Us, the distinction of human and beast guarded by a soul.
Magev: “Fight!"
Angel: "I am fighting!"
Magev: "Yourself. You’re fighting yourself. Fight me! Why are you holding back? Why can’t you let go?"
Angel: "Because."
Magev: "Why?"
Angel over their locked staffs: "If I let it, it’ll kill you."
Magev: "It?"
Angel disengages and steps back: "The demon."
Magev: "Ha! But the demon is you!"
Angel: "No."
Magev: "Yes! That’s the thing you spend so much energy trying to conceal!"
Angel shakes his head: "No, I just - I can’t let it control me."
Magev
nods: "Ah. I see. (Hits Angel’s knee hard then hooks the staff behind
his legs to drop him onto his back) You *don’t* think it controls you?"
‘Guise Will Be Guise’ (2.06)
Life
Angel: "Well, I guess I kinda - worked it out. If there is no great
glorious end to all this, if - nothing we do matters, - then all that
matters is what we do. ’cause that’s all there is. What we do, now,
today. - I fought for so long. For redemption, for a reward - finally
just to beat the other guy, but… I never got it."
Kate: "And now you do?"
Angel:
"Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because - I don’t
think people should suffer, as they do. Because, if there is no bigger
meaning, then the smallest act of kindness - is the greatest thing in
the world."
‘Epiphany’ (2.16)
Angel: “…I did get time to think. About us, about the world. -
Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. - It’s harsh, and
cruel. - But that’s why there’s us. Champions. It doesn’t matter where
we come from, what we’ve done or suffered, or even if we make a
difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show
it what it can be.”
‘Deep Down’ (4.01)