Angel is counting loose change as he puts it into a piggybank.
Angel: "Sixty, seventy, eighty. One, two, three."

Cordy, holding Connor: "Angel..."

Angel raises a hand to stop her as he picks up the piggy and locks it into the picture safe beside the desk. Fred looks up from her laptop.

Fred: "How is the Connor fund?"

Angel has started his son's fund, someone has to look out for his future.
Angel looks over Fred's shoulder at the new website for Angel Investigations and points at the 'No Case Too Small' under the 'We Help The Helpless" part.

Angel: "Ah. Can you make that bigger? Bold, but, you know, tasteful."
Cordy to baby: "You are so cute! Yes, you are. You are just the best little boy in the whole world."

Angel comes up behind her and smiles down at Connor over her shoulder.

Angel: "How's my little man?"
Cordy: "Oh, he wonders where his father's been."
Angel: "Papa's got mouths to feed."
Cordy: "Ah. I have a mouth, too. Always have had one. Kind of known for it and we've fed it fine for years. Yeah."
Cordy puts Connor down in a baby carry-bed.

Cordy is concerned that Angel is letting money control him, and that he will lose sight of his purpose.

Wesley and Gunn re-enter the hotel, after putting up flyers advertising AI all over town. Fred announces that the web page is up and running. All they have to do is wait for the phone to ring.

Angel: "There, beautiful. We're online. We got flyers, we got yellow pages. Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to a new area of Angel Investigations. All we have to do now is wait - for that phone to start ringing and the money to start rolling in. (To Baby) Because someone's got to clothe and feed and educate this little guy, yeah? (Connor yawns) Yep - all we have to do is wait. - Just a matter of time. (Connor fusses) Don't you worry, this town is full of people who have problems."

A man is running through the pouring rain. He looks back over his shoulder at some looming shadows following him on the wall of the alley behind him, and runs right into a pile of trashcans. As he picks himself back up, he sees one of Angel's new flyers.

AI is still standing around the phone, waiting.
The man, flyer in hand, runs over to a payphone, dials, listens to it ring.
Man: "Come on, come on, come on!"

Split screen - the phone at AI is *not* ringing. Triple split screen, a guy picks up the phone in what looks like a kitchen.

Guy: "Fabrizio's Pizza."
Fred picks up a flyer form the desk and takes a closer look at it.
Fred: "Is this the right phone number?"
Everyone turns to look at Wesley.

Intro

Hyperion, day, Wes walks in, carrying a stack of flyers.

Gunn is sitting, dazed, at the counter, watching Fred with Connor. Wes starts talking about how sweet Connor is, and Gunn talks about how sweet Fred is. Angel announces that AI’s first priority is making money. Lorne arrives in the lobby, fresh from waking up. Angel wants him to find out whatever ha can abut Holtz and what he is up to. Finding him is their first priority.

Gunn: "I thought you said..."
Angel: "Finding Holtz and making money are our two number one priorities."
Cordy walks by behind him and clears her throat.
Angel: "Helping the helpless, finding Holtz, and making money are out *three* number one priorities."
Cordy: "Hey, look! We got some hits on our website."
The phone on Cordy's desk rings and Wes picks it up.
Wes: "Angel Investigations, may I help you?"

The phone on the counter rings and Gunn picks it up.

Gunn: "Angel Investigations, can I help you?"
Yet a third phone rings somewhere.
Angel, smiling: "We're in business!"



At Holtz lair

We see Justine sitting at a small table with Holtz pacing behind her. He is angry, she has disobeyed orders that he gave to her. She dusted two vampires when he wanted her to leave them alone. He wants to test her commitment to the cause. Justine looks like she is in pain.

The camera pans down from Justine looking up at Holtz to reveal that her left hand is pinned to the desk with an awl. Holtz reminds her that she can take the screwdriver out and leave, or she can stick around until he comes back. Justine watches Holtz walk out and slide the grate shut behind him.


The Hyperion

The lobby is full of people and demons.

Fred takes a clipboard from one of the non-humans. Angel, holding Connor, walks up beside her.
Lorne is talking to three gray aliens, wearing long robes and silver facemasks in a language that seems to be mostly clicks, whirrs, and popping sounds. He leaves them to talk to Angel. Angel sees Wes coming out of the office with some other people and flags him.

