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come wander through the BuffyVerse...| Holtz to Angel: I will take good care of him, as though he were my own son. He'll never even know you existed. from Sleep Tight (Season 3) |
(Holtz steps out onto a darkened street and Justine bring Wes' car to a stop in front of him. Holtz gets in.)
HOLTZ: It went well?
JUSTINE: Very well. But you're paying for my dental work.
(Holtz smiles, looks back at Connor)
HOLTZ: Hello, son. I'm you're father. And that strong lady with the black eye is your mother. Your name is Steven Franklin Thomas. And you're going to grow up with me on a little ranch in the middle of nowhere. (To Justine) What's it like in Utah?
JUSTINE: It's pretty.
HOLTZ: Let's go.
(They drive off, only to have a Hum-vee overtake them and cut them off. The car turns off the road, but is quickly blocked in by more Hum-vees. Angel jumps out of one of them and charges at the car. Holtz gets Connor out of the back while Justine tackles Angel only to get thrown aside.)
HOLTZ: Come any closer and I'll snap his neck!
(Angel comes to a dead stop. All around them commandos are jumping out of their vehicles, cocking their machine guns.)
HOLTZ: Who are they?
LILAH: They work for me.
HOLTZ: Ah. The attorney.
LILAH: Yes. You are gonna give us the kid, Captain Holtz.
ANGEL: Don't!
LILAH: That's cute. You'd rather see the fanatic with the baby than us? (To Holtz) Those are automatic weapons pointed at you. They didn't have them in your time. They fire sixteen bullets per second.
ANGEL: And if they were going to use them they would have already. They want the baby alive.
HOLTZ: Something we all have in common.
(The air shivers and Sahjhan appears.)
SAHJAHN: Not all of us. (To Lilah) You do not want the child alive. You want the child dead. That was our arrangement.
LILAH: Yeah. I'm a lawyer. Have you met me? We have a new arrangement. I'm keeping the baby.
SAHJAHN: You can't do that!
LILAH: (to her team) Ignore the loud mouth with the bad skin. He's impotent in this dimension.
HOLTZ: We're leaving.
LILAH: No one's going anywhere.
(One of the commandos steps closer, and Angel knock him down, taking the weapon away from him and turning it on Lilah.)
LILAH: Don't shoot.
ANGEL: Yeah. You really don't want to. Your bullets won't kill me. But mine will kill you - and her first.
HOLTZ: He'll be dead before I hit the ground.
ANGEL: I know.
HOLTZ: So. I'm going to leave now, right? With me, he gets to live, anyone tries to take him, he dies.
(after a long pained silence, Angel replies)
ANGEL: Take him.
SAHJAHN: Woah! No! What is wrong of you people?
HOLTZ: (to Angel) I will take good care of him, as though he were my own son. He'll never even know you existed. Don't come after me. You will though, won't you? Maybe I should just... (his hand hovers over Connor's throat)
ANGEL: No. Please. Take him.
SAHJAHN: Lekko najine forkahdio!
(There is a big explosion with bright sparks and a hole opens in the air. Past the burning edges we can see a turbulent, blood red sky.)
SAHJAHN: What you are looking into is the Quortoth, the darkest of the dark worlds. So - I can widen the portal and you can all be swallowed up by a world you can not begin to imagine - or you can keep your word and kill that child. (To Lilah) Now!
(When no one moves he spreads his arms.)
SAHJAHN: Don't say I didn't warn you.
LILAH: Kill it.
ANGEL: No!
(The commandos and Angel stand there with the weapons aimed at each other. Holtz grabs a hold of Justine and pushes her away from him then heads for the hole in the air. Angel drops the gun and charges after him.)
JUSTINE: Daniel! Daniel!
ANGEL: No! NO!
(Holtz jumps through the portal. Angel tries to follow, but he's blasted back. there are flames everywhere.)
SAHJAHN: Wow. I didn't count on that. Kinda takes care of my problem. Forkahdio najine lekko.
(The hole in the air quickly shrinks to a pinpoint and disappears.)
SAHJAHN: All right then. Have a good summer.
(With that Sahjhan disappears into thin air.)
LILAH: (put out) Hmph! Well, I'm looking at a mountain of paperwork.
COMMANDER: Should we do something about...
(Lilah looks back at Angel, still lying on the ground in shock)
LILAH: Yes, we should. We should let him suffer.
(Angel rolls over onto all fours and looks around him. Sees Justine drive off in Wes' car and collapses)
ANGEL: (despairing) Connor.
written by: David Greenwalt; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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