Angel, Season 2

Kate:
I feel like such an idiot.

Angel:
A lot of that going around.

Kate:
I just couldn't ... My whole life has been about being a cop. If I'm not a part of the force, it's like nothing I do means anything.

Angel:
It doesn't.

Kate:
Doesn't what?

Angel:
Mean anything. In the greater scheme, in the big picture, nothing we do matters. There's no grand plan, no big win.

Kate:
You seem kind of chipper about that.

Angel:
Well ... I guess I kind of worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if ... nothing we do matters ... then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long for redemption, for a reward, finally, just to beat the other guy. But I never got it.

Kate:
Now you do?

Angel:
Not all of it. All I want to do is help. I want to help because I don't think people should suffer as they do, because if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.

Kate:
Yikes. Sounds like you've had an epiphany.

Angel:
That's what I keep saying, but nobody's listening.