GUNN: We gonna tell him?

FRED: I don't wanna get his hopes up again.

GUNN: What about yours?

FRED: We have to keep trying.

GUNN: I'm not saying that we shouldn't but we've spent the last three months chasing one dead end after another trying to find Angel and Cordy, and the only thing we're closing in on, is an eviction. Be a whole lot easier handling this crap with Lorne pitching in. Where's our future-reading, empath demon when we need him?

FRED: Mr. Big-hit-in-Vegas is too busy danke-schon-ing the tourists to care about us.

GUNN: Did you try him again?

FRED: Like sixty times. He's lost the mission, bro.

GUNN: Well, we're about to loose this whole place and you know you can't say bro. Alright. You need to start hustling up some paying clients.

FRED: We will. As soon as we find Marissa. Can I say 'dawg'? (Gunn just looks at her) Oh, this looks good. Condemned tenement on Figueroa. Could be her.

GUNN: Evil Dead was probably just messing with us, and even if she's there, not much chance she knows anything.

FRED: Angel's car was found down by the bluffs. That used to be her feeding ground. She might be able to tell us what happened. If we can find her.

CONNOR: Find who?

(...)

CONNOR: So why didn't you tell me?

FRED: We wanted to be sure.

GUNN: We don't even know if this Marissa girl saw anything.

CONNOR: But she could have.

FRED: Maybe. We're gonna go talk to her and find out.

CONNOR: I'm coming with you.

GUNN: No. It's only one vamp. We can handle it.

CONNOR: He's my father! If she knows what happened to him I...

FRED: Okay. Go get your weapons.

(Connor flashes her a quick smile before running from the room while Gunn turns to look at Fred.)

GUNN: You think that's a good idea?

FRED: I'll keep an eye on him.

GUNN: Getting information is a finesse job. He's a blunt instrument!

FRED: You wanna tell him no? You saw how much he's hurting.

GUNN: Well, how'do you think he's gonna feel if all vampirella saw is sand and seaweed? This is it, Fred. No Angel, no Cordy. We can't find Holtz. His psycho girlfriend's gone. We got nothing.

FRED: There's still Wolfram and Hart.

GUNN: Right. We'll just stroll into their heavily guarded law offices and ask Lilah, the evil bitch queen, for help finding out what happened to their archenemy, but, we're kinda broke, so it'll have to be pro bono.

FRED: I didn't say it would be easy.

GUNN: How's impossible? They're too big. Without Angel here, we can't afford to be pissing 'em off.

FRED: Maybe we should think about asking...

GUNN: No.

FRED: (sarcastic) Well, I'm glad we talked it over.

GUNN: We already asked him for help twice.

FRED: Then we'll ask him again.

GUNN: Fred, Wesley doesn't give a damn about us.

FRED: Have we given him a reason to?

GUNN: He's made his choice. Now he has to live with it.

• Angel & Connor
• Fred & Connor
• Gunn & Fred
• Wesley & Gunn

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