- Talia: Oh, beloved, why has he forsaken me? Does he think I've betrayed him?
- Bruce Wayne: I can't pretend to know what Ra's thinks, Talia. The only thing he and I have ever agreed upon is our feelings towards you.
- Lucius Fox: Without a doubt, this will be one of the best museum exhibitions Gotham City has ever seen. You can be quite the humanitarian on occasion, Bruce. It's commendable. It's inspiring.
- Bruce Wayne: It's deductible.
- Ra's al Ghul: You could have been my successor, Detective. Instead you will suffer the fate of all mortal flesh.
- Batman: What could be in that tomb that's more valuable than the love of your daughter?
- Ra's al Ghul: Power, Detective. The power once held by almighty Thoth Kephera, queen of continents.
- Ra's al Ghul: Farewell, Talia. It's said that one finds immortality in one's offspring. Alas, I know that to be a lie.
- Talia: The completed scroll?
- Bruce Wayne: Yes, and a translation made by Ra's.
- Ra's al Ghul: Did you really think I would be foolish enough not to have this sanctum under observation?
- Talia: Father. You really are alive.
- Ra's al Ghul: Yes, Talia, I am alive. No thanks, I regret to say, are due you for my current state of health.
- Talia: No, Father. You can't believe that. I only tried to save the man I love.
- Bruce Wayne: You've got a serious priority problem, Ra's.
- Bruce Wayne: Talia, I'll do whatever I have to to stop him. You must know that.
- Talia: I do, and though it breaks my heart, I will do what I must, as well.
- Talia: My father, alive?
- Bruce Wayne: It was dear old dad. No mistake.
- Talia: No, he would have found me. He would have told me he was alive.
- Bruce Wayne: I know the face of my most powerful enemy, Talia. He took quite a risk stealing that scroll from me. Why does he want it so badly?
- Talia: It's part of a map. My father has the other half. As long as I can remember, he's been obsessed with finding...
- Bruce Wayne: Finding what?
- Talia: The tomb of the ancient queen Thoth Khepera. It lies somewhere in the Canyon of Tombs. Many who've sought it have vanished.
- Bruce Wayne: And why does Ra's seek it?
- Talia: I don't know. You must believe me.
- Bruce Wayne: I have to go after him, Talia. Will you help me?
- Ra's al Ghul: My apologies to you, daughter. Though I had abandoned you in my heart, obviously, you had not done the same.
- Talia: [turning to ride alongside Batman] What will you do now?
- Batman: Take them back to the authorities. Your father has much to answer for.
- Talia: [cocking a pistol] I am truly sorry, beloved, but he is my father. Please dismount.
- [he does so; rejoining Ra's, she cuts his restraints]
- Ra's al Ghul: Another time, Detective.
- Batman: [as they ride off, Ubu tosses him a water canteen] Yes. Another time.
- Ra's al Ghul: I am called Ra's al Ghul. I have searched for you for over 500 years. Tell me your secrets. Grant me the powers of the gods that legend says you possessed.
- Thoth Khepera: That knowledge can be yours if you join us. Come forward, Ra's al Ghul. Come and know the mysteries of life and death.
- Batman: The queen's sarcophagus.
- Ra's al Ghul: It's not what it seems, Detective.
- Talia: Father!
- Ra's al Ghul: That chest contains more than a mummy's corpse. Remember, Thoth Khepera was immortal. Her subjects deified her, named her after the ancient gods of infinite knowledge and eternal life, and in a few short moments, I will be privy to those same secrets of life and death.
- Bruce Wayne: You surprise me, Ra's. The world's oldest chauvinist chasing after a woman?
- Ra's al Ghul: Thoth Khepera was not simply a woman, Detective, nor merely a ruler. Through her flowed the power of the gods. With no more than a gesture, she controlled the force of life and death, and with it, she kept a nation under her thumb for 1,000 years.
- Bruce Wayne: You sound like a bad Saturday afternoon serial, Ra's. This is sheer nonsense.
- Ra's al Ghul: No, Detective. I know there is a power there to be tapped. My 600 years of life are proof of that power.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Snake venom?
- Batman: From an Egyptian cobra. Extremely deadly.
- Alfred Pennyworth: You're certain it was Ra's al Ghul.
- Batman: None other.
- Alfred Pennyworth: But I thought he died in the Pit months ago.
- Batman: So did I. That piece of papyrus is obviously very important to him. I have to find out why.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Where are you off to now? Just in case the stockholders ask.
- Batman: Gibraltar. There's someone I've been meaning to look up.
- Thoth Khepera: I am Thoth Khepera. Those who have joined me share their knowledge with me. We are legion.