Skip quotes from Angel

Skip

Well, that ain't right. [collapses]

Cordelia

You're - you're - death? You've come to take me.

Skip

[bursts out laughing] Kidding. [Offers hand] I'm Skip. [She doesn't shake it] You're Cordelia Chase, right? [Cordelia nods slightly] Sorry it took me so long, I... [indicates her body] this you? Most people go astral, their spiritual shapes tend to be an idealized version of themselves. You know, straighten the nose, lose the gray, sort of a self-esteem kind of thing. You're pretty confident, aren't ya?

Cordelia

Is this...? This is a Mall.

Skip

We just figured you'd be more comfortable here.

Cordelia

We?

Skip

The Powers That Be.

Cordelia

The Powers That Be popped me out of my body and sent me to a Mall?

Skip

Actually, this is more a construct of a Mall. You know, like in "The Matrix".

Cordelia

You've seen "The Matrix"?

Skip

Oh, love that flick. When Trinity is all 'dodge this' and the agent just crumples to the [Cordelia sighs] and I'm not really instilling any awe anymore, am I?

Skip

Inside every living thing there is a connection to the Powers That Be. Call it instinct, intuition. Deep down we all know our purpose in this world.

Cordelia

Are you saying that, I was meant to be an actress?

Skip

No. I'm saying you were meant to be an incredibly famous and wealthy actress. And the Powers That Be can make that happen.

Skip

We've been over this. I respect what you're trying to do. It's noble and heroic and all that other Russell Crowe "Gladiator" crap.

Cordelia

You've seen -

Skip

Didn't love it.

Gunn

No way. We make our own choices.

Skip

Yeah, sure. Cheese sandwich here, uh, when to floss. But the big stuff, like two vampires squeezing out a kid?

Angel

Connor.

Wesley

An impossible birth to make one possible.

Skip

That's what the kid was designed for.

Lorne

To sleep with mother love?

Angel

To create a vessel.

Skip

Look out. The monkey's thinking again.

Angel

Being inside a human makes it vulnerable, doesn't it? That's why it had to stay hidden. Why it needed to create something stronger to pour itself into.

Gunn

Wait. So the big nasty inside of Cordy is going to give birth... to itself?

Angel

No, you're not coming, any of you. Whatever's taken over Cordy, it's still her inside. She's still our friend. She's still the woman I... I won't let you carry that. I can't.

Skip

Anybody got a hanky?