Serenity From Hell
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NINA Doesn't matter. How are you? ANGEL I'm good. NINA (leans up) You're not perfectly happy, are you? 'Cause I've got my wooden stake right here. (reaches over into her nightstand drawer) Oh, that's not a stake. (continues looking) I know I brought it— ANGEL You're safe.
ILLYRIA (turns to walk away) I've grown wary of this world since my powers were depleted. Strange... though I've been made more human, this place remains disconcerting. SPIKE (following her) Yeah, well, I'm afraid that never goes away. Anyhow, I thought Wesley was giving you a primer on all things human. ILLYRIA He and I are no longer having intercourse. SPIKE Y-ah. You wh-what? ILLYRIA He has ceased communication with me. SPIKE Oh! Oh. Communi—
ILLYRIA My recent reversion to the Burkle persona disturbed him. And he will not tell me why. SPIKE You don't know? You may not think you're as powerful as you were, Highness, but looking like Fred, for some of us... it's the most devastating power you have
ANGEL Harmony, the lab might have something in the blood bank. Why don't you go check it out? Gunn glares at Angel. Angel winks at Hamilton, who shows a nod of approval. HARMONY OK. You're the boss, boss. (starts walking away, but stops and turns to Angel) Could I maybe just have a teeny, weeny— ANGEL No.
ILLYRIA He showed no regard for my presence. SPIKE Not that you require any creature's attention. (Illyria glares) Hey, wanna go find something to hit?
SENATOR (presses the "stop" button on the video remote and throws the remote on the table in disgust) There. So you can see my concern. ERNESTO This Conley campaign's a juggernaut. Guy came out of nowhere with his... "Your home is his work" crap. Women voters are eating it up. SENATOR And they were mine. I had a lock on the chick vote. And now my numbers are slipping. I didn't claw my way up from hell and get installed in a human body just to have some pedophile steal my senate seat.
IZZY Ah! Hell. Nice one. Did I tell ya... ran into Ed the other day? ANGEL Ed? IZZY The Grand Potentate whatcha-whosit of the Fell Brethren? ANGEL Right. How is Ed? IZZY You know the Fells. All they can talk about is the baby. The baby's doing this now. The baby's doing that. What a wonderful ritual sacrifice he'll make. Yak, yak, yak. Anyway, couldn't say enough nice things about you.
ILLYRIA I've seen this before with many rulers. Your leader has been corrupted. SPIKE (they stop walking) Hey, hang on. In the first place, Angel's not my leader. In the second, what the bloody hell do you mean corrupted? ILLYRIA It always begins the same. A ruler turns a blind eye to the dealings of battles from which he cannot gain... and a deaf ear to the counsel of those closest to him. As his strength increases, so does the separation between he and his follow— SPIKE Shh. (looks around) You smell that? ILLYRIA (looks around) The odors of everything in this world of men are equally repugnant to me.
ILLYRIA You'll have proof soon enough. A corrupted ruler on such a path sees treachery and betrayal all around him. He cannot suffer intimates and will eventually turn against them. SPIKE Guess I don't have to worry about that, 'cause Angel and me have never been intimate. Except that one...
SPIKE Stay away from its mouth! It's bite's poisonous. (gets to his feet) Go for its knees. I think there's a weak spot— (sees that Illyria has kicked the demon forcefully through the large wooden supports for a roller-coaster) (impressed) OK. Yeah! That might do it. (walks over to Drogyn) Drogyn. What the hell are you doing here? Oh, don't give me your "ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies" bugaboo. DROGYN (straining) I came to find you.
DROGYN It was a Sathari... part of a clan of demon assassins. They fell upon me last night. The poison from his 4 blades wearing heavy on my limbs. SPIKE Yeah, rousing bit of rah-rah, mate. Get to the goods.
WESLEY Gunn, this is Drogyn, the battlebrand, given eternal youth a thousand years ago. Demonbane, truthsayer... (Drogyn nods, Wes looks down) Watchers' Council. SPIKE Percy did a paper. Bully on him
SPIKE I'm not missing the fireworks. Hey, Illyria, you don't care about any of this nonsense, do you? ILLYRIA The intricacies of your fates are meaningless. SPIKE (Wes rolls his eyes and exits) Well and good. You mind watching over our friend Drogyn? Aw, come on. New place'll do you good. It's nice and cozy. Help yourself to some beer in the fridge. Switch on the telly if you get bored. (hands her video game controls) And, uh, feel free to play a little Crash Bandicoot. Give you lot something to pass the time. (walks out) ILLYRIA (looks at Spike) Crash Bandicoot? (looks at the controls; Drogyn looks confused)
ANGEL You want to know the truth? The truth is there's only one of us who ever understood how things really work. Lorne. LORNE Whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Can I not be the poster child for your nervous breakdown here? ANGEL You didn't judge. You didn't spend your life obsessed with good and evil. You do that, you get swallowed, lost in the minutia. Good, bad, Angel, Angelus— None of it makes a difference. I wish it did, but, you know, an ant with the best intentions or the most diabolical schemes is just exactly an ant. There is one thing in this business, in this apocalypse that we call a world that matters: Power. Power tips the scale, power sets the course, and until I have real power, global power, I have nothing. I accomplish nothing.
HARMONY (walks into the office) Angel, that important phone call from... (smiles nervously) that guy about that thing, it's on line 3. (walks out) ANGEL We're done here. I have to take this
בייחוד לאור העובדה שאני יודעת ששבוע הבא זה הפרק האחרון ואז בכלל הנאום שאנג'ל נתן בסוף הפרק תופס משמעות יותר גדולה... בכל אופן, אני יכולה להגיד עכשיו, כשאוטוטו הסדרה עומדת להסתיים, שאני העדפתי את אנג'ל בימיו העליזים יותר, בעונות 1-2, כשהיו עלילות נחמדות, וכל הדמויות האהובות היו בחיים. העונה החמישית [וגם הרביעית, כשאני חושבת על זה] היתה כ"כ מפוצצת בפילוסופיה שהיה לי נורא קשה למצוא את העלילה. אז זהו. שבוע הבא פרק אחרון