- Season 2
- Main
- WHEN SHE WAS BAD
- Cut to Buffy's bedroom. She wakes from
her nightmare with a start. She looks around and over at her
open window. She sits up and rubs her face. When she looks back
at her window again Angel is there, leaning against the sill.
- Buffy: Hello.
- Angel: Mind if I come in?
- Buffy: Be my guest.
- Angel: How are you?
- Buffy: Peachy. So, is this a social
call? It is kinda late. Or, well, it is for me, anyway. What
is it for you, lunch hour?
- Angel: It's not a social call.
- Buffy: Ah. So, lemme guess. That means
grave danger. Gosh, it's good to be home.
- Angel: I'm sorry. I wish I had better
news.
- Buffy: So, some of your cousins are
in town for a family barbecue, and we're all on the menu!
- Angel: The Anointed One. He's been
gathering forces somewhere in town. I'm not sure why.
- Buffy: Guess I'll find out soon enough,
huh?
- Angel: You don't sound too concerned.
- Buffy: I can handle myself. Besides,
I could use a little action anyway.
- Angel: Don't underestimate the Anointed
One just because he looks like a child. He has power over the
rest of them. They'll do anything for him.
- Buffy: Is that it? Is that everything?
Y'know, 'cause you woke me up from a really good dream.
- She turns away from him and lies back
down.
- Angel: Sorry. I'll go. (turns around
to go, but pauses) I missed you.
- Buffy: (turns to the window) I missed
you?
- Angel is already gone. "It Doesn't
Matter", by Alison Krauss, plays in the background.
- Lyrics: It doesn't matter what I
want / It doesn't matter what I need
- WSWB--LATER ON
- Buffy walks into the Bronze. Angel
sees her come in and goes over to her.
- Buffy: Hi.
- Angel: Hi.
- Buffy: So, is there danger at the Bronze?
Should I beware?
- Angel: I can't help thinking I've done
something to make you angry. And that bothers me more than I'd
like.
- Buffy: I'm not angry. I don't know
where that comes from.
- Angel: What are you afraid of? Me?
Us?
- Buffy: Could you contemplate getting
over yourself for a second? There's no 'us'. Look, Angel, I'm
sorry if I was supposed to spend the summer mooning over you,
but I didn't. I moved on. To the living.
- WSWB--CONTINUED
- Cut to the alley outside the Bronze.
Buffy senses Angel as she nears the entrance.
- Buffy: Y'know, being stalked isn't
really a big turn-on for girls.
- Angel: (behind her) You need help.
Someone to watch your back.
- Buffy: Sure you don't mean my neck?
- Angel: (comes around her) Why are you
ridin' me?
- Buffy: Because I don't trust you. You're
a vampire. (gets a look) Oh, I'm sorry, was that an offensive
term? Should I say 'undead American'?
- Angel: You have to trust someone. You
can't do this alone.
- Buffy: I trust me.
- Angel: You're not as strong as you
think.
- Buffy: (gives him a challenging look)
You think you can take me?
- Angel: What?
- Buffy: Oh, c'mon! I mean, you must've
thought about it. What would happen if it ever came down to a
fight, you vampire, me the Slayer, I mean, you must've wondered!
Well, why don't we find out?
- Angel: I'm not gonna fight you.
- Buffy: Come on! Kick my ass!
- Angel: Don't you have somewhere to
be?
- Buffy: I do.
- Angel: Well, you're wasting time.
- Buffy: Just stay out of my way. (walks
around him to the entrance)
- Angel: Happy to oblige.
- Cut inside. Buffy comes in and looks
around as she slowly walks through an empty Bronze. She comes
upon a girl crying in a corner. She stops. Angel appears behind
her.
- WSWB CONT
- Cut below. Buffy bends down and picks
up the sledgehammer. She slowly walks over to the Master's skeleton
and looks at it a moment. Then she swings the hammer back behind
her and arcs it directly into the Master's skull, shattering
it to pieces. She keeps whaling on the Master's skeleton as Willow,
Xander and Giles look down from above. Angel comes up behind
her and watches her continue until there's nothing left on the
table. She stops and bursts into tears, dropping the sledgehammer
to the floor.
- Angel: It's okay. It's okay.
- Buffy turns around and leans into him,
crying into his shoulder. Angel gently holds on to her as she
cries. Xander, Willow and Giles continue to watch from above.
Willow briefly looks up at Xander.
- SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
- The camera cuts to her right and approaches
her from behind.
