(BUFFY SPEAKING)
Ethan Rayne?
ETHAN: In the flesh, my love.
BUFFY: And again, a slight barflex.
You have to stop calling me that.
ETHAN: It's an expression, pet. Like "pet."
BUFFY: Also not okay. How did you get in my dream?
ETHAN: We haven't oodles of time.
BUFFY: You're a chaos-worshipping wannabe sorcerer
who takes up none, count it, none of my subconscious.
Which means you forced your way into my dream.
ETHAN: I just hitched a ride. And we're not in your dream.
We're in your dream space.
BUFFY: Uh... 'Splain-y? Dream space?
(ETHAN SPEAKING)
(ETHAN LAUGHS)
ETHAN: Want to see one?
BUFFY: Ugh! No, no. That's nothing worth... Um...
It's just been a slow year.
ETHAN: You've been trapped in this space.
Not by me, but we've got to move fast
if you're going to be of any help on the outside.
BUFFY: What's going on outside?
(WILLOW GRUNTING)
AMY: Oh, man, this craft is weak.
Didn't you almost destroy the world one time?
Now you can't even put up a fight! What happened?
WILLOW: I saw the big picture.
But you, Amy,
you're as self-involved as your mom was.
You think I'm fighting you. I'm just absorbing your mojo
so I can decode it.
(WILLOW YELLS)
DEMON: May I have this dance?
XANDER: Ladies and other ladies, the indescribable Rosenberg.
WILLOW: The army was the pressing issue. Light show's a distraction.
AMY: So is the army.
(WILLOW GROANING)
BUFFY: (GASPS) You're lying. That can't be happening!
But I finished school.
Why do I have to take French again?
XANDER: Exams are today.
BUFFY: (SHUDDERS) I always have this one!
Can we stop and delete this one?
ETHAN: I told you, lamb, time is a factor.
Your enemy's opened her flank a bit.
BUFFY: Whoa!
ETHAN: Interfering with someone's dream state
means attaching a bit of one's own.
(BUFFY GROANS) (ETHAN GRUNTS)
ETHAN: There's a memory here we need.
(WILLOW YELLING)
AMY: Now you're starting to make this interesting.
What else you got?
XANDER: Say it with me now, "Fe, fi, fo..."
DAWN: (BLEEP) fum.
WILLOW: Language, sweetie. How come you're a giant?
DAWN: We totally have to talk. Are you evil again?
WILLOW: It'll fade.
She just really pissed me off.
BUFFY: This is what you wanted to show me?
What is this?
ETHAN: No, we've gone too far back.
BUFFY: Whoa! Whoa!
I know all this.
This is Amy's cage. Amy's doing this?
ETHAN: I didn't know her name. I can't see outside myself.
But I connected with her, and she saw me.
I think you're here. Walk about.
BUFFY: Nice place.
I'm starting to miss my giant dragon.
So what are you doing in there?
ETHAN: Where am I?
BUFFY: Cage. Crossbeams, like X's.
So this all, what, means something?
Three X's. xXx.
So it's either Vin Diesel or porn,
neither of which is real attractive.
ETHAN: I'm more an antique Roman than a Dane.
BUFFY: Did I mention I'm not crazy good at symbolism?
ETHAN: Just remember what you see here. Twilight is falling.
You're going to need all the help you can get, pet.
WILLOW: This is a true love spell.
XANDER: Rumor has it.
How do we deal?
WILLOW: Buffy needs to be kissed by someone who is in love with her.
And someone in this room is.
They might not have even realized it,
and they probably don't want anyone to know about it.
So everyone's gonna shut their eyes
and keep them shut if they wanna keep them.
That person will step forward and give Buffy a kiss.
Okay...
BUFFY: I have a funny feeling on my mouth.
Cinnamon buns!
Or... I just had the weirdest...
(GASPS) Will!
DEMON: We are not amused.
GILES: No one's exactly giggling on this side of the fence, either.
DEMON: Three of our brood slain!
GILES: They broke protocol.
DEMON: They were lured out there!
GILES: I think they were, yes.
Someone engineered that conflict and sacrificed
two young men in the process.
I think we need to know whom.
DEMON: This symbol is meaningless to us.
And we are not convinced that this is not some Slayer trick.
We have ever been enemies.
GILES: And ever shall be.
