Angel (TV Series)

Power Play (2004)

J. August Richards: Charles Gunn

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• Lindsey McDonald : [about the Circle of the Black Thorn]  It's a secret society.

  Gunn : Never heard of 'em.

  Lindsey McDonald : That's 'cause it's "secret".

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Cordelia gave you her visions?

  Angel : It was only a one-shot deal. The vision didn't hit me until later that night. I knew then about the Black Thorn and who was behind the Apocalypse, but I couldn't see their faces. I was aware of where the power was, but didn't know who. Then Fred died and I didn't want that to be another awful thing in an awful world so I decided to use it... to make her death matter. And it worked. I'm in. I've seen the faces of evil in the Black Thorn. I know who the real powers in the Apocalypse are.

  Gunn : So, what you said earlier about power...

  Angel : I was telling the truth about that. Wolfam & Hart is like a machine. That machine has been around since the dawn of time and it will be around long after our bodies are dust and bones. The Senior Partners and Wolfram & Hart will always exist in one form or another because mankind is weak.

  Lorne the Host : Someone might want to hand me the crossbow, 'cause I think he gonna start talking about ants again.

  Angel : WE are weak. The powerful control everything... except our will to choose. Lindsey may be a pathetic half-wit, but he was right about one thing. Heroes don't accept the world the way it is. They fight it. The Senior Partners may be eternal, but we can make their existence painful.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : You want to take them on? The Senior Partners?

  Angel : Why not? Wolfram & Hart is a machine. We're in the machine. The Black Thorn runs it. They are the closest thing to the Senior Partners in this plane of existence. If we wipe out the Black Thorn, we can tip the scales in our favor. Bring Wolfram & Hart's gears and the Apocalypse to a grinding halt, even if it's just for a moment or two.

  Spike : About time we got our hands dirty.

• Angel : This isn't a "keep fighting the good fight" kind of deal. Let's be clear. I'm talking about killing every... single... member... of the Black Thorn. We don't walk away from that.

  Lorne the Host : Do we crawl away at least?

  Angel : We do this, the Senior Partners will rain their full wrath. They'll make an example of us. I'm talkin' full-on hell, not the basic fire-and-brimstone kind that we're used to.

  Gunn : We know the drill.

  Angel : No, you don't! Ten to one, we're gone when the smoke clears. They will do everything in their power to destroy us. So... I need you to be sure. Power endures. We can't bring down the Senior Partners, but for one bright shiny moment we can show them that they don't own us! You need to decide for yourselves if that's worth dying for. I can't order you to do this... but I can't do it without you. So we'll vote... as a team. Think about what I'm asking you to do. Think about what I'm asking you to give.

  Spike : [grim tone]  Kill 'em all. Burn the house down while we're still in it.

  Angel : Something like that.

• Drogyn : It was a Sathari, part of a clan of demon assassins. They fell upon me last night at the Deeper Well. The poison from his four blades wearing heavy on my limbs...

  Spike : [cutting him off]  Yeah, rousing bit of rah-rah, mate. Get to the goods. Tell them what you told me.

  Drogyn : Once I bested him, I tortured the Sathari for hours, until he confessed to me who sent him. It was Angel.

  Spike : Tell them why.

  Drogyn : He said that Angel was afraid I'd find something in the Deeper Well... something that would uncover the truth about his involvment.

  Gunn : In what?

  Drogyn : Helping Illyria escape from her tomb.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : I thought the release of her sarcophagus from the Deeper Well was predestined.

  Drogyn : That's what I thought at the time, but now I belive... Illyria's resurrection may have been planned.

  Gunn : By Angel?

  Lorne the Host : Oh, that doesn't make a lick of sense. Why would Angel want to spring an Old One?

  Drogyn : I don't think that was the point.

  Gunn : Then what was?

  Drogyn : Before he died, the assasin said something about a sacrifice. Someone... trusted and dear.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Are you saying that Angel... was responsible for what happened to Fred?

  Drogyn : I mean, he may not have chosen her specifically, but...

  Lorne the Host : Whoa! Let's but a kibosh on that sentence before it turns into an ass-kicking.

  Drogyn : Do you think I gain pleasure in this? I held Angel as an ally, a brother.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : And you belive he may have murdered Fred?

  Drogyn : I know this is difficult for you, but Angel was involved. The information I retreived from the assasin...

  Gunn : Did you ever think that the demon assasin was lying to you?

  Drogyn : No one lies when they're in extreme pain... at the mercy of my wrath.

  Gunn : Then you're the liar, Aragon.

  Spike : He has to tell the truth. He cannot lie. It's a curse or something.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Spike's right. This is Drogyn, the battlebrand, given eternal youth a thousand years ago. Demon bane, truth sayer... Watchers council.

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Business. What "business" are we in, Angel?

  Angel : Do I really have to explain this to you people? We're in the business of business. Oil, software, worldwide wickets... the product doesn't matter. It's the game that matters. Get to the top, be the best, have the most, win.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Win what?

  Angel : You're still missing the point.

  Gunn : That Angel talking? 'cause it sounds a lot more like Angelus.

  Angel : If I was Angelus, half of you would already be dead, just for the fun of it.

  Spike : One of us already is. Having fun yet?

  Angel : You wanna know the truth? The truth is there's only one of us who ever understood how things really work. Lorne

  Lorne the Host : Whoa, hey! Can I not be the poster child for you nervous breakdown?