Angel 6x03 Mortal Coil Part 1 -- Angel season 6

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Date Posted: 13:45:32 01/30/05 Sun
Author: Ice_Visions
Subject: Angel 6x03 Mortal Coil Part 1

Thanks to LB for giving me the kick I needed to post this bugger. Enjoy. Part 2 should be up soon.

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. And Charles. 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
Fred. Giles didn�t say.

ANGEL
Willow, you may want to sit down.

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

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.

WILLOW
Did Giles know?

ANGEL
Yes.

WILLOW
Oh.

SPIKE
There was a reason.

WILLOW
Which no-one is telling me.

Illyria re-enters.

ILLYRIA
I have the book.

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

ILLYRIA
Hello.

We have an unseemly ling pause. The colour drains from Willow�s face, she shudders as though she can sense what�s happened.

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. She chokes up a little.

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?

SPIKE
It doesn�t work like that. You know that better than most.

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.

Camera zooms in on Angel�s eye-

ANGEL
Tell me what you know.

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.

END OF ACT 1

ACT 2

LA STREET-NIGHT

Andrew and Angel walk along, both wearing trenchcoats, both wielding stakes.

ANDREW
�and that�s why men do and women don�t.

ANGEL
It�s that simple?

ANDREW
It�s simple really.

ANGEL
Wow. All I needed were your superb onion metaphors and I�d have it solved.

ANDREW
Everything can be boiled down to onions.

ANGEL
Sure.

ANDREW
I mean, you and Nina seem all comfy and smoochy.

ANGEL
It�s good. Nice. Not really had that in a while. Most of my relationships have involved some kind of pain, passion and death. It�s good.

ANDREW
Go team you.

ANGEL
Wait.

ANDREW
What?

Angel motions to a side alley where a thug advances on a woman dressed in 1920�s flapper garb. We are now BLACK AND WHITE. Nifty, huh? Angel looks around, Andrew isn�t there.
ANGEL
Uh.

The thug turns around. It�s Spike, dressed in a white mobster�s suit.

ANGEL
Spike?

SPIKE
Angel boy! How�ve ya been? I hear rats are good this time of year.

ANGEL
At least you�re not going to kill me.

SPIKE
I�m not Darla. I don�t care. She, however, is still pretty pissed.

ANGEL
Oh.

SPIKE
What�s with the getup? And the hair? Less greasy. I like it.

ANGEL
I was, er�hanging with some Bohemians.

SPIKE
Blowing Miss. Mary Jane?

ANGEL
Something like that. The girl?

SPIKE
I was going to eat her.

The girl whimpers.

SPIKE
Hungry?

ANGEL
Not really.

SPIKE
Well, I�ll have a bite and then what? Craps? Drinking?

ANGEL
You know I won�t let you do that.

SPIKE
I kinda figured.

ANGEL
So, do we have to do this?

SPIKE
Look likely don�t it?

ANGEL
Kinda.

Spike smacks him across the face. Angel takes it.

ANGEL
Ow!

SPIKE
What?

ANGEL
I wasn�t ready.

SPIKE
Sorry.

He hits Angel again.

SPIKE
I was.

Angel gets up and slugs Spike. He jumps over him and runs towards the woman. Spike does a big ol� vamp jump and lands on Angel�s head. Angel ducks and Spike falls over and trips up Angel. Both on the floor Angel wrestles Spike under him and headbutts him. He�s out. Angel runs up to the woman, it�s�.

ANGEL
Fred?

FRED
Sir. Oh sir, thank you so much. That man was�there was something with his face. Please could you just, just walk me home?

ANGEL
What is this?

FRED
I�m sorry, I don�t get you.

ANGEL
What are you?

FRED
Please, sir. You�re scaring me.

Angel grabs Fred and pushes her against the wall.

ANGEL
What the f- what is this? This is not on! Do you understand? Manipulate me, send me to hell whatever, I DO NOT CARE. What are you, what do you want?

FRED
Ow. Stop. I don�t know, I really don�t.

Angel looks over his shoulder. The background in back in COLOUR and it�s Pylea. Angel drops Fred who runs off into Pylea, her dress morphing into rags �cow� appearance. Angel walks into the sunny, Pylean plains.

PYLEAN FIELDS �DAY

Angel is in now in colour and surveying the land. He walks through the fields. He goes further and towards what we recognise to be Fred�s cave. He goes in and sits on a rock, watching Fred sit and cry, the walls are relatively bare and Fred looks younger.

