Angel (TV Series)

Underneath (2004)

Christian Kane: Lindsey McDonald

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• Lindsey McDonald : That's what I like to see. Angel of yore. Takes no prisoners. Suffers no fools. How about this? It's here. It's been here all along, underneath. You're just too damn stupid to see it.

  Angel : See what?

  Lindsey McDonald : The Apocalypse, man. You're soakin' in it.

  Spike : I've seen an Apocalypse or two in my time. I'd know if one was going on under my nose.

  Lindsey McDonald : Not "an" Apocalypse. "The" Apocalypse. What... you think a gong was gonna sound? Time to jump on your horses and fight the big fight? Starting pistol went off a long time ago, boys. Since you came to work here at Wolfram & Hart, you're playin' for the bad guys. Every day you sit behind your desk and you learn a little more how to accept the world the way it is. Well, here's the rub. Heroes don't do that. Heroes don't accept the world the way it is. They fight it.

  Angel : You're saying that everything we do here... it's a distraction to keep us busy from looking under the surface?

  Lindsey McDonald : Ding! We got a winner. Every day the world keeps slidin' towards entropy and degradation. And what do you do? You sit in your big chair and you sign your checks... just like the Senior Partners planned. The war's here, Angel, and you're already two soldiers down.

• Angel : The Senior Partners - I wanna know everything you know about them. About the Apocalypse. About their plans for me.

  Spike : And for me. The guy with the pen said, "welcome to the team". Must've ment something.

  Lindsey McDonald : You already know what I know. Look around. The world's a cesspool, filled with selfish and greedy beasts. We live. We die.

  [to Eve] 

  Lindsey McDonald : Even you, babe.

  Eve : Lindsey, don't.

  Lindsey McDonald : You still happy to see me?

  Angel : Yeah, Hell's on Earth. That's how Wolfram & Hart operates and thrives. Holland Manners tried to sell me that line three years ago.

  Lindsey McDonald : Did you ever prove him wrong?

  Angel : [beat]  All how you look at the glass.

• Lindsey McDonald : Angel.

  [sees a knife on Angel's belt] 

  Lindsey McDonald : Make it quick.

  Angel : If I was gonna kill you, it wouldn't be quick.

• Lindsey McDonald : Look, it's the hero of the hour.

  Angel : I'm not your hero. I'm your warden.

  Lindsey McDonald : It's all how you look at the glass.

  Angel : I'd have thought a few months of torture at the hands of the Senior Partners would've dug a little deeper.

  Lindsey McDonald : Just scratched the surface. Turns out they can only undo you as far as you think you deserve to be undone. I wonder how Gunn's gonna make it out.

• Zach : [Lindsey and Trish kiss as their son Zach bounces on the bed]  Stop it!

  Lindsey McDonald : Hey!

  Zach : That's how I get sisters.