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Date Posted: 18:43:27 07/20/02 Sat
Author: Daniel Kurland
Subject: Re: Act III
In reply to: Daniel Kurland 's message, "Act II" on 18:41:38 07/20/02 Sat

ACT III

Scene: Apartment Complex [Ext.], Night
We see the front door of the apartment complex open and GUNN enters. He is carrying an axe.

Continue to:
Scene: Apartment Complex [Int.], Night
We also see the stairs leading to a higher floor.

The demon from CORDELIA’S vision can be seen for a split second walking up them before disappearing out of view.

GUNN
Looks like a good old fashioned game of cat and
mouse.

GUNN walks up the same stairs as the CHACARGO DEMON and the scene cuts to the upper floor of the apartment.

The CHARCARGO DEMON is walking across the hall and GUNN peeking behind the corner. There appears to be a boy who is about 6 years old, crying on the ground as well.

GUNN
(whispering)
If this guy hurts that kid…I swear to God.

The CHACARGO DEMON is towering over the BOY.

CHACARGO DEMON
Are you alright?

BOY
(crying)
You look strange.

CHACARGO DEMON
I'm just different. That doesn't mean I'm scary. You
look different to me but you don't see me being afraid
of you.

BOY smiles as best as he can. The DEMON kneels down in front of him.

CHACARGO DEMON
Now why are you crying?

BOY
(crying, worried)
I…I broke my Mommy’s favorite vase. I don’t want
her to be upset.

CHACARGO DEMON
Your mother will understand that it was an accident.
As long as you are honest she will not get upset.
Mothers are like that.

BOY
(relieved)
Really?

CHACARGO DEMON
Of course. Maybe I can help you fix it. Let me see...

Scene switches to GUNN looking at the two, he cannot hear what they are saying.

GUNN’S POV: The demon making hand motions to the child. His spear-like object is coming awfully close to the child’s face. GUNN thinks that the demon is hurting the boy.

GUNN
(pissed off)
That son of a bitch!

GUNN walks around the corner into the BOY’S and DEMON’S view.

GUNN
You better hope you have a good explanation for
this... Wait a second, I don’t care.

Scene: Apartment Block [Ext.], Night
CORDELIA driving ANGEL’S car screeches to a stop in front of the apartment. CORDELIA gets out of the car and runs for the door of the apartments.

CORDELIA
Please don’t be dead. Please don’t be dead.

She pushes through the doors.

Scene: Hallway, Apartment Block [Int.], Night
CORDELIA runs into where the BOY, CHACARGO DEMON and GUNN are.

The BOY is covering his face and he is crying harder than before.

GUNN has the axe raised above his head.

GUNN
Party’s over!

CORDELIA screams.

GUNN swings the axe cutting the CHACARGO DEMON’S head off. Before the head can touch the ground, the remains vanish.

The BOY'S face is terror stricken.

BOY
You... you killed him!

GUNN
Glad I could, brother.

BOY
He was friendly. He told me how to make my mommy
happy again.

GUNN suddenly looks confused.

GUNN
What?

CORDELIA
GUNN! He was innocent. He was a good demon. You
know, the kind that don't need you to go all gung-ho on them!

GUNN
But-

CORDELIA turns to the BOY.

CORDELIA
Go home. Now.

The BOY nods then heads off in another direction, bawling his eyes out.

CORDELIA glares at GUNN again.

CORDELIA
(angry)
You know as well as I do that not all demons are
evil. What the hell came over you?

GUNN
He was bad... we had a client. She said he killed her
friend...

CORDELIA
Did you ask him why he did that?

GUNN
No! You know the drill when demons go on a killing
spree! Think first and ask questions later... before
anyone else can get hurt.

CORDELIA
Were you even thinking at all?

GUNN gets a shocked look on his face.

CORDELIA
(continued)
You can’t just kill anything that isn’t human. For God's
sake GUNN I thought you'd actually learnt that by now.
I had a vision... of you killing this demon. I wouldn’t
have had it if it wasn’t important.

