Coming soon to The Psyche Arc
In which Angel goes on a quest to save a friend...
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Written by Jocelyn Rose
Teaser
INT. HYPERION LOBBY - DAY
FRED and GUNN are entering, full of the joys of diner pancakes. We see CORDELIA and WESLEY behind the counter, engaged in admin-type tasks. They look up as they see Fred and Gunn approaching.
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Fred's face in closeup as she opens her mouth to say 'Good morning' or whatever - we'll never know because just then
Crash! If you can imagine a distant, quiet, non-threatening crashing sound, and Fred
looks up
and the crashing continues, louder now, and a little dust falls on to Fred's face, which is still registering surprise, not alarm
and the crashing noise gets louder still, and bits of plaster are falling now; Fred's starting to look a little worried
and as a last ginormous surroundsound crash begins Fred is snatched out of frame and we
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A wide shot of the lobby so we can see that Gunn has grabbed Fred and thrust her aside as with a final apocalyptic WHUMPH the ceiling falls in and a figure crashes through and lands smack in the middle of the floor, on its back and with arms outstretched, and with the sudden silence we
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PSYCHE, her eyes closed, lying amid the ruins of the hotel roof and several floors.
A beat.
Deja vu much?
END OF TEASER
ACT ONE
INT. HYPERION HOTEL FOYER - DAY
As before, except that ANGEL has appeared and is running down the stairs as Gunn helps Fred up and brushes her off, and the other two emerge from behind the counter. Cordelia is looking up at the damage, but the others are all staring at Psyche. They gather round her in a ring.
(hushed)
Is she dead?
Angel pushes away some debris, kneels down beside her.
She's immortal.
GUNN
What, like you, you mean?
ANGEL
No: truly immortal.
WESLEY
She can't be killed at all?
Angel has his hands on each side of Psyche's head.
That's the usual definition...
Meanwhile Cordelia is still looking up...until suddenly she grabs Angel's shoulders and yanks him violently backward away from Psyche. He lands, sprawling; looks up at her in surprise.
Cordy, what...?
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Psyche, in closeup. Bright sun suddenly on her face.
Hole in the roof.
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Hole in the roof. Yup. Sunlight streaming in.
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INT. THE SAME - MOMENTS LATER
Psyche has been laid on one of the sofas, well away from the shaft of sunlight, and Angel, kneeling beside her once more, is unbuttoning - do the higher beings have buttons? Anyway, whatever she's wearing, he's undoing it, and exposing her chest.
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Cordelia, in closeup, looking a bit uncomfortable.
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Angel's hand on Psyche's left breast.
Um...Angel?
ANGEL
Hmm?
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Cordelia
Are you sure you should be doing that?
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Angel, absorbed, not paying attention.
I've seen it all before.
CORDELIA (OS)
WHAT?
Angel looks round and up at her, surprised.
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Cordelia. Rant mode.
Do you know that ever since Angel Investigations was set up, every single woman who's walked through that door
(a beat)
- and the other door we had before it got blown up - has had the hots for you...
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Fred, looking embarrassed.
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Cordelia again, now in full marching-about flow.
...and if it wasn't for my efforts you'd have turned evil ages ago...
(a thought)
You aren't evil, are you?
WESLEY
Cordelia, I don't think Angel meant that he...
ANGEL
Yes I did, but I can't see how this is anyone else's business...
A beat.
Hallo? Perfect happiness plus you equals evil you and this is not our business why?
A beat, while everyone tries to work this one out.
Look, Cordelia, I'm just trying to find out what's wrong. OK?
He turns back to Psyche and puts both hands on her, closes his eyes.
A beat.
And there is something. Something in her heart.
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INT. THE SAME - LATER
Close up on MEERNA, the blue-haired mystical friend of Lorne. Psyche's POV - or it would be, if Psyche were looking at anything.
You've bitten off more than you can chew this time, haven't you?
Camera pulls back to show her standing with her hands on her hips looking down at Psyche, who's still lying on the sofa. Angel and co are still there too, looking on.
Do you know this is one of the higher beings?
WESLEY
That's why we called on you. We don't know what to do for her.
MEERNA
(ever so slightly flattered)
Well, let's see then.
She leans down, puts her hands on Psyche's chest as Angel did.
(concerned)
Oh boy.
She draws her palms together and raises her hands away from Psyche, and as she does we see
she's holding an arrow, a white shiny mystical-type arrow which she's pulling out of Psyche's heart. A full-length arrow that there wouldn't have been room for in real space. It lights up the whole of the lobby and makes their intent faces look unearthly.
Meerna straightens up.
OH boy.
She holds the arrow out to Angel. As he takes it
Have YOU got problems.
END OF ACT TWO
More soon but, in the meantime, the rest of the Psyche scripts are here.
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