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“Quickening” · Season 3
In this episode: Darla (5), Puppet Angel (4), Cordelia Chase (4), Fred (4), Charles Gunn (3), Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (2), Sahjhan (2), Vampire (2)
[voicemail message]
WSWoman's voice
Hi, you've reached the Tittles. We can't come to the phone right now. If you wanna leave a message for Christine, press one.
MSMan's voice
For Bentley, press two.
DSDemon's voice
Or to speak to or worship Master Tarfall, Underlord of pain, press three.
I'm not a man. - What I mean is...
You're not human.
But clearly masculine. You get that, right?
[Darla starts groaning in pain after Cordelia punches her.]
Oh, come on, tough girl. You're a vampire. A punch in the nose shouldn't hurt that much.
FFred
Not aaow her nose. She's having contractions!
[Darla screams]
[Angel is pushing Darla in a wheelchair through the hospital while she is having contractions]
How you feeling?
[irritated] I haven't had blood in almost a day and your devil spawn is trying to rip its way out of my body. How you think I'm doing?
Thank you for coming. And correct me if I'm wrong, but the role of a psychic is to be psychic. To predict the future, so that Wolfram and Hart doesn't find itself in this kind of predicament.
BPBald psychic
I can't apologize enough, sir.
You're right. You can't. [Laughs] But I'm not without compassion. I'm gonna give you a chance to save your job - and your skin.
[Bald psychic smiles relieved, then frowns and leans in a bit closer to Linwood.]
BPBald psychic
No, you're not. You're gonna have me killed.
[Puts a hand on his shoulder.] Now, why couldn't you have had that kind of foresight when we needed it?
[Someone puts a plastic bag over the bald guy's head from behind and pulls him away from Linwood.]
What is it?
It's - it's human.
Human as is in humanoid? As in cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers?
No - human as in - a boy.
Boy?
A boy. A boy. You're carrying a boy.
Great.
Gonna have a son. I'm gonna have a son.
FFred
Guys. As fascinating as an ultra-sound image of an unborn child may appear...
Me. A father. To a son. You know what that means?
FFred
We're surrounded by vampires?
No, it's a human bo...
[He trails off as he looks away from the monitor for the first time and notices the vampires lining the teaching gallery above them and the back wall of the room.]
Oh. We are surrounded by vampires.
Hey, I'm all for being idolized, but what the hell is going on?
What do you want?
To protect the miracle child.
Protect? Ah, that's good. We're all here for the same thing.
[The guy with the sword that Lilah called earlier suddenly jumps through one of the glass windows above, dressed like a ninja and holding the sword in front of him, screaming 'die!' The miracle child worshipping vampires jump on him en masse, and he goes down with a strangled scream. We hear a crunch and someone gulping down liquid.]
As it has been prophesied by our great potentate Ul-thar, we vow our lives to protect this special child.
[aside to Darla] You hear that? Our kid. Special.
Now let us kill the humans so we may use their blood to nourish the mother and her miracle child.
[smiling] Guess I'm getting dinner after all.
Darla, you might wanna join the fight.
Sorry, darling. I'm gonna have to be Switzerland and sit this one out. Now, you did say you were just gonna kill the humans, right?
Yes, just the humans. Then we will nourish you, slice you open, wear your entrails as a belt and consume your eyeballs before we worship the miracle child.
Okay. I'm in.
Gunn, you and I can hold them off for as long as we can. The rest of you, get Darla to the car.
Oh, I'd rather stay and fight. Show these youngsters a thing or two about real carnage.
That's thoughtful, but, you know, you should go.
FFred
Charles, do you have an extra dagger I could borrow?
[Gunn pulls out a dagger and hands it to her.]
This okay?
FFred
Perfect.
No my count of three. One, two...
[Fred holds the dagger against Darla's belly.]
FFred
You freaks make one move and I'll slice the miracle kid into triplets.
It's always the quiet ones.
Wait!
FFred
[quietly to Darla] They don't know the knife can't hurt the baby.
[smiling] They do now. Vampires have great hearing.
[Darla is still in the back of the car. Wesley is sitting on the trunk facing Fred, standing behind the car. Gunn is sitting on the side of the passenger door. Cordelia starts the car.]
He said five minutes!
It's been six and a half.
It's so typical of him.
FFred
It probably wouldn't hurt to wait another minute, right? I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen in another minute? [Darla lets out a blood-curdling scream.] Ask a stupid question...
Her water's broken. This is for real. There should be a blanket in the trunk.
What are we gonna do? Deliver the kid right here? Shouldn't we go somewhere?
FFred
What's keeping Angel?
[Gunn gets the blanket out of the trunk and he and Wesley help a screaming Darla to lie down in the back seat while the camera pulls up to give us an overhead view of them.]
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