MAN 1: That's her blood, isn't it?
MAN 2: Yeah.
MAN 1: What does it say?
SATSU: "Welcome to Tokyo."
(GASPS)
BUFFY: Help me cut her down.
SLAYER 1: Oh, my God, look.
SLAYER 2: What is that?
(PANTING)
(CRYING)
WILLOW: How long are you gonna stay up here?
BUFFY: Just till I figure out what to do next.
WILLOW: Need some help?
At the very least, I could conjure up some blankets for you.
Who knew Japan was this cold?
BUFFY: We have to get our hands on one of these vampires somehow.
WILLOW: Yeah. Easy to say, and so forth.
BUFFY: (SIGHS) There has to be a way.
WILLOW: Well, assuming we can even locate one of them...
BUFFY: You saw how they strung up Aiko.
They're not exactly going lo-pro here.
WILLOW: Then, it's just a matter of getting one of them to hold still.
BUFFY: Which is hard to do when they can turn into fog.
WILLOW: If Giles was here, he'd say, "Precisely,"
and then rub his glasses on his shirt.
DRACULA: I'm assuming you've considered using Carolina's Grasp.
I mean, you're not complete idiots, are you?
XANDER: (PANTING) Okay, almost there.
BUFFY: Good, it's you.
WILLOW: And Xander!
BUFFY: Who's grasping Carolina's what now?
DRACULA: It's a rudimentary containment spell.
Do you still have a witch in your employ?
WILLOW: I'm standing right here.
DRACULA: (SIGHS) Yes. I should have recognized your acrid stench.
Go get two grams of crimson powder,
a sprig of dwarfwhistle, and some sea salt.
I'll teach you the incantation
as soon as someone removes her nighties from the master bedroom.
I need to get my coffin installed.
The sun should be up before long.
BUFFY: It's 8:00 p.m.
DRACULA: Is it?
I've never understood time zones.
XANDER: Whoo!
Hey, guys. BUFFY: You look terrible.
XANDER: It's been a long flight.
He doesn't travel well.
DRACULA: And also, is somebody going to finish eating this?
RAIDON: Tech Support says we'll be online within 12 hours up top.
TORU: Tell them to hurry. The Slayer's already on the ground.
Where are we at on countermeasures?
RAIDON: The Robotics Division is up and running.
Though I still contend they're wasting their time.
(TORU CHUCKLES)
You have no sense of imagination, do you, Raidon?
RAIDON: I'm fairly certain it died with my soul.
What's Kumiko doing?
TORU: I think she's praying.
RAIDON: Ah!
TORU: Though it's always hard to tell with her.
Let's move the squadrons back to the Matsuya entrance,
and tell our soldiers to be ready for anything.
I'm guessing these girls don't hit us from the front.
RENEE: Help me! Please, somebody help me!
TANAKA: What's the matter, little one?
RENEE: Thank God you speak English.
Please help me. I'm so lost and frightened.
TANAKA: Where are you headed?
RENEE: My parochial school was on a field trip to Shinjuku
and I wandered off looking for the Bathing Ape Store.
And now I don't know how to get back to my hotel
because all the street signs in Japan are in Japanese for some reason.
TANAKA: All right, calm down. I'll get you where you need to go.
RENEE: Really?
TANAKA: Of course.
Here, why don't we cut through the park?
RENEE: Thank God you came along when you did. I was so scared.
TANAKA: Well, you have to be careful.
You never know who you could run into out here.
RENEE: Boy, you're telling me.
(WILLOW RECITING INCANTATION)
(TANAKA GRUNTING)
BUFFY: So, here's the problem we keep having,
every time we try to fight one of you guys, you turn into air.
And it's really hard to hurt air.
At least until you remember
air burns.
(WILLOW RECITING INCANTATION)
(TANAKA EXCLAIMING)
BUFFY: You're gonna tell me everything I want to know.
TANAKA: Okay, okay!
BUFFY: And, to be honest, I'm hoping you choose to be difficult about it.
TANAKA: (PANTING) I won't! I promise!
Don't burn me! I'll tell you everything you want!
BUFFY: Good. Where's my scythe?
TANAKA: Toru's got it.
He's holed up in the Ashikaga building downtown.
BUFFY: Why does he want it?
TANAKA: He wants to reverse the spell you did.
He wants to take away your powers.
He wants to make all the Slayers human again.
WILLOW: How?
TANAKA: We have a witch, Kumiko. She can do the incantation.
