FRED: (frustrated) God... I hate this...

GUNN: I'm with you... That creepy crawler was seriously messed up. With those feelers or whatever sticking out of its face... slithering around like a worm with its slimy--

FRED: N-no, Charles... I meant... I hate going through these books.

GUNN: Oh. Oh, yeah. Books. That's... rough.

FRED: Everything on Thaumogenesis is... is so cryptic. And full of words I never heard of, like amulatives and... and I have to keep cross- referencing Chaldean with Accadian majicks... Are you listening to me?

GUNN: (not taking his eyes off the lobby) Yeah. Accordion music. Go on...

FRED: I mean, ask me to research stuff on wave-particle dualities or the Schrodinger Equation and I'm a hellcat. But this... Angel's just go to realize that I'm just not as qualified for this as...(stops herself) Some people.

GUNN: Yeah, well, some people aren't around anymore. So, you're just gonna have to learn to get good at it...

FRED: Well, but, what if I fail? What if I can't find anything to help us?

GUNN: We'll manage. Not sayin' I don't prefer something I can punch...But I think we can handle once little slug from hell.

(we see 2 new sluks)

• Gunn & Fred

written by: David Fury; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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