Cardinal Alba Quotes in Vampires (1998)

Jack Crow: What the fuck do you want from me, Valek?

Valek: Oh, you hate me so, don't ya? But you made me, Crusader. You hate what you made. You fear it because it is superior to you.

[grabs Jack's chin]

Valek: For six hundred years, I've fed on your kind at will!

[Attempts to bite Jack but slowly refuses]

Valek: [whispers] No.

Jack Crow: Why don't you just kill me and get it over with?

Cardinal Alba: Because you are needed, Jack. The ceremony is a re-enactment of the original exorcism. It requires the blood of a crusader and his crucifixion upon a burning cross. The climax of the ceremony must coincide with the first rays of the rising sun. Sorry, Jack.

[Jack Crow, having been beaten up by Valek, awakens to find himself strangled and tied to the front of his truck; Cardinal Alba appears, having turned to the dark side]

Cardinal Alba: Hello, Jack.

[Chuckles]

Cardinal Alba: From your expression, I assume you couldn't understand my presence here. I'm sorry to disillusion you, Jack. As one grows old, as death approaches, we begin to question... our fate. And I found mine lacking. "Is there a god? Is there a heaven?" I can no longer answer this for certain. I've witnessed no miracles, had no visions, and the prospect of death terrifies me. I've realized I've only one... alternative, and I made a bargain. With the devil if you wish.

Jack Crow: You are truly a pile of dog shit, Cardinal.

Cardinal Alba: Yeah, that's right.

[chuckles]

Cardinal Alba: That's correct, Jack and I can live with that. After I have given what Valek wants, he will fulfill our bargain. And I will be transformed into one of his... new children. It's beautiful, isn't it?

[Jack spits at the Cardinal's face]

Cardinal Alba: Eternal Life... Imortality... can change your heart.

Jack Crow: Valek...

[Valek looks at Jack]

Jack Crow: ... why don't you prove you can kick my ass? Come on, untie me. Come on. Fuckin' pole smokin' fashion victim. Come on over here.

Valek: Jack...

Jack Crow: Come on. Five minutes, then you can bite my ass a little. Would you like that, see me all tied up, huh?

Valek: What will silence you?

Jack Crow: Come on. Untie me, you prick!

Valek: Perhaps this will help.

[Katrina, now a legion of the undead and one of Valek's newest children, appears and laughs evily after finally feeding on Montoya]

Valek: Apparently your friend is one of my children now.

[Jack scoffs]

Valek: You are alone, crusader.