- Angel: Hey.
- Buffy inhales a quick startled breath
and turns around to face her stalker.
- Angel: Is this a bad time?
- Buffy: Are you crazy? You don't just
sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk.
You stomp or... yodel.
- Angel: I heard you were on the hunt.
- Buffy: I'm supposed to be, but... lazy
bones here doesn't wanna come out and play.
- Angel: When you first wake up it's
a little disorienting. He'll show.
- Buffy: It's weird to think of you going
through that.
- Angel: It's weird to go through. So,
uh, you're here alone?
- Buffy: Yeah! Why?
- Angel: I just thought you'd have somebody
with you. Xander or someone.
- Buffy: Xander.
- Angel: Or someone.
- Buffy: Nope. (hops down off the gravestone)
Why? Are you jealous?
- Angel: (chuckles) Of Xander? Please.
He's just a kid.
- Buffy: Is it 'cause I danced with him?
- Angel: 'Danced with' is a pretty loose
term. 'Mated with' might be a little closer.
- Buffy: Don't you think you're being
a little unfair? It was one little dance, which I only did to
make you crazy, by the way. Behold my success.
- Angel: I am *not* jealous.
- Buffy: You're not jealous? What, vampires
don't get jealous?
- Stephan has come out of the ground,
and looks at them from behind his gravestone.
- Angel: See? Whenever we fight you always
bring up the vampire thing.
- Buffy: Well, I didn't come here to
fight.
- The vampire lunges at her and knocks
her into Angel. They fall to the ground, but Buffy quickly gets
up.
- Buffy: Oh, right, I did.
- Stephan throws a few punches which
Buffy easily blocks. She punches him in the face several times
and kicks him in the jaw, sending him stumbling into a large
adjacent gravestone. She looks around frantically.
- Buffy: Where's my stake? I-I know I
had a stake!
- Angel: I didn't see a stake!
- The vampire grabs a shovel that was
lying by the other gravestone and comes at them again. Angel
attacks, but Stephan brings the shovel up and hits him in the
side of the face, knocking him onto his back. He leaves Angel
lying there and steps toward Buffy. She meets him and jumps over
the shovel when Stephan swings it at her legs. He swings it at
her again, but she catches it, hits him again and breaks the
handle. She spins around with her half and jams the broken handle
into his chest. He falls over backward and bursts into ashes
as he hits the ground. Angel gets up holding the side of his
head.
- Buffy: (out of breath) What do you
mean he's just a kid? Does that mean I'm just a kid, too?
- Angel: Look, obviously I made a mistake
coming here tonight. (turns and leaves)
- Buffy: Oh, no you don't. You can't
just turn and walk away from me like that. (starts following
him determinedly) It takes more than that to get rid of me.
- She falls into an open grave with an
open and empty coffin at the bottom.
- SOME ASSEMBLY REQ. CONT.
- Cut to the cemetery. Angel and Buffy
are strolling through.
- Buffy: God, the whole thing was so
creepy. Well, at the same time, I mean... he did do it all for
his brother.
- Angel: Sounds like he took it a little
over the edge.
- Buffy: Love makes you do the wacky.
- Angel: What?
- Buffy: Crazy stuff.
- Angel: Oh. Crazy, like a two-hundred-and-forty-one-year-old
being jealous of a high school junior?
- Buffy: Are you fessing up?
- Angel: I've thought about it. Maybe
it bothers me a little.
- Buffy: I don't love Xander.
- Angel: Yeah, but he's in your life.
He gets to be there when I can't. Take your classes, eat your
meals, hear your jokes and complaints. He gets to see you in
the sunlight.
- Buffy: I don't look that good in direct
light.
- Angel: It'll be morning soon.
- Buffy: I should probably go. I could
walk you home.
- They look at each other for a long
moment. Finally Angel begins to walk, and Buffy accompanies him,
her hand in his.
- SCHOOL HARD
- Buffy: We were at the Bronze before.
Thought you said you might show.
- Angel: You said you weren't sure if
you were going.
- Buffy: I was being cool. C'mon, you've
been dating for, what, like, two hundred years? You don't know
what a girl means when she says maybe she'll show?
- Willow: Wow, two centuries of dating.
If you only had two a year, that's still, like, four hundred
(Buffy gives her a look) dates with four hundred different...
(looks at the mace on the table) Why do they call it a mace?
- REPTILE BOY
- Cut to the cemetery at night. Buffy
strolls through, keeping a careful watch. She spots a bracelet
on the ground and bends down to pick it up. Angel suddenly appears
behind her.
