Lilah Morgan quotes from Angel

Lilah Morgan

[on phone] If you don't sign, we'll sue your ass off and kill your children. Just kidding, Donald. Nobody wants a lawsuit.

Lilah

Could you stab me in the back a little deeper? I still have feeling in my legs.

Lilah

Dusted during childbirth is more like it. According to our sources she staked herself, leaving the baby alive and kicking but never actually born. MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped.

Lilah

We found her.

Where?

Lilah

She's with him.

Is he dead?

Lilah

Well, he is a vampire so technically, yes, he is dead. But not by her hand. She is his house guest.

What?

Lilah

That's right. The reason our little assassin hasn't made good on her contract is she's rooming with the mark.

We hired her to kill him.

Lilah

I believe I covered that with the assassin part.

And he ends up inviting her to spend the night.

Lilah

I told you he wouldn't be easy. He can't be bought, and apparently he can't be killed even by a vampire Slayer. Rumor has it he used to actually date one.

Who else knows about this?

Lilah

No one outside of this room. Not yet anyway.

When word gets back to the senior partners this won't go well. We conspired with her, paid her half up front, and now she makes us look like fools. So - question is - how are we gonna fix it?

I say we kill her.

Holland

The senior partners were very impressed with your sacrifice.

Holland

Trust me, we'll even the score with them.

Lindsey

Yes, we will.

Holland

Beginning with what's in that box.

Lilah

We're all very pleased you're here. I know it's a bit confusing, but it's gonna be better soon. A lot better...

Lilah

...Darla.

Darla

Hm. He's here.

Lilah

Chopin?

Lindsey

Angel. He's here in town. You can feel him.

Darla

Always could.

Lindsey

He hasn't been much of a help to us.

Darla

He killed me. [Laughs] I remember now...with a soul in his heart.

Lindsey

He's taken from both of us so when you feel ready we'll start thinking about giving a little back.

Darla

Angel. It's been a long time. I'd love to see that boy.

Darla

Exciting, isn't it?

Lilah

Darla. I didn't see you.

Darla

Going through their things, all the little pieces of themselves locked away, given you a naughty little thrill of control.

Lilah

I just like to keep abreast of his latest project. He's probably in my office right now trying to find out about mine. That's just how it works at our firm.

Darla

Hmm, all you busy little worker bees, plotting your little schemes.

Lilah

Calynthia powder? Is that how you keep Angel sleeping when he's with you?

Darla

There is nothing so lovely as dreams. Everything is in them, everything hidden. Open those chambers and you can truly understand someone and control them.

Lilah

And what's hidden in Angel's secret chambers?

Darla

Horrors.

Angel

You gotta learn to lose, sweetie.

Lilah

Did I mention you're not invited in?

Drusilla

You have beautiful skin.

Lilah

I moisturize.

Drusilla

That was very thoughtful of you.

Darla

You brought me back as human, a dying one at that, let me wallow with a soul, then sent me crawling back to Angel, begging him to restore me.

Holland

Which he should have done right away. But I miscalculated, I - I thought he cared more than he did.

Darla

Like you do.

Drusilla

Grandmum won't eat [lifts both hands up besides her head and opens and closes them a couple of times] the double speak."

Darla

No. No, she won't eat that.

Drusilla

I hear the sirens. They don't know if the world will be there in the morning.

Lilah

Do you hear the sirens? Are-are the police coming?

Lindsey

[Shakes his head.] No. She senses what this place was built for.

Holland

Ah, yes. Drusilla, you're quite right. This was originally a bomb shelter in the fifties. We had it converted. Wine has always been my passion.

Drusilla

People huddled together, crouching in fear.

Holland

Yes, yes. I imagine that's what it would have been like in a war.

Darla

No. Now. She means now.

Holland

Aha. [chuckles] I guess I stepped into that one. Listen Darla, I am sorry that you had to suffer, but look at what's come out of it. You've been restored. You're a superior being. You can have anything you want. And there's not a person in this room who won't work round the clock to see that you get it.

Darla

Gung ho, are they? Because all I'm sensing right now is big, stinky, fear. [smiles in Holland's face, then turns to Lindsey] But not from you. [walks over to him] Do you know what I'm getting from you, Lindsey? [leans in close to his neck as if to bite him, then pulls back] Nothing. Why aren't you afraid?

Lindsey

I don't know.

Darla

You could die here. Chances are you will.

Lindsey

I know.

Darla

And you don't care.

Lindsey

I care. I guess I just don't mind.

Holland

No one's going to die here. This is just a friendly get-together amongst colleagues. [Dru is dancing around Holland's back] We're all on the same side.

Darla

I love this room. Dru, honey, in our new digs we have to put in a people cellar.

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?

Lilah

You're getting the big freeze-out, too?

Lindsey

Lilah.

Lilah

Oh, what's wrong, Lindsey? You bitter because your girlfriend didn't slit my throat?

Lindsey

That might be overstating it. More like bummed.

Lilah

Sorry to disappoint. I take it I'm not the only one feeling the lack of empathy around here.

Lindsey

What are you looking at?

