"Billy"
Angel is teaching Cordelia sword fighting skills. Actually, more like sword stalling tactics.
Cordelia tells him she didn't ask him to teach her to stall until he comes to the rescue, she already knows how to do that. She wants to learn how to fight.
He tells her he'd be there to help her.
She reminds him he may not always be there and besides, he may be the one she needs to defend herself against. She knows that's always a possibility.
Angel agrees with that logic.
He shows her some more moves, offers to repeat it until she gets it.
She assures him she's got it. After spending three years on the varsity cheerleading squad, she's learned to pick up routines quickly.
Angel offers that wielding a sword is a bit different than wielding a pompom.
Cordelia quickly has an unarmed Angel on the defensive and against the wall, the blade poised at this throat.
At Wolfram & Hart, Lilah is in a hurry heading toward her office. She asks her secretary how long "he" has been there.
The secretary answers that security escorted him in 20 minutes earlier.
Lilah isn't happy that she wasn't pulled from her meeting and notified. She asks about the family.
The secretary responds they're on their way.
Lilah enters her office where Gavin Park is enjoying a chat with "Billy" (the young man Angel freed from the demon dimension in "That Vision Thing"). She's less than thrilled to see Park in her office.
He says he was just keeping Billy company.
Lilah assures him she can handle things just fine without him.
Lilah asks Billy where he's been, his family has been concerned.
Billy answers that he went for a walk.
Lilah points out he was gone for three days.
Gavin offers that Billy just needed to get out.
Lilah suggests Gavin find something else to do. She turns back to Billy and tells him he's not to go out by himself, reminding him what happened the last time. She doesn't figure he wants to end up back in the demon dimension.
A middle aged man enters Lilah's office and assures her Billy doesn't want to end up back there, nobody wants that to happen.
Lilah greets the congressman, who asks Billy if he's kept himself out of trouble this time.
Billy assures him he's been behaving himself.
The congressman tells him to go on home. As he prepares to depart with Billy, he offers thanks for returning his nephew to his family for the second time.
Gavin accepts the thanks.
Lilah points out Gavin had nothing to do with it but the congressman is already out of the office.
Gavin offers his opinion that Billy is a "nice boy."
Lilah agrees, he had his own private accommodations in hell. Nice guy. She orders Park out of her office.
Park isn't quite ready to leave.
Lilah warns him to stay away from her clients or the two of them are going to "have a problem."
Park becomes nastier than usual, suggesting she might try listening for a change instead of constantly running her mouth.
Lilah laughs at him and turns her back.
He grabs her by the hair, spins her around and slams her into a glass display case, shattering it. He clutches her by the throat and attempts to strangle her.
Billy is walking down the hallway at W&H with his uncle and his uncle's entourage, smiling.
At the hotel, Gunn and Angel are sitting on the couch, playing a video game as Fred looks on. Wes and Cordelia are getting coffee.
Wes is proud of Cordelia for taking the initiative in training with Angel.
Cordy doesn't figure it hurts to be prepared.
Wes agrees, thinking they should all have basic fighting skills.
Wes looks toward the couch where Fred is sitting and mentions he was considering entering into a training program with her.
Cordy thinks that sounds like a good idea. She pauses a moment, notes Wesley's expression and tells him if he wants to get to know Fred better, she'd suggest the next time he invites Fred for an intimate dinner, he not invite all of them to come along.
Wes stutters for a defense to that, realizes he's busted, and wonders if he was really that obvious.
Cordelia tries to offer him some assurance, she figures she's the only one who noticed.
Wes gazes at Fred a moment, notes she's an "extraordinary woman" but figures interoffice romance is probably a bad idea. Even under normal circumstances, that kind of thing rarely works out.
Cordelia reminds him the circumstances aren't normal. She doesn't figure the odds are in favor of any of them finding someone who can understand and deal with their work. She thinks maybe they are meant --
Wes eagerly finishes her thought with "for each other"?
Cordy corrects him, she was going to say maybe they were meant to be alone but what the heck, if he has feelings for Fred he should tell her. She gently urges him to do it.
Cordelia stands up, does the vision thing, falls on the floor. The vision shows an older woman being viciously attacked by a man.
Wes, Angel, and Gunn assist Cordelia to the chair. She tells them what she saw, a man attacking a woman in a convenience store, the woman is his wife.
Angel asks how many stores of that type are in the area.
Fred offers a detailed statistical analysis in response to the question.
Gunn interrupts her and offers that there are a lot of those types of stores.
Fred says she was getting to that.
Wes starts to instruct the others on where to go, what to do.
Cordelia says it's too late. This happened a week earlier. The woman is dead. She wonders why The Powers would send her this vision now.
Wes tosses a file folder onto the lobby desk.
Cordelia picks it up, asks what it is.
Wes answers that it contains all the information about the murder she saw in her vision; police report, a copy of the husband's confession, stills from the surveillance camera and medical examiner's photos.
Wes and Cordy are joined by Gunn, Angel and Fred who also look through the contents of the folder.
Cordelia's expression is one of shock as she looks at a photo of a bloodied elderly woman, lying on the floor.
Angel takes the photo from her and suggests maybe she shouldn't look at it.
She reminds him The Powers already sent her the images in the vision. She asks Wes how he managed to collect all this information.
He admits he bought it.
Fred wonders if the police actually sold him the information.
He clarifies that he purchased it from a source of his, someone who usually sells to tabloids when crime victims are well known.
Wes explains the victim was murdered by her husband. They'd been married for 30 years, no history of domestic violence.
Fred asks why the husband killed her.
Wesley answers that he wanted her to stop talking.
Fred figures he got what he wanted.
Gunn wonders why the vision was sent when the crime is in the past and the perpetrator has confessed. It seems the matter is closed.
Wes doesn't have an answer.
Angel is looking at one of the stills from the surveillance camera. He thinks he may have an answer. He slides the shot taken 20 minutes before the murder across the desk towards Wes. He tells him to notice who's in the picture.
Wes examines the photo with a magnifying glass. His expression says he recognizes Billy's face in the picture. He hands the picture to Gunn, who also recognizes that face.
Cordelia asks what's going on as she snatches the photo from Gunn and looks at it. She notes Billy in the photo, thinks he's kind of cute, wonders who he is.
Wes and Fred are seated on the poof couch in the lobby, looking over photos and other information. Gunn paces near them.
Cordelia is pacing in Wesley's office holding a photo. She asks Angel if he's sure this is the guy.
Angel verifies that's the guy he freed from the hell dimension.
Cordelia figures that's why the vision was sent to her. If this guy is responsible, then the woman died because of her.
Angel assures her it's not her fault, he's the one who freed the guy.
Cordelia reminds him he did it for her. She's genuinely upset that someone died because this man was freed and she was the reason.
Angel doesn't seem particularly concerned about that. He assures her he wouldn't do anything differently if he had the chance to do it again. He doesn't think either of them is to blame, but he knows who is.
Lilah is sitting in her dimly lit apartment, pouring herself a drink. Her hands are shaking.
The door is kicked open, Angel is standing on the other side. Lilah wryly notes the dramatic entrance being a bit lacking considering he can't actually enter.
Angel notices she's a bit jumpy.
She attributes that to having had a rough day.
Angel figures she knows what her client has been doing.
Lilah gets up and walks toward the open doorway where the apartment is illuminated by the hall lighting. She stops well back from the entry. She says her client's activities have been brought to her attention.
Angel is taken aback by the sight of her bruised and battered face. He starts to ask if she's okay.
Lilah gives the standard "you should see the other guy" response but doesn't sound convincing.
Angel lets her know he intends to look Billy up.
