(Cut to Sharon and the Screech laying in bed staring up at the ceiling.)

SCREECH: I'm sorry. I wanted this to go better. Maybe I was trying too hard. I just really like you. Next time, it'll be better.

SHARON: Roll over.

SCREECH: Okay.

(She cuddles up behind him.)

SCREECH: This is nice. I think sometimes what we really need...

(A reptile-like worm suddenly emerges from Sharon's chest, and starts burrowing teeth first into the Screech's back. He screams.)

(Angel bursts through the apartment door. He finds Sharon dead, and the burrower disappearing into the Screech's back.)

SCREECH: You're not human.

ANGEL: News flash, pal, you're a bit of the evolutionary chart yourself.

ANGEL: This has to stop. You have to stop.

SCREECH: I will, when I find the right one. The one I can stay with.

ANGEL: The right body? What's wrong with this one?

SCREECH: Nothing, yet. It's new and different. It's great...but it won't last. I already know it's not the I can live in.

ANGEL: Well, then it'll have to be the one you die in.

(They fight. The Screech overpowers Angel and leaves. Kate runs into the apartment.)

ANGEL: Kate, what are you doing here?

(They both look over at Sharon.)

ANGEL: Look, I know what this looks like.

KATE: (aiming a gun at his face and pulling out a police badge) So do I.

(...)

KATE: (putting her badge back away) LAPD. You have the right to...

ANGEL: I waive it. How did you find me?

KATE: I've been tracking you since last night.

ANGEL: Listen...

KATE: Don't move! Not a step. Back-up is on the way.

ANGEL: We're on the same side. I'm after this guy, too.

KATE: You're telling me you're an investigator?

ANGEL: More or less.

KATE: Where is your license?

ANGEL: That's the less part.

KATE: Right.

ANGEL: Kate, you don't know, you didn't see...

KATE: What I see is the carving job of an impotent sicko. It's frustrating, isn't it, not being able to connect, to love like other people? I mean, how do you get them to trust you, Angel? Give them the big dark eyes, the "I'm not good with talk" speech?

ANGEL: He gives them what they are longing for.

KATE: And that is?

ANGEL: Hope. That the loneliness is going to end, and he is going to do it again...

KATE: Unless I let you go so you can stop him. Save me the lines. I've heard them.

ANGEL: And I've heard yours. Something about not being able to trust people?

KATE: (pulling out her handcuffs) Turn around.

ANGEL: I'm sorry.

KATE: Is that a confession?

ANGEL: I didn't do that. I'm sorry for this!

(He breaks away from her and runs for an open window, diving out.)

• Angel & Kate

written by: David Fury; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted and checked by M'lyn.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season1/transcripts/02_tran.shtml