ANGEL: Okay, anyone get the number of that bus?

GUNN: Seventeen. I'll call, see where it ends up.

FRED: Let me check online. It'll be faster.

CORDELIA: That was it. That was it, Angel.

ANGEL: No. No, it isn't. I'm gonna go find him.

CORDELIA: I mean the fight you just had. That was the vision I warned you about yesterday.

ANGEL: You never mentioned Connor!

CORDELIA: Because I only saw you.

GUNN: Angel? I hate to bring that up, but are we sure this was Connor? Just 'cause he said 'hi, dad'?

ANGEL: That was him.

GUNN: Couple of weeks ago he was wearing diapers. Now he's a teenager?

CORDELIA: Tell me we don't live in a soap opera.

LORNE: Yeah, well, personally I'm less worried about the 'how he grew up' than the 'why he came back.'

ANGEL: He came back because he could. He found a way to escape that place.

LORNE: Yeah, well, that's a possibility. Here is another: you sure he said 'hi, dad' and not 'you're dead'?

ANGEL: He's angry and afraid. As soon as I get a chance to talk to him... Fred?

FRED: Seventeen goes all the way downtown. Ends up at Union Station.

ANGEL: Okay. Look, I'm going underground. Somebody hit the surface streets.

GUNN: We got it, man.

GROO: We will not fail... (trying gamely) man.

(Gunn turns to look at Groo.)

CORDELIA: Let's split up. (Turns to Fred and Lorne) You guys start at the end of the line work your way backward...

(Cordy trails off as the air above the Pentagram starts to crackle and hiss again.)

CORDELIA: Okay. That can't be good.

FRED: I'm guessing the dimensional rift from Quor-toth must still be open?

LORNE: Yeah. So, what-what's say we close it up before anything else slithers, skitters or slides out of there.

GUNN: Amen to that.

GROO: Princess, perhaps your newfound powers can seal it shut.

CORDELIA: Can't hurt to try.

(She steps into the middle of the Pentagram and lifts her hands to point at the air above her.)

CORDELIA: I command you: Close!

(The air continues to crackle.)

CORDELIA: Okay. I got nothing.

FRED: Actually - we do know somebody who might be able to...

GUNN: No. I already went to Wes's. Can't - do that again.

LORNE: Well - I-I might know a guy, who knows another guy.

GROO: Is it dangerous? Gunn and I can protect you.

LORNE: Well, no. It's not dangerous, it's just awkward. This guy is all hands. I mean, *all* hands, like fifty of them. Anybody fluent in sign language?

CORDELIA: You know, we can't all walk out of here when we have a cosmic crack hanging over us.

GROO: Then I will stay and guard the hotel.

CORDELIA: I'm with him. (To Gunn and Fred) You two hit the streets. Lorne...

LORNE: Already gone.

(as they're exiting)

FRED: You went to Wesley for me. He's the one who told you how to save me.

GUNN: Yeah. He made it clear. That's a door none of us is ever going to be knocking on again.

written by: Jeffrey Bell; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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