ANGEL: You're still human. How'd you manage this?

HOLTZ: So, the question becomes: now that I have you, what's the best way to get her?

ANGEL: Only dark magics could have brought you this far.

HOLTZ: She was always the trick, you know, not you. Darla was the unpredictable one.

ANGEL: Was it a demon or something else?

HOLTZ: What if I just kill you now? Would she somehow sense it? Would she then come running? Would that bring her bursting through those doors, I wonder?

ANGEL: Did something come to you, or did you seek it out?

HOLTZ: She might show herself in the service of revenge. It can be a powerful motivator.

ANGEL: Yes, it can. What did you have to give up for this second chance?

HOLTZ: Give up? I had nothing *to* give up. *You* saw to that.

ANGEL: We took a lot from you, that's true. But we didn't get everything. We couldn't take your soul.

HOLTZ: What do you know of a soul?

ANGEL: I know yours will be destroyed if you allow yourself to be used in the service of evil. You're a good man, Holtz. A righteous man. And you're being used for some purpose other than justice.

HOLTZ: Could it be you really have changed? I don't remember you ever pleading so cravenly before.

ANGEL: And I remember *you* used to work with men.

(Holtz hits Angel hard across the face)

• Holtz

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