"That's right." "Big boy." "Come and get it." "I got him!" "Go!" "Any time now..." "He's getting away!" "And... ow." "That really never works." "Are you guys all right?" "First of all." "What was with the acrobatics?" "How did that happen?" "Wasn't Andy Hoelich on the gymnastics team?" "That's right." "He was." "Cheater!" "OK." "And the second problem I'm having..." ""Come and get it." "Big boy"?" "Well..." "Well." "The slayer always says a pun or a witty play on words." "And I think it throws the vampires off and it makes them frightened because I'm wisecracking." "OK." "I didn't really have a chance to work on that one." "but you try it every time." "Uh." "If I may suggest..." ""This time it's personal."" "I mean." "There's a reason why it's a classic." "I've always been amazed with how Buffy fought." "But... in a way." "I feel like we took her punning for granted." "Xander." "Past tense rule." "Oh." "Sorry." "I just meant we in the past took it for granted and." "Uh." "We won't when she gets back." "Do you think Buffy knows school's starting tomorrow?" "Tomorrow." "Right." "Big day." "Oh." "I'm gonna be busy a lot." "but." "But only till 3:00." "and that's when you usually get up." "I can't wait to see Cordelia." "I can't believe I can't wait to see Cordelia." "I wonder what our first homework assignment's gonna be." "Hey." "You're excited over Cordelia." "OK?" "We've all got issues." "I guess we should pack it in." "Yeah." "Wouldn't it be great if Buffy just showed up tomorrow?" "Like nothing happened?" "She just can't show up." "she got kicked out." "Well." "Yeah." "I know." "I just wish..." "I wish we knew where she was." "How did you find me here?" "If I was blind." "I would see you." "Stay with me." "Forever." "That's the whole point." "I'll never leave." "Not even if you kill me." "Anything else?" "That'll do us." "Peaches." "Pay at the counter." "Sure you don't want me to work it off for you?" "Ha ha ha ha." "You guys ready?" "Yeah." "I think we're good." "Um..."Anne."" "What'll you have?" "Well." "OK... what can we get with this?" "Um..." "Can we get cake?" "Don't be stupid." "We gotta eat healthy." "We can't have cake." "Can we get pie?" "We've got a peach pie." "I can't guarantee there's a peach in it." "We shouldn't have blown all our money." "Come on." "It was worth it." "Hey." "Check this out." "It's nice." "It's nice and." "Uh." "Permanent." "Yeah." "Forever." "I mean." "That's the whole point." "Hey." "Do I know you?" "I don't think so." "Really?" "Where are you from?" "I'll get your pie." "I'm not feeling great." "Do you think you can cover for me?" "Sure." "Okay." "So." "No joy at the cemetery?" "No." "He got away." "We still have some glitches in the system." "like... vampires getting away." "But I think we're improving." "For God's sake be careful." "I mean." "Uh." "I appreciate your efforts to keep the vampire population down until Buffy returns." "but." "Uh." "Well." "If anything should happen to you... you should be killed." "I should take it somewhat amiss." "You'd be cranky?" "Entirely." "Well." "We try not to get killed." "That's part of our whole mission statement." ""Don't get killed."" "Good." "I think you're going to love that one." " Hi." " Hey." "Willow." "How was your summer?" "Oh." "I can't believe you brought that up." "Las Palmas was the nightmare resort." "They order you around and make you have organized "fun."" "and I use sarcastic quote marks." "Plus the fact there are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property." "It was all about dread." "How was your summer?" "Oh." "It was OK." "Is Xander around?" "Well." "Uh." "Yeah." "Somewhere." "Good." "Great." "I haven't seen him yet." "Do I look OK?" " Oh." "Yeah." " How's my hair?" "Uh." "It's good." "He didn't meet anybody over the summer." "Did he?" "No." "Who's he gonna meet in Sunnydale." "but monsters and stuff?" "But then again he's always been attracted to monsters." "How's my hair?" "Still good." "Hi." "Maybe he's forgotten me." "Well." "I'll just have to make him remember." "See ya." "You came to visit me." "You came with books?" "Are they books for