Faith and Lindsey face-off against Nat and Gelo. Dru approaches Faith to her right. When she is 30 feet away, she claps her hands twice.

DRU: Chop-chop, boys. Leave them to me. Go help your chums. I have to talk to an old friend about some unfinished business. Hello Lindsey. Pleasure to see you again. I awlways have such fun when you're around.

Faith and Lindsey glance to their right and see Dru closing with them. They realize they are outnumbered. So do Gelo and Nat, which is why they can't understand why Dru wants them to retreat. She may be crazy, but surely she wasn't stupid as well. At the same time, Fred runs down the hall at the opposite end of the basement. She takes a left turns and runs towards Gelo and Nat. They hear her approaching, glance over their shoulders and see her sixty feet behind them. Both of them choose to ditch the Slayer for an easier kill and give chase. Faith looks at Lindsey.

LINDSEY: I know.

Before Faith says a word, Lindsey runs away from Dru and towards Fred. Faith and Dru stare each other down.

DRU: Are you willing to die for him?

Dru hits Faith in the face with left cross. Faith throws a left hook, which Dru blocks. But Faith connects with a right jab.

DRU: Would you die for him, loik you would for Angel?

Faith tries a right kick, but Dru backs up out of the way and giggles.

When Fred sees the two vampires rushing towards her, she turns and runs. Fred makes a right turn at the end of the hallway. A few steps later, Nat grabs her from behind and tosses her backwards into the side wall. Gelo hits her in the stomach with a right punch. Lindsey races to her rescue. He tries to stake Gelo in the back. But before he can do this, Nat hits Lindsey in the chest with a left hook kick, knocking him into the wall a few feet to Fred's right. Gelo glances to his left and notices the new arrival. Fred takes advantage of this momentary distraction to hit Gelo in the face with a left hook and in the groin with a right kick. Lindsey steps towards Gelo and hits him with a right cross. Gelo shoves Lindsey back into the wall. Fred grabs her stake in her left hand and turns to her right, trying to stake Gelo in the back. Nat kicks her in the chest with his right foot, knocking Fred back into the wall, five feet to Lindsey's left. He grabs Fred's left forearm with his right hand and tries to hit her in the face with a left hook. Fred ducks under the punch, puts her right hand on Nat's chest and pushes him to her left. Nat trips over Fred's outstretched left foot falls down for a moment, freeing Fred to turn to her right and stake Gelo in the back just before he bites Lindsey. Lindsey gasps as the vampire who was attacking him turns to dust less than a foot in front of him. He sees Fred standing there, the stake in her left hand, and smiles. "Good thing I came to your rescue," he jokes ironically. Lindsey grabs his own stake with his right and the two of them charge Nat. He grabs Fred's left arm with his left hand and Lindsey's right arm with his right hand, then flips them on their backs. Nat runs down the hall towards Faith, but makes a quick left turn into the ballroom, where he smells and hears his comrades. He enters, and sees Ronan, Alanna, Vala and Tina at the back end of the hall arrayed in a semi-circle around Wes and Gunn.

NAT: No need to share.

Three seconds after Nat entered, Fred and Lindsey come barreling into the ballroom to provide help for Wes and Gunn.

NAT: I brought enough for everyone.

Alanna and Ronan smile and race towards the new arrivals, seeking to cut them off from Gunn and Wes. Nat locks the doors and slides a doorstop underneath each of the them. This is exactly what Angelus wanted: the four ordinary humans trapped and separated from their super-powered friends. Wes and Gunn are delighted to see Fred return alive, but are troubled by Faith's and Connor's absences. Still, the new arrivals take some pressure off them and give Gunn and Wes new life. Gunn blocks Tina's right roundhouse kick and hits her in the face with a right cross. When she attempts a right hook, he grabs her right arm and throws her to his left, towards the wall. Gunn turns to his right and throws a left hook at Vala. Wes throws a right hook, and the blows hit her face simultaneously. Vala falls down. Wes and Gunn look at each other, a little shocked by their coincidental collaboration. Then both of them race to save Fred. Lindsey and her stand shoulder-to-shoulder, trying desperately to fend off Alanna and Ronan. As Wesley runs by her, Vala sticks out her legs and trips him up. Wes falls on his face, but reaches his arms forward and grabs Alanna's left ankle, pulling her down to the ground. This creates the odd sight of Vala, Wes and Alanna on the ground, lying almost end-to-end, in a line along the carpet from the rear wall to the center of the ballroom.

