Angel (TV Series)

Why We Fight (2004)

David Boreanaz: Angel

Quotes 

• Angel : You're a Nazi.

  Spike : [has on a Nazi jacket]  What?... Oh! No, I just ate one.

• Lawson : Aren't ya gonna ask me how I got in here?

  Angel : No. You'd be amazed at how many people break into this building on a regular basis.

• Angel : We need them. I'm not getting trapped at the bottom of the sea!

  Spike : And I'm not getting experimented on by his government!

• Angel : Killing them's not going to change the past.

  Lawson : But it'll hurt you. Maybe that's enough.

  Angel : Never is.

  Lawson : Then maybe I found my mission again after all these years.

  Angel : Being an evil sonofabitch not keeping you busy?

  Lawson : We all need a reason to live, even if we're already dead. Mom, apple pie, the Stars and Stripes... that was good enough for me, 'till I met you. Then I had this whole creature-of-the-night thing going for me, the joy of destruction and death, and I embraced it. I did all the terrible things a monster does: murdered women and children, tortured fathers and husbands just to hear 'em scream, and through it all... I felt nothing. Sixty years of blood drying in my throat like ashes. So what do you think? Is it me, chief? Or does everyone you sired feel this way?

  Angel : You're the only one I ever did this to... after I got a soul.

  Lawson : Do I have one, too?

  Angel : I don't think it works that way, son.

  Lawson : Didn't think so.

  [Lawson attacks Angel] 

• Nostroyev : Angelus, you used to be quite a terror back in the day. Haven't heard much of you lately.

  Angel : Haven't heard much of you, ever.

  Nostroyev : Nostoyev! The scourge of Siberia! The butcher of Alexander Palace!

  Angel : Sorry.

  Nostroyev : I was Rasputin's lover!

• Angel : Spike.

  Spike : Captain.

  Angel : What?

  Spike : I wanna be called Captain. I mean, hell, I did eat him.

  Angel : Check the torpedoes before I stuff you in a tube and send you for a swim, "Captain".

• Spike : Really oughta do somethin' about security. They'll let anybody in here, won't they? Fred gave me the Cliff Notes. So sailor boy finally came back for a yo-ho-ho, did he?

  Angel : Finally came back.

  Spike : Took him long enough. Know revenge is best served cold and all, but his must've been frozen solid.

  Angel : I don't think that's what he was after.

  Spike : No? Then what was he looking for?

  Angel : A reason.

• Spike : Bloody brilliant! Turn the poor sod to save the ship and then make him dash for dry land before Mr. Sunshine scorches him a new one. You're still a dick.

  Angel : Yeah, I am.

  [looks up at the hatch] 

  Spike : Bollocks!

  [climbs ladder] 

• Lawson : They swore to give their lives for their country... just like me. Besides, I'm hungry.

  Angel : They're still your men.

  Lawson : But they're not the mission, are they?

• Spike : Sneaky bastards, the SS. Don't ever go to a "free virgin blood party". Turns out, it's probably a trap.

  Angel : You were captured at a "free virgin blood party"?

  Spike : I know. Who'da thought?

• Lawson : Did they at least torture you? Please tell me they did.

  Angel : Never gave them a chance. Jumped ship, off the coast of Maine. Went underground till the war was over.

  Lawson : Like any other coward.

  Angel : Wars are won and lost by men.

  Lawson : You mean, like me? No, wait, that doesn't apply anymore, does it?

  Angel : I never wanted to do this to you.

  Lawson : Oh, put your hanky away. I know how important the technology they pulled from the sub was to helping us stop the Germans. Sounded like a fair shake. One person damned to make the world safe for future generations.

  [shows off Angel's gang, tied up] 

  Lawson : Except these guys.