- Season 1
- Main
- WELCOME TO THE HELLMOUTH
- Angel: Ah, heh. Is there a problem,
ma'am?
- Buffy: Yeah, there's a problem. Why
are you following me?
- Angel: I know what you're thinking.
Don't worry, I don't bite.
- She backs off and lets him get up,
but keeps her fighting stance.
- Angel: Truth is, I thought you'd be
taller, or bigger muscles and all that. You're pretty spry, though.
(massages his neck)
- Buffy: W hat do you want?
- Angel: The same thing you do.
- Buffy: (lets down her guard) Okay.
What do I want?
- Angel: (steps toward her) To kill them.
To kill them all.
- Buffy: Sorry, that's incorrect. But
you do get this lovely watch and a year's supply of Turtle Wax.
What I want is to be left alone!
- She starts a determined walk away.
- Angel: Do you really think that's an
option anymore? You're standing at the Mouth of Hell. And it's
about to open.
- She stops, turns to him and looks at
him with a wide-eyed gaze. He reaches into his jacket and pulls
out a small box.
- Angel: Don't turn your back on this.
(tosses her the box) You've gotta be ready.
- Buffy: What for?
- Angel: For the Harvest.
- Buffy: Who are you?
- Angel: Let's just say... I'm a friend.
(starts to leave)
- Buffy: Yeah, well, maybe I don't want
a friend.
- Angel: (turns back) I didn't say I
was yours.
- He leaves. Buffy stares after him for
a moment, then opens the box. It contains a silver cross and
chain. She takes it out, holds it in her hand and takes another
glance in his direction.
- THE HARVEST
- Angel: (exhales)
- Buffy: I don't suppose you've got a
key on you?
- Angel: They really don't like me dropping
in.
- Buffy: (faces him) Why not?
- Angel: They really don't like me. (smirks)
- Buffy: How could that possibly be?
- Angel: I knew you'd figure out this
entryway sooner or later. Actually, I thought it was gonna be
a *little* sooner.
- Buffy: Sorry you had to wait. (exhales)
Okay. Look, if you're gonna be popping up with this Cryptic Wise
Man act on a regular basis, can you at least tell me your name?
- Angel: Angel.
- Buffy: Angel. It's a pretty name.
- She turns to the tunnel entrance.
- Angel: Don't... go down there.
- Buffy: (turns back) Deal with my going.
- Angel: You shouldn't be putting yourself
at risk. Tonight is the Harvest. Unless you can prev ent it,
the Master walks.
- Buffy: Well, if this Harvest thing
is such a suckfest, why don't *you* stop it?
- Angel: 'Cause I'm afraid.
- She looks at him for a moment and then
spins around quickly, kicking open the doors to the tunnel. She
turns back to him.
- Angel: (laughing) They'll be expecting
you.
- Buffy: I've got a friend down there.
Or at least a potential friend. Do you know what it's like to
have a friend?
- He lowers his eyes as a look of sadness
fills them.
- Buffy: That wasn't supposed to be a
stumper.
- They look at each other a moment longer.
- Angel: When you hit the tunnels head
east towards the school. That's where you're likely to find them.
- Buffy: You gonna wish me luck?
- Angel says nothing. They look at each
other for another moment, then Buffy turns and heads into the
tunnels. He watches her go.
- Angel: (whispers) Good luck...
- TEACHERS PET
- Angel: Hi.
- Buffy: I'd say it's nice to see you,
but then we both know that's a big fib.
- Angel: I won't be long.
- Buffy: No, you'll just give me a cryptic
warning about some exciting new catastrophe, and then disappear
into the night. Right?
- Angel: You're cold.
- Buffy: You can take it.
- Angel: (takes off his jacket) I mean,
you look cold.
- He puts his jacket around her shoulders.
Cut to Willow and Xander.
- Xander: Oh, right! Give her your jacket.
It's a balmy night, no one needs to be trading clothing out there!
- Cut to Buffy and Angel.
- Buffy: A little big on me. (notices
a series of cuts on Angel's arm) What happened?
- Angel: I didn't pay attention.