me?" "Actually." "They're kind of for me." "I don't get it." "Well." "It's sort of a funny story." "You remember when I didn't graduate?" "Well." "I know you had a lot of incompletes." "but that's what summer school was for." "Yeah." "Remember when I didn't go?" "Whoa." "Slow down." "People." "Summer is over." "Be somber." "But you never said anything." "How am I supposed to react to this rather alarming news?" "Well." "Actually." "I was pretty much banking on you finding it cute." "Traditionally." "You know." "Repeating a grade isn't exactly a turn-on." "And-And you're practically a genius." "You're Mr. Test Scores." "It's all a little weird." "So the cute thing is out?" "Have you guys seen Cordelia?" "Yeah." "She's around here somewhere." "I don't want to come on too geeky." "But." "Uh." "OK." "I'm psyched." "There's gonna be some heat." "if you know what I mean." "So you guys might want to duck and cover." "And I'm starting to be geeky." "OK." "Bye." " How's my..." " Your hair is fine." "Cool." "This is our year." "I'm telling you." "Best football season ever." "I'm so in shape." "I'm a rock." "It's all about egg whites." "If we can focus." "keep discipline." "and not have quite as many mysterious deaths." "Sunnydale is gonna rule!" "I'm trying to get to cute." "Really." "But I'm still sorta stuck on "strange."" "Well." "I'd be willing to bargain down to "eccentric"" "with an option on "cool."" " Hey." " Hey." "Good summer?" "It was all right." "Cool." "Yeah." "Well." "I'll see ya." "Yeah." "Whatever." "I'm no one." "I'm no one." "I'm no one." "Yes?" "Thank you." "Thank you." "I have a lead." "A friend in Oakland has a sketchy report of a young girl fending off a group of vampires about a week ago." "There's a plane out in about an hour." "And what makes this different from the last 9 leads?" "Well." "I believe there's a meal on this flight." "Look." "I don't mean to poop the party here." "it's just." "You get your hopes all up." "and then it's just a big fat raspberry." "And I feel bad." "But it's good that you're looking." "Though." "You shouldn't give up." "Oh." "Yeah." "Definitely." "Yes." "One must try." "Well." "I should go." "You don't think maybe he'll find her?" "I think he'll find her when she wants to be found." "Anne?" "Anne?" "Buffy?" "Don't be mad." "I won't turn you in or nothing." "I guess you don't recognize me." "Lily?" "I mean from before." "I was calling myself Chantarelle then." "I used to..." "Well." "I was in this cult that worshipped vampires." "So lame." "I know." "Yeah..." "I. Uh." "I remember." "But you kinda saved us." "I never thanked you or anything." "Did you tell anyone who I was?" "Oh." "No." "Not even Rickie." "I mean." "I was so surprised to see you here." "waiting tables..." "But I wouldn't tell." "I know how it is when you gotta get lost." "Do you." "Uh..." "Do you live nearby?" "Well." "There's a couple of places." "Uh." "They're abandoned." "And a lot of people stay there." "So how come you came up with Anne?" "It's my middle name." "Lily's from a song." "Rickie picked it." "I'm always changing anyway." "Chantarelle was part of my exotic phase." "It's nice." "It's a mushroom." "It is?" "That's really embarrassing." "Um." "Well." "It's an exotic mushroom." "if that's any comfort." "Well." "Before that." "I was following this loser preacher and calling myself Sister Sunshine." "What do they call you at home?" "I like Lily." "It's cool for now." "Hey." "Do you have any money?" "I didn't mean that like..." "Well." "I just mean." "I know this guy." "he's gonna have this kinda rave thing in his basement." "We could go." "I mean." "I could show you if you had..." "'Cause I'm broke." "I don't think so." "I just kind of..." "I want to be alone." "I didn't mean to bug you." "No." "I didn't mean that." "It's just..." "A lot of people like that..." "It's too much." "I do have the money." "though." "So." "why don't you and Rickie go." "and then maybe I could meet you..." "No." "It's OK." "Forget about it." "That's not very polite." "Are you OK?" "I'm no one." "Are you OK?" "Geez." "I didn't see you." "Maybe you shouldn't move." "Maybe you should