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Date Posted: 08:52:36 09/03/04 Fri
Author: Ice_Visions
Subject: Angel 6x03 'Mortal Coil' Act 1

I've decided to post this one in acts as it makes it easier for me to post updates more regularly and it means if I'm having writing troubles you're more likely to get something sooner. Enjoy and PLEASE leave feedback.

Angel 6x03 �Mortal Coil�

TEASER

Establishing shot: Illyria�s bookstore. Day. The entire outside has now been painted Illyria blue and the door is red. A sign outside reads �Illyria Books � A Godly service to occult literature and artefacts�

Inside the gang is sitting around. Illyria is currently sporting her more human form like the one she changed into in 6x02 �Mind over Matters�. There are a few customers browsing, Illyria is finishing a transaction.

ILLYRIA
I hope you enjoy servicing yourself with this product.

The lady gives Illyria a look and heads off.

ANGEL
I think you mean �I hope this serves you well��or �enjoy� or something else�

ILLYRIA
I have a grasp on your language. I know what I said and I said it because it was my intention. No other reason.

ANDREW
What�d she buy?

ILLYRIA
The servicer of Duluthith. It is used for such a purpose.

ANDREW
Wow. Ancient artefacts are fun.

SPIKE
How much was it?

ILLYRIA
One hundred and seventy five dollars.

SPIKE
You can get better for cheaper.

ANGEL
And you�d know this by personal experience?

SPIKE
No, it just seemed like the thing to say. Anyway, I bet you�ve had far more self-pleasuring than I have�can�t get girls and all that. Nice old� photo of your right hand in your wallet.

ANGEL
I�m left handed.

ANDREW
No you�re not.

ANGEL
No. I�m not.

ILLYRIA
This discussion is as annoying as it is pointless.

ANGEL
YES.

ANDREW
True.

Pause

SPIKE
Most definitely.

ANGEL
We so have too much time on our hands.

SPIKE
You have other things on your hands.

ANGEL
Hey! I have a girlfriend.

SPIKE
What�s next for you two? Big date? Cinema? You show up holding a gift-wrapped box of marrowbone jelly?

A male customer approaches the counter.

CUSTOMER
Um, hi. Do you carry Johnson�s compendium on Parallel Universe theory?

ILLYRIA
Yes, but I can spare you the bother. It�s true except that he completely overlooks the concept of dimensional �keys�. Energy beings.

SPIKE
Blue, I�m pretty sure if he asked for the book he wants to pay for it.

ILLYRIA
It is in the back. I will go and get it. I may be a while, it�s in my new deliveries.

CUSTOMER
Um�

Illyria leaves.

SPIKE
You can go browse. She�ll come and get you.

The customer nervously backs off.

ANGEL
It�s nice to get some quiet. All those kids at the hotel doesn�t help the ears. I�m just tempted to know, who�s idea was that again?

SPIKE
Oh, it�s a great idea and you know it. Plus, didn�t do it for me, did it for Gunn.

ANDREW
And it is only two nights a week.

ANGEL
Whose side are you on? I thought you hated this too.

ANDREW
Yeah but Anne�s pretty. She bought me a cookie.

ANGEL
This is frustrating. I need to hit something. Bring on the night.

WOMAN�S VOICE
Oh, I can help you with that one.

Angel and Spike look up.

WOMAN/WILLOW
I have a problem. And Spike�s alive. Hi.

SPIKE
Hi.

END OF TEASER

OPENING CREDITS

Starring
David Boreanaz as Angel
James Marsters as Spike
Amy Acker as Illyria
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells

Special Guest Star
Alyson Hannigan as Willow

Guest Starring
Iyari Limon as Kennedy and Jenny Mollen as Nina

Still in the shop. Still with the look of surprise.

ANDREW
Willow! Hey, how�ve you been?

WILLOW
Good. Fine. Thanks. Spike, you�re all alive�and well dead, but alive!

SPIKE
Didn�t Giles tell you?

WILLOW
Yeah, and about Wesley too. A-and Cordy. I�m sorry. I heard what was going down here but I was all sort of floaty and incorporeal.

SPIKE
I know that feeling.

WILLOW
Gunn and Fred. Giles didn�t say.

ANGEL
Willow, you may want to sit down.

WILLOW
No, standing is good. What happened to them Angel? You�re freaking me a little.

ANGEL
Well, Gunn died in the battle.

WILLOW
Oh, geez. I�m sorry, it wasn�t too bad?

ANGEL
No, it was quick. He was already wounded when the sky opened. He knew he wouldn�t last long.

WILLOW
And Fred, she�er�?

SPIKE
It�s a mite complicated.

WILLOW
Complicated? Did she leave?

ANGEL
No�Lorne did.

WILLOW
Lorne�s gone?

ANGEL
Before the battle. He couldn�t do the whole fight thing anymore. It wasn�t something he signed up for.

