Angel (off): Here's the thing. There are moments in your life that make you, that set the course of who you gonna be . Sometimes, they're little, subtle moments, sometimes they're not. I'll show you what I mean.
Angel and a friend are thrown out of a tavern. The friend
is so drunk that he falls asleep in the middle of the street.
Angel: Well, why don't you rest right here
He sees a lady in an alley and goes towards her.
Angel: So, I'd ask myself, what's a lady of your station doing alone
in an alley, with the reputation that this one has?
Lady: Maybe she's lonely.
Angel: that case, I'll offer myself as escort to protect you from harm,
and to wheel away the door lowers.
Lady: You're very gracious.
Angel: It's often been said.
Lady: Are you certain you're up to the challenge?
Angel: My lady, you'll find that with the exception of a hard day of
work, there's no challenge I'm not prepared to face. Oh, ???????, where are
you from?
Lady: Around, everywhere.
Angel: I've never been anywhere myself, I always wanted to see the
world, but
Lady: I could show you
Angel: Could you then?
Lady: Things you've never even heard of.
Angel: Sounds exciting
Lady: It is, yet frightening.
Angel: I'm not afraid, show me, show me your world.
Lady: Close your eyes.
She turns into a vampire and bites him, then makes him drink her blood.
Back to Sunnydale nowadays, in the cemetery. Angel's watching Buffy fight
with 2 vampires. She grounds one.
Buffy: Nice try.
She dusts one and grounds the other.
Buffy: I want you to take a message to Angel for me. Tell him I'm done
waiting, I'm taking the fight to him. You got that, want me to write it down
for you?
She dusts him.
Buffy: Well, I'll tell him myself.
She helps Xander getting up.
Xander: I'm good, don't worry about me.
Buffy: You know you don't have to patrol with me.
Xander: I had that guy under control, until he resorted to fisticuffs.
What is that, five vampires in three nights?
Buffy: Yeah, and no Angel.
Xander: Are you really that anxious to come up against him?
Buffy: I wanna know where he is.
Xander: I hear that.
Buffy: Oh, we better go, I haven't even started studying for finals
yet.
Xander: Oh yeah, finals, why didn't you let me die?
Buffy: Look on the bright side of it, it'll all be over soon.
Angel (apart): Yes my love, it will.
At the Museum. They are cleaning a sort of big earth block.
Doug: Careful now, concentrate on this area.
Giles: Hello
Doug: Rupert Giles?
Giles: Yeah.
Doug: Doug Perry, thanks for coming.
Giles: Oh no, not at all
it's
flattered to be asked.
Doug: I spoke with Lou Taber at the Washington institute, and he told
me we had the best authority in obscure relics right here in Sunnydale.
Giles: Well
he's exaggerated a little. And this is the
Doug: This is our baby. Construction work has dug it up outside of
town. Don't have a clue what it is. Have any idea?
Giles: A few. But not that I can share until I can verify. Do you have
carbon dated it?
Doug: The results ought to be back in a couple of days. I'll go on
a limb and say "old".
Giles: It certainly predates any settlements we've heard about. Hum
may
I?
Doug: Sure.
Giles takes a sample of the tomb.
Giles: I see you haven't tried to open it.
Doug: Open it? Well I'll be dead. I figured it was solid. What d'you
think there's in it?
Giles: I don't know.
Doug: Well, I guess we won't know until we've opened it up.
Giles: Could I ask
would you wait? I'd like to work on translating
the text, it might give us indications on what we'll find inside..
Doug: You don't want to be surprised?
Giles: As a rule, no.
Doug: All right, you're the expert. But I'm pretty damn curious though.
Giles: Yes
yes
At Sunnydale High Cafeteria. Xander is playing with fish nuggets.
Xander: Tell Angel I'm gonna kill him. No wait, I'm gonna kill you,
die, die, die. Ahhh!- Kwompf! Mother
Cordelia: Is that it?
Xander: That's it. Scene.
Buffy: It's exactly how it happened.
Oz: I thought it was ripening. I was a little unclear about some of
the theme.
Buffy: The theme's Angel is too much of a coward to take me on face
to face.
Xander: Yeah, the other theme was "buy American", but it
got kind of buried.
