Lie to Me (Season 2, Episode 19): The kitchen at the Summers house. Buffy is nursing a cup of coffee. Angel slowly pushes the door open. Buffy: (looks up) Sure. I thought once you were invited you could always just walk in. Angel: I can. I was just being polite. (closes the door) We need to talk. Buffy: Do we? (picks up her coffee and heads into the dining room) Angel: It's about your friend Ford. He's not what he seems. Buffy: Who is these days? Angel: Willow ran him down on the computer. Angel: We found this address, we checked it out with Xander, and it turned out... Buffy: (disbelieving) And Xander? Wow. Everybody's in. It's like a great big exciting conspiracy. Angel: What are you talking about? Buffy: I'm talking about the people I trust. Who's Drusilla? Angel lowers his eyes, seeing he's been caught in a lie. Buffy: And don't lie to me. I'm tired of it. Angel: Some lies are necessary. Buffy: For what? Angel: Sometimes the truth is worse. You live long enough, you find that out. Buffy: I can take it. I can take the truth. Angel: Do you love me? Buffy: What? Angel: Do you? She takes a moment to consider her answer. Buffy: I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Angel: Maybe you shouldn't do either. (turns away) Buffy: Maybe I'm the one who should decide! Angel: I did a lot of unconscionable things when I became a vampire. (turns back, but doesn't make eye contact) Drusilla was the worst. She was... an obsession of mine. She was pure and sweet and chaste... Buffy: And you made her a vampire. Angel: First I made her insane. (looks at her) Killed everybody she loved. Visited every mental torture on her I could devise. (Buffy looks away) She eventually fled to a convent, and on the day she took her holy orders, I turned her into a demon. Buffy: Well. I asked for the truth. Angel: Ford's part of some society that reveres vampires. Practically worships them. I don't know what he wants from you, but you can't trust him. |
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