We'll come to grips one day, but on a day we choose.
We'll not be led there like cattle.
Right now, information benefits us both.
If you learn anything...
(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)
ANDREW: We would so tell you about it.
Seriously, we got nothing going on here.
I've looked through so many books, I've got parchment fingers.
But my mom used to order this special dermatological soap
because hoisin sauce makes me rash-y...
XANDER: Just keep an eye out.
(ANDREW SPEAKING)
ANDREW: You think Amy's attack and the symbol are linked?
XANDER: Just a whole lot of question marks coming up all at the same time.
I wanted to make sure you're not seeing any action.
ANDREW: I wish! We're just trying
to think of games to stay awake.
It's Dullsville, Italy.
XANDER: Sounds good enough to me.
ANDREW: No, trust me, you'd be bored stiff.
(GIRLS SHOUTING)
XANDER: Well, this is really unimpressive.
One attack by the undead and Renee has to take a nap.
(MOCKING RENEE) "Oh, I'm all run though with a broadsword,
"and I have to lie around and heal."
Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago,
we took our lumps, and we got back up, and we cried like babies
and quit and then put on weight.
RENEE: (SIGHS) I should've seen them coming.
They should've never got over that wall.
We lost girls because of...
XANDER: Oh, are you still talking?
You mess up, Buffy'll kick your ass,
assuming she's not in a mystical coma, in which case
I or a qualified representative will kick your ass.
You raised the call, and you stood your ground.
It was solid soldiering, so shut up and heal.
RENEE: (LAUGHS) You're so butch.
XANDER: (CHUCKLES) Almost a kind of masculine vibe, don't you think?
WILLOW: She teleported here.
I'm gonna run a trace, see where she came from.
BUFFY: You definitely think she's not alone?
WILLOW: A couple of her spells reeked of tech. She's working with someone.
BUFFY: Okay. Hey, speaking of, where the hell have you been?
WILLOW: Yeah, it's been a funky time.
We'll get into it.
BUFFY: Well, how you have been?
How's Kennedy? Are you still...
WILLOW: She died. BUFFY: Willow.
WILLOW: Oh, no! She's fine.
Mystical thing, only lasted a month.
We're just taking it slow for a while.
She's sort of in her own space, but it's cool.
I always tell that wrong.
XANDER: Place is more or less locked down.
Can I get a sitrep on rat-girl before...
WILLOW: (LAUGHING) No, no!
BUFFY: (LAUGHING) And I was covered in it!
Covered!
XANDER: Wait! What? A funny?
There's funny bonhomie happening and I want in!
BUFFY: No, girl thing.
XANDER: Girl thing? With girl parts? Now I definitely need to know.
WILLOW: Slow year, Xan?
XANDER: Oh, I'm getting plenty of action, Elphaba.
I'm Action Jackson.
BUFFY: "Slow year." I said that. God, my dream...
WILLOW: Hey, I believe
you were the biggest ladies' man in Sunnydale, Harris.
I even went in for smoochies, and I don't truck with the stubbly crowd.
XANDER: Of course, according to my parents, the action I'm getting now
should make my last remaining eye go blind...
BUFFY: Hey! Who kissed me?
WILLOW: (STUTTERS) Hold up, guys, I'm getting a reaction.
Let's see where you've been hanging out.
XANDER: Girls, I'm pretty sure
that's not the kingdom of faerie-folk.
BUFFY: A military installation?
Oh! If the Initiative is back...
Now, why does that remind me of a cavern?
WILLOW: This is a portal.
(SCREAMING) It's a trap!
BUFFY: Willow!
XANDER: I need mystics in the basement level now!
We need a portal re-opened!
Alpha Team, suit up and stand by. Where are my mystics?
(BUFFY PANTING)
BUFFY: We're being played, Xander.
I'm not liking it.
AMY: Great big all-powerful, earth-mother witch goddess,
and she still falls for the rope-a-dope.
Of course, we're contracted to bring in the Slayer,
but I'm pretty sure she'll show. Too late, of course.
WILLOW: We? (AMY LAUGHING)
WARREN: I can't tell you how long I've waited for this.
Well, I can. To the hour.
Killing Buffy Summers is gonna be a party.
She's pissed me off more than a little.
But you, Rosenberg,
you really got under my skin.
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