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- Back - Episode 149: " All Grown Up " - Season 8, Episode 5: The Powers That Be #Disclaimer# I do not own the characters in this story, nor do I own any rights to the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel the Series". They were created by Joss Whedon and belong to him, Mutant Enemy, Sandollar Television, Kuzui Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Television, WB and UPN Television Networks. ~~~~~~~~~~ Prologue ~~~~~~~~~~ GILES VOICEOVER: Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer... (Cut to) Central Park, Night: (Next Scene) INT. Jazz Club: (Next Scene) Warehouse, Night: (Next Scene) Warehouse, Night: (Next Scene) Warehouse, Night: Episode begins: Teaser (Camera starts off in what looks to be a sewer. Slowly we see Buffy turn a corner and start walking towards the camera, we then see Giles & Claudia then Xander behind her followed by Willow with Kennedy bringing up the rear. They are all armed and look ready for a fight. The camera rests on Xander, Kennedy and Willow) XANDER: (whispering) Is this the way to celebrate a successful school opening? Why not a snappy Broadway matinee? Preferably in a theatre where they use disinfectant? KENNEDY: Between 'The Lion King' and sewers, I vote 'sewers.' XANDER: What about "Urinetown" then? No singing animals but no actual -- (coughs/sneezes). WILLOW: (abruptly, quietly) We might as well be on stage with these acoustics. As if vamps didn't have the sense advantage already. XANDER: Pretty much a non-advantage down here. Maybe the Sunnydale sewage was, I don't know, sunnier? Because this -- KENNEDY: Someplace has to drain off all the city's bullsh -- WILLOW: He-ey! Watch the potty mouth! KENNEDY: All the poo. XANDER: Gaackh, why didn't Caleb just tear off my nose? KENNEDY: Or tongue? WILLOW: Xander has a nice tongue. KENNEDY: OK, Ms. R., you owe me MAJOR time for that one. XANDER: Glad you saved the innuendo for the Sabbath-rest-in-the-sewers, Will, and spared the kids. WILLOW (sternly) Sabbath is Friday night and Saturday, Xander. XANDER: And since when -- KENNEDY: Don't ask. You'll get an earful about Lilith, the Hebraic goddess exiled by the male rabbinate. WILLOW (to KENNEDY): You try being a non-observant Rosenberg in this town. KENNEDY: (mock hopeful) Are you proposing? XANDER: Romance isn't dead, just down the drains. Like us. (beat) Say, Buff, couldn't we have sent an Away Team? (Kennedy gives Xander a look as the group comes to an opening. It's big enough for all of them to stand together in but doesn’t leave much more room than that. There are two passageways in front of them.) BUFFY: Ok, we split up. Giles, Claudia and Kennedy take the tunnel to the right. Willow you're with Xander and me. GILES: Are you sure you saw Sir Thomas's vampires going down into these sewage tunnels? CLAUDIA: Absolutely. Though, why they chose to live here, I have no idea. It's disgusting. BUFFY: Martha Stewart, she never really got through to the undead demographic. XANDER: (Looking around) Hey, isn’t this the section we cleared those Alligator Demons out of the other day? Man, I do not wanna see those babies again. GILES: (Looks around.) I'm sure they're far away by now. No doubt en route to a quieter life in the suburbs. WILLOW: (Gives Kennedy a kiss on the cheek.) Be careful. KENNEDY: You too. SIR THOMAS: You should all be careful! (Buffy and the gang look up to see him and two other Vampires standing on a platform above them holding two gas cylinders that look like green torpedo’s.) CLAUDIA: There, you see! They ARE here! I was right! GILES: Yes, well, bully for you. And... SLAM! (A door closes off the tunnel they've just exited) GILES: Oh bugger. XANDER: (Yelling) It’s a trap! (Buffy, Claudia & Giles just turn and stare at him.) XANDER: Ok, obviousness, but someone had to say it. BUFFY: (To Sir Thomas.) You really think these homemade doors of yours are going to hold us for long? SIR THOMAS: No, don’t be silly. But they should hold up long enough for you to take a nap. (The two vampires open the valves on the two canisters aim the nozzles down at the Scooby’s. Willow raises her hands) SIR THOMAS: I wouldn’t do any spells if I were you young lady. One spark and you all go boom. The streets above will be littered with little pieces of Slayer for weeks. Now, I shall say goodbye...for the moment. See you very very soon. (He and the other vampires drop the canisters and exit through a trapdoor that bangs shut and locked behind them) BUFFY: Willow can you open the door? WILLOW: I don’t know…I feel…I feel so tired all the sudden. (Claudia picks up one of the discarded canisters) BUFFY: Claudia, what’s in those things? (Claudia spins it around trying to find a label. As she does the open valve points at Xander, and he stumbles backwards after inhaling some of the gas and then passes out cold.) KENNEDY: Xander! (She runs to his side and holds him up above the water) CLAUDIA: Oh no. BUFFY: (Holding Willow up.) What? What’s in it? CLAUDIA: Ether. BUFFY: What? CLAUDIA: Knockout gas! BUFFY: Will, can you… (She turns to find Willow unconscious on her arm, then we hear the splash of Giles hitting the water behind her.) (The camera pans over Giles, Kennedy and Xander passed out in the shallow water of the sewer tunnel. Xander's head is in Kennedy's lap) BUFFY: Oh...not good! (Buffy puts Willow down next to Kennedy, rushes to the door they entered by and starts kicking it, hard. Claudia hurries to help but now both girls are breathing heaver and getting tired very quickly. Claudia passes out and falls down; she lands with her head barely above water. Buffy drops to her knees and the door opens to reveal Sir Thomas.) SIR THOMAS: Still awake? You really should get some rest dear; you do have a long journey ahead of you. BUFFY: No…not like…this…(She passes out cold and falls face first into the sewer water) SIR THOMAS: Yes dear, I’m afraid like this. (With an evil grin on his face.) Wolf Howl, Buffy's theme plays. Staring. Special Guest Star: With: Commercial Break: Whitenight Sponsored Links: This advertizement is not displayed for registered users.
07-27-2004, 09:52 AM #2 Posts: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Camera starts on the outside of Dawns bedroom door. The door opens to reveal a newly awakened Dawn in her PJ’s and her hair all messed up, she walks straight into the bathroom and closes the door. The door then immediately opens to reveal Dawn still in her PJ’s but her hair is combed and she seems wide-awake and is humming “Hay Ya” by OutKast as she makes her way into the kitchen. She takes out a bowl and grabs a box of cereal off the top of the refrigerator and pours some into the bowl. She then goes and gets a spoon from the drawer and starts dancing while singing.) DAWN: Come on and shake it! Come on and shake it! Come on and shake it like a Polaroid picture! Hay Ya, Hay Ya. (She opens the fridge as she is singing and grabs the carton of milk. She sits down and pours the milk over her breakfast but only a few drops come out. She looks inside the cartoon and frowns.) DAWN: Oh man. Someone's getting slain for this. CUT TO: (A fully dressed Dawn standing outside Buffy’s room. She knocks on her sister's bedroom door.) DAWN: Buffy. I need to go to the store for milk, do you need anything? (Waits a minute but there is no answer. Looks at the clock in the living room and sees it's after 10 AM. She slowly opens Buffy’s bedroom door. It’s almost pitch black in the room because of the heavy curtains covering the window.) DAWN: Hey, sleepy head! Was Saturday night some big monster mash you're sleeping off? I need to borrow some money. Well, I say borrow... (She waits but no answer) DAWN: Buffy? (Again she waits but no answer) I’m going to turn the light on so I can find your purse so cover your head. (She turns on the light and sees an empty bed.) (Quietly) Buffy? (Louder) Buffy! CUT TO: (Dawn banging on various doors along a hallway, until Andrew comes out looking spooked, and wearing Scooby Doo pajamas, with a bowl of cereal in his hand) ANDREW: What! What is it? Vampires? Demons? DAWN: Do you have the maintenance keys? ANDREW: Yeah, I took them when I couldn’t find any cereal upstairs. Xander always has nice cereal. DAWN: Give them to me! ANDREW: Why, What’s wrong? DAWN: Buffy never came home last night and none of the others are answering their doors. (Andrew comes out with the keys and opens Xander’s apartment.) DAWN: (calling in through the door) Xander! (A camera in Xander’s bedroom shows Dawn & Andrew enter his room to find an empty bed. They exchange a worried look) CUT TO: (Dawn and Andrew in Willow & Kennedy’s bedroom. It's empty) DAWN: (panic entering her voice) Ok...none of them came home last night. (She turns and runs out of Willow and Kennedy’s apartment) ANDREW: What if the First came back and made them all kill themselves? But, then the bodies would be... (Dawn's already running up the stairs on her way to the eighth floor.) ANDREW: Where are you going? CUT TO: (Dawn is in her apartment, with the phone in her hand. She's dialing. Andrew is looking over her shoulder, nervously) DAWN: Come on Buffy…pick up. ANDREW: Is she picking up? (Dawn shoots Andrew an exasperated look. She lets the phone ring several times while beginning to pace, but no one answers.) DAWN: Ok... (She dials again. There's a pause as she listens. Dawn puts the phone down, shaking her head) DAWN: Willow's not answering either. ANDREW: All of them incommunicado? Dios Mio! (Scared) What do we do? I wish Buffy was here... DAWN: Yeah, that's kinda missing the whole, “Buffy's missing” point. (Dawn starts to pace the room & then Andrew blurts out.) ANDREW: Do you think it has anything to do with that Vampire your sister said stole the box, cause what if he got her and is trying to open it right now…OH, what if it’s working for the First Evil and it… DAWN: Argh! (She starts to pace again.)
