GILES: Here's something at last.

XANDER: Can you please warn us before you do that?

GILES: There's nothing about Angel in the texts, but it suddenly occurred to me that it's been ages since I've read the diaries of any of the watchers before me.

WILLOW: (to Buffy) That musta been so embarrassing when you thought he had read your diary, but then it turned out he hadn't, but then he felt the same way... (Xander gives her a look) I'm listening.

GILES: There's mention some two hundred years ago in Ireland of, of Angelus, the one with the angelic face.

BUFFY: They got that right.

XANDER: I'm not saying anything, I have nothing to say.

GILES: Does this, uh, Angel have, um, a tattoo behind his right shoulder?

BUFFY: Yeah, it's a, it's a bird or something.

XANDER: Now I'm sayin' something. You saw him naked?

WILLOW: So, Angel's been around for a while.

GILES: Not long for a vampire. Uh, two hundred and forty years or so.

BUFFY: Huh! Two hundred and forty. Well, he said he was older.

GILES: Angelus leaves Ireland, uh, wreaks havoc in, in Europe for, uh, several decades, and then, um, about eighty years ago, the most curious thing happens. He, he comes to, uh, to America, um, shuns other vampires, and, and lives alone. There's, there's no, no record of him hunting here.

WILLOW: So he *is* a good vampire! I mean, on a scale of one to ten, ten being someone who's killing and maiming every night, and one being someone who's... not.

GILES: I say that there's no record, but, uh, vampires hunt and kill. It's, it's what they do.

XANDER: Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.

BUFFY: He could've fed on me. He didn't.

XANDER: Question: a hundred years or so before he came to our shores, what was he like then?

GILES: Uh, like all of them. Uh, a vicious, violent animal.

• Angel, Angelus & The Curse
• Xander vs Angel

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