Gargoyles, Season 3 (The Goliath Chronicles)

[At the first Quarrymen meeting, John Castaway addresses his audience.]

John Castaway:
I know that you are all reasonable people. But you do not live in a reasonable world - violence, racism, injustice, you struggle with the world's problems, and wind up feeling so alone. Now, something alien and horrible has entered your world. [sweeps the veil off of a gargoyle statue] Are you afraid of this monster? Well, for once, you are not alone. [...] Are you afraid these creatures will attack you while you sleep? You are not alone in that fear! Are you afraid they will steal your children away? You are not alone! Do you believe these monsters must be stopped? You are not alone! Join us! Join the Quarrymen! [dons a hood] When you wear our hoods, believe me, you are no longer alone! [...] Take a hood! Take a hammer! You are Quarrymen now! Join us! And I promise, you will never be alone again! [smashes the statue]

[After being insulted by a cleaner.]

Lexington:
Whose ugly?

Broadway:
Did they even know I was there? If they want to work with me, why were they insulting me so much?

Fox:
If I knew that I'd own this town.

[Xanatos referring to his wife Fox.]

Xanatos:
Devoted wife, mother, one-woman vigilante squad. What a woman.

[Blind Jeffrey Robbins admits that he knows Hudson is a gargoyle.]

Jeffrey Robbins:
Hey, it wasn't hard to figure out, Hudson. Late night visits only. Your accent. That smell.

Hudson:
What smell?

Jeffrey Robbins:
Well, you tell me. Sort of like old leather and concrete. Uh, but in a good way!

Thailog:
Dear child, the more one takes, the better his chances.

[As Thailog lies dying in Goliath's arms.]

Thailog:
[smiling, perhaps ironically] Oh... How I did enjoy causing you grief...

[Goliath responding to being shot at]

Goliath:
Gargoyles do not scare easily. But since we are not your enemy, you have nothing to be frightened of either. Do we understand each other?

Art:
Uh, yes, sir.

Goliath:
[Hands a bent gun back to Art] Good. Then you may keep your weapon.

[Maria Chavez approaching and talking to Matt from behind]

Chavez:
I'm pretty sure that's my chair.

Matt:
Captain Chavez. You're back.

Chavez:
[Walking on crutches] Yeah, I'm back Detective. What did I miss on the gargoyles front?"

Matt:
Multiple false alarms and vandalized stone statues. A lot of people are scared.

Chavez:
What about the Xanatos angle?

Matt:
Uh, Elisa and I have both been up to the castle. Nothing unusual to report.

Chavez:
Where is Detective Maza? [Cuts to Elisa sleeping only to be awoken by Cagney]

[Vinnie's response to Goliath's gratitude]

Vinnie:
I guess that makes up for any... uh, emotional trauma associated with that unfortunate pie throwing incident from a few months back.

[Beginning of the issue]

Radio DJ:
Happy Halloween! Today's pointless poll tells us New York's most popular costume is a gargoyle. So don't panic! Sure, Manhattan may be infested with real monsters, but it's not like the beasties can talk, right? So if the creature knocking at your door tonight roars "trick or treat, odds are you are safe.

[Goliath and Elisa discussing their relationship.]

Elisa:
Try to understand...

Goliath:
I do understand. You do not want a mate. You want a husband.

Elisa:
We have to break up. Move on. See other people.

Goliath:
Break up? Other people?

Elisa:
I realize your options are limited.

Goliath:
LIMITED?!

Elisa:
[Referring to Delilah] But you know who I'm talking about.

[Castaway talking to a Quarryman over the phone]

John Castaway:
I couldn't care less what he wishes. Tell Chaz no hammers! Not tonight! Yes, we do want a strong presence on the streets. But the last thing we need is a Quarryman brought up on assault charges for cloutting a teenager in a gargoyle mask.. Hoods, yes! Hammers, no!

[End of the issue referring the Radio DJ's dialogue from the start of the issue.]

Talon:
Thailog!

Thailog:
Trick or treat!

[Margot criticising Brendan's choice to dress as a gargoyle for Halloween]

Margot:
I told you to come as Valentino, but Brendan Quarters isn't happy, unless he's the biggest cliche of the season.

Brendan:
Give it a rest Margot.

Margot:
[she points to Broadway who's dressed as the Cowardly Lion, Angela who is dressed as Dorothy and Lexington who's cyborg costume resembles Future Tense Lexington] Now these three know how to give a cliche a fresh twist. [Goes over to Lexington] I especially love this Post-Modern Tin Man.

Lexington:
Excuse me? Cyborg.

[Judge Roebling spots Goliath and his date Delilah]

Judge Roebling:
Goliath! I say Goliath! It's Judge Roebling.

Goliath:
Yes, your honor. I remember you.

Judge Roebling:
No "your honors" here, Goliath. Tonight, I say, tonight I am Sir Ian of Oxford! Oxford, Mississippi, that is. As for your costume, well... Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more. [Looks at Delilah] And this fair creature I believe is Demona.

Delilah:
I am Delilah. Demona was one of my genetic sources. The other was Elisa Maza.

[Roebling looks dumbfounded]

[Thailog looks around the Labyrinth and asks about Delilah's whereabout]

Thailog:
Where's Delilah?

Malibu:
Goliath take. To party.

Thailog:
[Looks baffled] Goliath and Delilah? On a date? [Laughs maniacally] Wow, haven't had a good maniacal laugh in weeks.

[Brooklyn comes out in a costume resembling Superman's]

Brooklyn:
Have no fear! Supergoyle is here!

[The clones make their choice on whether to follow Thailog or return to The Labyrinth]

Thailog:
I'm sure we'll all abide by your decision love, because I'm sure you'll make the correct one.

