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Starring: David Boreanaz as Angel, James Marsters as Spike, J. August Richards as Gunn, Amy Acker as Fred, Andy Hallet as Lorne, Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce

Guest starring: Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase, Christian Kane as “Doyle” (a.k.a., Lindsey McDonald), Sarah Thompson as Eve, Mercedes McNab as Harmony

Original air date: February 4, 2004

Written by: David Fury

Directed by: David Fury

Angel breaks down a door and enters a dark room, followed by Gunn, Wes, and Fred. Fred’s scanning for trace evidence for a man. She can detect hair, enzymes, and blood. But the blood belongs to five nuns who are dead. Greenway, the man the team is looking for has killed the nuns to escape a racketeering charge. Wes figures out that Greenway has used the blood of “five holy women” in a black magic ritual to create an interdimensional portal and has escaped to one of thousands of different universes. Fred doesn’t have the equipment to trace Greenway and it’s the last straw for Angel. He wants out - the big out - from Wolfram & Hart. Angel tells the rest of the crew that he quits. Meanwhile, across town, Cordelia is having a vision of glyphs or symbols on walls and on human skin. Suddenly Cordelia wakes up.

The next day, back at Angel’s office, Fred, Lorne, and Gunn are trying to talk Angel out of resigning. Angel thinks that every one is doing their jobs, but none of them should be working at Wolfram & Hart in the first place. Gunn tries to be the voice of reason - if Angel or any one else of the crew tries to leave Wolfram & Hart the Senior Partners may get retributiony. Angel asks Gunn if he thinks the Senior Partners will *really* get annoyed, or if Gunn just doesn’t want to leave. Gunn thinks that all of them made the right call in joining up with Wolfram & Hart. Just then Angel gets a phone call. It’s about Cordelia.

At the hospital Angel and Wes walk in to find Cordelia up and walking. Angel hugs Cordy very enthusiastically, then Wes gets his hug. Both Angel and Wes think that Cordy looks great. As they talk Cordy reveals that she remembers everything that happened last year, up until she slipped into the coma. Angel wants to get Cordy out of the hospital to which Cordy enthusiastically agrees. When Wes suggests they stop and buy Cordy some clothes so she can get out of her hospital gown, Cordy gets even more enthusiastic. She tells Angel and Wes that she’s really not ready to go back to the hotel.

At Wolfram & Hart the elevator doors open and Wes and Angel walk out. Cordy doesn’t think she can do it. The place is too evil. Angel tries to reassure Cordy - it’s just a plain office where nothing will jump out and scare her. Of course, just then the Archduke’s impish demon slave jumps out at Cordelia and spooks her. Apparently, the impish demon slave has been living on toner in one of the copy rooms since Lorne’s infamous Halloween party (see AtS 5.5, “The Life of the Party”). In Angel’s office Cordy reunites with the AI crew. She is very happy to see them and they are very happy to see her. After hugs all around, Cordy wants to know where Connor is. Except for Angel, no one knows who Cordy is talking about. Harmony bounces in very, very happy to see Cordy and Cordy’s a little confused. The last time Cordy saw Harmony, Harmony tried to kill her (see AtS, 2.17, “Disharmony). Angel ushers everyone out of the office so that Cordy can rest, but Cordelia takes him to task. Angel tries to convince Cordelia that he now has the power and resources to save virtually everyone, but Cordy thinks Angel should focus on saving himself. She tells Angel that she woke up because of a vision in which Angel was in danger and glyphs on walls and on skin.

Just then Eve comes into Angel’s office via Angel’s private elevator. Eve’s there to relay the Senior Partner’s displeasure at losing ten million dollars in bail money when Greenway jumped to a different dimension. Angel told security to keep Eve out of the building, but she reminds him that she’s the liaison with the Senior Partners, and he can’t control her ‘comings and goings.’ Then Eve makes a point of mentioning the ‘comings’ from the Halloween party. Cordelia thinks Angel may finally have sunk lower than sleeping with Darla. Angel does try to explain that having sex with Eve had a mystical cause. Cordy’s pretty upset by all this - she thinks Angel made a deal with The Devil. A demon stops by to say good-bye to Angel. Ironically, the demon does look a lot like the Judeo-Christian version of The Devil. This makes Cordy even more annoyed than she already was.

