Puppet Angel quotes from Angel

Angel

What is this?

I think you know, sir.

Angel

Stakes? You call this (starts coughing) a test? The only way this can work is you kill me, huh?

Exactly. You do understand, this third test has no catch, as you will find out it. Death is the final challenge. We can't restore one life without taking another. You see? In order for Darla to live, you must die.

I apologize for any discomfort this may be causing. I really - can't imagine the pain.

Angel

How about we switch places and we won't have to, huh?

Oh, my death wouldn't balance a thing, sir. Yours on the other hand...

Angel

I die, Darla lives?

Yes. I'm unaware of any deities the vampire worships, but if you'd like to pray... [pulls a lever and the stakes pull back, spring-loaded into place] ...now would be the time.

Angel

What are you waiting for?

For you, sir. I can't proceed without your permission. You've earned a choice. Accept your death so she may live or...

Angel

Or what?!

Leave. Refuse the challenge and walk away. No one will stop you. Our doors are all open to you. You've done that yourself.

Angel

What about Darla?

Oh, she dies.

Angel

No deal.

I expected as much. A pity. I'm beginning to like you.

Angel

Spare me.

I'd very much like to. [Steps closer.] Do you mind if I ask you a question? Isn't the world a better place with you in it? You can save so many people. It seems she can barely save herself.

You know better than anyone the world can be a very bad place. Take yourself out, put her in - how long will it be before she stumbles, before she falls?

Angel

I don't know.

No, you don't. Are you still ready to give her life when she can promise you - nothing?

Angel

Yes.

As you wish.

Darla

No.

Angel

Do it.

Darla

Noooooooooooooooo!

Darla

Angel!

Congratulations. You've passed the third test by accepting death. I'm told no one's ever gone that far before in terms of sacrifice. Kudos.

Angel

Pay up.

Of course. [To Darla] You're a lucky woman, and soon you'll have your whole life ahead. Use it wisely.

Angel

Hey, Jeeves, unless this fortune cookie crap is some new kind of torture, what you say we get on with it, huh?"

This way, miss.

Oh!

Darla

What?

Angel

What is it?

This is very embarrassing.

Angel

What is?

Not to mention unprecedented. She's...she's been given new life once before by supernatural means, yes?"

Darla

They brought me back.

Angel

What are you saying?

I can't help you.

Angel

We had a bargain. She's earned a second chance.

She's living her second chance. [The wall shivers and a set of stairs leading up appears.] But you played the game magnificently. [Angel gives him a dark look and Jeeves adjusts his cuffs.] Perhaps you should have told us that she was brought to life before this all started. I truly am sorry, sir. The fact of the matter is... [Steps back and dissolves ...there is nothing I can do.

Darla

Angel...

Angel

Maybe it would be different. We don't know. Maybe, uh... because, you know, I have a soul if...if I did bite you...

Darla

No!

Angel

We don't know what it would do to you.

Darla

Angel, I've seen it now. Everything you're going through, everything you've gone through. I felt it. I felt how you care. The way no one's ever cared before. Not for me. [Gives him a tiny smile] That's all I need from you.

Angel

That's not enough.

Darla

It is.

Angel

How could the Powers allow you to be brought back, dangle a second chance and take it away like this?

Darla

Maybe this is my second chance.

Angel

To die?

Darla

Yes. To die. The way I was supposed to die in the first place.

Angel

I'm not gonna leave you.

Angel

Every moment you have left I'm gonna be by your side. You're never gonna be alone again."

Drusilla

I saw you coming, my lovely. The moon showed me. It told me to come into the twentieth century.

Angel

It's the twenty-first century, Dru.

Drusilla

Hmm, I'm still lagging.

Angel

I can crush the life out of you before they even lift a finger.

Holland

Oh, I'm sure you can. Just as sure as I am that you won't.

Angel

Won't I?

Holland

You don't kill humans.

Angel

You don't qualify. You set things in motion, play your little games up here in your glass and chrome tower, and people die. Innocent people.

Holland

And yet I just can't seem to care. But you do. And while you're making threats, wasting time, crashing through windows, your girls are out painting the town red, red, red.

Darla

Angelus- here for the tasting?

Drusilla

Look what we have for you. Oh- it's not Daddy. It's never Daddy. It's the Angel-beast.

Darla

Come to punish us?

Drusilla

Yeah, yeah. [lifts her hands as if they were tied above her head] Spank us till Tuesday. [growls] We promise to be bad if you do.

Holland

Angel....

Angel

[to Darla] I'm sorry I didn't get to you in time.

