(Rome 1771. Angelus is being pursued in a sewer by monks with torches. He's captured. Holtz makes a dramatic entrance by horse.)

HOLTZ: Mille grazie, Monsignore. Sono nel vostro debito. (Subtitles: Thank you, Monsignor. I am in your debt.)

MONIGNOR: (subtitled) No, this animal murdered your family. (Points at Angelus) Hold the beast!

HOLTZ: (to Angelus) Monsignor Rivalli, performed the ceremony when Caroline and I were wed. You remember Caroline?

ANGELUS: Pretty lass. Hearty screamer.

HOLTZ: The good monsignor has since then been excommunicated. The order he founded, Inquisitore, adheres to the old beliefs. They're traditionalists and quite good at their work. Let's get started, shall we?

(Holtz begins to torture Angelus with a pointy tool)

ANGELUS: Ah. Aah!

(... later ...)

HOLTZ: You lost me in North Africa. I knew you'd come back to Europe, but *Rome* Angelus? Why in Gods name would you come to the seat of all that's holy?

ANGELUS: Darla - she loves the Sistine chapel.

HOLTZ: Michelangelo?

ANGELUS: Not him. She's mad about Botticelli's frescos. The Temptation of Christ is her favorite - probably because of the leper. What do you want, Holtz?

HOLTZ: I don't want anything. My family is gone. I don't trust you to give me Darla, although I *will* find her, you know that. My only desire here is to discover if a thing such as yourself can be made to pay for its sins. (Holtz digs the claw-thingy in somewhere below Angelus waist (off screen) and Angelus groans in pain) You're a demon. It is your nature to maim and kill. But you were also once a man. If we beat and burn the demon out of your living flesh, will there be anything left? Anything at all? I doubt it. But I'm willing to spend the next fortnight of my life finding out. In either event, you have no soul, you can not be saved.

(A flaming arrow streaks across the room and buries itself in one of the monks.)

DARLA: Sorry it took me so long darling. (to her minions) Kill them.

(monks vs vamps battle)

MONSIGNOR: (Cross at Darla) Vai' all inferno, demonio lordo! (subtitle: Go to hell foul demon!)

(Darla pushes the cross aside, then sends the Monsignor flying into a wall.

DARLA: No, grazie, padre.

(more of Darla's minions arrive, with a cart. Darla frees Angelus and they climb in the back.)

ANGELUS: Darlin'?

DARLA: What?

ANGELUS: Shouldn't we be killing Holtz?

DARLA: I know, but it's just so much fun ruining his life. He's like family now.

• Darla & Angel
• historical flash backs
• Holtz

written by: David Greenwalt; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season3/transcripts/51_tran.shtml