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18 INT. BMW. DAY 18
Darkness with the sound of the BMW's engine purring along,
then fade up on blurry as she wakes up. Dawn sits in the back
with her hands tied wedged between Ambrosia and Xia. Magda
drives with her katana riding shotgun.
The car is speeding through typical suburban streets as
Ambrosia turns and smiles, sickly sweet.
AMBROSIA
I take it you know what you're up
against?
DAWN
Three Slayers gone bad?
AMBROSIA
Why, I'm hurt! We're trying to save
the world, don't you know!
DAWN
My sister's so gonna kick your
asses.
XIA
Buffy is powerful Slayer. But she
is not three.
AMBROSIA
Huddle in, sugar, you'll be with us
awh-
SMASH! The car jerks violently to the right as another
vehicle ploughs into them. The side door crumples into Xia's
leg and she yells in pain. All of them are thrown about the
cabin.
The axle GRINDS and SQUEALS as the car pops the curb and
tears through grass to a stop.
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT ONE
ACT TWO
FADE IN:
19 EXT. JUNGLE. DAY 19
Willow trudges through the dense foliage. She's drenched in
sweat and grime. Tattles rides her piggyback with an arm
wrapped around Willow's neck and a half-eaten apple in her
hand. Tattles takes another bite. The jungle slopes upward
and Willow trudges hard to keep on.
WILLOW
You know, it would be nice to start
getting some kind of an explanation
as to what the hooey is going on at
some point..
TATTLES
(points)
See up ahead? That's where we live.
Willow squints at a blinding whiteness peeking through from
the approaching jungle edge. We fall back from Willow as she
presses closer bathed in the white.
20 EXT. SNOWY CLEARING. DAY. 20
Amidst the jungle, the snow falls, SIZZLING on banana leaves
at the clearing edge. Willow leaves tracks in deep snow.
Tattles wiggles off Willow's shoulders.
She bounds through the snow toward her brother TALEDRAW who
sits on a straw mat. Bunches of coloured pencils, crayons,
and pens surround him and he carefully sketches in a leather
bound book.
TATTLES
Taledraw, Taledraw, Taledraw! I
brought Teach! I brought Teach!
He doesn't look up from his book. Tattles kneels down right
by him and points toward Willow.
TATTLES (cont'd)
See, she's right there. So close
you could kiss her.
He still doesn't look up.
TATTLES (cont'd)
Say hi, Teach.
WILLOW
Uh, hi, I'm Willow.
TALEDRAW
(still not looking)
She's too old.
TATTLES
Is not! Tell him you're young at
heart.
WILLOW
Well, I'm not sure that's true,
Tattles..
TATTLES
Shhh, we're trying to win here.
Please, oh please, just give her
one little peek. You'll like her,
she's plenty pretty.
Barely perceptible, Taledraw shakes his head, then gives
Willow a quick glance.
TALEDRAW
She's kind of gangly. And red.
TATTLES
Red's a good color!
TALEDRAW
I've drawn too much of it lately.
Tattles stands up, triumphant.
TATTLES
A-ha! I win.
TALEDRAW
I said she's too red!
TATTLES
Once you've seen something from
your books I know you can't let it
go!
TALEDRAW
I hate you..
She leans down and kisses him on the cheek. Taledraw
comically makes a big deal of rubbing the kiss away.
TATTLES
Off off, more to do.
She grabs Willow's hand and skips along. Willow leans down
and stumbles to follow.
WILLOW
Uh, bye, Tale-
The snow collapses underneath them and they fall through out
of sight, with a YELP from Willow, and we cut back to:
21 EXT. SUBURBIA. DAY 21
INSERT: THIRTY MINUTES EARLIER
A VW van has T-boned the Camry, embedded in its side.
Graffiti adorns the van like an acid trip with a big flower
on the side door. Smoke seeps from the hoods of both
vehicles.
The van door ratchets open, and Faith steps out, hips wrapped
in black leather, red tank top with the cleavage we all know
and love.
Vi exits the drivers side with shotgun in hand, a hippie
looking redhead in a tie dye shirt and bell bottoms, her
waist length hair in one long braid. She pumps the shotgun.
Magda shakes her head, stunned from the impact. Blurry eyed,
she looks out the surprisingly intact front windshield. Sees
Vi with gun in hand. Vi smiles and waves, as does Faith.
Magda ducks. Two shotgun BLASTS pepper the windshield.
Vi cries out and drops the shotgun. Grabs her shoulder, looks
at her hand, blood on it. The windshield has a few cracks at
most.
FAITH
What the hell was that?
VI
I forgot.. some damn Beamers have
bullet resistant glass.. Frickin'
ricochets!
