CORDELIA: Must be genetic.

CONNOR: What?

CORDELIA: Sneaking up on people. Your dad's an expert.

CONNOR: I was just making a sweep. Where ya going?

CORDELIA: Been inside all day. Thought I'd take a walk, clear the cobwebs, recharge the chargeables. (beat) OK, stop with the look. I'm getting a stronger feeling.

CONNOR: About the vision.

CORDELIA: Yeah. Flashes, images, tugging at me, pulling.

CONNOR: Where?

CORDELIA: I don't know. Maybe where this thing's gonna jack-in-the-box.

CONNOR: So you were gonna go face it by yourself.

CORDELIA: 'S all right. I was a higher being.

CONNOR: Was. You're not anymore.

CORDELIA: No, I'm not. I remember wanting to come back home, to be able to touch, to feel, to be human again.

CONNOR: You are.

CORDELIA: But I can't remember how. Am I on vacation? Did I go cosmic AWOL? Did I do something to piss off the Powers That Be and get kicked out? Why am I here?

CONNOR: Because you're important.

CORDELIA: Oh, yeah. The world's really stopped turning without me.

CONNOR: Well... you're important to me.

CORDELIA: Guess the sneaky's not the only thing you got from Angel. Getting pretty good with saying the right words, too.

CONNOR: Complete sentences. I've been working on it. (smiles bashfully)

CORDELIA: Maybe you're right. Maybe I was sent back because I'm important or needed—for this, to stop whatever's about to happen. I have to find out if that's why I'm here.

CONNOR: And I have to go with you.

CORDELIA: No, it's dangerous.

CONNOR: That's why I'm coming.

(... later ...)

CONNOR: Sure you know where you're going?

CORDELIA: Exactly? No. But, for the first time since I've been back, I feel like I have a purpose, like a reason for being here. Before, all I felt was empty—like I was waiting for my life to start.

CONNOR: I know how that feels. Not knowing why you're here, what your place is in this world...

CORDELIA: It's called being 18. If you make it past 21, things get a lot better.

CONNOR: They already have.

CORDELIA: You really are getting awfully good with words.

(... later ...)

CONNOR: What is it?

CORDELIA: This place. I've been here before.

CONNOR: In your vision?

CORDELIA: No, I— Oh, my God. Darla.

CONNOR: My mother.

CORDELIA: She died here. Connor, this is where you were born.

(Something bursts up from the ground in front of them, surrounded in red light. It's got two enormous horns on top of its head, and it's a hulking beast—the one Cordelia saw in her visions. Connor attacks)

CORDELIA: Connor!

( The beast grabs Cordy, Conoor attacks again, gets tossed)

CORDELIA: No!

CONNOR: Stay away from her!

(The Beast looks at Connor, then at Cordelia and laughs. He leaps off. Cordy goes to Connor, who's hurt.)

• Cordelia & Connor
• The Beast, the Beast's Master, Jasmine, etc

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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