Angie March quotes from Ultraviolet

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.

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

You're not, I hope, suggesting they have any desire or need for offspring, are you?

Angie

IVF doesn't let anyone off the hook, however old you are, however dead you are. Like us. They don't have to accept what nature gave them anymore.

Father Pearse

Have you ever performed a termination?

Angie

No. Have you ever sanctioned one?

Father Pearse

This isn't human.

Angie

It may be half-human.

Father Pearse

I believe that's what I said.

[tenderly stroking his wife's face] Shhh. It's over. They can't hurt you anymore.

Angie

Step away. You're not taking her.

Then she'll die.

Angie

She's going to live. Step away.

[sadly] She doesn't want to live. Not like this. Empty.

Angie

You made sure of that. If there was any chance of happiness with another man, you killed it.

I died to give her what she wants. She would've been so happy. You killed that, not me.

[delirious] Please... my husband...

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.

Father Pearse

They can't overturn the habit of centuries, it's against their nature – they're hunters.

Angie

Maybe they're evolving. Like us.

Father Pearse

[about the vampire] How's the patient?

Angie

Still dead.

Father Pearse

[Angie brings him coffee] Is this a new way of getting me to take my medication?

Angie

And cheat you out of martyrdom? Heaven forbid.