- Buffy: To somebody with a big fork?
- Angel: He's coming.
- Buffy: The Fork Guy?
- Angel: Don't let him corner you. Don't
give him a moment's mercy. He'll rip your throat out.
- Buffy: Okay, I'll give you improved
marks for that one. Ripping a throat out, it's a strong visual,
it's not cryptic!
- Angel: I have to go. (leaves)
- Buffy: (stares after him) Sweet dreams
to you, too.
- AT THE END OF TEACHERS PET:
- Angel: (smiles) I heard a rumor there
was, uh, one less vampire walking around making a nuisance of
himself.
- Buffy: There is. Guess I should thank
you for the tip.
- Angel: Pleasure's mine.
- Buffy: Course, it would make things
easier if I knew how to get in touch with you.
- Angel: I'll be around.
- Buffy: Or who you were?
- Angel just smiles and moves around
to the other side of her.
- Buffy: Well... Anyway, you can have
your jacket back.
- Angel: (looking her up and down...)
It looks better on you.
- He turns and leaves. Buffy stares after
him. Angel gives another look back and disappears into the crowd.
- Buffy: (to herself) Uh-oh....
- NEVER KILL ABOY ON THE FIRST DATE
- The door opens and Angel comes in.
- Cordelia: Ooo! Hello, salty goodness!
(to her friend) Pick up the phone, call 911. That boy is gonna
need some serious oxygen after I'm through with him.
- She starts to follow Angel, but stops
when she sees him go over to Buffy.
- Angel: Buffy.
- Buffy: Angel.
- Cordelia: (to herself) Why is this
happening to me?
- Angel: (to Buffy) I was hoping I'd
find you here.
- Buffy: You were?
- Angel: Some serious stuff happening
tonight. You need to be out there.
- Buffy: No, not you, too. (tries to
leave)
- Angel: (stops her) What do you know?
- Buffy: Prophecy, Anointed One, yada,
yada, yada...
- Angel: So you know. Fine. I just thought
I'd warn you.
- Buffy: Warn me? You see that guy over
there at the bar? (walks around him and faces Owen) He came here
to be with me.
- Angel: You're here on a date?
- Buffy: (turns to Angel) Yes! Why is
it such a shock to everyone?
- Owen: (returns) Here you go.
- Buffy: Oh. (looks between Angel and
Owen) Um, Owen, this is Angel. Angel, this is Owen. (puts her
arm around him) Who is my date.
- Angel: Hey.
- Owen: Hey! So. Where do you know Buffy
from?
- Angel: Work.
- ANGEL
- She rushes inside. shes yells come
on to Angel who is right behind her. Buffy slams the door on
one of the vampire's hands. He struggles a moment, but pulls
his hand back out. She slams the door shut and locks it. The
vampire looks in through the glass. Another one looks in through
the window.
- Angel: It's alright. A vampire can't
come in unless it's invited.
- Buffy: I've heard that before, but
I've never put it to the test. (leans on the door, sees his wound)
Oh... I'll go get some bandages, just... take your jacket and
your shirt off.
- She heads into the kitchen. Angel looks
out the window one last time and follows her. He takes off his
jacket and his T-shirt. Buffy looks at him from behind and sees
his tattoo of a griffin straddling a large "A" below
his right shoulder. She brings over the first aid kit.
- Buffy: Nice tattoo. (exhales) I was
lucky you came along. (looks up at him) How did you happen to
come along? (begins to bandage him)
- Angel: I live nearby. I was just out
walking.
- Buffy: So, you weren't following me?
I just had this feeling you were.
- Angel: (smiles) Why would I do that?
- Buffy: You tell me. You're the Mystery
Guy that appears out of nowhere. I'm not saying I'm not happy
about it tonight, but... if you are hanging around I'd like to
know why. (finishes bandaging)
- Angel: Maybe I like you.
- Buffy: Maybe..
- ANGEL continued
- Angel: Look, I don't wanna get you
in any more trouble...
- Buffy: And I don't wanna get you dead.
