ANGEL: (hearing a knock) Come on in, Cordelia.

CORDELIA: You know, that never stops creeping me out.

ANGEL: Yeah? I'm kind of creeped out myself.

CORDELIA: Can we not do this right now?

ANGEL: OK by me. I'm kinda in the middle of something anyway.

CORDELIA: Anything coming to mind?

ANGEL: Not really.

CORDELIA: Nothing?

ANGEL: Look, to be honest, I'm almost pining for the halcyon days of the Beast.

CORDELIA: Right, 'cause it's not like he slaughtered hundreds of people with his bare hands.

ANGEL: The Beast was just a flunky.

CORDELIA: Who did his master's bidding.

ANGEL: Killing Manny, stealing my soul, murdering Lilah...those were surgical strikes. Not the smash-and-trash style of the Beast.

CORDELIA: But if lava boy didn't do all that, who did?

ANGEL: His master.

CORDELIA: (rhetorical) I'm his master. I'm his all-powerful master, and I'm gonna break into a guarded room, steal your soul from a safe—not by ripping it open, but by using the combination—then I'm gonna hunt and kill Lilah right under this very roof. Sure. Evil geniuses live for that playing with fire stuff.

ANGEL: You don't understand. This thing was in my head. I've heard him, and he's insane enough to pull those kinds of stunts.

CORDELIA: When you say insane, you mean, like, diabolical?

ANGEL: (chuckles) No, I mean like deluded and demented. He spoke to me in this cheezy, self-important voice. I bet he doesn't even have a master plan—he's just making it up as he goes along. Hey, don't worry. We'll figure it out. Come on, anybody as daredevily as this guy will slip up sooner or later. When he does, he's dead.

(Cordy smiles a fake smile)

• Cordelia & Angel
• Funnies
• The Beast, the Beast's Master, Jasmine, etc

written by: Jeffrey Bell & Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season4/transcripts/82_tran.php