(Angel and Spike stumble around in the fog)

SPIKE: When is a door not a door? When it's not soddin'-well there.

ANGEL: Right there. (looks at a large tree) You wanna bet that's the entrance to the Deeper Well?

SPIKE: Either that, or Christmasland.

(Angel doesn't get it)

SPIKE: Do you ever have any fun?

(suddenly, sword-bearing demon warriors are charging them)

ANGEL: I'm about to.

SPIKE: And they even brought us weapons. Strategy?

ANGEL: Just hold my hand.

SPIKE: (nods) St. Petersburg.

ANGEL: Thought you'd forgotten.

(Angel and Spike let go of each others' hands, dropping a length of wire between them. As the armored creatures approach, Spike and Angel step apart and pull the wire taut. The demons run into the wire, getting clotheslined by it, cutting off their heads. Sword fighting with the remaining demons ensues.)

(...)

ANGEL: Is that all? We haven't even started!

DROGYN: I'd say that's enough.

ANGEL: Drogyn.

DROGYN: Angel.

ANGEL: You're the keeper of the well.

DROGYN: Have been for decades.

SPIKE: Well, who in the bloody?

DROGYN: (angrily) Do not ask me a question! If you ever ask me a single question, I will kill you outright. Don't think for a moment that I can't.

ANGEL: He can. He would.

SPIKE: Eh?

DROGYN: You're here about Illyria.

ANGEL: Yes.

DROGYN: Walk in.

SPIKE: But how??

DROGYN: (angrily) I just said to you, not one moment ago, don't ask.

(he storms off toward the tree)

ANGEL: Seriously. He doesn't like questions.

SPIKE: Why the bloody hell not?

ANGEL: He can't lie.

(...)

(Angel & Spike follow Drogyn through a long tunnel)

DROGYN: I would never have thought you'd end up here, Angel.

ANGEL: I could say the same.

SPIKE: So, you two know each other. (Drogyn glares at him) That was a statement. I already know that you do.

DROGYN: I'll tell you as much as I can. The old ones were demons pure. They warred as we would breathe?endlessly. The greater ones were interred, for death was not always their end. Illyria was feared and beloved as few are. It was laid to death in the very depths of the well... until it disappeared a month ago.

SPIKE: Someone took it from under your nose a month ago, and you didn't miss it 'til now? That makes you quite the crap jailer, doesn't it. (Drogyn glares again) Also a statement.

DROGYN: (to Angel) Your friend likes to talk.

ANGEL: So much, he's even right sometimes. The man I remember couldn't be stolen from so easily.

DROGYN: The tomb was not stolen. It disappeared. I believe it was pre-destined to as part of Illyria's escape plan. And as for my not noticing, well, my charges are not few.

(Spike and Angel have followed Drogyn into the chamber. They're standing on a bridge. When they look over to see what the bridge spans, they see an endless pit lined with thousands of coffins just like the sarcophagus delivered to Wolfram & Hart.)

SPIKE: Bloody hell.

ANGEL: How far does this go down?

DROGYN: All the way. All the way through the Earth.

ANGEL: So, the coffin disappeared, teleported, but it was brought to us.

DROGYN: Illyria was a great power?so great that, after millions of years dead, somewhere on this Earth still has acolytes.

(...)

DROGYN: It's been freed?the demon's essence.

SPIKE: Yeah, it's been freed. Why do you think we're here?

(Drogyn glares at Spike, but Spike's had enough and goes on the warpath)

SPIKE: And what's your favorite color? What's your favorite song? Who's the goalkeeper for Manchester United? And how many fingers am I holdin' up? (holds up his index and middle fingers in a rude gesture) You wanna kill me? Try. But I don't have time for your quirks.

DROGYN: The power to draw back Illyria lies in there. It requires a champion who has traveled from where it lies to where it belongs.

ANGEL: You got two of those right here.

DROGYN: But I didn't know it was free. If we bring the sarcophagus back to the well, it will draw Illyria out of your friend...and into every single person between here and there. It will become the mystical equivalent of airborne. It will claw into every soul in its path to keep from being trapped. Entire cities?tens maybe hundreds of thousands will die in agony if you save her.

ANGEL: No.

SPIKE: That's madness.

DROGYN: This is a place of madness. I'll prepare the spell. Your choice. (walks away)

ANGEL: To hell with the world.

(...)

(Angel turns to see Spike, still staring down the well)

ANGEL: Spike...

SPIKE: This goes all the way through to the other side. So, I figure, there's a bloke somewhere around New Zealand standing on a bridge like this one, looking back down at us. All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known.

• Angel & Spike

written by: Joss Whedon; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x15_tran.php