(Cordelia tries to zip through dense L.A. traffic)

CORDELIA: Slow poke! I'm late. I'm late. And it's not a date.

(...)

CORDELIA: We're just gonna talk like two grown-up adults. I have some feelings. You may have some feelings. He may not even know I'm insane until he hears my feelings.

(Suddenly Cordy begins to glow from the inside. )

CORDELIA: Oh, no! No, no, no! Not now!

(Everything slows down. Cordy, no longer glowing, looks around her and sees that her fellow motorists are frozen in time.)

CORDELIA: Oh, sh...

(...)

(Cordy, dressed exactly like the earlier apparition of herself, gets out of the car and walks over to look into the window of a car at a woman frozen in the act of fixing her lipstick.)

SKIP: Don't be (Cordy jumps and gasps) frightened.

CORDELIA: It's a little late for that!

SKIP: Sorry. You remember me? I'm...

CORDELIA: Yeah. Skip. You tend to remember your demon guides. What is going on?

SKIP: I think you know.

CORDELIA: I'm dying.

SKIP: No. No, you're not - dying.

CORDELIA: Not dying?

SKIP: No.

(Cordy punches him)

CORDELIA: Say that part first!

SKIP: Sorry. It's not the end. It's the beginning. You're a great warrior, Cordelia. The battle that we're all a part of is fought on many different planes and dimensions. You've outgrown this one. You've become - a higher being.

CORDELIA: Me?

SKIP: You. You took on the visions, and even when you could have traded them in for a happy, normal life, even when they were killing you, you wouldn't let them go. The big test came when the Powers made you part demon. They bet the farm on you. Power corrupts. And they gave you a lot of power.

CORDELIA: The glowy thing.

SKIP: Which you used well - to fight evil, and heal Connor.

CORDELIA: And only that one time as a night light. - Bad dreams. - Skip, I don't understand.

SKIP: I think you do.

CORDELIA: It's ridiculous. - I'm just a somewhat normal girl - who - has visions, glows, and occasionally blows things up with her crazy new power. (Skip looks at her) I'm a higher being.

SKIP: Yes.

CORDELIA: And when you say I've - outgrown this level, that sort of implies...

SKIP: You're moving on to a new one.

CORDELIA: Now I'm really scared.

SKIP: I know. But I also know you're ready.

CORDELIA: Oh, no, I'm not.

SKIP: Ah, the universe begs to differ. And deep down inside, I think...

CORDELIA: Yes! All right? Stop saying I know! - Maybe I do know. *Maybe.* If given enough time, I might even get *used* to the idea, but - I don't have enough time, do I?

(...)

CORDELIA: No, of course not. Why would the Powers give me time to have the most important conversation of my life? I'm on my way to... I'm in love! With Angel.

SKIP: What you're being called to do - transcends love.

CORDELIA: How is that fair? I can't leave without telling him! I won't. - He has to know how I feel! Why does this have to be now?

SKIP: There is work to be done in the higher realms.

CORDELIA: Can you at least tell Angel for me?

SKIP: Sorry. Not allowed.

CORDELIA: Then I'm not going. - How can they possibly do this to me now? - This is the last test, isn't it?

(...)

SKIP: Cordelia.

(Cordy turns to look at Skip and he taps his left wrist. )

CORDELIA: I ever come face-to-face with those Powers That Be, we are going to have a talk, a big talk.

SKIP: You're doing the right thing.

CORDELIA: I'm scared. - But I know it's right. I know somehow it's all gonna be alright. (Sighs) What do I do?

SKIP: Just say yes.

CORDELIA: I already have.

(Golden sparkles appear around Cordy as she starts to float up in a corridor of white light. )

• Cordelia & Angel
• Cordelia's visions & championhood

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