Willow: Do you think you're ready to fight Angel?
Buffy: I wish people would stop asking me that. Yes, I'm ready, and
I'm also willing and able. It's the one test I might actually pass.
Willow: Don't say that, you're gonna pass everything. I will get you
through this semester if I have to sweat blood.
Xander: Do you think you're likely to? 'Coz I'd like to be elsewhere..
Willow: It was only metaphor blood.
Oz: I think you'd sweat cute blood.
Willow: Sixth period after my computer class, we'll rock on history?
Buffy: Ready to rock.
Cordelia: Hey Will, you really got the teaching bug: taking on the
computer class, tutoring
Willow: I love it, I really do.
Cordelia: I think it's great to do that before you go out in the real
world. That way you're not falling back on something, you're falling
well,
forward.
Xander: And almost 65% of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal
best?
Cordelia: Xander, what are you gonna teach when you fail in life? Advanced
looser being?
Xander: I will teach
the language of love!
Cordelia: Don't touch me, you've fish hands! Stop it!
Snyder: That's enough of that. (To Willow, sitting on Oz's lap) And
you, do we have any chair shortage?
Willow: I didn't read anything about
oh, I get it.
Snyder: These public displays of affection are not acceptable in my
school. This isn't an orgy people, it's a classroom.
Buffy: Yeah, where they teach lunch.
Snyder: Just give me a reason to kick you out, Summers. Just give me
a reason.
Cordelia: How about because you're a tiny, impotent nazi with a bug
up his butt the size of an emo?
Buffy: Sums it up.
Cordelia: Don't you think?
Willow: Do you wanna come by my house tonight and study, too?
Buffy: Maybe
I do have to patrol.
Willow: Again? Do you really expect Angel to turn up tonight?
Buffy: No, I don't expect him to, but that's usually when he does.
London 1860
In a Church. Drusilla enters the confessional where the priest is being
killed by Angel.
Drusilla: Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been two days since
my last confession. Father?
Angel: That's not very long.
Drusilla: Oh Father I'm so afraid!
Angel: The Lord is very forgiving. Tell me your sins.
Drusilla: I have
I've been seeing again Father. Yesterday, the
men were going to work in the mine. I had a terrible fright, my stomach all
tied up and I saw this horrible crash. My mommy said to keep my peace, it
didn't mean nothing. But this morning they had to cave in, two mend died.
Angel: Go on.
Drusilla: Me mom says I'm cursed. My ??? thinks it's an affront to
the Lord, that only He's supposed to see things before it happens. But I don't
mean to Father, I swear! I try to be pure inside, I don't wanna be an evil
thing.
Angel: Hush child, the Lord has a plan for all creatures. Even a devil
child like you.
Drusilla: A devil?
Angel: Yes, you are a spawn of Satan. All the Hell marries in the world
I'm going to help, the Lord will use you and smite you down, he's like that.
Drusilla: What can I do?
Angel: Fulfill his plan child, be evil, just give in.
Drusilla: No, I want to be good, I want to be pure.
Angel: We all do at first. World doesn't work that way.
Drusilla: Father, I beg you, please, please help me.
Angel: Very well. Ten "Our Father" and an act of contrition,
does that sound good.
Drusilla: Yes, yes Father, thank you.
Angel: The pleasure was mine. And my child
Drusilla: God is watching you.
At Angel's place in Sunnydale. Dru's coming back from a walk. Spike is
in a wheel chair, reading a news paper.
Spike: Nice walk, hon?
Drusilla: I met an old man, I didn't like him. He got stuck in my teeth.
But then, the moon started whispering to me all sorts of dreadfull things.
Spike: What did it say?
Angel: Oh, look who's awake
What did the moon tell you? Did you
have a vision? Something coming?
Drusilla: Oh yeah, something terrible, pss pss pss.
Angel: Where?
Drusilla: At the Museum, a tomb, with a surprise inside.
Angel: You can see all that in your head?
Spike: No, you ninny, she read it in the morning paper. (He hands it
to Angel)
Angel: Oh my
Drusilla: That's what's been whispering to me.
Angel: Oh yeah, don't worry though, soon it'll stop, soon it'll scream.
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