Angel (TV Series)

Billy (2001)

Charisma Carpenter: Cordelia Chase

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• Billy Blim : I don't hate women. I mean, sure you're all whores who sell yourselves for money or prestige, but men are just as bad. Maybe even worse. They're willing to throw away careers or families or even lives for what's under your skirt.

  Cordelia : I'm wearing pants.

  Billy Blim : So you can dress like a man? Talk like a man? Does that make you feel superior?

  Cordelia : Actually, I'm feeling superior because I have an arrow pointed at your jugular. And the irony of using a phallic-shaped weapon... not lost on me.

• Lilah Morgan : And I'm gonna help you, why?

  Cordelia : You know that guy that you hired to hack into my visions? What he did to me? You know what it felt like? I was cut, torn up, my face disfigured, and burning with pain every second not knowing if it was going to end or just get worse till I died.

  Lilah Morgan : So you think I owe you...

  Cordelia : [to Lilah, about misogynist Billy]  It's not the pain. It's the helplessness, the certainty that there is nothing you can do to stop it, that your life can be thrown away in an instant by someone else. He doesn't care. He'll beat you down till you stay down 'cause he doesn't even think of you as alive. No woman should ever have to go through that. And no woman strong enough to wear the mantle of "vicious bitch" would *ever* put up with it. Where is Billy going?

• Cordelia : I want you to tell me about Billy. Everything you didn't tell Angel. I want you to help me stop him.

  Lilah Morgan : And what makes you think I'm gonna do that?

  Cordelia : Well, there's your face, for starters.

  Lilah Morgan : I know the risks of my job and I accept them

  Cordelia : Then why where you crying five minutes ago? There's not a thing about badly re-applied mascara that I don't know.

  Lilah Morgan : I'm not Lindsey McDonald. I don't switch sides whenever it gets tough. And since when is this your job? I thought Angel was the dark avenger.

  Cordelia : Angel feels responsible for this guy because he brought him back from Hell. I feel responsible because he did it to save me. You, who are actually responsible for the entire thing, feel nothing at all, because you are a vicious bitch.

  Lilah Morgan : [shrugs]  So? You know me.

  Cordelia : Please. I *was* you - with better shoes.

• Angel : You know, Cordelia, handling a lethal weapon is a little different than shaking a pom-pom.

  Cordelia : Ready! Okay!

  [goes through combination sword kata and cheerleader routine] 

  Angel : Easy.

  [Cordelia pins him to wall, sword at his throat] 

  Angel : Go team!

• [first lines] 

  Angel : Just trust me.

  Cordelia : I do.

  Angel : Don't stiffen up.

  Cordelia : Yeah, you either.

• Lilah Morgan : Cordelia Chase, right? Come to gloat?

  Cordelia : I can do that anywhere. Are you gonna invite me in? Oh, wait. I'm not a vampire.

  Lilah Morgan : Please, come on in.

• [In the opening scene, Angel is training Cordelia how to fight] 

  Angel : You'll be able to keep an attacker busy until... You know.

  Cordelia : What? Until he dies of old age or until you swoop in to save me? Angel, I didn't ask you to train me so I could stave. I already know how to stave. Now I need to learn how to fight.

  Angel : You don't think that I would?

  Cordelia : Would what?

  Angel : Save you.

  Cordelia : Men-folk not always around to protect the women-folk, you know? Besides, what if it turned out you were the guy I had to fight? Could happen.

• Cordelia : What's this?

  Wesley Wyndam-Pryce : Everything about the crime I believe you saw in your vision. Police reports, husband's written confession, captures from the video store's surveillance cameras, and, I have to caution all of you, the medical examiners crime-scene photos. Cordelia...

  Angel : Maybe you shouldn't be looking at that.

  Cordelia : Tell that to The Powers. They already ran the T.H.X. version in my head, remember?

• Cordelia : [to Angel]  Wait, Angel. You can't barge into a police precinct and go all "Terminator".

• Angel : That thing that Billy brought out in others? The hatred and anger... that's something I lost a long time ago.

  Cordelia : Even when you were evil?

  Angel : I never hated my victims, I never killed out of anger, it was always about the - pain and the pleasure.

• Cordelia : [to Lilah]  Angel feels responsible for this guy because he brought him back from hell. I feel responsible because he did it to save me. You, who are actually responsible for the entire thing, feel nothing at all, because you are a vicious bitch.

  Lilah Morgan : So, you know me.

  Cordelia : Please. I was you... with better shoes.

  Lilah Morgan : These are Boracci.

  Cordelia : Fall collection?

  Lilah Morgan : Next spring.

  Cordelia : He's widened the heel.

  Lilah Morgan : And rounded the toe.

  Cordelia : That won't work with the pink.

  Lilah Morgan : The pink is out this spring.

• Cordelia : [looking at a picture of Billy]  You're sure this is him? This is the guy?

  Angel : You pull someone from a Hell dimension, you tend to remember their face. Yeah, that's him.

• Cordelia : No, ass-wipe.