Kate Lockley quotes from Angel

Kate

Wolfram & Hart. They're the law firm that Johnnie Cochran is too ethical to join.

Kate

Now you're talking like a detective.

Angel

I am a detective.

Kate

Well, you see, the thing about detectives is, they have résumés. And business licenses. And last names. Pop stars and popes -- those are the one-name guys.

Angel

You got me. I'm a pope.

Kate

Boy, I'm scared. And excited. And consumed with dread. And glad you're here.

Angel

I doubt even one of Little Tony's hired guns would try something in a roomful of cops.

Kate

What? Oh, that death-threat hanging overhead. No, I meant speaking in public. [starts across room toward her father]

Angel

What's that old saw? Picture your audience in their underwear?

Kate

[distractedly looks Angel up and down] Way ahead of you. [Angel catches up just as Kate stops in front of her father and kisses his cheek.] Happy retirement, Daddy.

Who's this?

Kate

This is Angel, he's a friend. Angel, this is my father.

Angel

Hello, Mr. Lockley. [they shake] Congratulations.

For what? All I did was live this long and not get shot.

Kate

Why do you do that?

Do what?

Kate

Pretend important things don't matter.

[eyes on Kate] So. Angel. [looks at Angel] How long you been seeing Katie?

Angel

We're, ahh, we're pretty new friends.

Well, good to see her out with a man. I was starting to wonder if she didn't lean in another direction altogether.

Kate

You're telling me children's stories.

Angel

I'm telling you the truth.

Kate

No. I don't believe you.

Angel

I know you don't. Even after what you saw, you won't let yourself. Which is why you'll lose.

Kate

I've heard enough.

Angel

No, you haven't heard a word. [Angel grips Kate's cross pendant in his fist, letting her hear the sizzle and smell the smoke.] And you won't. Not now, not yet. Because there are some things in this world you're just not ready to face.

Angel

Hi. Can I come in?

Kate

Oh, that's right. You have to be invited in, don't you?

Angel

[pause] You've been doing your homework.

Kate

Want to quiz me? I'm just full of fun facts. For instance, I learned that your friend has been in L.A. before, did you know that? Yeah, at least twice. Once in 1929 and again in 1963. Oh, and there was something in Boston in 1908, I think he was there, too.

Angel

So you believe me.

Kate

Yes, I believe you...

Angel

Good, because he's planning something el...

Kate

...Angelus. Isn't that what he called you? Angelus? I looked it up, it's all right there. The demon with the face of an angel. A particularly brutal bastard, by all accounts. Oh, and no, you can't come in.

Angel

I can't make up for the past, Kate, I know that...

Kate

No, you can't. In fact, all of this? What's happening now? Is because of you. You made him, didn't you?

Angel

Then let me help end it. Please.

Kate

'Please.' Now there's a word I imagine you heard quite a lot in your time. 'Please.' 'No.' 'Don't.' Thanks for the offer, but I don't need your help. I know what to do. Drive a stake right through the son of a bitch's heart. And when that happens, I suggest you don't be there, because the next time we meet, I'll do the same to you.

Kate

Never a dull moment when you're around is there?

Angel

I have to go.

Kate

Who the hell do you think you are?! You are a major witness in a major crime scene. You're not going anywhere!

Angel

You wanna try and stop me, Kate?

Kate

I'm glad were not playing friends anymore, and I'm real sick and tired of your attitude. There is a thing called the law.

Angel

This isn't about the law. It's about a little thing called life. Now, I'm sorry about your father, but I didn't kill your father and I'm sick and tired of you blaming me for everything you can't handle. You wanna be enemies? Try me!

Cordelia

Okay, okay. Let's not get off track here. We wanna find Angel as much as you do.

Kate Lockley

No you don't. You wanna protect him, even though he's lost it. He stalked that woman because he thought she was this Darla from his past. She begged him to stay out, and he knocked down the door and killed her husband. I've read about him too, I know what he is, and I know he hasn't changed.

Gunn

No. He hasn't. He's still a vampire.

Cordelia

Gunn! Not helping.

Gunn

So how'd he get in the house? She invite him in?

Kate Lockley

Course she didn't in...

Cordelia

The only way Angel could have gotten into that house uninvited would be if the real owners were dead. It's what he was saying all along, she isn't DeEtta Kramer!

Kate

I feel like such an idiot.

Angel

A lot of that going around.

Kate

I just couldn't ... My whole life has been about being a cop. If I'm not a part of the force, it's like nothing I do means anything.

Angel

It doesn't.

Kate

Doesn't what?

Angel

Mean anything. In the greater scheme, in the big picture, nothing we do matters. There's no grand plan, no big win.

Kate

You seem kind of chipper about that.

Angel

Well ... I guess I kind of worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if ... nothing we do matters ... then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long for redemption, for a reward, finally, just to beat the other guy. But I never got it.

Kate

Now you do?

Angel

Not all of it. All I want to do is help. I want to help because I don't think people should suffer as they do, because if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.

Kate

Yikes. Sounds like you've had an epiphany.

Angel

That's what I keep saying, but nobody's listening.

Angel

So what are you looking for?

Kate

Me? I guess it depends on how many daiquiris I've had. Wow, way to come off as a drunken slut.