And we're building a lens that can amplify the spell.
BUFFY: Oh, my God.
XANDER: How long before this lens is finished?
TANAKA: We're on alert. It's supposed to happen before dawn.
WILLOW: That doesn't give us much time.
BUFFY: We should get moving.
TANAKA: Please, I told you everything I know.
You have to let me go.
(PANTING)
BUFFY: I never agreed to that.
(TANAKA SCREAMING)
BUFFY: This is war.
BUFFY: I gotta make the tough calls.
You may not understand why I do what I do,
but I need you to follow my orders anyway.
SATSU: You want me to stand down?
BUFFY: No. I want you to lead.
The girls here who knew Aiko, they're pretty shook up.
I'm not taking them into battle.
I need you to stay here and look after them,
and I need you to help them bury Aiko.
SATSU: You want me to stand down.
You said I'm your best fighter!
BUFFY: That's not what this is about.
SATSU: You know I'm your best fighter.
So, either you're leaving me behind to avoid me or protect me.
BUFFY: Satsu...
SATSU: I don't know if I should be hurt or touched,
but either way, I'm not following your orders.
Not this time.
I'll see you on the battlefield, ma'am.
(BUFFY SIGHS)
I can't believe I find it sexy when she calls me "ma'am."
RENEE: I'm sorry. What?
XANDER: First dates are always awkward, right?
There's so much pressure.
You have to worry about what to say,
and what to wear, and what to do.
I get the bad butterflies just thinking about it.
RENEE: Is there such a thing as a bad butterfly?
XANDER: And that's just the beginning of the date.
Then, assuming it goes well, you have to worry about the end.
Is it too early to go for the kiss? If I don't go for the kiss,
she'll think I'm not into her. If I do go for the kiss,
she'll think I'm not a gentleman, and quite possibly slap me.
And you look like you could slap pretty hard.
RENEE: So, you want tonight to be our first date?
XANDER: I'm saying, let's count tonight as our first date.
Then, our next date will be our second date.
And the second date is always more relaxing for everyone involved.
RENEE: Okay, so just to be clear,
when people ask me what we did on our first date,
you want me to tell them we dressed me up like a schoolgirl,
used me as bait on the streets of Japan,
lit a vampire on fire, then geared up to go into battle
with several hundred other girls, and Dracula.
DRACULA: I resent that.
I would never go on a date with the two of you.
Even if you begged. So, don't even bother asking.
RENEE: Yeah, I'm not letting you off the hook on this one, Harris.
This is absolutely not a date.
XANDER: Okay.
RENEE: But I will make one part easier for you.
XANDER: Okay.
RENEE: Now you don't have to worry about what happens at the end.
(XANDER AND RENEE GIGGLING)
(DRACULA CLEARS THROAT)
DRACULA: We have to go to war now.
Please, uh, stop that.
Hello?
XANDER: By my count, they've got almost a thousand vampires, total.
SATSU: The girls are in position around the perimeter.
We've got numbers as well.
XANDER: But again, we're back to the same problem.
The numbers don't matter.
We can't fight these guys when they can just disappear.
RENEE: And I don't suppose you have any bright ideas.
DRACULA: On how to slay vampires?
Isn't that your little crew's area of expertise?
BUFFY: I'm not looking for a fight.
All that matters is the scythe.
Once we get that back, they can't hurt us.
I mean, except, you know,
in the traditional biting and stabbing and clawing sense.
But we'll deal with that when it comes.
Right now, our only mission is to get into that building
and retrieve the scythe.
All we need is a really big distraction
so we can slip in the back door.
WILLOW: Yeah, I know.
And if you could all just stop talking for one minute,
I could concentrate long enough to work my mojo.
RENEE: Sorry. XANDER: Sorry.
(WILLOW RECITING INCANTATION)
(GROWLING)
(ALL CLAMORING)
DAWN: Hi, or, I mean, roar?
ANDREW: Well, there's something you don't see every day.
BUFFY: Okay, let's go.
Door's open.
TORU: Hmm...
BUFFY: Yep, that is, in fact, a giant Godzilla woman
wreaking havoc on your minions.
And to make matters worse, she's a teenager, so moody.
Believe me, there's no dishonor in surrender,
despite what your culture says to the contrary.
(WILLOW MOANING)
XANDER: You okay?
WILLOW: Something's wrong.
BUFFY: Give me my...
(GASPS)
Guys! It's a...
(TORU CHUCKLING)
TORU: I believe the word you're looking for is "trap."
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