"Very rare?"

"Well actually they're more like relatively uncommon, it's just that the vast majority of them are being held open by powerful demons who want you to prove your worth or bring a gift and who won't hold still enough for any kind of proper scientific study. Or dissolve on entry and then send you to a demon dimension for five years. I really hope that doesn't happen again.

- I'm Fred, who are you guys?"

"Matt. This is Alex. Our science team is upstairs, they're probably the people you actually want to talk to."

"Oh great! - I would stay for more pleasantries but I'm sure you have other people for that and if it's going to be just me and Wesley catching up on whatever's here then I think we'd really better get started." She glances at Wesley. "You are going to help, right?"

He glows a little at the prospect. "Naturally. If there's nothing more pressing down here, that is."

"Kinda seems like you're also the person to talk to about employee rescues, since Angel can't even pretend to give a shit."

"I think you two should go meet with our scientists; what kind of help it makes sense for us to be offering each other might depend on what you learn."

"I'm really not in charge of staffing, but I'd be happy to attend any meetings on the subject later on. I suppose I'll see you all shortly."

Eeeee science!

They'll just head upstairs then.

Well.

"Have I always been this obnoxious?"

"Meh. Just don't go into law."

"Really doesn't seem like it should be hard."

"I'm not a lawyer. I just - happen to run a law firm."

"That seems... worse."

"You're not half as obnoxious, dude. I have seen you care about the lives of people who had caused you mild annoyance, so that puts you way ahead of this guy."

"I do not kill people for annoying me."

(Faith heads over to the bar to buy popcorn.)

"I didn't say you killed them. I said you didn't care about their lives. Though also Spike says you kill werewolves. With pens. Those're people, dude."

He glares at Spike. "I know what werewolves are. It was an emergency situation and he'd been habitually killing people every full moon."

"Yeah, that's what werewolves do if they haven't got a good lockup. I guess maybe you are also shit in a fight compared to our Angel and can't take one werewolf alive."

"It was in the middle of attacking someone. Didn't have backup or a weapon and didn't want to take chances with his victim's life."

"Hey Faith, you've seen your guy fight, right?"

She takes a second to stop munching popcorn.

"Sure, lotsa times."

"If he got into a fight with one werewolf, how worried would you be?"

"Wouldn't worry about his life. I guess it is harder to take stuff alive than it is to kill it, if you haven't got a weapon. Especially if it's not a vampire, those guys you just beat them until they stop twitching and they wake up good as new. Maybe the werewolf dies if there're some humans around and he's real unlucky and can't wrestle it somewhere safer?"