(Cordelia's apartment. Wesley is holding a black and white photograph.)

WESLEY: The Hyperion Hotel. It appears to be abandoned.

ANGEL: 68 rooms, 68 vacancies.

WESLEY: California Spanish, deco influence - I'd say built in the late 1920's

ANGEL: That'd be my guess. It's just west of here in what used to be the heart of Hollywood. No telling how long it's been empty.

(Cordelia enters carrying a tray.)

WESLEY: From the look of it - years.

ANGEL: Hmm.

CORDELIA: (hands Wesley a cup) English breakfast tea. (puts other cup on table) Coffee. (hands glass to Angel) O-pos.

WESLEY: Do we suspect it's current condition is due to more than just the tourist trade drying up?

ANGEL: Yeah.

(Angel looks contents of glass.)

CORDELIA: Something the matter?

ANGEL: I - uhm, I-I think its gone bad. It's starting to coagulate.

CORDELIA: Huh? No. That's cinnamon. What, I can't try something?

WESLEY: Er, what's our interest?

ANGEL: I need you two to look into the history and find out who owns it now and why they're letting it stand empty like that.

WESLEY: Who's the client.

ANGEL: There is no client. I'll check back with you later to see what you found out.

CORDELIA: Cryptic much?

WESLEY: Angel, this is more than just a sudden interest in real estate.

ANGEL: You'll have to access police files. Focus on cold cases, homicides, unsolved missing persons. Start at the beginning, take it up to the present day.

WESLEY: You believe whatever made this place it's home did so for some time.

ANGEL: Probably right up to the end.

• Cordelia & Angel

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