ANGEL
Fred?

FRED
You�re not real are you?

ANGEL
I�m not sure. Maybe.

FRED
Are you here to save me?

ANGEL
I don�t think I can.

FRED
Can I not be saved?

ANGEL
I�m sorry.

FRED
It�s OK. I didn�t think I could be.

ANGEL
If a girl called Cordelia shows up, tell her maybe it�s best if she come live with you.

FRED
Can she not be saved either?

ANGEL
No. I don�t think anyone can.

FRED
That doesn�t sound like you.

ANGEL
What?

We�re now in CARITAS. Angel sips a Bud whilst Fred looks at him all gooey-eyed (season 3).

FRED
I mean, you�re all noble and about the saving.

ANGEL
I do that.

FRED
You saved me.

ANGEL
I did.

FRED
And things were pretty crappy for me so I guess you must be at least slightly good at it.

ANGEL
Yes.

FRED
You�ll fade away.

ANGEL
No.

FRED
(Now dark. Serious.)
Yes you will. That�s how this story ends. You die. I die. Charles dies. Doyle dies. Cordelia dies. My Wesley dies. Your Buffy dies. Connor dies. Spike dies. We all die.

ANGEL
I need to know what�s going on.

FRED
Ask the barkeep.

Angel gets up from his table and walks to the bar; KENNEDY is washing glasses and shaking cocktails.

ANGEL
Is Lorne here?

KENNEDY
She�s on stage.

ANGEL
She?

He turns to the stage. A green Willow in a lounge suit is singing �Time Is Running Out� by Muse. She finishes to rapturous applause. As she gets off the stage Angel confronts her.

ANGEL
Willow. What is this?

WILLOW
The mission.

ANGEL
The mission?

WILLOW
You think I didn�t know about all this? I�m a goddess for crumpet�s sake! I know, Angel. I know what you did. Gunn, the sarcophagus, Knox, I know it all. Even the puppet thing.

ANGEL
Don�t mention that.

WILLOW
Hey, I�m green.

ANGEL
Will, what is this?

WILLOW
I don�t know. This was your idea; all I did was manifest it.

ANGEL
I did this?

WILLOW
I saw it, yesterday in the shop, all the ways you went back in your mind. How you tried to save her. I just wanted you to realise how much it meant to you.

ANGEL
By doing this. Little OTT to let me know what I already knew.

WILLOW
See, I don�t think so. Do you wanna help me get Fred back or do you like that Illyria thing?

ANGEL
I love Fred. But I don�t know what we can do.

WILLOW
You said love, not loved. You know we can bring her back.

ANGEL
Her soul is gone.

WILLOW
Is that a problem? Maybe all you need to do is WAKE UP�

The words �WAKE UP� echo and reverberate as we zoom out through Angel�s eye. He wakes up with a jolt in his bed at the HYPERION �MORNING. He sits up and breathes deeply. Willow, not so much with the being green, walks in.

WILLOW
Hey there.

ANGEL
Hey.

WILLOW
You figured that vampire girl thing was baloney huh?

ANGEL
Rescuing a girl. You got a look inside didn�t you.

WILLOW
Yup.

ANGEL
There�s a way, isn�t there?

WILLOW
Yeah.

ANGEL
The catch?

WILLOW
Death.

ANGEL
Who�s?

WILLOW
I don�t know. Just, to rip apart her soul from Illyria, to make he whole, you have to plug the gaps. Fred�s the super-glue that keeps her in one piece. It�s a balance thing.

ANGEL
You mean Illyria survives?

WILLOW
She�s a G-d. They don�t just go poof.

ANGEL
They don�t die like we do.

WILLOW
How do you-?

ANGEL
Someone said it to me once. What happens to the person?

WILLOW
Exactly what happened to Fred. They die, their body is hollowed but Illyria doesn�t take them, the soul patches her up and she stays with Fred�s body. Fred�s soul makes a body for her, she goes back into that.

ANGEL
So there�ll be two Freds.

WILLOW
And one dead person.

ANGEL
It�s never easy, is it?

WILLOW
No, somehow I don�t think it�d be as interesting.

ANGEL
What would you do?

WILLOW
I�m not a good one to ask. Me and resuscitation, it never goes quite how you want it to.

Angel takes this. He looks at his bedside table and we can see pictures of both him with Buffy and him with Fred. He looks at Willow.

WILLOW
Are you ready to mkae a choice?

END OF ACT 2

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