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Date Posted: 02:41:01 11/03/05 Thu
Author: Rufus
Subject: Go back to the conversation he had with Harmony post signing.
In reply to: Sunshine 's message, "And I failed...poor, poor me" on 10:51:07 11/02/05 Wed

From "Not Fade Away"


ANGEL
You ever miss it? You were turned, what... 5 years ago?

HARMONY
Oh, that. Yeah. Graduation night. I don't know. It's weird. Part of me always knew life would end after high school. I was very popular, you know. The whole "golden years" thing.

ANGEL
I don't remember what it was like... being human. It was too long ago.


Later with Lindsay:

LINDSEY
You gotta be joking. Why on God's green and verdant Earth would I trust you, huh? Or you, me?

ANGEL
'Cause it's not about us, Lindsey. It's about them. The wolf. The ram. The hart. The ones we've been fighting against forever.

LINDSEY
You can't beat 'em.

ANGEL
Maybe they're not there to be beat. Maybe they're there to be fought. Maybe fighting them is what makes human beings so remarkably strong.

LINDSEY
(stands)
You're not talking about the kind of strength human beings have.
(sits on the edge of the table)
This is not about coveting your neighbor's ass, your buddy's job, the last Mallomar in the box. You're talking about fighting flesh and something that passes for blood demons with enormous power, and they will mow you down.

ANGEL
Maybe... but I keep thinking that once this world was theirs and now it's not.

LINDSEY
Isn't it?

ANGEL
Give me the hell on Earth speech, Lindsey. I know how bad things are, how much sway the demons hold. I happen to be the greatest mass murderer you've ever met.

LINDSEY
Never given you props for that, have I?

ANGEL
There's always going to be power, and there's always going to be corruption.

LINDSEY
So again I ask you—

ANGEL
'Cause it's not what I'm expected to do. 'Cause you're good in a fight. And let's say we come up rolling 7s and this does go our way. We tear up this firm, someone's going to have to step in. I know that's what you want. Now, I'm a lot more comfortable with the thought of you in that position than anyone else.

Then when he beats Hamilton:

HAMILTON
Why do you keep fighting? You signed away your Shanshu. There's nothing in it for you anymore.

ANGEL
(punches Hamilton in the face)
People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do.


Angel thought he was signing away the Shanshu, but that wasn't the only thing he's got to lose. That dragon at the end symbolizes what Angel said to Lindsay Maybe they're not there to be beat. Maybe they're there to be fought. Maybe fighting them is what makes human beings so remarkably strong. That is the moment I finally accepted Angel as a hero and human in a way that defies mortality. He's human enough to do the one thing that Wolfram and Hart never counted on, keeping on fighting for something more than himself...and that to me makes him human enough not to need any old Shanshu.

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