Puppet Angel quotes from Angel

Gunn

OK, so what are we dealing with?

Eight legs, three heads, horns...?

Lorne

Hey!

No offense.

Connor

Two legs, one head, no horns.

Lorne

Lemme guess: green?

Angel

No. Kind of.... mocha.

Connor

Kill? No. No killing.

Gunn

Since when?

Angel

Since we've all been saved.

Oh, well, that's, uh, crazy talk.

Angel

(to Connor) They don't understand.

Connor

No.

Angel

We don't want to kill her. (takes the axe away from Wesley) We just want to find her so we can worship her. That's all.

Wesley

Angel, whatever you're feeling right now, it's some form of enchantment.

Angel

(looks wistful) Yeah.

(walks into the room) Well, I tried. (holds up a shirt) What do you think?

Wesley

It looks brand new.

(cries) It is. I--I bought a new one.

Wesley

Even better.

(crying) I know.

Angel

What's the matter? She'll love it.

I know, but she's not here.

Gunn

She's just upstairs.

Yes, but, when she's not around, (sobs) I hurt.

Angel

She's right. There's work to do here. We have a hotel full of people, people who have needs.

Lorne

You know what they say about people who need people...

Connor

They're the luckiest people in the world.

Lorne

You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, kiddo?

Connor

Just kinda popped out.

What is it you think you fight for, dead thing? Valor? What you call justice? Your friends are dead. Most likely. Or so you believe. So it's not for them you fight.

Angel

I'm trying to save my world!

Your world. A world that doesn't care for you. Doesn't want you.

Angel

It needs me!

So your Powers That Be tell you. Maybe they're right. But it's not why you're here.

Angel

Okay, Bugsy, you wanna tell me what I'm fighting for?

Him.

Angel

Him?

The boy. The woman you've already lost. The boy is what you're fighting for. But you're going to fail. You're going to lose him too.

Angel

Jasmine, it's over. You've lost.

Jasmine

I've lost? Do you have any idea what you've done?

Angel

What I had to do.

Jasmine

No. No, Angel. There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise. You chose this!

Angel

Because I could. Because that's what you took away from us. Choice.

Jasmine

And look what free will has gotten you.

Angel

Hey, I didn't say we were smart. I said it's our right. It's what makes us human.

Jasmine

But you're not human.

Angel

Working on it.

Angel

Where you going?

Jasmine

Leave me alone.

Angel

Sorry, but... can't do that.

Jasmine

What? You've taken everything. You're gonna try to kill me now, as if you could.

Angel

Maybe not. But I'll die before I let you hurt anyone else.

Jasmine

You're already dead!

Angel

You know what I mean. It ends right here.

Jasmine

Why do you hate me so much?

Angel

Let's run down the list, huh? Rain of fire, blotting out the sun, enslaving mankind, and, yeah, oh, yeah, hey, you eat people!

Jasmine

Like you never have?

Angel

Thousands of people are dead because of what you've done.

Jasmine

And how many will die because of you? I could've stopped it, Angel. All of it. War, disease, poverty. How many precious, beautiful lives would've been saved in a handful of years? Yes, I murdered thousands to save billions. This world is doomed to drown in its own blood now.

Angel

The price was too high, Jasmine. Our fate has to be our own, or we're nothing.

Jasmine

Like me?

Angel

Look, we've all done horrible things. All we can do is try and make up for it. So, OK, you know, it's not the world that you wanted, but maybe you can still help us make it better, even if you have lost your powers.

Jasmine

Not all of them.

Jasmine

Think the price was too high? You haven't begun to pay!

Jasmine

Maybe you're right. Maybe I can still make this world a better place. One body at a time. I loved this world. I sacrificed everything I was to be with you.

Angel

So you could rule us?

Jasmine

Because I cared. The other Powers don't. Never really did. You know that's true in your heart. Shame now I gotta rip it out.

Jasmine

I was forged in the inferno of creation, vampire. Do you really think a little electricity would destroy me?

Angel

Worth a shot.

Angel

Go to hell.

Jasmine

You first, baby.

Connor

Always the same, dad. I get a girl, you gotta make a play for her.

Wesley

Jasmine was creating a slave state.

Lilah

Right, where the slaves are full of giggly joy and love. Ugh, what a nightmare.

Angel

She was eating people.

Lilah

They knew what they were getting into.

Lorne

Her stomach!?!

Connor

You might not want to move. Everyone's rigged. Can't save 'em all, dad. Don't know who's gonna be first. Could be any one of 'em. [Stands, revealing he's wired too.] Could be me. [steps away, points to an unconscious Cordelia on the floor, also wired] Could be her.

Angel

Son...you have to listen to me. This is about Jasmine.

Connor

Jasmine's gone.

Angel

I know. We all felt it, that perfect love, then when you had to give it up...

Connor

I didn't feel anything! I can't feel anything. I guess I really am your son... 'cause I'm dead, too.

Angel

You're not dead. You're just starting your life and--

Connor

No, you just weren't there before!

Angel

I know. I'm so

Connor

Do not say you're sorry! Doesn't fix anything.

Angel

Ok, look, let me say this. I love you, son.

Connor

It's a lie.

Angel

It's not.

Connor

It's always a lie. My dead mother couldn't even love me.

Angel

You're wrong. She did.

Connor

No. [shakes her head] No. She knew she couldn't.

Angel

She sacrificed herself because she loved you.

Connor

You tried to love me. At least I think you did.

Angel

I still do.

Connor

But not enough to hang on, dad. (glares at Angel)You let him take me. You let him get me. You let him get me. (turns to face Cordelia) Cordy... you swore you loved me. Where are you now?

Angel

Connor... you have to believe that there are people who love you.

Connor

Jasmine believed you when you said you loved her, but it was all a lie.

Angel

Jasmine was the lie.

Connor

No! She knew if you found out who she really was that you'd turn against her, and she was right. That's just what happened. People like you. People like this. None of you deserve what she could give you. She wanted to give you everything.

Angel

I know how that feels. 'Cause I want to give you everything. I want to take back the mistakes, help you start over.

Connor

We can't start over.

Angel

We can. I mean, we can change things.

Connor

There's only one thing that ever changes anything... and that's death. Everything else is just a lie. You can't be saved by a lie. You can't be saved at all.

Angel

(into speaker phone) Uh... can I get a cup of coffee or something?

You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say "goats."

To sacrifice a loved one or pet, press the pound key.

Angel

Guess what I'm doing now? Not using my windpipe.

Vampire.

Angel

Capital "V." And there's something else you should know about me. [picks up a paddle and knocks him across the room] I have no problem spanking men.

Angel

You know that won't kill me.

It'll hurt. That part's fun.

Angel

Agent Hauser, I'm honestly beginning to suspect that you're not part of the solution.

You really think you can solve the problem? Come into Wolfram and Hart and make everything right? Turn night into glorious day? You pathetic little fairy.

Angel

I'm not little.

That's exactly what you are. You're minuscule. A dust mote on the shelf of that great institution. Now, you think I'm just a trigger-happy jerk who follows orders, but I am something you will never be. I'm pure. I believe in evil. You and your friends, you're conflicted. You're confused. We're not. That is why you are gonna lose, because we possess the most powerful thing in the world... conviction.

Angel

There is one thing more powerful than conviction. Just one. Mercy.

(Shocked) What happened to mercy?

Angel

You just saw the last of it.

Wesley

Spike!

Angel

Spike.

Harmony

Blondie Bear?