(Linwood watches Angel carry the child upstairs on the monitor.)

LINWOOD: No one is going to put their hands on this child. Is this meant to be ironic? According to our highly - and I'm now thinking, somewhat overpaid translators, the Nyazian Scroll said the child would never be born. And yet - here he is.

GAVIN: It was a technicality, sir. Darla died during childbirth.

LILAH: Dusted during childbirth is more like it. According to our sources she staked herself, leaving the baby alive and kicking but never actually born. MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped.

LINWOOD: Clever loophole. We could use some of those Nyazian Scroll writers in Contracts and Negotiations.

GAVIN: We have to get that baby.

LILAH: He has a knack for stating the obvious, sir.

GAVIN: I also have an intercept team working on tactical scenarios as we speak. I'm sure Lilah would have thought of that - given time.

LINWOOD: Moving on - children. (Picks up a photo of Holtz) I want everything there is on this character. He slaughtered some of our best-trained men. He's gonna be a problem.

LILAH: We're locating him, sir.

LINWOOD: Preferably before he locates us. (talks to screen) That's a cute little baby. Yes, you are. And your daddy is a vampire with a soul. And sometimes he reverts to a creature of pure, malevolent evil, who could rip your tiny throat out. Yes, he does. (Chuckles) I like kids. The Senior Partners took mine before I really got to know them. Turn it up. (Lilah pushes a button on the remote and the room fills with a baby's cries) Turn it down.

• Troclon Prophecy, Sahjahn, etc
• Wolfram & Hart

written by: David H. Goodman; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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