CORDELIA: And how are you?

ANGEL: I'm o -

CORDELIA: Don't tell me "okay", Angel, please, I know you and ever since you came back from your grief-trip I can tell something's not right. And obviously it's not -- Buffy's dead, I don't mean to diminish that. I miss her, too... I just want to say: I know that James with all his Romeo and Juliette madness opened up a lot of wounds for you, but you'll be okay.

ANGEL: I *am* okay.

CORDELIA: Then what's the problem?

ANGEL: That I'm okay. That losing Buffy didn't kill me, that I could deal with it. In all those years no one ever mattered, not like she did. And now she's gone. Forever.

CORDELIA: And you're still here.

ANGEL: Yeah. And it feels like I'm betraying her somehow.

CORDELIA: No. If you were a loser, if you were a sick obsessed vampire, you'd go to a snod demon or whatever and get your heart cut out. But you're not. You're a living, breathing -- well a living, anyway -- good guy who's still fighting and trying to help people. That's not betraying her, that's honoring her.

ANGEL: Ya' think?

CORDELIA: I'm Cordelia, I don't think, I know. Okay?

ANGEL: Okay.

• Buffy & Angel
• Cordelia & Angel

written by: David Greenwalt; modified from the shooting script to match telivised version by me. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/a45heartthrob2.html