Lilah

No phone calls, no flowers. If I were the nervous type, I'd be nervous. But as it is, I'm just pissed."

Lindsey

What do you expect, Lilah? We're the only survivors of the massacre, it's natural that we're under suspicion.

Lilah

Yeah, you know what I don't like about suspicion? The part where they find us two weeks from now, dead in some freak accident.

Lindsey

We did nothing wrong.

Lilah

I'm sorry, have we met? Because I work for Wolfram and Hart. Responsibility has nothing to do with it. If they are looking for a scapegoat we might as well grow horns and start eating garbage.

Lindsey

Scapegoat. Scapegoat, Lilah?! They're the one...

Lindsey

[more quietly] They're the ones who wanted Drusilla brought in. I was following orders.

Lilah

And you honestly think that matters? Fine. Indulge your denial. Don't doubt for a minute someone's gonna pay, Lindsey, and we're the only ones left.

Lindsey

Not the only ones.

Darla

Lindsey. I've missed you. Close the door. [Neither Lindsey nor Lilah move.] Sweetpea, if we wanted you dead, you'd have never have made it out of the wine cellar. Now close the door.

Drusilla

He's got cow eyes. Big and black. Moo...

Lindsey

[moves over to Darla] You spared me. Why'd you spare me, Darla?

Darla

Do you really have to ask? [She leans in close to smell him] Hmm. I'm in love with you.

Darla

Shut up, Lilah.

Drusilla

Shh!

Darla

Well, look at you two, such pretty scars.

Lindsey

You've put us in a difficult position, Darla.

Darla

Hmm, have I? Smart young lawyers, [runs a hand up Lindsey's arm] hungry for their big break and whoops boss gets eaten. Someone has to step in. Someone promising, pretty, with questionable ethics and twelve-hundred dollar suits that look good on the six o'clock news.

Lilah

You think they'll promote him?

Darla

[to Lilah] Or you. In any case, that's why you're here. I've decided to keep the line of communication open between us and Wolfram and Hart.

Lindsey

What for?

Darla

I believe we can help each other.

Lindsey

I don't think I understand. What is it exactly that you want, Darla?

Darla

Power. See, Lindsey, during my stint as Wolfram and Hart's puppet, something occurred to me. I loathe being used. If I recall I sent you a fifteen-body-memo to that effect. We plan on being big players in this town, Dru and I. And while you can't give me what I want, you have the things I need to get it. Money. Connections.

Lilah

We're no good to you dead, Darla. The Senior Partners are looking for someone to blame for your massacre.

Darla

But surely they wouldn't kill both of you. Seems like such a waste. Well, I guess, whoever's left standing will be our liaison.

Lindsey

Liaison to what?

Darla

To the world above of course. In the meantime, we'll focus on the world below.

Lindsey

This power that you want does it have a target? You going after Angel?

Darla

Don't say that! Not everything is about Angel, Lindsey. I just want to have some fun.

Lindsey

Well, you see, I'm surprised. Because I thought that you would make him your top priority.

Darla

I spent two-hundred and fifty years without Angel. You think just because I went through a little human phase I'd go all gooey?

Lindsey

No. No, I thought you'd kill him.

Darla

All in good time, my love. All in good time.

Lindsey

Lilah. Something happened?

Lilah

I can't do it anymore, Lindsey.

Lindsey

Do what?

Lilah

The waiting. I'm sitting in my office and every time there is a noise or the phone rings... One of us is gonna die, Lindsey.

Lindsey

Everybody dies, Lilah.

Lilah

But not everybody ends up in a dog-food processing plant in San Pedro.

Lindsey

May not happen to you, Lilah. You got a fifty-fifty chance of surviving this thing, just like me.

Lilah

That's not good enough. There is a way out of this.

Lindsey

How?

Lilah

We don't wait for them to choose one of us, we choose each other instead. If we stick together we can beat them. We could leave, you and me, tonight. They'd have no choice...

Lindsey

No choice but to hunt us down, which they would.

Lilah

No. Not if we took files, as insurance.

Lindsey

Take files?

Lilah

Yes. Look. I've heard the rumors. We both know that it worked for you once before. You knew just what to take. And this time you won't have to assume any of the risk. You just tell me which files to steal and I'll get them. And then we can get out of here. End this mess together. Are you in?

Lindsey

[speaking into the tiny microphone] But Lilah, I would never steal files from my employer. I'm shocked at the suggestion. [With a snort of laughter he retrieves his jacket, portfolio and keys.] Forget about the frame job, sweetheart. They're gonna kill who they're gonna kill. [Opens the door.] Just take it like a man.

Lilah

Heard about the fire?

Lindsey

They're still alive.

Lilah

Undead.

Lindsey

Whatever.

Lilah

Heard it was Angel.

Lindsey

So?

Lilah

Killed a dozen demons, lit up Darla and Drusilla like a Christmas tree.

Lindsey

What is your point Lilah?

Lilah

Little grimmer than usual, don't you think?

Lindsey

Holland's vision lives on.

Lilah

Screw his vision. Anybody's going down in here, it's gonna be you.

Lindsey

If that's what it takes.