Angel, Season 4

[Connor kneels down to untie the bound hands of the virgin girl he's holding captive. Darla stands nearby.]

Connor:
Shhhhh. Shhh. It's okay.

Darla:
You're all right now. Everything's going to be all right.

Cordelia:
What are you doing?

Connor:
[frozen] Nothing. I, uh...

Cordelia:
It's time. Take her in the other room.

Darla:
Listen to your heart.

Connor:
[to Cordelia] She didn't do anything. We should let her go.

Cordelia:
No we shouldn't. We need her, Connor. Our baby...

Connor:
Shouldn't be anointed with innocent blood.

Cordelia:
Anointed? Who's been filling your head with big, confusing words?

Connor:
Just been thinking about it.

Cordelia:
Or, maybe... a little birdie's been pecking at you behind my back.

Darla:
[to Connor] She'll lie to you.

Cordelia:
You know how much they love to use the magic, Connor. A spell for this, a spell for that.

Darla:
Close her out, baby.

Cordelia:
Whatever you're hearing, whatever you think you're seeing...it's a trick.

Darla:
Don't let her in.

Cordelia:
It's Angel.

Darla:
No.

Cordelia:
Trying to turn you against me with a cheap vision of... [looks to where Darla's standing] ...Darla?

Connor:
[to Cordelia] You can see her?

Cordelia:
I see the lies.

Darla:
Connor, listen to me.

Cordelia:
It's not her.

Darla:
You have to let her go.

Cordelia:
It's your father. This is how much he hates you.

Darla:
I love you. Please.

Cordelia:
Torturing you with this sad imitation of your dead mother.

Darla:
[crying] Don't let her do this.

Cordelia:
Are you going to let them do this to us? Are you going to let them kill our baby?

Darla:
[desperate] Connor, listen to me...

Connor:
[yelling, crying] You are not my mother!

[Darla looks on horrified as Connor grabs the virgin girl by her bound hands and drags her into the other room.]

Girl:
[weeping] No!

[Connor puts virgin girl on the ground in the center of the circle where Cordelia was chanting before. The girl looks up to see Cordelia swinging a huge butcher's knife at her head. When the girl looks up at Connor, she has Darla's face now.]

Darla:
Please, don't do this Connor. Don't--

[Connor just stands there, watching Cordelia murder this girl, listening to the sounds of blood spattering as Cordelia makes the killing blow. The girl collapses in the middle of the circle.]

Cordelia:
There. That wasn't so hard, was it?