Best of Season 4 Quotes

 

"Deep Down"
Angel: (to Connor) So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish, went mad with hunger, hallucinated a whole bunch.

"Ground State "
Fred:
(to Gunn and Angel) I’m still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and being someone’s bitch.

"The House Always Wins"
Angel:
(on the Tropicana) This place was so much friendlier when the mob ran it.

"Slouching Toward Bethlehem"
Angel:
(re: reading Cordelia) Come on, Lorne. You’ve got to give me something.
Lorne: Do the words "slouching towards Bethlehem" ring a bell? Or how about "despair", "torment", "terror"? And I’m not referring to little missie’s choice of song, either. Although that was horrifying in it’s own right. Ugh. What I saw was jumbled. It was the pieces, flashes. It was enough to make my skin crawl away and scamper under the bed. Evil’s coming, Angel, and, (pauses) and it’s planning on staying.

"Supersymmetry"
Gunn:
Listen, man, I’m gonna need simultaneous translating on this thing. You know, like the president with the Russians, but just give me the highlights.
Angel:
No problem. Of course, I have no idea what she’s talking about.
Gunn:
Will you tell Fred that? If she thinks we’re both stupid, I won’t stand out as much.

"Spin the Bottle"
Connor:
Why did he attack you?
Cordelia: Well who wouldn’t? Look, you’re a bit chess club for my usual beat, but you kill that freak and you’re getting a big reward.
Connor: You mean it?
Cordelia: (throaty) Hoo doggy.

"Apocalypse, Nowish"
Gunn:
OK. So what the hell is it?
Angel: The eye of fire.
Wesley: Ancient alchemical symbol for fire.
Angel: And destruction.
Gunn: You had me at fire.

"Habeas Corpses"
Gunn:
I don’t get it. Wolfram & Hart is evil. The Big Bad is evil. Why go all Terminator on your own team?
Angel: Maybe all it wants is to eliminate the competition.
Fred: Doesn’t give us much to look forward to, does it?

"Long Day's Journey"
Gwen:
Demon, OK? The whole nine: cloven feet and horns and teeth and… (pauses as she sees Lorne) He wasn’t wearing lamé though.
Lorne: The evil ones can’t pull it off. It gets camp.

"Awakening"
Cordelia:
I just came to say that I’m on your side. Angelus is the jumbo, family-sized bad of bad ideas. He’d be a danger to all of us. You made the right call. Wesley, the others, they don’t get it.
Angel: But you do.
Cordelia: Well, if I didn’t when Angelus was loose and killing in Sunnydale, then reliving his past horrors in visual wide-screen sensurround during my stay in floaty-ville pretty much makes me an expert.

"Soulless"
Angelus:
You’ve got no leverage. What are you going to do? Kill me?
Wesley: If I have to.
Angelus: (laughing) Wait til they drop, Wes. Then try that line again.

"Calvary"
Lilah:
Forget about the goody-goody. You want to kill the Beast and give his boss a run for his evil? The answer is downstairs in a cage. Sic Angelus on him.
Cordelia:
Do you know what Angelus would do if we let him out? Lilah: Kill you all in a bloody shower of violence, (smiling) but, hey, greater good.

"Salvage"
Connor:
I had no idea what a slayer could do.
Cordelia: (sardonically) A weakness for slayers. You’re definitely his son.

"Release"
Disembodied Voice:
Destruction sometimes is its own reward.
Angelus: Hey, man, you’re preaching to the guy who ate the choir.

"Orpheus"
Connor:
She's a witch.
Willow:
Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome yet androgynous son.
Connor:
It's Connor.
Willow:
And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?

"Players"
Gunn:
Two vampires hook up and for the only time in vamp history, have a kid—our boy, Connor. Then Connor grows up, knocks it out with Cordelia, a part-demon former higher being, and quick as you can say "Easy-Bake Oven" there’s a gigantic bun in hers. I don’t think we were too harsh.

"Inside Out "
Angel:
How do we stop it?
Skip: That’s the easy part, slick. All you gotta do is find Cordelia and chop her head off.
Angel: Has to be another way.
Skip: Sure. Stab her in the heart, kidney, couple pokes in the lung…

"Shiny Happy People"
Lorne:
Nothing like a homicidal maniac to put a damper on an impromptu spiritual gathering.

"The Magic Bullet"
Bookstore Owner:
(re: mind control) I believe. I just don’t worry about it anymore.
Fred: So, you don’t worry that it’s possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative, coercive agenda that reduces you to little more than a mindless meat puppet?
Bookstore Owner: Wow. People used to say that I was paranoid.

"Sacrifice"
Lorne:
Oh, I don’t know, kids. That’s a whole lot of pod people.
Angel: Well, it’s better than the last three places. We won’t make it out of the city without any gas.
Gunn: So that’s our big plan? Just keep running?
Lorne: I hear good things about Belize.

"Peace Out "
Jasmine:
No. No, Angel. There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven’t you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise. And you chose this.
Angel: Because I could. Because that’s what you took away from us. Choice.
Jasmine: And look where free will has gotten you.
Angel: Hey, I didn’t say we were smart. I said it’s our right. It’s what makes us human.
Jasmine: But you’re not human!
Angel: Working on it.

"Home"
Lorne:
I’m not saying we ended world peace or anything, kids, but, uh, it’s a mess out there, and considering the banner year we’ve had, that’s up against some pretty stiff competition.


Quotes by CoA Council member, Seeker