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0:20

- I know what you want son

- Still keeping your all-seeing eye on me, Gabriel? I'm flattered.

- Well, i could offer something about how a shepherd leads even the most wayward of his flock. But it might sound disgenuous.

- I've been seeing some unusual soul traffic lately. You might consider giving me an extension. I could do your side some good these days.

- You're still tring to buy your way into heaven?

- What about the minions I've sent back? That alone should guarantee my entry.

- How many times have I told you? That's not the way this works.

- Why, haven't I served him enough?

- What does he want from me?

- Only the usual. Self-sacrifice, belief.

- Oh, I believe, for chrissake.

- No, no, you know. And there's difference. You've seen.

- I never asked to see. I was born with this curse.

- A gift, John. One that you've squandered on selfish ecdeavors.

- I'm pulling demons out of little girls.

- Who's that for?

- Everything you've ever down, you've only ever done for yourself. To earn your way back into his good graces.

- Impossible rules, endless regulations...Who goes up, who goes down and why.

- You don't even understand us. You're the one who should go to hell, half-breed.

Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?

- You are going to die young because you smoked thirty cigarettes a day since you were fifteen. And you're going to the hell because of the life you took. You're fucked.

0:24

He always had a rotten sense of humor.

God's sense of humor always sucks

And his punchlines are killers.

His jokes are killing me

"Passive" by A Perfect Circle

Dead as dead can be

"There is life and death."

The doctor tells me

the doctor told me

But I just can't believe him

But I don't believe in evil

Ever the optimistic one

Just because I'm still optimistic

I'm sure of your ability

I believe you have the ability

To become my perfect enemy

be my mortal enemy

Wake up and face me

get up and face me

Don't play dead cause maybe

Don't play dead! because maybe

Someday I will walk away and say

One day I will leave and disdain

You disappoint me

"You disappoint me."

0:31

- I though I heard thunder last night. Must have been Satan's stomach growing. You're the one soul he'd come up here himself to collect.

0:32

- Demons stay in hell, angels in heaven. The great detente of the original superpowers.

0:33

"You were Constantine. The John Constantine."

0:38

- Detective. What If I told you that God and the devil made a wager, a kind of standing bet for the souls of all mankind?

No direct contact with humans. That would be the rule. Just influence. See who would win.

- Why?

- Who knows. Maybe just for the fun of it. No telling.

- Oh, so it's fun. It's fun when a man beats his wife to death, it's fun when a mother drowns her own baby. And you think the devil is responsible?

People are evil, Mr. Constantine. People.

- You're right. We're born capable of terrible things. Then sometimes something else comes along and gives us just the right nudge.

1:23

- And how exactly you intend on getting close enough to use these?

- Well, they did not leave her unguarded. Half-breeds are most vulnerable when their outer skin is breached by holy water. Certain objects, most notably either of the two crosses of Isteria have been used by even the unordained to bless or sanctify commanly occurring water, even rain.

1:34

- Betrayal, murder, genocide, call me provincial.

- I am simply seeking to inspire mankind to all that was intended.

- By handing Earth over to the son of the devil? Help me here.

- You're handed this precious gift, right? Each one of you granted redemption from the Creator. Murders, rapists and molesters, all of you, you just have to repent and God takes you into his bosom. In all the worlds in all the universe no other creature can make such a boast, save man. It's not fair.

If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I'll make you worthy of his love. I've been watching you for a long time. It's only in the face of horror that you truly find your nobler self. And you can be so noble. So, I'll bring your pain. I'll bring your horror. So that you may rise above it. So that those of you who survive this reign of hell on Earth will be worthy of God's love.

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  • John Constantine: Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look.

  • John Constantine: Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I... was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?