If there is a man selling a private arsenal to an Egyptian crook and he’s English and you’re English and those weapons could cause a lot of pain to a lot of people, then you just do it.
Getting information is one thing, but how it was created, where and by whom, can often be illuminating.
People change. Bad guys reform, good guys forget what they’re fighting for. It’s just how it works.[to Donald]
It’s the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good.
I’m not cruel for the sake of cruelty.
I’m not a murderer.[Hughie Campbell]That’s all right. I am.[Billy Butcher]
When something’s dead, it’s usually because it deserved to die.
When our days are done, morals are all that stand between reverence and infamy.
We all must choose, man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same. We choose light or we choose darkness. We choose good or we choose evil. We choose the true god or the false.
There it is. That sense of dread. It only happens when you cross a line you didn’t even know existed. Maybe that dread is a good thing. After all, when you realize you’ve crossed a line, that means you still had one. But when those crossed lines are all behind you, up ahead is only darkness.
The good guys don’t win. The bad guys don’t get punished. What we do means nothing. It’s just all for money and I am in the middle of all of it.[to Donna]
Science and moral absolutes do not make easy bedfellows.
