Michael Colefield quotes from Ultraviolet

Michael

[to Rice, after being cleared of the shooting] So what do I have to do to get fired around here?!

Father Pearse

Do you know where Jack is?

Michael

Yeah, like I'm gonna tell you.

Father Pearse

You should. We're all on the same side. You must know by now what we're dealing with.

Michael

No, I know what you think you're dealing with. I can't help that.

Father Pearse

You believe Jack is still your friend.

Michael

Well, whatever he's done, he doesn't deserve a death sentence.

Father Pearse

I'm afraid that was carried out three nights ago. Before you last met.

Michael

Did you have a choice?

Absolutely. I could stick around, do ten to fifteen for corruption. I could go on the run. Or I could go all the way.

Michael

Did you know what they were into when you were taking their money?

Well, they don't exactly advertise it, and I can see why now. People go a bit funny. People you thought you knew.

Michael

Why do they need money? I thought you lot were only after one thing.

We are. And we don't have to kill to get it.

Michael

Then what's the money for?

They want to wipe us out. So we had to get organized. That takes money.

Did they tell you I was evil? It's what the church always says, Mike. Women. Black. Disabled. Gay. Now us. Do you like living in the Middle Ages? [sees that Mike is aiming the gun at his head] That won't do it. You want the heart. [Mike takes aim at his chest] We're part of nature.

Michael

So's smallpox.

Oh, charming. I'm a virus, am I? [advancing toward Mike]

Michael

Stop.

Is that what I am, vermin?

Michael

Where's all the crosses?

Angie

And holy water? Jury's out on that. It's a bit like homeopathy. It's a question of faith, on both sides. They can be superstitious, too. In my opinion, religion is a placebo, which isn't to say placebos can't work.

Michael

How is all this kept quiet? I mean, a body turns up drained-

Angie

Doesn't happen. Successful parasites don't kill their host. They don't drain their prey unless they want to recruit, and they're very careful about who they recruit. Like we are.

Father Pearse

It's called a vocation.

Michael

'Vendetta', more like it.

Father Pearse

These aren't isolated cases. They're organizing. For a reason.

Michael

What for? They don't want to wipe us out. They need us.

Father Pearse

Exactly.

Michael

So what's changed?

Father Pearse

Our capacity for self-destruction. It grows at an exponential rate. You're right, of course; they don't mean us any harm. They want to save us.

Michael

Doesn't sound so bad.

Father Pearse

...and the only way they can save us is by controlling us. If people like you don't take a stand now, do you know where your loved ones are going to be in fifty years' time? Battery farms. Believe me. Our free-range days are over.

Michael

So why hasn't anyone tried taking one of them alive? [Vaughan gives him a look] All right. Dead, then. Undead. Whatever you call it.

Vaughan

They don't take prisoners.

Michael

What, so we're no better?

Vaughan

No. They're better. Stronger. Faster. Surprise is about the only thing we've got going for us, so forget about fair warning.

Michael

So how do we know it's not Lester's?

Vaughan

Leeches don't use phones.

Michael

How come?

Vaughan

Look, the only machine that can see or hear a leech is us. You can only see them face to face. No mirrors, no photos, no videos. Audio's the same. He can make a call, but his voice won't go down the line. Surveillance is a bitch.

Michael

[looking at Danni's incoherent mother] Is Alzheimer's hereditary?

Angie

It depends. There are two genetic markers; the risk goes up thirtyfold if you have both.

Michael

Well, could Danni have got herself scanned?

Angie

Doesn't mean much. About one in twenty of us have both genes. You look far enough into the future, you're bound to see something you don't like. People forget: we're all programmed to die.

Michael

Your mother had an affair with him. She took care of his investments and then he moved on to you. Have you got a thing about him as well? Can't see why you'd protect him otherwise. I mean, it's not like he's family or anything. Maybe he feels like family. He's been around so long. Is that what you want? Are you terrified you'd end up like your mother? Because it seems to me, she wasn't good enough for him.

They only take those who want to go.

Angie

That is a lie.

He begged my mother to go with him. She refused.

You think she made the wrong decision?

You'd have to ask her.

Angie

My five-year-old daughter didn't choose to go. They don't just recruit. They kill.

You're the ones running the extermination program. You're like Nazis! Just because they're different... They're entitled to fight back. It's war.

Father Pearse

I hope none of us thinks this interest in blood disorders is down to philanthropy. What they're researching is pollution. Contamination of their food supply.

Michael

Yeah, well, good. Maybe they'll find a cure. Looks like we've got some common interests.

Father Pearse

About as common as humans and cattle. What did we do when we discovered BSE was a threat? Did we go looking for a vaccine? No, we went for the most direct, short term solution.

Vaughan

A cull.

Father Pearse

They've done it before. The fire of London. Or did you really think that was a happy coincidence in the middle of a plague?

Michael

Poor old Dominic. I suppose it's not unreasonable to think he was in with a shout with Mr. Wainwright dead eighteen months. Gave it a decent wait before he moved in. He must've had his eye on her. She's pretty good-looking, same line of work, good at her job... [chuckles] Suppose that's a turn-on as well. And she's a widow, far as he knew. Suppose it wasn't his fault; he didn't know she was into necrophilia.

Vaughan

[referring to the possible pregnancy] Whether she is or not, it's not his.

Michael

Why?

Vaughan

Sex is something the leeches use to get what they want. It's not how they make other leeches, is it? The females don't menstruate. It's a waste of good blood. And as far as your male leech is concerned, he can get it up all right, but they're sterile.

Michael

Then how is she pregnant?

Angie

There's embryonic tissue in this one. She miscarried in the pro-life office.

Father Pearse

Thank God. So why do you think they wanted her?

Angie

She'd still be carrying some remains, which I expect they wanted to look at post mortem.

Father Pearse

She couldn't have survived?

Angie

Not with that degree of hemorrhaging.

Michael

Maybe he wanted to cross her over.

Angie

She didn't have anything else they wanted. She's not a scientist.

Michael

So it couldn't be that her husband just wanted her back?

Vaughan

[sarcastically] Life after death. Just an old romantic, aren't you? [seriously] We'll fix that.

Michael

[after he accidentally shoots a pedophile] That's your inquiry?! 'Two Hail Mary's and don't shoot any more civilians'?

Father Pearse

You can wear a hair shirt if it makes you feel any better.

[to dog] You'd never take a piece out of anyone, would you Maxy? [to Mike] And he loves boys.

Michael

Yeah, that makes two of you.