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Jada Pinkett Smith, BD Wong, Donal Logue, Victor Pagan, Ben McKenzie, Bianca Rutigliano, and Michael Lorz in Gotham (2014)

Ben McKenzie: James Gordon

Mad City: Burn the Witch

Gotham

Ben McKenzie credited as playing...

James Gordon

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  • [Valerie Vale shows up at Jim Gordon's front door]
  • Valerie Vale: Morning. Surprised to see me?
  • James Gordon: Not really. What do you want?
  • Valerie Vale: I have a proposition.
  • James Gordon: Not interested.
  • Valerie Vale: Oh, come on. Think of it as a way to say 'I'm sorry for handcuffing you to a car door.'
  • James Gordon: Except I'm not.
  • [Valerie Vale asks for Jim Gordon's help to get the story]
  • James Gordon: What's in it for you?
  • Valerie Vale: A story.
  • James Gordon: That's it?
  • Valerie Vale: It shocks you that I love my job and I want to be good at it?
  • James Gordon: Kinda. Why not just bring her in yourself? Why give me a million dollars?
  • Valerie Vale: Because I'm a bigger person than you. And... because I couldn't find her.
  • [Jim Gordon walks into Barbara Kean's bar]
  • Barbara Kean: [Barb smiles uncontrollably] Oh... my... God.
  • James Gordon: Hello, Barbara.
  • Barbara Kean: 'Hello, Barbara'? Is that all I get?
  • James Gordon: [Gordon hesitates] How you been?
  • Barbara Kean: [Barbara smiles] Oh. How've I been? Well, see for yourself. I mean, it's no art gallery, but there's less chance of me dying of boredom.
  • [Barbara Kean meets Valerie Vale]
  • Barbara Kean: How's Lee?
  • James Gordon: We're not together.
  • Barbara Kean: No. I thought by now you would've chased her down, put a ring on it. Did you dump her? Oh, I bet you dumped her, didn't you? You're such a heartbreaker.
  • Valerie Vale: I feel like I walked into something.
  • Barbara Kean: [Barb turns to Valerie] 'Cause you did. Who are you?
  • Valerie Vale: Valerie Vale. I work for The Gazette. We're working on a project.
  • Barbara Kean: [Barb whispers] I bet. She your new girlfriend?
  • James Gordon: No.
  • Valerie Vale: No.
  • [Barb chuckles]
  • [Barbara Kean offers Selina Kyle's whereabouts to Jim Gordon but only for a kiss]
  • James Gordon: Selina, have you seen her?
  • Barbara Kean: [Barb leans into Jim Gordon] A kiss. That's my price.
  • Valerie Vale: Is she serious? Are-are you serious?
  • Valerie Vale: [Valerie whispers behind Gordon] Do it.
  • James Gordon: [Gordon pauses before backing away] Never mind.
  • Barbara Kean: [Barb sighs] You're honestly no fun.
  • [Barbara Kean tells Jim Gordon that she had a dream about him]
  • Barbara Kean: Jim. I had a dream about you the other night. You were in this horrible accident, and you lost both of your legs, and then I had to push you around in a giant baby carriage.
  • James Gordon: Good seeing you, Barbara.
  • [Valerie Vale locks Jim Gordon out of the car]
  • James Gordon: Hey. Open the door.
  • Valerie Vale: You should've let me come to find Peabody.
  • James Gordon: Vale!
  • Valerie Vale: And, you know what, I like your ex.
  • [Valerie drives off without Gordon]
  • [Valerie Vale tells Jim Gordon that they're even after both successfully ditching each other]
  • Valerie Vale: Can we call this even? You got me. I got you. It's over. Let me buy you a drink.
  • James Gordon: Yeah... it's over when I get Fish. You can read about it.
  • [Jim Gordon tells Captain Barnes that they can't reach Harvey Bullock]
  • James Gordon: Harvey isn't answering his phone. Nobody knows where he is.
  • Captain Nathaniel Barnes: Well, you could start by looking in every place in Gotham that serves booze.
  • [Jim Gordon walks up to Harvey Bullock as a second hostage]
  • Harvey Bullock: Jim, what the hell are you doing here?
  • James Gordon: Saving you; I thought that was obvious.
  • Harvey Bullock: Oh, yeah. Totally. Thank you.
  • [Jim Gordon tells Fish Mooney that he showed up to the mansion alone to save Bullock]
  • James Gordon: I'm here on my own. I only want Bullock.
  • Fish Mooney: Really? You'd risk your life for this broken down old thing?
  • Harvey Bullock: Thanks.
  • James Gordon: He'd do the same for me.
  • Harvey Bullock: I would, it's true.
  • Fish Mooney: Well, you've helped me, 'cause now I have two hostages.
  • James Gordon: Barnes won't see it that way. Hell, you kill me, he'll probably thank you. I've been nothing but a pain in the ass to him.
  • Harvey Bullock: Also true.
  • [Penguin receives a phone call from Jim Gordon]
  • Oswald Cobblepot: [Penguin smiles] Jim, you just keep surprising me.
  • James Gordon: [Gordon on the other end] Shut up.
  • [Jim Gordon looks to the pile of dead monsters being burned]
  • James Gordon: Tell Barnes something, would you?
  • James Gordon: [Harvey Bullock nods his head] I'm going home.
  • [Valerie Vale questions Jim Gordon about him being the one to let Fish Mooney escape]
  • Valerie Vale: You promised to help Fish escape, but you did it by double-crossing her and delivering her to Penguin.
  • James Gordon: If that were so, I'd be a millionaire by now.
  • Valerie Vale: Except Fish isn't dead. Penguin would've dragged her in front of the mob if she was.
  • [last lines]
  • Valerie Vale: [Jim Gordon tells Valerie Vale to shut up for once] Who the hell are you, Jim Gordon?
  • James Gordon: [Gordon slowly walks up to Valerie's face] Wait...
  • James Gordon: Shut up for once.
  • [when Gordon kisses Valerie on the lips]

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