Across town, Spike is playing video games when Doyle walks in. Doyle is concerned because Spike hasn’t been patrolling lately. Spike, not so politely, reminds Doyle that his hands were hacked off recently chasing the Slayer that Doyle sent Spike after (see AtS 5.11, “Damaged”). Spike tells Doyle that he can’t have any clue about how bad it felt to have his hands chopped off then mystically reattached. Doyle tells Spike that he really *does* know how it feels - Doyle had a hand chopped off in the “line of duty” a few years back. Spike interrupts Doyle’s pep talk about champions, the Powers That Be, and helping the helpless and tells Doyle he plans on patrolling as soon as Doyle has a vision. Doyle’s phone rings - it’s Eve calling from Wolfram & Hart to tell Doyle that Cordelia is awake, that Cordy had a vision and the vision is leading Angel towards Doyle. Doyle stays pretty calm and, as Spike takes out some frustrations on his XBox, decides to change his plans.

Back at Wolfram & Hart Angel enters his penthouse and finds Cordy watching a video she had made of Doyle (the real Doyle) four years ago (see AtS 1.9, “Hero”). Cordy and Angel are both moved by seeing their friend again. Cordy talks to Angel about Doyle’s death. That somehow Doyle knew that it the right thing to do, and that Doyle used his last breath to make sure Angel could continue his fight (referring to passing Doyle’s visions from the PTB on to Cordy). Cordy finally understands why Doyle did what he did. Angel tells Cordy that there were reasons behind his decision to take over Wolfram & Hart, but Cordelia thinks it was a simple case of seduction. Wolfram & Hart gave Angel money, and penthouses, and beautiful things so that Angel would take over the firm.

Angel finally tells Cordelia what happened after she slipped into the coma. The Senior Partners altered reality and re-made Connor’s past, giving him a loving family that didn’t include Angel, and removed all memory of Connor from everyone except Angel, Cordelia, and Eve. Angel made the deal because Connor was ready to kill both Cordelia and himself, and Angel felt he didn’t have any other way to make things right. Cordy doesn’t buy that Angel is doing good at Wolfram & Hart and thinks that the PTB doesn’t think so, either - that’s probably why she got her coma vision. The PTB want Cordy to get Angel back on track. Angel tells Cordy that the PTB have a new champion - ensouled Spike - who’s helping the helpless after saving the world. Cordelia can’t believe that Spike is a ‘hero’ and that Angel is CEO of “Hell, Inc.” Cordy wants Angel to remember who he is, but she can’t tell him. Angel has to figure that out for himself. Cordy does tell him, however, who Angel was. A champion who fought hard for what was right, and that fight gave Angel a light. Cordy wants to see the old Angel again, and maybe she’ll start believing what Angel’s been spouting about working at Wolfram & Hart.

Cordy asks Angel if he ever thinks about what might have happened if they could have met up the night they planned to talk (see AtS 3.22, “Tomorrow”). Angel thinks about it all the time. Both Angel and Cordy agree that people like them may not really get a chance to be happy.

Across town Lindsey (Doyle) and Eve are doing some naked snuggling and talking about recent events. Lindsey thinks that Cordelia woke up because the PTB are nervous about his actions. Lindsey’s pissed because the Senior Partners gave “that Euro-trash vampire” the position he had worked for and earned. Eve thinks that Angel is still the center of Lindsey’s universe.

Meanwhile Cordy and Wes are going retro and doing their own research. Cordy’s not sure it was a good idea, but Wes likes working with Cordy and the books again. Cordy’s a little worried because no one is talking about what happened last year. Wes tries to reassure her that everyone knows it wasn’t really Cordy. But Cordy’s still sorry about everything that happened. She suddenly finds the glyphs that she saw in her vision. Wes figures out that the symbols are part of a concealment spell that would prevent the wearer from being observed by mystics or psychics *or* modern surveillance. By now Lindsey is at Wolfram & Hart and is going downstairs to a maintenance area. He passes unseen by video surveillance and walks through an array of laser detectors without triggering them. He stabs a demon in the back and cuts a gem off of the demon’s neck.

