Angel (TV Series)

Heartthrob (2001)

Charisma Carpenter: Cordelia Chase

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• Cordelia : Ever since you came back from your grief trip, I can tell that something's not right. And-and *obviously* it's not. Buffy's dead, and I don't mean to diminish that. I miss her too. I just wanna say, I know that James, with all his Romeo and Juliet madness, opened up a lot of wounds for you, but you'll be okay.

  Angel : I am okay.

  Cordelia : Then - What's the problem?

  Angel : That I'm okay. That losing Buffy didn't kill me. That I could deal with it. In all those years, no one ever mattered. Not like she did. And now she's gone... forever.

  Cordelia : And you're still here.

  Angel : Yeah. It just feels like I'm betraying her somehow.

  Cordelia : No! If you were a loser, if you were a sick obsessed vampire, then you'd go to a Snod demon, or whatever, and get your heart cut out. But you're not! You're a living, breathing... - well, living, anyway... - good guy, who's still fighting and trying to help people. And that's not betraying her, that's honoring her.

  Angel : You think?

  Cordelia : I'm Cordelia. I don't think. I know. Okay?

• James : Well, this is a new twist in an old snake. Is it possible you care about someone who isn't you?

  Angel : Don't worry about her

  James : But if you've changed, if you're not the same man who screwed Darla and couldn't care less what happened to her...

  Angel : Where did you hear- Oh, you mean back in the day. Right.

  Cordelia : He has changed. A lot. He-he has a soul now and he cares about people.

  James : [to Angel]  So you might feel something when I snap her neck.

  Cordelia : Well, it's not like he's losing sleep with the caring.

  James : Lucky me, now I can kill the woman you love.

  Angel : No you can't.

  James : Are you forgetting who's the invincible one here?

  Angel : The woman I love... is dead

  James : Who are you talking about?

  Cordelia : It happened about three months ago. We try not to say her name too much.

• [first lines] 

  Cordelia : I understand people who drink too much. I understand people who put a little note on the parking meter that says it's broken when it's not. I don't understand people who worship demons.

  Charles Gunn : Yeah, especially a Lurite demon. The stink on that thing. You're a prince of the underworld, bro, take a Jacuzzi once in a while

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : It's sad. The only way some people can find a purpose in life is by becoming obsessed with demons.

  [Cordelia yarns] 

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : By the way, Gunn, technically that wasn't a Lurite, it was a Murite. A subspecies of the Lurite. The male sports a small telltale fin just behind the third shoulder.

  Charles Gunn : So glad to know we're not the sad people obsessed with demons.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Well, we have to be a little obsessed, we're detectives who specialize in these things.

  Cordelia : But... we're not sad.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : No. No, we're a happy and rambunctious lot if I ever saw one.

• Cordelia : [about Angel]  As soon as he works through his grief a little.

  Charles Gunn : A little? Buff...

  Cordelia : Don't say the "B" word!

  Charles Gunn : The "B" word was the love of his life. And he's what, two hundred and fifty? That ain't no short life. This grief-work's gonna take more than a vacation in Sri Lanka.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : It isn't a vacation, it's a spiritual retreat at a monastery.

  Charles Gunn : Hmm. Angel and a buncha monks in the middle of nowhere. There's a party. He shoulda got hammered and gone to Vegas like I told him.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : He doesn't need a lap dance, he needs some peace and quiet to work through this.

• Cordelia : How's Fred?

  Angel : She's all right, considering. We talked over what happened... and I think she'll be coming out of her room any decade now.

• Angel : [about Buffy]  What?

  Cordelia : What?

  Angel : What do you wanna say?

  Cordelia : Ah, me? Nothing. What makes you think I wanna...

  Angel : 'Cause I know you?

  Cordelia : Well, it's really none of my business.

  Angel : And that always stops you.

  Cordelia : Actually, it is my business, *our* business, 'cause we're tryin' to do a job here, and what affects you affects me, and - Anyway, I don't like to see you suffer more than you have to. I don't think you should blame yourself, or feel guilty for her death.

  Angel : I don't.

  Cordelia : Good. Glad to hear it.

  Angel : I didn't even know who she was when I killed her.

  Cordelia : Not her. Angel...

  Angel : Oh... You - you wanna talk about...

  Cordelia : She was the love of your life and she died. And, you weren't there when it happened. You couldn't help her fight. You couldn't save her. You couldn't die with her.

  [long pause] 

  Cordelia : This is gonna be one of those talks where I do all the talking, isn't it? Well, I'm not gonna pry. It's not my style. Okay, it's totally my style, but I can tell that I'm not getting anywhere right now. But you have to tell me one thing. You owe me this much. What the hell happened with Holtz?

• Cordelia : The Ring of Amara. When you had that, you were invincible. Does he have a ring?

  Angel : No.

  Cordelia : Did the Amara people make cufflinks or belt buckles?

  Angel : There was only one.

  Cordelia : And you had to smash it!

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Gunn and I'll hit the streets; see what our sources can tell us.

  Cordelia : Uh-huh. See? We have sources now.

  Angel : Oh, you're almost like real detectives now.

• Cordelia : You guys amaze me. You'll fight hell beasts but you're scared of rats.

  Charles Gunn : Man, I hate rats. Their little beady eyes.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : And their beady teeth.

  Charles Gunn : And their little tails all...

  [makes whooshing noises, wiggles his butt] 

• Charles Gunn : I realize we sacrifice a great deal of our social lives, but we have to. Work demands it.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : True. I mean who's got time for love when you're out there doing it with the demons? Didn't that come out sad and wrong?

  Cordelia : Yeah.

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : I need to get out more. Speaking of, did anyone talk to Fred, lately?

• Cordelia : [to herself]  How did I ever live without a ghost?

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : [about Pylea]  Fred was there five years. She was a slave, a runaway. They nearly chopped her head off. All those years she spent hiding out alone in that cave.

  Charles Gunn : She survived. Girl's strong.

  Cordelia : Girl's trading one cave for another. How strong is that?

• Cordelia : [putting the necklace Angel gave her around her neck]  Oh, my gosh, it's gorgeous! And look how it brings out my breasts! You know you were all thinkin' it! Thank you.