Shea Whigham credited as playing...
Detective Burke
- Detective Garrity: Mr. Fleck. Sorry to bother you. I'm Detective Garrity. This is my partner, Detective Burke. We have a few questions for you, but you weren't home. So we spoke with your mother.
- Arthur Fleck: Oh. What did you say to her? Did you do this?
- Detective Garrity: What? No.
- Detective Burke: No, no, no. We just asked her some questions. She got hysterical. Hyperventilating, collapsed...
- Arthur Fleck: Yeah, but the doctor said she had a stroke.
- Detective Garrity: We're sorry to hear about that. But like I said, I still have some questions for you. They're about the subway killings that happened last week. You've heard about them right?
- Arthur Fleck: Yeah. It's horrible.
- Detective Garrity: Right.
- Detective Garrity: So we spoke with your boss, over at Ha-Ha's. He said you were fired for bringing a gun into the children's hospital. Is that true, Mr. Fleck?
- Arthur Fleck: It's a prop. It's part of my act. I'm a party clown.
- Detective Burke: All right, so why were you fired?
- Arthur Fleck: They said I wasn't funny enough. Can you imagine that? Now if you don't mind, I have to go take care of my mother.
- Detective Burke: Your boss also gave us one of your cards. This condition of yours, The laughing, is it real, or some sort of clown thing?
- Arthur Fleck: A clown thing?
- Detective Garrity: Yeah. I mean, part of your act?
- Arthur Fleck: What do you think?
- [Arthur turns and starts walking towards the hospital doors, but walks into the glass door]
- Detective Garrity: It's exit only.