GUNN
(yelling)
Geez... I am just sick and tired of you acting all Little
Miss Perfect ever since you were chosen to be an
Oracle. You're the one who's forgotten that sometimes
we make mistakes. I guess since you decided to get
in on the demon act and hopped off into the heavens
for three months you think you are so much better
than everyone and you can tell us what to do.

CORDELIA
Don't even start on that! I gave up being an Oracle to
come back to you guys.

GUNN
Wrong. You came back for ANGEL, I reckon me and FRED
just came along with the package. So where’s the whole
reason for you rejoining the mortal coil now CORDY?

CORDELIA remembers back to earlier with her and ANGEL and she gets more upset, maybe even possibly shed a tear.

CORDELIA
You don’t know what's happened.

GUNN
(angrily)
I think I pretty much have a good estimate. You were
tired of the boring life up in Oracle Land so you came
back here. So you can yell at me for being not so perfect
and get some un-dead stud in your pants.

CORDELIA
(through gritted teeth.)
You shouldn’t have said that.

GUNN
Why not? You going to mind-choke me to death now. Go
ahead. I am just a big, stupid guy who never thinks, right?

CORDELIA
(angry)
This is not the time…We need to find ANGEL. I think
something's wrong with him.

GUNN
What a surprise. You know what? You can find him
yourself! Think you can rescue him all on your own
with us and that son of a bitch WESLEY? I sure as hell
hope so 'cause I gotta see FRED...

CORDELIA
(angrily calm)
Fine! I'll go it alone.

GUNN
You do that.

CORDELIA
And GUNN?

GUNN
Yeah?

CORDELIA
Don’t ever piss me off again.

CORDELIA walks down the apartments stairs.

GUNN stands and watches her go.

Scene: Hyperion Hotel, Lobby [Int.], Night
CORDELIA stomps into the lobby.

CORDELIA
(muttering)
Little Miss Princess my ass

ANGEL is sitting in one of the hotel’s chairs. He is sweating very heavily and looks sick.

CORDELIA does not seem to notice him, probably because the back of the chair is towards her.

ANGEL
Dead. It’s dead.

CORDELIA gasps with shock.

CORDELIA
ANGEL? You’re here.

ANGEL
Of course I'm here? Where else would I be?

CORDELIA gives ANGEL a strange look.

ANGEL
Stop seeing my soul.

CORDELIA
What's wrong?

ANGEL
I can feel it... in my blood.

CORDELIA
You feel what?

ANGEL
Anger.

CORDELIA gets a little freaked out.

CORDELIA
Let me help you.

CORDELIA picks up a cloth from a table and wipes ANGEL’S forehead.

CORDELIA
(continued)
Just calm down

ANGEL
Stop that.

She doesn't. ANGEL snarls at her.

ANGEL
(angry)
I said stop it! God, it hurts... the anger... It's never
been like this... I'm meant to be beyond this... Just
make it stop.

CORDELIA
Well, color me confused for the day. First GUNN and
now...

ANGEL groans.

CORDELIA
(continued)
I just want to help you.

ANGEL starts sweating more.

CORDELIA
What happened ANGEL?

ANGEL
(painfully)
I don't know...

CORDELIA
Just tell me...I love you... I'm not going to judge you
or...

ANGEL buries his head in his hands.

ANGEL
Being with you is like hell compared to what I had
with BUFFY...

CORDELIA
(shocked as hell)
What do you mean?

ANGEL groans a bit. He lifts his head up. He's vamped out again. His pain has gone, replaced by something more maniacal like earlier.

ANGEL
She was just so much better. She helped people, and
one hell of a good kisser, which is more than I can say
about you.

CORDELIA
What?! Why are you bringing her into this? She isn't
important right now.

ANGEL
More important than you. At least she waited for the
(makes quote marks with his fingers)
"right guy" before she spread her dimpled legs. I bet you'd worked
your way around Sunnydale before I even set foot
in town.

CORDELIA slaps ANGEL hard. She steps back, holding back tears of anger and pain.

CORDELIA
What the hell has gotten into you. First at the bridge,
and then again here. What is going on here. What's
happened to you?

ANGEL starts laughing. CORDELIA cries more.

