FAITH: (near microwave) So, how does this work?

ANGEL: There's no real simple answer to that. I won't lie to you and tell you it'll be easy, because it won't be. Just because you've decided to change doesn't mean the world's ready for you to. The truth is... no matter how much you suffer, no matter how many good deeds you do to try to make up for the past, you may never balance out the cosmic scale. The only thing I can promise you is that you'll probably be haunted... and maybe for the rest of your life.

FAITH: (indicates the Microwave) So how does *this* work?

ANGEL: Uh... power level, time, start. Sure that popcorn is gonna be enough for you?

FAITH: Yeah. I can live off the stuff. Tell Cordelia I'll pay her back.

ANGEL: Actually I think it belonged to Wesley.

FAITH: Oh, maybe we just don't mention it, then.

ANGEL: Maybe we do.

FAITH: Are you sayin' I got to apologize?

ANGEL: Think you can?

FAITH: I don’t' know. How do you say 'Gee, really sorry that I tortured you nearly to death'?

ANGEL: Well, first off I think I'd leave off the 'Gee.' And secondly I think you have to ask yourself: are you?

FAITH: What?

ANGEL: Sorry.

FAITH: Now what if I *can't* say it? There's some things you can't just take back, no matter how sorry you *are*, right?

ANGEL: Yeah, there are. I've got some experience in that area.

FAITH: Right. And you've been doing this for a hundred years! I'm not gonna make it through the next ten minutes.

ANGEL: So make it through the next five, the next minute.

FAITH: I don't think I can.

ANGEL: Yes, you can.

FAITH: God, it hurts! I hate that it hurts like this!

ANGEL: Oh well, it's supposed to hurt. All that pain, all that suffering you've caused is coming back on you. Feel it! Deal with it! Then maybe you've got a shot at being free.

FAITH: (laughs) I've got to be the first Slayer in history to be sponsored by a vampire!

ANGEL: Yeah, well, I got some experience in that area, too.

FAITH: Oh, god! B. How am I ever gonna make things right with her?

ANGEL: Faith, this isn't about Buffy.

FAITH: All my life there was only one person who tried to be my friend, went out of their way when I had no right or reason to expect her to, and... I screwed her. Not to mention her boyfriend, only him, literally.

ANGEL: Faith, you and I never...

FAITH: No, not you. The new one. (realizes he didn't know about Riley) Oh, my god! Angel, I'm so sorry!

ANGEL: No, there. You *can* say it. That's good. (turns away, visably affected by the news) Good.

• Faith & Angel
• Faith vs/& Buffy

written by: Joss Whedon & Tim Minear; original transcript by anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by ros_fod and me. Checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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