The Cleaner2008

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William Banks:
[voiceover] People do a whole lot of things in the name of love, more than I ever thought possible. When we first made this deal, you and me, I remember thinking about that, about love. I never really felt it, even when it was offered to me, because I knew I didn't deserve it, so I could never understand it. A pastor I know, one of the better ones, he pointed me toward a verse in the Old Testament, it went something like this: There are three things that amaze me, no, there are four things that I don't understand. The way of an eagle in the sky. The way of a ship at sea. The way of a serpent on a rock. And the way a man loves a woman. And once I got clean, I understood them all: the eagle, the ship, and even the man and the woman. But what I knew best, what I knew from my gut, was the way of that serpent. And how he can destroy even the most beautiful love of all.