Altered Carbon (TV Series)

Fallen Angel (2018)

Joel Kinnaman: Takeshi Kovacs

Photos 

Quotes 

• Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  I knew I shouldn't go, 'cause when the victors rewrite history. It's just another kind of war waged after the battlefield killing is done, to murder the memory of the defeated.

• Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  Technology advances. But humans don't. We're smart monkeys, and what we want is always the same. Food, shelter, sex, and in all its forms

  [puts on VR headset] 

  Takeshi Kovacs : Escape.

• [first lines] 

  Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn't last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.

  Fisherman : What are you doing?

  Boy : [reaching for floating woman]  We can't just leave her here.

  Fisherman : She's not our problem. You want to get us arrested? Just let her go.

  Takeshi Kovacs : [continuing narration]  The instinct of violence curls inside us like a parasite, waiting for a chance to feed on our rage and multiply until it bursts out of us. War is the only thing we really understand.

• Miriam Bancroft : [unbuttoning his shirt]  Have you been with anyone since you've been decanted?

  Takeshi Kovacs : Not what we're talking about.

  Miriam Bancroft : Maybe that's not what *you're* talking about.

  Takeshi Kovacs : I think that's enough.

  Miriam Bancroft : Enough? It's an interesting word. I'm not familiar with it.

• [last lines] 

  Takeshi Kovacs : [narrating]  The moments of peace that we find sometimes they aren't anything but warfare, thinly disguised. And sometimes surrender can be as savage as any attack.

• Little Girl : Mom said grudges are stupid. She said you had to let them go or else it would kill your soul. What do you think?

  Takeshi Kovacs : I think your mom doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about!

  Little Girl : What?

  Takeshi Kovacs : See, friends are overrated, 'cause eventually someone will come along and shoot 'em in the stack. You're better off alone.