Upstairs Cordy is walking around the building when she sees Spike. Spike vamps out, grabs Cordy, shoves her against a wall and takes a bite out of her neck. Angel grabs Spike by the shoulders and throws him up against a wall. Angel warns Spike not to touch Cordy again, but Spike tells Angel that Cordy doesn’t have a soul. Turns out that a source told Spike that Cordy was possessed by a Big Bad and that she was going to kill everyone at Wolfram & Hart. Spike was doing a taste test to find out if his source was telling the truth, but Cordy didn’t taste like a demon. Spike tells Angel and Cordy that his source gets these visions from the PTB, but Cordy fills Spike in that the vision was a re-run. Spike tells them that “tattoo boy” had a wrong vision this time. Both Cordy and Angel are more than a little shocked when Spike tells them that his source calls himself “Doyle.”

At the same time Eve is on the phone with Lindsey and tells him that Spike didn’t kill Cordy. Lindsey warns Eve to get out of the building ASAP. As Eve turns around she sees Angel and Cordy who want to have a “little chat” with Eve. In Angel’s office the team grills Eve about what’s been going on and what she knows. Angel wants to know who is pretending to be Doyle because Angel figures that Eve is working with pretend-Doyle. Eve doesn’t spill what she knows, even when Cordy threatens her. Just then Harmony interrupts the interrogation and wants to know if she gets the afternoon off, too. Turns out that the entire building cleared out a couple minutes ago. Angel asks Eve what’s going on.

Downstairs Lindsey takes the gem from the demon’s neck and uses it to activate some sort of chamber. . . a big one.

In the meantime Gunn’s done a little investigation and found out that an e-mail with a “Code 7” went out to every employee’s computer a couple minutes before the building cleared out. Cordy wants Angel to torture Eve to get the information they need. Angel doesn’t want to so Harmony steps in to torture Eve for the team. Harmony doesn’t mind. She is evil, after all. Harmony slaps Eve a couple times and Eve caves. Apparently the Senior Partners didn’t trust Angel so the built a fail-safe. Eve doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s large, alive, and keyed to destroy Angel. The only way to stop the fail-safe is to go downstairs. The team figures out that the pretend-Doyle with the concealment glyphs must have initiated the fail-safe. Angel intends to stop the fail-safe so he asks Spike for any more information he may have. Spike tells Angel that pretend-Doyle had his hand chopped off once. Ping! You can practically hear the puzzle pieces falling in place. Wes, Angel, and Cordy figure out that Lindsey’s back.

Wes, Fred, Lorne and Gunn are going to work on a way to cancel out the concealment glyphs while Angel, Cordy, and Spike go to the basement to stop the fail-safe. Harmony is left to guard Eve. Downstairs Angel, Cordy and Spike find the laser grid. As Angel walks into one of the lasers a claxon goes off and zombies come out of the walls. Spike, Cordy and Angel take on the zombies. Spike volunteers to hold the zombies back so that Angel and Cordy can stop the fail-safe. Angel and Cordy find the room with the fail-safe and find Lindsey there. Angel tells Lindsey that he had his chance at redemption and throws a punch at Lindsey’s face. Lindsey moves out of the way - quick - then throws Angel across the room. Lindsey’s gotten a power upgrade!

Lindsey uses some magic to shut the door to the chamber so that Cordelia can’t leave. Cordy throws the sword she’s carrying to Angel while Lindsey takes out a small knife which magically transforms into a large sword. Angel tells Cordy to shut down the fail-safe while Angel and Lindsey get their violence on. Angel and Lindsey are fighting on a large tower that apparently contains the fail-safe. Despite Angel’s best efforts, Lindsey is starting to kick his butt. As they fight they reminisce about the first time they met, when Angel kicked Lindsey’s client, a vamp, out of an office building window during the day (see AtS 1.1, “City of”). The tower starts to shake and shimmy.

