Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

House & Garden (1994)

Diane Pershing: Poison Ivy

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Quotes 

• Robin : Lady, you're nuts!

  Poison Ivy : Well, that's your opinion. Probably the last one you'll ever have, too.

• Dr. Steven Carlyle : I was her doctor at Arkham. She said she wanted to reform. I trusted her, let her get too close.

  Poison Ivy : One little kiss, and dear Steven was my slave. He was useful in signing my release papers, and for supplying certain raw materials for my experiments. But the marriage was, well, a fake.

  Batman : And these mutations?

  Poison Ivy : Our children, Batman. Plant-based lifeforms enhanced with Steven's DNA. They're not truly human. In fact, their life spans are somewhat like certain rare flowers that blossom and die in a few days.

  Batman : I see. At first it looks like a child. Then it resembles Dr. Carlyle. And in its final phase...

  Poison Ivy : In its final phase before it burns itself out, the creature becomes my willing enforcer and bodyguard.

  Batman : Thief and kidnapper is more like it.

  Poison Ivy : It costs money to raise a family.

  Batman : You haven't changed a bit.

  Poison Ivy : Yes, I have. I meant it when I said I wanted a family that loves me. I just wanted it on my own terms.

• Dr. Pamela Isley : There are laws against spying on people.

  Batman : There are laws against poisoning them, too.

  Dr. Pamela Isley : Look around, Batman. I've got a nice house, a little garden, and a family that loves me. Why would I jeopardize that? For the first time in my life, I'm happy.

  Batman : I'm beginning to think you're right.

  Dr. Pamela Isley : [he turns to leave]  Batman? Good luck.

  Batman : You, too, Mrs. Carlyle.

• Batman : I figured whatever you were up to involved plants, so I pumped your water tanks with herbicide.

  Poison Ivy : What was the tip-off, Batman? Steven's kids?

  Batman : You couldn't replicate them as girls. Not with Carlyle's DNA. So you took your chance with boys.

• Chris Carlyle : Mom! Dad! The Batmobile's outside!

  Kelly Carlyle : It is! It is! We saw it!

  [seeing Batman] 

  Kelly Carlyle , Chris Carlyle : Whoa.

  Chris Carlyle : Cool. Batman's really here.

  Kelly Carlyle : Mommy, you didn't tell us you know Batman.

  Dr. Pamela Isley : Mm-hmm. That was a long time ago, sweetie.

• Batman : Someone is poisoning and robbing wealthy young men. As painful as it sounds, all clues point to your wife.

  Dr. Steven Carlyle : That's outrageous. Pamela hasn't...

  Dr. Pamela Isley : Darling, please. Batman, I don't doubt that I was your first and probably only suspect. Over the years, you and I have had a rather intense relationship. But that's all in the past. Believe me, I look back on what I was, and I shudder. Locked away in Arkham with the obsessed and the insane, and me just as lost as any of them. And then I met Steven. His love and guidance brought me into the light again.