FRED: Oh, Angel. Hi. I invite you in.

ANGEL: Thanks, but you only have to do that the first time. Once I'm invited...

FRED: I know. I just figured since I'm going home now I'm not gonna be inviting you in anywhere. - Unless, of course, you come to Texas.

ANGEL: Or if you build that condo in the sewer... So how you doing?

FRED: Oh, ah - fizzy. - Kinda weird and... fizzy. But excited. - And a little sad. - Thankful. Sorta cautiously happy. Relieved and worried at the same time. Slightly nauseous while still bein', hopeful?

ANGEL: And that about covers it. (Looks at the walls) Are you gonna remember everything that's up there?

FRED: Well, sure. It's a story. Once upon a time - there was a girl who lived all alone in a horrible cave - so far from home it made her chest hurt. - And every day in that horrible cave, the girl tried to figure out a way to escape. - None of her plans ever succeeded, of course, - and she'd almost given up hopin' - when one day, just like in a fairy tale - a handsome man rode up on a horse and saved her, - and took her back to his castle. - - Now you'd think that was the end, wouldn'tcha? Dumb old fairy tales and their happily ever afters. But see, the minute they got back to the castle, - the handsome man went away again. - And even though she didn't mean to, - didn't want to - high up in that castle the girl just built herself another cave. Hoping he would save her again. But you can't save me *this* time. - Can you?

• Angel & Fred
• Fred's Pylea-induced craziness

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