GUNN: I don't trust him.

FRED: You can't say that. Connor hasn't done anything wrong.

GUNN: Lately. You forgetting Angel's voyage to the bottom of the sea?

FRED: Charles, the little girl in that white room is evil. I felt it. When she said—

GUNN: The answer is among you. Come on, who else could creepy locks have been talking about?

FRED: It was probably just some last-ditch mind game to get the Beast to come after us instead of her.

GUNN: Baby, that's another thing. Connor's gone toe-to-toe with this guy twice and barely needed a boo-boo kiss afterward. You telling me that's not suspicious?

WESLEY: Most of us have encountered the demon twice, and we're still here.

GUNN: Yeah, but we weren't conveniently born in the exact spot that thing hatched.

FRED: The answer is among you. Have I mentioned I hate cryptic messages?

WESLEY: Well, there's one thing I can decrypt. My sources have already confirmed that, without the little girl, the earthly contingent at Wolfram and Hart is cut off from the senior partners, effectively neutralized. However, it appears that was not her only function. (shows Fred and Gunn a book) I've just found an entry in Rhinehardt's Compendium for that same little girl—or, rather, the entity presenting itself as one. Her name is Mesektet.

FRED: Hmm. I figured Tiffany or Brandy.

GUNN: So you mean Wolfram and Hart was just the day job.

WESLEY: Sort of. You see, Mesektet was one of five enormously powerful beings which are linked to an embodiment of the ancient god Ra.

FRED: Which makes them totems, right? Symbolic manifestations.

WESLEY: Yes, totems which together form an order called the Ra-tet.

GUNN: Must be big. Never heard of them.

WESLEY: That's because their origins have been shrouded in mystery since the dawn of time. Only the totems themselves know their true purpose.

FRED: So, maybe he killed this Mesektet for another reason. I'll hit the net. Charles, you wanna update Angel?

GUNN: Mr. Do-Not-Disturb? Doubt it. Don't know why we're bothering with the Ra-Ra's anyway. The answer is among you, remember?

LORNE: Bad news, munchkins. Rumor mill has Dr. Feel-Bad attached to another slice-and-dice yesterday.

FRED: Who was it?

LORNE: Lovely woman. High and mighty white-magic shaman type, and that didn't even faze the Beast. Tore her poor heart right out of her chest.

WESLEY: The M.O. doesn't match. Mesektet had some sort of energy sucked from her. He didn't touch her heart.

FRED: Lorne, you didn't happen to catch the name, did you? Like, Ma'at?

LORNE: Yeah, th-that's the lady.

FRED: Another member of the Ra-tet.

GUNN: He's taking them out, one by one.

WESLEY: Well we can't assume that yet. This Beast has killed hundreds of people with his bare hands. You throw in the storms and earthquakes that accompanied the rain of fire, you could put the death toll in the thousands.

FRED: Wes is right. Statistically, it's still a coincidence. Two points—

WESLEY: Make a line, not a pattern.

CORDELIA: (walks in from the garden entrance) Hi, guys.

LORNE: Oh, hey, Cordy.

GUNN: 'Sup, Cordy?

CORDELIA: OK, uh, I gotta go see Angel.

GUNN: See, I told you Connor can't be trusted. Look how weird he's made her.

written by: Mere Smith; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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