Upstairs Wes is directing Fred, Gunn, and Lorne in a spell. Unfortunately they need some arterial blood of a demon and Lorne gets volunteered.

Meanwhile, the fight between Angel and Lindsey is getting more violent. Lindsey buries his sword in Angel’s chest. After Angel takes the sword out, they start fighting hand-to-hand. By this time Cordy figures out how to turn off the fail-safe. Suddenly Lindsey’s amazing strength and speed disappears. As the tower they are standing on starts to recede into the floor, Angel beats the crap out of Lindsey, eventually knocking him off the tower on to the floor. Wes’s spell starts to take effect and Lindsey’s tattoos fade and dissolve. A portal opens up above Lindsey’s head, apparently from the Senior Partners, and Lindsey asks Angel if the Senior Partners are angry. Really doesn’t matter - Lindsey is sucked into the portal and it closes behind him.

Later the team confronts Eve. Angel tells Eve she should start worrying about what the Senior Partners are thinking. After Eve leaves Lorne complains about losing blood, Harmony complains about not getting any of Eve’s blood, and Spike complains about being embarrassed by thinking he had a destiny. The whole crew, including Angel who is *not* resigning from Wolfram & Hart, decide to go out for some drinks. As Lorne, Harmony, Spike, Gunn, Wes, and Fred get into the elevator Cordy tells them that she and Angel will catch up with them a little later.

In Angel’s office Cordy asks Angel if he feels good, and he does. Cordy tells Angel that his fight to save people includes himself - and today he saved himself with Cordy’s help. Angel tells Cordy that he thinks he can beat whatever he might face in the future. Cordy tells Angel that he will win the fight in the end, but that she won’t be there to see it. Cordy’s leaving. She asks Angel to say good-bye to the gang for her. Angel wants her to stay, but Cordy tells him that she’s on a different road. The PTB owed Cordy one and she didn’t waste it - she got her guy back on his true path. Cordy starts to walk out of the office and changes her mind. She walks back to Angel and kisses him. A lot. Suddenly the phone rings. Cordy tells Angel he has to take that call. As Angel walks over to pick up the phone, Cordelia tells him, “You’re welcome.”

Angel picks up the phone and learns that Cordy is still in the hospital and she just died. She never did wake up from her coma. Angel, nearly in tears, hangs up the phone and says, “Thank you.” Summary by Kirsten.

Quotes

Gunn: Why would Greenway do this? It was just a stupid racketeering charge. I told him we’d get him off with probation so long as he shut down operations. Angel: He’s a Wolfram & Hart client. Our client. Oh, and he’s evil. What are the odds? Fred: What do we do now? Angel: I find Greenway and I kill every inch of him.

Fred: Angel, we’re doing the best we can. Angel: It’s not that you guys aren’t doing your jobs, it’s that we shouldn’t be doing these jobs in the first place. Or I shouldn’t. Gunn: Let’s say we’ve all had a belly full. Any thought of what would happen if we try to say ‘ba-bye?’ The ramifications, I mean. You think the Senior Partners are just going to let us breeze out the front door? Fred: You’re saying we’re trapped here? Gunn: I’m saying we knew what we were getting into when we signed up for this gig. Let’s stop pretending that this was some lease with an option to buy. Angel: Gunn, you really think they won’t let us out or is it that you don’t want to leave? Gunn: Ok, maybe I don’t. It’s because I believe in what we’re doing. We made the right call. Angel: And I’m sure that legal brain upgrade they gave you has got nothing to do . . . Gunn: We all got something outta this.

Angel: Cordelia? Cordelia: Yeah. That chick’s in rough shape. You’d think they’d give Miss One-Foot-In-The-Grave a private room. Which brings me to “Hey! Couldn’t you stick me some place that smells a little less like ammonia soaked death?” Angel: Cordy. Cordelia: Yeah. It’s me.