Darla

I'm not.

Drusilla

[caressing the side of her face] He's soul-sick. Not even thinking about his own family. [pulls one of the men over by his hair] Only thinking about them.

Darla

Come on, love. I never did get that good-bye kiss.

Angel

You will. But not tonight.

Lilah

For God's sake, help us!

Holland

Angel, please. People are going to die.

Angel

And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care.

Holland

Angel? P-please we can negotiate. We...

Drusilla

Daddy?

Wesley

And you just walked away?

Angel

No, I walked to my car and then I drove away.

Gunn

You didn't do anything?

Wesley

You allowed Darla and Drusilla to have free reign.

Angel

I didn't bring either one of them into this. They did.

Wesley

You could have stopped them.

Angel

And I will.

Cordelia

When? After they've finished off all the people you don't like?

Wesley

Angel, while it's certainly true that these lawyers brought this on themselves, what you did is...

Cordelia

...is wrong.

Gunn

You went too far.

Wesley

We've all been worried about you, and I guess it's fair to say we all share some of the blame. We should have spoken up sooner.

Gunn

And louder.

Cordelia

You have to change the way you've been doing things. Don't you see where this is taking you?

Wesley

Listen to her! Right now the three of us are all that's standing between you and real darkness.

Gunn

Best believe that, man.

Angel

I do. You're all fired.

Angel

Lilah. I just had to drop by and congratulate you on your big promotion. Co-vice president of the special projects. Wow. That's super. You deserve it. Yeah. That and.. so much more.

Lilah

Angel..

Angel

But you know what the real special part is? To think that maybe in a small way I helped make it happen for you. Makes me feel all good inside.

What's this?

Angel

Blood.

It'll wash.

Angel

What is 'it' and how do I stop it?

Lorne

I don't know and you don't.

Angel

Can it be killed?

Lorne

Most anything that can manifest in order to move in this dimension can be killed. Kinda the down side of being here. That and the so-called 'musicals' of Andrew Lloyd Webber. (With a sigh) The band of Blacknil. Don't ask me what it means. I don't know. I shouldn't even be giving you that much.

Cordelia

I don't even know what you are anymore.

Angel

I'm a vampire. Look it up!

Congratulations. Great victory.

Angel

You're...

Holland

Holland Manners.

Angel

...not alive.

Holland

Oh, no. I'm quite dead. [shows Angel the bite mark Darla left on his neck] Unfortunately my contract with Wolfram & Hart extends well beyond that. [smiles] Hop on in. You certainly earned it.

Holland

Well, this is exciting, isn't it? Going straight to the source. So what's the big plan, Angel? Destroy the Senior Partners, smash Wolfram & Hart once and for all?

Angel

Something like that.

Holland

Hmm, now tell me just what do you think that would accomplish? In the end, I mean.

Angel

It'll be–the end.

Holland

Well, the end of you, certainly. But I meant in the larger sense.

Angel

In the larger sense, I really don't give a crap.

Holland

Now, I don't think that's true. Be honest–you got the tiniest bit of "give a crap" left. Otherwise you wouldn't be going on this kamikaze mission. Now let me see, there was something in a sacred prophecy, some oblique reference to you. Something you're supposed to prevent. Now what was that?

Angel

The apocalypse.

Holland

Yes, the apocalypse, of course. Another one of those. Well, it's true, we do have one scheduled. And I imagine if you were to prevent it you would save a great many people. Well, you should do that then. Absolutely! I wasn't thinking. [smiles] Of course, all those people you save from that apocalypse would then have the next one to look forward to, but hey, it's always something, isn't it?

Angel

You're not gonna win.

Holland

Well...no. Of course we aren't. We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as "winning". [laughs]

Angel

Then why?

Holland

Hmm? I'm sorry, why what?

Angel

Why fight?

Holland

That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We...go on, no matter what. Our firm has always been here...in one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And that, friend, is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.

Holland

Welcome to the home office.

Angel

This isn't...

Holland

Oh, you know it is. You know that better than anyone. Things you've seen. Things you've–well, done. You see, if there wasn't evil in every single one of them out there–why, they wouldn't be people. They'd all be angels.

Holland

Have a nice day.

Angel

What do you want, Darla?

Angel

You want this?

Angel

Or maybe what you really want is this!

Angel

That may be what you really want, isn't it?

Darla

Don't play games with me.

Angel

I'm not playing. I just wanna feel something besides the cold.

Angel

Why're you laughing?

Angel

Don't you feel the cold?

Darla

What're you doing?

Angel

It doesn't matter.

Angel

None of it matters.