BARTENDER: Here you go.

SERINA: Thanks.

BARTENDER: Don't mention it.

SERINA: I won't. But I'll tip for it. Jason, moollah.

(He hands her money.)

JASON: I'm not saying it was worthy of a kiss. (they kiss)

EMILY: I'm bored.

SERINA: Emily, do you know what it takes to get in here?

EMILY: Still bored.

SERINA: Well, Cordy's not.

(...)

WILSON: So you left Sunnydale and you came to LA. What was that like?

CORDELIA: Skydiving without a parachute. Except for the smashing your body to bits part. - Actually, no, it was like that, too. Oh, and that guy that's supposed to be here when you arrive...

WILSON: The guy?

CORDELIA: With the big bag of fame and fortune.

WILSON: Oh, that guy.

CORDELIA: So, what happened to him?

WILSON: He comes and goes. He's sort of fleeting that way.

CORDELIA: Well, if you see him will you tell him to fleet my way?

WILSON: Thank you.

CORDELIA: For what?

WILSON: For making me *not* hate dating. Serina is really something. I'm going to send her flowers...for introducing you to me.

CORDELIA: I knew that. God, for the first time I like LA. In high school I knew my place and, okay, it was a haughty place, and maybe I was a *tad* shallow.

WILSON: Oh, hey, nobody feels like they belong here. I mean that's the point of LA to make you feel as insecure as possible.

CORDELIA: You don't feel that way.

WILSON: Sure I do.

CORDELIA: Right. You're doing what you came to LA to do. You're photographing all these gorgeous, famous people. Where is the insecure?

WILSON: In the pictures, which are further proof that everybody is having a real life, except me. I'm the guy behind the camera, watching and recording life, not - living it - each and every moment - like you.

CORDELIA: Wow, I'm living life? Look at me.

WILSON: Look at you.

• Cordelia's acting career

written by: Howard Gordon; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by ros_fod. Checked against source by renenet and me.. Full transcript at:
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