Lilah walks over to the doorway, telling Angel that Billy never touched her.
Angel knows Billy has some kind of power.
Lilah repeats that Billy never touched her and Angel won't be able to touch him, no one can. He's from a very wealthy, prominent political family. She knows that even if they weren't clients of W&H, the law wouldn't go near him.
Angel reminds her he's not the law.
Lilah informs him they're not talking about some run-of-the-mill demon he can just slice and dice.
Angel wants to know why Lilah is protecting Billy after what happened to her.
Lilah isn't interested in explaining and doesn't find his concern particularly credible since she knows Angel would like to see her dead.
Angel notes her hands are shaking.
Lilah warns him to say away from her client and slams the door in his face.
Wes, Gunn and Angel pull up outside the tall, locked iron gates of a large estate. Wes announces they've arrived at the estate of Congressman Blim. He doesn't figure they'll have much luck getting in by ringing the bell.
Gunn suggests perhaps posing as security guards or something like that.
Wes considers the possibility.
As Wes and Gunn ponder a plan, Angel sizes up the gate, jumps to the top of it in one smooth leap and jumps off to the other side, onto the estate. He takes off toward the house.
Gunn asks Wes if he'd like to go next.
Wes thinks they should wait there.
Angel approaches the house where he sees Billy inside, hanging up the phone. Billy sees Angel as well, giving him an icy stare.
Angel picks up a chair from the patio and throws it through the glass door. He enters, not surprised he can get in without an invitation. He knows Billy isn't quite human.
Billy verifies that's true, although he's more human than Angel is.
Angel wonders if hurting women makes Billy feel like a man.
Billy says he's never hurt a woman in his life. He just enjoys watching.
Angel lets him know he intends to return him to the demon dimension.
Billy doesn't think that's likely.
Several police officers arrive and order hands up, guns pointed in the direction of Angel and Billy. Angel raises his hands and turns to face them.
Billy walks around Angel to face the police, informing them he's the one they're looking for. He's just placed the call to them.
A female detective asks him if he's William Blim.
Billy confirms he is. He asks if they found the body, if it was where he said it would be.
The detective informs him he's being taken into custody for questioning.
Billy figured that was the plan as he smiles, looking at Angel.
The detective directs one of the officers, Sanchez, to take Billy into custody.
As Sanchez prepares to cuff him, Billy lays his hand on the officer's arm and asks if that's really necessary. He promises not to cause any trouble and come along quietly.
Sanchez looks to the detective who agrees the cuffs won't be necessary.
Billy removes his hand, which briefly leaves a glowing imprint on the officer's arm.
As the officers escort Billy out, the detective asks Angel who he is.
Billy responds, "he's nobody."
Billy is sitting in the back of a squad car en route to the police station. Sanchez is sitting in the front passenger seat, his female partner is driving. He demands to know why she's going this route when he told her to go another way.
She tells him to take it easy, they'll get to the station.
Sanchez is getting more agitated. He demands she pull the car over. When she doesn't comply, he begins beating her.
The car comes to a screeching halt.
Back at the hotel, Wes hangs up the phone and announces a young woman's body was found three days earlier, someone had tipped the police where to find her. He figures it was Billy.
Gunn doesn't get it. Even though Billy was responsible, he didn't physically do it, so why would he confess to it? He doesn't understand what benefit Billy gets from this.
Angel says Billy gets out.
Gunn isn't sure why it makes sense that he'd want to trade a palatial estate for a holding cell at the police station.
Wes wonders just how long that cell is going to hold him.
Cordelia figures since he got out of a demon dimension, the local lock-up isn't going to pose much of a problem for him.
Angel knows all Billy needs is his attorney. He heads for the door, intending to get to the station before Lilah does.
Gunn wonders what he plans to do after that.
Angel offers that he got Billy out of one cell, he figures he can get him out of this one as well.
Cordelia doesn't think barging into the police station is a good idea.
Angel assures her he'll be fine.
She points out that the situation isn't the only thing that's dangerous, Billy is as well. She wonders what happens if Billy is able to affect Angel the way he affects others.
Angel plans to knock him out before he has the chance.
Fred comes out of Wesley's office and informs the others Billy isn't at the police station. She just heard the report on the scanner, the squad car transporting Billy to the precinct house never arrived. It was involved in an accident.
At the accident scene, Wes relays to Gunn what he found out. There was an altercation, the male officer attacked his female partner, she had to shoot him. She's in the hospital.
Gunn thinks maybe she can give them some information, like what happened between Billy and her partner before her partner attacked her.
Wes agrees and suggests one of them should hang out at the hospital, see if they can talk to the staff or friends of the female officer.
Gunn volunteers to do it.
Wes walks up to Angel who's standing on the sidewalk, across from the open doors of the wrecked squad car.
Angel tells Wes that some of the blood in the car is Billy's. It isn't human. He looks around, determines the way Billy went. Wes follows.
Wes stops, pointing out a bloody handprint on the side of the building.
Wesley touches the bloody print, notes that it's still wet. He picks up a piece of paper and presses it against the print, transferring a bloody copy of it to to the sheet of paper. He'll take it back to the hotel, see if he can discover exactly what Billy is.
Angel doesn't want to wait for the results. He figures he can find him.
Wes understands.
Angel takes off into a building across the street.
At the hotel, Cordelia is loading weapons into her bag. She packs a taser and a small crossbow.
Fred comes downstairs and asks what's up.
Cordy answers that she has an errand to do.
Fred is concerned, she doesn't think Cordelia should be doing what she's about to do.
Cordelia feels she has to. She exits by the side door as Wesley enters the front.
Wes is happy to see Fred, he wants her assistance in examining the sample of Billy's blood. Fred follows him into the office. He starts to ask her for something but before he can finish she hands him a glass slide. He acknowledges that's what he was going to ask for. He smiles and thanks her as he prepares the slide.
Lilah opens the door to her place and finds Cordelia on the other side. She wonders if Cordy is there to gloat.
Cordy points out she doesn't need an invitation as she barges past Lilah into the apartment.
Cordy wants Lilah to tell her everything about Billy that she didn't tell Angel. She wants Lilah's help in stopping him.
Lilah doesn't know why she'd do that.
Cordelia points out what happened to Lilah's face is a good reason.
Lilah assures her she accepts the risks of her job.
Cordelia wonders if that's the case, why she was crying recently. She can tell Lilah's makeup has been retouched. Cordelia knows makeup.
Lilah assures her she's not Lindsey. She doesn't change sides whenever the mood strikes her. She wonders why Cordelia is doing this, she figured this would be Angel's job.
Cordelia says Angel feels responsible because he freed the guy. She feels responsible because Angel freed him for her and interestingly, she notes, Lilah who is actually responsible for all of it feels nothing because she's a "vicious bitch."
Lilah smiles. She acknowledges Cordelia has her pegged.
Cordy points out she knows because she was her, but with better shoes. She knows Billy has the power to make people crazy.
Lilah corrects her. It's not people in general Billy affects, just men. He brings out a "primordial misogyny" in men, turning them into murderers.
Cordelia wonders why he didn't try to affect Angel.
Lilah asks if Angel has seen Billy.
Cordy answers he saw him right before the police picked him up.
Lilah stifles a wry laugh.
Cordy asks what she finds funny.
Lilah explains Billy's touch works differently on different men. Some lose it immediately, others take a few hours to feel the effects. She offers an insincere hope that Angel isn't feeling "testy."
Cordy assures her she'd better hope not.
Lilah says she understands, she's seen Angel's "dark side."
Cordelia's response, "You really haven't." She needs to find Billy.
