(hallway)

BUFFY: (angry) Okay. I come to see you, to help you, and you treat me like I'm just . . . your ex.

ANGEL: Well, technically--

BUFFY: Shut up! And then you order me out of *your* city and then you come here and start pounding on my boyfriend?! I would really like to know what the HELL are you trying to do?!

ANGEL: I was trying to make things better.

(She regards his sincere expression and can't keep herself from laughing. It becomes contagious because Angel can't help but to smile also.)

ANGEL: Heh. Well. (chuckles) It's a . . . going pretty good, don't you think?

BUFFY: (smiling) Swell.

ANGEL: You know-- heh. (seriously) I couldn't leave it like that. The way I spoke to you-- I came to apologize. I . . I had no right.

BUFFY: And Riley?

ANGEL: I got jumped by some soldiers. He came in in the middle. And wasn't real forthcoming with the benefit of the doubt.

BUFFY: Put yourself in his place.

ANGEL: I get it.

BUFFY: Look . . . You weren't entirely wrong, what you said in L.A. We don't live in each other's worlds anymore. I had no right to barge in on yours and make judgments.

ANGEL: I'm still sorry.

BUFFY: Thank you.

ANGEL: And, next time . . I'll apologize by phone. Uh, things are pretty tense around here.

BUFFY: They really are.

ANGEL: Can I do anything?

BUFFY: Honestly . . . I think the best thing you can do right now is--

ANGEL: (understandingly) Okay.

BUFFY: It means a lot that you came.

ANGEL: Oh, and . . . Riley.

BUFFY: Yeah?

ANGEL: I don't like him.

BUFFY: (smiling) Thank you.

• Buffy & Angel

written by: Douglas Petrie; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
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