lie down." "Somebody call an ambulance!" "No!" "I'm OK." "I just..." "I need to go." "Whoa." "Oh." "where are you running to?" "Sorry." "Maybe I should ask." "where are you running from?" "You're pretty new around here." "You've got the look." "Though." "The look?" "Like you had to grow up way too fast." "What's your name?" "Hey." "Um." "I'm Ken." "Here." "Go ahead." "take one of these." "Don't be shy about stopping by." "I guess you're not starving." "But... we're not just interested in feeding the body." "You might find something you're missing." "I'm all right." "Then why are you here?" "This is not a good place for a kid to be." "You get old fast here." "The thing that drains the life out of them is despair." "I mean." "Kids come here." "And they got nothing to go home to." "This ends up being the last stop for a lot of them." "Shouldn't have to be that way." "Ooh-ooh-ooh" "On my way to freedom" "I ask myself" "Why did I come here?" "To find my" "Own way to freedom" "And a change is gonna come" " I'm gonna find my way" " Find my way" "Find my way back to freedom" " Gonna find my way" " Find my way" "Find my way" "Find my way back to freedom" "Boy." "I'm glad we showed up for "Depressing Night."" "I wonder what she's doing right now." "Oh." "I know what she's doing." "Gabbing to all of her friends about her passionate affair with Pedro the cabana boy laughing about me thinking how she still might have feelings about me." "Oh." "It's possible you were talking about Buffy." "It's possible." "The Bronze just never seems the same without her." "And the slaying isn't getting any easier." "Either." "I don't know." "I think we're kinda getting a rhythm down." "We're losing half the vamps." "Yeah." "But." "Rhythmically." "We just need to work on our timing." "I think." "No." "I know what we need." "A vampire slayer?" "Next best thing." "Bait." "[Knock On Door]" "Uh." "Hello." "Hello." "Um." "May I..." "Oh." "Uh." "Of course." "Come on in." "I've just come back from Oakland." "A friend of mine called with a lead." "Stories about someone fighting vampires." "It didn't pan out." "I'm afraid." "No Buffy." "No vampires." "Bunch of schoolkids in heavy mascara listening to extremely silly music." "Well." "Thank you for going." "I can hardly..." "I can hardly leave the house." "I'm just afraid she'll call and she'll need my help." "Buffy is the most capable child I've ever known." "I mean." "She may be confused." "Unhappy." "but I honestly believe she's in no danger." "I just wish I could talk to her." "The last thing we did was fight." "Joyce." "You mustn't blame yourself for her leaving." "I don't." "I blame you." "You've been this huge influence on her." "Guiding her." "You had this whole relationship with her behind my back." "I feel like you've taken her away from me." "I didn't make Buffy who she is." "And who exactly is she?" "Buff..." "Uh." "Anne?" "Can I talk to you?" "Look." "This really isn't a good time." "Can it wait?" "Rickie's gone." "I haven't seen him for more than a day." "I..." "He's never left for that long." "I think something's..." "happened." "Maybe something's happened." "Well." "Did you call the police?" "[Sighs]" "Rickie skipped out on his parole." "They would just cause more trouble." "I don't know." "did you ask around?" "Can you help me?" "Uh." "I can't." "But that's who you are and stuff." "Right?" "I mean." "You help people." "and." "You know..." "I can't get into this." "I'm sorry." "Lily." "You know how to do stuff." "I don't." "Not anymore." "But..." "I don't know what to do." "We gave blood lots of times 'cause you get a few bucks and they have cookies." "You're a fan of the sugar rush?" "It's nice." "Hi." "Are you here to donate blood?" "Uh." "We're looking for a friend." "Rickie T.?" "We come in sometimes." "Rickie." "Sure." "Uh." "He's not here." "Well." "Do you know if he's been in the last day or so?" "Let me check the sheet." "This'll probably go faster if we split up." "Can I come with you?" "OK." "Where did I lose you on the whole splitting up thing?" "Oh." "Sorry." "I was thinking we could check out some of your hangouts and then." "I