ETHROS: You.

ANGEL: Didn’t think this was over, did you?

ETHROS: You are a fool. You think to destroy me? You’re dealing with forces beyond your comprehension.

ANGEL: Yeah? Well, it’s a hobby of mine.

WESLEY: You great – putrescent – bully! Pick on an innocent child! You think you’re impressive?

ETHROS: I am Ethros. I corrupted the spirits of men before they had speech to name me. The child was but the last among tens of thousands, one more pure heart to corrupt, one more soul to suck dry.

WESLEY: Well, chalk up one exciting failure. You didn’t get that boy’s soul.

ETHROS: Hmpf, what soul?

(Cut to Paige setting a cup of hot cocoa in front of Stephanie and Ryan.)

RYAN: She has nine marshmallows, and I only have seven.

PAIGE: Well, we’ll just have to write the Nestle bunny about that. Drink up. It’s way past bedtime.

(cut back to the sea caves)

ETHROS: Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? Nothing! That’s what I found in the boy no conscience, no fear, no humanity, just a black void. I couldn’t control him. I couldn’t get out. I never even manifested until you brought me forth. I just sat there and watched as he destroyed everything around him. Not from a belief in evil, not for any reason at all.

(cut to Seth & Paige)

PAIGE: He doesn’t seem to remember any of it.

SETH: Good.

(Ryan glares menacingly at his sister. back to the sea caves)

ETHROS: That boy’s mind was the blackest hell I’ve ever known.

ANGEL: The marbles, that was you.

ETHROS: When he slept, I could whisper in him. I tried to get him to end his life, even if it meant ending mine.

ANGEL: You sleepwalked him in front of the car.

ETHROS: I had given up hope. I know you bring death. I do not fear it. The only thing I have ever feared is in that house.

WESLEY: Angel, he’s with his family. We have to hurry.

ETHROS: Yes, you do.

(Angel lifts his axe and we hear a scream as we cut away to Paige tucking Ryan in bed.)

PAIGE: Good night, sweetheart.

(Ryan swipes Seth's matches from his bedside table)

SETH: (waking) Ryan?

(Ryan drives a wedge under the door to keep it from being opened.)

PAIGE: What is going on?

SETH: I don’t know.

(Ryan takes the phone of the hook and picks up a can of gasoline.)

SETH: Ryan, open the door!

PAIGE: Ryan - Stephanie?

(Ryan douses Stephanie's room with gasoline and sets it on fire) STEPHANIE: Mom, dad! Help!

SETH: Stephanie!

PAIGE: Stephanie!

(Angel bursts in through the window and picks Stephanie up off the bed as Wesley appears behind the Andersons.)

WESLEY: Everybody out! Lets go! Go! Go!

(later... firemen, police, etc. Ryan's in the backseat of Kate's squad car)

KATE: Social services will take over from here. They’ll want to speak to your son alone first.

SETH: When will we get to see him?

KATE: Not until tomorrow.

SETH: What’s gonna happen to him?

KATE: We won’t know until after the evaluation.

ANGEL: Thanks for coming by, Kate.

(She just looks at him for a moment, then nods and walks away.)

SETH: I won’t be able to cover for him anymore. They’re gonna want to know about Ohio and everything. I wanted to protect him.

ANGEL: I know.

SETH: I was just trying to hold my family together.

ANGEL: I think you did.

written by: David Greenwalt & Jeanine Renshaw; Original transcript by anoymous. Edited, formatted for this site and checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
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