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Scene: Dark alleyway and torrential rain. Long shot of ANGEL running down the alleyway, holding a sword loosely in his hand, his head moving as he looks for any signs of life. He stops at the chain-link fence and looks distraught for a beat.

 

SPIKE (from shadows): Boo

 

ANGEL turns as SPIKE exits shadows, badly beaten and bleeding.

 

ANGEL: Anyone else?

SPIKE: Not so far. You feel the heat?

ANGEL (looking to alleyway entrance): It’s coming

SPIKE: Finally got ourselves a decent brawl.

 

GUNN comes jogging in, holding his axe. He’s in shadow, so we can’t see details.

 

GUNN: Damn. How’d I know the fang-boys’d pull through?

 

As GUNN approaches, ANGEL and SPIKE move to help him and we can see the blood that stains his chest and his face. His voice weakens as he approaches.

 

GUNN: You’re lucky we’re on the same side dogs, cause I was on fire tonight; my gait was tight.

 

He’s really not looking too good. They help him sit down

 

SPIKE: Supposed to wear that red stuff on the inside Charlie-boy.

GUNN (looking at wound with trembling hand): Any word on Wes?

 

ILLYRIA drops down, landing quietly beside them.

 

ILLYRIA : Wesley’s dead.

 

Everyone reacts. ILLYRIA has tears on her cheeks.

 

ILLYRIA : I’m feeling grief for him. I can’t seem to control it. (turns to ANGEL) I wish to do more violence.

SPIKE (looking to entrance of alley where demonic noises are emanating): Well, wishes just happen to be horses tonight love.

ANGEL Among other things.

 

Shot of the hordes approaching. A dragon wings its way in, looking menacing as it screeches.

 

GUNN: Okay, you take the thirty-thousand on the left…

ILLYRIA : You are fading. You will last ten minutes at best.

GUNN (standing up and gripping his axe): Then let’s make them memorable.

 

The horde approaches.

 

SPIKE: And in terms of a plan?

ANGEL: We fight.

SPIKE: Bit more specific?

 

ANGEL steps forward and looks up with the hint of a smile on his face.

 

ANGEL: Well, personally, I kinda wanna slay the dragon.

 

The horde closes and I, A ,S and G ready themselves.

 

ANGEL: Let’s go to work.

 

He swings his sword to catch the first attacker’s weapon and the fight begins.

 

ANGEL pivots, sending the first demon flying into ILLYRIA ’s roundhouse kick that sends it flying back into the mob. Then the body of the horde hits them and they’re fighting for their lives, surrounded by demons, everyone kicking and punching and swinging as much as they can. ANGEL is standing at the head, inviolate and unbending, thrashing his sword about, catching weapons to launch kicks. SPIKE pulls a demon away from ANGEL’s unprotected back and punches through its chest. ILLYRIA is sending demons flying through the air, knocking them away with apparent ease.

 

The horde keeps coming through and they cannot hold them back. They flow around the gang, attacking from all sides. GUNN is backed against the wall, lashing out but visibly weakening. The dragon dives, screeching and the distraction is all it takes to let a fanged demon through his guard and onto his neck.

 

ANGEL (seeing him): Gunn!

 

ILLYRIA grabs the demon by the back of the neck and crushes its neck with one hand before hurling it away. GUNN just crumples to the floor though. He’s gone.

 

ILLYRIA turns, even more fury burning in its eyes, spinning to decapitate an onrushing demon with a kick. ANGEL growls and swings his sword upwards, lifting his target off the ground with the force of his blow. Shot of a cavalcade of demons pressing against the alley wall. Suddenly they explode away and SPIKE emerges, in full vamp-face, roaring with pleasure.

 

SPIKE: That’s right! Big Bad’s here.

 

He grabs a demon, hurling it against a wall and driving a dagger through its head, then spinning to send the same dagger into the neck of another. He roars again, loving every second of this primal, animal battle.

 

SPIKE: Come on you bastards, I’m gonna…

 

There is a whirl and a thunk and an ornate, jewelled dagger with a wooden blade is sticking out of SPIKE’s chest. He looks down at it in sheer disbelief, then turns to swing his fist at the next oncoming demon. The punch never connects and he dusts.

 

The fight continues, ANGEL and ILLYRIA scrambling for every punch against more and more adversaries. ILLYRIA is standing tall, fighting with fury as ever increasing numbers of demons surround it, struggling a little bit more every time. It’s killing dozens, but there are hundreds arriving every second.

 

ILLYRIA slips. And it is overwhelmed, just disappearing underneath the horde.

 

ANGEL fights alone, powered only by the superpower blood still in his system and the demons are waiting to take him on, a circle formed as they press to take him down. He whirls his sword above his head, not attacking now, just trying to keep them back. Still they come, leaping into his blade in their fury to kill him.

 

Suddenly there’s a crunch and we focus on ANGEL’s face as he gasps. The mob stops abruptly, as if aware of what’s just happened. We pull out the see a broken chunk of wood sticking from ANGEL’s chest. There is a beat as ANGEL clutches at his chest in agony.

 

ANGEL (dying gasp): Connor…

 

He starts to dust and suddenly we cut to a close image (no background visible) of ANGEL’s broken and bloodied face. His eyes snap open and he morphs into vamp-face, roaring with anger and pain and desolation. We pull out to see a completely white room (not THE White Room though, this one’s reasonably small). ANGEL is wearing the same clothes as in the alleyway and his arms and legs are fastened to the ceiling and floor by taut chains that suspend him in midair.

 

We pull further out to see that our view of ANGEL is actually on a security camera television screen (Matrix-style). The television is in a darkened room and we can see the shape of someone there. He speaks in a deep and unmistakably triumphant voice.

 

VOICE (smug): Angel.

 

The VOICE laughs malevolently.

 

 

Credits – Special credits featuring only David Boreanaz in order not to spoil any surprises. Amy Acker, J. August Richards and James Marsters are credited as ‘Guest starring’ for their roles in the pre-credits teaser, but all other regular names will be confined to ‘Guest starring’ at the end.

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