Dark Angel (TV Series)

Pilot (2000)

Jessica Alba: Max Guevera, X5-452

Quotes 

• Logan Cale : I need a favor.

  Max Guevara : You can keep this. I really don't have anyplace to put it.

  Logan Cale : I need you to do a little leg work for me. Joel Solinski. This guy's got a wife with three kids, an ex-wife with two kids, a mistress, and two girlfriends. The wives get houses, the mistress a condo, and everybody gets a car... all on a harbormaster's salary.

  Max Guevara : I caught the tail end of your hack. The guy's on the take. He's paid to look the other way while the smugglers deep-six their cargo.

  Logan Cale : He's made a fortune... as an accessory to murder.

  Max Guevara : Okay, so the guy's a beast. Doesn't mean I got to get involved.

  Logan Cale : You are involved. By being alive, you're involved.

  Max Guevara : I got my own problems.

  Logan Cale : Look... maybe we got screwed out of living in a time when we could hang out for the afternoon in a cafe someplace wearing $2,000 wristwatches, planning our next vacation, but the world got a whole lot meaner all of a sudden. It wasn't supposed to... but it did. So now it's back to the law of the jungle and there are predators and victims.

  Max Guevara : And you still think you can do something to change that?

  Logan Cale : With your help.

  Max Guevara : Look, one thing I'm not is a chump. You want to get the rest of your ass shot off... be my guest, but I kind of like being able to walk.

  Logan Cale : On another matter... federal corrections used to keep records on distinguishing marks... scars, tattoos. I did a search and came up with this. ID-ed as a Michael Hanover. Booked for armed robbery nine years ago. He escaped custody after four hours. Hasn't been seen or heard from since.

  Max Guevara : Zack...

  Max Guevara : [voiceover]  I knew it. I always knew Zack was out there somewhere, but you know, just my luck this guy Logan had to be the one to find him. Now he figures I'm going to go and do the right thing because I owe him... like I even care.

• Reagan 'Normal' Ronald : You tell Theo that if he's not in tomorrow, he can start looking for another job.

  Max Guevara : I don't know how to break this to you, Normal... We're *all* looking for another job.

• Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin : [shaking her head as she surveys Calvin's pretty girlfriend Natalie]  You know, why can't I find a girlfriend like that? Brings him lunch every day, thoughtful, sweet, legs from here to there...

  Max Guevara : Straight.

  Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin : [shakes her head]  Shame wasting a girl like that on a *male.*

• Logan Cale : [has the drop on Max, then sees the little statuette spilling from her black swag bag]  You're a thief?

  Max Guevara : Girl's gotta make a living.

  Logan Cale : [relieved chuckle]  Thank God.

  Max Guevara : First time I ever heard that one.

  Logan Cale : I was expecting someone else.

  Max Guevara : Guess it wasn't the pizza delivery guy.

  Logan Cale : We're just a little tense right now. You have good taste. French 1920s, attributed to Chitarus...

  Max Guevara : Whoever that is.

• Logan Cale : Ever noticed how cats always seem to turn up around dinner time?

  Max Guevara : I won't be staying.

  Logan Cale : I'm not a half-bad cook.

  Max Guevara : Like following me around and pestering the people I work with wasn't bad enough... but breaking into my apartment...

  Logan Cale : It was open.

  Max Guevara : You got a lotta nerve.

  Logan Cale : Me?

  [chuckles] 

  Logan Cale : You're the one who tried to rip off this place.

  Max Guevara : I steal things in order to sell them for *money.* It's called commerce. But some stranger sneaking into a girl's apartment is bent.

  Logan Cale : Bent?

  Max Guevara : Bent!

  Logan Cale : I left you a present

  Max Guevara : Am I supposed to be grateful?

  Logan Cale : That would not be inappropriate.

  Max Guevara : How am I ever supposed to sleep there again knowing some stranger's possibly touched everything I own?

  Logan Cale : Well, if you're that nervous, you're... welcome to stay here.