ANGEL: Strike these 4 clauses and wire it back to them. See what they make of that.

HARMONY: Yeah! See what they make of that.

WESLEY: (arriving) Angel...

ANGEL: Long dinner?

WESLEY: We need to talk to you. Now.

GUNN: Boy's dead serious.

SPIKE: (to Angel, who hasn't moved) You coming, then?

(inside office)

ANGEL: OK, what's on your minds?

LORNE: The question is what's on yours?

SPIKE: Our friend Drogyn's in town.

ANGEL: Is he?

SPIKE: Yeah. A bit marked up, though. Somebody tried to have him killed. Know anything about that?

ANGEL: Of course not. Where is he?

GUNN: He's safe.

ANGEL: Good. Now, can we get back to business, or was there something else?

WESLEY: Business? What business are we in, Angel?

ANGEL: Do I really have to explain this to you people? We're in the business of business. Oil, software, worldwide wickets. The product doesn't matter. It's the game that matters. Get to the top, be the best, have the most, win.

WESLEY: Win what?

ANGEL: You're still missin' the point.

GUNN: That Angel talking? 'Cause it sounds a lot more like Angelus.

ANGEL: Oh, if I were Angelus, half of you would already be dead, just for the fun of it.

SPIKE: One of us already is. We havin' fun yet?

ANGEL: You want to know the truth? The truth is there's only one of us who ever understood how things really work. Lorne.

LORNE: Whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Can I not be the poster child for your nervous breakdown here?

ANGEL: You didn't judge. You didn't spend your life obsessed with good and evil. You do that, you get swallowed, lost in the minutia. Good, bad, Angel, Angelus-- None of it makes a difference. I wish it did, but, you know, an ant with the best intentions or the most diabolical schemes is just exactly an ant. There is one thing in this business, in this apocalypse that we call a world that matters: Power. Power tips the scale, power sets the course, and until I have real power, global power, I have nothing. I accomplish nothing.

WESLEY: And how you get this power...

ANGEL: Isn't pretty. Isn't fun. You think it's Wolfram & Hart getting to me here, and maybe you're right, because they've shown us what power is. From day one, they've been calling the shots, and all we've done is get shot at. I have a chance to change that.

LORNE: And will you? I mean, not to play an old saw, but power does traditionally corrupt. You get high up enough, and, well, the people, they do start to look like ants.

ANGEL: I can't worry about that... the small stuff.

HARMONY: (walks into the office) Angel, that important phone call from... that guy about that thing, it's on line 3. (walks out)

ANGEL: We're done here. I have to take this.

(they file out)

SPIKE: Yeah, the guy about the thing.

WESLEY: The small stuff that you can't worry about, would that include Fred?

ANGEL: I loved Fred.

WESLEY: That's not an answer.

ANGEL: Then I guess you don't get one.

written by: David Fury; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x21_tran.php