LAWSON: Safe and sound. Guess now's not the time to argue semantics, is it? Did you care about any of it— The ship? The mission? The men? Or were you just in it to save your own ass?

ANGEL: What do you want, Lawson?

LAWSON: Same thing I've always wanted: to understand.

ANGEL: Understand...what exactly?

LAWSON: Why we do what we do, how you manage to always—

(Angel suddenly leaps into action, and after a brief scuffle, has a makeshift stake pointing at Lawson's chest)

LAWSON: You sure you want to do that, chief?

ANGEL: Fairly certain I said I'd kill you if I ever saw you again.

LAWSON: Oh, I never doubted you. But you gotta ask yourself... would I really come in here unarmed, knowing that, without an ace in the hole? Wouldn't make much sense, would it?

ANGEL: What did you do?

(cut to Angel's conference room, where Gunn, Fred & Wesley are standing on swivel chairs, bound, gagged, and with razor wire around their throats attaching them to the ceiling)

LAWSON: Now, I don't need you to understand... every detail. But I do need you to trust that I'm gonna get us all through this, safe and sound.

(... cut to commercial and back...)

LAWSON: Easy now. That's double-ought wire wrapped around your crew's necks. Take a fella's head clean off with just a little tug. Best not go roughhousing. Something might get knocked over.

ANGEL: Whatever you want from me... this isn't the way to get it.

LAWSON: Already getting it. The worry in your eyes, fear of what might happen next, which is right on the mark, 'cause I got a funny feeling there's gonna be some blood spilled tonight. For old times' sake.

written by: Steven S. DeKnight & Drew Goddard; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x13_tran.php