The place is hopping, phone or clients occupy everyone.

Gunn comes up to Angel leading a young blonde.

Gunn: "Hey, office free? It's kind of personal."
Angel: "Yeah. Go. (To Connor) If this keeps up, little guy, we may have to incorporate, huh?"
Cordy is sitting at the counter, phone in hand.
Cordy: "We're getting stretched a little thin here, Angel."
Angel: "Come on. Nonsense. We can handle it."


Gunn speaks with a young woman whose ex-boyfriend is stalking her. The police didn’t do anything to help her. Gunn knows the police don’t take much action until someone dies. The girl says that someone already has – her stalker.

In the lobby

Wes is talking to the Nahdrahs with Lorne translating. The demons want to buy Wes’s mind to solve a puzzle they wish to present to their prince. Fred approaches them, and is interested in the geometric patterns of prime numbers on their vests. The demons speak agitatedly to each other, and they ask Lorne why Wes’s girlfriend is pointing at them. They leave. Wes believes it is because they were offended, but Lorne reveals that something came up and they had to leave. They liked Fred.

Gunn: "Wes? I think I'm gonna need you on this one."
Angel on phone: "Great. I'm on my way."
Angel hangs up the phone and picks up the piece of paper from the desk. Walks over to Cordy and thrusts Connor into her arms.
Angel: "Big case. Got to run."

Cordy: "Oh..."

Angel, already leaving: "I think he needs changing. Oh, and bottle, three o'clock."
Cordy to Connor: "Well, hi there."

Shot of a car driving down a street at night.

A man dressed in a suit is talking on a hands-free phone headset of a large office as Angel enters through the glass doors. The side wall of the window are large windows overlooking a manufacturing floor.

Angel arrives at the office of the man, Mr. Harlan Elster.

Mr. Elster doesn’t believe that Angel is up to the job. Angel reassures him that he can handle it. The man wants him to eradicate a nest of vampires at 83rd and Vermont. He pays Angel $5,000 when the vamps are dead. Angel leaves. Harlan watches the doors close behind Angel. A door behind Harlan opens and an older man walks in, and the real Mr. Elster walks into his office. The fake Mr. Elster punches him and leaves.



Holtz lair.

Justine is still around when Holz returns. Justine's head is resting on the table, her hand still pinned to the table by the ice pick. Holtz walks in, crouches down and lays his head on the table, so their eyes are on a level.

She wants to know what Holze wants her to do. He says he wants her to find other people like her ; people who have lost loved ones to vampires, and are out for vengeance. He removes the screwdriver from her hand, and hands her a bandage. She wraps the wound, then slaps him.



The Hyperion

Angel walks into the lobby, which is deserted, except for some papers strewn here and there and Cordy and Fred sprawled on the settee next to Connor's bassinet.

Angel tells them the good new about his job. Cordy is concerned about Angel’s obsession with money.

Cordy: "Angel - I don't think it's such a great idea to be working on so many cases at once. I mean, what if we're all out making money and some poor devil stumbles in here and needs our help?"

The doors open and Lorne stumbles in.
Lorne: "Bon giorno, everybody, bon giorno."

He is drunk, he leaned that Holtz and his Grappler demons are out to get Angel. Angel doesn’t believe that Holtz has Grapplers working for him. Lorne says he doesn’t , he poisoned the Grapplers and is now looking for humans to help him.

Cordy picks Connor up out his bassinet.
Cordy: "Uh, we've got company."
Angel turns to see the Nahdrahs walking in, clicking away as soon as they enter.
They want Fred to solve the puzzle for their prince. She will be gone a couple of days, depending on how long it takes for her to solve it. Lorne will join her as her translator. The demons give Angel $ 50,000 for the use of Fred’s brain. Angel reaches out and grabs the suitcase, a big smile on his face: "We accept."

Gunn and Wes are guarding the Blonde from earlier at her home.

