[sighs] I would've been able to pay it off if I had just a little more time. Would you hold still? [holds Ed's head, reads mail on computer] Hmm... "Hello, boy. You are invited to a wonderful party"? Wait a minute... this is... All right, don't tell Spike about this. It's a secret, okay?
Yeah, you're gonna go like that? It's uh, perfect for a masquerade, isn't it? [Spike looks at his left hand for a moment]
Spike
Maybe this is the one, the one I won't come back from. The end. [Faye is worried] Just playin' with your head. Would you rescue me if it were true? [Faye pauses for a beat]
I told you. [Andy aims his second pistol at Spike]
AAndy
Or is it you? [Spike then talks back at Andy]
Spike
Are you braindead or what?! We met each other yesterday!
AAndy
Hmm... I don't recollect.
Spike
WHY, YOU! [a suited man talks to Andy]
MMan
Um, excuse me, sir. Horses aren't allowed in here and it's very disturbing for our customers...
AAndy
Oh-hoh, but my Onyx is no ordinary steed. [Teddy Bomber is growling with rage] She's a good compadre who eases my mind and plays a decent game of chess.
I am not forcing anything on anyone. They are merely practicing a faith that they've decided to believe in of their own free will. Tell me, why do you think people believe in God? Because they want to. It's not easy living in such an ugly corrupt world, there is no certainty and nothing to hope for. People are lost so they reach out. Don't you get it? God didn't create humans, no, it's humans who created God.
A man injures his leg during a hunt. He's in the middle of the savanna. No means to treat the wound. The leg rots and death approaches. Last minute, he's picked up by an airplane. He looks down and sees a land of pure white below him, glistening in the light. It's the summit of a snow-capped mountain. The mountain is Kilimanjaro. As he gazes down, he feels the life flowing out of him and then, he thinks, "That's where I was headed."
When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can't you just let it go? [beat] Forget the past.
Spike
There was a woman. First time I found someone who was truly alive. At least that's what I thought. [long beat] She was the part of me I lost somewhere along the way. The part that was missing, that I'd been longing for.
There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
You told me once to forget the past. Cause it doesn't matter. But your the one still tied to the past, spike.
Spike
Look at these eyes. One of them is a fake, because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I have seen the past in one eye, and the present in the other. So I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like i was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was finally over.
My memory..... Finally came back. But.... Nothing good came of it. There was no place for me to return to. This was the only place I wanted to go. And now your leaving just like that. Why do you have to go? Where are you going? What are going to do, just throw your life away like it was nothing?
Spike
I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive. I have to do it, Faye.
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