“I’m a bad man, I realize that.  I realized that all too late.  I tried to justify my own hypocrisy as I was just taking out the trash.” 

“I thought I was just keeping the peace as bodies piled up and their faces… Oh Jesus. Let me tell you, I close my eyes and they’re always there.” 

“You want to know the fucked-up thing?  I had to kill again to earn my “second” chance, and I justified that as I was just earning my freedom.  That I was coming back to find her; I won’t belabor you with the story… I mean, you know it all too well.” 

“In fact, I’ll cut to the chase…” 

“The moment I laid eyes on her, that beautiful face, her mother’s eyes, and all I wanted to say were two simple words, ‘I’m sorry.” 

“However, I realized something after this week. Sometimes it’s too late to say, “I’m sorry.” 

“Sometimes people won’t give you a second chance, no matter what you try to do.  It doesn’t matter if you use your actions to make amends and show people you’ve changed.  They will still see you for what you were.” 

“I know that all too well, Klaus, because that’s how I view you.  I watched as you admitted to offing every single freak who wronged you…” 

“Some would say that was justified.  They took your mother and father from you.  It’s a crime of passion, I can understand it, I can comprehend it.  However, when you look at the malice and forethought of it all, the betrayal was written in every action.” 

“Then I watched what you did at Ring of Dreams, you killed Damien and Ajax, for the sin of standing their ground, for thinking for themselves, and as their bodies lay in that ring not even cold yet…” 

“What did you do, Ringmaster?  That same woman, with her mother’s eyes, you made her choose you or death.  Nine months ago, I left you with this warning, Klaus…” 

“If anything happens to her…” 

“I meant what those words implied, Klaus.  You’re not the only one with a violent history, Way, and I think it’s time that someone reminded you of that.” 

“You’re not the only one with death dancing in your eyes.” 

“Klaus, this week I am off my chain; there is no rule to stop me from doing the necessary deed. So, the moment the bell rings this week, and I snatch you by your scrawny fucking neck.” 

“In that moment you’ll beg me like so many men like you have before, “Mr. Attano, I-I-I’m sorry.” 

“I will stare back at you with all the emptiness and hurt I felt the night when I was forced to watch my daughter cry with mortal fear in the middle of that ring. So, my reply will be as cold, callous, and empty as your actions…” 

“It’s too late to say sorry.” 

“One shot, one kill, Klaus, but the thing is, your face will never haunt my memory because I gave you what so many others never got…” 

“A warning.”