They could still be out there. (moves to the center of the room)
So, uh, (realizes) oh... two of us, one bed. That doesn't work.
(faces him) Um, why don't you take the bed? Y'know, you're wounded...
- Angel: I'll take the floor.
- Buffy: Uh, no, that's not...
- Angel: (reassuringly) Oh, believe me,
I've had worse.
- Buffy: Okay. Um, then why don't you
check and see if the Fang Gang is still loitering and, um, keep
your back turned while I change?
- Angel goes over to the window to have
a look. Buffy goes to her closet and changes.
- Angel: I don't see them.
- Buffy: Y'know, I'm the Chosen One,
it's my job to fight guys like that. What's your excuse?
- Angel: Uh, somebody has to.
- Buffy: Well, what does your family
think of your career choice?
- Angel: They're dead.
- She has finished changing and comes
over to him.
- Buffy: Was it vampires?
- Angel: (faces her) I-it was.
- Buffy: I'm sorry.
- Angel: It was a long while ago.
- Buffy: So, this is a vengeance gig
for you.
- Angel: (pauses) Y-you even look pretty
when you go to sleep
- Buffy: Well, when I wake up it's an
entirely different story.
- They go over to her bed. She hands
him the comforter from it.
- Buffy: Here. Sleep tight.
- He lays the comforter down on the floor
next to her bed. She gets into her bed and he lies on the comforter.
- Buffy: Angel?
- Angel: Hmm?
- Buffy: Do you snore?
- Angel: I don't know. It's been a long
time since anybody's been in a position to let me know.
- ANGEL
- Buffy: Angel?
- Angel: Hey.
- She turns on her desk lamp.
- Buffy: Brought you some dinner. It's
a little plateless, sorry.
- She hands him a plastic bag full of
food that she pilfered from dinner. He accepts it and looks at
it.
- Buffy: So! What'd you do all day?
- Angel: Uh, I read a little.
- Buffy looks over to her diary. It's
out of place.
- Angel: And just thought about a lot
of things. Buffy, I...
- Buffy: My diary? You read my diary?
(goes to put it in a drawer) That is *not* okay! A diary is like
a person's most private place! (comes back to him) I... You don't
even know what I was writing about! 'Hunk' can mean a lot of
things, bad things. And, and when it says that your eyes are
'penetrating', I meant to write 'bulging'.
- Angel: Buffy...
- Buffy: And 'A' doesn't even stand for
'Angel' for that matter, it stands for... 'Achmed', a charming
foreign exchange student, so that whole fantasy part has nothing
to even do with you at all...
- Angel: Your mother moved your diary
when she came in to straighten up. I watched from the closet.
I didn't read it, I swear.
- She just looks at him.
- Buffy: Oh! (looks down, realizing what
she just said) Oh.
- Angel: I did a lot of thinking today.
I really can't be around you. (Buffy looks up) Because when I
am...
- Buffy: (looks down) Hey, no big. Water...
over the bridge, under the bridge...
- Angel: When I am all I can ever think
about is how badly I want to kiss you.
- Buffy: ...over the dam... (looks up
at him) Kiss me?
- Angel: I'm older than you, and this
can't ever... I better go.
- Buffy: H-how much older?
- Angel: I should...
- Buffy: (approaches him) ...go... You
said...
- They kiss. They kiss again. They kiss
passionately. She puts her arm around him. The kiss goes on for
several moments. Angel suddenly pulls back and looks away.
- Buffy: What? What is it? What's wrong?
- He turns to face her and growls. She
sees he has his game face on and screams. He takes a last look
at her and jumps out of the window. He slides down the roof and
off onto the ground. Buffy goes to the window and watches him
run away. Her mother comes running into the room.
- ANGEL
- Buffy: I know you're there. And I know
what you are.
- Angel: Do you?
- She faces his voice.
- Angel: I'm just an animal, right?
- Buffy: You're not an animal. Animals
I like.
- She keeps looking around her. He growls
and comes out of the shadows to face her. She trains the crossbow
on him.
- Angel: Let's get it done!
- ANGEL
- Angel: C'mon! Don't go soft on me now!