(Camera opens up on an unconscious Buffy, she is hanging by her wrists, chained to a wall, with shackles round her ankles. We can hear the faint ring of a cell phone as Buffy slowly starts to open her eyes. She snaps her head up, suddenly fully awake) (She looks around the room tugging on her chains. The camera pans back to show Claudia & Kennedy are also shackled and chained to the wall) (Camera pans across to Xander and Giles, who are lying in a small steel cage barely big enough for the two of them.) (Camera pulls back to reveal they are being held in a deserted warehouse, then homes in on Buffy's irritated face as she struggles against the chains) BUFFY: Ok, this is really getting old. (Buffy looks up to see a vampire sitting guard by a doorway smiling at her.) BUFFY: Would it kill ya to hold us hostage someplace that's NOT a warehouse. (The vampire doesn't answer. He knocks on the door behind him without getting out of his seat and waits for it to open.) VAMPIRE GUARD: Go let the knight know their waking up. (The door closes behind him.) BUFFY: Knight? Sir Thomas? Handy, we were just looking for him. (The vampire guard just smiles) BUFFY: You're not the chatty, taunt your prisoners and reveal all your evil plans type are ya? (Buffy looks around her, at her dozing friends) BUFFY: Willow? (Louder to the guard) Where’s Willow? (Starts to struggle more with her chains as the others slowly start to awaken.) VAMPIRE GUARD: (smiles) She's asleep. KENNEDY: If you’ve hurt her I’ll rip out your dead heart with my bare hands. VAMPIRE GUARD: (Smiling.) That would be a nice trick; I’ll wait for you over here. (Giles wakes up and begins looking around while patting himself down and then spots a table about ten feet from where his cage is.) GILES: Damn, it appears they’ve removed everything from our pockets. BUFFY: Yeah, figured that one out when my cell phone started to ring from the other side of the room. Do you think they’ve opened the box yet? GILES: (Looking around.) No, I don’t believe so. Considering the lack of catastrophic destruction being unleashed on the world, that and the fact your not dead. BUFFY: Oh yea. GILES: Can you break free? BUFFY: No. These chains are pretty heavy-duty stuff. In fact, I should ask for the number of the guy's ironmonger. GILES: (Turns to Xander) Any ideas? XANDER: (Wiping away the drool from the side of his face) Bolt cutters should work with a little slayer strength behind them. CLAUDIA: Oh right then, Kennedy would you be a dear and take the bolt cutters out of my back pocket and set us free then? XANDER: Hey, sarcasm is MY weapon, limey! (Claudia rolls her eyes and mouths "limey" at Giles.) XANDER: And eye rolling? Pretty much TM Dawnie. (grins) So, if you've got nothing useful, button it! KENNEDY: (looking worried) Well, we need something. We need to get out of here and help Willow. Cos, it's not like anyone's gonna come rescue us.
(Dawn is putting down the phone) DAWN: Bethy and Sara are going to go see what they can find on this Sir Thomas in the school library and Oz is gonna go look for them in the park with his doggie nose. ANDREW: Oz is cool. ENTER MICK MICK: Morning…(to Andrew) nice PJ’s. ANDREW: Thanks, cos, I'm in the Scooby gang now, so I thought hey, Xander got that tattoo so maybe I… DAWN: (cutting him off) Andrew, run down to Willow's apartment and see if you can find any books on how to do a locating spell. ANDREW: Wow, you're really commanding! MICK: (To Dawn) What’s going on? This Oz some kind of demon like your buddy Clem but a dog demon?
DAWN: (Yelling) NOW ANDREW!!! (Andrew runs out of the apartment, as Mick just looks on not sure what to do.) DAWN: Mick can you go get Bob and help him? MICK: Sure. But only if your gonna tell me what’s an Oz? DAWN: Oz is a werewolf. You know, man to wolf, moon, dog breath but a really good friend. MICK: (Shocked) WHAT? DAWN: Just go! Plenty of time for explanations when no one's in mortal danger. I need that spell ASAP. MICK: (shaking his head) My god girl, you hang with the craziest bunch of characters I’ve ever heard of. DAWN: Hurry, my sister could be in big trouble. MICK: (clicks his heels) Yes Ma'am, be back in a flash. (And he runs out the door.) DAWN: (Picks up the phone dialing again.) Buffy…where are you.
(The door to the room opens and the captured Scooby’s all turn to see Sir Thomas and some of his vampire minions walking in.) SIR THOMAS: Feeling refreshed from your snooze children? KENNEDY: Where’s Willow, you round table wannabe! SIR THOMAS: Well as a matter of fact the story behind my knighthood is rather amusing. It involves a lot of Mohammedans and a rather large axe...(sighs nostalgically) KENNEDY: (Furious, struggling hard with her chains) Where is she you English prick. (Sir Thomas raises an eyebrow) SIR THOMAS: Oh lord...one of those outspoken American gels you get so often nowadays...(to a minion) Daniel, would you be so kind. (The minion, Daniel, walks up to Kennedy and begins to gag her as she struggles.) BUFFY: You haven’t answered her question. (Calmly) Will you please tell us where Willow is? SIR THOMAS: (Turning to Buffy and begins to walk toward her.) Ah...at least one of you has manners...since you asked so nicely...she's in another room, nicely sedated...you see, I have a wonderful minion who used to be a doctor. So don't fret my dear, your friend's in good hands...though, you understand, I use the word "good" in the Pickwickian sense. XANDER: Pick-huh? BUFFY: Sounds like a British thing. Ignore him. GILES: So...what's the purpose of this little stunt? SIR THOMAS: Slavery for you and the others. Bloodletting followed by slavery for the Slayer here. That is assuming of course she ‘s still alive. (The Scooby's all look at each other in dismay) BUFFY: Blood? GILES: The Box. BUFFY: Oh. Always with the blood and the opening... CLAUDIA: Magic is so predictably Freudian. SIR THOMAS: I’ve sold some of you and the witch to an old acquaintance of mine. Afraid I'm rather strapped for cash at the moment. (Buffy narrows her eyes) BUFFY: We're not going to be mining are we? Cause, been there, done that...and it was so not good for my complexion. XANDER: Huh? When you were a miner? Didn't put you down as the diggy sort! BUFFY: In LA. Well, hell. But...same diff. Just after I sent Angel to hell. Different hell. GILES: Might I enquire to whom we're being enslaved? XANDER: Yeah, and what they're gonna do with our enslaved asses? (Suddenly looks very afraid, thinking of his ass in a slavery context.) BUFFY: Answer the question. Not the ass one. Who wants us? And why? SIR THOMAS: I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to say. She wouldn't appreciate me divulging her particulars, as it were. GILES: (also grumbling) Bloody ponce. SIR THOMAS: While I have a vampire's perceptions, I also have a gentleman's manners, so I will pretend I didn't hear that. Goodbye for now. (He bows, then turns and leaves with the same group that followed him in.) XANDER: Well, kids, what did we learn in vampire gloating school today? BUFFY: Well, we know Sir T's selling us to a she... CLAUDIA: AND that he plans on trying to open the box. GILES: (to Buffy) And with your blood it would appear. (Kennedy tries to speak through her gag, her eyes are wide with worry) XANDER: (nodding to Kennedy) We'll get her out, don't worry. But first...(looks at his cage door) Think, handyman, think... GILES: Come on! If you can avert an apocalypse, you can open a bloody door! CLAUDIA: (shocked) Him?
