This city, the law, the crime here, they’re all twisted up at each other like a maze. I came here to be a cop. This city needs something else.
The only crime in a war is to lose.
Crime unpunished is a crime in itself.
When dealing with the crime, the evidence tells you how. The psychology tells you why.
Thieves stealing from thieves is a victimless crime.
Our job is simple: break the code, solve the crime.
You can’t have organized crime without law and order.
When you put a dead judge, the Gerhardt family, and some hitters from Kansas in a bag together, I go back to thinking it might be best just to confess to the crime myself, go live a long life in a cell somewhere with hot and cold running water.
Sometimes you have the chance to make the right person pay, even if it’s for the wrong crime.
It’s not your own sins that hold you, haunting the earth and wandering in limbo. It’s the crimes others done to you.
Gotham is rife with crime, Butch. Who better than a criminal to clean it up?
Crime exists contingent on human desire.