WesleyI've imagined this moment many times. I've read everything ever written about you.
Wesley
To be one-on-one with the legendary Angelus. As a former watcher, it's a high point.
Buttering me up. Getting me all relaxed, hm? Not the most innovative interrogation technique, but... OK, I'll play.
Wesley
Is it a game?
Hey, open book. Anything you want to know. How sweet that virgin gypsy tasted. The special smell of a newborn's neck. My first nun--now that's a great story.
Wesley
We could start there.
Don't be coy, Wes. You're just dying to know about the big Beastie. Fire away.
Wesley
All right. Did you know the Beast?
Well, now that's a question. Not a great question. Not even an insightful question. Not a Wyndham-Pryce-worthy question.
[Lorne, Gunn, Fred, and Cordelia are watching Wesley and Angelus on the monitor set up on the front desk.]
[on monitor] Come on, Wes. Not like your schoolgirl crush is a secret.
Charles, remember, we can't believe anything Angelus says.
How 'bout the stuff that's true? Can we believe that?
He distorts everything. He lies with the truth. It's part of what makes him so dangerous.
Yeah, don't let him get to you, kiwi.
He's not the only one that's gettin'.
Wesley
[on monitor] You've found a vulnerability, exploited it. Well done. Can we move on now?
I'm just getting started.
Wesley
We need you.
Well, uh, hate to wet the paper for you Wes, but I'm kinda unavailable right now. Maybe you wanna check back in a few decades when my parole comes up.
Wesley
You need to know...
It's Armageddon again. I dig. Last thing you need's me in the mix. Besides, Angel comes shinin' through in the end like he always does.
Wesley
Angel's gone, Faith. Angelus is back.
[long pause]
Step away from the glass.
DDemon
Look, I'm telling ya, I don't know nothing. On my mother's tumor.
[Notices another demon sneaking up behind Wesley and Faith, intending to attack them; then cockily.]
DDemon
And even if I did, I'd never yak to a couple of fleshbags that are about to get their internal organs sucked out of their
[Without looking Wesley shoots behind him with the shotgun, nailing the would-be attacker in the face.]
Wesley
Strom demon. Face should grow back. [Cocks the shotgun] Eventually.
DDemon
Oh, that Angelus. Yeah, in here all the time running his mouth. "Look at me, I'm so evil." Real jackass. Never liked him. I'm on your side.
[Faith goes to the side of a woman who's nearly passed out on a couch.]
Hey, I'm gonna get you out of here.
[Wesley picks up a hypodermic syringe from the floor.]
Wesley
Faith...
Wesley
She did it to herself. They shoot up, the vampires feed, use 'em like a filter. I've read the effects can be quite intoxicating...for both of them.
GGirl
[to Faith] Hey, you're pretty. You wanna make out?
[Faith grabs the girl by the collar and pushes her roughly against the wall.]
There was a vampire in here earlier. Tall, dark hair... [the girl's eyes drift, but Faith grabs her face] Listen!
GGirl
OK. God! What's your issue?
Tall, dark hair, talking to himself.
[Faith punches the girl in the face.]
GGirl
No, I didn't. Stop it, you're hurting me!
[Faith looks at the girl, gets a disturbed look on her face, and lets the girl go.]
She doesn't know anything.
Wesley
Maybe not.
[Wesley takes out a knife and stabs the girl in the shoulder, making her gasp in pain.]
Wesley
[to Faith] Shut up! [to the girl] The tracks on your arms--you've been here, what, two or three days straight? [twists the knife] Answer me!
GGirl
Yeah, God, stop! Yes four...four days.
Wesley
Then you must've seen the vampire we're looking for.
GGirl
Angelus, I saw him. He, uh...
Wesley
Where is he?
GGirl
I don't know. [Wesley punches her] I don't know! Please stop!
Wesley
They said he was talking to himself. What was he saying?
GGirl
I don't know. It was...it was like he was talking to someone else. It was all rain of fire a-and pulling strings and a soul. That's all I heard. Please stop. It hurts.
[Wesley pulls the knife out of the girl. Faith runs to the girl's side.]
Have you totally lost it?
Wesley
I avoided the main arteries. She'll live, if that's what you call this.
So, what? Torturing humans is part of the new makeover?
Wesley
I did what I had to because you couldn't.
Wesley
You think that's something new to her?
You crossed it back there, Wes, What'd you do back there...
Wesley
Oh, you have a problem with a little torture now? Seem to recall a time when you rather enjoyed it.
Yeah, well, it's not me anymore. You know that.
Wesley
[raises shotgun] Nice to have this along though, just in case. [speaking slowly] I remember what you did to me Faith: The broken glass, the shallow cuts, so I'd remain conscious.
You think I'd hurt you again?
Wesley
This the part where you tell me you've turned a new leaf, found God, Inner peace? We both know that isn't true. You haven't changed. You can't.
Wesley
[getting angry] Because you're sick. You've always been sick. It goes right down to the roots rotting your soul. That's why your friends turned on you in Sunnydale, why the Watcher's Council tried to kill you. No one trusts you Faith. You're just a rabid dog who should have been put down years ago! [Faith slams him up against the wall] See? Wasn't so hard, was it? [quietly] It's what you'll need to beat him.
[Willow is planning to magically smash the jar holding Agel's soul]
It had to be something specific. There's lots of jars in the world. Can't shatter 'em all. I mean, you could, but good things come in jars: Peanutbutter. Jelly. Those two-headed fetal pigs at the national history museum. [Wesley barely reacts.] Come on, everybody loves fetal pigs.
Wesley
Sorry. I think my sense of humor is trapped in a jar somewhere.
Does seem like you've given in to the grumpy side of the force.
Wesley
A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. I'd been... I've changed. I've seen a darkness in myself. I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand.
I flayed a guy alive and tried to destroy the world.
Wesley
Oh. So...
Wesley
Yeah. Well, I never flayed... [pauses] I had a woman chained in a closet.
Wesley
Nah, doesn't compare.
No, dark. That's dark. You've been to a place.
Wesley
You seem exactly the same as when I left. No other major changes I'm not up on?
Just little things. So, Fred, what's her story?
Wesley
No. They were bound to skulk off to neutral corners.
Two vampires hook up and for the only time in vamp history, have a kid-our boy, Connor. Then Connor grows up, knocks it out with Cordelia, a part-demon former higher being, and quick as you can say "Easy-Bake Oven" there's a gigantic bun in hers. I don't think we were too harsh.
Yeah, well, that was before my spell went all flop-a-palooza.
Having two part-demon parents might could explain the whoosh factor.
Not gonna be long before whoosh turns into pop.
Speaking of pop, don't you think our re-ensouled leader should be a part of this little confab?
(stepping out of his office) Easy-bake. Flop-a-palooza. Whoosh, pop. [to Wesley] I don't skulk.
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