"Yeah, apparently portals to inter-dimensional demon bars still work. Not exactly Europe, but I guess it could be worse."

"Karen, are there any rumors about him among the Wolfram and Hart staff?"

"Not that I've heard? I am not, like, the most up on Wolfram & Hart gossip, though."

Nod.

He turns to glare at Spike again. "And how'd you wander through the supply closet? Hell of a coincidence."

"Oh, Angel's got a security system that alerts him to all portals opened into the building from outside. Came down to watch the show and happened to get here before he did."

"Telvo, can you run upstairs and get -"

"Yep!"

"I'm finding you very annoying so I'm gonna get someone else and then maybe we can work out what to do about you."

"You do that, then."

He comes down a bit later. Looks around at everyone. 

"The bar can't do anything for ghosts? That's actually very surprising."

"I don't think he tried."

"Oh, okay, the ghost not expecting very accommodating bars is much less surprising. It's a very good bar," he adds to Spike. 

"Karen, you're welcome to stick around here if you want to but I should warn you that this looks complicated and as a rule Elves don't do anything complicated in less than a week."

"I mean, it's this or TV."

"So long as you're warned. Spike, is there any way to test vampire assertions that they have a soul? Any spells that behave differently?"

"Couldn't tell you. Willow knows Angel's ensouling curse now, I dunno what that does if you've already got a soul. Not actually eager to test that one, though. Don't want anything knocking loose the next time I have a good shag."

"From what we know of Angel's behavior and what we know of how his curse works, is it plausible he turned evil again and is just being a bit more subtle this time?"

"Angel doesn't do subtle. And the evil version mopes a lot less."

"And the guy on top at Wolfram and Hart is mopey?"

"Oh yeah. Won't shut up about his hard, hard, extremely wealthy corporeal life."

"Has he noticed that his underlings are terrified of him and expect to be tortured to death if they catch his attention in the wrong way?"

Shrug. "He's very dense sometimes."

"And is he actually in charge or is he sitting in the CEO's office while someone else entirely runs the company?"

"Y'know, I hadn't thought of that. He did disband the tac team, though."

"I guess that's a reasonable first move if you have a large enough stable of personally loyal replacements."

"Oh he knows, like, five people."