- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: What connects us to life is a simple truth that we're a part of it. We live, we grow, we change. But Angel...
- Cordelia: Can't do any of those things.
- Detective Kate Lockley: Never a dull moment when you're around, is there?
- Angel: I have to go.
- Detective Kate Lockley: Who in the hell do you think you are? You're a major witness at a major crime scene; you're not going anywhere.
- Angel: You want to try and stop me, Kate?
- Detective Kate Lockley: I'm glad we are not playing friends anymore. I am real sick and tired of your attitude. There's a little thing called the law...
- Angel: This isn't about the law, this is about a little thing called life. Now I'm sorry about your father. But I didn't kill your father. And I'm sick and tired of you blaming me for everything you can't handle! You want to be enemies? Try me.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: [researching Angel's destiny] Uh, oops. I may have made a tiny mistake. Uh, the word "shanshu" that I said meant you were going to die? Actually, I think it means you're going to live.
- Cordelia: Okay, as tiny mistakes go, that's not one!
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: [about the word 'shanshu' in the scroll] This word is *pivotal* to what it prophesies about the vampire with a soul.
- Cordelia: Well, hurry up and figure out what it says about Angel, cos I wanna know what it says about me. If there's torrid romance in my future? Massive wealth? If I have to, I'll settle for enviable fame.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: It's an ancient sacred text, not a magic 8-ball.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Angel, I hope I'm wrong about all this, but it might be a good time to consult the Oracles.
- Angel: I don't need to see the Oracles about this.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Well, think about it.
- Cordelia: [encouragingly] Oracles... Get out of the house... Could be fun.
- [Cut to the chamber of the Oracles]
- Female Oracle: How dare you enter this sacred space?
- Male Oracle: Who do you think you are?
- Female Oracle: We do not appreciate being summoned by a lower being.
- Male Oracle: Who knows no better than to come here on a whim.
- Vocah Demon: I'm not here on a whim.
- Female Oracle: We do not counsel your kind. The powers of darkness are not allowed to cross this threshold. How did you get past it?
- Vocah Demon: The old order passes away and the new order's come. He that was first shall now be last and he that was dead shall now arise.
- Female Oracle: Yes, and he that is trespassing shall now depart.
- [Vocah puts a hand behind his back]
- Male Oracle: We shall speak no more.
- [a battle scythe grows in Vocah's hand]
- Vocah Demon: Yes, I know.
- Vocah Demon: I was summoned for the raising, the very thing that was to bring this creature down to us, tear him from the Powers That Be... and he has the scroll?
- Lilah Morgan: We're not unaware of the irony.