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Date Posted: 18:44:42 07/20/02 Sat
Author: Daniel Kurland
Subject: Re: Act IV
In reply to: Daniel Kurland 's message, "Re: Act III" on 18:43:27 07/20/02 Sat

ACT IV


Scene: Wolfram and Hart, Wesley's Office [Int.], Night
WESLEY is sitting at his desk reading some papers.

LILAH (O.S)
I see congratulations are in order.

LILAH then walks into the room and sits on WESLEY’S desk in front of him.

WESLEY
Astonishing.

LILAH
What?

WESLEY
I'm not used to hearing compliments from you. In fact
That’s the only one that I can remember.

LILAH
Don’t worry, it slipped out. Won’t happen again.

WESLEY
So I take it you're impressed with my work?

LILAH
You managed to split your little buddies up in a
day. I'm impressed.

WESLEY
(sarcasm)
So do I get a shiny gold star for that?

LILAH
Sorry WES, fresh out. You’re work was good though. I
am starting to think that having you step over to us was
one of my best ideas.

WESLEY
Well, I must have got you in a good mood. Not a single
insult from you tonight. I think that is a personal record.

LILAH
Thanks, but the ass-kissing can wait a little longer.

WESLEY’S attention is caught.

WESLEY
What do you mean?

LILAH
You realize of course that you need to finish the job.

WESLEY
Correct me if I am wrong, but you asked me to separate
ANGEL and friends and I did it... and then some. I even
derived a little satisfaction knowing how much they
need me.

LILAH laughs.

LILAH
That's great WES, but here at Wolfram and Hart, you
can't just finish a job, you need to finish the job with
a bang.

WESLEY
So what do you propose this “bang” should be?

LILAH
You know, the usual earth shattering thing. A death.

WESLEY
A death?

LILAH
Is there an echo in here? Yes, a death.

WESLEY seems suddenly concerned.

WESLEY
Is that really necessary? Surely a death would only
bring them closer together again.

LILAH
Or just increase the blame. They're all upset with
each other right now. Emotions are high... And a death
is just the right touch to push everything overboard
and let the real pain kick in. And as I'm sure you know
by now... the Senior Partners like pain.

WESLEY adjusts his glasses. His look of concern drains away to be replaced by one of steely determination.

WESLEY
Since you put it that way... But now the question is
though, “who do we kill?”

LILAH
I think we both know the answer to that question. A
certain young Southern lady with whom your last words
with her weren’t exactly “I love you”. I can only imagine
the havoc that would ensue after that. Have fun with this
WES. I know I will.

LILAH gets up off WESLEY’S desk.

LILAH
(continued)
Oh, and for that insult? I hate your tie.

LILAH leaves WESLEY’S office and WESLEY watches her leave.

WESLEY is panicking. He taps his finger on his desk slowly, but then it increasingly gets faster. He flips through several pages on his desk and then gets frustrated and throws them all on the ground.

WESLEY
Damn it LILAH!

WESLEY hurriedly walks out of his office and closes the door. As he turns the corner he quickly gets in the elevator. He examines his tie with a "what's wrong with it?" look.

The elevator doors close and the camera slowly spins from the doors of the elevator to LILAH who is hiding behind the corner WESLEY turned. She is smiling evilly.


Scene: Motel Room [Int.], Night
A large, sweaty MOTEL MANAGER walks in. His shirt is covered in stains. He guides FRED in.

MOTEL MANAGER
This is your room. The bathroom light doesn’t work, if you
use the vibrating bed, be careful. It gets stuck a lot of the
time... for hours.

FRED
O-ok. I probably won’t be using it anyway. And... uh...
thank you...

MOTEL MANAGER
Check out is at noon tomorrow.
(eyes Fred up lecherously)
And if you ever got all lonely I'm just around the corner.

MOTEL MANAGER walks away and leaves. FRED enters her room very sluggishly and sad. She closes the door very quietly and is about to lie down on the bed when there is a knock on the door.

She sighs to herself.

FRED opens the door and while she is walking to the door and opening it she says:

FRED
What now?

As the door is open we see a VAMPIRE smiling.

VAMPIRE
(grins)
Oh, you're busy. Maybe I oughta come back at a
better time

FRED screams.

The VAMPIRE jumps on her and pins her to the ground. FRED struggles against him.

FRED
Stop it! Get off.

VAMPIRE leans in to bite FRED.

