ANGEL: It's heading towards the ocean.

BUFFY: Are you sure?

ANGEL: It's wounded. I can smell its blood.

BUFFY: Oh. Great. Handy skill. Maybe if your crack staff hadn't run off at the first sign of trouble they could have helped us with some research. Find out what this thing is and why it wants to kill us.

(Something rustles and Buffy spins around, stake in hand. )

ANGEL: Just a rat. So, you can put that down now. It's not a vampire. I don't know why you brought that anyway.

BUFFY: Because I know how to use it. Besides it's a lot handier then your fightin' ax.

ANGEL: Unless he chops it in two and maybe takes some of your hand with it.

BUFFY: Look can we just get on with the hunting? I'd like to have this done before dark.

ANGEL: I can handle this myself.

BUFFY: You bailed me out last night. I'd like us to be even.

ANGEL: We're keeping score now?

BUFFY: Are you getting anything? 'Cause I sure smell sewer. (Angel picks up the trail) Tunnel number one it is.

BUFFY: Angel? You okay?

ANGEL: I feel weird.

BUFFY: I know. I do, too. I mean, I only came to see you so I could tell you face-to-face not to see me face-to-face anymore, and I know there's a fly in that logic ointment somewhere, but... The next thing I knew we're being attacked by this mutant ninja demon thing, and then we're on the floor on top of each other, and it's just really confusing being around you.

ANGEL: No, I meant I felt weird from the demon's blood. It's powerful.

BUFFY: Oh. Okay. Let's just rewind Buffy's little outburst and pretend it never happened.

ANGEL: No. It is confusing. And I.. When we're apart, it’s easier. It hurts. Every day. But I live with it. Now you're - you're right here, and I can actually reach out and - it's more then confusing. It's unbearable.

BUFFY: But we have to bear, right? I mean, what else can we do? It doesn't work with us. It can't.

ANGEL: No, I-I can't give you a life, or a future or anything a real girl would want.

BUFFY: No matter how much we miss each other.

ANGEL: Or what we feel in the moment.

BUFFY: If we let something happen here... we'd want more. And nothing's changed. We'd only end up having to leave each other again.

ANGEL: And that's the best-case scenario.

BUFFY: Oh, boy. I was really jonesing for another heartbreaking sewer talk.

ANGEL: I’m sorry.

BUFFY: You know, I'm on the brink of something back home. I'm actually heading toward a pretty good life now that..

ANGEL: I'm out of the picture. That's why I left. I want you to have it.

BUFFY: Could we just - find this thing and get this finished? What if it went up?

ANGEL: Into the day. Where he knows I can't follow.

BUFFY: But I can.

ANGEL: Uh, I.. I don't want you going after him alone.

BUFFY: Look, it's best all around if we split up. I can handle it.

ANGEL: There's a dive on Second near Beach, The Lone Bar. Demons go there sometimes when they need to get patched up.

BUFFY: Got it.

ANGEL: Be careful.

(on his way back, he runs into the demon again, fights it, appears to kill it. Get's more blood on him, realizes it's made him human)

• Buffy & Angel

written by: David Greenwalt and Jeanne Renshaw; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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