[about his drink] It's warm.
We're in the middle of a vampire apocalypse; everybody's making sacrifices.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Just checking in, you know. It's almost noon and you hadn't come out and, uh...
You thought I dropped dead.
I figured there was a 20% chance. Now look, Dutch and I, we're we're gonna go clear out some local munchers. I just wanted to check in and see if you need anything before I go.
No, nothing.
All right. Well, don't forget to eat something, all right?
You want to remind me to go to the toilet, too?
Professor, I was wondering, what do you hope to find in these books?
Something I overlooked. Of all the evils a man faces, growing old is the one I cannot do anything about. When I was young, I could hold all this in my head, and now it seems to be slipping away from me.
Abraham. Look at you. Withered by age and failure, yet your blind optimism carries you on. Don't tell me you still cling to your belief in the Supreme Being?
You should fear His wrath.
Your "Being" doesn't exist. Realized that when I was 10 years old. Prayed for Him to heal me. He never answered.
Yes, He did. The answer was no.
I've, I've never confided this to anyone. I consume the worms to maintain my health.
You've been eating the worms?
Well, you can't ingest them orally. I discovered I needed to, uh, absorb them in solution through the eyes. Did you ever see this number on my arm? Did it not make you wonder about my age? I was a prisoner in a German death camp in 1944. I'm 94 years old. I need this to keep living. I've made my choice. It may be wicked, it may mean I go to a fiery and horrible place when I die, but it's too late to stop now. I will not stop. I'm going to win or die confronting the Master. I will not fade away as a weak old man.
[to a captive Strigoi] So the Master can see through all you things, huh? Are you watching me now? You took my wife. My son's mother. I'm gonna take hundreds, thousands of yours. I'm gonna work my way all the way to the top, to you.
They say one out of every four people are mentally unstable.
Luckily there's only three of us.
Not unless you include my invisible friend Donny.
Help me rid the evil from this world.
There will always be evil in this world, Professor.
The ancients are the past. I am the future.
Guess what. I'm not fighting for the Ancients. I'm not fighting for nobody but myself.
Cowardice. Ignorance. I sensed both as you ferried my coffin across the bridge into this city.
If that's the case, then what am I to you? Huh? What do you want from me?
Your mother's disappointment is still here. The torment you put her through in life. It lives along with her dumb animal love for her criminal son.
Taking someone's soul is not enough for you? You gotta put on their skin and dance around in their body?
Of course you fight for yourself. You always fight for only yourself.
You may have resigned from Stoneheart, but you haven't resigned from Eldritch Palmer. You remind me very much of your father. You can break this chain of misguided loyalty once and for all. I don't think you're afraid of him. I think you think it's too late. That evil has already won. I don't believe that for a second. When you change your mind, we can be reached at this address.
RFReggie Fitzwilliam
I'm not gonna change my mind.
Yes, you will. You already have.
[in a stand-off with Alonso Creem] A chain of events is about to play out here, Mr. Creem. Your loyal bodyguards will riddle me with bullets, but not before I draw this blade across your throat. To put it in language we both understand, you will not come out well in this trade.
I'm not letting you get in my way again.
EBEverett Barnes
You think I like the position they've put me in? They nearly threw me over a balcony, Eph. I can't even sleep. I barely eat.
Then just let me go. I've got a plan to wipe out all the infected and clean all this up.
EBEverett Barnes
Well, that's great news. I'll let you go. I appreciate you still trying to do something about this.
You're lying.
EBEverett Barnes
Trust me, Eph.
I can't trust you, Barnes. I know you.
AAngel
Where'd you learn those manners? Same place you got your tattoos?
AEAugustin "Gus" Elizalde
Okay, I get it, man. I thought I knew you, so you want to give me a hard time. So here it is. I went to prison. I was a thief. I wanted to be a fighter, but I couldn't make a living at it. So I broke my mother's heart, and I did a bid upstate. Now I'm nothing.
[to the Ancients] Pitiful, this city of New York. I expected Constantinople, Baghdad before the Mongols. Rome. Oh. Those were cities. This is a factory. A machine. I can see why he started here. You indulged him. You looked the other way for too long. Perhaps you're growing complacent. You should have stopped him 70 years ago, if not seven centuries ago. I get no pleasure from your anxiety. I trained Vaun and the others to be better; they failed us. I'm here now. I will stop him. But for my own reasons. I sensed him when he was injured. I need to know who got close enough to hurt him. And I need human hunters who can work during the day. That is, if you have any left.
I need to know that our plan is not in jeopardy before I proceed. And that he is able to uphold his side of the bargain.
Let me assure you -
Your assurance is not enough! I assure you, I didn't become one of the wealthiest men in the world by being played for a fool. Either he is ignoring me or avoiding me. Tell him he does so at his peril.
For your sake, I shall tell him no such thing.
I see you've been hunting the Master for some time.
Most of my life. You?
All of mine.
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