Lilah wants to know just why she's supposed to help in this quest.
Cordelia brings up the guy Lilah hired to hack into her visions, what she went through, how it felt.
Lilah wonders if Cordy figures she owes her something because of that.
Cordelia explains it's about feeling helpless, about not being able to do anything to stop what's happening, about someone else having the power to take your life at any minute just because they choose to. She assures Lilah Billy doesn't care, he'll victimize her again and again because he doesn't think of her as alive. Cordelia knows no woman should have to deal with that and offers that no woman proud to be a "vicious bitch" would put up with it. She asks where Billy is headed.
Angel walks towards a cab parked on the street. Police are in the area going over the cab. There's blood splattered across the inside of the back window.
Angel approaches two men who are talking about what's happened. One says he doesn't get it. The cab driver seemed like a nice guy, always polite.
The other guy says he can understand it. He's been driving a cab for 14 years, there's been numerous times he's felt like punching out one of his passengers.
Angel asks him if one of his driver's snapped.
The guy confirms that's what happened, the driver beat up his passenger.
Angel asks if the passenger was a woman.
The guy verifies that's true. He's not surprised, he assumes she was probably nagging the driver, telling him how to drive. He figures Angel knows the type.
Angel wonders if the guy figures the woman deserved what happened to her.
He doesn't deny that.
Angel grabs him by the front of his shirt and tells the other guy to get lost.
Angel tells obnoxious guy he wants to know what the cab driver's last stop was before he attacked the woman in his cab.
There's a party going on in an upscale apartment. A guy approaches the party's host, Dylan, and informs him his cousin Billy has just arrived.
Dylan doesn't think that's possible. He continues shooting pool. He turns to see Billy standing behind him. He greets his cousin cautiously.
Billy says he didn't know Dylan was having a party.
Dylan thought they'd agreed that Billy wouldn't come around anymore after what happened the last time.
Billy watches a young couple making out on the sofa. He suggests someone should talk to them about appropriate public behavior. He wonders if Dylan wants him to do it.
In his office, Wes is examining the slide of Billy's blood sample under the microscope. He asks Fred to take a look at it, tell him what she thinks.
Fred notes that some of the bloodcells seem "supercharged."
Wes figures that's the part of Billy that's demon as he moves in closer to Fred. Fred pulls back from the microscope, causing Wes to move back a bit, figuring if the part of Billy that affects people is in his blood, it could be present in his sweat, saliva or even in his touch.
Wes seems lost in thought a moment before asking Fred, "Speaking of saliva, where's Cordelia?"
Fred laughs, asking what he means by that, what one has to do with the other.
Wes curtly informs her he asked a simple question.
Fred answers, she thinks Cordelia went out on an errand.
Wes ponders that a moment and points out that Fred said she "thinks" Cordelia went out but she actually "knows" she went out because she apparently talked to her about it.
Fred acknowledges she did.
Wes is glad to finally get the truth.
As he peers through the microscope at the slide, he menacingly informs Fred that if she lies to him again, they're going to have a problem.
Fred cautiously starts to leave the office.
Wesley wants to know where she's going.
Fred says she was just going to get Cordelia on the phone for him.
He assures her that's not necessary. He tells her to sit down.
She offers to make the call first.
Wesley forcefully orders her to sit down. There are things they need to talk about.
Fred tentatively sits down opposite Wes who's seated behind his desk. She apologizes for not telling him Cordy had gone.
Wes dismisses that, saying it's done, he's past that but they need to make some changes. He gets up and walks to the front of the desk, standing next to Fred.
Fred wonders what kind of changes he's referring to.
Wesley tells her they can start with the "provocative outfits" she wears to work as he pulls the strap of her dress down over her shoulder.
Fred quickly pulls it back up. She doesn't know what he's talking about.
Wes sits on the edge of the desk, moves in close and coldly tells Fred she can't "come in here day after day waving it in my face like this." He figures she's just daring him to take what he wants since she wants it too.
Fred jumps up and tells him the conversation is making her uncomfortable.
Wesley finds that amusing. He wonders if she knows how he feels, having her constantly taunting him day after day. He thinks she finds it amusing, flirting, batting her eyelashes, brushing against him then laughing at him behind his back. He slaps her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor.
Fred gets up and runs for the lobby doors.
Wesley catches her before she can get the doors open far enough to get out. He reaches over her and pushes them closed. He asks her, "What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?" He grabs her by the back of the neck and slams her face into the steps. He answers his own question, "Nothing you haven't already told her twice."
Fred runs up the steps.
Wes laments her lack of humor. He removes his tie, opens his collar, then notices the open weapons cabinet.
Dylan answers his apartment door. Angel is on the other side. Angel tells Dylan he's looking for Billy.
Dylan asks if he's a friend of Billy's.
Angel admits he' s looking to kill him.
Dylan invites him in.
Angel asks if Billy is there.
Dylan tells him he was there earlier but he left.
Angel is surprised there's no carnage. He'd expected to find evidence of mayhem where Billy had been.
Dylan says the rules have to be understood when Billy is around and everyone in the family knows them; don't leave him alone with your girlfriend or pets and never let him touch you. If you give him money, you leave it on a table and back away from it.
Angel wonders if Billy's reason for showing up at his cousin's was cash.
Dylan verifies that's why he was there. He gave him some money because he just wanted to get him out of there.
Angel asks why Dylan invited him in after he told him he wanted to kill his cousin.
Dylan addresses Angel by name, saying that a brunette was by earlier, she'd told Dylan Angel would be stopping by.
Angel wants to know what information Dylan gave Cordelia regarding Billy's whereabouts.
Dylan offers the family has a plane in Santa Monica, Billy said he wanted to fly somewhere. Dylan doesn't know where he wanted to go and he doesn't care as long as it's far away from him.
Back at the hotel, Wesley is armed with a battle ax, stalking Fred. He comes up the stairs, calling to her. He tells her he knows she's forcing him to find her. It's all just a game. She flirts with him, he's attracted and pursues her but she never gives it up for him, just keeps running and laughing at him.
As he's ranting, he's checking out various rooms in the rundown, unoccupied section of the hotel, pushing open one door at a time.
He assures Fred he's not a schoolboy as he attempts to push another door open with the ax. It only opens part way. He notices that door has been chain locked from the inside. He kicks it open and enters the room which appears to be empty.
He taunts Fred about hiding and deceiving being natural all the way back to Eve plotting with the serpent. He continues railing against women as he searches the room, taking a swipe at some of the furniture with the ax, sending pieces flying.
Fred gasps from her hiding place under the bed which alerts Wesley to her whereabouts. He walks over to the bed, stands next to it a moment then moves away briefly. He returns quickly, ripping the mattress off of the bed, revealing Fred hiding beneath. He asks why she forces him to do these things.
He jerks her to her feet, grabs her by the throat and shoves her into the wall. He kisses her, hard.
Fred stabs him with a pair of tweezers then knees him in the groin which allows her to get free of his grip. She runs out of the room.
At the airport, Billy is waiting on the tarmac as a private plane taxis toward him.
Cordelia approaches him and calls out his name.
Billy turns and asks if he knows her.
Cordelia thought they should meet. She introduces herself as the woman who was tortured to secure his freedom from his fire cell.
Billy figures she's there to whine. He's neither sympathetic or interested.
She lets him know that's not the reason she's there as she jams the taser into his groin. That sends Billy crumpling to the tarmac. Cordelia pulls the crossbow, aims it at him and informs him she's going to send him back.
Fred is still trying to escape Wesley at the hotel. He finds her again, assuring her he won't run away, he believes in finishing what he starts.
