'In The Dark'
Open to dark deserted back street. A blond girl is running past
looking behind her occasionally before ducking into an alley. She
looks back around the corner, then steps back on the street to
continue only to be grabbed by the shoulders and thrown back into a trash container.
Rachel: "Lenny… please… don't."
Lenny: "You think I'm not going to find you, - after you humiliated
me - again?"
Rachel: "I didn't do anything! I swear! I'd never…"
Lenny: "No! I know what you do. I see. The men, - the lies, - this is the last time, damn it!"
Rachel steps towards him with a smile: "What are you on, Baby? You only get like this when you…"
Lenny hits her with a growl.
Rachel: "What are you going to do? Pulverize me right here? Someone is going to hear me scream."
Lenny laughs: "In downtown LA at night? Nobody is going to hear. Nobody who cares. Besides (pulls out a revolver and points it at her face) this will all be over fast. (cocks the gun)"
Rachel: "Lenny - please - no!"
Lenny: "I'm sorry. (Rachel cowers back from him) I just can't take this anymore."
Angel grabs him from behind and makes him drop his gun.
Angel: "Poor Lenny. The burden of terrorizing your girlfriend too
much for you? (hits him) Lucky for you I can make it stop."
Lenny grabs a 2x4 and tried to hit Angel. Angel ducks and cold cocks him.
Angel: "Rachel, are you alright?"
Rachel: "Is he…"
Angel: "It's okay. He's not getting up for a while."
Rachel gets up: "I can't believe you actually showed up."
Angel: "Well, that was the deal, right?"
Camera pulls back to reveal Spike watching them from a rooftop above them.
Spike in high voice: "How can I thank you, you mysterious, black-clad hunk of a night thing?
(low voice) No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. (Rachel steps closer to Angel, and Angel steps back warding her off with his hands) No, not the hair! Never the hair!
(high voice) But there must be someway I can show my appreciation.
(low voice) No, helping those in need's my job, - and working up a load of sexual tension, and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough!
(high voice) I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so…
(low voice) Say no more. Evil's still afoot! And I'm almost out of that Nancy-boy hair-gel that I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away!"
Spike lights a cigarette while he watches Angel lead Rachel away.
Spike: "Go on with you. Play the big, strapping hero while you can. You have a few surprises coming your way. - The ring of Amarra -a visit from your old pal Spike, - and, oh yeah, - your gruesome, horrible death." Smiles.