WESLEY: I think I know what it means.

CORDELIA: A very wealthy man with just no life at all?

WESLEY: No. The word in the scroll.

(goes into Angel's office, others follow)

CORDELIA: That shoe shine thing?

WESLEY: Shanshu. If it isn't Phygian but descends instead from the ancient Magyar. then the root would be proto-Ugaric. In which case it would mean...

CORDELIA: We're waiting.

WESLEY: Death.

CORDELIA: But you said it was all about the vampire with the soul. (They exchange a look) Angel's going to die?

ANGEL: (unphased) Oh. Anything else?

CORDELIA: He certainly took that well. Is this that opportune time to talk about my raise?

WESLEY: It's probably years off... after the coming battles.

CORDELIA: My raise?

WESLEY: Apocalyptic prophecies aren't exactly a science. And-and I could be way off the mark, so - no reason to be concerned.

ANGEL: Hmm.

WESLEY: So it's good you're *not* concerned. Not even *remotely* concerned.

(Cordelia has vision, Angel catches her)

ANGEL: Easy, easy, easy.

CORDELIA: Pain… killer.

WESLEY: Painful killer demon.

CORDELIA: Painkiller!

WESLEY: Oh.

CORDELIA: A woman, judging by the plastic bag on her head I'm guessing homeless, versus a slime demon.

ANGEL: Where?

CORDELIA: I smelled something awful. That would be the slime demon - Yuck! - who lives behind a waste treatment plant in El Segundo.

ANGEL: Got it!

WESLEY: Do you need...?

ANGEL: Nope. Stay here and take care of her.

CORDELIA: Enough with the scratch-n-sniff visions!

WESLEY: (hands her pills) Here we are.

CORDELIA: Ah, thanks. I ever meet these Powers That Be - I'm gonna punch'm in the nose! You think they have a nose?

• Cordelia's visions & championhood
• The Shanshu prophecy/scroll of Aberjian

written by: David Greenwalt; Originally transcribed by anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by Cerd_gwenn. Checked against source by me.. Full transcript at:
http://studiesinwords.de/a22shanshu.html