ANGEL
The….The anger in my blood….I can’t
(groans)
...help it.

His face morphs back to normal. He's in agony again.

CORDELIA
ANGEL... What do you want me to do?

Camera focuses on ANGEL wipes the sweat off his forehead, it keeps coming back.

ANGEL
(panicked)
You are nothing compared to her...

CORDELIA
For God's sake just leave her out of this! We're talking
about right here, right now.

ANGEL springs to his feet, suddenly full of energy again. He grabs CORDELIA hard.

ANGEL
I thought maybe it's time we had that talk, CORDY.
You know, the one where you tell me it'll be okay...
that we can be together... the sex isn't important.

CORDELIA
This so isn't the time for this! Is something wrong
with you? Did that demon do...

ANGEL pushes her violently into the wall.

ANGEL
Looking at it now, I think I could cope without
the sex. Hell, I could cope without you full stop.

CORDELIA
Stop it...

ANGEL steps back suddenly with horror in his eyes. His hands are fidgeting uncontrollably. His brow is covered in sweat again. He wipes it off then turns around almost in shame.

ANGEL
Stop seeing my soul.

CORDELIA takes a few cautious steps forward. ANGEL spins around again, laughing.

ANGEL
I gotta give you some credit. You're not as whiny
as the Buffster...

CORDELIA
(bitterly)
Fine! If you're gonna be like that... I'm going... I'll
work this out for myself.

ANGEL
How about you just stick to the going part?

CORDELIA slowly walks to the lobby doors. Looking carefully at ANGEL. She doesn't know what to do or say.

ANGEL
(uncaring)
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

CORDELIA is clearly distraught. She turns on her heels and walks out.

Camera focuses on ANGEL. He is still sweating wildly, his hand keeps moving and fidgeting. He groans in very visible pain.

He looks up slowly. There is almost control in his eyes. He seems to be fighting the effects of the serum to call out to CORDELIA.

ANGEL
(straining)
Please... I... I... love you...

No one is there to reply. She's gone.

Scene: Fairground [Ext.], Night
Camera shows a carousel which is not operating.

Camera pans from horse to horse which are all empty.

Camera then stops on a horse with FRED on it.

We see a close-up on GUNN as he enters the scene as well. He walks toward FRED, she pretends to not see him.

GUNN
(upset)
Listen, can we talk?

FRED
Wouldn’t you rather talk with NANCY?

GUNN looks down.

FRED
(continued)
Or are you too busy having sex with your secretary
on your second born child’s bed to care?

GUNN looks up with a somewhat hurt and confused look.

GUNN
What?!?
(concerned)
Look... I know I hurt you. It was stupid. I don’t know
why I acted like that.

FRED
Yes, it was stupid and I think I know why you did do
it.

GUNN
Wait.

FRED
(impatient)
What is it?

GUNN
(a bit embarrassed)
It is hard for me to say this... but I was wrong... about
that demon. God, I feel just terrible about this whole damn
situation... I don't know what came over me... I should
have listened to you.

FRED
(pissed off, matter of factly)
Yes, you should have. You keep making the same
mistakes. With the woman, the CHACARGO….You don’t
think.

GUNN
(sad)
You….you're right, baby. I don’t think, and I should. I'd
be nowhere without you.

FRED looks away from him. There's sadness, anger and just a little bit of jealousy in her voice.

FRED
You probably would. You would be nowhere, with lots
of women.

GUNN looks down.

FRED
Well CHARLES, when you're off with other women, having
fun, drinking, kissing, touching... would you think?
(pause)
Would you think about me?

Dear God by XTC starts playing.

“Dear God, I hope you got the letter, and…I pray I can make it better down here.”

GUNN looks away from her.

FRED
I know your type CHARLES. Maybe it's because I was out
of it for so long I forgot you're all the same. You're always
trying to upgrade to the faster, sleeker, more attractive
model.
(beat)

She tries to hold back the tears.

“I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer, but all the people you made in your image, see them starving on their feet ‘cause they don’t get enough to eat from God. I can’t believe in you.”

FRED
(continued)
You used me.

