HAMILTON: (arriving by elevator) So.

ANGEL: Yeah.

(he punches Hamilton hard in the stomach, but doesn't make a dent)

ANGEL: (sighs) Did that hurt at all?

HAMILTON: Little bit.

(grabs Angel by the windpipe; Angel winces as he's lifted off the ground)

HAMILTON: But it's all part of the job.

(throws Angel across the room so hard that Angel shatters a support post, going right through it. fade to black, commercial and resume. Angel & Hamilton continue to trade blows as they talk)

HAMILTON: The senior partners have expended an awful lot of time and resources on you. Personally, I would have told them not to bother. You're gutter trash, and that's where you should have stayed, drinking and whoring your way through an unremarkable life. But the fates stepped in and made you a vampire, with a soul, no less. A champion. A hero of the people. And yet, you still managed to fail everyone around you. Doyle. Cordelia. Fred. They're all gone. Now it's time you followed. Did you really think you were gonna kill Archduke Sebassis?

ANGEL: No...I think I already did.

(cut to Sebassis, in a bubble bath. He sips his slave-blood drink, and then notices that the slave has collapsed. back to Angel & Hamilton)

ANGEL: I spiked his drink.

(Flashback to Angel jabbing the slave earlier during the Black Thorn meeting. Cut to see Sabassis convulsing in his tub)

ANGEL: I figured you were the one I needed to be alone with.

HAMILTON: Why? So I could kill you?

ANGEL: Well, I thought the fight would be going a little better.

HAMILTON: Oh.

(...)

HAMILTON: Why do you keep fighting? You signed away your Shanshu. There's nothing in it for you anymore.

ANGEL: People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do.

(punches Angel hard, sending him across the room again)

HAMILTON: Yeah, but we won't care.

(Hamilton is about to stake Angel when all of a sudden, he's sent flying by someone else)

CONNOR: Care about that, dress-for-less?

(offers Angel a hand to get to his feet)

ANGEL: What the hell are you doing here?

CONNOR: Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.

(...)

(Connor and Angel have teamed up to fight Hamilton. )

HAMILTON: What is with you people?

(throws Connor into the elevator doors, where he collapses to the floor)

ANGEL: Connor!

(tries to go to Connor, but is blocked by Hamilton)

HAMILTON: Let me say this as clearly as I can. You cannot beat me. I am a part of them. The Wolf, Ram, and Hart. Their strength flows through my veins. My blood is filled with their ancient power.

ANGEL: (smirks) Can you pick out the one word there you probably shouldn't have said?

(Angel vamps, launches himself at Hamilton, and bites him. Hamilton manages to peel him off, but it's too late, Angel is well juiced)

ANGEL: Wow. You really are full of it.

(Hamilton swings at Angel, but Angel ducks)

ANGEL: What was that you were saying about ancient power?

HAMILTON: You don't really think you're gonna win this, do you? You don't stand a chance. We are legion. We are forever.

(Angel gets the upper hand)

ANGEL: Then I guess forever...

(punches Hamilton in the face again, and again)

ANGEL:...just got a hell of a lot shorter.

(Finally, Angel punches Hamilton in the face so hard that it breaks his neck.)

CONNOR: Is he dead?

ANGEL: Yeah, he's dead.

(The building starts shaking and rumbling. Windows are cracking. The building is coming apart.)

CONNOR: Uh, that's not good, is it?

ANGEL: Wolfram & Hart. Looks like they're taking the gloves off.

CONNOR: What do we do?

ANGEL: You go home.

CONNOR: Huh?

ANGEL: This is my fight.

CONNOR: That's some serious macho-

(some of the building debris falls on him)

CONNOR: Aah!

(The concrete support beam falls from the ceiling onto the lobby floor.)

ANGEL: Go home...now.

CONNOR: They'll destroy you.

ANGEL: As long as you're OK, they can't. Go.

(Connor looks at Angel before running down the hallway to leave. Angel looks around as the building crumbles before his eyes. He goes into his office to get Eve.)

EVE: What the hell is going on?!

ANGEL: Looks like we're getting kicked out of the garden, Eve.

EVE: Where's Lindsey? Where is he?

ANGEL: He's not coming for you.

EVE: You-

ANGEL: Time to go. (walks away)

EVE: (doesn't move) Go where?

• Angel & Connor
• Wolfram & Hart

written by: Jeffrey Bell & Joss Whedon; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x22_tran.php