Puppet Angel quotes from Angel

Angel

Well... of course, I—ahem— ignored it completely, changed the subject, and locked her in a cage.

Wesley

[looks up from his papers] Sorry. What?

Spike

Fuss, fuss. The thing was about to strike. It was on your back. What was I supposed to do?

Angel

Ask me to turn around.

Spike

Heat of battle. There wasn't time.

Angel

You just like stabbing me.

Spike

I--I'm shocked-- shocked that you'd say that. I much prefer hitting you with blunt instruments.

Spike

Harmony just pulled me out of a very promising poker game down in Accounts Receivable, so this better be good. Oh, and, by the way, all the guys down there agree that astronauts don't stand a chance against cavemen, so don't even start.

Angel

Look, I can't do this anymore.

Spike

Admitting defeat, are you?

Angel

You and me. This isn't working out.

Spike

[mock-dramatic] Are you saying we should start annoying other people?

Spike

I've never flown before.

Angel

I've been in a helicopter. They don't... (looks nervously out the window) go this high.

Spike

Back to the mother country. Hey, after we save Fred, we should hit the West End, take in a show.

Angel

I've never seen Les Miz.

Spike

(scoffs) Trust me, half way through the first act, you'll be drinking humans again.

Angel

Can't lose her, Spike.

Spike

We won't.

Angel

I lost Cordy.

Angel

Any idea how she got past you?

Gunn

One second she was standing there, the next, poof.

Angel

She's a teleporter?

Wesley

I don't think so. No characteristic displacement of the atmosphere around her.

Spike

I fancied I saw a blur just before she went Houdini.

Gunn

Yeah, like she was pulling a Barry Allen.

Gunn

Jay Garrick? Wally-- Like she was moving really fast.

Angel

[slams Wesley against wall] What the hell did you do?

Wesley

What I had to.

Angel

I don't remember seeing "stab Gunn" on the agenda this morning.

Wesley

I avoided the major organs. He'll probably live.

Angel

Is that supposed to make it all right?

Wesley

Nothing is all right! Nothing will ever be all right.

Angel

We'll get her back, Wes.

Wesley

No, we won't. Fred's soul... her soul was destroyed resurrecting Illyria.

Wesley

Illyria.

Angel

We have to stop her before she-

Spike

Unleashes hell on earth?

Angel

What'd you get out of the doctor?

Spike

Screams. Various fluids. And a name: Vahla ha'nesh.

Spike

My first official parley as a very loosely affiliated member of... what are we? Tell me we're not Scoobies.

Angel

We haven't got-

Spike

[Interrupting] A name? Probably just as well. You'd want to be Angel's Avengers or something.

Angel

[laughing] Please. Angel's Avengers. Thats so... [stops laughing and gets a look implying that he likes the name]

Spike

So what's on the agenda?

Angel

Uh, I have assignments for people-- [a fizzing noise is heard, Angel glances over]

Spike

What? [Angel glares] I'm listening. With beer.

Angel

Forget it. This isn't a meeting, this is you being annoying.

Spike

[looking at the page] Hey, bullet points. Classy. Why am I always reconnaissance? I should get a decently flash gig like "save the girl" or "steal the emerald with the girl".

Angel

"Handsome man saved me from the monsters."

Spike

Exactly! Or... What's that now?

Angel

That's the first thing Fred said to me. In Pylea. She was trapped, hiding, afraid. Nearly crazy. Crazy, but brave. I should never have let her come here. Bad things always happen here.

Spike

Hate to break it to you, mate. But bad things always happen everywhere. Besides, she wanted to be here. It was her choice.

Angel

Was it?

Spike

Bugger, you're fixing to do something stupid, aren't you.

Angel

Done it. Came here. Spend every day lying to myself about making the world a better place.

Spike

Welcome to the planet. We all paint on our happy faces everyday, when all we really want is to pound the neighbour's missus, steal his Ben Franklins and, while we're at it, not think about the third of the world that's starving to death.

Angel

Listen, Gunn... I know you feel bad about your part in what happened to Fred. And you should. For the rest of your life, it should wake you up in the middle of the night. And it will...because you're a good man. You signed a piece of paper, that's all.

Gunn

But I knew. Not about Fred, but... when I signed, I knew there would be consequences.

Angel

You know, the thing about atonement is, you never run out of chances... but you gotta take 'em. You can't hide in some hospital room and pretend it's all gonna go away... 'cause it never will.

[To Connor] Your body warms. [to Angel] This one is lusting after me.

Connor

Oh... no, I--I-- [looks down, chuckling embarrassed] It's just that...it's the outfit. [whispers to Angel] I guess I've always had a thing for older women.

Angel

[under his breath] They were supposed to fix that.

Connor

What?

Wesley

You changed the world.

Angel

He's my son, Wesley. Connor's my son.

Wesley

Did you trade her? Did you trade Fred for your son?

Angel

What?

Wesley

Everything that's happened since we took over Wolfram & Hart, everything that's happened to...her... Did you know? Was Fred the price?

Angel

No. Wes... I can explain. Just put that down.

Wesley

Why are you so afraid of this? He said it would bring back the past. Will it undo what you've done?

Angel

No. It won't bring her back.

Wesley

Let's find out.

Angel

No! Please. You have to trust me.

Wesley

I can't. Not anymore.

Angel

Connor?

Connor

Whoa! You see that? I went a little hard-core there for a second. That guy made me really cranky.

Angel

Are you OK?

Connor

Yeah. I guess. I don't really like people touching my neck, you know?

Angel

Connor... uh...

Connor

Hey, can we... get outta here? I'd like to go back... see my parents. This whole fighting thing, I'm not... I'm not really sure it's for me.

Connor

I thought sunlight burned you up.

Angel

Special glass.

Connor

Cool. You should, like, make a whole suit out of it like the pope has.

Angel

How's your dad?

Connor

He's fine. They're releasing him now. I should warn you he's pretty pissed. I told him that you took me out demon fighting and, uh, almost got me killed. He wants to have a talk with you.

Angel

All right. I'll, uh...

Connor

I'm kidding! Man, you gotta lighten up. He thinks we spent the whole night doing tests. I told him I could bench press, like, 1,000 pounds.

Angel

What are you gonna tell them about... who you are?

Connor

The truth, more or less. I'll tell them that I'm different. I'll tell them it's... actually a good thing. I'll tell them to stop worrying so much.

Angel

Well, they're parents.

Connor

Yeah, I know. They'll feel a lot better knowing you're looking out for me.

Angel

We still haven't found Vail, but we will.

Connor

I'm not too worried about him. Nothing he can show me I haven't already seen. Anyway... I just wanted to say good-bye. I gotta go back to my life now.

Angel

Oh...do you really have to leave? I mean, right now?

Connor

I kinda think I should. I need to take care of my parents. This isn't their world. They really don't feel safe here. You gotta do what you can to protect your family. I learned that from my father.

Angel

If this is our chance to get into a better grace with the head office, I have to say it's not my priority.

Oh, no, don't think about us, Angel. Think about profits. It's profits that let you keep this plucky little boat-load of good above water. It's a business, boys, not a Batcave.

Lorne

Well, I'll tell you what--still like him better than Eve.

Angel

What if she blows?

Wesley

Conservative estimate, she takes out the better part of Los Angeles.

Angel

And unconservative?

Wesley

Rand McNally will have to alter their maps.