guess." "meet later at my place." "OK." "Sorry." "Guys." "He hasn't been here." "Thanks." "I'll tell him you were looking." "Great." "Rickie?" "Did you find Rickie?" "I thought of..." "Well." "He likes to go to this movie house." "you can get in around the back..." "Lily..." "I think he's dead." "But... he takes care of me." "I'm sorry." "We're gonna get a place." "His cousin can get him a job at the car wash." "Lily." "There's... there's something else." "The person that I found... was old." "He looked about 80." "Well." "That's not Rickie." "I'm sure it was." "I don't know how." "But... it was like something drained the life out of him." "Do you mean like a vampire?" "No." "A vampire couldn't accelerate the aging process." "Maybe it was something in his blood." "When was the last time you guys gave blood together?" "I don't understand." "Maybe it's not Rickie." "OK?" "Lily." "This is something you're just gonna have to deal with." "But he didn't do anything wrong." "why would this happen to him?" "That's not the point." "These things happen all the time." "You can't just..." "close your eyes and hope that they're gonna go away." "Is it 'cause of you?" "What?" "You know about monsters and stuff." "You could have brought this with you." "I didn't bring anything with me." "And I didn't ask for you to come to me with your problems." "I just wanted to be left alone." "If you can't deal." "then don't lay it off on me." "Are you OK?" "Hey." "It's OK." "Maybe I can help." "You can't." "Look." "I know you all think I'm a big square handing out leaflets about hope." "But hope is a real thing." "just like despair." "Hope can fill up the part of you that's missing." "But Rickie..." "Rickie?" "Say." "Are you Lily?" "Right." "He was talking about you." "You've seen Rickie?" "Oh." "Sure." "Rickie's with us now." "She said he was dead." "Well." "Someone's sure handed you a tall tale." "Rickie's no more dead than I am." "Why don't you come to Family Home?" "We'll get you taken care of." "Candidate for what?" "What are you doing?" "Breaking into your office and going through your private files." "Candidate for what?" "I'm calling the police." "Now." "You've got a whole bunch of candidates here." "I wonder if any of them are missing like Rickie." "Gosh." "I bet they are." "You're getting yourself in a lot of trouble." "I don't want any trouble." "I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fireplace and a tea cozy." "I don't even know what a tea cozy is." "But I want one." "Instead." "I keep getting trouble." "which I am more than willing to share." "What are you doing with these kids?" "Nothing." "I just..." "I give him the names of the healthy ones." "Give them to who?" "Well... don't you look nice?" "I guess." "Well." "You don't want to wear your own outfit to the cleansing." "It'll get soaked." "A cleansing is like a baptism?" "Right?" "Not quite the same." "Will I see Rickie after?" "Oh." "Of course." "He's waiting for you." "He's very excited." "Cordelia:" "Why do I have to be bait?" "I'm always bait." "Why can't Willow be bait?" "He's already seen Willow." "And could you complain louder so all the vampires leave?" "I think this is a good spot." "Is everybody packing'?" "Let's do it." "I'm doing this for Buffy's sake." "This has nothing to do with you." "Yeah." "Like I needed that cleared up." "Go away." "This is my hiding spot." "Where do I hide?" "You don't hide." "You're bait." "Go act baity." "What's the plan?" "The vampire attacks you." "And then what?" "The vampire kills you." "We watch." "We rejoice." "Cordelia:" "Everything's a joke with you." "Xander:" "No." "Just our relationship." "What relationship?" "Right." "I forgot." "We actually want to bury that piece of the past." "Don't we?" "We come to this station to wash away the past." "Go ahead." "Kneel." "We let the water run over the sin and the pain and the uncertainty." "It looks kinda... dirty." "Yeah." "Buffy:" "You know." "I just..." "I woke up." "and I looked in the mirror." "and I thought." "hey." "What's with all the sin?" "I need to change." "I'm..." "I'm dirty." "I'm..." "I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that