Episode #082 - Lock-Up
Original Airdate - November 19th, 1994
Several Arkham inmates lodge complaints against Lyle Bolton, the
Asylum's sadistic new chief of security. When Bolton is fired, he vows
revenge on societies' true lunatics, the officials whose policies have
turned Gotham City into a haven for crime. Taking on the new
identity of master jailer Lock-Up, Bolton kidnaps several prominent
Gothamites and locks them away on an abandoned prison ship. It's up to
Batman and Robin to confront Lock-Up and battle him for the lives of
those he's wrongfully imprisoned.
Screens by Bleu Unicorn
Pans by Bird Boy
Review by Robin III |
Credits
Story by Paul Dini
Teleplay by Marty Isenberg, Robert N. Skir
Directed by Dan Riba
Music Composed by Kristopher Carter, Brian Langsbard
Animation by Dong Yang Animation, Inc.
Voices
Kevin Conroy as Batman
Loren Lester as Robin
Robert Costanzo as Detective Bullock
Bob Hastings as Commissioner Gordon
Lloyd Bochner as Mayor Hamilton Hill
Mari Devon as Summer Gleeson
Richard Dysart as Dr. Bartholomew
George Dzundza as Ventriloquist / Scarface
Henry Polic II as Scarecrow
Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn
Bruce Weitz as Lock-Up |
Screen Grabs
Pans
Quotes
SCARECROW: Don't take me back there, please! Look at me,
Batman! I'm shaking with fear! Me! The Scarecrow! I wasn't even going
back to crime this time! I just had to get away from. . . him!
BATMAN, ROBIN AND SCARECROW LOOK AT THE END OF THE HALL WHERE LYLE
BOLTON'S HULKING BODY STANDS IN THE SHADOWS.
BOLTON: I'll take it from here, Batman. Lyle Bolton, Chief of security.
Congratulations, Professor Crane. You're the first inmate to escape
Arkham under my charge.
HE GRABS SCARECROW BY THE COLLAR AND LIFTS HIM UP. SCARECROW WHIMPERS.
BOLTON: You're also the last.
BATMAN AND ROBIN ARE SHOCKED.
BOLTON: I won't let you and the people of Gotham City down again,
Batman. Heh heh.
SCARECROW LOOKS AT BATMAN AND ROBIN ONE LAST TIME BEFORE HE'S DRAGGED BY
BOLTON AWAY.
--
BARTHOLOMEW: Ms. Quinn? Do you have any complaints against Mr. Bolton.
SHE LOOKS AT BOLTON WHO SNEERS BACK AT HER.
HARLEY (cautious): I got nothin' to say.
BARTHOLOMEW: But surely you must have something you wish to--
HARLEY: You got a hearing problem, or something? NO! NADA! IXNAY! ZERO!
ZILCH! BUPKE! NOTHING! OKAY?
BARTHOLOMEW: It's all right. I promise, you can speak freely here.
VENTRILOQUIST AND SCARFACE LOOK TOWARDS BOLTON WHO SNEERS AGAIN. THEY
BOTH GULP HARD.
VENTRILOQUIST: Mr. Bolton. . . he's a--
SCARFACE: A hard worker. A real stand-up guy. No complaints here chief.
BARTHOLOMEW: Professor Crane, you've been sitting here for ten minutes.
Don't you have anything to say?
CRANE: No, sir.
BRUCE LOOKS INQUISITIVELY AT CRANE:
BOLTON: And yet yours was the loudest voice of protests. You must have
some misgivings about my methods.
BRUCE THINKS.
SCARECROW: It seems I was mistaken.
BRUCE: Well, then. Based on today's testimony, I propose extending Mr.
Bolton's contract for an additional eighteen months.
THE VILLAINS GASP.
VENTRILOQUIST: No, you can't! You don't know what he's doing to us!
SCARFACE: Shaddup! Don't listen to jerk-face here! He don't know what
he's saying!
HARLEY: No! It's all true! If we don't speak up now we'll never get
another chance! He threatens us! Takes away our privileges, even when
we're good!
BOLTON: We've heard enough of this nonsense.
CRANE: He says scum like us must be kept in line; that's why he chains
us down at night and electrifies our doors!
SCARFACE: He held me over a can filled with termites! Ya hear me?
Termites!
HARLEY: He's an animal!
VENTRILOQUIST: A monster!
CRANE: Keep him away!
BOLTON: Shut up! All of you!
BOLTON IS RESTRAINED BUT HE ATTACKS THE GUARDS AND GETS AWAY. BRUCE
KNOCKS OVER A CHAIR AND BOLTON TRIPS OVER IT. HE IS RESTRAINED AGAIN.
BOLTON: You're all scum! You should be beaten within an inch of you
misbegotten lives!
BARTHOLOMEW: I've seen enough! Lyle Bolton, you're dismissed!
BOLTON: Before I came here, Arkham was a revolving door of every maniac
in Gotham. I kept them in. Me! Now I realize I was wrong to punish THOSE
PATHETIC MISCREANTS! THEY'RE ONLY SYMPTOMS! YOU'RE THE CAUSE! THE
GUTLESS POLICE, MINDLESS BUREAUCRATS, AND CODLING DOCTORS! YOU SHOULD
ALL BE LOCKED UP IN A CAGE WITHOUT A KEY!
--
BULLOCK: Just what this town needs, another psycho in a Halloween
costume.
--
ROBIN: Another fine villain made possible by a grant from the Wayne
Foundation.
BATMAN GLARES OVER HIS SHOULDER.
ROBIN: Only kidding.
--
BATMAN RUNS AFTER LOCK-UP'S TRUCK. HE THEN HEADS TO THE BATMOBILE, BUT
CAN'T USE IT DUE TO A BOOT ON THE WHEEL.
ROBIN: Forget to pay a parking ticket?
--
LOCK-UP: I was working with you, Batman! You apprehend the scum of the
Earth and I kept them locked away!
BATMAN: I've seen how you treat your prisoners. Forgotten and scared.
Without hope or compassion.
LOCK-UP: Can it be you actually care for those creatures? You're just as
crazy as they are! We could have rid Gotham of the fools in City Hall
and the Police Department! We could have made our own order!
BATMAN: I was born to fight your brand of order.
--
HARLEY: Hey, look guys! The big shot's back!
EVERYONE IN ARKHAM IS LAUGHING SCREAMING AND TORMENTING BOLTON.
CRANE: Now you shall learn new lessons in fear!
BOLTON IS LOCKED IN HIS CELL.
BOLTON: They thought they could trap me in a world with lunatics, but I
showed them! Now I can keep an eye on everyone. They'll never slip past
me again. . .
Review: A brilliant idea for a
one-time villain. The whole idea of a twisted jailer was great for the
rogues gallery of Batman. The best scene in this episode, maybe one of
the best in the series (transcript above) is when Harley Quinn,
Ventriloquist, Scarface and Scarecrow cannot confess to the actions of
Bolton until Bruce decides to give Bolton a longer term in Arkham as
their jailer. That's when the villains go nuts and protest. The best
part is Bolton's ranting at the ending of that scene, some of the
greatest voice work of the series.
The animation was the standard of Adventures of Batman & Robin. Before
the commercial though, Lock-Up's mark was covering his mouth and it
could not be visible. After the break though, it changes to show
Bolton's mouth in black. As to why the mask changed, who knows, but the
latter of the two looked more grimacing and evil.
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