"So what happens to you if she's able to reverse the vortex?", Cordelia asked Angel after he revealed to Harry, Oz, Kate, & Cordelia what the Oracles had told him, "I mean, you're a demon. & what about good demons, like Doyle was."
Angel: "All demons without sin will be made human- good, what they truly are beneath their demon-selves."
Harry: "What does that mean for you?"
Angel: "The Powers will make a judgment to decide whether I have been redeemed. I have committed more sins in my existence then you can imagine. When the seak is reversed, I'll go to Hell."
Cordelia: "What a way to motivate the hero."
Kate: "Who is the traitor? The one who will lead you to the other pieces?"
Angel: "Damon. I'm sorry, I misjudged him. When Damon comes here tonight, you have to treat him exactly the way you had before. We have to go along with him in order to find where his people have the other pieces."
Oz: "& Willow will reverse the seal?"
Angel: "Yes. You need to call her, tell her to get here. Until then, we have to guard the piece of the seal that we have."
A couple hours later, there was a knock at the agency's door.
Cordelia opened the door to a smiling Xander.
Xander: "Hey, Cordelia. Willow's paying the taxi guy. I brought the spell stuff."
Xander held out a large sachet.
Cordelia: "So how have you been? How's Willow?"
Xander: "Will's good. Studying hard, but also really busy with her boy toy. Yes, it's me. & that's how I've been. Pretty good. Really, really happy."
Cordelia (with a smile): "That's good. I'm happy for you two."
Xander (with a smile as well): "Thanks."
Cordelia: "Well, you won't get a chance to stay happy if she doesn't save us from impending doom tonight."
Xander: "Cordelia, you haven't changed a bit over the years."
Cordelia: "What do you mean? I've lost 5 pounds!"
Xander: "The tact thing. We have to take you to tact school."
Cordelia: "I have tact. I have lots of tact."
Across the room Kate chuckled.
Willow (entering): "Hi, everyone. I'm a little flustered with school, but I'm here."
Cordelia: "New look."
Willow (touching her hair): "The long hair? Yeah, I've been too busy to get it cut."
Cordelia: "Boy, a girl really is busy when she ignores her hair."
Kate: "You were saying about the tact thing, Cordelia?"
Cordelia gave Kate a look. Then, Cordelia smiled & looked down.
Cordelia (she sighed): "You know, I got a call today. They want to be a cast member on 'Days of Our Lives'."
Angel (on the stairs, just arriving in the room): "Really. Are you going to take it?"
Cordelia: "It's what I've been- it's the chance I've been waiting for for forever."
Willow: "Congratulations."
Cordelia (eyes on Angel, soberly): "Thanks."
There was a knock on the door. Cordelia looked at everyone.
Cordelia: "You ready for this?"
Angel: "Yeah, open the door."
Damon (entering): "Hi, everyone. By the way, Harry, thanks so much for paying for a night & day at that demon spa."
Harry (forcing a smile): "You liked it?"
Damon: "Very much so. Thanks again."
Harry: "No problem."
Damon: "Hey, listen. I've been thinking about this whole piece-of-a-seal thing. & well, I've heard about this place."
Cordelia: "What place?"
Damon: "This place where people take things that they want to get rid of."
Angel: "Really. That sounds like a plan."
Xander was holding in his lips. Willow could tell he was about to make a comment so she kicked him in the knee.
Xander: "Ouch! Ow, oh."
Harry (grabbing her coat): "So let's go. Angel, will you grab the seal?"
Angel: "Xander, why don't you give me a hand."
Xander: "Yes, he calls for the man with the superior upper body strength."
Cordelia: "OK, let's decide who's going in what car."
Xander & Angel went downstairs to get the piece of the seal.
Angel: "You grab that end."
Xander: "OK. So, you were wrong about that Damon guy. He's one of those Cessarevite people."
Angel: "Looks that way."
Xander (almost under his breath): "Wouldn't be the first time you were wrong."
Angel (letting go of his part of the seal): "Xander, why do you have to act this way to me?"
Xander: "Well, Angel, I've never particularly liked you."
Angel: "After all these years, what could you possibly still have against me?"
Xander: "You honestly don't know, do you? First I just blamed you for being in her life, but now I blame you for more."
Angel: "How am I responsible?"
Xander: "Hey, I'm not the one here with the supernatural powers. You should have protected her better, maybe then she'd be alive."
Angel: "That's it. Xander, I've put up with your crap for too many years."
Xander: "What are you gonna do, bite me?"
Angel: "Don't push me."
"Hut hum." Cordelia cleared her throat.
Harry: "Are you two boys gonna play nice or do we have to separate you?"
Xander: "Hey, it wasn't my fault!"
Willow (entering): "It was all you, honey. You've got a chip, let it go. Angel, don't listen to him, he's terribly imperfect."
Oz: "Is that one gonna come back to Willow, Harry, because I think Xander deserved it."
Harry: "Oh, he did."
Damon: "Guys, can we get going?"
Angel: "Yeah, (addressing Damon) can you give me a hand?"
Xander, loud and appalled: "You'd rather trust him than me?"
Everyone stopped & looked dead at Xander.
Harry (enunciating): "Let's go."
As everyone left, Cordelia whispered to Xander: "& you call me the tactless Queen."
After a drive, Damon: "We're here."
The group got out, dragging the piece, & walked into a building.
Angel: "This place is abandoned."
Damon: "Yes, abandoned buildings are good for creatures like me."
Angel: "Really."
Damon: "Oh, yeah. You can do anything with one of these. Store all kinds of things, dead bodies of your victims, pieces of ancient seals to end the world."
Angel: "Guys, there are the other pieces."
The group ran to a wall of which the remaining pieces of the seal rested.
Damon: "Hello? Confessing evil secrets, here. I've just been dying to try one of your lady friends- especially that Kate- such a zesty life force."
Kate: "So you were in that alley feeding off that girl."
Damon: "Oh course, & about the sirens, I didn't hear them. I get so caught up in the fed. Angel, you would know something about that wouldn't you?"
Angel: "Maybe. But we don't have that much in common. For instance, unlike you, I'm not planning on making the humans my slaves."
Damon: "I was thinking more along the lines of our cattle. See, Angel, this is what you just aren't getting. The purpose of this all. Why side with the humans? They are just as evil as us. We plan to do to them only what they do to themselves & earth's natural creatures. We plan to raise them, confine them, & kill them when they're ripe. Nothing they don't already do themselves."
Xander, pointing a finger: "You think you have us so fooled, pal. Well you're wrong."
Damon: "You're wrong if you think you're not already dead. Guys?"
From seemingly the shadows, the Cessarevite encircled the group.
Willow: "No, you are very wrong."
Willow took a ball from her pocket & threw it to the ground.
When it dropped it formed a blue circle around the group.
Willow: "This'll keep your buddies out."
Angel: "& as for you..."
Angel hit Damon.
Oz, Xander, Harry, & Kate put the seal together.
Damon: "You're putting it together??!!"
Angel: "You are so clueless."
The breaks in the seal were engulfed in white light, & the seal was whole.
Willow: "Angel."
Angel (to Damon): "Looks like we're going to Hell."
Willow: "Now!"
Angel thrust himself into the seal, dragging Damon along with him.
