Summary- Angel loses his soul due to the contract with Wolfram and Hart. Lilah warns Wesley, and he, Fred and Knox escape from Angelus. Gunn has been possessed by the panther in the White Room. Robin Wood is offered a job at Barrington High, near Sunnydale, and the others decide that a new Watcher's Council is needed. Oz is sent to deal with Gunn. They decide that Lindsey may know how to destroy the contracts, and resolve to contact him. Drusilla visits Angelus, and he rejects her. A military group appears, and Buffy blackmails their general into meeting her. Angry and lonely Drusilla finds Connor and takes him to the warlock who originally altered his memories. Spike appears out of a portal intended to produce a Tarok-Han as a human, but exhibits superhuman strength in escaping from the disappointed cultists. The warlock requires an object from Connor's old life, and Drusilla goes to the Hyperion to get it. Buffy meets the general, who tells her that they are trying to create supersoldiers to fight Suvolte Demons (As You Were), who are becoming inexplicably smarter. Riley Finn is dead, and his wife Sam has gone on a vengeance mission against them. She says that someone may be controlling them, and takes him back to Willow. AI follow Drusilla, and try and fail to prevent her from restoring Connor. He runs away, and Drusilla follows him and tells him how Angelus abandoned her. They find themselves in harmony. Spike's reaction to his resurrection is to get very drunk, and is picked up by a Wolfram and Hart lawyer, and taken to see Angelus. Giles comes to LA to ask Wesley to be part of the new Council. He refuses, but tells him what has happened with Angelus and Drusilla. Drusilla has restored Connor's memories, but not their memories of him. Giles calls the new Watcher's Council, and is told that Buffy and Willow have gone to Belize in a helicopter with weapons, spell ingredients and the troll hammer. Lindsey arrives in LA. Connor and Drusilla launch an attack against Wolfram and Hart. Drusilla senses and rescues Spike, and Connor and Angelus fight. He nearly kills Angelus, but in the end Drusilla saves him by throwing Angelus out of the window. He takes his contract and one other thing, after having a conversation with the First. Angelus has the Order of Taraka sent after them both, and tells them to find Sahjhan. Lindsey tells them that the contracts are spells in physical form, and decides to call Gwen to retrieve them. Angelus finds and releases Sahjhan, then convinces him to try to kill Connor. Wesley and Fred go to collect Cordelia from hospital, but find that she has been taken by the thing Drusilla awoke (Connor). Gwen arrives and agrees to help them, and removes LISA. Angelus is contacted by the Order f Taraka, and he tells them to kill all his enemies, not just Dru and Connor, then leaves in a helicopter. In Belize, Buffy, Willow and Sam arrive at the lair of the creature controlling the Suvoltes, where it is sending them away by plane. Willow is telepathically attacked by the creature, and Buffy and Sam attack at once. Professor Walsh intends to find Buffy and Willow's power sources, and tap them.

Barrington-The Master's(Not the Big Bad from season 1. I just like the name.) Lair-Night

The Master: She'll be there?

Demon: I have ensured it.

The Master: Good. Leave us.

Demon: Okay. Uh, you are gonna be there right? Just because if you're not I'm y'know, gonna die.

The Master: Trust me.

Demon: Okay. See you. (He leaves, and the Master turns to the woman standing by the wall.)

The Master: I have some more questions for you.

Woman: Yes.

The Master: When. To what extent. How. Do you know the answers?

Woman: I'm fi-

The Master: Okay, okay! Just tell me.

Belize-Suvolte Lair-Night

(Buffy smashes the hammer into the steel door covering the entrance to their lair. A huge dent appears in the steel, but the door holds. A Suvolte jumps at her and she crushes its skull with the back of the hammer. She swings again, and this time it goes through the door. It takes two more before it is big enough for her to get through. She and Sam slide through the gap, but it is too small for the Suvoltes.)

Sam: Without Willow we have no idea where it is.

Buffy: Well, if I know evil overlords, it'll be either at the very bottom, the middle, or at the very top. From the way it's sending things away in planes, I say the top.

(They run up a flight of stairs. There are a number of dead bodies lining it. They reach another door. A man has been nailed to it through the neck. He raises his head. A vampire.)

Vampire: He's waiting. (He coughs and bloody froth bubbles on his lips.) He's been expecting you. (He coughs again, then dissolves into dust.)

Sam: Why'd he die?

Buffy: I think someone made him drink holy water. They must have been here just a few minutes ago, even if they watered it down.

(She smashes open the door. Inside is a huge room open to the air. The controller of the Suvoltes is inside. It is would be about fifteen feet tall at its full height, but is crouching on its tentacles. Its three eyes are shut, and its entire body is shaking as it emits a soft keening sound. Buffy runs towards it. A metal grate falls down from the ceiling as she passes, separating the two of them. She ignores it and raises the hammer over the creatures head. As she brings it down a hand catches her wrist.)

Angelus: Hey Buff. What can I say? I just couldn't stay away from you. (He throws her back away from it. She leaps up and swings the hammer at him. He easily ducks under it knocks her away again.)

