You need to learn to work with what you have, Ms. Peabody.

• [Hugo Strange reads out of the book 'Alice in Wonderland' for more persona exploration] 

  Hugo Strange : 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat: 'We're all mad here.'

  Hugo Strange : [Hugo smiles before laughing]  Oh, yes. Yes, that will do nicely!

• Hugo Strange : I have it, Peabody. I have the cure for our prize patient.

  Ethel Peabody : Do tell.

  Hugo Strange : What is an identity? What is a sense of self? It is a story that we humans tell ourselves. We have got to give him a great, heroic story.

  Ethel Peabody : We need to give him a good heroic dose of Thorazine, but you're the boss.

• Hugo Strange : [referring to Helzinger who is wandering the room]  That is a demon. He lives in fire. That case will give you everything you need to destroy him!

  Azrael : [picks up the case and hits Helzinger with it] 

  Hugo Strange : Not exactly what I had in mind, but good enough. Try opening the chest, my son.