Nat runs from the front of the room towards Gunn, intercepting him before he can reach Fred. Gunn looks over his left shoulder, and sees Tina approaching from behind. After single-handedly holding off four vampires, staking Lewis, knocking down Tina and Vala, and escaping every trap the vamps had sprung, Gunn felt like he was in the zone. He sticks his left arm straight out towards Tina, and his right arm straight out towards Nat. The stakes he had strapped to his wrists shoot out towards the charging vampires. However, things didn't work out quite the way they did when Angel tried this move. Tina stops on a dime, the stake half-an-inch from her skin. She looks down at the stake protruding from underneath Gunn's sleeve and bursts out laughing. Nat rotates his body to the right. The stake brushes across his chest, its point tearing his shirt and its outer edge slashing his skin. As the stake brushes across his chest, and while he's still moving, Nat rips the stake off Gunn's wrist and plunges it deep into his left deltoid muscle. It all happens too quickly for Charles to react. From the moment the stakes shot out to the moment Gunn was stabbed with his own weapon, less than a second had passed. Nat twists Gunn's arm and flips him forward so he lands on his back. Tina is still laughing. Gunn sits up, looks to his left and reaches his right arm across his body, trying to stake Nat, who leans over him and stands to his left. When Nat blocks this attack, Gunn reaches his left arm behind Nat's feet and sweeps the vampire's legs out. He stands up, grimacing in pain, and turns to his right to face Tina. She is still laughing.

TINA: I'm sorry. [He-heh-he-heh-heh-heh] What vampire would be stupid enough to run into a wooden stake? [He-heh-heh-heh] That has to be the lamest trick I've ever seen!

Nat gets up and tries to jump Gunn from behind. He gives Nat a right elbow to the face, quickly turns around and knocks Nat down with a left cross. Gunn turns back to face Tina, who has finally stopped laughing. Gunn pushes the attached stake back under his right sleeve and pulls the other stake out of his shoulder with his right hand and puts the bloody stake in his left hand. He grunts in pain as he does this, but manages a small chuckle over Tina's comment on the lameness of retractable stakes.

GUNN: Maybe you should take that up with Angelus.

Gunn gives her a right kick to the chest, knocking Tina towards the back wall.

GUNN: It's his gizmo.

Tina is a little disappointed by this. She knew getting a soul made you boring. But she didn't think getting a soul could make you THAT lame. Charles hits her in the face with a right hook. When he tries to stake her with the bloody stake in his left hand, she grabs his left forearm with both hands. The other stake pops out from underneath Gunn's right sleeve, and he tries to finish her off. Unfortunately, Nat comes from behind and grabs Gunn's right arm. Tina knees him in the stomach and rips the stake off his right wrist with her left hand. Gunn head butts her and struggles to drive the stake in his left hand home. Nat tosses Gunn behind him. He rolls several times before getting up. Nat and Tina stand side-by-side, looking at him.

NAT: What's with the wannabe Polgara demon?

Faith knows Drusilla's attack is a holding action designed to keep her from helping the others. She kicks Dru in the stomach with her right foot and throws a left jab, which Dru blocks. She tries a right hook, but Dru grabs her arm and pushes her against the wall, pinning both her wrists. Dru goes bumpy. Faith head-butts her and kicks her away with her right foot.

FAITH: You thought I would be that easy?

Faith hits her head with a left hook kick. Dru goes back to her human face and smirks.

DRU: All Slayers are "easy."

She blocks Faith's right cross and tries a straight right kick, which Faith steps back from and blocks.

DRU: Some just aren't easy to kill.

Faith throws a right jab, which Dru blocks, then a left roundhouse kick, which Dru backs away from.

FAITH: Must be the same way with vampires.

As so Faith throws Dru's aphoristic insult of Faith (and Buffy) right back at her. They trade left jabs, then Faith lands right and left crosses. She backs away from Dru's right hook, lands a left hook kick, then knocks Dru on her back with a right roundhouse kick. Faith runs towards the ballroom. When Dru gets, up, she decides not to follow Faith right away. Instead, she elects to check on Angelus's progress. Dru tracks his scent to the hole in the ceiling he leaped through to get at Willow. She runs towards the hole and leaps up. Kelly is alertly keeping watch, and she swings her bat, hitting Drusilla on the top of her head. (Kelly has never met Dru, so she assumes the attacker is merely one of Angelus's foot soldiers. Besides, she doesn't get a good look at the vampire.) Dru's feet land back down on the sub-basement floor. She looks up and sees an arm about to throw a glass bottle. Dru quickly steps back out of the way. Kelly's small bottle of holy water smashes into the floor, but doesn't hurt Dru. She knows this can only mean one thing: Angelus did not accomplish his task. Dru decides to chase after Faith and accomplish hers.

