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What is it you think you fight for, dead thing? Valor? What you call justice? Your friends are dead. Most likely. Or so you believe. So it's not for them you fight.
I'm trying to save my world!
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Your world. A world that doesn't care for you. Doesn't want you.
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So your Powers That Be tell you. Maybe they're right. But it's not why you're here.
Okay, Bugsy, you wanna tell me what I'm fighting for?
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The boy. The woman you've already lost. The boy is what you're fighting for. But you're going to fail. You're going to lose him too.
Jasmine, it's over. You've lost.
I've lost? Do you have any idea what you've done?
No. No, Angel. There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise. You chose this!
Because I could. Because that's what you took away from us. Choice.
And look what free will has gotten you.
Hey, I didn't say we were smart. I said it's our right. It's what makes us human.
[Jasmine turns to walk away]
Sorry, but... can't do that.
What? You've taken everything. You're gonna try to kill me now, as if you could.
Maybe not. But I'll die before I let you hurt anyone else.
You know what I mean. It ends right here.
Why do you hate me so much?
Let's run down the list, huh? Rain of fire, blotting out the sun, enslaving mankind, and, yeah, oh, yeah, hey, you eat people!
Thousands of people are dead because of what you've done.
And how many will die because of you? I could've stopped it, Angel. All of it. War, disease, poverty. How many precious, beautiful lives would've been saved in a handful of years? Yes, I murdered thousands to save billions. This world is doomed to drown in its own blood now.
The price was too high, Jasmine. Our fate has to be our own, or we're nothing.
Look, we've all done horrible things. All we can do is try and make up for it. So, OK, you know, it's not the world that you wanted, but maybe you can still help us make it better, even if you have lost your powers.
[Jasmine punches Angel so hard that it sends him flying over the edge of the bridge. He lands on a car hood. Jasmine, still on the bridge, picks up a station wagon.]
Think the price was too high? You haven't begun to pay!
[She throws a station wagon over the bridge, it snaps a power line before crashing into the street and exploding. Jasmine jumps off the bridge, lands on her feet, and walks menacingly toward Angel.]
Maybe you're right. Maybe I can still make this world a better place. One body at a time. I loved this world. I sacrificed everything I was to be with you.
Because I cared. The other Powers don't. Never really did. You know that's true in your heart. Shame now I gotta rip it out.
[She reaches for Angel, but he grabs the end of the power line and electrocutes Jasmine with the live end. The electricity sends her back a few feet, but doesn't hurt her. She walks back toward Angel.]
I was forged in the inferno of creation, vampire. Do you really think a little electricity would destroy me?
[Forces Angel into a kiss.]
Always the same, dad. I get a girl, you gotta make a play for her.
[Jasmine lets up on the kissing.]
I have been authorized to make you kids an offer.
You can't possibly think there's anything we'd want from you.
I don't think you'll want it, but you'll take it, because this is the offer of a lifetime. [pauses] Just not, you know, mine.
[Lilah, reanimated due to a clause in her contract, looks on as Wesley rifles through Wolfram & Hart files.]
What are you doing, Wesley?
[takes a piece of paper out of the files] Standard in Perpetuity clause.
You broke in here for my contract?
I'm here to release you from it.
You've suffered enough! [he lights the paper on fire] I want you to find some peace.
Gallant to the end... but I knew what I signed up for.
Look in the drawer. [Wesley finds the same piece of paper in the file cabinet again, unscorched] Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything. But it means something that you tried.
You might not want to move. Everyone's rigged. Can't save 'em all, dad. Don't know who's gonna be first. Could be any one of 'em. [Stands, revealing he's wired too.] Could be me. [steps away, points to an unconscious Cordelia on the floor, also wired] Could be her.
[Angel stares shocked and frozen with fear for a moment.]
Son...you have to listen to me. This is about Jasmine.
I know. We all felt it, that perfect love, then when you had to give it up...
I didn't feel anything! I can't feel anything. I guess I really am your son... 'cause I'm dead, too.
You're not dead. You're just starting your life and--
No, you just weren't there before!
Do not say you're sorry! Doesn't fix anything.
Ok, look, let me say this. I love you, son.
It's always a lie. My dead mother couldn't even love me.
No. [shakes her head] No. She knew she couldn't.
She sacrificed herself because she loved you.
You tried to love me. At least I think you did.
But not enough to hang on, dad. (glares at Angel)You let him take me. You let him get me. You let him get me. (turns to face Cordelia) Cordy... you swore you loved me. Where are you now?
Connor... you have to believe that there are people who love you.
Jasmine believed you when you said you loved her, but it was all a lie.
No! She knew if you found out who she really was that you'd turn against her, and she was right. That's just what happened. People like you. People like this. None of you deserve what she could give you. She wanted to give you everything.
I know how that feels. 'Cause I want to give you everything. I want to take back the mistakes, help you start over.
We can. I mean, we can change things.
There's only one thing that ever changes anything... and that's death. Everything else is just a lie. You can't be saved by a lie. You can't be saved at all.