Wes: You’re. . . You look. . . I don’t want to say ‘really hot.’ Cordelia: Oh, yes you do. I’m a vision of hotliness. And how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know if you can stand the horror of a higher power highjacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself? Really recommend ‘em.

Angel: Hey, why don’t we get you out of here? Cordelia: I love that plan. I hope you brought me some clothes, ‘cuz. . . damn. Angel: Oh. Well we, we weren’t expecting. . . Wes: We can stop and buy some. Cordelia: Oooooh! Great! Shopping! I love that idea, cause, you know, I’m not ready to go back to the hotel yet.

Cordelia: Lorne! Lorne: Are you huggable?!? Cordelia: It is so good to see. . . Oh, my God. Gunn? You have hair. Gunn: Oh. Yeah. What did you think? I was prematurely bald? . . . I wasn’t.

Harmony: Aaaaaaah! Oh my God! I can’t believe you’re here! Cordelia: Likewise. Especially since the last time I saw you you tried to kill me. Angel: Oh. Harmony. . . She’s . . . Actually, she’s my secretary. Cordelia: Oh. Well things just keep getting better and better. Harmony: I know. You and me. Together again. So. How was the coma?

Angel: Cordy I know there’s a lot to take in. A lot of changes. But I promise you, things here are working out. Cordelia: Really. Angel: Yeah. With these resources . . . there’s nothing we can’t do. No one we can’t save. Cordelia: Except maybe yourself.

Eve: You weren’t upstairs. Didn’t think you’d mind me borrowing your private elevator. Angel: Eve, I mind you breathing. Get out. Eve: Yeah, sure, except I’m here to convey the partner’s concern. Little issue of you letting a client skip out of our dimension. Dead nuns we can deal with, but the firm’s out ten million in bail costs. I ask you, is that any way to run a business? Who’s your friend Angel? Cordelia: I’m Cordelia Chase. Eve: Oh. My name’s- Cordelia: I didn’t ask. Eve: Right.

Angel: I thought I told Security not to let you in this building. Eve: Sweetie, I’m liaison with the Senior Partners. You honestly think you have any control over my comings and goings? Well, maybe not my goings, but you did have a way with my comings at the Halloween party. Cordelia: So you two are groin buddies? And I thought Darla was rock bottom. Angel: We’re not. . . Just once. There were special circumstances. Lorne told us to. But mystically.

Cordelia: Angel do you realize what’s happening? You made a deal with the Devil. Angel: Come on, Cordy. You’re being a little melodramatic. It’s not that- Devil Demon: I gotta go. Everything’s in place. I’ll draw up the paperwork. Angel: Good. Great. Devil Demon: Racquetball Thursday? Angel: Ok then.

Spike: Made the biggest mistake of your life. And I’m going to make you pay. Oh, yeah. Feel my wrath. Gorilla throwin’ barrels.

Spike: You got no idea how rotten this feels. Doyle: Oh. Amazingly enough I do. Yeah. Got my hand cut off a few years back. Line of duty. So believe me when I tell you I feel your pain. Spike: Well, half of it anyway. I’ll give you that.

Cordelia: First soldier down. [referring to Doyle] Angel: Yeah. Cordelia: Doyle pissed me off so righteously for going out like that. But he knew. Knew what he had to do. Didn’t compromise. Used his last breath to make sure you’d keep fighting. I get that now.

Cordelia: Don’t give me that “everything’s fine here” company line. I’m not buying it, and neither are you. And neither are the Powers That Be. Why do you think they woke me up? They know you slipped a track and they want me to help put you back on it. Angel: You’re wrong about the Powers. They’re not in my corner anymore. It looks like Spike is their new champion. Cordelia: Spike. Spike Who? Angel: Spike. He’s got a soul now. And he saved the world. He’s out there on the streets helping the. . . helpless. Cordelia: Ok, Spike’s a hero and you’re CEO of “Hell, Incorporated.” What fricken bizarro-world did I wake up in?!? I naturally assumed you’d be lost without me, but this?

