Crusade (1999)

Peter Woodward: Galen

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• Gideon : I thought you said you never hold a grudge.

  Galen : Well, I don't. I have no surviving enemies... at all.

• Galen : Who are you?

  Gideon : Captain Matthew Gideon.

  Galen : What do you want?

  Gideon : To find a cure for the Drakh plague before it wipes out all life on Earth.

  Galen : Where are you going?

  Gideon : Anywhere I have to.

  Galen : Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

  [silence] 

  Galen : Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

  Gideon : I don't know.

  Galen : Then I will go with you.

• Dureena Nafeel : When will you be back?

  Galen : In the fullness of time - expect me when you see me.

• Galen : Never contradict a technomage when he's saving your life... again.

• John Matheson : [seeing Galen in the transporter]  You like going nowhere at 120 miles an hour?

  Galen : Of course, that is man's natural condition.

• Captain Matthew Gideon : What if you're wrong, Galen?

  Galen : Well, that hardly seems likely, now does it?

• Captain Matthew Gideon : [Galen has led Excaliber on a wild goose chase]  Now will you tell me what's going on?

  Galen : Her name was Isabelle and she was the best of us. Every technomage knows the fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. But she only needed one.

  Captain Matthew Gideon : What word?

  Galen : "Hello."

• Galen : When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide, whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you no where... except to a bad end.

• Galen : There is always hope. Only because it's the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet.

• Gideon : [Excalibur encounters life forms in Hyper space. The life forms attach themselves to the ship. Gideon looks at Galen.]  No, it's not. It's mating with us!

  Galen : Well, it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd envisioned...

• Galen : If I want to sit and talk with the dead I will draw a pentagram on the ground and conjure up someone more, interesting.

• Galen : Do you think I'm hiding things from you, Dureena?

  Dureena Nafeel : Gideon says we all have things to hide.

  Galen : Did he? How unfortunate. I was hoping he'd come further than that. Not that isn't true of course. It's just that one simply doesn't have to say it... Matthew was right. We all have something to hide. We all have something to tell, we all have a secret name, we all have a question.

  [pause] 

  Galen : One question that unlocks our hearts.

  Dureena Nafeel : And what is your question, Galen?

  Galen : [pause]  Why.

• Gideon : Galen, I didn't ask you how you screwed me, I asked you "why."

  Galen : There's that question again.

• Galen : Then when the time comes I will help you keep your promise Matthew, as you have helped me keep mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime.

  Gideon : What crime is that Galen?

  Galen : Being alive.

• Dureena Nafeel : Did you find your answer to "why", Galen?

  Galen : [pause]  That one, may take little longer.