Damage
Fred: You think thats a good idea? Playing chicken with the district attorney of a major metropolitan city?
Gunn: Just a little professional rivalry. You want ugly, see us go at it on the golf course.
Fred: You play golf? Since . . . what?!?
Angel: I think I liked you better when you just wanted to hit people.
Gunn: Rational thought. Its an acquired taste.
Harmony: Boss? We just got a tip some looneys hatched from the bin.
Angel: Who did a what?
Harmony: A girl at the nuthouse went all Cuckoos Nest. Hacked up a couple of guards. Went over the wall.
Angel: Really not our department, Harmony.
Wes: Notify the authorities. Make sure theyre on it.
Harmony: Ok, but they better bring a priest. Looks like this chicks gone all kinds of Exorcist.
Angel: Wait a minute, shes possessed?
Harmony: Duh! . . . Didnt I say that?
Spike: Ah. Well, fancy this. Bitty slug I saved you from scrambled your brains after all? Come to check yourself in?
Angel: What are you doing here, Spike?
Spike: Didnt you get the memo? Hero of the people now.
Angel: Then go and annoy them.
Doctor: Can I help you?
Spike: Other way round, Doc. Im. . .
Angel: here to get your patient back. Angel, Wolfram & Hart.
Doctor: A lawyer? I already told the police everything I know.
Angel: Well lets go over it again, just in case you left out any details.
Spike: What he said, but with a bit more of a threat, at the end.
Angel: Sorry, hes. . . Is pathological idiot an actual condition?
Angel: What happened?
Spike: Just thought Id see what its like to bounce off the pavement. Pretty much what I expected.
Angel: Stay out of it, tacticals on the way.
Spike: Oh, right. Sure shell hang around till they show up.
Angel: You should have waited.
Spike: Keep your knickers on! Least now I know what were dealing with. Its a Chinese demon. Maybe a water dragon, or one of those elemental thingys. . . . What?
Spike: A psychotic vampire slayer.
Angel: How many times you gonna keep saying that?
Spike: Just trying to wrap my lobes around it. A psycho slayer.
Angel: And you let her get away.
Spike: At least I was trying to stop her.
Angel: How that work out?
Spike: At least I know the game now, dont I? Killed two slayers with my own hands. Think I can handle one thats gone daft in the melon.
Andrew: Spike?
Spike: Oh, for the love of. . .
Andrew: Spike? Its you. Its really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope but, I knew youd come back. Youre like, youre like Gandalf the White resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh! Hes alive, Frodo. Hes alive.
Angel: You two know each other?
Angel: Can we save memory lane until *after* we contain the psychotic super power killing machine?
Fred: In every generation one is chosen.
Andrew: Yes, attractive slender woman.
Lorne: Wait. So if theres only one slayer what is little Miss Whack-Your-Head-Off doing scampering around?
Spike: Little Sunnydale surprise.
Andrew: Six months ago Buffy, vamPYRE slayer extrordinaire, had her lesbian witch make with the beaucoup de magique and one light show later. . .
Angel: All the potentials become slayers.
Andrew: My hypothesis exactly, Pryce. I see Mr. Giles may have been wrong about you.
Spike: That explains why the skirt was yappin at me in Chinese. Musta thought she was the slayer I took out in the Boxer Rebellion.
Angel: You mean the slayer you murdered.
Spike: Well I didnt have a soul back then, did I?
Angel: Right, cause having one now is making *such* a difference.
Angel: Spike, you think this is a joke?
Spike: Only if youre the punchline.
Spike: We could play cat-and-mouse all night. . . or I could wedgie you unconscious and be done with it.
Andrew: Whoa. I see your senses are as well honed as your Vigo Mortenson pectorals.
Andrew: Youre not the only one whos changed. Mr. Giless been training me. Im faster, stronger, and 82% more manly than the last time we. . . . Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! (screaming like a girl)
Angel: Sure this guys reliable?
Lorne: Oh, yeah, Verns top drawer. He does all of Tom Arnolds readings.
