(Cordy & Wes are researching)

CORDELIA: Remember how I said, Let's not have your department looking for those symbols I saw in my vision. Let's do this like we used to, you and me cracking the books?

WESLEY: Yes.

CORDELIA: Well, that was dumb. What'd you ever listen to me for?

WESLEY: I don't know. I think I sort of missed this. You and me and the books, (trying to be hip) kicking it old school, as they say. (winces) And I never will again.

CORDELIA: (nervously) Wes? Last year, when that, um, higher...whatever took over my body, did those things. Nobody's talking about it.

WESLEY: What's to say? We all understand it wasn't you.

CORDELIA: Do you?

WESLEY: You didn't kill Lilah.

CORDELIA: I know. Still... I'm sorry. I just wanted to tell you that before— Hey! That's them.

(she shows Wesley the book, already opened to an appropriate page)

CORDELIA: Those. The tats. Look.

WESLEY: Protection runes derived from the Enochian alphabet. The ones from your vision are symbols, some kind of concealment spell. Clouds before the all-seeing eyes.

CORDELIA: Mmm. OK. This part I didn't miss. Cryptic poetry.

WESLEY: They protect the bearer from being viewed remotely from higher powers, seers, mystics. Or, transposed to today, any means of modern surveillance.

CORDELIA: Somebody really wants to stay hidden.

• Cordelia & Wesley

written by: David Fury; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x12_tran.php