LILAH: Cordelia Chase, right? Come to gloat?

CORDELIA: I can do that anywhere. Are you gonna invite me in? Oh, wait. I'm not a vampire.

(Cordy walks in past Lilah.)

LILAH: Please, come on in.

CORDELIA: I want you to tell me about Billy. Everything you *didn't* tell Angel. I want you to help me stop him.

LILAH: And what makes you think I'm gonna do that?

CORDELIA: Well, there's your face - for starters.

LILAH: I know the risks of my job and I accept them.

CORDELIA: Then why where you crying five minutes ago? - There's not a thing about badly reapplied mascara that I don't know.

LILAH: I'm not Lindsey McDonald. I don't switch sides whenever it gets tough. And since when is this your job? I thought Angel was the dark avenger.

CORDELIA: Angel feels responsible for this guy because he brought him back from hell. I feel responsible because he did it to save me. You, who are actually responsible for the entire thing, feel nothing at all, because *you* are a vicious bitch.

LILAH: So? You know me.

CORDELIA: Please, I was you - with better shoes.

LILAH: These are Boracchi.

CORDELIA: Fall collection?

LILAH: Next spring.

CORDELIA: He's widened the heel.

LILAH: And rounded the toe.

CORDELIA: That won't work with pink.

LILAH: The pink is out this spring.

CORDELIA: Billy Blim makes people crazy.

LILAH: Not all people. Just men. He brings out a primordial misogyny in them. Turns them into killers.

CORDELIA: Then why didn't he do it to Angel?

LILAH: Angel's seen him?

CORDELIA: Yes, right before he escaped from the cops. (Lilah chuckles) What's so witty?

LILAH: Billy's touch works differently on different men. Some lose their mind in an instant. Others - can take hours. - Gee, I sure hope Angel isn't starting to feel testy.

CORDELIA: You better hope it.

LILAH: I know. I've seen his dark side.

CORDELIA: You really haven't. - I have to find Billy.

LILAH: And I'm gonna help you why?

CORDELIA: You know that guy that you hired to hack into my visions? What he did to me? What it felt like? I was cut, my face disfigured, and burning with pain every second not knowing if it was gonna end or just get worse till I died.

LILAH: So you think I owe you...

CORDELIA: It's not the pain. It's the helplessness. The certainty that there is nothing you can do to stop it, that your life can be thrown away in an instant by someone else. He doesn't care. He'll beat you down until you stay down because he doesn't even *think* of you as alive. - No woman should ever have to go through that, and no woman strong enough to wear the mantel of 'vicious bitch' would ever put up with it. *Where* is Billy going?

written by: Tim Minear & Jeffrey Bell; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season3/transcripts/50_tran.shtml