[Angel's tied up in the cage. The shaman is in the process of removing his soul, and Angel is dreaming. In his dream, he's making love to Cordelia.]
ANGEL: Oh God. [rolls off Cordy to the right side of the bed] Buffy –
CORDY: [turns to her right and looks at him] Angel?
BUFFY: Cordy!!? [Buffy stands in the doorway on the left side of the room. Her hair's tied back in a ponytail. She wears red leather pants and a black haltertop]
CORDY: Are we jealous?
BUFFY: Angel? I - I - I don't believe what I'm seeing.
CORDY: Believe it Blondie. The boy is mine.
BUFFY: How could you? And with Cordelia!? Okay, I don't even wanna know why. But how could you be so reckless?
ANGELUS: It's not what you think. I still have my soul. You think I could achieve Perfect Happiness with Cordy? [laughs]
CORDY: What!!?
BUFFY: You mean you were TRYING to take his soul?
CORDY: [starts to get dressed] I was caught up in the moment. I let my guard down. That was all it took. Angel finds me irresistible. He just couldn't help himself.
BUFFY: You? [laughs] Irresistible? [laughs some more] Are you really as stupid as you look? [Cordy's dressed. She walks over to Buffy and stares her down.]
CORDY: Poor little Buffy. Washed-up, over-the-hill Buffy. You may have been Queen B in high school. But since then one of us got stronger, and the other just got older.
BUFFY: I can see that. You've really let yourself go.
ANGELUS: Ladies, please. You don't have to fight over me. [Cordy slaps Buffy. Buffy punches Cordy. Cordy punches Buffy back. Buffy's a little startled by the force of the punch. Angelus smiles gleefully. His only regret is that Cordy got dressed before she started fighting.]
CORDY: Told you I had power. [hits Buffy with a right kick]
BUFFY: Trying to copy me. [flying spin kick sends Cordy into the back wall] I'm flattered. Stake a vampire or two while you were at it? [Cordy throws a right cross. Buffy blocks this and throws Cordy over her shoulder. Getting cocky, Buffy moves in while Cordy's still on her back. Cordy kicks Buffy in the chin and vaults back to her feet.]
CORDY: Frankly, I'm disappointed. [punches Buffy in the nose] Guess I just overestimated you. [throws a right punch, which Buffy blocks. Cordy connects with a left spin kick. Cordy grabs Buffy and throws her into the back wall. Cordy throws a right jab at Buffy's nose. Buffy ducks. Cordy's fist goes through the drywall.]
BUFFY: Hello steroid queen. [Cordy backs up and grabs her bleeding hand. Buffy charges. Cordy flips Buffy over her shoulder. Buffy sweeps Cordy's legs out from under her. They're both on their backs. Angelus likes what he sees. Buffy kicks Cordy in the head and springs to her feet. She kicks Cordy again. Cordy gets to her knees and Buffy nails her with a spin kick. Buffy backs up, allowing Cordy to get to her feet. They're both bloody, though Cordy's bloodier.]
CORDY: This is what Angel was afraid of?
BUFFY: No more holding back.
CORDY: Bring it on, blondie! [Buffy connects with a left, blocks Cordy's right jab, connects with a right hook, but gets hit by Cordy's left hook. Buffy lands a left roundhouse kick, knocking Cordy back a few feet. She moves in and lands a left-right combination, but Cordy comes back with a right cross, Buffy kicks Cordy in the ribs, blocks Cordy's kick to her head, and tries a right kick. Cordy grabs Buffy's foot. Buffy does a back flip to get free. She lands a right kick, a left roundhouse kick and a flying right kick, all to Cordy's head. Cordy is up against the back wall. She tries a left, then a right punch. Buffy blocks both. Buffy unloads with four left-right combinations to Cordy's face. She holds nothing back. But Cordy's still standing after taking eight straight knockout blows.]
BUFFY: What is wrong with you!? [Cordy lands a right uppercut to Buffy's chin, sending her back ten feet. Angelus gets his pants on and stands up on the opposite side of the bed from where Cordy and Buffy are fighting.]
ANGELUS: She's an evil demon. [Cordy's shocked at the betrayal. Angelus grabs a sword off the wall and throws it to Buffy.]
BUFFY: Well she was always evil. [grabs sword. Stabs Cordy through the heart.] Guess it was only a matter of time before she went demon.
CORDY: You stupid little bitch. [grabs Buffy's neck with both hands and starts choking. Buffy can't break free of Cordy's grip. She's running out of time. So she reaches out and grabs Cordy's hair. Angelus had been waiting for some hair-pulling. She pulls hard enough that the pain combined with the anger of someone messing with her hair causes Cordy to let go. Buffy pulls the sword out of Cordy's chest and cuts her head off. Cordy's body disappears. Connor enters just in time to see Buffy slay Cordy. He's filled with murderous rage towards this woman he's never seen and whose name he doesn't know. Connor is wearing black leather pants and a black silk button-down shirt.]