(Camera starts in the Scooby Central apartment, we see Dawn with a lap-top computer sitting on the couch in the living room while Andrew and Bobbie are at the dinning room table going threw old books) SFX: Phone rings (Dawn picks it up quickly.) DAWN: Buffy?…oh, hi Oz. (Pause) No, nothing yet. We've checked all the hospital and police data. Willow's got this cool hack set up...but, nothing yet. CUT TO: (Oz standing in a park, talking on a cell phone) OZ: I lost the scent in Central Park. They went down into the sewers, back out. (Pause) Found a couple of empty cylinders of Ether in the sewer.(Pause) So, you're gonna need that spell. I'm coming back. CUT TO: (Dawn on phone in Scooby Central Appt) DAWN: Ok. (She hangs up the phone and takes a deep breath before getting up and going over to the kitchen table.) DAWN: (to Andrew) Anything yet? ANDREW: No! (Closes his book frustrated) I think we’ve gone through every book twice and can’t find anything on doing a locating spell. Though, I did find this cool spell to make your...though not relevant. DAWN: (smiling) You know, Andrew? I think you're growing as a person. BOBBIE: I thought Willow was a powerful witch, you think she'd have at least ONE spell book on this sorta thing. DAWN: Powerful, that’s the problem. She’s so powerful she can do a locating spell by just thinking about it. Books, kinda last season for her. ANDREW: Wouldn't she have, like, lesson plans for it? All teachers have lesson plans. My mom was a teacher. Before she left for Mexico. DAWN: We checked her school papers. Zip. And....Mexico? (Mick walks in, already talking as he enters) MICK: I can’t find any more Spell Books in their apartment, are you sure she teaches Witchcraft? (Dawn just gives him a look.) ANDREW: Dawn…even if we find a spell who’s going to do it? DAWN: I guess I could try. ANDREW: Good cause spells were always Jonathan’s department… (Andrew looks upset after saying Jonathan’s name and lowers his head.) DAWN: Andrew…that’s history…you’ve done a lot of good since then. BOBBIE: Who’s Jonathan? DAWN: Someone that went to high school with my sister. (Picks up another spell book) We really need to find a locating spell and fast. HUGO: Think I can help with that. (Dawn and company turn to find Bethy, Sara and Hugo the school librarian standing in the doorway.) DAWN: Mr. Jackson…what are you doing here? HUGO: Miss. Summers, please call me Hugo. I found your friends here going threw a rather large stack of books and being its Sunday I decided to investigate. Once I helped them find what they were looking for they asked me to help them find a spell then to bring them here. DAWN: So you just drove two students into New York City on a Sunday for fun? HUGO: No of course not. I was supposed to be meeting Mr. Giles for lunch today anyway so they just hitched a ride…but I’m beginning to get the feeling lunch is off. MICK: That would be an understatement. BETHY: (To Dawn) He was able to find this for us. (Bethy places a rather large and very old looking book on the table and opens it to a page she had a piece of paper marking.) DAWN: (Reading from the book.) It says here that Sir Thomas is over 900 years old and was turned in the year 1099 while fighting in the first Crusade. He is responsible for the deaths of three slayers and is suspected in the disappearance of at least four others, however his last documented sighting was in 1769 when he was trapped in a building in Reims France, which was then burned to the ground by some vampire hunter named Holtz. MICK: Nice history lesson but nothing we can use hua? (Dawn shakes her head.) HUGO: If this vampire escaped Holtz and then was able to remain off the Watcher radar for more than 200 years, he is defiantly some one you don’t want to underestimate. DAWN: Well at least we know this vampire is no fool and I’d bet money he has them. HUGO: So you think this Vampire has captured three Slayers, a powerful witch, a seasoned Watcher and your handyman friend? DAWN: Yep. HUGO: Shouldn’t we contact some of the other Watchers from the school? DAWN: Why, so they can get killed. Most of them haven’t seen any action in years and the rest have never even been in an uncontrolled situation with a vampire. But I’ve already contacted Mr. Wilson and told him if he doesn’t hear from me in the next three hours to contact Riley Finn. HUGO: What can I do to help ANDREW: You said you could help with the…(stops when Oz enters the apartment.) DAWN: Any luck Oz? (Oz shakes his head) ANDREW: Sara said you helped them find a spell! HUGO: Yes, a locator spell. And if you would like I could do it for you. DAWN: You can…Hugo, you’re a lifesaver…what do you need. HUGO: Just your basic ingredients…I’m sure Mrs. Rosenberg will have everything I need in her place but we will need a map of the city. MICK: Hey, I’ve got maps of the city downstairs. DAWN: Great! You go get a map, Andrew take Bobbie & Sara and go with Hugo and see if you can find what we need in Willows apartment. ANDREW: Right, come on ladies…and Hugo. DAWN: Oz, you and Bethy help me clear some of this furniture out of the way. End Act: Whitenight 07-27-2004, 09:54 AM #3 Posts: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (The Scooby’s are still variously chained and caged. The guard is asleep. Xander is finishing a story) XANDER: And so, yeah, it was all about the yellow crayon really. CLAUDIA: (not really listening) Lovely. (She thinks for a moment) Ah. That's it. XANDER: What's what? We use a yellow crayon to escape? Cos, I'm all out. CLAUDIA: (turning to Giles) Giles would you be so kind as to remove one of the arms from your glasses and let Xander have a crack at the lock on your cage. (smiles coldly at Xander) I think it should work nicely. XANDER: (kicks his cage) I am a big dumb dumb dumbass. CLAUDIA: Yes, Dumb and blind. Now all you need is deaf. BUFFY: Claudia, you're outta line. CLAUDIA: Sorry. Captivity, doesn't bring out my compassion. XANDER: What would? Pliers? (Giles breaks an arm off his glasses and gives it to Xander, who goes to work on the lock.) XANDER: Well, least I don't have to close one eye to do this. (Claudia looks genuinely sorry) CLAUDIA: What about Buffy's sister, do you think she’ll come looking for us? XANDER: The Dawnmister? BUFFY: She might try. And that, worrying. GILES: Well we all know Dawn’s tenacious. Stubbornness seems to run in the Summers genes. BUFFY: Hey! I’m not stubborn. (Kennedy slowly turns her head to look at Buffy with her gang still on and raises her eyebrows in question. Buffy watches her and rolls her eyes.) BUFFY: Ok, maybe a little. (Xander slips with the glasses handle and cuts his finger) XANDER: Ouch! BUFFY: (concerned) Ooh? XANDER: It's okay. Talk amongst yourselves. CLAUDIA: (wrly) I'm sure they need no encouragement. (Xander continues fiddling with the lock) GILES: (cheerfully) Don't worry, we'll find an ingenious escape route in the nick of time. We always do. CLAUDIA: Really? So you’ve been captured by a single Vampire before then. BUFFY: Hey, they’re where three of them thank you very much. CLAUDIA: What I mean is, where slayers, those that where created to fight evil and yet all it took to capture us was one Vampire with a good plan. GILES: Yes, well we are not perfect but we do manage to always win in the end. CLAUDIA: Always meaning the last seven years? XANDER: Well, Buffy's outlasted most Slayers. BUFFY: Yeah, though, with...mini breaks from lasting. CLAUDIA: That's...reassuring. In a not way. XANDER: Ha! She's Scoobying! CLAUDIA: Oh God. Kill me now. (Xander is still fiddling with the lock)
