[Lilah, Holland and Lindsey are entering the vault where the box from the ritual is stored. Lindsey's right arm is in a sling.]
HollandThe senior partners were very impressed with your sacrifice.
[Lindsey looks at him.]
Holland
Trust me, we'll even the score with them.
Holland
Beginning with what's in that box.
[Lilah leans to look in through the bars running along the top of the box.]
We're all very pleased you're here. I know it's a bit confusing, but it's gonna be better soon. A lot better...
[Camera pans to show a naked woman crouched in one corner of the box, shaking in terror.]
I can crush the life out of you before they even lift a finger.
Holland
Oh, I'm sure you can. Just as sure as I am that you won't.
Holland
You don't kill humans.
You don't qualify. You set things in motion, play your little games up here in your glass and chrome tower, and people die. Innocent people.
Holland
And yet I just can't seem to care. But you do. And while you're making threats, wasting time, crashing through windows, your girls are out painting the town red, red, red.
That was very thoughtful of you.
[Darla steps up close to Holland]
You brought me back as human, a dying one at that, let me wallow with a soul, then sent me crawling back to Angel, begging him to restore me.
Holland
Which he should have done right away. But I miscalculated, I - I thought he cared more than he did.
[Darla giggles.]
Grandmum won't eat [lifts both hands up besides her head and opens and closes them a couple of times] the double speak."
No. No, she won't eat that.
I hear the sirens. They don't know if the world will be there in the morning.
Do you hear the sirens? Are-are the police coming?
[Shakes his head.] No. She senses what this place was built for.
Holland
Ah, yes. Drusilla, you're quite right. This was originally a bomb shelter in the fifties. We had it converted. Wine has always been my passion.
[Darla giggles.]
People huddled together, crouching in fear.
Holland
Yes, yes. I imagine that's what it would have been like in a war.
Holland
Aha. [chuckles] I guess I stepped into that one. Listen Darla, I am sorry that you had to suffer, but look at what's come out of it. You've been restored. You're a superior being. You can have anything you want. And there's not a person in this room who won't work round the clock to see that you get it.
Gung ho, are they? Because all I'm sensing right now is big, stinky, fear. [smiles in Holland's face, then turns to Lindsey] But not from you. [walks over to him] Do you know what I'm getting from you, Lindsey? [leans in close to his neck as if to bite him, then pulls back] Nothing. Why aren't you afraid?
You could die here. Chances are you will.
I care. I guess I just don't mind.
Holland
No one's going to die here. This is just a friendly get-together amongst colleagues. [Dru is dancing around Holland's back] We're all on the same side.
I love this room. Dru, honey, in our new digs we have to put in a people cellar.
[Holland smiles, but the smile fades quickly.]
[Angel arrives as Darla and Drusilla prepare to massacre a Wolfram & Hart office party]
Angelus- here for the tasting?
Look what we have for you. Oh- it's not Daddy. It's never Daddy. It's the Angel-beast.
Yeah, yeah. [lifts her hands as if they were tied above her head] Spank us till Tuesday. [growls] We promise to be bad if you do.
Holland
Angel....
[to Darla] I'm sorry I didn't get to you in time.
[caressing the side of her face] He's soul-sick. Not even thinking about his own family. [pulls one of the men over by his hair] Only thinking about them.
Come on, love. I never did get that good-bye kiss.
You will. But not tonight.
Holland
Angel, please. People are going to die.
And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care.
[Holland watches wide-eyed as Angel shuts the double doors on them; Darla turns to caress Holland with a big smile on her face]
Holland
Angel? P-please we can negotiate. We...
[Angel slides the lock on the door shut]
[Lindsey has a slight smile creasing his face. Darla pulls Holland down and bites him. Angel unhurriedly walks up the steps from the cellar, ignoring the screams and sounds of fighting coming from the cellar.]
HMHolland Manners
Congratulations. Great victory.
Holland
Holland Manners.
Holland
Oh, no. I'm quite dead. [shows Angel the bite mark Darla left on his neck] Unfortunately my contract with Wolfram & Hart extends well beyond that. [smiles] Hop on in. You certainly earned it.
[Angel enters the elevator]
Holland
Well, this is exciting, isn't it? Going straight to the source. So what's the big plan, Angel? Destroy the Senior Partners, smash Wolfram & Hart once and for all?
Holland
Hmm, now tell me just what do you think that would accomplish? In the end, I mean.
Holland
Well, the end of you, certainly. But I meant in the larger sense.
In the larger sense, I really don't give a crap.
Holland
Now, I don't think that's true. Be honest–you got the tiniest bit of "give a crap" left. Otherwise you wouldn't be going on this kamikaze mission. Now let me see, there was something in a sacred prophecy, some oblique reference to you. Something you're supposed to prevent. Now what was that?
Holland
Yes, the apocalypse, of course. Another one of those. Well, it's true, we do have one scheduled. And I imagine if you were to prevent it you would save a great many people. Well, you should do that then. Absolutely! I wasn't thinking. [smiles] Of course, all those people you save from that apocalypse would then have the next one to look forward to, but hey, it's always something, isn't it?
Holland
Well...no. Of course we aren't. We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as "winning". [laughs]
Holland
Hmm? I'm sorry, why what?
Holland
That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We...go on, no matter what. Our firm has always been here...in one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And that, friend, is what's making things so difficult for you. See, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.
[elevator comes to a stop and the doors open, revealing Los Angeles]
Holland
Welcome to the home office.
Holland
Oh, you know it is. You know that better than anyone. Things you've seen. Things you've–well, done. You see, if there wasn't evil in every single one of them out there–why, they wouldn't be people. They'd all be angels.
[Angel slowly walks out of the elevator]
Holland
Have a nice day.
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