Faith tries to open either of the doors to the ballroom. Realizing they're locked, she attempts to kick them down. The doors bend but don't break. Finally, Faith charges the doors, her right shoulder hitting them where they meet. Strips of wood fly to either side as she barrels her way into the ballroom. In front of her, Fred and Lindsey stand together, trying to fend off the attacks of Ronan. For the last 15 seconds, they've kept him from biting either of them, but have taken a lot of pounding. Along the wall to Faith's left, Wesley tries to prevent Vala and Alanna from devouring him. To Faith's right, Gunn faces down Tina and Nat, who stand in front of the back wall and appear ready to pounce. From the looks of it, Faith has arrived just in time. The vampires heard her burst through the doors, and they turn to look at her. Faith surveys the scene and manages a small grin.

FAITH: Five on five. Sounds like my kinda fight.

Ronan charges Faith and throws a right hook. She ducks underneath his fist and grabs his right arm. Faith pulls it behind Ronan's back and drives the much larger vampire face-first into the wall to Faith's left. Ronan swings his left arm as he spins around to face the Slayer. Faith ducks and hits Ronan in the chin with a right uppercut, then in the nose with a left jab. Nat rushes to Ronan's aide from across the room. He grabs Faith from behind and tosses her to the ground in the middle of the room. When Ronan attacked Faith, Lindsey and Fred moved towards Gunn. Wesley managed to slip by Alanna and Vala and join the other three. Alanna and Vala joined Tina along the back wall, where they watched how the Slayer did against the boys and made sure the four other humans didn't try to slip out the back exit. They walk out towards the quartet of human adversaries, making it clear that if any of them try to help the Slayer, they will attack them from behind. Ironically, it is fear of being staked in the back by Wes, Gunn, Fred or Lindsey which keeps Angelus's three Sirens from helping their men fight Faith.

Faith rises to her feet as Nat charges her. She ducks down and trips him up. Nat falls on his face. She sees Ronan moving towards her. Faith quickly leaps forward and clobbers Ronan with a flying right kick to the head. Ronan's back slams into the side wall and he falls to the ground. Faith turns to resume her fight with Nat. He stands on the other side of the room, awaiting Faith's attack. Faith runs at him. Nat bends his knees and prepares to block whatever Faith sends his way. When she gets close, Faith does a forward cartwheel and kicks Nat in the face while her hands are on the ground. He was not expecting this, and the blow knocks him into the wall opposite Ronan. Faith follows up her cartwheel kick with a right cross, but Nat responds with one of his own. Faith blocks his left jab, and he blocks Faith's left jab. Faith kicks Nat in the stomach with her right foot. She sends a left hook kick for his head, but Nat ducks. After missing her kick, Faith spins around clockwise, avoiding Nat's right uppercut. When she comes around again, Faith nails Nat with a power left hook. She follows this up with a right uppercut, a left jab, a right cross and another left jab. After this flurry of punches, Faith takes her stake in her right hand and dusts Nat half-a-second after landing her last left jab. But as Nat evaporates, Ronan grabs Faith from behind and throws her 30 feet to his left, towards the rear exit. Tina tilts her head towards Lana.

TINA: Here comes your Great White Hope.

Tina smirks.

ALANNA: Don't joke. My baby's about to do all of us a huge favor.

Faith stands up. The exit is ten feet behind her. She quickly puts away her stake and puts up her fists as Ronan approaches. He hits her in the chest with a powerful and unexpected left roundhouse kick. For a 250 pound muscle-bound vampire, Ronan is quite light on his feet. The kick knocks Faith back into the door. Ronan charges her like a linebacker and slams his body into hers. The door opens out, and Ronan lands on top of Faith in the hallway.The door closes behind them. Faith pushes Ronan off of her before he can bite her. The two of them stand up in the dim hallway. Ronan hits Faith in the face with a right kick, knocking her ten feet backwards and on her back. He slowly walks down the hallway towards her. Faith vaults to her feet. She blocks Ronan's left jab and hits him in the face with a left hook and a right cross. Faith follows this up with a left kick to his stomach and a powerful right hook to his face. Ronan just stands there, looking bemused by his opponent's exertions. He decks her with one right hook.