(Camera shows the living room furniture is out of the middle of the room, creating an empty space where Hugo & Andrew are making a circle with candles) HUGO: We should almost be ready. DAWN: (firmly) It's going to work. It has to. ANDREW: Hey, we should get Lenore to help. DAWN: How can she help? ANDREW: Well she is Willows Familiar. If you center the spell on finding Willow she may be able to channel the magical energy. (Pause.) I want a familiar. DAWN: Try. HUGO: Miss. Rosenberg has a familiar; well then she must be extraordinarily powerful. ANDREW: Oh, she is. (Andrew walks to the door.) ANDREW: Lenore! Lenore! Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Lenore! OZ: (Looking curious.) How is a cat going to help? DAWN: She’s Will’s familiar. OZ: (Looks the Oz-equivalent of confused. So, moves his face slightly) Ah what? DAWN: It helps Willow with her magic...but most of the time there not dead. HUGO & OZ: Come again? DAWN: Ghost. Anyway a familiar, the perfect accessory to every witch. OZ: Accessorizing is important. SARA: (To Bobbie.) How is a cat...a dead cat? Going to help with the spell? (Bobbie shrugs her shoulders as Andrew walks back in followed by the Lenore and Mick.) DAWN: Mick, you found your maps of the city? MICK: Ya, I brought one of the state too, just in case. HUGO: Excellent. (takes the maps.) These should work nicely. (Hugo begins to spread the maps out on the floor as Andrew walks up to them carrying a small kettle.) DAWN: (To Andrew.) Ingredients already in the kettle? ANDREW: Yep. DAWN: Ok then, Mick hit the lights and lets get this show on the road. (Everyone stays outside the circle of candles except for Hugo and the cat. He lights the candles and sets the kettle down in front of the maps and begins to chant as Lenore sits on the other side of the maps purring. He then puts his hand into the kettle and pulls out a handful of what looks like purple dust in the candlelight and starts to sprinkle it over the maps as Lenore begins to purr louder. A small flame appears on both maps burning a small hole in each map before going out on it’s own.) OZ: That was fast. BOBBIE: Wow. DAWN: So where are we going? HUGO: (picking up the maps.) It must have worked because the hole is on the same spot on both maps. DAWN: Where are they? HUGO: Looks like there at the docks in Hell’s Kitchen. DAWN: Why does everything we do have to be some how related to Hell? OZ: Actually I like it. (Dawn gives him a look.) Sense of continuity. It's comforting. (Dawn raises his eyebrows at this then walks over to the weapons cabinet picking up one of the electro guns Riley provided them with.) DAWN: Ok, everyone gets one stake & either a crossbow or a hand to hand weapon - but only take what you know how to use. If you don’t know how to use anything then take a small sword. (Takes one out so everyone can see it then hands it to Andrew) DAWN: Oz can drive. ANDREW: Why can’t I drive? And I so know how to use a crossbow. DAWN: You wanna run this op? (Andrew shakes his head. Dawn nods, "good". The others pick out weapons.) HUGO: I’ll take a sword. DAWN: You know how to use one? (Hugo takes it and steps back a few feet from the others and then takes a few practice swings and throws it up into the air and catches it with the other hand and cuts two candles in half that where on an end table before any one can blink.) DAWN: I’ll take that as a yes. (Looks over the group.) Every one ready? Good. Lets go. (Camera shows them leaving the apartment and shutting the door behind them as the cat meows at them and then runs through the door after them.)
(We see Oz’s van driving through a warehouse district and then come to a stop so that every one can get out.) MICK: Ok, now what? There has got to be over fifty warehouses here, how do we find them? ANDREW: Lenore. (Turns to the cat.) Take us to Willow but watch out for bad guys. (The cat meows and begins to walk toward the north end of the docks.) HUGO: (pointing with his sword.) Onward!
(Camera shows a door opening and Sir Thomas steps through it into a small room.) SIR THOMAS: Well how is our special guest doing? (The camera pans around to show a man in a white coat standing in front of a table. As he turns to face his visitor we can see Willow lying on the table with a small plastic mask covering her mouth and nose.) DOC: Stable. She's nice and quiet. SIR THOMAS: All whole and well? Good. The Countess will pay extra to have the witch as well as the slayers. DOC: Is the Countess as beautiful as they say she is. SIR THOMAS: Oh yes. Exquisite. And, has a wonderfully literal take on the term bloodbath. (Broad grin.) Just a shame she bats for the other team. DOC: Sir? SIR THOMAS: Doesn’t care much for the male species. DOC: Oh, yes well I heard her witch friend was powerful…is that why there so interested in this one? SIR THOMAS: Yes I believe it is. DOC: Well she is powerful, even though she is unconscious; she still seems to be fighting the anesthetic. I’ve had to up the dosage twice…oh and the men you sent to the hospital for the transfusion machine are back. Brilliant idea giving the Slayer a transfusion so that we can use her blood to open the box and keep her alive for the countess at the same time. SIR THOMAS: Yes well, seeing as all is chugging along nicely, I'll leave you to it. (As Sir Thomas leaves the room the camera turns back to Doc who is standing next to Willow, again taking her pulse. The camera then pans up to a window where we can see a small face looking through the glass.) (The camera then switches to one on the other side of the window where we see Dawn standing on Mick’s shoulders beginning to climb down. When she gets back on the ground they make their way to the corner of the building where the others, all but Oz are waiting.) ANDREW: What did you see? DAWN: Willow, it looks like they have her sedated or something, can you and Bethy go keep on eye on that room for me. SARA: I’ll go. DAWN: OK, Andrew please don’t let anyone see you. ANDREW: Right. (Andrew and Sara run off as Oz comes down from the roof in wolf mode. The wolf has some kind of clothing. Oz morphs as he hits the ground. He's wearing a tracksuit, very baggy) DAWN: Nice threads (Looking nervous.) Well? OZ: They’re all there. The girls are chained to the wall and the guys are locked in a cage and there’s only one guard. I’ve got some tools in my van that should cut those chains. DAWN: Get’em.