Fred runs to another hall. Wesley shadows her from the opposite end. Fred runs up a staircase. Wes watches her go, then heads in the opposite direction.
Fred runs down another hallway, trips and falls. She senses Wesley coming and gets up to keep running. She runs straight into Gunn who grabs her and pulls her along as they run down the hall.
On the airport tarmac, Billy manages to get to his feet. He figures Cordy thinks he hates her because she's a woman but that's not true. He doesn't have a much higher opinion of men since they seem more than willing to give up everything for "what's under your skirt."
Cordelia points out she's wearing slacks.
Billy wonders if that makes her feel superior, more like a man.
Cordelia assures him her sense of superiority comes from the fact she has a crossbow aimed at his throat.
Billy doesn't think she has the guts to kill him.
She assures him she does as she prepares to pull the trigger on the crossbow.
Angel arrives and forces the crossbow out of her hands. It falls to the ground as Angel pushes Cordelia away from Billy.
Cordy doesn't get it, she knows Angel is well aware of what Billy is.
Angel acknowledges that he does know which is why he's going to kill Billy himself.
Cordelia tries to stop him, reminding him Billy can't affect her.
Billy grabs Angel's face in his hands, agreeing that he can't hurt her. As he pulls his hands away from Angel's face, glowing imprints remain behind briefly.
Back at the hotel, Fred and Gunn are frantically running down a hallway, checking door after door, looking for one that's unlocked. Gunn finally finds one and calls to Fred to follow him in. Once they're inside, he stacks furniture in front of the door.
Gunn asks what happened with Wesley.
Fred says he got infected. She figures it must have happened when he was handling Billy's bloody handprint.
Gunn asks her if she's talking about the thing that looks like a finger-painting of a hand. He didn't realize that was blood.
Fred tells him that's what it is.
Gunn puts it together, Wes has become a psycho killer because he handled that handprint. He admits that he handled it as well.
Fred thinks that's reason for concern.
Gunn starts moving the furniture away from the door. He instructs Fred to lock the door after he gets out of the room but he doesn't have the chance to leave as Wesley begins hacking at the door from the outside with the ax.
Gunn suggests they go with plan B, as soon as he can come up with it.
As Fred backs away, her foot slips through a rotting floorboard.
Gunn catches her and helps her back to her feet before she falls through.
Wes continues hacking away at the door.
Fred asks Gunn what his plan is.
Gunn turns on her, telling her he's going to bash her if she doesn't stop whining. He realizes, to his horror, what's happening.
At the airport, Angel orders Cordelia to leave. She refuses.
Billy smiles as he encourages Angel to give in to the rage and hatred, he knows he can feel it. He admits he's never done this to a vampire before. He expects an entertaining show.
Angel tells Cordelia again to leave.
She won't because she feels responsible for what's happened.
Angel asks her if she knows what her problem is. He answers his own question as he punches Billy, knocking him backward. He lets Billy know his power doesn't affect him as Angel pummels him.
At the hotel, Gunn picks up a chair, breaks it and retrieves one of the legs.
Fred screams as he approaches her with the chair leg raised. He hands her the chair leg and instructs her to use it to knock him out.
Fred isn't sure he's asking her to hit him.
Gunn assures her that's exactly what he wants her to do. He shoves the chair leg into her hands.
She doesn't think she can hit him.
Gunn thinks she'd better be able to as he screams at her to do it.
Fred whimpers, Gunn turns and starts taunting her, telling her to give him the chair leg back so he can "smash your stupid head with it." He orders her to give it to him.
Fred responds by hitting him in the head, knocking him to his knees.
He looks up at her, telling her he'll make her pay for that.
She slams him again, knocking him out this time.
As she takes a moment to consider her options, the ax comes breaking through the door behind her.
Back at the airport, Billy and Angel are battling each other, Angel having the upper hand for the moment. He picks Billy up and throws him several feet across the tarmac.
Billy slams his hands down onto the ground causing the glow to appear in his hands and work its way up through his arms. This seems to enhance his strength as he goes back at Angel, a better match this time.
Cordelia retrieves the crossbow from the ground and takes aim but can't get a clear shot with Angel and Billy frequently changing positions in the fight.
Angel manages to throw Billy to the ground, a few feet away from him.
Cordelia finally has a clear line of fire but before she can pull the trigger on the crossbow, two shots ring out. Billy falls dead.
Angel and Cordy look to the source of the sound and see Lilah lower the gun, turn and walk away.
Wesley finally manages to get into the room where Fred is hiding. He sees Gunn lying on the floor, but no sign of Fred. He briefly ponders a cloth tarp thrown across a section of the floor but steps around it, taking no further note of it.
He tells Fred he thinks she's stupid. He's sure that her living in a cave for five years means she'll seek security in a small, dark place rather than choose to run outside where she'd be safe. He eyes a wardrobe closet, sure she's hiding inside of it. He walks over to it and suggests they end this now.
He throws open the door to the wardrobe, sees Fred reflected in the mirror mounted on the inside of the wardrobe door, standing on the other side of the room, behind him.
Fred offers an apology.
Wes wonders what she's apologizing for.
Fred acknowledges he was right about her preference for small, dark places to hide in but he forgot she also likes to build things.
As Wesley approaches Fred with the ax raised, she pulls a rope, releasing a fire extinguisher tied to the other end that she had perched on a shelf on the wall. The extinguisher swings downward and catches Wesley square in the face. The force of the blow knocks Wes to the tarp which Fred had laid down to conceal the rotting floorboards. He falls through the rotted boards to the floor beneath, unconscious.
Angel and Cordelia are doing the sword training thing. She wonders why Billy couldn't affect him.
Angel says maybe it's because he' s not human.
Cordelia sarcastically notes that makes sense, it's not like a vampire could be turned into a monster.
Angel clarifies, what Billy brings out in others, anger and hatred, are things he let go of long ago.
Cordelia wonders if he let go of those things after he was doing his killing.
Angel explains that he didn't "hate" then. It wasn't about that. It was about pain and the pleasure that came from it.
Cordelia thinks on that a moment then offers perhaps his demon makes him less petty than humans in some ways, maybe even "noble, in a twisted, dark and really disturbing kind of way."
Cordelia realizes that strangely, she's becoming accustomed to getting "creeped out and comforted at the same time."
Wesley is sitting alone in his apartment, staring out the window. There's a knock at the door.
Fred calls out, identifying herself.
Wes gets up and slowly heads for the door. He opens it, eyes cast downward. He's having a hard time making eye contact with Fred, his shame evident.
She reaches out to touch his bruised face, asking if it hurts.
He pulls back from her touch.
There's an awkward silence between them.
Fred mentions she left several messages for him.
He acknowledges he got them, he meant to return her calls. He apologizes, then softly, apologizes again.
Fred gently urges him to return to work.
Wes doesn't see how he can do that.
Fred doesn't see how he can not do it, he's the boss, they need him at work. She thinks it's good he took a few days off, they all needed some downtime, but now it's time to get back to business.
Wesley doesn't understand her compassion as he quietly reminds her he tried to kill her.
Fred knows he wasn't responsible.
Wes isn't so sure that what was brought out by Billy wasn't something that's always been a part of him.
Fred asks if he still wants to kill her. She assures him it wasn't something in him, it was something done to him.
Wes admits he doesn't know who he is anymore. Fred reassures him he's a good man. She asks if she'll be seeing him back at the office.
Wes reluctantly responds in the affirmative.
Fred is glad to hear that. She steps outside of the door, Wesley closes it behind her then breaks down, crying.
Fred pauses in the hall on the other side of the door, hearing Wesley's sobs. She looks at the door a moment, then leaves.
