ANGEL: Blood sacrifices, black masses, totems... I don't know what it means, but it's happening all over town. I mean, it could be a raising, but, you know... I - I really don't know. I mean the prayers, the rituals, I think they're too generic for that, you know, boilerplate. They could be preparing the way for something.

KATE: Maybe they're just trying to make it rain. Why is this *so* important to you?

ANGEL: Because it's important to them. (Meaning Wolfram & Hart.)

KATE: Oh right! And therefore it *must* be stopped.

ANGEL: Kate, look, I need your help. I don't have the resources...

KATE: My help? You need *my* help?

ANGEL: Yeah. - (Sighs) - At the very least they're butchering animals without a permit. You can get them on that.

KATE: No, I can't. I can't get them on anything, Angel. I'm on desk duty pending a hearing on Friday.

ANGEL: Hearing?

KATE: You remember Atkinson? The captain at the two-three? He's blaming me for granting access to some lunatic who broke into his office and beat the ever holy crap out of him. He's filed a formal complaint.

ANGEL: He was raising zombie cops and setting them loose on the streets.

KATE: And I'm sure once I explain that to Internal Affairs this will all just go away. They've just been *looking* for an excuse... And you know what they say about *me*. I am a cop. That is all I've ever... I can't take a suspension... I would just...

ANGEL: I'm sorry.

KATE: Are you? (Opens a drawer and pulls out a file) Because they might just want to know about this, too. (She drops one picture after another onto the desk: the corpses in the wine cellar at Wolfram & Hart.)

ANGEL: You had nothing to do with that.

KATE: Didn't I?

ANGEL: No.

KATE: Hmm, so it's funny how these dead people were threatened by an intruder at their offices. An intruder *I* picked up and released on the street three hours before the complaintants were found massacred.

ANGEL: You know who's responsible for that.

KATE: Yeah. But I can't figure out though is why forensics is telling me now that it looks like the suspect or suspects *didn't* break in. They had to break out. The victims were locked in that wine cellar with their attackers and I think I am *done* helping you now.

• Angel & Kate
• Kate's Many Issues

written by: Tim Minear; Original transcript anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by Sylvia.. Full transcript at:
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