- Angel: There's blood on it.
- Buffy: (gets up startled and faces
him) Hi. It's nice to... Blood?
- Angel: I can smell it.
- Buffy: Oh. (looks at the bracelet)
It's pretty thin. It probably belonged to a girl.
- Angel: Probably.
- Buffy: (exhales) I-I was... just thinking,
wouldn't it be funny some time to see each other when it wasn't
a blood thing. (smiles briefly) Not funny ha, ha.
- Angel: What are you sayin', you wanna
have a date?
- Buffy: No.
- Angel: You don't wanna have a date?
- Buffy: Who said 'date'? I-I-I never
said 'date'.
- Angel: Right. You just wanna have coffee
or somethin'.
- Buffy: (hopefully) Coffee?
- Angel: I knew this was gonna happen.
- Buffy: What? What do you think is happening?
- Angel: You're sixteen years old. I'm
two hundred and forty-one.
- Buffy: I've done the math.
- Angel: You don't know what you're doing,
you don't know what you want...
- Buffy: Oh. No, I, I think I do. I want
out of this conversation. (starts to walk past him)
- Angel: (bumps into her) Listen, if
we date you and I both know one thing's gonna lead to another.
- Buffy: One thing already has led to
another. You think it's a little late to be reading me a warning
label?
- Angel: I'm just tryin' to protect you.
This could get outta control.
- Buffy: Isn't that the way it's supposed
to be?
- He grabs her by the shoulders and pulls
her closer. She draws a startled breath.
- Angel: This isn't some fairy tale.
When I kiss you, you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live
happily ever after.
- Buffy: No. When you kiss me I wanna
die.
- She pulls herself free and runs off.
- REP BOT CONT.
- Angel comes down the stairs and over
to stand behind Xander.
- Xander: Angel, Angel, Angel. Does every
conversation we have have to come around to that freak? (notices
Angel) Hey, man, how you doin'?
- Angel: Buffy.
- Buffy: Angel.
- Xander: (in a deep voice) Xander! (shakes
his head)
- Angel: I hear this place, uh, serves
coffee. (Xander looks up at him) I thought maybe you and I should
get some. Sometime. If you want.
- Buffy permits herself a bit of a smile.
- Buffy: Yeah. Sometime. I'll let you
know.
- Angel eyes her suspiciously. Buffy
gets up and leaves with a smile on her face.
- HALLOWEEN
- Cut to the Summers house. Cut to Buffy's
room. Angel is lounging on her bed. She opens the door and comes
in wearing a tank top and sweatpants.
- Buffy: Tada. Just little old 20th-century
me.
- Angel: Sure you're okay?
- Buffy: I'll live.
- She walks over to him, and he sits
up on the bed.
- Angel: I don't get it, Buffy. Why'd
you think I'd like you better dressed that way?
-
- Buffy: (sits next to him) I just wanted
to be a real girl for once. The kind of fancy girl you liked
when you were my age.
- Angel: (ironically) Oh, ho.
- Buffy: What?
- Angel: I hated the girls back then.
Especially the noble women.
- Buffy: (nods) You did.
- Angel: They were just incredibly dull.
Simpering morons, the lot of them. I always wished I could meet
someone... exciting. (looks her in the eyes) Interesting.
- Buffy: Really? Interesting how?
- Angel: You know how.
- Buffy: Still, I had a really hard day.
You should probably tell me.
- Angel: (smiles and draws nearer) You're
right. I should.
- Buffy: (gets closer) Definitely.
- They kiss gently yet passionately.
She cradles his face in her hands.
- LIE TO ME
- The kitchen at the Summers house. Buffy
is nursing a cup of coffee. Angel slowly pushes the door open.
- Angel: Buffy. May I come in?
- Buffy: (looks up) Sure. I thought once
you were invited you could always just walk in.
- Angel: I can. I was just being polite.
(closes the door) We need to talk.
- Buffy: Do we? (picks up her coffee
and heads into the dining room)
- Angel: It's about your friend Ford.
He's not what he seems.
- Buffy: Who is these days?
- Angel: Willow ran him down on the computer.
- Buffy: Willow?
- Angel: We found this address, we checked
it out with Xander, and it turned out...
- Buffy: (disbelieving) And Xander? Wow.
Everybody's in. It's like a great big exciting conspiracy.
- Angel: What are you talking about?
