BUFFY: I know you're there. And I know what you are.

ANGEL: Do you? I'm just an animal, right?

BUFFY: You're not an animal. Animals I like.

ANGEL: Let's get it done!

(they scuffle, Buffy fixes her crossbow on him)

ANGEL: C'mon! Don't go soft on me now!

(Buffy launches the bolt. It hits the wall next to him.)

ANGEL: Little wide.

BUFFY: Why? Why didn't you just attack me when you had the chance? Was it a joke? To make me feel for you and then... I've killed a lot of vampires. I've never hated one before.

ANGEL: Feels good, doesn't it? Feels simple.

BUFFY: I invited you into my home and then you attacked my family!

ANGEL: Why not? I killed mine. I killed their friends... and their friend's children... For a hundred years I offered ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with a song in my heart.

BUFFY: What changed?

ANGEL: Fed on a girl about your age... beautiful... dumb as a post... but a favorite among her clan.

BUFFY: Her clan?

ANGEL: Romany. Gypsies. The elders conjured the perfect punishment for me. They restored my soul.

BUFFY: What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?

ANGEL: When you become a vampire the demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone! No conscience, no remorse... It's an easy way to live. You have no idea what it's like to have done the things I've done... and to care. I haven't fed on a living human being since that day.

BUFFY: So you started with my mom?

ANGEL: I didn't bite her.

BUFFY: Then why didn't you say something?

ANGEL: But I wanted to. I can walk like a man, but I'm not one. I wanted to kill you tonight.

(She puts the bow down on the floor and approaches him. She offers her neck.)

BUFFY: Go ahead. Not as easy as it looks.

• Angel, Angelus & The Curse
• Buffy & Angel

written by: David Greenwalt; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/07angel.html