Angel (TV Series)

Underneath (2004)

David Boreanaz: Angel

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• Lindsey McDonald : That's what I like to see. Angel of yore. Takes no prisoners. Suffers no fools. How about this? It's here. It's been here all along, underneath. You're just too damn stupid to see it.

  Angel : See what?

  Lindsey McDonald : The Apocalypse, man. You're soakin' in it.

  Spike : I've seen an Apocalypse or two in my time. I'd know if one was going on under my nose.

  Lindsey McDonald : Not "an" Apocalypse. "The" Apocalypse. What... you think a gong was gonna sound? Time to jump on your horses and fight the big fight? Starting pistol went off a long time ago, boys. Since you came to work here at Wolfram & Hart, you're playin' for the bad guys. Every day you sit behind your desk and you learn a little more how to accept the world the way it is. Well, here's the rub. Heroes don't do that. Heroes don't accept the world the way it is. They fight it.

  Angel : You're saying that everything we do here... it's a distraction to keep us busy from looking under the surface?

  Lindsey McDonald : Ding! We got a winner. Every day the world keeps slidin' towards entropy and degradation. And what do you do? You sit in your big chair and you sign your checks... just like the Senior Partners planned. The war's here, Angel, and you're already two soldiers down.

• [as the Camaro SS is driving itself] 

  Angel : This is weirdin' me out. Is this weirding you out?

  Spike : What, you never heard of Knight Rider? Knight Industries 2000? KITT? Never mind.

• Angel : The Senior Partners - I wanna know everything you know about them. About the Apocalypse. About their plans for me.

  Spike : And for me. The guy with the pen said, "welcome to the team". Must've ment something.

  Lindsey McDonald : You already know what I know. Look around. The world's a cesspool, filled with selfish and greedy beasts. We live. We die.

  [to Eve] 

  Lindsey McDonald : Even you, babe.

  Eve : Lindsey, don't.

  Lindsey McDonald : You still happy to see me?

  Angel : Yeah, Hell's on Earth. That's how Wolfram & Hart operates and thrives. Holland Manners tried to sell me that line three years ago.

  Lindsey McDonald : Did you ever prove him wrong?

  Angel : [beat]  All how you look at the glass.

• Lindsey McDonald : Angel.

  [sees a knife on Angel's belt] 

  Lindsey McDonald : Make it quick.

  Angel : If I was gonna kill you, it wouldn't be quick.

• Spike : Why am I always reconnaissance? I should get a decently flashy job, like save the girl or steal the emerald. Or save the emerald with the girl.

  Angel : Handsome man saved me from the monsters...

  Spike : Or that... wait, what...

  Angel : That's the first thing Fred said to me in Pylea. She was trapped hiding, afraid... nearly crazy - okay, she was crazy, but she was brave. I should have never let her come here. Bad things always happen here.

• Angel : [about Eve's replacement as the Senior Partner's liason]  Damn. He is well-dressed.

• Lorne : Where's Gunn?

  [pause] 

  Lorne : Angel?

  Angel : He, uh, he stayed behind.

  Lorne : Stayed behind? But you never leave a...

  [Angel gives him a look] 

  Lorne : Or I guess we do. That's what we do now.

• Lindsey McDonald : Look, it's the hero of the hour.

  Angel : I'm not your hero. I'm your warden.

  Lindsey McDonald : It's all how you look at the glass.

  Angel : I'd have thought a few months of torture at the hands of the Senior Partners would've dug a little deeper.

  Lindsey McDonald : Just scratched the surface. Turns out they can only undo you as far as you think you deserve to be undone. I wonder how Gunn's gonna make it out.

• Angel : [about Fred]  I should never have let her come here. Bad things always happen here.

  Spike : Hate to break it to you, mate, but bad things always happen everywhere.

• [Gunn opens the car door, letting sunlight in] 

  Spike , Angel : Ahhh!

  Gunn : Alternate dimension, remember? Sun's the non-frying variety.

  Spike : Figured that.

  Angel : Oh, right.

• Spike : You're fixin' to do something stupid, aren't you?

  Angel : Done it. Came here.

• Angel : [to Spike]  This isn't a meeting, this is you being annoying.

• [Gunn has to take Lindsey's place in hell] 

  Angel : You knew.

  Gunn : Thing about atonement.

• [after the Senior Partners find Eve] 

  Eve : You bastard, you told them! You...

  Angel : Wasn't me!

• Spike : Where you goin'?

  Angel : To see my lawyer.

• Angel : Gunn, you paid a high price for what's in that brain, so use it.

• Angel : What the hell are you doin'?

  Gunn : What needs to be done.

• Angel : You know, the thing about atonement is you never run out of chances. But you gotta take 'em.