CONNOR: Cordy?!! NO!!! [Buffy turns and sees this boy with a look of acute pain and grief. His intense eyes shift from wide-open shock to narrowed, focused vengeance. He leaps at Buffy and kicks the sword out of her hand and across the room. Connor pulls out his home-made dagger from Quor Toth. He growls at Buffy, shoots out his right arm and tries to stab her. She grabs his right wrist to block the thrust. Connor grabs Buffy's neck with his left hand and throws her into the back wall.]
BUFFY: Did you have the hots for her, or are you always this mental?
CONNOR: You killed her. You die.
BUFFY: You strike me as the non-verbal type. [Connor tries to stab Buffy, she blocks it. He tries to punch her with his left, she blocks that as well.] But the "I Tarzan, you Jane" act is a definite turn-off. [head butts Connor, then kicks him in the mouth. Connor puts away the knife.] Maybe that's why you weren't the one I caught her humping. [Connor turns his head to the left and gives the half-naked Angelus a look of shock and disappointment. Angelus just smiles. Connor can tell he's no longer Angel. Buffy tries to take advantage of Connor's distraction by landing a right roundhouse kick. Without even turning his head to see the incoming kick, he does a backflip and avoids the blow.]
CONNOR: [to Angelus] You need her to protect you? [Buffy charges in. Connor does a forward flip to elude her. When he lands, he nails Buffy's face with a left reverse kick.]
BUFFY: You sure are something. [Connor charges in recklessly. Buffy nails him with a right jab and a left kick] Too bad I'm something more. [Connor gets up. He turns around, runs up the back wall, leaps out and hits Buffy with a right kick. She's sent into the dresser on the front wall. Connor leaps at her. Buffy grabs him and shoves his head through the mirror on top of the dresser. Connor pulls out the knife and slashes Buffy's right forearm. She moves back in pain. Connor looks at the blood on the knife and gets excited. He comes at Buffy like he's going to stab her, but instead does a forward flip and kicks Buffy in the head. Holding the knife in his left hand, he raises his left arm like he's going to stab her in the eye. When Buffy falls for the fake, he kicks her in the ribs with his right foot. Then he bashes her right knee with his right foot and pounds Buffy's nose with a right jab. Angelus is proud to see his son using diversionary tactics. But he knows his boy is doomed.]
CONNOR: Is he really worth dying for?
BUFFY: [looks at the knife. looks at Connor] I didn't know Faith had a brother. [grabs Connor's left arm. Shove his left hand through the wall. Grabs his head, shoves that through the back wall. When Connor gets free, he grabs Buffy's head and shoves it through the side wall. When Buffy gets free, she hits Connor with a left cross and a right uppercut. He tries a right kick. She grabs his foot and kicks him in the groin. Angelus winces. She kicks Connor in the stomach, hits his face with a left cross, and knocks him to the ground with a right hook. Connor lies limp, playing dead. Buffy reaches down to snap his neck. Connor opens his eyes, shoots his legs up, and wraps them around Buffy's neck. Realizing he can't snap it, and assuming that she's a demon and therefore choking her will do no good, he kicks her away and leaps to his feet. He flies through the air and kicks Buffy in the chest. Her back hits the wall. Connor puts his knife to her throat with both arms. She grabs his arms, and they struggle. He gets the knife within a millimeter of her skin. But Buffy slowly gets the better of him in this test of strength. She pushes the knife backwards and starts to turn the knife's point towards Connor. For the first time in the fight, Connor looks scared.]
[The knife falls out of their hands and towards the floor. Buffy kicks it over her left shoulder with her right instep, and with her left heel does a bicycle kick which sends it back over her shoulders and well as over Connor's head. When he looks up at the knife, Buffy kicks him in the groin. This time Angelus smiles. When Connor doubles over in pain, Buffy does a forward flip over his body and grabs the knife out of midair. She lands and they both turn and face each other. Buffy tosses the knife to Connor. When he reaches for it, she leaps in the air and clobbers his with a left spin kick. Connor staggers backwards. As she spins in midair, she grabs the knife with her right hand. When she lands, she stabs Connor in the heart. Connor turns to Angelus and reaches out his right arm. Angelus is flattered by the impersonation. Connor disappears. Buffy has triumphed.]
BUFFY: Haven't faced his kind of demon before.
ANGELUS: Buffy, I'm sorry. I was lonely. Cordy was – convenient. I never meant to hurt you. I still love you. I'll always love you.