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Angel is teaching Cordelia sword fighting skills. Actually, more like sword stalling tactics.
Cordelia tells him she didn't ask him to teach her to stall until he comes to the rescue, she already knows how to do that. She wants to learn how to fight.
He tells her he'd be there to help her.
She reminds him he may not always be there and besides, he may be the one she needs to defend herself against. She knows that's always a possibility.
Angel agrees with that logic.
He shows her some more moves, offers to repeat it until she gets it.
She assures him she's got it. After spending three years on the varsity cheerleading squad, she's learned to pick up routines quickly.
Angel offers that wielding a sword is a bit different than wielding a pompom.
Cordelia quickly has an unarmed Angel on the defensive and against the wall, the blade poised at this throat.
At Wolfram & Hart, Lilah is in a hurry heading toward her office. She asks her secretary how long "he" has been there.
The secretary answers that security escorted him in 20 minutes earlier.
Lilah isn't happy that she wasn't pulled from her meeting and notified. She asks about the family.
The secretary responds they're on their way.
Lilah enters her office where Gavin Park is enjoying a chat with "Billy" (the young man Angel freed from the demon dimension in "That Vision Thing"). She's less than thrilled to see Park in her office.
He says he was just keeping Billy company.
Lilah assures him she can handle things just fine without him.
Lilah asks Billy where he's been, his family has been concerned.
Billy answers that he went for a walk.
Lilah points out he was gone for three days.
Gavin offers that Billy just needed to get out.
Lilah suggests Gavin find something else to do. She turns back to Billy and tells him he's not to go out by himself, reminding him what happened the last time. She doesn't figure he wants to end up back in the demon dimension.
A middle aged man enters Lilah's office and assures her Billy doesn't want to end up back there, nobody wants that to happen.
Lilah greets the congressman, who asks Billy if he's kept himself out of trouble this time.
Billy assures him he's been behaving himself.
The congressman tells him to go on home. As he prepares to depart with Billy, he offers thanks for returning his nephew to his family for the second time.
Gavin accepts the thanks.
Lilah points out Gavin had nothing to do with it but the congressman is already out of the office.
Gavin offers his opinion that Billy is a "nice boy."
Lilah agrees, he had his own private accommodations in hell. Nice guy. She orders Park out of her office.
Park isn't quite ready to leave.
Lilah warns him to stay away from her clients or the two of them are going to "have a problem."
Park becomes nastier than usual, suggesting she might try listening for a change instead of constantly running her mouth.
Lilah laughs at him and turns her back.
He grabs her by the hair, spins her around and slams her into a glass display case, shattering it. He clutches her by the throat and attempts to strangle her.
Billy is walking down the hallway at W&H with his uncle and his uncle's entourage, smiling.
At the hotel, Gunn and Angel are sitting on the couch, playing a video game as Fred looks on. Wes and Cordelia are getting coffee.
Wes is proud of Cordelia for taking the initiative in training with Angel.
Cordy doesn't figure it hurts to be prepared.
Wes agrees, thinking they should all have basic fighting skills.
Wes looks toward the couch where Fred is sitting and mentions he was considering entering into a training program with her.
Cordy thinks that sounds like a good idea. She pauses a moment, notes Wesley's expression and tells him if he wants to get to know Fred better, she'd suggest the next time he invites Fred for an intimate dinner, he not invite all of them to come along.
Wes stutters for a defense to that, realizes he's busted, and wonders if he was really that obvious.
Cordelia tries to offer him some assurance, she figures she's the only one who noticed.
Wes gazes at Fred a moment, notes she's an "extraordinary woman" but figures interoffice romance is probably a bad idea. Even under normal circumstances, that kind of thing rarely works out.
Cordelia reminds him the circumstances aren't normal. She doesn't figure the odds are in favor of any of them finding someone who can understand and deal with their work. She thinks maybe they are meant --
Wes eagerly finishes her thought with "for each other"?
Cordy corrects him, she was going to say maybe they were meant to be alone but what the heck, if he has feelings for Fred he should tell her. She gently urges him to do it.
Cordelia stands up, does the vision thing, falls on the floor. The vision shows an older woman being viciously attacked by a man.
Wes, Angel, and Gunn assist Cordelia to the chair. She tells them what she saw, a man attacking a woman in a convenience store, the woman is his wife.
Angel asks how many stores of that type are in the area.
Fred offers a detailed statistical analysis in response to the question.
Gunn interrupts her and offers that there are a lot of those types of stores.
Fred says she was getting to that.
Wes starts to instruct the others on where to go, what to do.
Cordelia says it's too late. This happened a week earlier. The woman is dead. She wonders why The Powers would send her this vision now.
Wes tosses a file folder onto the lobby desk.
Cordelia picks it up, asks what it is.
Wes answers that it contains all the information about the murder she saw in her vision; police report, a copy of the husband's confession, stills from the surveillance camera and medical examiner's photos.
Wes and Cordy are joined by Gunn, Angel and Fred who also look through the contents of the folder.
Cordelia's expression is one of shock as she looks at a photo of a bloodied elderly woman, lying on the floor.
Angel takes the photo from her and suggests maybe she shouldn't look at it.
She reminds him The Powers already sent her the images in the vision. She asks Wes how he managed to collect all this information.
He admits he bought it.
Fred wonders if the police actually sold him the information.
He clarifies that he purchased it from a source of his, someone who usually sells to tabloids when crime victims are well known.
Wes explains the victim was murdered by her husband. They'd been married for 30 years, no history of domestic violence.
Fred asks why the husband killed her.
Wesley answers that he wanted her to stop talking.
Fred figures he got what he wanted.
Gunn wonders why the vision was sent when the crime is in the past and the perpetrator has confessed. It seems the matter is closed.
Wes doesn't have an answer.
Angel is looking at one of the stills from the surveillance camera. He thinks he may have an answer. He slides the shot taken 20 minutes before the murder across the desk towards Wes. He tells him to notice who's in the picture.
Wes examines the photo with a magnifying glass. His expression says he recognizes Billy's face in the picture. He hands the picture to Gunn, who also recognizes that face.
Cordelia asks what's going on as she snatches the photo from Gunn and looks at it. She notes Billy in the photo, thinks he's kind of cute, wonders who he is.
Wes and Fred are seated on the poof couch in the lobby, looking over photos and other information. Gunn paces near them.
Cordelia is pacing in Wesley's office holding a photo. She asks Angel if he's sure this is the guy.
Angel verifies that's the guy he freed from the hell dimension.
Cordelia figures that's why the vision was sent to her. If this guy is responsible, then the woman died because of her.
Angel assures her it's not her fault, he's the one who freed the guy.
Cordelia reminds him he did it for her. She's genuinely upset that someone died because this man was freed and she was the reason.
Angel doesn't seem particularly concerned about that. He assures her he wouldn't do anything differently if he had the chance to do it again. He doesn't think either of them is to blame, but he knows who is.
Lilah is sitting in her dimly lit apartment, pouring herself a drink. Her hands are shaking.
The door is kicked open, Angel is standing on the other side. Lilah wryly notes the dramatic entrance being a bit lacking considering he can't actually enter.
Angel notices she's a bit jumpy.
She attributes that to having had a rough day.
Angel figures she knows what her client has been doing.
Lilah gets up and walks toward the open doorway where the apartment is illuminated by the hall lighting. She stops well back from the entry. She says her client's activities have been brought to her attention.
Angel is taken aback by the sight of her bruised and battered face. He starts to ask if she's okay.
Lilah gives the standard "you should see the other guy" response but doesn't sound convincing.
Angel lets her know he intends to look Billy up.