Lindsey: I’m not sitting at the five-dollar table anymore. Eve: You know the house always wins. Lindsey: So the question becomes whose house are we in?

Cordelia: Remember how I said let’s not have your department looking for those symbols that I saw in my vision? Let’s do this like we used to? You and me? Crackin’ the books? Wes: Yes. Cordelia: Well that was dumb. What did you ever listen to me for? Wes: I don’t know. I think I sort of missed this. You and me and the books. ‘Kickin’ it old school,’ as they say. . . . And I never will again.

Cordelia: This is like a rat maze. Complete with rats.

Cordelia: Spike. Well, well, heard you weren’t evil anymore, which kinda makes the hair silly [Spike vamps out] or, ah, nice.

Spike: Took me on and lost, remember old man? Angel: Yeah. Touch Cordelia again, get ready for our very *last* rematch. Spike: She’s evil, gormless tit. Cordelia: Excuse me! Who bit whom? Angel: Did you call me a tit? Cordelia: I thought he had a soul. Spike: I thought she didn’t. Cordelia: I *do*. Spike: So do I. Cordelia: Well clearly mine’s better. Spike: Look - Angel: I see fangs, I’m gonna play dentist. Cordelia: And you call this guy the big hero? Spike: You called me a hero? Angel: I didn’t know you were eating people. Spike: It was a taste-test you git. Needed to know if what my source said was true. And, actually. . . well. . . you *don’t* taste evil. Demons are more. . . astringent. With, ah, sort of oaky– Angel: What source? Spike: I got a guy. Has it in with the Powers That Whatzit. Gets these visions. Angel: Visions? Spike: Yeah. Said Cordelia was taken over by some Big Bad. Came to destroy you all. Cordelia: His vision’s a re-run. Angel: The thing that possessed Cordy’s long dead, Spike. Spike: Well, looks like tattoo-boy was wrong this time. Cordelia: Wait, tattoos? What kind of tattoos? Spike: I don’t know. Symbols. Tribal-like. Angel: This guy with the visions. Have a name? Spike: Called himself Doyle.

Angel: Can we have a word with you Eve? Eve: Now’s not a really good time. Cordelia: Let’s go, Lilah, Jr.

Angel: Couple weeks ago, man approached Spike told him that the Powers That Be had some missions for him. Spike, brain trust that he is, went along with it. Spike: Hey! Angel: He’s the one who told Spike to save me from the parasite. The parasite *you* put on *me* in the first place. Eve: Not this again. Cordelia: Get out of that chair and I will *feed you* those Monolo Blonocs. Which are stunning, by the way. Angel: Seems to me like you and this guy are working together. Eve: Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about. But, but you can’t keep me here. I have to leave. Angel: But the thing that really, really pisses me off is that this guy seems to be going by the name of “Doyle.” Eve: Doesn’t ring a bell. Cordelia: It does to me. It rings a big fricking gong and I wanna know who has the nerve to be using that name! Angel: I’m going to give you one chance to tell me where he is. Eve: Look, I don’t know what– Harmony: Hey, Boss? Angel: Not now, Harmony. Harmony: Ok, but do I get the afternoon off, too? Angel: What are you talking about? Harmony: Everybody’s gone. Whole building cleared out a few minutes ago. Angel: What’s going on, Eve?

Gunn: Checked the server. Message went out, Code 7, right before the building emptied. Angel: What’s “Code 7,” Eve? Eve: I don’t know. Seriously. Cordelia: Ok, this is getting us nowhere. Angel, torture her. Angel: What? Eve: What? Cordelia: You heard me. Building’s clearing out which means we don’t have a lot of time. Have at it! Angel: I can’t just torture her. Fred: He’s right, Cordy. If we sink to their level then– Angel: Harmony! Harmony: Is this ok? I mean, I am evil. Technically. I don’t mind torturing her for the team. Angel: Yeah. Ok. Harmony: Come on, you hussy! [smack!] Spill it! [smack!] Eve: Ok! Ok! Stop. It’s a fail-safe. They built a fail-safe. [smack!] Angel: Harmony, she’s talking. Harmony: She is? Already? Well that sucks.