(Camera shows the guard in the warehouse asleep in his chair and then turns and close’s in on Xander who is still trying to pick the lock on the cage as the girls all watch on.) CLAUDIA: (Impatiently) Come on, come on. (Under her breath) I could have chewed through that lock by now. (A still gagged Kennedy nods) XANDER: Do you want to do this instead of me? CLAUDIA: Instead? But you're NOT doing it. So, there is no instead. (Kennedy lets out a muffled laugh.) BUFFY: Yeah Xander it’s been like an hour. CLAUDIA: Yes. Why don’t you give Giles a go at it? XANDER: Fine, but I don’t think he’s going to do any better. (Xander gives the arm to Giles and leans against the side of the cage.) GILES: Well I’ll give it a try. (Click! Giles eyes light up.) XANDER: No way! BUFFY: (Bad British accent) Bloody hell Ripper! (Claudia gives Buffy a questioning look. Giles can't quite keep a grin of triumph from his face, He carefully opens the cage door and then pulls it back closed, but not so it locks as the warehouse door opens. Two vampires carrying trays of food walk in along with two other vampires, one of which smacks the guard awake.) VAMPIRE 1: Dinnertime. (The Vampires walk up to the Scooby’s and place the trays of food down on top of Giles and Xander’s cage.) VAMPIRE 1: Ok, who wants some Dinty More Beef Stew? BUFFY: Ah, don’t take this the wrong way or anything but what in the world of canned goods makes you think were going to eat anything you bring us? VAMPIRE 1: I don’t, but orders is orders. CLAUDIA: Are. Plural. Idiot. VAMPIRE 2: Wouldn't be so cocky if I were you, slayer. CLAUDIA: Why? VAMPIRE 3: Cause you're off to see the Countess...and she's got a thing for young girls. BUFFY: Lesbian vampire, huh? We've done this trip. VAMPIRE 4: Oh, not a vampire. But, she digs blood. Oh yeah. VAMPIRE 1: (Shoot him a warning glance.) I think you said enough (There's a beeping sound) VAMPIRE 4: What was that? (Vampire 4 and the Guard walk over to the table with the Scooby belongings and start sifting through them. The Guard holds up a cell phone.) VAMPIRE GUARD: Whose phone is this? (No one answers.) VAMPIRE GUARD: Well you got a text message. Lets see how you work this…message reads, “What’s your status?” How about I respond for you. (He fiddles with the phone and begins to laugh) On…top…of…your…momma…there, they should love that huh. (Sets phone down and rejoins the others laughing.) VAMPIRE 4: He he, sweet! (turns to the captives) So, I'll leave your food. If you want it, it's there. XANDER: You know as far as getting captured and held prisoner goes you guys are pretty nice. VAMPIRE 1: Just following orders, personally I would have eaten the two of you in the tunnel. XANDER: Ok, well then thank King Arthur for us. (Vampire 1 gives Xander a dirty look and nods before he and the others head for the door. The Guard sits back down in his chair and then looks out the door real quick. He comes back in, sits down closing his eyes trying to fall back asleep.) GILES: I think I know where we're being taken. Blood...young women...Oh God...Countess Elizabeth Bathory…(removes his glasses.) the Queen of Blood. BUFFY: (With her confused face.) Queen of Blood…that doesn’t sound very royal. Why does it always have to be things like “Queen of the Damned” or “Queen of Blood”? (Begins to smile a little.) Why can’t it ever be like “Queen of the Puppies”? GILES: She's one of the most sadistic mass murdering women the world has ever seen. XANDER: Oh. BUFFY: (More to herself than the others.) Or “Queen of Chocolate Cake”. Giles why can’t I fight the “Queen of Chocolate Cake”? GILES: (Giles gives Buffy one of his looks.) And it’s believed she is responsible for the deaths of at least two slayers BUFFY: (Still to herself) Oh, or the Pillsbury Dough Boy. I could take the Pillsbury Dough Boy. (The door to the warehouse opens and four Vampires come in causing the guard to jump to his feet. They go toward the other side of the warehouse and remove a large tarp uncovering the box and begin moving it to the center of the room.) VAMPIRE GUARD: What are you doing, I thought we weren’t going to try and open that till tonight. SIR THOMAS: (Entering as the others move the box out.) There’s been a change in plan. Apparently the Slayer's little sister slipped out the back door. BUFFY: Oh no. SIR THOMAS: Oh yes, she did. GILES: What is this, a sodding pantomime? SIR THOMAS: If you find your own death amusing, perhaps. Because, if I didn't mention it, you and the boy are payment for the good doctor. Who likes to be paid...prandially. XANDER: Huh? GILES: They're going to eat us. XANDER: (gulping) Same old huh? SIR THOMAS: You, (to the Guard) would you be kind enough to ask Doc to prepare the witch for transport and to bring the machine, they’ll all be leaving soon. It's time to open the box. I'm ready for...power. VAMPIRE GUARD: Yes sir. (Guard exits as three gray skinned demons enter.) DEMON 1: How long is this going to take. SIR THOMAS: I’m sorry; I didn’t realize you where in a hurry. DEMON 3: We don’t like this, we were told nothing about this…this transfusion. What are we supposed to tell our master if this kills the True Slayer? (Kennedy lets out a muffled “Hey” as them referring to Buffy as the true slayer as hit a nerve.) SIR THOMAS: To be perfectly frank, I don’t care…tell her I’m sorry but something came up. Besides she’s getting the Witch as a bonus anyway, the Countess only paid for the three Slayers, the Witch is a freebie out of the kindness of my dead heart. Besides, I now know where I can get as many Slayers as she wants. (The camera focuses in on Giles and Xander's cage) XANDER: (Whispers to Giles.) We’ve got to do something before he opens that box. Which, have we got any idea what's inside? GILES: Legend has it...great power, terror, horror. XANDER: Ok. Aside from Buffy’s blood being the key, SO against him opening. GILES: There's nothing we can do…there’s simply to many of them, we’d never make it to Claudia in time to pick her locks. SIR THOMAS: (Turning to face them quickly.) What do you mean pick her locks? You, (Slapping one of the minions standing near.) go check their cage. XANDER: (To Giles) Uh oh, Vampire hearing strikes again. Now what! (The Camera switches to the door to the warehouse when suddenly the door burst open and the Vampire Guard runs in frantically yelling) VAMPIRE GUARD: Sir Thomas…the Slayers sister is…Argh! (The guard turns to dust as he’s running toward Sir Thomas catching the attention of all the Vampires and the Scooby’s. As the dust fades away we see Dawn standing in the doorway with her crossbow still aimed where the Vampire Guard was before she fired.) DAWN: (Picking up right where the guard left off.) Here! End Act: Whitenight 07-27-2004, 09:55 AM #4 Posts: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAWN Voice Over: Ok here’s what were going to do. (We see Oz, Hugo and Andrew climbing up the fire escape of the warehouse to the roof.) DAWN Voice Over: Oz, you, Hugo and Andrew go up on the roof and wait for us to make our move. Once you see us entering the warehouse start descending, next to Buffy and the others. Andrew, take this electro gun, Hugo you take this bag for the others. And please Andrew, don’t hit any of us with the electro gun. (We see Oz tying off one end of a rope as Andrew and Hugo look down into the warehouse.) DAWN Voice Over: Andrew and Hugo will cover Oz so he can free the others, start with Buffy. The Slayers will be the most help and then work your way to Giles and Xander. The rest of us will go in through the front door. (Camera shot of Sara knocking on the front door of the warehouse, a Vampire opens the door sees her and smiles but is then shot in the heart with a crossbow dart and turns to dust.) DAWN Voice Over: Once in, will clear the area and head to the warehouse where I’ll try and stall’em as long as I can. The rest of you take aim at the vampires closest to you but wait for my signal to open fire. BOBBIE Voice Over: What’s the signal. DAWN Voice Over: I’ll scream “NOW”! MICK Voice Over: I like, keep it simple. DAWN Voice Over: You guys, ready for this? (Camera follows them as Dawn takes the lead and Mick brings up the rear, we see Bethy spot the doctor pushing a medical machine used for blood transfusions and she shoots him with a dart turning him to dust.) BOBBIE Voice Over: Besides feeling sick to my stomach. SARA Voice Over: And scared to death. BETHY Voice Over: I’d say that’s a “ready as where ever going to be”. DAWN Voice Over: Ok, just remember one thing, my sister told me this a long time ago. SARA Voice Over: What’s that? DAWN Voice Over: Don’t get dead…or I’m telling. BOBBIE Voice Over: I ever tell you your sister's a nut job. (As Dawn shoots another random Vampire the Guard that Sir Thomas had sent to get the doctor sees them and runs for the warehouse door. Dawn quickly takes Bobbie’s crossbow and gives her heir’s and goes after him.) DAWN Voice Over: Let’s go!