Lilah walks over to the doorway, telling Angel that Billy never touched her.
Angel knows Billy has some kind of power.
Lilah repeats that Billy never touched her and Angel won't be able to touch him, no one can. He's from a very wealthy, prominent political family. She knows that even if they weren't clients of W&H, the law wouldn't go near him.
Angel reminds her he's not the law.
Lilah informs him they're not talking about some run-of-the-mill demon he can just slice and dice.
Angel wants to know why Lilah is protecting Billy after what happened to her.
Lilah isn't interested in explaining and doesn't find his concern particularly credible since she knows Angel would like to see her dead.
Angel notes her hands are shaking.
Lilah warns him to say away from her client and slams the door in his face.
Wes, Gunn and Angel pull up outside the tall, locked iron gates of a large estate. Wes announces they've arrived at the estate of Congressman Blim. He doesn't figure they'll have much luck getting in by ringing the bell.
Gunn suggests perhaps posing as security guards or something like that.
Wes considers the possibility.
As Wes and Gunn ponder a plan, Angel sizes up the gate, jumps to the top of it in one smooth leap and jumps off to the other side, onto the estate. He takes off toward the house.
Gunn asks Wes if he'd like to go next.
Wes thinks they should wait there.
Angel approaches the house where he sees Billy inside, hanging up the phone. Billy sees Angel as well, giving him an icy stare.
Angel picks up a chair from the patio and throws it through the glass door. He enters, not surprised he can get in without an invitation. He knows Billy isn't quite human.
Billy verifies that's true, although he's more human than Angel is.
Angel wonders if hurting women makes Billy feel like a man.
Billy says he's never hurt a woman in his life. He just enjoys watching.
Angel lets him know he intends to return him to the demon dimension.
Billy doesn't think that's likely.
Several police officers arrive and order hands up, guns pointed in the direction of Angel and Billy. Angel raises his hands and turns to face them.
Billy walks around Angel to face the police, informing them he's the one they're looking for. He's just placed the call to them.
A female detective asks him if he's William Blim.
Billy confirms he is. He asks if they found the body, if it was where he said it would be.
The detective informs him he's being taken into custody for questioning.
Billy figured that was the plan as he smiles, looking at Angel.
The detective directs one of the officers, Sanchez, to take Billy into custody.
As Sanchez prepares to cuff him, Billy lays his hand on the officer's arm and asks if that's really necessary. He promises not to cause any trouble and come along quietly.
Sanchez looks to the detective who agrees the cuffs won't be necessary.
Billy removes his hand, which briefly leaves a glowing imprint on the officer's arm.
As the officers escort Billy out, the detective asks Angel who he is.
Billy responds, "he's nobody."
Billy is sitting in the back of a squad car en route to the police station. Sanchez is sitting in the front passenger seat, his female partner is driving. He demands to know why she's going this route when he told her to go another way.
She tells him to take it easy, they'll get to the station.
Sanchez is getting more agitated. He demands she pull the car over. When she doesn't comply, he begins beating her.
The car comes to a screeching halt.
Back at the hotel, Wes hangs up the phone and announces a young woman's body was found three days earlier, someone had tipped the police where to find her. He figures it was Billy.
Gunn doesn't get it. Even though Billy was responsible, he didn't physically do it, so why would he confess to it? He doesn't understand what benefit Billy gets from this.
Angel says Billy gets out.
Gunn isn't sure why it makes sense that he'd want to trade a palatial estate for a holding cell at the police station.
Wes wonders just how long that cell is going to hold him.
Cordelia figures since he got out of a demon dimension, the local lock-up isn't going to pose much of a problem for him.
Angel knows all Billy needs is his attorney. He heads for the door, intending to get to the station before Lilah does.
Gunn wonders what he plans to do after that.
Angel offers that he got Billy out of one cell, he figures he can get him out of this one as well.
Cordelia doesn't think barging into the police station is a good idea.
Angel assures her he'll be fine.
She points out that the situation isn't the only thing that's dangerous, Billy is as well. She wonders what happens if Billy is able to affect Angel the way he affects others.
Angel plans to knock him out before he has the chance.
Fred comes out of Wesley's office and informs the others Billy isn't at the police station. She just heard the report on the scanner, the squad car transporting Billy to the precinct house never arrived. It was involved in an accident.
At the accident scene, Wes relays to Gunn what he found out. There was an altercation, the male officer attacked his female partner, she had to shoot him. She's in the hospital.
Gunn thinks maybe she can give them some information, like what happened between Billy and her partner before her partner attacked her.
Wes agrees and suggests one of them should hang out at the hospital, see if they can talk to the staff or friends of the female officer.
Gunn volunteers to do it.
Wes walks up to Angel who's standing on the sidewalk, across from the open doors of the wrecked squad car.
Angel tells Wes that some of the blood in the car is Billy's. It isn't human. He looks around, determines the way Billy went. Wes follows.
Wes stops, pointing out a bloody handprint on the side of the building.
Wesley touches the bloody print, notes that it's still wet. He picks up a piece of paper and presses it against the print, transferring a bloody copy of it to to the sheet of paper. He'll take it back to the hotel, see if he can discover exactly what Billy is.
Angel doesn't want to wait for the results. He figures he can find him.
Wes understands.
Angel takes off into a building across the street.
At the hotel, Cordelia is loading weapons into her bag. She packs a taser and a small crossbow.
Fred comes downstairs and asks what's up.
Cordy answers that she has an errand to do.
Fred is concerned, she doesn't think Cordelia should be doing what she's about to do.
Cordelia feels she has to. She exits by the side door as Wesley enters the front.
Wes is happy to see Fred, he wants her assistance in examining the sample of Billy's blood. Fred follows him into the office. He starts to ask her for something but before he can finish she hands him a glass slide. He acknowledges that's what he was going to ask for. He smiles and thanks her as he prepares the slide.
Lilah opens the door to her place and finds Cordelia on the other side. She wonders if Cordy is there to gloat.
Cordy points out she doesn't need an invitation as she barges past Lilah into the apartment.
Cordy wants Lilah to tell her everything about Billy that she didn't tell Angel. She wants Lilah's help in stopping him.
Lilah doesn't know why she'd do that.
Cordelia points out what happened to Lilah's face is a good reason.
Lilah assures her she accepts the risks of her job.
Cordelia wonders if that's the case, why she was crying recently. She can tell Lilah's makeup has been retouched. Cordelia knows makeup.
Lilah assures her she's not Lindsey. She doesn't change sides whenever the mood strikes her. She wonders why Cordelia is doing this, she figured this would be Angel's job.
Cordelia says Angel feels responsible because he freed the guy. She feels responsible because Angel freed him for her and interestingly, she notes, Lilah who is actually responsible for all of it feels nothing because she's a "vicious bitch."
Lilah smiles. She acknowledges Cordelia has her pegged.
Cordy points out she knows because she was her, but with better shoes. She knows Billy has the power to make people crazy.
Lilah corrects her. It's not people in general Billy affects, just men. He brings out a "primordial misogyny" in men, turning them into murderers.
Cordelia wonders why he didn't try to affect Angel.
Lilah asks if Angel has seen Billy.
Cordy answers he saw him right before the police picked him up.
Lilah stifles a wry laugh.
Cordy asks what she finds funny.
Lilah explains Billy's touch works differently on different men. Some lose it immediately, others take a few hours to feel the effects. She offers an insincere hope that Angel isn't feeling "testy."
Cordy assures her she'd better hope not.
Lilah says she understands, she's seen Angel's "dark side."
Cordelia's response, "You really haven't." She needs to find Billy.
