Of course. Try again. [As if he's going to believe that. Still making notes to reinforce his encryptions. Also hacking and overwriting Damian's in his whole conversation with Kon, because he can and because Kon is an idiot and mentioning his name in public again. :/]

Based on Bruce's blueprints. And that's not what I'm talking about.

You don't believe anything I say so I don't know why I even bother trying.

I could have built it off of my own blueprints, but I wanted to finish what he started. What about the financial "error" I found at Wayne Industries? I did that without outside help.

Then do enlighten me. What are you talking about?

Damian, you may be good, but I know you aren't that good. Unless you started to hack on Oracle's level overnight, you couldn't gotten through more than the first layer of my encryptions in that time frame.

You seem to keep expecting expect to gain everything without earning it. Or that you can earn it with your mere presence. But as much as I hate to break it, that's not how the real world works.

Fine. It took me an hour and a half. Happy?

I am trying! I've done everything Dick's asked of me, and you for that matter! It's never good enough.

Whatever. [He's pretty sure that it had taken several hours. But it's not like he's the petty one and there were other arguments he could save his breath for.]

Really. Even if you did, do you actually understand why we do things the way we do them? Have you tried that? Because looking at your stunt with the Joker, I don't see that much of a difference to what you did to the Spook.

I didn't know you didn't kill when I decapitated the Spook. Mother said-- [And the light bulb goes off. Now he's just annoyed at himself for falling into his mother's trap than anything.]

The Joker's different. He can't be saved, Drake. He's a monster, clear and simple. I wasn't going after Catwoman, Two-Face, or even that new Black Mask running around. This is the Joker we're talking about here. He will break out of Arkham again, and he will kill again. Like I said to Todd, if you cut out his tongue he'll just find out another way to communicate. You have to take out his brain to take out the threat. He'll still be alive. Your precious rules will still be in place. Someone will just have to mop up his drool at the end of the day, and he can never hurt anyone ever again.