Angel, Season 4

Connor:
Somebody there?

Darla:
(o.s.) I've always been there, close to your heart. After all...

[He looks over toward the dark corner of the room as Darla materializes out of thin air in front of him.]

Darla:
...isn't that where a mother belongs?

Connor:
You can't be my mother.

Darla:
[softly] I have her memories, her feelings. Isn't that what makes a person who they are?

Girl:
[weeping in the corner]) Let me go, please...

Darla:
I know that sound, the look in her eyes, the smell of fear. [kneels beside the girl.] I've nurtured it a thousand times in all the people that I've murdered.

Connor:
My mother's dead.

Darla:
And I'll always be a part of you. You shared your soul with me once when you were growing inside of me when I'd lost my own. You brought light to my shadow, filled my heart with joy and love. I'd never felt so close to any living thing as I did to my beautiful boy.

Connor:
Why'd you leave me? Did you hate me that much?

Darla:
Baby, no. I wanted to be with you more than anything.

Connor:
You killed yourself. I wasn't even born yet. And you-

Darla:
Did what I had to. My life for yours. I did so many terrible things, Connor, so much destruction, so much pain. You were the one good thing I ever did. The only good thing. I'd die every day for the rest of eternity for you. And this... [Gestures to the virgin girl]...is how you repay me?

Connor:
You don't understand. We need her for our baby, to keep it safe.

Darla:
By anointing it in the blood of an innocent? You really think that safety can be plucked from the arms of an evil deed?

Connor:
Good, evil. They're just words.

Darla:
[shakes her head] Don't let this happen, Connor. Don't let my death mean nothing.