Altered Carbon (TV Series)

Phantom Lady (2020)

Anthony Mackie: Takeshi Kovacs

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• [first lines] 

  Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  This is a ghost story. Told in the age of eternal life. Technology has conquered death, but with endless future comes endless past. We are trailed by specters, twisted apparitions born from our deepest pain, until sometimes we'd rather be dead ourselves.

• Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  Time is the greatest of all warriors. What it doesn't destroy, it alters beyond recognition. Time tears down everything. We brace our backs against the void, desperate to hold on to the past, to our ghosts, to ourselves.

• Tanaseda Hideki : [about his grandson]  Yukito is young, but still, that was disappointing.

  Takeshi Kovacs : Family usually is.

• Tanaseda Hideki : The cells in our bodies are constantly dying and being replaced. As we age, we become a copy of a copy of a copy, degrading each time.

  Takeshi Kovacs : Meths have got around that.

  Tanaseda Hideki : Have we? We transfer our minds into new sleeves, but what if the spirit degrades as well? We can't quantify the change, but we are not the same. I'm not the person I once was. Neither are you.

• Takeshi Kovacs : Stay alive long enough, and there's nowhere you can go that isn't haunted.

  Takeshi Kovacs : All of us have ghosts. They cling to us like shadows. But if you chase after shadows .. if you're foolish enough to seek out your ghosts, you just might become one.