The woman is confident that she will be safe because Fred said Wes and Gynn inspire confidence. They are both clearly enamoured by her, and they become competitive over who has her affections. The woman asks why is it possible her ex boy friend can be stalking her if he is dead. Gunn opens his mouth but Wes, looking out the window answers before he gets a chance to say anything. Wes hypothesizes about why the dead boyfriend keeps coming back after her. He locks her door, and stands in front of it. Suddenly the boyfriend breaks the lock and grabs Wes. Brian (the boyfriend) is a zombie.

Lorne moans as he and Fred climb on to the Nahdrah's barge. The demons take a picture of Fred and Lorne, and show her the puzzle she needs to solve. She takes out her laptop and gets to work. A demon offers Lorne and Fred some weird food on crackers, seems to be eyeballs.

Lorne politely declines.

Angel has arrived at the vampires nest.
Angel walks into their lair, looking around.
Angel: "Ooh, aren't we just the scary serial vamps - with the spooky lair -and the taking of trophies of our victims?"
Angel picks up some of the stuff (like watches, wallets, purses, etc) on one of the tables then drops it back down.
Angel: "Lame."

Angel pulls out a stake and flattens himself against the wall next to the door as footsteps approach. A man comes in, carrying more loot, and Angel attacks him from behind. The guy drops the stuff and turns on Angel, revealing his vamp face and the two of them fight. Angel gets thrown around a bit. He lands on the floor and picks up a broken table leg.

Angel: "Next time you hit the yard sales, I'd avoid the wooden furniture. (Angel stakes the vamp as it charges him again.) I hear Wicker is nice."
Angel gets up to see two other vamps standing there.
Angel returns to Elster’s office to get the rest of the money. He comes across the real Mr. Elster and learns that he was lied to by a former employee.
Sam Ryan was fired because he kept harassing Mr. Elster to hire some charlatan ghostbuster to clean out an abandoned rathole in midtown, a vampires nest, they had killed his friend.
Angel: "Yeah. (Holds up the check and rips it in two) Yeah."

Starts to leave.

Mr. Elster then reveals Sam was interested in treasure that the vampires had amassed.

Angel turning back: "Treasure?"


Back at the Nahdrah’s barge.

Fred is putting some of the glass hunks together. She is working on that puzzle. Lorne isn’t feeling well, he leaves as Fred slides another glass piece into place, causing the Nahdrah to hurry away.

Lorne is walking up some stairs and turns down a gangway. He hears some soft whirring and clicking and turns the other way. He traces the sounds to a curtained off alcove. Parting one of the curtains slightly he sees a sick looking Nahdrah without a mask sitting in a chair, attended by several others. Lorne watches as one of the Nahdrahs turns a laptop so the big one in the chair (and Lorne) can see the screen. It shows a picture of Fred's head sliding over onto the shoulders of the guy sitting in the chair.

He learns that the Prince needs a replacement head, and they want to use Fred’s head. They plan to make the change that night. Lorne turns around to warn Fred, but he is knocked out by a Nahdrah demon.

Back at The Hyperion

Cordy is trying to float for Connor, she is hopping up on her toes and dropping back down in front of Connor's bassinet. She gives up after a few tries and bends down to pick Connor up.

She tells Connor about her visions, how they used to be painful, but now that she is demonised they are a breeze. She may get some wonky side effects, but she tells him that good will come of it. She reminds Connor that his father is a champion and a good man.


At the vampires nest.

Sam Ryan is there, he is looking for a watch, he finds it and picks it up as Angel grabs him from behind. and takes the watch away from him.

Sam: "Give it back."
Angel: "No, I think I earned it, don't you? What is it? Rolex?"
Sam: "Timex."
Angel: "Oh. (Twists Sam's arm a little harder) What is it, really? Considering all the trouble you went through to get it, we both know it's not just a watch."
Sam: "That's true. It's not."
Angel: "Probably worth more than ten grand, too."
Sam: "A lot more."Angel: "What's it do? Open a portal? Raise an army?"
Sam: "It glows in the dark. Probably about all of them do now. Looks like they cracked it when they took it off him. (Angel lets go of Sam and Sam turns to face him) I told him to let them have it, but - he wasn't about to give it up. It was the first thing I ever bought him."
Angel: "These vampires killed your friend."
Angel tells him he didn’t kill three vampire for nothing , and ten grand was the deal.
Sam: "Seven."
Angel: "Okay. Fine. I'll take seven."
Sam: "No, no, no. You said three vampires. There were seven."

