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10 INT. DAWN'S ROOM. NIGHT. 10
Closing shot of Ellen curled up on the bed next to the
sleeping Emmily.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
11 INT. WILLOW & KENNEDY'S ROOM. MORNING. 11
The girls are in bed when there is a knock at the door.
Willow is asleep but Kennedy is wide awake. She carefully
gets out of the bed, pulls on a dressing gown and heads over
to the door, putting her eye to the peephole.
Fish-eyed through the peephole we see Kennedy's UNCLE KEITH
and her father, JED. Both respectable looking middle aged
men, Jed in a smart suit and tie and Keith in an old college
baseball jacket and jeans.
Kennedy takes a deep breath and reaches a hand out for the
lock on the door. She notices her hand is shaking and closes
her eyes, trying to steady herself.
Looking in from the outside, Kennedy opens the door with a
smile and makes to give her father a hug, but he shakes her
hand instead. Kennedy sighs a little - it's the level of
emotional involvement she's come to expect with her dad.
KENNEDY
Morning, dad.
JED
Hello there, Kennedy. Is everything
alright?
KENNEDY
I'm good. Still in bed but
otherwise okay.
JED
You never could get up in the
morning..
KEITH
Hello there, possum.
Keith smiles at Kennedy and reaches out for a hug. She
doesn't look at all happy about it as he wraps his arms round
her.
JED
Can we come in?
KENNEDY
Just give me a minute to wake up
Will.
JED
(raises an eyebrow)
Will?
KENNEDY
Willow, my, uh, room-mate. We're
sharing the bed till we can get
somewhere a bit bigger!
JED
Okay, honey, we'll wait here.
Kennedy shuts the door and gets back into the bed. Willow
stirs and shifts over in the bed, looking up at Kennedy with
a smile as her eyes open. She yawns once and speaks.
WILLOW
(sleepily)
Someone at the door?
KENNEDY
My dad's here, Red, time to get up.
WILLOW
Mmkay, jus' give me a minute..
Kennedy fidgets, looking towards the door, as Willow yawns
and pulls herself up out of the bed.
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12 INT. SUMMERS' RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM. MORNING. 12
Buffy comes downstairs in her pyjamas to find Dawn asleep on
the living room floor, surrounded by the books she's been
looking through. Buffy smiles and gently shakes her to wake
her up. Dawn jolts upright.
DAWN
Wass'matter?
BUFFY
Breakfast time.
DAWN
(yawns)
Yeah, good, breakfast, right.
Dawn stands and follows Buffy into the kitchen, her hair
sticking up.
13 INT. SUMMERS' RESIDENCE - KITCHEN. MORNING. 13
Dawn follows Buffy into the kitchen as Buffy rustles up two
bowls of cereal for them both. Dawn plops the pile of books
on the kitchen counter, one of them is bookmarked and open.
BUFFY
Did you find anything out?
DAWN
How about these guys?
She holds up one of the books, an illustration shows one of
the demons from earlier.
BUFFY
That's them. I never forget a face.
Especially when it tried to kill
me.
DAWN
(reads)
They're wynn demons, they're kind
of like special agents for the
underworld. Do a lot of cleaning up
for whoever they're working for,
removing people with power or
obstacles to their plans.
BUFFY
So what do they want with Emmily?
DAWN
That I don't know. I'll see if it
mentions any kind of prophecy or
something.
(peers down at the books)
This could take a while. These wynn
demon guys have a long rap sheet of
demonic underworld jobs, from
assassinations and kidnappings to
ritual sacrifices and conjuring.
(takes a gulp of O.J.)
Not nice people.
BUFFY
Does it say anything about
preferred base locations?
DAWN
(reads)
Oh, like it'd be that easy..
(beat)
Uh, yeah, actually.
BUFFY
(eating cereal)
Mm?
Dawn reads a little more of the section of the book.
DAWN
They like to pick places with the
right sorts of energy for them.
Wynn demons feed on humans but they
like a certain kind of humans,
especially with high levels of
these certain chemicals in their
system.
BUFFY
Which would be?
DAWN
Uh..
(grabs a piece of paper
with some notes on it)
Endorphins.
BUFFY
(nods)
Sports people. Or 'jocks' to anyone
who went to high school.
DAWN
Exactly. Find the jocks and the
spookies will be nearby. And where
do we find the biggest cluster of
jocks in this town?
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14 EXT. CLEVELAND STREET. DAY. 14
We're looking across the street at the Fitness World gym
complex, a large building with tall windows looking out onto
the street, displaying the exercising citizens within -
treadmills, rowing machines, exercise bikes and other keep
fit equipment, all in use by rows of sweaty men and women.
We look down as Kennedy, Willow, Jed and Keith pass by
beneath us, picking them up and following them down the
street.