RONAN: You hit like a guy. That's disappointing.

Ronan picks Faith up and tosses her 20 feet down the hallway. She rolls along the floor for another ten feet before stopping and standing up.

FAITH: Yeah, well, I'm good at that.

Ronan walks up to Faith and throws a left jab. She moves her head to the right, avoids the blow and then lands a left jab and a right cross. With her right foot, she kicks him in the stomach, then the nose. Ronan lands a right cross, but Faith counters with one of her own. He throws a left hook. Faith reaches across her body, grabs his left arm with her left hand, and pushes Ronan into the wall to her right. His back slams into a metal door. Faith pounds Ronan's face with a right cross, left jab and right hook. He pushes her six feet away to the other side of the hallway. Ronan reaches his left hand downwards and to his left. He grabs a long metal handle. Faith steps towards him to throw a right kick. When she does this, Ronan pulls the handle out and opens the metal door. As it swings outward, Ronan grabs Faith with his right hand and throws her through the open door. She tumbles into a room's back wall. Ronan enters and shuts the door as quickly as he had opened it. The room is now pitch black. Ronan flips on a light switch. Faith stands against the back wall and looks around as Ronan inches towards her, his arms stretched out in both directions, his fingers nearly touching the side walls. Faith and Ronan are sealed inside an empty, unused walk-in freezer that is 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high. Like a crypt, only without the rustic, lived-in charm.

Inside the ballroom, Wes, Gunn and Lindsey look worried. They stand in a line facing the back wall, looking at Alanna, Vala and Tina. Fred is more confident than the boys, largely because she doesn't know how badly Gunn and Wes are injured.

FRED: Come on guys. It's four on three. We can take 'em.

When Fred first entered the room with Wes and Gunn, it was three against six. Now most of their opponents are dead and they have the numerical advantage. The tide had turned. The Sirens don't appear so confident anymore. They slowly inch backwards as Lindsey, Fred, Gunn and Wes walk towards them. Then the four of them see the Sirens smile from ear-to-ear.

DRU: Take your pick, dearies. We each get one.

The quartet turns around and sees Drusilla. Now all of them are worried. They retreat back to the center of the room and form an outward-facing circle. The vampires rotate around them at a distance of ten feet. After a few seconds, they stop. Tina stands in front of Gunn, Lana faces Fred, Vala stares down Wesley, and Dru goes bumpy as she smiles at Lindsey.

GUNN: Where the HELL is Connor!?

When it came to fighting, Ronan wasn't as dumb as he looked. He had more brute strength than Faith. But she was faster and quicker. He knew he would have the best chance of killing her in a confined space that minimized her mobility and made it very unlikely for any of her friends to interfere. Faith kicks Ronan in the chin with a straight right kick. She follows up with a left hook kick, which he blocks. Ronan kicks Faith in the stomach with his left foot, then pounds her face with a right cross and a left uppercut. But he gets in too close, and Faith hits Ronan's right eye with a left elbow and his nose with a right jab, knocking Ronan back five feet. She steps forward and connects with a right roundhouse kick. The blow causes his head to snap back, but his feet remain firmly planted. Ronan grabs Faith and hurls her into the wall four feet to his left. He grabs her again and tosses her into the other side wall. Ronan hits Faith with a right hook kick to the ribs and a left uppercut to the stomach. Faith responds with a left cross and a right hook. Ronan steps back and smiles.

RONAN: Having fun yet?

Faith sends a straight right kick for Ronan's face. He grabs her right ankle with both hands and hurls her to his left, into the back wall. Ronan tries a left kick for Faith's head, but she ducks. He blocks her right kick, then hits her mouth with a right jab. Faith steps forward and tries a left hook, but Ronan backs up so that her blow misses his face by three inches. She blocks his right hook, but he lands two left jabs. Faith tries a left jab of her own, but it doesn't touch him and Ronan connects with another left jab. She realizes he's using his enormous advantage in reach to prevent her from getting close enough to hit him. She blocks his next left jab, but he quickly belts her left cheek with a right hook. Faith throws a quick right kick. Ronan leans back to avoid it. Faith leaps to her left off of her left foot. Her right foot lands against the wall to Ronan's right, near the back corner. She pushes off to her left and plants her left foot against the back wall, so that for an instant she is facing the corner. Then Faith pushes back with the left foot, turns clockwise, and hits Ronan in the head with a leaping right kick. This three-part improvised move knocks Ronan into the front wall and boosts Faith's morale. When her feet hit the ground, Faith pops Ronan in the face with a straight left kick.