- Buffy: I'm talking about the people
I trust. Who's Drusilla?
- Angel lowers his eyes, seeing he's
been caught in a lie.
- Buffy: And don't lie to me. I'm tired
of it.
- Angel: Some lies are necessary.
- Buffy: For what?
- Angel: Sometimes the truth is worse.
You live long enough, you find that out.
- Buffy: I can take it. I can take the
truth.
- Angel: Do you love me?
- Buffy: What?
- Angel: Do you?
- She takes a moment to consider her
answer.
- Buffy: I love you. I don't know if
I trust you.
- Angel: Maybe you shouldn't do either.
(turns away)
- Buffy: Maybe I'm the one who should
decide!
- Angel: I did a lot of unconscionable
things when I became a vampire. (turns back, but doesn't make
eye contact) Drusilla was the worst. She was... an obsession
of mine. She was pure and sweet and chaste...
- Buffy: And you made her a vampire.
- Angel: First I made her insane. (looks
at her) Killed everybody she loved. Visited every mental torture
on her I could devise. (Buffy looks away) She eventually fled
to a convent, and on the day she took her holy orders, I turned
her into a demon.
- Buffy: Well. I asked for the truth.
- WHATS MY LINE PART 1
- Cut to Buffy's room. Angel is there,
and he looks around while he waits for her to get home. Buffy
climbs up to her window and looks in. She sees him looking into
her bookcase. Angel takes her stuffed pig from the shelf. Without
a word Buffy reaches for her bag and tosses it loudly through
the window and onto the floor. Angel turns around, startled.
He gently squeezes the pig.
- Angel: Buffy! You scared me.
- Buffy: (climbs in) Now you know what
it feels like, Stealth Guy.
- She crouches down by her bag and reaches
into her hair to pull out a few clips.
- Buffy: Just dropping by for some quality
time with Mr. Gordo?
- Angel: (confused) Excuse me?
- Buffy: The pig. (opens her trunk and
dumps the bag in)
- Angel: Oh. (chuckles) I, uh...
- Buffy: What's up? (walks to her desk)
- Angel: Nothing.
- He tosses the pig onto a chair and
walks to the foot of her bed. She drops her hair clips into a
desk drawer and faces him.
- Buffy: Only you don't have a nothing
face. You have a something face. And you don't have to whisper.
Mom's in L.A. till Thursday. Art buying, or something.
- Angel: Then why'd you come in through
the window?
- Buffy: (crinkles her nose) Habit.
- Angel: I wanted to make sure you're
okay. I had a bad feeling.
- Buffy: (exhales) There's a surprise.
Angel comes with bad news.
- He exhales and turns away, tired of
the same old reaction from her.
- Buffy: Oh, God, I'm sorry. (walks over
to him) Look, I've been Cranky Miss all day. It's not you.
- Angel: Well, what is it then?
- Buffy: It's nothing.
- Angel isn't buying it.
- Buffy: (exhales) Uh, we're having this
thing at school.
- Angel: Career week?
- Buffy: How did you know?
- Angel: I lurk.
- Buffy: Right. Well, then you know it's
a whole week of 'what's my line', only... I don't get to play.
(sits on her bed) Sometimes I just want...
- Angel: You want what? (sits next to
her)
- Buffy looks into her long mirror. She's
alone in the reflection.
- Angel: It's okay.
- Buffy: (looks up at Angel) The Cliff
Notes version? I want a normal life. Like I had before.
- Angel: Before me.
- Buffy: No, Angel, (touches his hand)
it's not you. (touches his cheek) You're the one freaky thing
in my freaky world that still makes sense to me. (lowers her
hand) I just get messed sometimes. (Angel looks down) I wish
we could be regular kids.
- Angel: (looks back up) Yeah. I'll never
be a kid. (gets up)
- Buffy: Okay, then a regular kid and
her cradle robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend.
- Angel can't help but let out a laugh.
Buffy smiles back. He sees a picture on her desk and picks it
up. It's of her as a child on ice-skates.
- Angel: Was this part of your normal
life?
- Buffy: Oh, my God. (laughs and stands
up) My Dorothy Hamill phase. My room in L.A. was pretty much
a shrine. Dorothy dolls, Dorothy posters, I even got the Dorothy
haircut. Thereby securing a place for myself in the geek hall
of fame.
- Angel: (still laughing) Hmm, you wanted
to be like her?
- Buffy: I wanted to *be* her. My parents
were fighting all the time, and skating was an escape. I felt
safe.