Andrew: Wait a minute. She doesnt know youre alive, does she?
Spike: I dont think so. I mean, I dont know. Does she?
Andrew: No, no. No, she cant. I would have heard about it. We would have had a conference call. Why havent you told her?
Spike: Hello, Buffy. Its Spike. I didnt burn up like you thought. How are things?
Andrew: You want me to tell her? Cause Im really good with those delicate, personal. . .
Spike: No. Dont tell her. Ill take care of it.
Andrew: Got it. The loner. Planet Cucumber. As in cool as a.
Spike: Just keep your mouth shut.
Andrew: No problem brother. Youre a troubled hero. Creature of the Night. El creatro del noche.
Spike: Jesus, stop.
Andrew: Living by his own rules. Not afraid of anything, anyone. . . [keeps talking as the scene fades out]
Andrew: Whats it smell like? Blood, I mean.
Spike: Metallic, sorta. You ever taste a penny?
Andrew: No. Wait. . . no.
Spike: Smells like that.
[a bit later. . . ]
Andrew: What is it?
Spike: Blood. Smells stronger.
Andrew: You mean like nickels?
Dana: Heart and head. Have to get home. Doesnt hurt if you hold still.
Spike: Youre a real sack of hammers, arent you? Hey, dont worry. I used to date a girl who wasnt all there.
Spike: Right. Let me explain. You got visions, right? Vampire slayer memories kicking around in your head. Which is tough, cuz it sounds like youre past midnight on the crazy clock anyway.
Dana: William the Bloody.
Spike: No, no, no. Thats not going to lead anywhere good. You wanna focus on whats real.
Andrew: Thats alright boys, Ill take her from here. Totally appreciate your help on this one, big guy. Never could have found her without you, but you have enough problems of your own to worry about.
Angel: Get out of the way, Andrew.
Andrew: Shes a slayer. That means shes ours.
Angel: Yeah. Sorry. Not how it works. Load her up. Dont hesitate to tranq her if she so much as. . .
Andrew: I dont think you heard me, Angel. You think were just going to let you take her back to your evil stronghold? Well, as they say in Me-hico. . . no. . . . were not gonna let you.
Angel: Shes psychotic and Im not going to turn her over to you.
Andrew: You dont have a choice. Check the viewscreen, Uhura. I got twelve vamPYRE slayers behind me and not one of them has ever dated you. . . . Shes coming with us one way or another.
Angel: Youre way outta your league. Ill just clear this with Buffy.
Andrew: Where do you think my orders came from? Newsflash! Nobody in our camp trusts you anymore. Nobody. You work for Wolfram & Hart. Dont fool yourself. Were not on the same side. Thank you for your help but, ah, we got it.
Spike: Come to tap dance on the patient, have we doc? Id give you the finger but apparently I wont have the motor skills til the drugs wear off.
Angel: Lotta pain?
Spike: More than Id like. But not as much as you would. Just what I deserve.
Angel: Didnt say that.
Spike: No. I did. Lass thought Id killed her family. And Im sposed to what, complain, cuz hers wasnt one of the hundreds of families that I did kill? Im not saying youre right. Cuz Im physically incapable of saying that. But, ah, for a demon, I never did think much about the nature of evil. Just threw myself in. Thought it was a party. I liked the rush. I liked the crunch. Never did look back at the victims.
Angel: I couldnt take my eyes off them. I was only in it for the evil. It was everything to me. It was art. The destruction of a human being. . . I guess I woulda considered Dana a masterpiece.
Spike: What happens to her?
Angel: I dont know. Um, Andrew and the slayers took her. Didnt trust us to help her.
Spike: Andrew double crossed us? Thats a good move. Hah. Hope for the little ponce yet. Though the tingling in my forearms tells me shes too far gone to help. Shes one of us now. Shes a monster.
Angel: Shes an innocent victim.
Spike: So were we. . . once upon a time.
Angel: Once upon a time.
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