FAITH: I am now.

RONAN: Good.

Ronan blocks Faith's right cross and pushes his right palm into her chest, knocking Faith down to the ground.

RONAN: Cause the party's just getting started.

Connor wakes up. He's sitting on a cold concrete floor. He doesn't know where he is, or how he got there, but it feels like he's been asleep for a while. Connor stands up and thinks. The last thing he remembers is getting grabbed from behind and hearing Drusilla's voice. Connor gets goose bumps and shivers. He puts his right index and middle fingers to his throat and feels a pulse. Connor breathes a huge sigh of relief. He had never been so petrified than during the three second interval when he feared he had become a vampire. Connor heads on down the hall, following Dru's scent.

Ronan walks towards Faith while she's on her back. She sticks up her right foot to kick him in the groin. Ronan grabs the foot with both hands. He's a little surprised she fell for the decoy, but he'll take whatever good fortune he can get. Holding onto Faith's right foot, Ronan swings her to his left, slamming her head and neck into the side wall. He keeps spinning her counter-clockwise. Her head slams against the front wall, the other side wall, and then, after Ronan lets go, the back wall. Angelus had done a similar move when she fought him two nights before, so she assumes Ronan learned it from him. Actually, Angelus learned it from Ronan. Faith lies against the back wall, dazed and dizzy. Ronan reaches down with his right hand pulls Faith up to her feet by her hair. He grips her throat with his left hand and begins choking her. He lifts her feet six inches off the ground and belts her in her stomach with his right fist when she grabs his left wrist with both hands and tries to free herself. After absorbing four body blows, Faith tries to kick Ronan with her dangling feet. He stops punching her and uses his right arm to fend off the blows.

But like Ronan, Faith is also smarter than she lets on. She grips his thick right arm just above the elbow between her two feet, then pulls it towards her as she lowers her arms. She grabs Ronan's right wrist with her right arm and his right forearm with her left arm, and pulls his arm across her body and to her right. Ronan's arms are now crossed, and his right knee bends inward. Ronan continues to choke her as he loses his balance. Faith reaches her dangling feet backwards and pushes off the back wall as hard as she can. Ronan falls on his back, and Faith is about to land on top of him when she does a quick forward somersault and stands up near the front wall. Ronan stands up facing the back wall and turns around, seven feet from Faith. He steps his right foot forward as if above to attack, but it's only a feint. Faith pauses for a few seconds before going on the offensive. She starts to send a right kick to his chest, but then quickly pulls her foot back and kicks Ronan in the face. Faith follows this up with a left jab and a right hook. After taking these blows, Ronan grabs Faith and throws her into the wall to his right. He turns and throws a left jab. Faith ducks. Ronan's fist leaves a dent in the metal wall. Faith brings her right knee up, puts her right foot against his chest and pushes Ronan across the room. She leaps towards him, puts her legs on either side of his neck, puts her hands on the ground and flips him forward. Ronan does a somersault and gets up. Faith hits the slightly disoriented vampire is the chest with a right kick and the face with a leaping left kick, sending him into the wall he had thrown Faith into only a few seconds earlier.

Now that she's turned the tide, Faith takes her stake in her right hand. She gives Ronan a left uppercut to the chin and stabs for his heart with her right. Ronan takes the uppercut, grabs the stake with his left hand and hits Faith in the face with a right jab. Ronan follows this up with a left jab. When Ronan takes his left hand off Faith's stake, she plunges it forward, only to have Ronan grab the stake with his right hand when the point is against his chest. After hitting her with his left fist, Ronan pulls Faith towards him with his right hand and sends her face-first into the wall. Without turning around, she hits him in the face with her right foot, knocking Ronan down. She looks at her stake. It's covered in blood from the wound on Ronan's right palm. She puts it away for now. Ronan gets up. Both fighters circle counter-clockwise, until Faith faces the back wall and Ronan faces the front wall. They put up their fists and stare each other down. Both of them are badly bruised and bleeding.

RONAN: I'll give you this – you sure can take a beating.

FAITH: You're not such a bad punching bag yourself.

