(Gunn returns to the Doctor's office where he was lawyer-fied)

DOCTOR: (checking a patient's eyes) Good, good. (to Gunn) With you in a minute. (to the patient) So I want you to keep those glasses on for a full week, give those fancy new retinas time to adjust. Then I get to see you in 14 days. (to Gunn) X-ray vision. (makes air quotes) Very now.

GUNN: Something's wrong with the implant you gave me.

DOCTOR: Well, I doubt that— Gunn, isn't it? But let's take a look.

(humming, grabs an instrument and looks through it into Gunn's eyes)

DOCTOR: Ah. The imprint is fading. Don't blink. Your neural path modification has almost completely reverted.

GUNN: I'm losing it. The law, the languages, the strategy.

DOCTOR: Oh, acute Flowers for Algernon syndrome. (chuckles) It must be sheer torture.

GUNN: Well, fix it! Put it back.

(sits in the doctor's chair)

DOCTOR: Well, no offense, counselor, but your insurance plan wouldn't cover what I charge to wash my hands. You were given that upgrade 'cause the senior partners wanted you to have it, and if you're, uh, losing it, well, they wanted that, too.

GUNN: Why would they do that?

DOCTOR: (laughs) You never know with them.

GUNN: I can't lose this. This power, these skills, they've—they've changed me, given me...

DOCTOR: Meaning? And to have it taken away, it's... heartbreaking. Though I do think Cliff Robertson captured the poignance of it more elegantly.

GUNN: (stands, angry) I'm not going back to who I was.

DOCTOR: Well, maybe, maybe not. See, I, uh... always have a few things going on the side. Currently, I have a lot of capital sunk into a shipment that's being held up at customs.

GUNN: Drugs?

DOCTOR: (chuckles) Goodness, no. I make my own drugs. No, just an ancient curio, a collectible I hope to turn a profit on. If I was to give you the permanent upgrade, I'd say that, uh, you'd be more than able to cut through all of my red-tape problems.

GUNN: I don't make deals with people like you.

DOCTOR: And believe me, Charles, I don't make deals with people like you. Not the person you really are, the ignorant street muscle...the high-school dropout... I would, however, love to make a deal with Charles Gunn, Attorney at Law.

(Gunn looks conflicted. Cut away)

• Gunn's instant lawyerhood
• Wolfram & Hart

written by: Joss Whedon & Ben Edlund; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x14_tran.php