They both look around.


Back at The Hyperion

Cordy bending over the bassinet: "You're gonna discover there's a lot of cool things in this world. (Holds up two handful of the Nahdrah's money with a big smile) Fifty grand - way up there on the list."

Cordy goes to put the bills back into the suitcase with the other ones.
Cordy: "We're just gonna lock this up in the safe and... "

The camera zooms in close as Cordy kind of freezes, a wide-eyed expression on her face.

Cordy: "Right after this vision."

We get blurry shots of Fred solving the puzzle, of the prince and the laptop screen, then of a knife blade coming at Fred.

Cordy hopes Fred hasn’t solved the puzzle yet, We see Fred putting another piece of glass into place, smiling: "Shouldn't be long now.” Then we see Wess and Gunn they hear glass breaking and they both stand up, weapons at the ready.

Gunn: "With the possible exception of the skylight in the kitchen."
Brian walking in: "Ally! - Ally - baby, I just..."
Ally flinches as Gunn hits Brian over the head with the baseball bat.
Wes: "Into the bedroom."

Brian pushes Wes and Gunn away from him, as Ally runs for the bedroom. They pick themselves back up and Gunn clubs Brian again before they hurry after Ally.

At The Hyperion

Cordy hangs up the phone. Wes and Gunn aren’t answering her calls and she knows that Angels doesn’t know how to work his voice mail so she bundles Connor up, Cordy, holding Connor in one arm, picks up the money case with her free hand and heads off going to the barge to save Fred.

Back at the woman’s home

Gunn and Wes are sliding a dresser in front of the bedroom door as Brian pounds on it. All Brian wants is for his girlfriend to take him back. Gunn and Wes try to brace the dresser, but it is slowly pushed back to the point where Brian and stick his head in through the crack in the door. Ally tries to help push the dresser. Gunn lifts his bat one handed and bashes at Brian's hand and head with it. They manage to shut the door. They all wait and listen for a moment, then Wes motions for Gunn to take a look as he slides the dresser back.

Wes: "What's he doing?"
Gunn: "Pouting."
Ally: "Okay. That's it."

She walks past Gunn out into the living room, where Brian is sitting, hunched over. She acknowledges that they had fun together, but he was much too dependent on her, so she poisoned him. Wesley and Gunn look shocked, especially when they learn that Brian will forgive her . They kiss. Wes and Gunn watches them disgusted.

Back at the vampires nest.

Sam is bracing his back against the door of the vampire nest as someone is pounding on it from outside. Angel, sitting on a table across the room: "Sorry. I don't get paid I can't fight." Angel refuses to fight the remaining four vampires until Sam pays up. He agrees to help barricade the door, but nothing more.



At the barge.

Fred has finally solved the puzzle. The demons swoop down on her, and take her to their prince, where she sees Lorne tied up.

Fred: "And me now."
Lorne: "Yeah, I know. We're in a bit of a situation here." The Nahdrahs push Fred down in a chair across from their prince and close the clamps to hold her in place.

Lorne tells her what they plan on doing, the demons are about to cut Fred’s head off when a sharp whistle sounds and everyone turns to look at Cordy standing in the door, holding the money and Connor .Cordy tells Lorne to translate and tell the demons that this was all a horrible misunderstanding. They need Fred, with her head intact, so they will exchange the money for Fred. Cordy looks at Lorne and he starts to click away at the Nahdrahs. Cordy sets down the suitcase. But Lorne embellishes the translation, Clicks away to the Nahdrahs, who answer back and raise their weapons.

Lorne: "I told them what they had to do, and told them what would happen if they didn't do it."
Cordy: "Lorne, we're in no position to be threatening these nice people."
Lorne: "Oh, sure we are. Angel, Wes, and Gunn can take 'em! Can't see them from down here. Where are they anyway?"
Cordy: "Out making money."
Cordy gives the Nahdrahs a big smile.