FAITH
You cool?
VI
Five by five. Let's grab Dawn and
split.
Ambrosia and Dawn are out cold. Xia struggles to get her leg
unjammed. Magda peeks up surprised to see the window still
there.
XIA
Get us out of here!
Faith and Vi walk around to the passenger side back door.
Faith grabs the door handle, it's locked but she keeps
pulling, putting her Slayerness into. Vi reaches in and grabs
hold, pulls as well. The metal GROANS under the stress.
XIA (cont'd)
Go now! Vi will get in!
Magda turns the key, the car SPUTTERS but won't start. She
keeps trying. Vi and Faith yank more urgently. The handle
snaps off and they fall back onto the grass. Vi looks at
handle, chucks it away.
VI
I'll get the jaws of life.
She walks over to her van. The BMW starts. Metal SCREECHES
and tires SQUEAL. The BMW inches slowly forward with the van
still stuck in its side. Vi jumps inside her van and re
emerges a second later with a scoped M4 assault rifle.
Faith grabs hold of the BMW's back bumper, but the BMW breaks
free and PEELS OUT. It tears down the road as the bumper
snaps off into Faith's hands. Vi raises her gun but Faith
knocks the barrel down with the bumper.
FAITH
No, you might hit Dawn.
VI
If Amber's Watcher was right, maybe
I should hit her..
FAITH
We take Dawn back, Vi. That's the
plan.
VI
How do you suppose we do that if
they've gotten away?
Faith reaches in her back pocket and pulls out an electronic
doodad. Shakes it like a box of crackerjacks.
FAITH
Didn't spend hours listening to you
go on about these cool gadgets for
nothing!
VI
You put a tracker on the car!
FAITH
Just after we hit 'em.
VI
(smiles)
See, this is why we work well
together.
Faith grins back, drops the bumper and they dash back to the
van.
CUT TO:
22 INT. WILLOW AND KENNEDY'S APARTMENT. DAY. 22
Buffy paces back and forth as Willow finishes drawing a magic
circle with mystical dust. Jody stands near Buffy, arms
folded and a bruise welling on his cheek. Kennedy sits on the
lip of the bed, twirling a dagger in her hands. Jody watches
Buffy pace up and down.
JODY
Buffy, look, I'm sorry I couldn't
stop them, but please stop pacing,
okay? You're making me even more
nervous..
BUFFY
(sighs)
Sorry, Jody. I know you did what
you could.
(to Willow)
Cleveland's a lot bigger than
Sunnydale, Will. You sure you can
do this?
Finished, Willow sets down the jar and dusts her hands off.
WILLOW
Don't worry, locator spells always
work just dandy for me. Well,
except for that demon one I did
with Tara. And then that one in the
haunted house.
(off Buffy's look)
Okay, shutting up and doing the
spell now.
She sits inside the spell circle. Buffy kneels down just
outside it. Willow reaches her hands forward and Buffy takes
them.
WILLOW (cont'd)
Remember, don't blink.
BUFFY
I won't.
Willow breathes deep, settling in.
WILLOW
Rules of place and space, take this
fragment, this piece of what I
seek. Use it as my mirror and show
me. Show me Dawn Summers.
Willow stares hard into Buffy's eyes. Nothing happens at
first. Then a rack zoom to Buffy's eyes, a jarring cut to:
GREEN ENERGY, which ripples against the black void. It
coalesces and the fabric of space tears open. A whiteness
emerges.
We're back on Buffy, as her eyes like lighthouse beacons
shine blinding light into the room.
Willow's hair changes as she's bathed in it, white growing
from the roots. A moan escapes Willow's lips.
She lets go of Buffy's hand and they snap back from each
other. They shake their heads to clear them and then look at
each other.
BUFFY
Did it work? Did you find Dawn?
WILLOW
I don't know, Buffy. I'm not sure
what I saw. But I didn't only see -
I felt.
BUFFY
Is Dawn scared? Is she afraid?
WILLOW
I felt peace. Contentment. Love.
Freedom.
BUFFY
So it didn't work. You got some
pleasure mojo but nothing we can
use.
WILLOW
(shakes head sadly)
Yeah, I guess.
BUFFY
What about the Slayers? When we
collapsed the Hellmouth, you said
you could feel them awakening. If
you can't find Dawn, maybe you can
find the girls holding her hostage?
WILLOW
(nods)
I'll draw another circle.
KENNEDY
Come on, Red, I want to get out
there and crack some heads
together!
Willow rolls her eyes comically at Buffy as she continues,
and the two Slayers manage a comradely grin at each other.
