ANGEL TRANSCRIPT    

  "Just Rewards"

  5x02 — Episode #90

  teleplay by David Fury & Ben Edlund

  story by David Fury

  directed by James A. Contner

  originally aired October 8, 2003

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RECAP: (SKIP RECAP...)

ANGEL (V.0.)

Previously on Angel...

1 EXT. RANDOM LOS ANGELES ALLEY - NIGHT

Angel rushes to the rescue of a young blonde woman in a dark alley being attacked by a vampire. The vampire falls to the ground again. Angel pulls a stake out of his belt, twirls it like an old gunfighter might, and lunges it dramatically into the vampire's chest. The vampire disappears in a cloud of smoke.

GIRL

(to Angel)

Who are you?

Cars screech. A group of armed men dressed completely in black gather suddenly at the end of the alley, pointing guns in Angel's direction. Several cars pull up to the end of the alley, all with their headlights pointing at Angel. Several people get out and walk toward him. Angel seems confused.

NOTARY

(holding a contract, speaks to the girl)

This is to confirm that you have been rescued by Angel, C.E.O. and President of Wolfram & Hart...

GIRL

(to Angel) You run a law firm?

ANGEL

(innocently) Well, just lately.

Angel looks around at the array of dozens of people in utter disbelief.

Cut to:

2 INT. LOBBY OF WOLFRAM & HART - DAY

Wesley walks up to the elevators from the lobby, holding a coffee mug, as Fred steps off the elevator carrying a box of her belongings.

WESLEY

Why on earth are we here?

FRED

What? Because we're crusaders against evil and now the law firm that represents most of the evil in the world has given us its L.A. Branch to run however we want?

Angel starts walking across the lobby, flanked by Gunn and Wesley.

ANGEL

(buttons his jacket)

We're turning this place inside out.

The focus moves to Lorne, who's walking through the lobby, talking on a cell phone, accompanied by a man holding three binders.

LORNE

Yes, it's perfect. It's the project you've been waiting for. Yeah, it's "Joanie Loves Chachi" meets "The Sorrow and the Pity."

Cut to:

3 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY

Angel is going through papers on his desk. Angel's secretary brings him a mug and places it on his desk in front of him.

ANGEL

(sips from his mug, then looks up at his secretary)

Harmony.

HARMONY

Hey! Boss.

ANGEL

You're my secretary?

Cut to:

4 INT. LOBBY OF WOLFRAM & HART - DAY

Fred's talking to Wesley.

FRED

Have you seen my lab? It's giganamous. And I'm in charge.

Cut to:

5 INT. GUNN'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Gunn walks back to his office to grab his jacket. Someone speaks to him from the corner.

EVE

I'm just wondering if you're ready for the next step.

GUNN

You don't know me or you wouldn't ask that question.

Eve hands Gunn a business card.

Cut to:

6 INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE - DAY

Tubes are attached to Gunn's head via some contraption from the strange doctor's office. Gunn's grunting and gasping and breathing hard.

Cut to:

7 INT. COURTHOUSE - DAY

Someone in a fancy suit and expensive shoes walks through the lobby carrying an alligator-hide briefcase. As he enters the room, pan up to show it's Gunn in a pin-striped suit with a silk tie, all decked out.

EVE (V.O.)

Charles agreed to let us enhance his mind with a comprehensive knowledge of the law.

Cut to:

8 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY

Angel is talking to the gang in his office.

ANGEL

(rubbing his chin)

Yes, we are. We're gonna change things. We came to Wolfram and Hart because it's a powerful weapon.

(picks up the envelope from his desk, rips open the envelope)

We'll deal...

(an amulet falls out of the envelope)

with whatever comes next.

Immediately, the amulet activates. A black whirlwind erupts from it, causing papers on Angel's desk to stir. The ashen whirlwind starts to glow with flecks of orange as something begins to materialize inside it. A man's skeletal form shows, then it gradually fills out until it's complete. The wind fades and Spike is standing there, screaming and grunting, in the middle of the office, right where the amulet fell.

SPIKE

Aah!

(doubles over in pain, panting, glaring ferociously)

WESLEY

(softly)

Spike?

ANGEL

(angrily)

Spike.

Fade to black.

START OF EPISODE

PROLOGUE:

9 INT. SUNNYDALE HELLMOUTH - DAY

TITLE:

Sunnydale, California

The Hellmouth

Nineteen Days Earlier

Buffy and Spike are the only ones left in the hellmouth. Spike is still glowing from the amulet, sending rays of light out into the hellmouth, dusting the prehistoric vampires within. Buffy stands in front of him, staring, still holding her scythe.

SPIKE

Go on, then.

BUFFY

No. No, you've done enough. You could still—

SPIKE

No, you've beat them back. It's for me to do the cleanup.

