“Birthday” · Season 3
In this episode: Cordelia Chase (5), Skip (4)
You're - you're - death? You've come to take me.
[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?
Is this...? This is a Mall.
We just figured you'd be more comfortable here.
We?
The Powers That Be.
The Powers That Be popped me out of my body and sent me to a Mall?
Actually, this is more a construct of a Mall. You know, like in "The Matrix".
You've seen "The Matrix"?
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?
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.
Are you saying that, I was meant to be an actress?
No. I'm saying you were meant to be an incredibly famous and wealthy actress. And the Powers That Be can make that happen.
I want something. Hypo-something. Hypothermia?
[to phone] Josh, lets get a large tub of ice water to Miss Chase's dressing room, pronto.
[to herself] No, that's not it.
Cancelling ice water.
Hyper... hyperbaric?
Josh, make it an oxygen tent.
[to herself] No, that's not it either.
Canceling tent.
[spins to Nev] Hyperion! That's it!
The hotel.
Yes. I wanna go there.
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.
You've seen -
Didn't love it.
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