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come wander through the BuffyVerse...| Angel to Spike: Forget it. You know what? This isn't a meeting. This is you being annoying. from Underneath (Season 5) | Next Clip in Episode |
(Angel is alone in his conference room, waiting for his staff impatiently)
ANGEL: (speakerphone) Harmony!
HARMONY: (over speakerphone) I know! I called everyone. They're just...
ANGEL: (irritated) Not here. I can see that. If they were here, I wouldn't be alone. Why am I alone?
HARMONY: (arriving) Well, you can be super grouchy.
ANGEL: The meeting?
HARMONY: Everyone's otherwise occupado, boss. Wesley's stuck baby-sitting miss I used to rule the world, bow down before me, minion scum. Why aren't we killing her, again?
ANGEL: Gunn.
HARMONY: (considering) Maybe... ...if we had a really big one.
ANGEL: Where is Gunn?
HARMONY: Oh. The hospital still. You know, from when Wesley... (mimes stabbing) and Lorne's kinda M.I.A. since...
ANGEL: Fred.
HARMONY: (nods sadly, then goes back to chipper) Okey-dokey then.
(Spike enters carrying a briefcase)
SPIKE: Where's the rest of the crew?
ANGEL: Apparently not coming.
SPIKE: But this is an important meeting.
ANGEL: At least somebody—
SPIKE: My first official parley as a very loosely affiliated member of the... what are we? Tell me we're not Scoobies.
ANGEL: We don't have a...
SPIKE: A name? Well, that's probably for the best. You'd want to be Angel's Avengers or something.
ANGEL: (dismissively) Angel's Avengers, that's... (reconsiders)
SPIKE: So what's on the agenda?
ANGEL: Uh, I have assignments for people—
(he looks up as the sound of a pop-top opening comes from Spike)
SPIKE: What? I'm listening. (holds up a beer can) With beer. (drinks)
ANGEL: Forget it. You know what? This isn't a meeting. This is you being annoying.
(Spike grabs a paper from the stack where Angel was sitting)
SPIKE: Hey, bullet points. Classy.
(he pauses to read)
SPIKE: Why am I always reconnaissance? I should get a decently flash gig like save the girl or steal the emerald with the girl.
ANGEL: (contemplatively) Handsome man, save me from the monsters.
SPIKE: Exactly! Or— What's that now?
ANGEL: That's the first thing Fred said to me. In Pylea. She was trapped, hiding, afraid. Nearly crazy. Crazy. But brave. I should never have let her come here. Bad things always happen here.
SPIKE: Hate to break it to you, mate, but bad things always happen everywhere. Besides, she wanted to be here. It was her choice.
ANGEL: Was it?
SPIKE: Bugger. You're fixing to do something stupid, aren't you?
ANGEL: Done it. Came here. Spend every day lying to myself about making the world a better place.
SPIKE: Welcome to the planet. We all paint on our happy faces every day, when all we really wanted is to pound the neighbor's missis, steal his Ben Franklins, and while we're at it, not think about the third of the world that's starving to death.
ANGEL: I'm not saying that I can fix everything. I just—I... I have to do better. The senior partners have a plan.
SPIKE: (scoffs) Yeah, the prophecy. That ever-lovin' apocalypse you keep going on about.
ANGEL: Yeah, which apocalypse— the one last year or the year before that? No, the senior partners are up to something now, and I'm not waiting for them to spring it on us. We're through operating in the dark.
SPIKE: OK, then. Might be easier if we knew anyone who had a direct line to the big guys.
(they exchange are-you-thinkig-what-I'm-thinking looks)
written by: Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x17_tran.php