When She Was Bad (Season 2, Episode 13): Cut to the alley outoutside the Bronze. Buffy senses Angel as she nears the entrance. Buffy: Y'know, being stalked isn't really a big turn-on for girls. Angel: (behind her) You need help. Someone to watch your back. Buffy: Sure you don't mean my neck? Angel: (comes around her) Why are you ridin' me? Buffy: Because I don't trust you. You're a vampire. (gets a look) Oh, I'm sorry, was that an offensive term? Should I say 'undead American'? Angel: You have to trust someone. You can't do this alone. Buffy: I trust me. Angel: You're not as strong as you think. Buffy: (gives him a challenging look) You think you can take me? Angel: What? Buffy: Oh, c'mon! I mean, you must've thought about it. What would happen if it ever came down to a fight, you vampire, me the Slayer, I mean, you must've wondered! Well, why don't we find out? Angel: I'm not gonna fight you. Buffy: Come on! Kick my ass! Angel: Don't you have somewhere to be? Buffy: I do. Angel: Well, you're wasting time. Buffy: Just stay out of my way. (walks around him to the entrance) Angel: Happy to oblige. Cut inside. Buffy comes in and looks around as she slowly walks through an empty Bronze. She comes upon a girl crying in a corner. She stops. Angel appears behind her. The vampire laughs and turns around. Vampire: Cordelia couldn't make it. Buffy: Where is she? Vampire: I'm not supposed to tell. Angel: I don't like this. Buffy: Don't like what? Angel: There's the bait. Where's the hook? The vampire attacks, and Buffy flips her over onto her back on the floor and pins her down with her foot. Buffy: You're right. Why would they send just one? Cut to the library. Giles is continuing his research. Willow: I still think we should've gone with her. Xander: Buffy's about to lose it. I think we should be trying to reach minimum safe distance. Willow: Xander, you know it's a trap! Giles:
Ah! Ah, ah, ah! Uh, uh, the Latin is, is translated from the Sumerian,
a-a-and rather badly. Closest to the Master actually Several vampires appear on the mezzanine level above. Giles: It just isn't for her. ~~~~~~~~~~ Part 4 ~~~~~~~~~~ The Bronze. Buffy binds the vampire's wrists Buffy: Watch her. Don't kill her unless you have to. (shoves her over to Angel) Angel: Buffy! What's goin' on? Buffy: I'll be back. Cut to the library. Buffy comes rushing in, and stops short when she sees that the place is a shambles. The camera pans through the room to the center table, which has been tipped over onto its outside. Behind it Xander regains consciousness and gets up, using the table for support. She rushes over to him to help, but he shakes her off. Buffy: What happened? Xander: (out of breath) Vampires. The ones you could handle yourself. Buffy: Where are the others? Xander: I don't know. (angry) I don't know what your problem is, what your issues are. But as of now, I officially don't care. If you'd worked with us for five seconds, you coulda stopped this. Buffy: (turns away) We, we just have to think. Where would they have taken them? Xander: (vehemently) If they hurt Willow, I'll kill you. She turns back to him and looks at him seriously. Buffy: Why did they take them and not you? Xander: Giles said the ritual was, um... They needed people who were close to the Master. Physically close. When he, uh... Buffy: The ones who were with the Master when he died. Xander: Giles, Willow, Cordelia... Xander: Odds are they've got a complete set by now. Buffy: We need to find out where. Xander: How? Cut to the Bronze. Buffy is interrogating the female vampire. She throws her down onto the floor. Buffy: One more time: where are they? Vampire: You're too late. Your friends are dead. Buffy: (lifts her back up) Tell me where they are! Vampire: (laughs) What are you gonna do? Kill me? Buffy: As a matter of fact... She throws the vampire onto a pool table. Buffy: ...yes. (yanks off her necklace) But since I'm not gonna kill you any time soon, the question becomes... She drops the cross into the vampire's mouth and covers it with her hands. Buffy: ...how are we gonna pass the time till then? The cross burns in the vampire's mouth, and she shakes her head. After several seconds Buffy pulls the cross back out. Buffy: So. One more time. Cut to the warehouse. Cut inside. Collin carries a black case past the Master's skeleton, which has been laid out on a table. Absalom takes it from him. Absalom: Begin. Another vampire starts pulling on a chain, and Willow, Giles, Cordelia and Jenny are moved along an overhead conveyor to hang upoutside down and unconscious above the Master's bones. Absalom: Behold, these four mortals. Buffy comes into the warehouse through a side door. Angel and Xander follow her in. Absalom: Witnesses to our Master's wretched demise. They will breathe their last this night. The blood that pours from their throats will bring NEW LIFE to the old one. We gather for his resurrection. For the dawn of this new hell. Buffy looks up at the four of them hanging upoutside down. Xander: (in a low voice) Buffy! Buffy! (she faces him) We gotta do something now! Buffy: You two get the others out of here. Angel: We need you to distract the vampires. Buffy: Right. Xander: What are you gonna do? Buffy: I'm gonna kill them all. (turns to her task) That oughta distract them. Cut to Absalom, holding a Kuhkri, a long, curved knife. Absalom: For the old one. For his pain. For the dark. Vampires: For the dark! [Later in the episode, after she kills all the vampires...] Cut below. Buffy bends
down and picks up the sledgehammer. She slowly walks over to the Master's
skeleton and looks at it a moment. Then she swings the hammer back
behind her and arcs it directly into the Master's
skull, shattering it to pieces. She keeps whaling on the Master's
skeleton as Willow, Xander and Giles look
down from above. Angel comes
up behind her and watches her continue until there's nothing left
on the table. She stops and bursts into tears, dropping the sledgehammer
to the Angel: It's okay. It's okay. Buffy turns around and leans into him, crying into his shoulder. Angel gently holds on to her as she cries. Xander, Willow and Giles continue to watch from above. Willow briefly looks up at Xander. |
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