Angelus: What's with the hammer?

Buffy: Angelus. I should have guessed from the guy on the door. You must use up a lot of minions on cryptic messages.

Angelus: You really think you're going to beat me using that?

Buffy: Not really appropriate anymore, huh. Oh well. (She throws the hammer at the creature's skull. Angelus leaps in front of it, and they both go flying into the creature, breaking its concentration. He falls to the floor gasping, then stands.)

Angelus: Pity. Seems like your little witch friend may survive after all.

Buffy: How did this happen?

Angelus: Oh, that's quite a long story. And you don't have much time left. (He grabs a sword from the table next to him.)

Buffy: Uh, Sam? Mace. (She catches it and brings it up to block the sword. Then she leaps backwards and it catches her arm as it cuts straight through the mace. Angelus hits her across the face with his other hand and she falls back.)

Angelus: So. No friends, no weapons, no hope. Seem familiar?

Buffy: Yeah, you think it'll end the same?

Angelus: You were lucky.

Buffy: What do you want?

Angelus: What I've always wanted. You. Now Angel, he's really not interested anymore. See, he's moved on. It's

kind of ironic that I'm more faithful than your precious Angel, isn't it Buff? (He attacks again. Buffy has to avoid

getting within reach, and is tiring quickly as she jumps away from him. Willow appears in the room through

storm travel, and points at Angelus.)

Willow: Thicken! (The air around him starts to solidify, then shatters like glass and falls away.) Uh oh. Uh,

damn what is it!

(Buffy picks up a chair and tries to catch the sword on it. It doesn't even pause as it cuts it in two.)

Willow: Got it! Instrumentum ultionis, telum fabuloso surge, surge, terram pro voca. Vola cum viribus, dominum tuum

nega. Vola! (The sword flies out of his hand) She points at it and it rises and starts to go to Buffy, but the

creature mentally attacks her again, and it falls.)

Buffy: That's better. (She leaps forward and hits him across the face. He blocks her next blow, and hits her in

the shoulder, spinning her around. She does a partial handstand and kicks him in the stomach with both feet.

She turns back and he grabs her by the shoulders and smashes her into a wall. He punches at her face, but she

turns her head and his fist goes into the plaster. She weaves under his other arm and kicks him on the back of

the neck. He pulls his arm free and knocks her over, trailing plaster dust. He grabs her by the waist and

throws her onto the table, leaning over her.)

Angelus: That's better. (He buries his fangs in her neck, she cries out and drives a finger into his right eye. He

roars and lurches backwards. A helicopter rises over the room and starts to descend. Angelus grins at her,

blood filling his right eye.) See ya Slayer.

(He and the creature both get on the helicopter, as it lifts off, one of the creature's tentacles snaps out and

grabs the sword. The helicopter struggles a little under the weight, but continues. They fly

away.)

Buffy: Oh God.

Hyperion Hotel-Day

All of the lights go off suddenly. The doors slam, trapping them inside.

Lindsey: Why do I think this is a bad sign? (They hear a slight hissing sound. Fred backs into someone, cries out,

And, and stumbles forward.)

Wesley: Nobody move! Oz, try to smell its location.

Oz: It hasn't got a scent.

Gwen: Screw this. (She raises her hand and lightning crackles above her hand, illuminating the room. There is a scream of pain, followed by a thump, and when their eyes adjust Sandra is lying on the floor with a slit throat. The Tarakan lunges and drives its sword into Oz. Wesley hits it over the head with an axe. The shadow-thing is split in half, but reforms and knocks him backwards. It jumps at Gwen, who punches it with her lightning hand. It cries out in pain and falls back, but the lightning disappears, leaving the room in darkness. Lorne and Giles shout out simultaneously.

Lorne/Giles: Illumine!

(It lights again, and the shadow-thing recoils back into a darker corner.)

Lindsey: Try to burn it!

(Wesley stumbles over to the weapons cabinet and pulls out their flamethrower. He fires it at the assassin, which screams and disappears, leaving behind a ring. They run over to Oz. He opens his eyes.)

Oz: Ouch.

Gwen: Shouldn't you be dead? Or is he another vampire?

Oz: Werewolf. Good thing that wasn't silver.

Giles: Taraka.

Fred: Huh?

Giles: That thing was a Tarakan assassin.

Fred: Never heard of them.

Lorne: Well doll, the general opinion is, if they're after you you're dead.

Wesley: Implacable, inhuman in their devotion, only one person has ever survived being targeted.

Fred: We survived.

Wesley: That was the first of them. And we didn't all survive. They will keep on coming until we're all dead.

Giles: Are you sure it was targeting all of us?

Lindsey: I am. Tarakans don't like to take on more people than they're hired to. Amazing.

Giles: I fail to see what is amazing about a young Slayer lying in a pool of her own blood.

Lindsey: I meant the amount of money it must have cost.

Wesley: We have to find a safer place. Here they can pick us off one by one.

Spike: (OS) Hey people? Can I make a suggestion? (Cut to Spike standing in the sunlight, smirking)