Goliath:
[Calls out weakly] Delilah.

Delilah:
[Quotes what she heard Goliath saying] "Delilah can mean nothing to me." Isn't that what you said, Goliath? You used me.

Thailog:
Fresh out of the can and already intuitive. [Faces Elisa] Must be the good genes, eh, Detective?

Delilah:
You used me as well, Thailog

Thailog:
Moi?

Delilah:
Only in the Labyrinth have I truly felt free. [Faces the other clones] What say you, brothers?

Malibu:
Malibu go with Delilah

Hollywood:
Hollywood not fight more. Go Labyrinth.

Burbank:
Labyrinth good.

Delilah:
Then it's settled.

Brentwood:
No! Brentwood Free Will Clone! Brentwood stay Thailog! Thailog smart.

Thailog:
Finally, someone making sense!

Lexington:
Dude, you're really making me look bad.

[Goliath is being tended to over a wound inflicted by Thailog]

Goliath:
[Weakly talks] Elisa... Sunrise is... Hours away...

Elisa:
Don't talk like that.

Goliath:
You cannot stop me... I will say it... This once... I love you...

Elisa:
I love you too. [Elisa and Goliath kiss on the lips]

[Brooklyn smiles for them, only to show jealousy over Broadway and Angela, and then notices that Malibu and Delilah seem to care for each other]

Brooklyn:
Oh, you gotta be kiddin me...

[Thailog is finish a discussion with Sevarius only to be interupted]

Shari:
Excuse me, Mr. Thailog. My name is Shari, and I understand you're in need of an executive assisstant.

Sevarius:
Young lady, I don't know how you got in here, but you've just made the mistake of your life!

[Thailog growls only to notice an Illuminati pendant hanging from her]

Thailog:
[He turns to Brentwood and Sevarius] Leave us. Both of you.

Sevarius:
Certainly. Wouldn't want to 'inhibit' you, dear boy.

[Alone both of them give their Illuminati rank number]

Thailog:
36.

Shari:
9.

Thailog:
[Talking to Shari] I always get what I want. And what I want now, Shari... Is a bed time story.

Shari:
Like "Once upon a time"?

Thailog:
Exactly.

[Sangpo can't understand the language in which Goliath, Angela and Coldstone speak in]

Sangpo:
What are they saying, Master? I don't understand.

Master Dawa:
Listen with your heart, Sangpo. If that doesn't work, I'll translate later.

[Shari finishes her tale concerning Coldstone and the Avalon World Tour]

Thailog:
[Laughs] Avalon sends my father to redeem my uncle, and Goliath failed. Priceless!

Shari:
Are you so sure they failed?

Thailog:
[Ceases to smile] Why?! What do you know?!

Shari:
Only that seeds were sown that night... Seeds which have yet to bear fruit.

Thailog:
What seeds?! What fruit?! [Thailog approaches her, only to turn to stone]

Shari:
[Is eating an apple] Hmmm... It seems that's a story for another night as well...

[Arthur and Macbeth explain how they survived through the centuries while drinking coffee owned by Nightstone Unlimited]

Arthur:
Mortally wounded in 542. So they shipped me off to some magic hill... And put me to sleep for a thousand, four hundred, fifty-three years.

Macbeth:
Sounds lovely.

Arthur:
And you?

Macbeth:
Deal with a demon in 1040. Officially died in 1057... Been sleep-walking for nine hundred, thirty-nine years.

Arthur:
... Guess I got the better bargain.

Macbeth:
Ach, I try not to dwell these days... So here's to the immortals. [Both of them bang their cups against each others] There aren't many like us.

[Dingo describing pain that he and Matrix both felt in a recent battle]

Dingo:
How come I successfully felt pain when the bad guy clawed through you?

Matrix:
For you to control my form as armor, I must link directly to your nervous system... Which interpreted damage as pain.

Dingo:
But how?

Matrix:
By inserting part of my matrix into your spine.

Dingo:
Hold on, partner. I never signed on for that!

Matrix:
How else is the link possible?

Dingo:
Don't know. Don't care. We'll have no more inserting! Clear?

[Robyn Canmore shows up when Dingo and Matrix are talking]

Robyn:
Harry Monmouth, A.K.A. Dingo, you're under arrest.

Dingo:
Bounty hunter?

Robyn:
Just a hunter.

Dingo:
Well, your info's outta date, hunter. I'm one of the good guys now.

Robyn:
Not in New York. You violated the laws of the United States...

Matrix:
[Interupts Robyn] Dingo violated law and order?

Robyn:
[Finishes her statement] And there's a prison cell waiting. Surrender for extradition.

Dingo:
Sorry no. Matrix, saddle up.

Matrix:
You were explicit. We must not link.

Dingo:
Really not the time for I told you sos.

[From the Personal Diary of Detective 2nd Class Elisa Maza:
...Maybe I shouldn't be keeping so many secrets from Captain Chavez... But ever since I found out about the Gargoyles, I keep coming up against stuff I can't put in an official report... or they'd have me off into a straightjacket before the file hit the Captain's desk!

[From the Personal Diary of Detective 2nd Class Elisa Maza:
...A perfect example: That armored WHATEVER-IT-WAS tonight... evidently trying to abduct a worker from an upper-story of the construction site. It's eyes widened when it saw me... as if in surprise.

[Goliath has just saved Elisa's life]

Elisa Maza:
Goliath...! Obviously, you found the note I left you... And I don't wanna seem ungrateful... But wasn't that note a warning--for you to stay out of this neighborhood tonight?

Goliath:
I thought that was merely your manner of subconsciously asking me to look after you.

Elisa Maza:
I see you've been reading those Psychology Textbooks again. Something tells me I'm gonna regret arranging for you to live at the civic center--on top of a Library.