ANGEL: That's everything Wolfram and Hart could decipher from what they took outta Lorne.

WESLEY: They just handed these over?

ANGEL: Lilah—she can be very giving.

GUNN: You trust her on this?

ANGEL: No, but she's got an interest in stopping the end of the world before it ruins Wolfram and Hart's end of the world, so...

GUNN: OK, what's the plan?

ANGEL: You're holding it. We figure out what all this means, then do something large and violent.

WESLEY: I see you've given it considerable thought.

LORNE: So all this came out of my head? No wonder it made me greener.

ANGEL: If Wolfram and Hart hadn't extracted it, you'd be a paler shade of dead.

LORNE: Yeah, well, remind me to send 'em a fruit basket. ( phone rings) Mm. Saved by the continuous bell.

ANGEL: You've been logging the calls?

LORNE: Every last squishy one.

ANGEL: Grab a map, start marking the locations. See if they're concentrated in any one area. Whatever's happening, whatever Cordy's seen, the answers are in these pages. We need to figure this out.

(... later ...)

GUNN: We're never gonna figure this out.

ANGEL: We have to keep trying.

WESLEY: Normally I'd agree, but this is a waste of time.

ANGEL: It's all we have.

WESLEY: Then we must be missing something. This is gibberish. Bits and pieces of glyphs, archaic languages, symbols—all jumbled together.

ANGEL: Do you recognize any of them?

WESLEY: Uh, heat, fallen, shrine, flesh...none of it makes any sense.

ANGEL: Ah, we gotta keep at it until it does.

GUNN: (stands) You know, maybe we should just take a step back. (walks around)

ANGEL: We don't have time. Cordy said whatever's happening is going down right now.

WESLEY: Then perhaps you should have addressed this earlier. (flips through pages) We could sift through this muddle from now 'til doomsday, whether that's tomorrow or a thousand years from now—

GUNN: (standing behind Wes now) Wait, go back. The last sheet, flip it back.

ANGEL: What is it?

WESLEY: I don't see anything.

GUNN: 'S cause you're looking too close.

(Gunn lines up two of the papers, showing a triangular symbol that's completed when they are lined up properly. Plus, the pattern of the symbols and glyphs aren't nonsensical after all. There are areas that are more densely written on than others. Gunn grabs a stack of the papers from Wesley, pushes the coffee table out of the way, and starts arranging the papers on the floor, matching up the denser areas which start to form lines. )

GUNN: OK. So what the hell is it?

(Zoom out to show that, when arranged properly, the papers form a symbol that looks like a square with diagonal lines connecting opposite corners (forming an X pattern within the square).)

ANGEL: The Eye of Fire.

WESLEY: Ancient alchemical symbol for fire.

ANGEL: And destruction.

GUNN: You had me at fire.

LORNE: Um, boys? (holds up map) I hate to be the little demon that cried apocalypse nowish, but uh...

(Lorne gestures to the map with a marker. He's plotted the locations of the disturbances with a red dot for each call, and the dots have formed a square.)

(... later ...)

ANGEL: That's it.

LORNE: What?

WESLEY: The focal point of the disturbances.

ANGEL: Whatever's coming, that's where we'll find it.

GUNN: I know that area—the old Kimball building's down there. They did a retro on it, put a club up on the roof. The, uh, Sky Temple or something.

LORNE: Yeah, yeah, I've heard of it. Watering hole for the tragically hip. Actors, models, all the hot mamas and yamas.

WESLEY: A shrine of the flesh.

ANGEL: So, who's thirsty?

GUNN: Let's do it.

LORNE: Hey, I know location's everything, but, um, maybe we should hold off on the down-payment 'til we know what we're dealing with or how to stop it.

ANGEL: If it's alive, we kill it. If it's not, we bury it. (throws crossbow to Wesley) You in?

• The Beast, the Beast's Master, Jasmine, etc

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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