Lilah wants to know just why she's supposed to help in this quest.
Cordelia brings up the guy Lilah hired to hack into her visions, what she went through, how it felt.
Lilah wonders if Cordy figures she owes her something because of that.
Cordelia explains it's about feeling helpless, about not being able to do anything to stop what's happening, about someone else having the power to take your life at any minute just because they choose to. She assures Lilah Billy doesn't care, he'll victimize her again and again because he doesn't think of her as alive. Cordelia knows no woman should have to deal with that and offers that no woman proud to be a "vicious bitch" would put up with it. She asks where Billy is headed.
Angel walks towards a cab parked on the street. Police are in the area going over the cab. There's blood splattered across the inside of the back window.
Angel approaches two men who are talking about what's happened. One says he doesn't get it. The cab driver seemed like a nice guy, always polite.
The other guy says he can understand it. He's been driving a cab for 14 years, there's been numerous times he's felt like punching out one of his passengers.
Angel asks him if one of his driver's snapped.
The guy confirms that's what happened, the driver beat up his passenger.
Angel asks if the passenger was a woman.
The guy verifies that's true. He's not surprised, he assumes she was probably nagging the driver, telling him how to drive. He figures Angel knows the type.
Angel wonders if the guy figures the woman deserved what happened to her.
He doesn't deny that.
Angel grabs him by the front of his shirt and tells the other guy to get lost.
Angel tells obnoxious guy he wants to know what the cab driver's last stop was before he attacked the woman in his cab.
There's a party going on in an upscale apartment. A guy approaches the party's host, Dylan, and informs him his cousin Billy has just arrived.
Dylan doesn't think that's possible. He continues shooting pool. He turns to see Billy standing behind him. He greets his cousin cautiously.
Billy says he didn't know Dylan was having a party.
Dylan thought they'd agreed that Billy wouldn't come around anymore after what happened the last time.
Billy watches a young couple making out on the sofa. He suggests someone should talk to them about appropriate public behavior. He wonders if Dylan wants him to do it.
In his office, Wes is examining the slide of Billy's blood sample under the microscope. He asks Fred to take a look at it, tell him what she thinks.
Fred notes that some of the bloodcells seem "supercharged."
Wes figures that's the part of Billy that's demon as he moves in closer to Fred. Fred pulls back from the microscope, causing Wes to move back a bit, figuring if the part of Billy that affects people is in his blood, it could be present in his sweat, saliva or even in his touch.
Wes seems lost in thought a moment before asking Fred, "Speaking of saliva, where's Cordelia?"
Fred laughs, asking what he means by that, what one has to do with the other.
Wes curtly informs her he asked a simple question.
Fred answers, she thinks Cordelia went out on an errand.
Wes ponders that a moment and points out that Fred said she "thinks" Cordelia went out but she actually "knows" she went out because she apparently talked to her about it.
Fred acknowledges she did.
Wes is glad to finally get the truth.
As he peers through the microscope at the slide, he menacingly informs Fred that if she lies to him again, they're going to have a problem.
Fred cautiously starts to leave the office.
Wesley wants to know where she's going.
Fred says she was just going to get Cordelia on the phone for him.
He assures her that's not necessary. He tells her to sit down.
She offers to make the call first.
Wesley forcefully orders her to sit down. There are things they need to talk about.
Fred tentatively sits down opposite Wes who's seated behind his desk. She apologizes for not telling him Cordy had gone.
Wes dismisses that, saying it's done, he's past that but they need to make some changes. He gets up and walks to the front of the desk, standing next to Fred.
Fred wonders what kind of changes he's referring to.
Wesley tells her they can start with the "provocative outfits" she wears to work as he pulls the strap of her dress down over her shoulder.
Fred quickly pulls it back up. She doesn't know what he's talking about.
Wes sits on the edge of the desk, moves in close and coldly tells Fred she can't "come in here day after day waving it in my face like this." He figures she's just daring him to take what he wants since she wants it too.
Fred jumps up and tells him the conversation is making her uncomfortable.
Wesley finds that amusing. He wonders if she knows how he feels, having her constantly taunting him day after day. He thinks she finds it amusing, flirting, batting her eyelashes, brushing against him then laughing at him behind his back. He slaps her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor.
Fred gets up and runs for the lobby doors.
Wesley catches her before she can get the doors open far enough to get out. He reaches over her and pushes them closed. He asks her, "What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?" He grabs her by the back of the neck and slams her face into the steps. He answers his own question, "Nothing you haven't already told her twice."
Fred runs up the steps.
Wes laments her lack of humor. He removes his tie, opens his collar, then notices the open weapons cabinet.
Dylan answers his apartment door. Angel is on the other side. Angel tells Dylan he's looking for Billy.
Dylan asks if he's a friend of Billy's.
Angel admits he' s looking to kill him.
Dylan invites him in.
Angel asks if Billy is there.
Dylan tells him he was there earlier but he left.
Angel is surprised there's no carnage. He'd expected to find evidence of mayhem where Billy had been.
Dylan says the rules have to be understood when Billy is around and everyone in the family knows them; don't leave him alone with your girlfriend or pets and never let him touch you. If you give him money, you leave it on a table and back away from it.
Angel wonders if Billy's reason for showing up at his cousin's was cash.
Dylan verifies that's why he was there. He gave him some money because he just wanted to get him out of there.
Angel asks why Dylan invited him in after he told him he wanted to kill his cousin.
Dylan addresses Angel by name, saying that a brunette was by earlier, she'd told Dylan Angel would be stopping by.
Angel wants to know what information Dylan gave Cordelia regarding Billy's whereabouts.
Dylan offers the family has a plane in Santa Monica, Billy said he wanted to fly somewhere. Dylan doesn't know where he wanted to go and he doesn't care as long as it's far away from him.
Back at the hotel, Wesley is armed with a battle ax, stalking Fred. He comes up the stairs, calling to her. He tells her he knows she's forcing him to find her. It's all just a game. She flirts with him, he's attracted and pursues her but she never gives it up for him, just keeps running and laughing at him.
As he's ranting, he's checking out various rooms in the rundown, unoccupied section of the hotel, pushing open one door at a time.
He assures Fred he's not a schoolboy as he attempts to push another door open with the ax. It only opens part way. He notices that door has been chain locked from the inside. He kicks it open and enters the room which appears to be empty.
He taunts Fred about hiding and deceiving being natural all the way back to Eve plotting with the serpent. He continues railing against women as he searches the room, taking a swipe at some of the furniture with the ax, sending pieces flying.
Fred gasps from her hiding place under the bed which alerts Wesley to her whereabouts. He walks over to the bed, stands next to it a moment then moves away briefly. He returns quickly, ripping the mattress off of the bed, revealing Fred hiding beneath. He asks why she forces him to do these things.
He jerks her to her feet, grabs her by the throat and shoves her into the wall. He kisses her, hard.
Fred stabs him with a pair of tweezers then knees him in the groin which allows her to get free of his grip. She runs out of the room.
At the airport, Billy is waiting on the tarmac as a private plane taxis toward him.
Cordelia approaches him and calls out his name.
Billy turns and asks if he knows her.
Cordelia thought they should meet. She introduces herself as the woman who was tortured to secure his freedom from his fire cell.
Billy figures she's there to whine. He's neither sympathetic or interested.
She lets him know that's not the reason she's there as she jams the taser into his groin. That sends Billy crumpling to the tarmac. Cordelia pulls the crossbow, aims it at him and informs him she's going to send him back.
Fred is still trying to escape Wesley at the hotel. He finds her again, assuring her he won't run away, he believes in finishing what he starts.