JED
So then your mother says 'no,
that'd mean I'd have to wash it
front and back!'
Jed laughs at the joke, Kennedy manages a half-hearted smile.
Keith is hanging back a little to talk to Willow.
KEITH
So, you two girls stay together,
right?
WILLOW
(trying not to give too
much away)
Uh, yeah, we met last year and
we've become good, er, friends.
KEITH
Sounds like fun. Bet you two must
get up to all sorts of mischief,
eh?
WILLOW
Uh, no, no, we're very well behaved
really. Kennedy works nights and I
just do this and that, you know..
(laughs nervously)
JED
(turns round)
Drinks, everyone?
KEITH
Drinks sounds good.
WILLOW
Yeah, that'd be great.
Kennedy makes eye contact with Willow. Kennedy's dark look
doesn't help ease the nerves Willow's picking up on.
JED
Let's try in here.
He points his thumb towards a diner they're stood outside.
Kennedy nods and the group head inside.
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15 INT. DINER. DAY. 15
Willow hangs back and grabs hold of Kennedy's arm to whisper
a few words into her ear. Jed and Keith walk on ahead, Jed
snapping his fingers towards a waiter to get some service.
WILLOW
What's the matter?
KENNEDY
Huh?
WILLOW
Kennedy, my hair's almost standing
on end with the amount of negative
energy pinging off you at the
moment. I can pick up on these
things, you know.
KENNEDY
It's nothing, trust me. Okay?
WILLOW
(nods, but looks
concerned)
Okay.
The girls take a seat at a table with Jed and Keith. Willow
notices that Kennedy seems very reluctant to sit next to
Keith so she gets between the two of them. Willow watches
Kennedy as Jed calls a waiter over.
JED
Thanks. Two beers and two cokes,
please.
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16 INT. SUMMERS' RESIDENCE. LIVING ROOM. DAY. 16
Ellen heads downstairs to see Buffy suiting up, grabbing an
axe from the weapons chest behind the sofa. Xander is
watching the TV.
ELLEN
(yawns)
Got some news on our bad guys
already?
BUFFY
Dawn found some information on
them, says they like to make their
nests in places near places where
humans can be found exercising.
They have a thing for sweat socks
and communal showers, apparently.
ELLEN
Sweat socks?
BUFFY
(grins)
Just kidding. There's a big gym in
the centre of town, that's where we
think they'll be.
ELLEN
Yeah, Fitness World, I know the
place. I have a membership there
which I've left gathering dust in
my wallet.
BUFFY
You up for some field work?
ELLEN
Hey, slow down, Buffy, I only found
out I was a Slayer last night!
You told me it takes months of
training to be ready for these
sorts of things.
BUFFY
Wanna be my wingman then? You can
back me up if I need it. And
hopefully get a bit of payback on
these demons too.
ELLEN
(beat)
Deal.
Buffy tosses a sword towards her, which Ellen catches in mid
air without thinking. As she stares at the sword, surprised
by her own reflexes, Buffy grins.
XANDER
It's all in the reflexes.
BUFFY
Besides, half of this job is
instinct anyway.
ELLEN
(grins)
Let's go!
BUFFY
Dawn, Xander, watch Emmily. Anyone
comes round for her, let me know.
XANDER
Will do. Go burn some calories.
Buffy and Ellen leave. Dawn watches them go, then turns back
towards the kitchen. She freezes when she sees Emmily
standing at the top of the stairs, looking down on her
without blinking. Dawn stares back for a few moments, then
walks away, unnerved, into the kitchen.
17 INT. SUMMERS' RESIDENCE. KITCHEN. 17
Dawn heads back for the reference books spread across the
tabletops, but as she goes to close one she notices a passage
in it. She leans in closer to read it.
The passage has an illustration next to it of a human torso
covered with claw marks and wounds like the ones Dawn has
been seen sporting.
Dawn stares at the book, a panicked look starting to cross
her face. She slams the book shut as Xander walks in to the
kitchen behind her.
XANDER
Still up to the eyeballs in the old
necronomicons, Dawny?
DAWN
(trying to appear calm)
Uh, yeah, all good over here.
XANDER
And yet, I still can't resist those
eye jokes.
Xander grabs something from the fridge and heads back into
the living room as Dawn tries to hide her distress.
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18 INT. DINER. DAY. 18
As before. Jed and Keith talk to Willow and Kennedy. Kennedy
still looks uncomfortable.
JED
So where's this place you're
working at, Kennedy?
KENNEDY
It's called No Man's Land, it's a
club for, er..
(beat)
They have bands and things,
standard kind of place.
JED
(missing the point
entirely)
Sounds good, what about you,
Willow?
Willow gulps down her Coke nervously, and tries to think of a
convincing cover story.
