(The priests look out of a window. Angel, trailed by Fred, is entering the village square, carrying a burning triple-torch. Angel steps up on the podium and plants the torch in a holder there.)

ANGEL: I challenge the groosalug to mortal combat. (Angel glances back at Fred, who was mouthing the words along with him. Fred gives him two thumbs up.) Come out and face me you spineless coward!

FRED: Uh! Why'd you add that coward thing? That's really gonna piss him

off. (She hides.)

CORDELIA: What is going on? Who's yelling.

SILAS: (to Groo) You have been challenged. You must fight.

CORDELIA: What? No! No fighting. I had a vision, he can't fight!

SILAS: The honor of the kingdom is at stake.

CORDELIA: Will you listen to me?!

SILAS: Silence!

CORDELIA: No! Don't do it, please. Don't do it! Groo, no! No! No!

GROO: (Looking out window) Who calls me out?

SILAS: Do you love your princess?

GROO: More than I thought possible.

SILAS: If this *filth* should win - he will ravage - and he will defile her. - He will use her for his pleasure again - and again. - And when she has no more screaming in her - he will *kill* her.

GROO: He will *not*! He will die!

(...)

(At the village square, Groo arrives in a chariot, takes off his gloves, walks up on the podium and holds his hand into the flames of the torch.)

ANGEL: This guy - he doesn't feel pain?

FRED: Oh, he-he feels it, but - he's the groosalug. He overcomes all things. - Good luck. (She hides.)

GROO: You will die, barbarian!

(Groo and Angel fight. Angel barely holds his own.)

FRED: (To Angel) You can't hold back! You'll die!

ANGEL: Not holding back - holding on.

(...)

(In the village square, Groo has Angel down and is pounding him with a cudgel.)

GROO: You would defile her! You animal!

(Fred hides her face. Angel morphs into the Angel-beast and leaps onto Groo.)

• Cordelia & the Groosalug (Groo)

written by: David Greenwalt; Original transcript anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by Sylvia.. Full transcript at:
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