ANGEL: 'The Gateway for Lost Souls' is under the post office?

DOYLE: It makes sense if you think about it. Now listen, the Oracles are finicky and unpredictable. You do get in, don't dilly-dally. Ask your questions, get out.

ANGEL: Aren't you coming?

DOYLE: Not allowed. I'm just a lowly messenger, you're a warrior. If your heart is pure - and I do this right... 'We beseech access to the knowing ones' ... we may just survive. You're in.

MALE ORACLE: Come before us, lower being.

FEMALE ORACLE: What have you brought us?

ANGEL: Was I supposed to?

MALE ORACLE: You call us forth and bring no offering?

ANGEL: (offering his wristwatch) I brought you this.

FEMALE ORACLE: I like Time. There's so little and so much of it.

MALE ORACLE: Well?

ANGEL: What's happened to me?

FEMALE ORACLE: It's true then, brother.

MALE ORACLE: He is no longer a warrior.

ANGEL: It was the demon's blood. It wasn't the Powers-That-Be that did this?

MALE ORACLE: The Powers-That-Be? Did you save humanity? Avert the Apocalypse?

FEMALE ORACLE: You faced a Mohra demon. Life goes on.

ANGEL: My life as a human. I'm not poisoned or under some spell?

FEMALE ORACLE: The Auguries say no. If it has happened, it was meant to be.

MALE ORACLE: From this day, you will live and die as any mortal man.

FEMALE ORACLE: Privy to all the attendant pains - and pleasures.

MALE ORACLE: That which we serve is no longer that which you serve. You are released from your fealty.

ANGEL: That's it? I'm free?

(Man holds up his hand and Angel goes flying backwards out of the arc to land on top of Doyle. )

DOYLE: Angel, it didn't work?

ANGEL: Yes, it did.

DOYLE: You just went in this instant.

ANGEL: What?

DOYLE: Look at your watch.

ANGEL: I can't do that, Doyle. Next time remind me to bring a gift?

DOYLE: I knew I forgot something. So, what happened? What did they say?

ANGEL: They're a little confusing, but I think the gist is... it's real. I'm free.

DOYLE: I can't believe this.

ANGEL: Me either. I mean, what do I do now? I got this whole new life spread before me. I don't know where to begin.

DOYLE: Right. It's overwhelming. You can pretty much do what ever you want now. So the question is, what do you want?

(cut to the sunny beach, where Angel walks up to Buffy and kisses her passionately)

• Angel's Mission
• Oracles/Powers That Be

written by: David Greenwalt and Jeanne Renshaw; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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