WESLEY: (not looking up from his papers) I wasn't aware that you could read Cuauhtitlan pictograms.

SPIKE: Who, me? Nah, I was just... is this one of those books on prophecies?

WESLEY: No, it's a source book. Each one ties into a discipline within the Wolfram & Hart archives. This one's linked to historical narratives. (points to another book lying on a table) That's the one dedicated to prophecies.

SPIKE: So...you could look up that, uh... sans shoes thingamabob. You know, the prophecy. That says that Angel gets to be a real boy again.

WESLEY: Shanshu prophecy, yes. Uh, though it's a bit more complicated than that.

SPIKE: Complicated?

WESLEY: It tells of an epic, apocalyptic battle and a vampire with a soul who plays a major role in that battle. And there's the suggestion that the vampire will get to live again.

SPIKE: When you say, "plays a major role in an apocalyptic battle", you mean like, um... heroically closing a hellmouth that was about to destroy the world?

WESLEY: The text isn't specific about the battle.

SPIKE: But it's specific about the *name* of the vampire with a soul.

WESLEY: No, I imagine it could be any vampire with a soul...who *isn't* a ghost.

SPIKE: (scoffs) It's a bunch of nonsense. It's a bedtime story to get vampires to play nice.

WESLEY: Says you.

SPIKE: No, says Angel. Yeah. Tall-dark-and-dreary told me he doesn't believe in that Shanshu bugaboo. Says it's a sucker's game.

WOMAN: Sir!

WESLEY: (goes to the assistant, looks at her monitor) That's it. Good. Print it out.

• Angel & Wesley
• Spike's ghosthood
• The Shanshu prophecy/scroll of Aberjian

written by: Jeffrey Bell; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x06_tran.php