- Buffy launches the bolt. It hits the
wall next to him.
- Angel: Little wide.
- Buffy: Why? (gets up) Why didn't you
just attack me when you had the chance? Was it a joke? To make
me feel for you and then... I've killed a lot of vampires. I've
never hated one before.
- Angel: Feels good, doesn't it? Feels
simple.
- Buffy: I invited you into my home and
then you attacked my family!
- Angel: Why not? I killed mine. I killed
their friends... and their friend's children... For a hundred
years I offered ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with
a song in my heart.
- Buffy: What changed?
- Angel: Fed on a girl about your age...
beautiful... dumb as a post... but a favorite among her clan.
- Buffy: Her clan?
- Angel: Romany. Gypsies. The elders
conjured the perfect punishment for me. They restored my soul.
- Buffy: What, they were all out of boils
and blinding torment?
- Angel: When you become a vampire the
demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone!
No conscience, no remorse... It's an easy way to live. You have
no idea what it's like to have done the things I've done... and
to care. I haven't fed on a living human being since that day.
- Buffy: So you started with my mom?
- Angel: I didn't bite her.
- Buffy: Then why didn't you say something?
- Angel: But I wanted to. I can walk
like a man, but I'm not one. I wanted to kill you tonight.
- Buffy looks at her bow and back at
Angel. She puts the bow down on the floor and approaches him.
She offers her neck.
- Buffy: Go ahead.
- He just looks at her in silence.
- Buffy: Not as easy as it looks.
-
- Willow sit at a table with him facing
away from Buffy and Angel. Willow watches as Buffy makes her
way over to Angel. The crowd is slow dancing to "I'll remember
you", by Sophie Zelmani.
- Lyrics: Did they know what they
wanted / The times they kissed me? /
- And your hands / I held in mine
- Buffy and Angel reach each other.
- Angel: I just wanted to see if you
were okay. And your mother.
- Buffy: We're both good. You?
- Angel: If I can go a little while without
getting shot or stabbed I'll be alright. Look, this can't...
- Buffy: ...ever be anything. I know.
For one thing, you're, like, two hundred and twenty-four years
older than I am.
- Angel: I just gotta... I gotta walk
away from this.
- Buffy: (nods) I know. Me, too. (whispers)
One of us has to go here.
- Angel: (whispers) I know.
- They look at each other a moment longer
and then close in to kiss. Their kiss becomes passionate. Buffy
reaches her hands up to Angel's neck.
- Lyrics: Your eyes / That always
make me shiver / Now they are closed /
- They just sometimes twitch a little
- Cut to Willow and Xander.
- Xander: What's going on?
- Willow: Nothin'...
- Xander: Well, as long as they're not
kissing.
- Willow just watches, smiling and says
nothing. Cut to Angel and Buffy.
- Lyrics: And your body / I could
hold for an hour / It sent me to Heaven
- / With its heat and power
- They separate.
- Buffy: You okay?
- Angel: It's just...
- Buffy: ...painful. I know. See you
around?
- Lyrics: I'll remember you / You
will be there in my heart / I'll
- remember you / And that is all that
I can do / But I'll remember
- Buffy walks away. Angel watches her
go. The camera pans down to his chest where her cross has left
a deep burn.
- INVISIBLE GIRL/OUT OF MIND OUT OF
SITE
- Giles: (exhales) A vampire casts no
reflection.
- Angel: Don't worry. I'm not here to
eat.
- Giles: Buffy told me you don't feed
from humans anymore.
- Angel: Not for a long while.
- Giles: Is that why you're here? To
see her?
- Angel: I can't. It's, uh... It's too
hard for me to be around her.
- Giles: A vampire in love with a Slayer!
It's rather poetic! In a maudlin sort of way. What can I, uh...
What can I do for you?
- PROPHECY GIRL
- Angel moves into the light to read
the Codex, and Buffy sees him.
- Buffy: Angel?
- She heads toward the office.
- Angel: It can't be. You've gotta be
wrong.
- Giles: I've checked it against all
my other volumes. It's very real.
- Buffy stops at the door.