Raven's Gate

"Well if you haven't heard of it, then it obviously doesn't exist!"

"OK, Mr Cole. I can see I've wasted my time coming here."

"There's been a murder. A man named Tom Burgess. He's dead. I saw the body."

"You saw the dogs! Did you think they'd come from the Battersea Dog's Home?"

"So maybe next time when I turn up floating face down in a river, maybe you'll decide it's worth investigating. And I'm telling you now, I won't have died from bad eyesight."

"(To Richard) So you don't believe in magic?"

"(About Jayne Deverill) She had a picture of an ancestor. She said she got burned. Maybe she was burned as a witch... Anyway, if there were witches there four thousand years ago, why can't there be witches there now?"

"(To his "friend" Kelvin when Kelvin stabs the security guard) I know that! But you didn't have to stab him! Do you realize what you've done? Do you realize what you are?"

"(To Superintendent Stephen Mallory) You told me the LEAF project was voluntary. Well, I'm volunteering myself out. I don't care where you send me. You can lock me up in Alcatraz if you want to. But this place sucks and I want to go."

"(To Matt) There were some parts of your story... Well, I couldn't get them out of your head. So I went by to investigate."

"That's when I heard someone shouting for help and then I found you."

"You're just lucky I didn't stay for another pint."

"How Matthew? ...Do you watch a lot of TV?"

"Well look... What you've just told me is complete... Crap! Lanes that go round in circles| Strange looks from the villagers! I know I said I wanted a story, Matt! But I didn't mean a fairy story!"

"OK, yes. I've heard of Omega One. They built it as a sort of prototype... Before they started building the real things. But they shut it down before I was born. There's nothing there now. It's just an empty shell."

"But the police came and nothing was there and so, maybe, you imagined the whole thing."

"You seem like a nice enough kid, Matthew."

"(About Matt's trainers) Are you kidding? The washing machine hasn't been built that could handle all that muck!"

"Nice dogs... Stay!"

"I'm going to put them down."

"(Sarcastically, to Professor Dravid) Let me get this straight, Professor. A very long time ago, the world was ruled by evil creatures called the Old Ones. However, five kids appeared and threw them out. The kids erected a barrier, which became known as Raven's Gate. Unfortunately the stones that marked the gate were knocked down by Medieval peasants who didn't know any better. But that doesn't matter that much because the gate is still there after all. Is that about it?"

"If I told you everything I'm about to tell you now, my reputation, everything I've worked for, would disappear overnight. It makes no sense. Not in the real world, anyway. Susan Ashwood may have seemed eccentric to you. You might have thought she was a fraud. However, I'm telling you she was right. There is another world. We are surrounded by it. There is an alternative history as alive in the streets of twenty-first century London as it was many thousands of years ago, when it all began. But only cranks and lunatics are meant to believe in it, because you see, that way everyone feels safer..."

"Do you really think it's so crazy to draw parallels between the power of the atom bomb and the power of black magic? Do you really think that a weapon capable of destroying cities in seconds and killing thousands of people is so far removed from the Devil's work? To me it was obvious. I saw that the two different powers could be bought together and do what they had never done before."

"Do you think that someone is trying to start up Omega One?"

"(To Matt) Are you interested in phillumeny, young man?"

"Richard Cole: (To Matt) What do you want?"

"Matt: I need help"

"Richard Cole: What sort of help?"

"Matt:I'm trying to find out about something."

"Richard Cole: Why?"

"Matt: It's a school project."

"Richard Cole: What school do you go to?"

"Matt: (Taken aback) I go to school in Lesser Malling."

"Richard Cole: And you're doing a school project?"

"Matt: Yes."

"Richard Cole: Try the library."

"Matt: I have. They sent me here."

"Richard Cole: Sorry, I can't help you. I was busy."

"Matt: You don't look very busy."

"Richard Cole: Well, I was busy until you arrived."

"Matt: Busy doing what?"

"Richard Cole: Busy being busy. Alright?"

"Matt: Look, maybe I can help you. You're a journalist. Maybe I've got a story?"

"Richard Cole: A story?"

"Matt: I might have."

"Richard Cole: Alright. Come upstairs. My name is Richard Cole."

"Matt: I'm Matt."

"Richard Cole: Just Matt?"

"Matt: That's right."

"Richard Cole: You said you were staying at Lesser Malling."