Her struggling gets slower and slower. She closes her eyes.

The VAMPIRE'S fangs brush along her neck...

...when suddenly he turns to dust.

FRED sighs for relief. She opens her eyes slowly.

FRED
Thank you... thank y...

Her words stop when she sees WESLEY towering over her holding a stake.

FRED
You... What are you doing here?

WESLEY
No “thank you”?

FRED
(cold)
Answer my question.

WESLEY
Wolfram and Hart is dangerous.

FRED
You just learned that now?

WESLEY
(ignoring her)
I may be working for the “bad guys” and maybe I'm on
the wrong side, but there are some things that I won’t
let happen. Like let a friend die.

FRED
I'm not your friend... Not anymore.

WESLEY looks a little hurt

WESLEY
Fine. But that doesn't change how I feel about you.

FRED looks a little puzzled. WESLEY glances towards the door as if he's about to make a move.

WESLEY
Don’t tell anyone I helped you here. You understand?
As far as anyone else knows, we never spoke.

FRED
Why should I listen to you?

WESLEY
I just prevented a vampire from sucking you dry. I think
you could do this one favor for me and not tell the others
about this.
(beat)
If you have any.

FRED looks at him. A slight realization in her eyes. There are tears in her eyes again.

WESLEY walks coldly out the door.

FRED slams the door behind him with tear-fuelled anger.

Camera switches to WESLEY as he walks through the hallway. The MOTEL MANAGER approaches him.

MOTEL MANAGER
Is there a problem in there?

WESLEY
Not at all. She is just having a hard day.

WESLEY walks away from him

WESLEY
(muttering)
One of many.

FADE TO BLACK


Scene: Wesley's Apartment [Int.] Night
WESLEY’S hands turn the key to his apartment. He opens the door.

WESLEY'S POV: We pan across the show that the entire place is trashed. Furniture has been thrown all over the place, a broken window, cracks in the walls, etc.

ANGEL is sitting in a chair on one side of the room.

WESLEY
If I had known you were coming I would've baked a
cake.

ANGEL doesn't react.

WESLEY
(continued)
Get out.

ANGEL
Y'know, I think I'm gonna stay awhile.

WESLEY walks in and closes the door.

WESLEY
(unimpressed)
What do you want?

ANGEL
(calm)
Just to talk.

WESLEY just stares at him, he doesn’t reply.

ANGEL
(menacing)
Listen you son of a bitch. I know what you did to me.

WESLEY smiles.

ANGEL
(yelling)
You think this is funny? You know what is funny? You
getting your throat slit, me smothering you with a pillow.
That's funny. Injecting me with some formula that makes
me lash out...lose control... hurt my friends, that isn’t
funny at all.

WESLEY
(smug)
I found the results to be rather humorous.

ANGEL
I didn't say you could speak.

WESLEY
(immediately)
And I didn’t say you could trash my apartment.

ANGEL
You think you can act all cool... Pretending that none
of this bothers you and you don’t have a single worry
in the world? I can see right through that and the only
thing I can suggest is, you better re-think what you do
to me.

WESLEY
Or what?

ANGEL
(immediately)
Or I make sure that you have a very painful death.

WESLEY
(sarcastic)
I'm so scared. Times like this I wish I had some strong,
mysterious hero to protect me.

ANGEL
(pissed)
Don’t talk to me or any of my friends ever again.

WESLEY
Last time I checked you didn’t have any.

ANGEL jumps out of his chair and grabs WESLEY by the throat and pushes him against his door.

ANGEL
(pissed)
Looks like we're both in a very similar position.

ANGEL lets go of WESLEY

ANGEL
(calm)
Stay out of my life.

WESLEY
You stay out of mine.

ANGEL makes a move to leave.

WESLEY
(continued)
Give CORDELIA my regards.

ANGEL is about to jump at WESLEY but he stops himself.

ANGEL leaves the apartment. Camera shows him in the hallway.

ANGEL
Just give me a reason to kill you WESLEY.

WESLEY slams the door to his apartment. WESLEY walks through his living room looking at the mess.

On several walls, “You’re a dead man!” and “Stay away from my friends!" and "Asshole!” are written with red paint.

WESLEY stares at it, unfeeling.

WESLEY walks into his bathroom. We see from his POV that his bathroom mirror is shattered and written on it in red paint is, “Sweet Dreams”.

We focus on this getting closer and closer until we...

FADE TO BLACK

END

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