Angelo Colasanto quotes from Torchwood

Jack Harkness

It's a species of brainspawn treated as vermin on more than 150 planets that I know and valued as dinner on one other. It tastes like oysters.

You didn't...?

Jack Harkness

I had to be polite.

Jack

It's a parasite. Like a bug.

A parasite? Tell me more about it.

Jack

Good man. It's a species of brainspawn treated as vermin on more than 150 planets that I know and valued as dinner on one other. It tastes like oysters.

You did not.

Jack

I had to be polite. Now this part drills into the brain of the host and deposits its larvae there. Little worms, sharp as needles, pushing into the brain very slowly. You go insane, but it takes years. Franklin Roosevelt, he's going to be elected Governor of New York this November. But he wouldn't start making the really crazy decisions until his second term as President. Result, America destabilises, pulls out of the war, Germany rises, the Third Reich triumphant and there's a whole new history sprawling out.

You mean someone is changing the future?

Jack

Destroying it. Turning order into chaos and feeding off the results.

Who would do such a thing? These people above Maranzano?

Jack

They're just being used by someone called the Trickster's Brigade. Believe me, you don't want to meet them.

What sort of men are they?

Jack

They're not men at all. They're not even human.

Jack

Time to move on. But not with you.

I'm sorry. I was terrified, Jack. They said you were the devil, but other people said you were a blessing.

Jack

Something happened to me once, a long way away. Time itself changed me to a fixed point. And now I can't die. I suffer and I perish, but I always come back. I've lived through a lot of Earth's past and a lot of its future. And I'll keep on living this life forever.

In the future, are we together?

Jack

What does it matter?

Are we together?

Jack

We can't be, because one day you're gonna die and I won't.

Then we forget the future. We make the moment now. We make a promise and we go forward.

Jack

Angelo, don't.

What? You're lonely too. You said you want a companion.

Jack

Don't make me do this.

You're not going without me.

Jack

Just let me go.

But you can't. I'm never gonna let you go. I could travel this whole wide world, but where would I find another man like you? Please, don't leave me on my own.

Jack

I'm sorry, Angelo, but this is the story of my life. It always ends the same way - you kill me. [he stands at the edge of the roof] Men like you... You kill me... [he falls backwards off the building and then disappears]