GUNN looks at her desperately.

GUNN
No…Th-that’s not who I am, honey.

FRED
(crying, angry)
Don’t ‘honey’ me! I don’t know who you are anymore.
Maybe when you tried to make me think you didn't
care last year you should've kept it that way. I really
thought that we would be together forever, saving
people from danger
(pause)
Saving each other from danger.

GUNN smiles a little.

GUNN
It can still be that way, baby. We can have breakfast
in bed together, and you can teach the kids all about
science, and I can teach them about…..other things.

FRED smiles.

FRED
Kids?

GUNN
(continued)
And we can live to be 100, and we would still love
each other for every minute of it.

FRED continues to smile. Camera focuses on GUNN’S hand reaching for FRED’S hand, she accepts it.

GUNN smiles.

FRED smiles too. But her smile suddenly turns into an angry frown. Her hand pulls away from his.

FRED
No! You can’t just say those things and make everything
all right!

GUNN’S smile disappears.

FRED
(continued)
You were flirting with another woman. You wanted to be
with a complete stranger more than you wanted to be
with me.

GUNN
It wasn't like that! She was flirting with me... I...

FRED
You just let her.

GUNN
What else was I supposed to do? She'd just lost a
friend... maybe it made her feel a little better but for
me? It didn't do anything. Not a thing!
(beat)
Okay, I messed up bad. But this can't get in the way
of what we've got.
(beat)
You're my life.

FRED
(crying)
I feel the same way.

GUNN
So this is gonna work out?

FRED
No.

It begins to rain a little.

GUNN
What?!?

FRED
Maybe it isn't you. Maybe it's me... Maybe I'm
the kind of girl that gets jealous whenever someone
better than me looks at you and I don't want that.
I don't want to spend hours hoping and praying that
maybe... just maybe... I'm good enough... I just...
(beat)
It’s over.

GUNN
No...

“Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but….I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears and all the people that you made in your image see them fighting in the street ‘cause they can’t make opinions meet about God, I can’t believe in you.”

Rain starts to fall down much harder now. The camera focuses on FRED walking away from GUNN who is left standing by the carousel.

GUNN finally lets go of all the strength he used to hold back the tears. GUNN yells something and punches the carousel. The song which is playing drowns out what he said.


Scene: Cordelia's Apartment, Bedroom [Int.], Night
“Dear God, don’t know if you noticed, but…your name is on a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look, and all the people that you made in your image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ‘aint, and so do you, dear God.”

CORDELIA lies on her bed. She is curled up with only a bedside lamp for light. She is flicking through some books but is clearly getting nowhere. She hurls it across the room and begins to cry. We can barely see it because of the dark, but her mascara looks smeared, indicating she has been crying for awhile. CORDELIA buries her face in her pillow.

The blanket is pulled over her by the PHANTOM DENNIS. She doesn't seem to notice.


Scene: Abandoned Building, Connor's Room [Int.], Night
“No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You’re always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it’s the same whole world ‘round.”

The lights are out as well here but mainly because there's no power but there's the definite impression that even if there was, the lights would be off.

CONNOR sits with his arms over his knee and stares out an open window. He just sits there, not moving at all until suddenly...

A very angry CONNOR then gets up and punches the wall next to him. Plaster falls from the wall and a crack appears.

He picks up a table and throws it at the same wall. The table shatters on contact.

CONNOR is screaming through this, but we can’t hear. We just see random shots of his anguished face through the scene.


Scene: Hyperion Hotel, Lobby [Int.], Night
“The hurt I see helps to compound that Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody’s unholy hoax, and if you’re up there you’d perceive that my heart’s here upon my sleeve. If there’s one thing I don’t believe in it’s you…Dear God.”

The camera focuses on the hotel’s clock which has the time ‘3:24am’ on it.

ANGEL is sitting on the floor cross-legged, not moving at all or showing any emotions. His face is just staring blankly at nothing.

The camera then focuses on the clock again, the times on it this time is ‘4:22am’.

The song playing ends as we see ANGEL sitting exactly where we saw him earlier, in the same position.

FADE TO BLACK

END OF ACT III

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