loud music us kids listen to nowadays." "Uh..." "Oh." "I just suck at undercover." "Where's Ken?" "This is a private moment." "If you could just..." "How do you make 'em old." "Ken?" "Do you feed on youth?" "What's the deal?" "Do you really wanna know?" "What's going on?" "Aaaaah!" "Unh!" "Ohh..." "Oh!" "Unh!" "Ohh..." "Ohh..." "Ken:" "Oh." "My face." "Ow!" "My face!" "Do you have any idea how hard it is to glue that thing on?" "!" "Guards!" "[Heavy Blows." "Metal Striking Metal]" "[People Groaning]" "Welcome to my world." "I hope you like it." "You're never leaving." "Let me ask..." "How long did it take you to forget me?" "Were you still taxiing down the runway." "or was it actually in the cab?" "Oh." "Yeah!" "Mr. Faithful?" "!" "You probably met up with some hot little Inca mummy girl." "Yeah." "I heard about her." "[Willow Struggling]" "Aah!" "Help!" "Aah!" "Xander!" "Oh." "Unh..." "Lily..." "Always knew I would come here... sooner or later." "I knew I belonged here." "Where?" "Hell." "This isn't hell." "Isn't it?" "Unh..." "What is hell but the total absence of hope?" "The substance." "the tactile proof of despair." "You're right." "Lily." "This is where you've been heading all your life." "Just like Rickie." "Rickie..." "He forgot you." "Well." "It took him a long time." "He remembered your name years after he'd forgotten his own." "But in the end..." "Years?" "But..." "Oh." "Interesting thing..." "Time moves more quickly here than in your reality." "A hundred long years will pass here." "On Earth..." "it's just a day." "So you just work us till we're too old and spit us back out." "That's the plan." "See." "Lily." "you'll die of old age before anyone wonders where you went." "Not that anyone will." "That's why we chose you." "You didn't choose me." "No." "But..." "I know you..." "Anne." "Heh." "So afraid." "So pathetically determined to run away from whatever it is you used to be." "to disappear." "Congratulations." "You got your wish." "Guard:" "You work... and you live." "That is all." "You do not complain or laugh or do anything besides work." "Whatever you thought." "whatever you were does not matter." "You are no one now." "You mean nothing." "Who are you?" "Aaron." "Who are you?" "No one." "Who are you?" "No one." "Who are you?" "I'm Buffy." "The vampire slayer." "And you are...?" "Raaagghh!" "Anyone who's not having fun here." "follow me." "Buffy:" "There's no way we can get back up there without meeting new people." "OK." "Lily." "when those guards leave." "and they will leave." "I want you to take these people and get them up there." "OK?" "Fast and quiet." "You're leaving me?" "But..." "Lily... you can handle this." "'Cause I say so." "We've gone public." "Quick." "Get them up." "Go!" "Quiet!" "I'm sorry I said this was your fault before." "Lily." "This can wait." "Well." "In case we die..." "Go!" "Go!" "Come on." "Come on!" "Everybody go!" "Run!" "Humans don't fight back." "[Enraged] Humans don't fight back!" "That's how this works!" "Get down there!" "[Gasps]" "[Whimpering]" "Ken:" "One of you fights... and you all die!" "That... was not... permitted." "Yeah." "But it was fun." "You've got guts." "I think I'd like to slice you open and play with them." "Let everyone know!" "This is the price of rebellio..." "Aaagh!" "They'll be coming." "Unh!" "Unh!" "OK... this works... the abs... and the glutes." "Unh!" "Ohh." "I'm gonna feel this for a week." "Raaagghh!" "Aah-aah-aaaah!" "Yaaaaggghhh!" "You've ruined..." "You've..." "Hey." "Ken." "wanna see my impression of Gandhi?" "Gandhi?" "Well." "You know." "if he was really pissed off." "Ooh!" "What do we do about...?" "Let me give you the tour." "This concludes our tour." "It's really nice." "All the rent's paid up for the next 3 weeks." "I spoke to Mitch at the diner." "He said you can start on Thursday." "He's." "Uh..." "He's kind of... repulsive." "but." "Uh." "He won't give you a hard time." "Um..." "I'll call and check up on you." "I'm not... great at taking care of myself." "Gets easier." "Takes practice." "Hey..." "Can I be "Anne"?" "[Knock At Door]" "Grrr!" "Arrggh!"