Angel: Spike, I don’t want to go in blind. Anything else you know about this guy? Spike: Not much. Average size. Dresses like an urban cowboy. Got his hand chopped off once. Cordelia: His hand? Wes: He’s back. Angel: Lindsey.

Angel: Harmony? Guard Eve. She moves, eat her. Harmony: Really? Thanks! Fred: Angel, you’re not going down there alone. Angel: This fail-safe’s meant for me. I’m not going to risk anybody I care about. Spike: I’ll go. Angel: Ok!

Spike: What the bloody hell is this? Angel: Let’s find out. . . . . Zombies. Swell.

Spike [to the zombies]: Come on lads. No need to be gentle. We’re all dead men here.

Lindsey: There’s always time for redemption. Isn’t that your whole thing?

Angel: Shut it down. Lindsey: Say please. Angel: Wasn’t talking to you. Cordelia: Oh, right! On it!

Angel: Got yourself some mojo. Never should have come back. Lindsey: What can I say. I missed you.

Wes: [reading from a scroll] ‘Sprinkle ingredients with the arterial blood from an unclean.’ A demon. Lorne: We’re unclean. Like you’re so April-frehhh–. . . . You’re sure that thing said, ah, ‘arterial blood?’ Wes: Sorry. Lorne: Why don’t they ever need the urine of an unclean. I’ve got plenty of unclean urine. Look, I’m making some right now.

Lindsey: Who is this?!? Who is this?!? I came to fight the vampire with the soul. Guess you shouldn’ta sold it, huh? Look at you. From champion to pathetic, corporate puppet in just a few months. You used to have fire in your heart. Now all you got is that big hunk of sword. How’s that feel, champ? Angel: Could be worse. If it was made out of wood, you dumb-ass!

Angel: I’m Angel. I beat the bad guys.

Angel: I think the Senior Partners would like a word. Lindsey: You don’t think they’re angry, do you?

Cordelia: So. You feel good? Angel: I do. I just. . . I kind a feel bad about it. Cordelia: My God, you are a piece of work! Angel: I just don’t feel like I deserve. . . I mean, all I did was beat up a Tiny Texan. It’s not like I helped anyone. Cordelia: Sure you did. Angel: Who? Cordelia: Boy, I really do fall for dumb ones. You know how you’re really trying to save, oh, everyone in the world? Did it ever occur to you, you were one of them? Angel: No. It never did. Cordelia: Well you made the list, gorgeous. And you needed some help. Angel: And you were the one that helped me. Cordelia: I did my part. Angel: Huh. You know, Lindsey wasted a lot of energy trying to make me doubt myself. I know it’s not even close to over, but I do feel like I can do this. Wolfram & Hart, what ever’s coming, I can beat it. Cordelia: Oh yeah? Angel: You? Cordelia: I always did. I . . . . I just needed you to know it, too. Angel: So all that stuff about deals with the devil– Cordelia: God’s honest truth. But you’re bigger than that. You’ll win this in the end. I just wish I could be there to see it. Angel: What do you mean? You’re not– Cordelia: I can’t stay. This isn’t me anymore. You can say good-bye to the gang for me. Explain everything. Once you understand. Angel: Huh, that’s going to be never. I need you here. Cordelia: Don’t make this hard, Angel. I’m just on a different road. And this is my off-ramp. The Powers That Be owed me one and I didn’t waste it. I got my guy back on track. Angel: Cordy, this is just, uh– Cordelia: We take what we can get, champ. And we do our best with it. I’ll be seeing you. . . . Oh, what the hell. One for the road? Angel: No, um, I don’t have to get that. Cordelia: That you have to get. . . . Oh, and you’re welcome. Angel [on telephone]: Hello?. . . Yes, I know she’s. . . But that’s impossible. She’s standing right –. . . I’m sorry. Yeah. Um, so when did she die? . . . . Did she, ah. . . She never did wake up. . . I see. [hangs up phone] Thank you. Please credit Hellmouth Central with these quotes when using them for any publication.