Peter Renaday: Steele

Quotes 

• Steele : Tell them to come back later. In, a week or two.

• Graft : You. Leave the woman and...

  Steele : Woman? There is no woman here.

  Graft : What did you do with her?

  Steele : I assure you, gentlemen, we are quite alone. Except for - this.

  [creates a monster] 

• Steele : [in the Phantom's Lair]  Disgraceful. When was the last time somebody cleaned these emitter-nodes? And these power cuffs just lying around.

• Steele : After that, my partner went home to work on the African miracles, I was still a crime-fighter, though not as fast as I used to be. Which would not have been so bad, except, Maximum invented Biots. And Biots cannot be tricked by my illusions. So I thought it was time to move on to something else. I turned my talents to making defensive weapons and other devices for your father the 23rd Phantom. But when he died in the Sector Zero train crash, I... retired completely.

  24th Phantom : [snaps his fingers]  You built my phase-suit! And my power cuffs. All this equipment!

  Steele : Yes, but your father never had the chance to use the latest versions I sent him.

• Steele : Well. It is good to see you again, Guran.

  Guran : Is it? When I did not hear from you, I thought you blamed me for what happened to Kit's father.

  Steele : You were not the only one hurt by the death of our friend. We all needed our time to deal with that loss.

• Heloise Walker : I see we have a visitor, from the past.

  24th Phantom : Aunt Heloise, you'll never believe who this guy is!

  Steele : [they smile at each other for a moment]  Heloise.

  Heloise Walker : [as he kisses her hand]  It has been a long time since Paris.

  Steele : Ah, but your beauty is such that none would guess a single day has passed since last we met.

• 24th Phantom : Uh, I don't want to stop this walk down Memory Lane, but Steele said the Phantom is it danger?

  Steele : I'm afraid the Phantom is in danger precisely because I not only walk down Memory Lane, I own it.

• Heloise Walker : Where are we going?

  Steele : Into the past.

• Steele : Your father called it Hero after his grandfather's horse. It's a 1999 Mustang convertible, the last model produced with a gasoline-only engine.

• Steele : Perhaps this should have happened to me long ago.

  [leaves the garage shutting the doors behind him] 

  Heloise Walker : But, Steele, what if -

  [opens the doors to find he's vanished] 

  Guran : [shaking his head]  Same old Steele.

• Steele : My partner was right after all. I was never meant to hang up the wand.

• Steele : [comes in behind him as he's trying to pound through the safe]  You needn't knock so hard, Graft. I heard you.

• 24th Phantom : Nice suit.

  Steele : A good tux never goes out of style, my boy. But didn't I tell you to wait in the garage?

  24th Phantom : Would my father have waited?

  Steele : No. He didn't have any sense either. That is why we were friends.

• Heloise Walker : I - *we*, were worried.

  Steele : No need. Your nephew and I make quite a team. It made me remember...

• Guran : It will not take them long to find us. And with those two standing guard at the garage's other entrance, we are trapped.

  Steele : Goran, after all we've been through together, how can you still not believe in magic?

• 24th Phantom : Hey, no offense, but we'll need more than magic to get this old junker past that particle-canon.

  Steele : As I've told you, I've added a few modifications. Hero, activate Phantom mode

  [the car converts into a more technologically-advanced version] 

  24th Phantom : O-ho-ho, a *few* modifications?

• Steele : My home is filled with memories I could not bear to part with. Photos, letters - and any of them could lead Graft to you. I do not need *things* to remind me of the past. We cannot return to the lair until I've let them go.

• 24th Phantom : Scanners indicate no lifeforms remain in the mansion.

  Steele : [sadly]  Only ghosts.

• Steele : I suppose we could always make *new* memories.

  Heloise Walker : That's the best offer I've had in years.

  [they kiss] 

• [last lines] 

  Sagan Cruz : Now just tell me one thing. Has there always been one Phantom, or are you...

  Guran : The Phantom is The *Ghost* Who Walks. The Man Who Cannot Die. He was, he is, he will be. As long as injustice walks in this world.

  24th Phantom : Maybe if you knew for sure, the Phantom would be just like anyone else. A little mystery makes him stronger. A little mystery... and a little magic.

  Steele : [listening from the cruiser with Heloise]  I couldn't have said it better myself.

  [creates a flower and offers it to her, they lean in closer]