FAITH: What the f—

(A vampire lunges at them, knocking Wesley over. The vampire chokes Faith, but she punches him out. Wesley stakes him.)

FAITH: You OK?

WESLEY: Dandy.

(...)

FAITH: (to drugee girl) Hey, I'm gonna get you out of here.

WESLEY: (picks up a hypodermic syringe from the floor) Faith...

FAITH: Can you walk? (looks at the girl's arm covered in track marks)

DRUGGED GIRL: No, but I can fly.

FAITH: (to Wes) What did they do to her?

WESLEY: She did it to herself. They shoot up, the vampires feed, use 'em like a filter. I've read the effects can be quite intoxicating...for both of them.

DRUGGED GIRL: (to Faith) Hey, you're pretty. You wanna make out?

FAITH: (grabs the girl by the collar and pushes her roughly against the wall) There was a vampire in here earlier. Tall, dark hair— (the girl's eyes drift, but Faith grabs her face) Listen!

DRUGGED GIRL: OK. God! What's your issue?

FAITH: Tall, dark hair, talking to himself.

DRUGGED GIRL: Let go.

FAITH: (punches the girl in the face) Did you see him?

DRUGGED GIRL: (crying) No, I didn't. Stop it, you're hurting me!

FAITH: (conscience stricken, drops her) She doesn't know anything. (walks away)

WESLEY: Maybe not. (takes out a knife and stabs the girl in the shoulder)

FAITH: (screams) What are you doing, Wes?

WESLEY: (to Faith) Shut up! (to the girl) The tracks on your arms—you've been here, what, two or three days straight? (twists the knife) Answer me!

DRUGGED GIRL: Yeah, God, stop! Yes four—four days.

WESLEY: Then you must've seen the vampire we're looking for.

DRUGGED GIRL: Angelus, I saw him. He, uh...

WESLEY: Where is he?

DRUGGED GIRL: I don't know. (Wes punches her) I don't know! Please stop!

WESLEY: They said he was talking to himself. What was he saying?

DRUGGED GIRL: I don't know. It wa—It was like he was talking to someone else. It was all rain of fire a-and pulling strings and a soul. That's all I heard. Please stop. It hurts.

(Wes pulls the knife out of the girl. Faith runs to the girl's side.)

FAITH: (to Wes) Have you totally lost it?

WESLEY: I avoided the main arteries. She'll live, if that's what you call this. Whatever's controlling the Beast—it's made contact with Angelus.

(walks out. Faith follows.)

FAITH: So, what? Torturing humans part of the new makeover?

WESLEY: I did what I had to do because you couldn't.

FAITH: I hit her.

WESLEY: You think that's something new to her?

FAITH: You crossed it back there, Wes. What you did back there—

WESLEY: Oh, you have a problem with torture now? I seem to recall a time when you rather enjoyed it.

FAITH: Yeah, well, it's not me anymore. You know that.

WESLEY: (leans the shotgun forward) Nice to have this along, just in case. I remember what you did to me, Faith. The broken glass, the shallow cuts so I would remain conscious.

FAITH: You think I'd hurt you again?

WESLEY: This the part where you tell me you've turned a new leaf, found God, inner peace? We both know that isn't true. You haven't changed. You can't.

FAITH: Wes...

WESLEY: Because you're sick. You've always been sick. It goes right down to the roots rotting your soul. That's why your friends turned on you in Sunnydale, why the Watchers' Council tried to kill you. No one trusts you, Faith. You're a rabid dog who should've been put down years ago! (Faith pushes Wesley violently against the chain link fence, taking the gun from him and raising it back to hit him with it, but stops short) See, that wasn't so hard, was it? It's what you'll need to beat him.

FAITH: (puts the gun down, steps back) No.

WESLEY: You have to be willing to take it all the way, Faith.

FAITH: I can't risk killing Angel. Not after what he's done for me. There's got to be another way.

(walks away)

• Faith & Angel
• Faith & Wesley
• The New Wesley

written by: Steven S. DeKnight & Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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