Ben McKenzie: James Gordon

Mad City: Look Into My Eyes

James Gordon

[Jim Gordon tells Valerie Vale that he can try to make his apartment a little nicer]
James Gordon: Well, I'm collecting my bounty from the GCPD today, so, uh, I can stop on my way home, make things a little... nicer.
Valerie Vale: Yeah, good luck with that.

[Jim Gordon offers Valerie Vale breakfast and a shower]
James Gordon: You want some breakfast? There's a place around the corner.
Valerie Vale: Pass. I have to be at City Hall in an hour. I have to go home and shower.
James Gordon: I have a shower.
Valerie Vale: No, you have a dark hole in the wall with no water pressure and one damp towel.

[Jim Gordon meets Leslie Thompkins' fiancé Mario Falcone in the ER]
Mario Falcone: [Mario stitches Gordon's head] Look, Jim, I don't know where your head's at with all this, but I want you to know that I love her very much. I'm gonna take good care of her.
James Gordon: [Gordon pauses] Good to know.
Mario Falcone: So we're okay?
James Gordon: Yeah. Sure. Why wouldn't we be? Lee and I are old news, water under the bridge. Won't get any problem from me. Uh... wish you both nothing but the best.
Mario Falcone: Thank you. All done.
James Gordon: But, uh... you ever were to hurt her, I'd have to hunt you down and kill you.

[the Mad Hatter hypnotizes Jim Gordon]
Mad Hatter: Do you hear my watch ticking?
James Gordon: [the watch ticks] Yeah.
Mad Hatter: Listen closer. The ticking, it synchronizes with your heartbeat, yes?
Mad Hatter: [the watch ticks slower] Look into my eyes. Not above them, or around them, into their center. Are you asleep, Jim?
James Gordon: Yes.
Mad Hatter: Show me. Take out your gun and put it on the ground.
Mad Hatter: [Gordon puts his gun down] Good. Now walk to the edge and climb onto the wall. Been such a long, hard road for you, Jim Gordon. You are so very tired of life, aren't you?
James Gordon: Yes.
Mad Hatter: [as Gordon climbs outside the ledge of the building] Now you can rest, Jim. Close your eyes. Sleep forever.

[the Mad Hatter hires Jim Gordon to find his sister Alice]
Mad Hatter: I want you to find my sister. We're very close. We lost our parents at an early age. I became her guardian. But her condition proved too much for me. I sought help. The worst kind. The fiend, Professor Strange.
James Gordon: Her condition?
Mad Hatter: Some poison in her blood. Very rare. Unique, in fact. He took her in. Said she needed constant supervision. He wouldn't let me see her.
James Gordon: You go to the police?
Mad Hatter: Useless. This is Gotham after all. The years passed and I lost hope. But then I heard about the breakout. I assumed she escaped with others. But now she is out there. Alone. Afraid.