What about her--If her organs have been liquefied?
[raises hand] Flash fried in a pillar of fire, savin' the world. I got better.
“Shells” · Season 5
In this episode: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (6), Puppet Angel (4), Charles Gunn (3), Spike (3), Illyria (2), Harmony Kendall (1)
I want to help. Fred's my friend. We went out for drinks all the... once.
Any idea how she got past you?
One second she was standing there, the next, poof.
She's a teleporter?
I don't think so. No characteristic displacement of the atmosphere around her.
I fancied I saw a blur just before she went Houdini.
Yeah, like she was pulling a Barry Allen.
[Angel looks at him, not recognizing the name; Gunn looks around at the others]
Jay Garrick? Wally-- Like she was moving really fast.
Is there something you'd like to tell me, Charles?
[Gunn turns in horror to see Wes is holding him at gunpoint after overhearing some of Gunn's conversation with the doctor.]
Knox was in contact with the doctor. But you already know that, don't you?
Yeah, one of my sources...
Don't! What he said... about Fred, about her soul, is it true? What did you do, Charles?
It was just a piece of paper. I was losing it. Everything they put in my head, everything that made me different. Special. And he could fix it. Make it permanent. So I signed a piece of paper. It was a custom's release form. I didn't think anyone would get hurt.
Nothing from Wolfram & Hart is ever free. You knew that.
I couldn't go back... to being just the muscle. I... I didn't think it would be one of us. I didn't think it would be Fred.
I understand not wanting to go back, not wanting to be who we were. I understand it. And I can forgive it. But you knew what was happening to her. You knew who was responsible and you didn't say anything. You let her die.
[Picks up a scalpel from the table and thrusts it into Gunn's gut.]
I'm less forgiving about that.
[slams Wesley against wall] What the hell did you do?
What I had to.
I don't remember seeing "stab Gunn" on the agenda this morning.
I avoided the major organs. He'll probably live.
Is that supposed to make it all right?
Nothing is all right! Nothing will ever be all right.
We'll get her back, Wes.
No, we won't. Fred's soul... her soul was destroyed resurrecting Illyria.
Illyria.
We have to stop her before she-
Unleashes hell on earth?
What'd you get out of the doctor?
Screams. Various fluids. And a name: Vahla ha'nesh.
You're about as low as it gets, Knox, but you're a part of humanity. That isn't always pretty, but it's a hell of a lot better than what came before. [to Illyria] And if it comes down to a choice between you and him, then yes, I would fight for his life, just like any other human's. Because that's what people do. That's what makes us --
[Wesley shoots and kills Knox.]
[to Wes] Were you even listening?
We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief?
There's love. There's hope - for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy. That your life will lead you to some joy. That after everything, you can still be surprised.
Is that enough? Is that enough to live for?
You grieve, still, for a single life?
Why are you here?
I... I'm uncertain. This place, was part of the shell.
Don't call her-- The woman you killed had a name.
This is important to you. Things have names. The shell. Winifred Burkle. She can't return to you.
I know.
Yet there are fragments. When her brain collapsed, electrical spasms channeled into my function system. Memories. [sighs and Fred's voice] Please. Wesley, why can I stay?
No. Leave.
I have nowhere to go. My kingdom is long dead. Long dead. There's, so much I don't understand. I become, overwhelmed. I'm, unsure of my place.
Your place is with the rest of your people, dead and turned to ash.
Perhaps. But I exist here. I must learn to walk in this world. I'll need your help, Wesley.
If I were to help you find your way, you have to learn to change. You mustn't kill.
You killed the Qua'ha Xahn in defiance of your leader.
He murdered the woman I love.
And that made it just.
No. It wasn't just. I'm probably the last man in the world to teach you what's right.
But you will. If I abide, you will help me.
Yes.
Because I look like her?
Yes.
We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief?
There's love. There's hope. For some, there's hope that you'll find something worthy. That your life will lead you to some joy. That after everything, you can still be surprised.
Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
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