BUFFY: Dawn NO! There’s too many get out of here. DAWN: Don’t worry I didn’t come alone. (Dawn walks through the doorway reloading her crossbow as Bobbie & Bethy follow her in taking up position on each side of her followed by Mick & Sara who stand next to them. The Vampires begin to laugh.) XANDER: Since when did Dawn have a gang? CLAUDIA: Every Scooby needs her scrappy, it would seem. (Buffy sees some dust come down in front of her and looks up to see Oz in wolf mode climbing down a rope that ends just a few feet from the top of her head with Andrew and some one she can’t see on his back.) BUFFY: Dawn, be careful. (Dawn is pointing her crossbow at Sir Thomas; the others aim theirs at the Vamps closest to them.) SIR THOMAS: (Not taking his eyes off Dawn.) And what may I ask did you do with my doctor? BETHY: I’m afraid you’re going to need a new doctor. DAWN: And a new guard at the front door. SIR THOMAS: Clever girl. (Turns to face the three demons that where suppose to pick up the others.) Go back to your boat, I’ll send for you when where done here, that is if any of them are left alive. DEMON 1: The Countess will not be pleased. SIR THOMAS: You really think so? Now get out. (Turning back to Dawn.) I’m about to dine, and I just hate discussing business while I’m eating. DEMON 1: We will not wait for ever Sir Thomas. (The three demons turn and leave out a side door.) SIR THOMAS: Oh dear. Now I’ll have to feed on you in front of your sister. Most distressing. (Behind Sir Thomas we can see Andrew and Hugo climb down from Oz and slowly take up positions. Hugo, looking very confident, goes over to the cage holding Xander and Giles setting the backpack down next to it and taking aim at the closest Vampire.) (Andrew heads in the other direction and sits down on one knee pointing his gun at some vampires, The camera closes in on his face and we see his brow is covered in sweat and he is biting his bottom lip as his eye’s dart from side to side. Oz sets the bolt cutter in position to free Buffy’s right arm and looks to Dawn for the go ahead.) DAWN: Ever hear the phrase “Don't judge a book by its cover?" You’re underestimating me. You look at us and see five kids right. But these five kids will give you more trouble than you think cause three of them are Slayers! SIR THOMAS: Really? How charming. Baby slayers. BOBBIE: Baby? We've already killed plenty. SIR THOMAS: Well this should make it all the more fun. DAWN: (Screams.) NOW! (Sir Thomas launches himself at Dawn. At the same moment Oz cuts neatly through Buffy's chains. Dawn and her Jr. Scooby’s fire their crossbows, dusting three of the five Vamps but not Sir Thomas who blocks Dawn's shot with his arm, wincing as the bolt pierces the muscle) CUT TO: (Andrew and Hugo open fire from behind as Giles and Xander push their way out of the cage surprising Hugo who has to move out of their way. They quickly grab some weapons from the bag and join the fight trying to keep the Vampires from reaching the helpless Slayers.) CUT TO: (Sara & Bethy rush the two Vampires felled by Andrew’s electro blast and quickly behead them.) CUT TO: (Mick throws his crossbow at the first Vampire to rush him hitting him in the face causing him to trip and fall down and takes his sword.) CUT TO: (Sir Thomas with his hand round Dawn's throat. He then uses his free hand to pull the dart out of his arm and drop it on the floor.) SIR THOMAS: I apologize for...underestimating you. (Sir Thomas grins an evil grin but it quickly turns to a look of pain as smoke starts to come off his shoulders. He throws Dawn to the ground and spins around. Bobbie is behind him with an empty bottle of Holy water. Sir Thomas rubs his right hand on the back of his neck and then brings it around. It's steaming and bleeding, red and raw) SIR THOMAS: (Vamping out for the first time.) I’m going to rip your heart out for that! (He goes to grab Bobbie but is kicked hard from behind and is sent flying against the wall.) BUFFY: (Beaming from ear to ear) Get the hell away from them! (to Dawn) You ok? DAWN: (Rubbing her throat with her left hand as she gets up with the aid of her sword in her right.) Yeah. (Sir Thomas jumps at Buffy, snarling. Buffy meets him, mid-spring, knocking him to the ground) BUFFY: Good that you don't repress. Bottling it up, bad. (Sir Thomas is up a moment later. The two engage once more) SIR THOMAS: What are you going to do, milady? (punch) Talk me to death? BUFFY: Nope. Kill you to death. CUT TO: (A newly freed Kennedy who is removing her gag.) KENNEDY: (Spots the vampire she wants and grins.) Oh Daniel, (She calls to him.) I believe I have something of yours. (She wraps the gag around her right fist and charges at him.) (The Camera pans back to show the whole scene. Giles, Hugo, Xander and Mick are on one side of the warehouse as Dawn, Bobbie & Bethy are fighting three Vampires with Andrew who’s gun has finally run out of juice on the other side. Oz is freeing Claudia as Kennedy is fighting Daniel and another Vampire. Sara is fighting a random Vampire while Buffy and Sir Thomas battle it out toe to toe.) CUT TO: Buffy and Sir Thomas BUFFY: So, what’s in this box anyway? SIR THOMAS: Ancient power. And all mine. (Inhales, blissfully) Such a shame you won't live to see the grand opening. (Buffy lands a punch and a kick, knocking the vamp against the wall by the guard chair near the doorway.) BUFFY: And here's me having freed up my calendar. SIR THOMAS: Well, you will be alive for most of it so if you should like to watch the show (Grabs the chair and pulls him self up.) Here’s a seat. (Sir Thomas swings the chair up catching Buffy under the chin and sending her flying through the air. She comes crashing down hard on a table. Sir Thomas moves in for the kill but is cut off by Sara.) SARA: (Very nervous) One…one Sla…Slayer at a time…Sir...I mean... SIR THOMAS: (Laughing) How simply adorable! (He backhands her with lightning speed knocking her to the ground and causing her to drop her sword.) SIR THOMAS: But inefficacious. BUFFY: (Looking up, groaning and dazed) Ok, is that even a word? (We see Sir Thomas from behind, lifting Sara with one arm while aiming vicious blows with the other, then leaning in, still in vamp face, ready to drink) BUFFY: (Slowly getting up.) Put her down NOW! SIR THOMAS: Oh, you’re right. Must leave some of them alive for the Countess. (He tosses the girls body over his shoulder and she hits the wall with a sickening thud and slides, limp, to the ground) SIR THOMAS: Another round Miss Summers? BUFFY: (grimly) The final. SIR THOMAS: I rather think it will be. (They engage again but Sir Thomas is getting the better of her when he is struck from behind and knocked to the ground. He rolls over a few times and quickly jumps to his feet to find Claudia now standing next to Buffy.) CLAUDIA: Can I join in. Wanker needs a good kicking. BUFFY: Wanker? When did you lose the stiff upper? CLAUDIA: (awkward) Oh, quite. Clot. (Buffy gives her a confused look for a moment, but then Sir Thomas lets out a roar and engages the two Slayers.) CUT TO: Xander and Mick who are fighting two Vampires, Giles and Hugo are off to the side with a pair of male and one female Vampire while Oz and Kennedy are both taking on two a piece. ) CUT TO: (Bobbie, lying on the ground, with a vamp standing over her) THIRD VAMPIRE: So...not a slayer. Just a little girl. Who's going to die. BOBBIE: (Quickly raises her hand at the vampire.) Propulso is malus ante noceo aliquis! (Suddenly the Vampire is whisked off its feet and propelled across the warehouse at great speed. Heads turn as the vamp crashes into the wall on the other side of the room. The camera focuses in on Bobbie's scared face as Andrew rushes over to the dazed vamp, pausing to pick up a sword, and lops its head off, dusting it.) DAWN: (to Bobbie) When did you learn that? BOBBIE: I don’t know…I just remember reading it earlier…in one of Willows books but…but I didn’t think it would work. DAWN: It WAY worked! (Helping her up.) Go team you! (Looks over at Andrew, who's moved away from the vamp dust, coughing.) Oh, and him. (Andrew spots Lenore running up to him freaking out.) ANDREW: The cat's gone funny. DAWN: Oh no! Willow! (With that the cat turns and runs for the door as Andrew and Bethy follow. A vampire cuts off Dawn and Bobbie.) FIRST VAMPIRE: Going somewhere? (As Andrew and Bethy head for the door Bethy looks at the battered Sara lying unconscious up against the wall by the door.) BETHY: Oh god…Sara. (But she turns and follows Andrew and the cat) CUT TO: (Kennedy as she kicks Daniel halfway across the room and then stakes the random vampire. She looks around quickly for Daniel when she spots Andrew and Bethy following the cat out threw the door.) KENNEDY: The cat...(a look of panic crosses her face, replacing the confidence she'd had a moment before) Willow! (She heads for the door but is cut off by Daniel.) DANIEL: We're not done yet girlie. KENNEDY: GIRLIE! (Kennedy punches him in the mouth knocking him to the ground; she quickly jumps on top of him and stakes him.)