Fred runs to another hall. Wesley shadows her from the opposite end. Fred runs up a staircase. Wes watches her go, then heads in the opposite direction.
Fred runs down another hallway, trips and falls. She senses Wesley coming and gets up to keep running. She runs straight into Gunn who grabs her and pulls her along as they run down the hall.
On the airport tarmac, Billy manages to get to his feet. He figures Cordy thinks he hates her because she's a woman but that's not true. He doesn't have a much higher opinion of men since they seem more than willing to give up everything for "what's under your skirt."
Cordelia points out she's wearing slacks.
Billy wonders if that makes her feel superior, more like a man.
Cordelia assures him her sense of superiority comes from the fact she has a crossbow aimed at his throat.
Billy doesn't think she has the guts to kill him.
She assures him she does as she prepares to pull the trigger on the crossbow.
Angel arrives and forces the crossbow out of her hands. It falls to the ground as Angel pushes Cordelia away from Billy.
Cordy doesn't get it, she knows Angel is well aware of what Billy is.
Angel acknowledges that he does know which is why he's going to kill Billy himself.
Cordelia tries to stop him, reminding him Billy can't affect her.
Billy grabs Angel's face in his hands, agreeing that he can't hurt her. As he pulls his hands away from Angel's face, glowing imprints remain behind briefly.
Back at the hotel, Fred and Gunn are frantically running down a hallway, checking door after door, looking for one that's unlocked. Gunn finally finds one and calls to Fred to follow him in. Once they're inside, he stacks furniture in front of the door.
Gunn asks what happened with Wesley.
Fred says he got infected. She figures it must have happened when he was handling Billy's bloody handprint.
Gunn asks her if she's talking about the thing that looks like a finger-painting of a hand. He didn't realize that was blood.
Fred tells him that's what it is.
Gunn puts it together, Wes has become a psycho killer because he handled that handprint. He admits that he handled it as well.
Fred thinks that's reason for concern.
Gunn starts moving the furniture away from the door. He instructs Fred to lock the door after he gets out of the room but he doesn't have the chance to leave as Wesley begins hacking at the door from the outside with the ax.
Gunn suggests they go with plan B, as soon as he can come up with it.
As Fred backs away, her foot slips through a rotting floorboard.
Gunn catches her and helps her back to her feet before she falls through.
Wes continues hacking away at the door.
Fred asks Gunn what his plan is.
Gunn turns on her, telling her he's going to bash her if she doesn't stop whining. He realizes, to his horror, what's happening.
At the airport, Angel orders Cordelia to leave. She refuses.
Billy smiles as he encourages Angel to give in to the rage and hatred, he knows he can feel it. He admits he's never done this to a vampire before. He expects an entertaining show.
Angel tells Cordelia again to leave.
She won't because she feels responsible for what's happened.
Angel asks her if she knows what her problem is. He answers his own question as he punches Billy, knocking him backward. He lets Billy know his power doesn't affect him as Angel pummels him.
At the hotel, Gunn picks up a chair, breaks it and retrieves one of the legs.
Fred screams as he approaches her with the chair leg raised. He hands her the chair leg and instructs her to use it to knock him out.
Fred isn't sure he's asking her to hit him.
Gunn assures her that's exactly what he wants her to do. He shoves the chair leg into her hands.
She doesn't think she can hit him.
Gunn thinks she'd better be able to as he screams at her to do it.
Fred whimpers, Gunn turns and starts taunting her, telling her to give him the chair leg back so he can "smash your stupid head with it." He orders her to give it to him.
Fred responds by hitting him in the head, knocking him to his knees.
He looks up at her, telling her he'll make her pay for that.
She slams him again, knocking him out this time.
As she takes a moment to consider her options, the ax comes breaking through the door behind her.
Back at the airport, Billy and Angel are battling each other, Angel having the upper hand for the moment. He picks Billy up and throws him several feet across the tarmac.
Billy slams his hands down onto the ground causing the glow to appear in his hands and work its way up through his arms. This seems to enhance his strength as he goes back at Angel, a better match this time.
Cordelia retrieves the crossbow from the ground and takes aim but can't get a clear shot with Angel and Billy frequently changing positions in the fight.
Angel manages to throw Billy to the ground, a few feet away from him.
Cordelia finally has a clear line of fire but before she can pull the trigger on the crossbow, two shots ring out. Billy falls dead.
Angel and Cordy look to the source of the sound and see Lilah lower the gun, turn and walk away.
Wesley finally manages to get into the room where Fred is hiding. He sees Gunn lying on the floor, but no sign of Fred. He briefly ponders a cloth tarp thrown across a section of the floor but steps around it, taking no further note of it.
He tells Fred he thinks she's stupid. He's sure that her living in a cave for five years means she'll seek security in a small, dark place rather than choose to run outside where she'd be safe. He eyes a wardrobe closet, sure she's hiding inside of it. He walks over to it and suggests they end this now.
He throws open the door to the wardrobe, sees Fred reflected in the mirror mounted on the inside of the wardrobe door, standing on the other side of the room, behind him.
Fred offers an apology.
Wes wonders what she's apologizing for.
Fred acknowledges he was right about her preference for small, dark places to hide in but he forgot she also likes to build things.
As Wesley approaches Fred with the ax raised, she pulls a rope, releasing a fire extinguisher tied to the other end that she had perched on a shelf on the wall. The extinguisher swings downward and catches Wesley square in the face. The force of the blow knocks Wes to the tarp which Fred had laid down to conceal the rotting floorboards. He falls through the rotted boards to the floor beneath, unconscious.
Angel and Cordelia are doing the sword training thing. She wonders why Billy couldn't affect him.
Angel says maybe it's because he' s not human.
Cordelia sarcastically notes that makes sense, it's not like a vampire could be turned into a monster.
Angel clarifies, what Billy brings out in others, anger and hatred, are things he let go of long ago.
Cordelia wonders if he let go of those things after he was doing his killing.
Angel explains that he didn't "hate" then. It wasn't about that. It was about pain and the pleasure that came from it.
Cordelia thinks on that a moment then offers perhaps his demon makes him less petty than humans in some ways, maybe even "noble, in a twisted, dark and really disturbing kind of way."
Cordelia realizes that strangely, she's becoming accustomed to getting "creeped out and comforted at the same time."
Wesley is sitting alone in his apartment, staring out the window. There's a knock at the door.
Fred calls out, identifying herself.
Wes gets up and slowly heads for the door. He opens it, eyes cast downward. He's having a hard time making eye contact with Fred, his shame evident.
She reaches out to touch his bruised face, asking if it hurts.
He pulls back from her touch.
There's an awkward silence between them.
Fred mentions she left several messages for him.
He acknowledges he got them, he meant to return her calls. He apologizes, then softly, apologizes again.
Fred gently urges him to return to work.
Wes doesn't see how he can do that.
Fred doesn't see how he can not do it, he's the boss, they need him at work. She thinks it's good he took a few days off, they all needed some downtime, but now it's time to get back to business.
Wesley doesn't understand her compassion as he quietly reminds her he tried to kill her.
Fred knows he wasn't responsible.
Wes isn't so sure that what was brought out by Billy wasn't something that's always been a part of him.
Fred asks if he still wants to kill her. She assures him it wasn't something in him, it was something done to him.
Wes admits he doesn't know who he is anymore. Fred reassures him he's a good man. She asks if she'll be seeing him back at the office.
Wes reluctantly responds in the affirmative.
Fred is glad to hear that. She steps outside of the door, Wesley closes it behind her then breaks down, crying.
Fred pauses in the hall on the other side of the door, hearing Wesley's sobs. She looks at the door a moment, then leaves.
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