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come wander through the BuffyVerse...| Cordelia (re: Angel): You stake him and I’ll cut his head off. from Somnambulist (Season 1) | Next Clip in Episode |
CORDELIA: Jeez, Wesley! Hover much?
WESLEY: Where is he? Where's Angel?
CORDELIA: Not here. (Sees the stake in Wesley’s hand) What is that?
WESLEY: Just what it looks like.
CORDELIA: Kind of rude coming into a vampire’s place of business with one of those things, don’t you think? Could be misinterpreted?
WESLEY: You recall earlier this morning that mix-up with the dentist's mail and newspaper? (Shows her the clipping) That’s where I saw this.
CORDELIA: Oh, my God! You cut up Dr. Folger’s newspaper?! You’re gonna get us kicked out of this building.
WESLEY: What? No, Cordelia, the clipping!
CORDELIA: Third body found in alley. So? Not exactly front-page news.
WESLEY: Actually that *is* the front-page, but still, note the modus operandi? The mutilation of the corpse with a religious icon?
CORDELIA: I’m against it?
WESLEY: I think you'd better sit down. While executing my duties as Watcher in Sunnydale, I did extensive research. Specifically on Angel... given his uncomfortable proximity to the Slayer.
CORDELIA: He looked pretty comfortable to me.
WESLEY: When I saw this story today it rang chillingly familiar. So, I reacquainted myself with certain facts, confirming, I’m sorry to say, my grim suspicions. In the late 1700s it was Angelus’ custom to ‘sign’ his victims by carving a Christian cross into their left cheek. He liked to let people know he’d been there.
CORDELIA: Okay, you get to leave now. You’re not gonna come in here and accuse Angel like this.
WESLEY: Cordelia.
CORDELIA: No! I don’t care how many files you have on all the horrible things he that did back in the powdered wig days! He is good now. And he’s my friend. And nothing you or anyone else can say will make me turn on a friend!
ANGEL: Cordelia. He’s right.
CORDELIA: You stake him and I’ll cut his head off.
WESLEY: Come no closer!
ANGEL: I’m not going to hurt you.
CORDELIA: Oh, is that what you told Miss ‘third body found in alley’?
WESLEY: Why should we believe a word you say?
ANGEL: (grabbing Wesley) Because this is how fast I could take you if I wanted to.
WESLEY: All right. We’re listening.
ANGEL: I have no memory of doing any of these things.
CORDELIA: Oh, not exactly the confidence-inspiring denial I was looking for.
ANGEL: I’ve been having dreams.
WESLEY: Dreams?
ANGEL: Killing dreams. Always the same. I stalk them, toy with them, mark them while they are still alive. And before they can die from their fear, I feed on them.
CORDELIA: Okay. So you’ve been having nightmares, it doesn’t mean you...
ANGEL: They’re not nightmares. I’ve enjoyed them.
CORDELIA: Oh.
WESLEY: And you fear these may be more than just dreams, that you're acting them out in some sort of hypnogogic state.
CORDELIA: Hypnowhatic?
WESLEY: Sleepwalking.
CORDELIA: Vampires can’t sleepwalk. He’d take one step out of the front door and his p.j.s would burst into flame!
WESLEY: Unless it were happening in the pre-dawn hours. Which is when all these murders took place.
ANGEL: There's only one way to be sure.
written by: Tim Minear; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and double-checked by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season1/transcripts/11_tran.shtml