(Willow is unconscious strapped to a table; the gas mask is still over her face. A vampire is standing nearby putting items into a bag. Willow’s eyes snap open.) VAMP: Ah, finally ran out of gas did we. (Willow’s eyes dart around the room, and down. She sees the straps.) WILLOW: What the…oh! (She breathes in, concentrating) WILLOW: Come Goddess… (Sparks jump from her bindings, making her wince) VAMP: Oh, I wouldn’t try any magic you know. (He gestures to her
bonds.) Enchanted. (He walks closer, holding up a knife. Willow’s face fills with fear, she gulps, tries to wriggle free) VAMP: I wonder what those demons would give me for you? Or I could just eat you. WILLOW: (Gulps.) Starting to feel like Xander on one of his dates…(Screams) HEEEEEELP! VAMP: I wouldn’t bother…they're all far too busy. (He’s standing by Willow now, his hand on one of her thighs. She’s terrified.) ROBED VAMP: (Bending down over Willow.) Don’t think I could get you to their boat by myself…so guess I’ll just have to eat yea. (He vamps out, tilts his head to one side then bites down on her neck. A gush of blood pours out. Willow screams) VAMP: (Pulls back grinning) Damn your good. (The door burst open as Andrew and Bethy run into the room.) ANDREW: Willow! (Seeing the vampire.) Uh-oh. (The vampire quickly knocks Bethy to the ground as Andrew grabs one of his arms. The vampire grins at him and throws him across the room as Kennedy enters.) KENNEDY: Willow! (Shot of the Robed vamp, spinning round, as Kennedy throws herself at him, knocking him to the ground. Andrew gets up and rushes over to Willow. He looks at the bite on her neck and pulls a knife out from one of his pockets.) ANDREW: Oh God oh God! She’s been bit. (He starts to cut the straps.) And bleeding. Oh God! Oh God! KENNEDY: (Shouting over, as she fights the vamp) Help her! (The vamp kicks out at Kennedy, she flies through the open door out into the hallway. The sounds of their fight can be heard. The camera pans back to Willow’s pale face) WILLOW: (weakly, to Andrew) Untie me… ANDREW: I am… (He drags her onto the floor and leans over her as Bethy comes over with a towl and places it on the bite.) ANDREW: (Terrified.) What can I do? (Lenore appears, on Willow’s chest, and starts licking Willow’s face. Willow smiles) WILLOW: Hold my hand… (Andrew takes Willow’s hand, gingerly. He’s starting to cry) ANDREW: Oh (sniff) I don’t want to be at your deathbed, I like you. WILLOW: This isn’t my deathbed now relax. I need your help. Open your mind. Concentrate on the touch of my hand. Please. ANDREW: Willow, I can't! (Willow looks at him, pale and getting weaker.) WILLOW: You have to. (Andrew nods, and shuts his eyes.) ANDREW: (whispered) Ok, I'm doing this. I can do this...I can do this... (Willow starts to murmur. Lenore arches her back, and her eyes begin to glow. Green energy begins to flow from Willow’s fingers, a green ball of light spreads around her, Andrew and Lenore. Andrew’s eyes snap open; he looks around him in wonder.) ANDREW: Cool! (He looks down and the camera follows his gaze, the wound on Willow’s neck is closing and the blood has stopped flowing. Willow suddenly lets go Andrew’s hand, and a jerk goes through both their bodies. They both fall to the ground. Lenore lets out a mournful “meow”, and her shape fades, she slides to the ground too. We hear the sound of a vamp being staked, and Kennedy rushes over) KENNEDY: Oh Christ! Willow! (She reaches Willow’s side. Andrew looks up faintly) ANDREW: She’s…ok…we’re…hey; I think I just did a healing spell…cool! (His head falls back, weakly. Kennedy sees the wound is healed and smiles.) KENNEDY: Bethy, go tell the others Willow is ok but I’m going to need help carrying them down. (Bethy nods and does as she is told.)
(Xander is fighting a random vampire, the vampire lungs at him but he side steps the vampire and stakes him threw the back. He then looks around at Giles and Hugo who are fighting back to back against three vampires. They look to be doing the exact same moves as one another and seem to know exactly what the other is going to do. The vamp in front of Hugo slashes his leg and he ducks down to one knee as Giles turns around and decapitates the vampire over Hugo’s head, to which Hugo pulls a stake out of his inside jacket pocket and dusts the vamp that Giles had been fighting. The third vamp stops looks the to Englishmen over and turns to run.) XANDER: Does everyone over there go to the same school? (As he finishes his sentence another vampire tackles him from behind.) CUT TO: (Dawn, Bethy and Mick fighting with two vampires.) CUT TO: (Hugo chasing the vampire that fled him and Giles, as Giles goes to help Xander.) CUT TO: (Sir Thomas is now getting the best of Buffy and Claudia.) SIR THOMAS: You're going to lose you know (Blocks a punch from Buffy and kicks Claudia.) I’ve faced slayers with twice your skill. I've killed them. CUT TO: (A battered Sara opens one eye the other is swelled shut.) CUT TO: BUFFY: Well...you have bad teeth. Who's your orthodontist? Rocky? (Sir Thomas grabs Buffy and spins her around till her back is against his chest and he’s mouth his next to her left ear.) SIR THOMAS: Tell you what. Since you seem to love the sound of your own voice so much...Any last words? CUT TO: (Sara pushes herself up with her legs using the wall behind her to hold her up) CUT TO: (Close up of Buffy's face) BUFFY: Two words. Breath & Mint. (Sir Thomas throws her into the oncoming Claudia knocking them both to the ground.) SIR THOMAS: Very droll. But I'll drink you drier than the Sahara in just a moment. BUFFY: Old threat. Try a new one. SIR THOMAS: I don't need idle threats. (He kicks out at Buffy, she falls backwards. Claudia strikes out at him, he knocks her back too. The two slayers are lying on the ground) CUT TO: (Sara slowly limping forward pulling a chair, she stops and sits down to bend over and pick up a sword.) CUT TO: (A close-up of Sir Thomas's face, lit by triumph. He looks down at Claudia and Buffy) SIR THOMAS: You're meat. (The Camera pulls back. Sara is standing directly behind sir Thomas as he gloats over the two slayers. She's standing on the chair she was dragging, holding her sword at the ready over her left shoulder as Claudia and Buffy are looking up at him) SIR THOMAS: (Looks around and sees he’s lost the battle) Until we meet again, I bid you far well. BUFFY & CLAUDIA: (Waving with smiles.) Bye. (As Sir Thomas turns around he catches but a glimpse of the sword before it separates his head from is neck. But the last thing he sees before he turns to dust is the smile of the little Slayer) SARA: Uh oh! (Sara’s swung so hard with the sword that she spun herself around and falls backwards through Sir Thomas’s dust. But Xander catches her.) XANDER: Oof! (He puts her down.) You ok? SARA: Oh yeah. If my face weren’t so swollen you’d be able to see me grinning from ear to ear. (Xander, Buffy, Claudia and Dawn gather round the pile of dust) XANDER: Well I guess HE wont be the Big Bad this year. BUFFY: Yeah. Even Trick lasted longer. SARA: Not bad for a half pint, huh? (Giles, Oz and the rest of the gang begin to gather around.) GILES: Not bad at...(pause) Where’s Willow? DAWN: Oh no, I forgot! We were right behind Andrew and Bethy... (Bethy enters Dawn rushes over to her.) DAWN: Willow? BETHY: She’s ok, but she's kinda passed out. Someone needs to help carry her. And Andrew. He's fainted too. There was a spell... OZ: I'll come. BUFFY: Good and... (Buffy suddenly looks across the room and sees Hugo. There's a cut on his face, he's limping slightly, and he's still holding a sword) BUFFY: (shocked) Hugo? Our librarian? And, sword? And here? HUGO: (winks) A bit rusty I’m afraid. (Buffy just stares) DAWN: Mr. Jacks…Hugo, did the locating spell that brought us here. HUGO: But, she planned the operation. And I must say, born leader. DAWN: (grins.) Say away! BUFFY: (to Dawn.) You planned this? (Dawn just grin’s.)
