(Angel is working a punching bag over)

DOYLE: Hey. Is this a private catharsis or can anyone watch?

ANGEL: What do you want?

DOYLE: Well, there's a girl upstairs who's not quite sad enough to cry in my arms, but keep up the dark cloud. I might get lucky.

ANGEL: I just need a little time.

DOYLE: Believe me I know. Last time I saw my ex, she was around for five minutes and I was a wreck for days. Amazing how they can do that to you.

ANGEL: Buffy was here for more than five minutes.

DOYLE: Okay, 10, but who's counting?

ANGEL: Actually she was here for a whole day and night.

DOYLE: Alright. One of us has been drinking and I’m sad to say, it isn't me.

ANGEL: Who are the Oracles, Doyle? Why didn't you tell me about them before?

DOYLE: The Oracles? Who told you about the Oracles?

ANGEL: The first time the Mohra demon attacked it got away.

DOYLE: What first time?

ANGEL: Look, I tracked it, I killed it, some of its blood mixed with mine. It made me mortal. That's when you took me to see the Oracles to find out what it meant.

DOYLE: No, see, I'm gonna remember a trip to the netherworld of eternal watching. That's just not something that happens every day.

ANGEL: The Oracles told me that I was released from my duty. Buffy and I were together until... we realized it couldn't be. We don't belong to ourselves. We belong in the world, fighting. So, I went back to the Oracles and I asked them to turn back the clock... as though that day had never happened.

DOYLE: Human? You were a real live flesh-and-blood human-being - and you and Buffy... You had the one thing you wanted in your unnaturally long life and you gave it back?

ANGEL: Maybe I was wrong.

DOYLE: Or maybe Cordelia was right about you being the real deal in the hero department. See, I would have chosen the pleasures of the flesh over duty and honor any day of the week. I just don't have that strength.

ANGEL: You never know your strength until you're tested.

DOYLE: Come on, you lived and loved and lost and fought and vanquished inside a day, and I'm still trying to work up the nerve to ask Cordy out for dinner, not to mention the whole part about telling her I'm half demon. That should probably come first, huh?

ANGEL: The Oracles said something very bad is coming. 'Soldier of Darkness ushering in the end of days' kind of bad.

DOYLE: So much for the security of long-term savings bonds...

ANGEL: I feel something coming, Doyle. I don't know what, but I know we're a part of it.

DOYLE: Well, if it's a fight they want... can't someone else give it to them? It just seems unfair, you know? You gotta save all the helpless types around here and now you've gotta fight the apocalypse as well?

ANGEL: It's all the same thing. Fight the good fight, whichever way you can.

DOYLE: Tell you what, you fight - and I’ll keep score.

• Angel & Doyle
• Angel's Mission
• Buffy & Angel

written by: Howard Gordon and Tim Minear; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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