ANGEL: You made it.

GUNN: Yeah. I called the hotel. They said you were down at Merl's. (Points at the wall) What is that?

ANGEL: That's Merl.

GUNN: Where is the rest of him?

(Angel points at the light bulb then at a couple other places around the room.)

GUNN: Nasty. What happened?

ANGEL: I don't know. Stopped by this morning. Thought I'd give 'sincere' one more shot. Even brought donuts. This is what I found. So far, we've ruled out suicide.

WESLEY: I found some of his personal papers, an address book (looks up) Gunn. You're here. Good. Ah, you didn't notice anything odd last night when you dropped Merl off, did you?

GUNN: Not really.

WESLEY: Well, we'll - box these up, catalogue them when we get back to the hotel.

GUNN: Hey, guys - what are we doing?

WESLEY: Examining the crime scene.

GUNN: Yeah, I see that. But what's our interest?

WESLEY: Someone killed Merl.

GUNN: No, right, I get *that*. Look, I didn't have a beef with Merl, all right? I'm even sorry he got dead, but come on! Is this really the kind of thing we should be spending our time on? I mean he was what he was, right?

ANGEL: What's that supposed to mean?

GUNN: Nothing. It means what it means. Somebody killed a demon. Hello! We do that every day.

WESLEY: *Merl* was harmless.

GUNN: Okay.

ANGEL: Sure you're not just bent because maybe we interrupted something you'd rather be doing?

GUNN: No.

ANGEL: Okay. Usually doesn't take you two hours to answer a page is all.

GUNN: Excuse me, but did somebody put you back in charge? Because if they did they forgot to tell me about it.

WESLEY: All right. Gunn, if this isn't something you can get behind, we'll understand. For now why don't you just go on home.

(Gunn just stands there looking at Wes. Wes claps him on the arm.)

WESLEY: Go home.

GUNN: You know what? That's probably a *real* good idea.

(Gunn walks out, past Angel, who is looking through Merl's rolodex.)

ANGEL: Little creep.

WESLEY: Angel!

ANGEL: Merl. He's right you know. I never did bother to get to know who he was. Now I guess I'll have to.

• Angel & Gunn

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