Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Beggar's Comet (1990)

Edward Albert: Elliot Burch

Quotes 

• Gabriel : Why do people put flowers on graves? Do they really think it makes death smell sweeter?

  Elliot Burch : Why'd you bring me here?

  Gabriel : Does it make you uncomfortable?

  Elliot Burch : Only the company.

  Gabriel : Elliot... the war's over. In a month, you'll be bankrupt. In a year, you'll be in prison. Half your people are already mine.

  Elliot Burch : You're lying.

  Gabriel : Maybe I am. How will you ever be sure? Machiavelli wrote that a wise prince knows it is better to be feared than loved. Look around you. All these tombstones. All these wasted possibilities. There's no reason for us to be enemies, Elliot.

  Elliot Burch : [pointing to Cathy's headstone]  There's a reason.

  Gabriel : Catherine Chandler. You know, if I'd known all the trouble it would cause, I would never have killed her. But it's done. There she lies. If you want to lie down beside her, so be it. But I had heard that you were a more practical man.

  Elliot Burch : Maybe I was, once. She changed me.

  Gabriel : I don't think so.

  Elliot Burch : What do you mean?

  Gabriel : I know you.

  Elliot Burch : You don't know anything about me.

• Elliot Burch : So, it begins again.

  Vincent : It never ended.

  Elliot Burch : It's like a nightmare. He's killing me, Vincent. Inch by inch.

  Vincent : His name is Gabriel. This is important to him, somehow.

  Elliot Burch : [Vincent hands him the ring Snow left him]  Gold. It's interesting. Looks old. Where'd you get this?

  Vincent : From the hand of the hunter he sent to kill me. But he took it off, in the end.

  Elliot Burch : You don't know what you ask of me. If I go on with this, I'm risking...

  Vincent : Everything.

• Elliot Burch : I built a sand castle once. I couldn't have been more than eight years old. It was a wonderful sand castle; walls and turrets. Must have been six feet high. Then the tide came in. Gabriel is the tide, Vincent. He's washing away everything that I've built in my life. He's washing away my dreams.

  Vincent : Dreams can be dreamt again. Sand castles can be rebuilt. Catherine said you were a fighter.

  Elliot Burch : Catherine was wrong about many things.

  Vincent : Sometimes in my sleep, I see another world. A world where I died in Catherine's place. I see her walking in the sunshine, lauging. I watch her grow old, reading to her children. Cradling her grandchildren in her arms. A happy life. The life that she was born to live. The life that she deserved. It seems so real that if, somehow, I can make it so, then... Grave is a fine and a private place.

  Elliot Burch : It's not much to go on. But I'll see what I can find.