WILLOW
Well, I was a Sunnydale College
student but, what with the, uh,
epidemic and all, I had to move out
and I never finished my degree, so
I'm going to look for some work
round here once I'm settled in.
KEITH
Which hopefully won't be too much
longer!
KENNEDY
What do you mean?
JED
That's why I came out here,
Kennedy. It's about your trust
fund. I know you didn't part on the
best of terms with your mother, but
you're still our daughter and we
love you.
He delivers that last line without a hint of emotion.
JED (cont'd)
And as your parents, we're here to
help you in any way we can. Which
includes the large sum of money
sitting in the bank with your name
on it.
Kennedy looks across to Willow, who smiles brightly. Jed is
still talking, not really paying any attention to Kennedy.
JED
You're a grown woman now, old
enough to be able to take
responsibility for your life, and
your mother and I agreed that it
was time we gave you access to that
money to help you make your own way
in the world.
KENNEDY
Dad, I..
Jed holds up a hand to stop her talking.
JED
No strings attached. It's been your
money since the day you were born,
now it's time to give you the key
to the bank, so to speak.
Kennedy smiles, the first time she has since she was told her
father and uncle were visiting. She reaches across the table
to give her dad a hug.
KENNEDY
Thank you, daddy.
JED
(awkwardly pats her on the
back)
Uh, not a problem, Kennedy.
Uncle Keith reaches over to give Kennedy a hug as well, but
the smile drops from Kennedy's face in an instant. Before
anyone notices, the waiter arrives with their drinks.
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19 INT. SUMMERS' RESIDENCE. DAY. 19
Xander sits watching the TV with his feet up. Anya pops
through the wall behind him, but noiselessly so Xander
doesn't notice. He jumps half a mile when she speaks after
watching him for a few moments.
ANYA
Well! Don't just sit there, Xander,
why aren't you helping people make
me corporeal again?
XANDER
(jumps)
Yow! Honey, I told you not to do
that!
ANYA
It's the best way to get your
attention!
Anya paces up and down the room in front of Xander, who leans
from side to side as he tries to keep watching the TV.
ANYA (cont'd)
I'm just having a hard time getting
used to this whole being dead
thing. I used to be able to slap
people around, and hitting things
with swords and clubs, that was
always invigorating and now.. now
look at me. I'm a wisp of air. A
phantom. A reflection. Reduced to
getting a cheap thrill by walking
through things all day long! I
mean, what do I have left in this
stupid world anymore?
XANDER
(shrugs; patiently)
You're still my Anya.
ANYA
I'm your..
(realises what he said)
Your what?
XANDER
You're my girl. Dead or alive,
physical or all floaty and light.
I prefer to think of this as the
diet version of you, till we get
you all fixed up again.
ANYA
(smiles)
You mean that?
XANDER
(beat)
Anya, you didn't see me when I
heard you'd died. I wanted to run
back into the school, even as the
Hellmouth was eating it up, just so
I could try and get you out of
there. I didn't want to never see
you again.
ANYA
I was very messy. And bloody.
(points to visible wounds)
As you can see, I was sliced open
from here to..
XANDER
(puts up a hand to stop
her)
Yeah, thanks, honey, I can see. The
point is, I'm glad you're back.
(beat)
I guess it's not until you lose
something that you realise how
precious it was to you.
ANYA
Even with the leaving me at the
altar thing?
XANDER
(sighs)
We've been over that..
ANYA
Yes, yes we have, sorry. I can't
wait to be solid again. First I'm
going to slap Andrew, then I can
get back on with the sex again.
Xander's head snaps round.
XANDER
The what?
ANYA
(matter-of-factly)
Well, if we're going to be a couple
again, we've got to get started
with all that sex again, silly!
XANDER
(grins)
I guess we have..
She sits back, and forgetting herself for a moment, Anya
makes to sit down next to him, succeeding only in falling
straight through the sofa, leaving her legs sticking out.
Xander looks down at her and sighs.
ANYA
(muffled from inside sofa;
sarcastic)
Right, yes, still a ghost. How
forgetful of me.
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT TWO
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
20 EXT. FITNESS WORLD - REAR ENTRANCE. DAY. 20
Buffy and Ellen are at the back of the large gym we saw
earlier, near the bins and staff car park. Buffy looks around
on the ground for anything leading down into the basement
level.
ELLEN
You sure they'll be underground?
BUFFY
Oh yeah. If it's a toss between
warm and fuzzy and cold, dark and
gooey, demons go for the gunge
every time.
ELLEN
Great. Good job these are my old
clothes then.
BUFFY
(finds a rusty window)
Here.
She gives it a shove but it's rusted shut. She wipes some of
the dirt from the windows and peeks in.