Faith tries a right hook kick, which Ronan blocks. She follows this up with a swift left roundhouse kick, which he also blocks. She does manage to hit him in the stomach with a straight right kick, then nails his chin with her right foot while it is still in midair. Ronan spins around and hits Faith in the chest with a right roundhouse kick, knocking her into the front wall. As he charges in, she lands a left hook. Ronan takes the blow and connects with a left jab. She hits his face with a right hook, and he responds by landing a right cross. Ronan follows this up with left and right hooks to Faith's face. Her knees buckle and her legs start wobbling. Ronan continues the beating, pounding the right side of her ribcage with a left hook, then sending two right kicks to a spot on the left side of her ribcage where he suspects the bones are already either bruised or broken. (Now this trick he actually did pick up from Angelus.) Faith groans in pain. Ronan hurls her through the air. Faith slams head-first into the back wall and falls to the floor. He picks her up and tosses Faith into the inside of the front door. She manages to stay on her feet. She even hits Ronan in the face with a right reverse kick as he approaches. Faith turns around and throws a left jab and a right cross. But Ronan is not deterred. He senses victory and views these as her parting shots. He blocks both punches and hits Faith with a left jab and a right hook. The hook spins her around, and Ronan grabs the back of Faith's head and slams her face into the door, leaving a splatter of blood at the point of impact. Faith falls to her knees. Ronan stands behind her, ready to administer the death blow.

Gunn, Fred, Wes and Lindsey stand in a tight, outward-facing circle. Their outstretched right hands hold crosses like small shields. Their left hands, kept close to their bodies, hold stakes like miniature swords. Tina, Alanna, Vala and Drusilla stand six feet away, forming a circle around them. The vampires appear tentative about attacking this compact formation. They move around a little, searching for possible ways of breaking it up. Fred and Lindsey start to move a few inches one way, then the other as they follow their attackers.

WES: No one move. Stay in formation.

GUNN: We stick together, we can fight 'em off.

High up along each of the side walls are three small, evenly-spaced decorative windows. Each window is double-arch, each arch 30 inches high and 12 inches in diameter. The windows are covered up with translucent, gray wallpaper. From inside the ballroom, the windows look painted-on, an attempt to make the space seem less subterranean. But the windows are real. Standing in the basement, one floor above the ballroom, and behind the middle window along the left wall is Angelus. He leaps through the window, breaking through the paper and the three inch-wide piece of wood between the arches. Facing this window is Wesley, and behind him Gunn faces the other wall. Angelus leaps over Wesley's head and kicks Gunn in his upper back with both feet. Vala runs away from the piece of wood falling towards her head and ends up to Dru's left. Gunn falls on his face. Fred turns around to see what did this. The instant Angelus's feet hit the floor, he pivots backwards and hits Fred in the face with a right roundhouse kick, bloodying her nose and nearly breaking it. Wesley spins around and shoves his cross at Angelus's face. Angelus backs up a step, then knocks the cross out of Wesley's hand with a right hook kick. Wesley lands a left cross to Angelus's face, but he gives Wesley a right kick in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. When Wes doubles over, Angelus quickly punches him in the adam's apple with his left fist, making it even harder for Wesley to breathe. He falls to his knees. Angelus turns to his left and sees Lindsey's right fist coming towards his jaw. He pulls his head back out of the way as he laughs at the absurdity of Lindsey attacking him. But while LIndsey's right hook falls short, Gunn pops the left side of Angelus's jaw with a right jab. The blow stings, and Angelus responds with a quick right hook to the left side of Gunn's skull. No sooner does this blow connect than Lindsey hits Angelus's right cheek with a left cross. This stings a lot less than Gunn's blow, but it bothers Angelus more, since he views Gunn as a seasoned fighter but sees Lindsey as a white-collar pansy. When Angelus turns to his right and prepares to deck Lindsey with a left jab, he sees Lindsey's outstretched right hand holding a cross. After what Kelly did to him, Angelus hates these things like never before. He growls and squeezes Lindsey's right wrist with his left hand. The pain causes Lindsey to drop the cross before Angelus breaks his wrist. Angelus immediately lets go. With his left hand, he blocks Gunn's right hook. With his right hand, he grabs Lindsey by the back of his head. Angelus then puts his left hand behind Gunn's neck and pulls his arms inward, slamming Gunn's forehead into Lindsey's forehead. The two of them fall to the ground. Angelus walks towards Drusilla near the front of the room. His Sirens join them. This is the first time these three women have seen their Master since before the start of the battle. They're happy, and of course so is Dru. All five of them have on their human faces. Unlike the four women, Angelus appears grim and determined. Dru can sense his intensity. Rarely has she seen him this businesslike.

ANGELUS: No prisoners. [meaning no siring] No more games. No more toying with them. We end this NOW!!

NEXT: Connor to the rescue.