Back at the vampire nest

Angel steps away from the door, he wants to get Sam out of there. But Same refuses to leave. Angel sighs and picks up a wooden chair leg. He goes over to the door and pulls Sam away from it, talking to him.
Angel: "You take on a job in good faith - you expect to be compensated. You provide the best service you can offer."

The door behind Angel burst open and four vampires rush in. Angel stakes one of them without even looking around, throwing another to the side, never taking his eyes off Sam.
Angel: "A quality service. - But you know, there's overhead."

The vamp in the doorway hesitates as Angel grabs another one and stakes it off hand, still ranting.
Angel: "There's rent, three phone lines, advertising, it adds up."

The remaining vamps run as Angel pulls out the watch and throws it at Sam.
Angel: "Here."

Angel starts to leave.

Angel throws the chair leg to the side on his way out the door. We hear some beeping. Angel pulls out his phone.
Sam calling after him: "I owe you. - You're a real - champion." Angel: "Yeah whatever. (To phone) Hello? (Beeping continues) Hello?!"
Sam: "Hey - I think - I think that's your voice mail."



Back at the barge

Cordy: "Lorne - do these guys have groins?"
Lorne: "I think so. I never knew one intimately."
Cordy steps forward and kicks one of the Nahdrahs between the legs. We hear a metal clang, and Cordy hops back on one foot.
Cordy: "Oh. Ow! Ow! Ow!"
Cordy hops backwards through the curtain, only to come back in, bracketed by Wes and Gunn, who proceed to attack the Nahdrahs.
The Nahdrah standing next to Fred holds the sword blade against her throat and Fred begins to scream.

Wes and Gunn both react ; Gunn grabs a metal rod, while Wes grabs the suitcase, and hurl them. The rod knocks the Nahdrah with the sword backwards, away from Fred. The suitcase decapitates the prince before bursting open against the wall. All the fighting and screaming stops as the Nahdrahs stare at their headless prince.

With their Prince now decapitated the demons get angry , they close in on Wes and Gunn. Wes and Gunn go down under the assault. The skylight burst and Angel drops in on them joining the fight. Wes and Gunn are working on freeing Fred. There are Nahdrah bodies littering the floor. Angel to Cordy: "I should have listened to you."

Cordy: "Well, yeah."
Angel takes Connor from her: "I should never have left you and the baby alone like that."
Cordy: "Well - yeah."
Wes and Gunn help Fred up out of the chair.
Fred: "If you can keep your head when those about you are losing theirs guess you're pretty lucky. I could kiss you both."
Wes and Gunn both move closer. Lorne clears his throat, and they all look down at him.
Lorne: "Uh, still tied up down here."
Fred: "Oh..."

The three of them proceed to untie Lorne.

Angel admits that he got carried away with the money. He keeps looking at the suitcase of money lying there wide open the money spread around. He loses track of what he was talking about, but Cordy reminds him and he says that family and the mission are the most important. Cordy after a beat: "They tried to cut Fred's head off. We earned every penny." Angel: "Hold the baby."

Cordy takes Connor from Angel as everyone but her rushes over to the spilled money and starts to stuff it into their pockets

The Hyperion at night
Angel’s room

Cordy and Angel are lying on a bed with Connor in-between-them. Cordy is giving Connor his bottle as she is singing a lullaby.

Cordy: "Go to sleep, my baby peep..."

She and Angel are falling asleep lying on top of Angel's bed with Connor in between them, feeding from a bottle.

Cordy: "I'm just saying a boat."
Angel: "No. College fund."
Cordy: "Yes. College fund - and pay our bills - and put a down payment on a boat."
Angel: "We're not getting a boat."
Cordy: "Hmm, they're fun."
Angel: "They're expensive. And when would I go on this boat, hmm?"
Cordy: "Moonlight sails. - Okay. - College fund - pay our bills - and rent a ski condo in Aspen."
Angel: "Ski condo?"
Cordy: "There's got to be some fun in our lives."
Angel: "Hmm - I like a ski condo."
Cordy: "Sure. Snow. Trees. Chipmunk robots on ice..."
Angel: "Chipmunk robots... - on ice..."