It's the basement level of the complex, with boilers, pipes
running to and fro and many large containers with spare parts
for the exercise machines and food for the cafeteria. No sign
of any demons.
ELLEN
Are we heading down there?
BUFFY
There's another gym a few miles
from here, but this place is
closest to where we saw those first
two demons, so we start here.
Buffy reaches back and punches the window open, holding it up
so Ellen can climb through.
21 INT. FITNESS WORLD - BASEMENT. DAY. 21
Dark and cold, the basement isn't the cosiest place in the
world. The girls pace forward slowly, eyes scanning the floor
for any signs of activity.
ELLEN
So what are we looking for?
BUFFY
The usual. Signs of a base, like
clothes, empty food wrappers,
beds..
With a ROAR, a large wynn demon jumps out in front of them
both.
ELLEN
Will that do?
BUFFY
Works for me!
The girls leap in to the attack. This demon is tougher than
last night's goons - it swats Buffy to one side and lunges at
Ellen, who bashes her sword handle down on its forearm.
The demon howls in pain and kicks out at her, but she manages
to dodge it. Buffy swings in with an axe strike that catches
the monster on the back, and as it yowls Ellen punches it
squarely in the face. It gurgles once and then drops to the
floor.
ELLEN
(panting with exertion)
Whew! Quite a rush, isn't it?
BUFFY
(smiles)
It has its moments. Come on.
The two follow the path the demon came from, past several
large boiler units until they reach a corner. They press
themselves against the wall and Buffy peers round as they
hear voices coming from up ahead.
Up ahead, the basement opens up into a small walled area
which eight wynn demons have made their home. Pentagrams and
other symbols adorn the walls and floor, as one demon lays
and lights candles at set point on the floor. The hooded
demons are chanting as one reads passages from a book in an
unintelligible language.
Buffy turns to Ellen.
BUFFY (cont'd)
Eight of them, three left, three
right and two centre. We move in
and split them up, try to force
them into each other. Don't let
them box you in. Got it?
ELLEN
(grips sword)
Got it.
BUFFY
Follow me.
Buffy heads round the corner, using the shadows cast by the
flickering candlelight to creep in closer. She manages to
sneak right up behind one of the chanting demons, and then
knocks him out with an axe blow to the head.
The other demons turn and growl as they see her. Buffy hefts
up her axe and looks round, unflustered by the posse of
demons as usual.
BUFFY (cont'd)
Department of Safety, we've had
reports of naked flames down here?
The demons growl again and rush her.
She leaps in to the attack as one of the demons rushes into
frame towards her.
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22 EXT. CLEVELAND STREET. DAY. 22
Willow, Kennedy, Jed and Keith are walking back to the
apartment. Jed's mobile phone rings and he stops to answer
it.
The other three stop but he waves at them to carry on, but as
Willow turns to go he lays a hand on her arm to stop her.
JED
Mind if I just have a word?
WILLOW
Uh, yeah, sure.
KENNEDY
Is everything okay?
JED
Just fine, you and your uncle go on
ahead, we'll catch you up in a
minute.
Kennedy doesn't look very thrilled about being left alone
with her uncle but carries on walking.
WILLOW
What's the matter?
JED
Nothing at all, Willow.
(beat)
I'm not stupid, you know.
WILLOW
Sorry?
JED
(matter-of-factly)
I know that my daughter is.. well,
that Kennedy's gay.
WILLOW
(taken aback)
Oh.
Jed nods once and carries on.
JED
Her mother doesn't, but I doubt
she'd understand. I always half
knew, and from the little I'd heard
from her I'd gathered that she'd
met someone down here. Seeing the
way you two have been looking at
each other gave it all away.
WILLOW
(smiles; relieved)
I wasn't sure what to say..
JED
No need. I can see you're happy
with her. My daughter's always been
loyal to her friends, so I guess
it'd go even further for someone
she cared about.
WILLOW
Yeah, Kennedy's.. Kennedy's
special.
JED
So I just wanted to let you know
that I approve of it all, and it
doesn't affect anything I've said
today.
Willow wasn't aware she needed anyone's 'approval' to be gay,
but she can tell that Jed means well, despite his clunky way
of getting the point across.
WILLOW
Oh, right. Er, yay!
They start walking again.
JED
If Kennedy's mother had come along,
she'd probably have tried to talk
me out of giving over the money,
which is why I brought my brother
along instead. Kennedy's always
been a little..
(beat)
Excitable. She used to make all
sorts of stories up about things
when she was a child, and if I know
my wife, and after twenty-five
years of marriage I think I do,
then she'd have put you down to
another of Kennedy's 'phases.'
WILLOW I think we can safely say it's the real thing this
time. Jed nods and starts walking again, the conversation was
all business for him.
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