(Benny is trailing Virginia around her dad's party. She sees the stone sculpture, decorated with lit candles.)

VIRGINIA: What is this horrible thing? I hope a girl isn't gonna jump out of it or something.

BENNY: Not really.

(Bryce taps the side of his glass with a spoon to get everyone's attention.)

BRYCE: Thank you. I wanna thank all of you for being here on this special occasion. My feelings (chokes up) -- my feelings run almost too deep for words. But I'll try to do this, and do it right.

VIRGINIA: What is he talking about?

BRYCE: (lights a candle) Yeska, of the razor eyes and stone heart, take this offering. I cast my most precious emerald into the ocean on the moment of my birth plus 50 years.

VIRGINIA: Daddy, what are you doing? (Benny grabs her wrist and pulls her towards the sculpture) Daddy? Hey! Hey. Daddy stop them!

BRYCE: Take this gift ...

(Benny shackles Virginia with the attached chains.)

VIRGINIA: (to BENNY) Stop -- stop now!

BRYCE: Let her death return tenfold onto me my power.

VIRGINIA: Make them stop!

BRYCE: Be a good girl now. This is hard enough already.

BENNY: (to VIRGINIA) He's really torn about it.

VIRGINIA: (to the party guests) Help! Somebody help me! (Bryce comes to stand in front of her.)

VIRGINIA: Daddy? (But he only dips his thumb into water, marks her forehead with it, and backs off.)

(Wesley, Cordelia, Angel, who's wearing his coat again, and Gunn stride into the party room through the open double doors.)

WESLEY: Release her or die.

ANGEL: Don't I say that?

BRYCE: Guards!

(All four do well in the fight against the guards.)

WESLEY: (unchaining Virginia) I'll get you out of here.

BRYCE: (cowering beside a table) The hour approaches Yeska. Do not be blind to my plea. Yeska I beseech thee. (A wind starts to blow inside the room, distracting the fighters) Appear!

(Yeska, and ugly gray skinned demoness with a blonde afro appears with a flicker of lightning in front of Virginia.)

YESKA: The Sacrifice is impure! (vanishes)

GUNN: What's going on?

WESLEY: (to VIRGINIA) Let's go.

VIRGINIA: Why did you come back?

WESLEY: I said I'd protect you. (she laughs)

BRYCE: She's impure? She -- she's not a virgin? (Starts towards Wesley) You ....

GUNN: Woah! That's what impure meant?

CORDELIA: She slept with him?

BRYCE: You were supposed to be Angel. This wouldn't have happened. That's why I hired him. He's a eunuch.

CORDELIA: You slept with her.

ANGEL: Eunuch?

WESLEY: (to BRYCE) Things happen. Two young people, danger ...

VIRGINIA: What are you talking about?

BRYCE: She was a virgin before you got here.

VIRGINIA: I was *not* a virgin!

BRYCE: What?

WESLEY: Oh, thank goodness.

GUNN: I could have told you she was no virgin.

ANGEL: I'm not a eunuch.

CORDELIA: One day as Angel -- one day! -- and he's getting some.

BRYCE: What? How could you. I kept you away from all men!

ANGEL: I mean, the curse isn't even all that clear.

VIRGINIA: Daddy, you remember that chauffeur from when I was 16? And the one at 18? I haven't been a virgin for a *very* long time. I even dated Rick.

(Bryce turns to look at one of the guards, who hurriedly leaves the room.)

BRYCE: Ginny, don't do this! Don't make me angry!

VIRGINIA: Right. Because then you might do something bad. *You* were going to *kill* me! (She hits her dad, knocking him down) You are not my father anymore. (leaves)

ANGEL: (to Bryce) I'm not a eunuch.

• Funnies
• Wesley & Virginia

written by: Jane Espenson; Original transcript anonymous. Edited, formatted and checked against source by chicken_cem. . Full transcript at:
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