I realize that losing the power of speech is an awful thing, but why do you feel that the whole world's at stake?
8 seconds sound clip from Batman (1966) - The Bat's Kow Tow (S2E30) TV Series.
You can hear this line at 00:13:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Courage. We'll have your voice back before you can say Jack Robinson.
- Come on, Robin. There's not much time.
- It has to work, Robin. The world's at stake.
- This will determine if that sound in the background is something unique and traceable.
- Batman, there's something I don't understand.
- Now they'd have to meet their clients face-to-face. That would cause enormous traffic problems.
- Further, all the people who work for the world's phone companies would lose their jobs.
- There'd be no such thing as radio, television and movies would go silent.
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