BUFFY: Oh Angel, I forgive you. [runs up to his and hugs him, resting her head on his chest. After a few seconds she lets go and looks at him] We all have our moments of weakness. In fact, last year, I slept with Spike. Before he had a soul.
ANGELUS: He has a soul? Spike is such a copycat!
BUFFY: Yes, I know. But he'll never even come close to the original.
ANGELUS: You and me, we were meant to be. We're soul mates. We can never be separated, no matter how far we are apart.
BUFFY: Do you know how hard it has been to live without you? I try to go on, but I feel hollow inside. I go through the motions, and I fool my friends, and I fool Giles, and I even fool Spike, but I'm dead inside. Without you, it's not living.
ANGELUS: Why did you ever let me leave you?
BUFFY: Because I was a fool! I didn't think I needed you. I thought I could move on. I thought I wanted to move on. But I don't. And I never will. [starts breathing heavy] Why won't you put a shirt on? Or you trying to torture me? Oh, Angel! [she kisses him passionately. He grabs her and kisses her back. After about 15 seconds he starts biting the left side of her neck, the one he didn't bite before. Buffy moans orgasmically. After 10 seconds Angel lets go and pulls back]
ANGELUS: Been there. Done that.
BUFFY: Are you dying? Do you need my blood to save you? You know I'll do anything for you, Angel.
ANGELUS: That's what I love about you. [grabs the sword, decapitates Buffy.] When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? [puts on a shirt. Hums "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" as he buttons it. Then he picks up Buffy's head with his right hand] Alas, poor Buffy. I knew thee. [starts laughing. When he stops laughing, he walks out to the lobby, humming again. He hold the head behind his back. Spike and Giles are standing in the center of the lobby. Spike is wearing the white v-neck t-shirt and black velvet blazer Angel wore when he met Buffy in Sunnydale. Giles wears a black three-piece suit with a green tie, green handkerchief and a black bowler hat.]
GILES: Jolly good to see you, Angel. Charles and Wesley are in the parking lot fighting a duel over Winifred. Xander is in the courtyard getting mercilessly pummelled by a Grooselug who claims Xander impaled his "princess." I haven't the foggiest what that's about. And Willow is doing a spell with a local witch named Lilah Morgan.
ANGELUS: Lilah's not a witch.
GILES: Oh. [looks dismayed]
ANGELUS: [smiles] Ooooh. Lucky Willow. Say hi to Buffy for me. [lobs her severed head to Spike. He grabs it with both hands and looks at her face. Her eyes are still open.]
SPIKE: No! No! Noooooo!!!!!! [falls to his knees, still looking at the head, sobbing and wailing uncontrollably. Giles turns into a painting on the wall behind Angelus.]
DRUSILLA: Welcome home daddy. [she stands on the balcony to Angelus's left. He looks up at her and smiles.]
DARLA: Hello again lover. [she stands on the balcony to Angelus's right. He looks up at her and his jaw drops.]
ANGELUS: Darla. You're alive! How?
DARLA: I died so Connor could live. He's no longer living, so I'm back. [they both leap down to ground level. Angelus starts making out with Darla. Dru nibbles on his left earlobe.]
ANGELUS: Let's go get something to eat. [Dru hangs onto the left side of his body, Darla to the right. They walk to the door. Spike is still on his knees, holding Buffy's head, sobbing and wailing. They pass to his left. Dru reaches out her left hand and briefly strokes his hair. Spike doesn't notice. He keeps crying.]
DRUSILLA: Poor Spoike. [They walk past him.]
DARLA: I never understood what you saw in him.
DRUSILLA: I wanted a toy I could play with all by myself. Now William's broken, and he's missing too many pieces to put back together again.
DARLA: You could have done worse. Crybaby was better than most. But you only come across a stallion like Angelus once every few centuries, if you're lucky.
DRUSILLA: I see her. She's coming.
ANGELUS: Who's that, baby?
DRUSILLA: The Slayer.
ANGELUS: Faith. [smiles] We could have some fun with her. You ladies mind if I make this a foursome?
DARLA: Anything to make you happy, lover.
ANGELUS: It's good to be me. [they walk out into the night]
[Angelus wakes up. He's laughing.]
SHAMAN: The soul has been extracted. My work is done.
ANGELUS: Nice dream. But where did that stuff about Spike having a soul come from?
SHAMAN: Everything came from your subconscious.
ANGELUS: Then my subconscious has a delicious sense of irony.
SHAMAN: You saw what you wanted to see.
ANGELUS: I really dug the grand finale.
SHAMAN: I knew you would. I figured, why should Angel have all the fun?
ANGELUS: Angel never has any fun.