The Prophecy (1995)

Elias Koteas: Det. Thomas Dagget

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• Thomas Daggett : Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?

• Thomas Daggett : If you wanted to prove your side was right, Gabriel, so badly, why didn't you just ask Him? Why didn't you ask God?

  Gabriel : Because He doesn't talk to me any more.

• Thomas Daggett : Years later, of all the Gospels I learnt in seminary school, a verse from St. Paul stays with me. It is perhaps the strangest passage in the Bible, in which he writes: "Even now in Heaven there are Angles carrying savage weapons."

• Thomas Daggett : Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little. But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?

• Simon : Do you believe that you are a part of God's plan?

  Thomas Daggett : That's a complicated question.

  Simon : No it isn't.

• [Thomas has refused Lucifer's offer to "come home" with him] 

  Thomas Daggett : I have my soul. I have my faith. What do you have, angel?

  Lucifer : Leave the light on, Thomas.

• Lucifer : Think, Thomas, think. What is the one thing essential to an angel... the thing that holds his entire being together?

  Thomas Daggett : Faith, faith, faith.

  Lucifer : And what would happen if that faith was tested and an angel, just like you didn't understand? Use that. Use it!

• Thomas Daggett : When was he buried?

  Grave Keeper : Which time?

• Thomas Daggett : [thumbing through ancient Bible found on the dead John Doe]  Cute.

  Joseph : What is it?

  Thomas Daggett : Twenty-third chapter of Saint John's Revelations.

  Joseph : And?

  Thomas Daggett : There is no twenty-third chapter.

  Joseph : Well, maybe this is the Teacher's Edition.

• Joseph : And this is for you. He's also a hermaphrodite.

  [lifts the sheet covering the corpse so Thomas can see] 

  Joseph : He's got both male and female sex organs.

  Thomas Daggett : Think of the possibilities!

  Joseph : Yeah, you can be impotent and frigid all at the same time.

• [last lines] 

  Thomas Daggett : [narrating]  And in the end, I think it must be about faith, and if faith is a choice, then it can be lost - for a man, an angel, or the devil himself. And if faith means never completely understanding God's plan, then maybe understanding just a part of it - our part - is what it is to have a soul. And maybe in the end, that's what being human is, after all.