Brimstone (1998–1999)

Peter Horton: Ezekiel Stone

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Quotes 

• [Stone meets the Devil in an elevator] 

  Ezekiel Stone : Going up or down?

  The Devil : Guess.

• [as Stone goes through someone's mailbox] 

  Ashe : Pardon me for interrupting you here, but that happens to be a federal crime. Is that within your jurisdiction, too?

  Ezekiel Stone : I answer to a lower power.

• Father Horn : The Devil, he appears to you as a man?

  Ezekiel Stone : Yeah. He looks a lot like a kid I used to beat the crap out of in sixth grade... I'm sure that's on purpose.

• Ezekiel Stone : You loved her, didn't you?

  The Devil : I never loved anyone but God, and that was a long time ago.

• Ezekiel Stone : You really push a man to the brink.

  The Devil : I am the brink.

• The Angel : Yours is a divine purpose, Ezekiel.

  Ezekiel Stone : [referring to the Devil]  He'd freak if he heard that.

  The Angel : Good. Let him freak.

• [the Devil and Stone meet in an elevator for a conference] 

  The Devil : You know, before they invented the elevator, I had to walk all the way from hell.

  Ezekiel Stone : Glad to hear it.

  The Devil : Second throughts, Ezekiel?

  Ezekiel Stone : Can't you find someone else to torture?

  The Devil : Millions of them. They can wait. Everyone's in such a rush. I say, stop and smell the burning flesh of sinners.

• The Devil : You don't have any friends, Ezekial. You're not only really dead, you're really most sincerely dead.

  Ezekiel Stone : Isn't that from "The Wizard of Oz"?

  The Devil : I HATE that movie.

• [From the opening credits] 

  Ezekiel Stone : I was a cop. When my wife was raped, I caught the guy who did it, and I killed him. Two months later, I died. I went to Hell. A hundred and thirteen of the most vile creatures... escaped.

  The Devil : They think they'll beat the Devil. Nobody beats me!

  Ezekiel Stone : So how am I supposed to send them back?

  The Devil : The eyes: windows to the soul. Destroy the eyes, and the damned get a one-way ticket back home to Hell. But it's not Hell you should be scared of. It's losing your second chance at life on Earth!

  Ezekiel Stone : Time to give the Devil his due!

• [the Devil interrupts Stone as he's having breakfast] 

  Ezekiel Stone : What do you want?

  The Devil : Your every waking moment consumed with holding up your end of our bargain.

  Ezekiel Stone : Man's gotta eat.

  The Devil : A living man, perhaps. But, for you, this would be classified as recreation. Like those idle thoughts of yours replaying that sweet bygone day over and over. As if, you're expecting a different outcome. Some people would call that insane.

  Ezekiel Stone : Yeah? What would they call a conversation with the Devil over breakfast?

• Ezekiel Stone : Why don't you try and just enjoy some of the beautiful things in this world? Just one. Try it on for size.

  The Devil : Believe me, it won't fit.

• Ezekiel Stone : You a football fan?

  Father Horn : I love the Saints.

  [laughs] 

  Father Horn : That's from the Vatican jokebook.

• Ezekiel Stone : You know, I gotta tell you, I'm getting a little tired of breaking into desks and rifling through filing cabinets. I feel like I'm on a rerun of "Magnum P.I."

• [Stone tries to convince the Devil to let him have a car] 

  Ezekiel Stone : It's not New York any more. Nobody wants to walk around here. Plus, the buses suck.

  The Devil : Now wait a minute. Fifteen years in Hell, now you're back on Earth and you're complaining. Oh, because you have to walk. You're not going Hollywood on me, are you, Zeke?

• Ezekiel Stone : What the hell do you know about love?

  The Devil : Love, the most delicious emotion of all. Without love you and I would be out of a job.

• Ezekiel Stone : Do you know anything about faith?

  The Devil : Faith? I was present at its creation.

• Ezekiel Stone : Get out of my head.

  The Devil : As if you could wrap your brain in barbed wire to keep me out. That is a delightful image, however.

• Ezekiel Stone : [reading his own headstone]  "Ezekiel Stone, Beloved Husband, Detective NYPD, Died Defending The Citizens Of New York. The City, She Weepeth Sore in the Night, Her Tears Are On Her Cheeks."

• Ezekiel Stone : [seeing The Devil disguised as a motorcycle cop]  Don't you know it's against the law to impersonate a police officer?

  The Devil : What do you think you're doing, Ezekiel? You're impersonating a human being.

• Ezekiel Stone : You know, you should be grateful. You should be happy. Every week I send one of your sinners back to Hell. You do nothing but complain.

  The Devil : Don't get so cocky, detective! You know what over-confidence leads to, don't you? You get bit in the ass!

• Desk Clerk : Where have you been?

  Ezekiel Stone : Out of the country.

  Desk Clerk : Oh, where?

  Ezekiel Stone : Down under.