Dark Angel (2000–2002)

John Savage: Donald Lydecker

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• Donald Lydecker : Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.

• Donald Lydecker : It was the best of you that ran away that night.

  Max Guevara : Yeah, well, we wanted to start a rock band.

• Donald Lydecker : You're in one hell of a situation, soldier.

  Jace : Yes, sir.

  Donald Lydecker : Do you mind explaining why?

  Jace : Because I am dumb! I am so damned dumb it would take ten acts of divine providence to raise me to the sublime height of blissful ignorance, sir!

  Donald Lydecker : And what am I supposed to do about you now?

  Jace : That is not for me to speculate, sir.

  Donald Lydecker : You're damn right it's not. Your mission was to eliminate this individual here.

  [He pulls out his gun and shoots Vertes. She collapses and he replaces the gun] 

  Donald Lydecker : Mission accomplished. Now was that so difficult?

• Donald Lydecker : Sometimes when you grease the palm, it makes the fingers slippery.

• Donald Lydecker : Remember what I taught you. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  Max Guevara : Shut up.