(Kennedy is carrying Willow, Oz is carrying Andrew, and Bobbie is carrying Lenore while Buffy, Claudia and Bethy are gathering around the box.) KENNEDY: We’ll take them outside. I think they’re ok. Just, magicked out. BUFFY: (nodding) Claudia, you lead the others outside just incase those demon friends of “Sir got dusted by a rookie slayer” (winks at Sara) are out there. CUT TO FIVE MINUTES LATER (Buffy, Giles, Xander and Dawn are all staring at the box.) DAWN: We need to find somewhere safe for it. GILES: Well, to prevent anything of this nature happening again, we could perhaps get Willow to create some kind of protection spell. When she's feeling herself again, of course. XANDER: Yeah, give the Wicca a rest. DAWN: Maybe we could get Riley to put it somewhere? Like, create a prison for it? With booby traps. XANDER: ooh, Raiders of the Lost Ark! (Giles sighs, cleans his glasses) BUFFY: Wait. Why do we need to put it anywhere? XANDER: Because...it's a big scary and possibly apocalyptic box of death? GILES: Buffy, what do you propose? BUFFY: Destroy it. XANDER: Huh? BUFFY: The monks sent it to us so no Big Bad's could get their hands on it, right? Well, I say, they can't get their hands on it if it's in ittty bitty pieces. GILES: That seems a tad rash. BUFFY: So's everything we do Giles. We take chances. Well, who says we're meant to protect this box? It's not like Dawn. DAWN: Flattered. I'm not box-shaped. BUFFY: I mean, there's no reason we have to keep it safe. The monks said, if it's ever opened, something terrible will happen. Well, we can't guarantee that won't happen, unless we destroy it. XANDER: Actually, that makes a kind of Tolkieny sense. BUFFY: Tolkieny? XANDER: You know, ring in the fire, can't be used by the Big Bad's. GILES: How do you know it can be destroyed? BUFFY: I can try. (Buffy picks up an axe, swings it, brings it down on the box) DAWN: Buffy, wait, what if... (Buffy brings down the axe. The box smashes into pieces.) DAWN: ...it explodes or something! (Nothing happens) XANDER: Good God! DAWN: Err...phew. BUFFY: See? No more box. Ergo, no more box opening freaky blood letting rites. GILES: Well, that was ONE way of solving our problem I suppose. (OZ returns) OZ: Guys, need any help with the box? BUFFY: Nope. XANDER: Cuz...no more box. OZ: (Looking looks at the shards of the box.) Guys, Not sure that was such a good idea. BUFFY: Oz, we can't spend our lives second-guessing what's right. But, the box is destroyed, and the world hasn't been blown into hell. OZ: Though, box, smashed. Kinda like, box, open. XANDER: And yet, no hell openage. GILES: Well, it appears that the mystical rules governing the box only bring about the effects if the box is opened, rather than smashed. So, Buffy, though that was a bloody stupid thing to do... BUFFY: All's well with the Buffyworld? XANDER: Seems so. GILES: Still, I do believe we need to do further research on that box. DAWN: (groaning slightly) Yeah. BUFFY: Let's think outside the box for tonight! (Oz looks back, uncomfortably and the splintered wood as they leave.) (As they disappear out of sight, the camera focuses in on the remnants of the box. A red mist starts to rise, billowing up so it fills the chamber. Then it disappears through a grille in the floor) End Act: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whitenight 07-27-2004, 09:57 AM #5 Posts: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Claudia and Giles are making a drink in the kitchen. The Camera follows them into the living room. Willow is in an armchair, everyone's kinda flaking out.) CLAUDIA: (to everyone in general) Well I'm bushed, and I smell of the sewer still…so, a shower, I think, before supper. GILES: Yes, marvelous idea. CLAUDIA: Well, you don’t smell much better… GILES: I meant the shower sounded like a good idea. CLAUDIA: Oh, right cheers then. GILES: I think I’ll head down and take one myself. Don’t think I could bear to eat if I had to smell myself. DAWN: Ditto. (Smiles at Giles who quickly gives her a look smiles back and leaves) But what is for dinner, I’m starving? BUFFY: Well being as Hugo was heading that way to take Sara & Bethy back to the school I had him drop Xander & Andrew off at the Chinese takeout place. WILLOW: Yummy Chinese. (Bobbie and Mick are about to leave) BUFFY: Hey! You two did real good today…I was impressed. CLAUDIA: Here here. (Raise her glass to them, then goes to her room) WILLOW: Yeah, reminds me of Xander & me when we first started helping Buffy all those years ago. BOBBIE: Thanks? BUFFY: Actually, massive geeks. (grins at Willow) Be offended. WILLOW: Hey, wounded in the course of duty here! DAWN: Bye Bob, bye Mick. BOBBIE: Bye...Ma'am! (Mick and Bobbie leave, waving) BUFFY: (mouths to herself) Ma'am? DAWN: (folding her arms) That's Captain Ma'am to you, buster. BUFFY: Captain Ma'am? DAWN: Ok, tired. Verbal reasoning low. But, hello, saved the day! BUFFY: (touches Dawn's arm) Yeah. Thanks. WILLOW: Go Dawnie! (Lenore appears, and Kennedy sees the ghost cat rubbing up against Oz’s leg purring. Lenore then hisses at Kennedy) KENNEDY: Oh come on! You‘ll rub up and play nice with a werewolf but I can’t even pet you. No wonder I hate cats. (She turns around and kisses a laughing Willow on the cheek.) DAWN: And with that, I'm gone. WILLOW: (To Kennedy.) Well we better go down stairs and get cleaned up for dinner. OZ: Think I'll go change in your bathroom. (looks down) This is not a good look. WILLOW: Oh, you look…fine? OZ: (Smiling.) It's a look. Can I use the phone? BUFFY: Sure go right ahead. (Buffy, Willow & Kennedy leave and as Oz shuts the bathroom door Claudia peeks out her bedroom door and then ducks back inside.) CUT TO: (Buffy’s apartment, where as Buffy goes into her room Dawn comes out of her room.) DAWN: Buffy, I’m going up on the roof for some fresh air. BUFFY: Well don’t be up there to long. Xander & Andrew should be back any minute with dinner. DAWN: (Smiling.) Ok. CUT TO: (Scooby Central apartment. Oz goes to pick up the phone, ready to dial. But someone is already using the phone) MUFFLED ENGLISH MALE VOICE: I didn’t think you sent that text message now what about the box? CLAUDIA’S VOICE: I'll send a full report. (sharp intake of breath) So, send my love to mummy. Kisses! (Claudia peeks out of her bedroom, her face impassive, and sees Oz holding the phone. There's a clicking sound of the person on the other end putting the phone down) CLAUDIA: Oh, hallo. (casually) He's such an old fusspot. OZ: Sorry, I didn't realize you were on the phone. (putting the receiver down) He? CLAUDIA: Daddy. Always wanting to know how my UN job is going. (off Oz's look) Well, I can hardly tell him the truth, can I? OZ: (slightly raising an eyebrow) Truth. Yeah, it's a tough call. (They stand in awkward silence for a moment, until the door opens and Xander & Andrew enter with dinner.) XANDER: We come bearing Chinese. ANDREW: Not the people…just the food. CLAUDIA: Excuse me. Call of supernatural. OZ: (to Andrew) So, magic threesome huh? ANDREW: Yeah, it was way cool. Me, a cat, and a les. XANDER: That’s one p0rno I WONT be renting. OZ: It's a specialist market. ANDREW: I have to get my chopsticks from downstairs. They have my name on them. (smiles) I had a really fun day today. This is so much cooler than being a supervillain. (Andrew leaves. Oz is looking thoughtful. Even more than usual.) XANDER: What’s up Oz, you’ve got a “something’s afoot” look on your face. OZ: Claudia. XANDER: (broad smile) Ooh, is love in the air? Sordid secret monkey love? OZ: Sorry to disappoint, no monkey love. But...there's something up with her. XANDER: Like what? OZ: Not sure just yet. You need help with anything? (Xander hands Oz a stack of plates with silverware on them.) XANDER: Yea thanks, you start setting the table I’ll go grab Buffy & Dawn. OZ: Cool. CUT TO: (Buffy’s apartment where we have a camera shot of her in fresh clothing pulling her hair into a ponytail while slipping on her slippers.) (Xander comes in a moment later.) XANDER: Dinner’s ready. BUFFY: Ok. (Camera follows Buffy & Xander across the hall where Oz is setting the table.) OZ: Hey, where’s Dawn? BUFFY: Oh she went up to the roof for some air. BUFFY: I’ll be right back. (She turns to leave.) BUFFY: Go ahead and start without me. CUT TO: (Buffy walking out onto the roof through an open door. She stops suddenly, first there is a look of fear on her face but it quickly turns into a big smile. She backs up and closes the door slowly.) (The camera pans back to show Dawn & Mick kissing.) Cut to closing credits. |