WILLOW
Back to Vegas?

SPIKE
Something like that love. He rang a week or so ago, said he�s gigging in Paris. Snuck himself in at the Rouge.

WILLOW
Seriously? Aww, that�s great.

ANGEL
But Fred died a while before. Before the fight.

Illyria re-enters.

ILLYRIA
I have the book.

Willow looks at Illyria; Illyria cocks her head at Willow.

ILLYRIA
Hello.

WILLOW
Angel, what the hell is this?

ANGEL
Fred opened a sarcophagus, this virus came out and hollowed her.

Willow winces, she�s genuinely pained.

ANGEL
Her inside went and an Old One used her as a shell. That�s Illyria.

WILLOW
G-d King. I know of it. But an Old One? Angel, how can you have her around? Didn�t you try and get her back?

ILLYRIA
I apologise for your loss but I didn�t choose her. She was given to me. I had no choice.

WILLOW
Why are you talking to me?

ILLYRIA
Her soul was consumed bringing me forth. She isn�t.

WILLOW
Souls don�t just go. There�s always ALWAYS something. Isn�t there.

ANGEL
We tried. Wesley tried. The entire staff at Wolfram and Hart tried. Nothing.

WILLOW
Well of course not, they don�t want to help. It�s better for them with her gone.

ANDREW
It wouldn�t have made a difference.

ILLYRIA
I should go.

WILLOW
Yes. You really ,really should.

ILLYRIA
Can you close up for me?

SPIKE(nods)

Illyria leaves. The camera follows her out of the door. She seems visibly upset.

WILLOW
Are you frickin� mad?

SPIKE
Blue�s harmless��Red.

ANGEL
She�s lost most of her powers. A corporal G-d can�t do so much.

WILLOW
Corporeal G-ds, me, Glory, Illyria. I get it. I really do. She can�t be good, her power comes from a dark place.

ANDREW
So did yours�once.

WILLOW
A human can get over it. A millennia�s old G-d? Angel�I don�t know. And how can you see Fred like that? Doesn�t it kill?

SPIKE
It does but Fred�s not in there pet. She�s gone.

CUSTOMER
Can I have my book?

SPIKE
Sure, I�ll ring this up.

CUSTOMER
Thanks.

SPIKE
Have a bloody lovely day. (Announces) Closing early. If you�re not buying you should be. If not, get out.

ANDREW
And have a nice day!

WILLOW
I�ll fix it.

ANDREW
What?

ANGEL
Slow down.

WILLOW
It�s mystical. I can fix it.

SPIKE
You�ll kill Illyria.

WILLOW
And save Fred�s soul. Does Illyria even have a soul?

SPIKE
You do. Glory did. Attached to a human and all that.

ANGEL
Willow, can you really raise the dead?

SPIKE
Again?

ANDREW
It can�t lead to a good place. Can you overcome that?

WILLOW
I could�probably.

ANDREW
Can you risk it?

WILLOW
No.

ANGEL
Willow, Fred was very dear to us and if we can find something we�ll do it. Reality bending is no good to anyone right now.

SPIKE
Anyway, didn�t you have a reason for being here?

WILLOW
Yeah. Um, yeah I do. I guess. I have to track down a potential, well a new slayer.

ANGEL
Doesn�t sound like something you can�t do yourself.

ANDREW
Oh, it could be fun. We�ve done it before.

ANGEL
Cos� Andrew was so pleasant to me last time we went slayer hunting.

SPIKE
And I had to have major reconstructive surgery.

ANGEL
Yeah, we�ll help.

SPIKE
What?

ANGEL
You without arms. Hey, it was funny. So what�s the problem?

WILLOW
She�s so small. Ten years old, we�re gonna need a good negotiator to help convince her parents.

SPIKE
Giles?

WILLOW
In Manchester doing the same thing.

ANDREW
Buffy?

WILLOW
I haven�t heard from her in a couple weeks. She said she was in touch with you though.

SPIKE/ANGEL
Oh, that.

They stop and look dead at each other.

WILLOW
OK. Awkward. Look we need to get this girl from her parents. Talk her into this and explain to the parents what we�re doing. Except this�this could get ugly. It�s a new sort of slayer.

ANDREW
Like a twin?

WILLOW
She�s a demon. We have to put her down or away.

ANGEL
Is that even possible?

WILLOW
That�s the scary. This girl�s a vampire.

Illyria�s room �Hyperion Hotel

Illyria (now back in her leathery and much hotter form) walks into her room. She turns into Fred and sits on her bed looking at a photo of Wesley. She smashes it on the floor. She gets up and looks into the mirror. Illyria in her traditional form faces her. The camera turns so we can see both Illyria as Fred and her demonic alter ego reflection.

ILLYRIA/FRED (Fred�s voice)
Who am I?

END OF ACT 1

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