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come wander through the BuffyVerse...| High Priest to Angel: The boy is what you're fighting for. But you're going to fail. from Peace Out (Season 4) | Next Clip in Episode |
(Angel scares the demon hord off with with blue orb thing, then scales a high mountain to reach the temple)
HIGH PRIEST : A long way to come, dead thing, only to fail. Don't worry. The way down will be much, much quicker.
ANGEL: Thanks for the tip. Maybe I can use your body to cushion the blow.
HIGH PRIEST: I doubt if my form would provide you much protection, but you're welcome to try.
ANGEL: You. You're the—
HIGH PRIEST : High priest, guardian of the word, caretaker of her most blessed temple.
ANGEL: Well, blessed temple's kind of empty, padre. So where are the other true believers? Or are you it?
HIGH PRIEST : (chuckles) Betrayers, blasphemers. Centuries of waiting for her return have caused most to doubt.
ANGEL: But, not you, her faithful P.R. flak.
HIGH PRIEST : She is the light. She is the way.
ANGEL: She is not coming back.
HIGH PRIEST : She will when she's through with your world.
ANGEL: You know, maybe we're not talking about the same person here. What's the name of yours again?
HIGH PRIEST : (laughs) That's why you're here, dead thing. What you've come for. The word. The name.
ANGEL: Good. You got that. So I don't have to ask it again. (grabs the priest by the throat) What is it?
HIGH PRIEST : Fool. You can take away her power, but you've already lost... everything.
(...)
HIGH PRIEST: I know all about you, dead thing. She who brought us up out of the mud and molded us into what we are has given me sight into the hearts and minds of others. I see you. I know all about— (Angel squeezes harder) Aah!
ANGEL: Then you know I'm kind of in a hurry. Give me her name.
HIGH PRIEST: (choking) Keeper!
ANGEL: (lets the priest go) That's it? Caper?
HIGH PRIEST: The true name is known only by the keeper of the name.
ANGEL: Right. (grabs the priest's neck again) That's you!
HIGH PRIEST: No, I am the guardian of the word!
ANGEL: You said the word is the name.
HIGH PRIEST: Yes, and I guard the keeper of it.
ANGEL: So you're the keeper's keeper?
HIGH PRIEST: I am the Guardian of the Word!
ANGEL: Yeah, OK, so where's this Keeper of the Name? (the priest glances toward the corner where another creature is kneeling; Angel lets the priest go) Swell.
HIGH PRIEST: The keeper will not be forthcoming. Only with its last breath will it divulge the true name of the blessed devourer.
ANGEL: Ok, big guy, you got a name I need. So we can either do this the easy way or the hard way. But you're gonna give me her name or— (the keeper growls menacingly at Angel) Right. The hard way.
(...)
HIGH PRIEST: What is it you think you fight for, dead thing? Valor? What you call justice? Your friends are dead... most likely. Or so you believe, so it's not for them you fight.
ANGEL: (still fighting) I'm trying to save my world.
HIGH PRIEST: Your world?! A world that doesn't care for you? Doesn't want you.
ANGEL: (still fighting) It needs me.
HIGH PRIEST: So your Powers That Be tell you, and maybe they're right, but it's not why you're here.
ANGEL: Ok, bugsy, you want to tell me what I'm fighting for?
HIGH PRIEST: Him.
ANGEL: (looks at the keeper) Him?
HIGH PRIEST: The boy. The woman you've already lost. The boy is what you're fighting for. But you're going to fail. You're going to lose him, too.
(...)
HIGH PRIEST: So much effort, always struggling, trying to make things right for the boy, for Connor, but it's never enough. Why do you bother?
ANGEL: I can see you never had kids.
HIGH PRIEST: The boy should not even exist. He was only a device to bring forth the blessed she— a means to an end.
ANGEL: Yeah, well, people get born for all sorts of reasons.
HIGH PRIEST: He will never love you.
ANGEL: It doesn't matter.
HIGH PRIEST: Foolish dead th—
(Angel ducks, and the keeper misses him, knocking the High Priest into spikes on the wall instead. )
ANGEL: Oh. Oh, that'll work.
written by: David Fury; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me. . Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season4/transcripts/87_tran.php