Joker: Tell me, my dear, have you ever had a really...bad...day? (Looks to Harleen) You of all people should know. There's nothing so cruel as memory. The pointy, bitey little thunderbolts. Unwanted party crashers, screamers through your synapses. Inescapable, unrelenting...not at all friendly. You can't even escape into madness! And then you meet someone who changes your life. And you feel that you don't even know who you are any more! Isn't it funny how one little encounter can cleave off little pieces of your past, deform your memories and persona until you rethink your whole identity — and as you realise how foolish it all is — your laughter reverberates off the walls of your own emptiness. (Laughs awhile, Pauses, thinking) You want to know something funny? I used to think of fate as something evil — predetermined — not by some higher power but by the rules of human nature. But tonight, that's all changed. (Pause, Laughter)Have you ever had the feeling that your entire life has been building towards this one moment? (Laughs) Now I realise that all the battles, the bad days, the brutalities - it was all the hand of Fate at work. Absolutely.... Now I understand. There are no chance encounters. It was all meant to be. Everything leading up to who I've met tonight! Yes... Meeting someone special! And you might say it's changed everything... Absolutely! I mean, do you realise what a vile world we live in? How lonely it is to wade through all the wretch and filth on your own? Of course! Of course! You understand! Even in a crowd of other screwballs, you're so alone that you can kick, claw, yell, scream at the top of your lungs — and no one cares. It's like you don't even exist! I feel... I feel adrift — floating — like someone's pulled the stopper on my reality and I'm sucked down the drain into something new. It's all very exciting really. (laughs) You wouldn't know what that feels like, I'm sure. It's like meeting someone I can actually relate to — which...