The walls are crumbling around them.

BUFFY

(worried)

Spike!

SPIKE

I mean it! I gotta do this.

(holds out his hand to stop her)

Buffy laces her fingers through Spike's.

SPIKE

(another earthquake; Buffy lets go of his hand)

Now go!

(Buffy runs up the stairs)

I wanna see how it ends.

Spike stands in the crumbling hellmouth with light shining down on him from above, grinning from ear to ear and laughing as he burns up from the sunlight. He dusts slowly—first his skin singes, then his muscles, then his bones—then he's gone. The hellmouth crumbles in around him.

Cut to:

10 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY

Spike doubles over in pain, gasping, as he materializes in Angel's office at Wolfram & Hart. He looks around him, panic-stricken, at the unfamiliar faces. He sees Harmony, Lorne, Fred, Wesley.

SPIKE

(confused)

What...what...

HARMONY

(hands on her hips)

What the hell are you doing here, Spike?

WESLEY

Harmony, please.

GUNN

(sneering)

This is Spike? The Spike?

FRED

Wait a minute. Who's—

LORNE

(calmly, to Spike)

Easy, slim. Easy. No one's gonna hurt you.

GUNN

Speak for yourself, green jeans.

FRED

OK, would somebody please tell me who—

WESLEY

William the Bloody. He's a vampire. One of the worst recorded. Second only to—

ANGEL

Me.

(an angry Spike turns to face Angel)

But you're dead.

HARMONY

(gesturing widely, rolling her eyes knowingly)

Well, yeah. Who here isn't?

(looks around)

Besides him (to Wes) and him (to Gunn) and her (to Fred) and...

(to Lorne) What are you again?

Spike, still staring at Angel, transforms into vampire facade and lunges angrily at Angel, snarling fiercely. Angel braces for impact, but Spike goes right through him. Spike stops, turns around, looks down at his body—his legs have disappeared inside Angel's desk.

SPIKE

(looks up and frowns)

Bugger.

Fade to black.

Opening credits.

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ACT I:

11 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY

Resume. The gang has just discovered Spike's not corporeal.

SPIKE

(looks down at his body in the desk)

What? What's happened to me?

HARMONY

Well, I'm no doctor, but I think you're a ghost.

SPIKE

(points at her)

I'm no—I'm no bloody ghost.

HARMONY

Hey, you're the one sticking out of a desk, pal.

(angrily)

And you can't talk to me like that. We're not going out anymore.

GUNN

Where'd he come from?

WESLEY

(picks up the amulet from the floor)

From this.

FRED

What is it?

ANGEL

Something I gave to Buffy before—

SPIKE

Buffy! Is she—

ANGEL

She's OK.

SPIKE

Where—where is she?

ANGEL

Europe, last I heard from her.

SPIKE

Wanna see her... Wanna talk to her.

ANGEL

That's gonna be tough.

SPIKE

(scoffs)

You can't keep her from me.

ANGEL

She's not mine to keep... or yours.

SPIKE

Says you. You got no idea what we had.

ANGEL

You never had her.

SPIKE

(in Angel's face)

More than you, you poncy—

HARMONY

Oh...my...God! You and the slayer actually... I mean, I know you had that twisted obsession with her, but...yecch. That's just... yecch.

(walks away, stops)

I... yecch!

(leaves)

SPIKE

I must be in hell.

LORNE

Uh, no. L.A., but a lot of people make that mistake.

FRED

(to Wes and Gunn)

So Spike and Buffy are—

WESLEY

He was, um, an ally of hers for some time, at least that's what Angel told me. That's all Angel told me.

GUNN

So he's a good-guy vampire like Angel?

ANGEL

He's nothing like me.

SPIKE

Got that right. What have you done to me?

(looks around the office)

What is this place?!

(to Fred, Gunn and Wes) Who are you people? What the bloody hell is happening?!

Cut to:

12 INT. SCIENCE LAB - DAY

The gang has moved on to the science lab. Wesley is looking into a microscope while Fred scans Spike with a beeping instrument.

LORNE

(to Wes) Honey of a story.

WESLEY

Story?

LORNE

Yeah, the vampire slayer both men loved, both men lost. Oh, I could sell that to any studio in a heartbeat. I see Depp and Bloom. But then I see them a lot. Sorry. Hazard of running the entertainment division. Gotta get out more.

SPIKE

(to Fred) So what are you then? Scanner girl?

FRED

(scanning Spike)

I'm Fred. I head up Wolfram & Hart's Science Department.

SPIKE

Wolfram & Hart. Heard of that. Thought it was a law firm.

FRED

It is, among other things.

SPIKE

Also heard they represent the worst evil in the universe.

ANGEL

It did, among other things, but now I'm in charge.

SPIKE