23 EXT. CRYSTAL CITY MALL. DAY. 23
Establish shot. A massive multi-storey complex, five floors
at least. Expansive windows all up one side, the city gleams
outside. A fountain bubbles away at the center of the ground
floor, shooting streams twenty feet high.
24 INT. MALL PARKING GARAGE. DAY. 24
The beamer's parked in a spot amongst the somewhat sparse
garage. Ambrosia stands leaning against the trunk talking on
her cell phone. Magda has her katana jammed into the back
driver's side door and heaves trying to wedge it open. Dawn
is tied up, gagged and sitting in the back seat, looking
understandably angry.
AMBROSIA
Daddy, I'm sorry about the car.
(beat)
Daddy, I said I'm sorry. If Vi's
here she probably knows the plan.
(beat)
Daddy, I know, Daddy! I'm kind of
freaked out. A girl with guns is
after us and I don't know what to
do.
(beat)
Daddy? Daddy? Pickles, it cut out
again!
Ambrosia shoves the phone in her pocket. Magda stops heaving
and motions toward the sword. Ambrosia grabs onto the hilt.
They both heave and the door pops off its hinges and CLATTERS
to the concrete.
AMBROSIA (cont'd)
She couldn't have honked at us, or
shouted with a megaphone for us to
pull over, could she?
Xia stands out of the car favouring her left leg.
XIA
We not have listened.
AMBROSIA
Sure, but it would have been
courteous.
XIA
What we do now?
AMBROSIA
Well, while we're here, I need to
shop. It helps me think.
XIA
With prisoner?
Ambrosia considers this for a second then smiles and nods.
AMBROSIA
Why not, we can snap her neck if
she screams.
Dawn's eyes widen as Magda reaches in and roughly drags her
over the bonnet and out of the car, shoving her forward to
stand alongside Ambrosia and Xia.
Ambrosia smiles sweetly at Dawn again, who just scowls at her
as Xia wraps some rope from inside the car round Dawn's
wrists and Magda makes up a gag from her bandana.
25 INT. FAITH & VI'S VAN. DAY. 25
We're riding inside the van as it pulls onto the car park of
Crystal City Mall, sputtering in past the entrance sign to
the parking lots. Faith and Vi look out at the approaching
mall through the slightly cracked windshield.
VI
How could I not realize we'd end at
a shopping mall..
FAITH
Cool, I need to get some more
leather pants.
Vi and Faith exchange a grin as they swing towards the garage
entrance.
FAITH (cont'd)
So how the hell did you end up
working with three jerks like those
girls?
VI
Amber- I mean Ambrosia's dad took
over as her Watcher after the
Council thing.
FAITH
You mean sudden explosive lack of?
VI
Exactly. Seemed they were short
staffed enough to take on anyone
who'd sign up for the job, and he
ended up being assigned Xia and
Magda too. I ended up tagging along
when we met over a pack of tribo
demons one day.
FAITH
Sounds like a regular Addams Family
get together.. Just without the
funky theme music! You gonna tell
me any more about this prophecy
Amber's dad found that started this
whole mess yet?
VI
(sighs)
I'll get to it. Promise.
Faith nods as the van enters the garage.
26 INT. MALL - GROUND FLOOR. DAY. 26
The four girls walk along through the near-empty shopping
mall, Dawn held tightly by Magda, who slips off Dawn's gag as
some absent-looking shoppers stroll past.
Magda glares at Dawn, daring her to try calling for help, and
Dawn wisely keeps quiet. Ambrosia leads the way, breathing in
the rich mall aroma and sighing happily.
AMBROSIA
You girls smell that? Unfettered
capitalism. With extra frosting.
And best of all, hardly anyone here
to have to share it with! I love
shopping on school days..
XIA
Why we here? Other Slayers will be
after us.
AMBROSIA
Simple. The last place they'd think
to go looking would be the nearest
shopping mall, they'd expect us to
hightail it out to the closest
highway and make a dash for the
state line!
(she taps the side of her
head)
See? Logic.
Xia looks back at Magda, who just shrugs - obviously Ambrosia
is the only who one of them who follows her 'logic.' Ambrosia
starts to walk towards another shop, eager to carry on
shopping. Xia leans in to Ambrosia and whispers in her ear.
XIA
This too dangerous. We have
possible world's end with us..
AMBROSIA
Exactly, and what better way to see
that end than in a new pair of
Sketchers. I have so many wonderful
things to show you..
She grabs Xia's arm and drags her in a quick scamper towards
a clearance sale at the Gap. Magda is about to follow but
notices the shop next door, a Victoria's Secret.
She cocks her head with a thoughtful look and heads inside,
with Dawn in tow. Dawn doesn't seem to know what's going on
still.
27 INT. VICTORIA'S SECRET. DAY. 27
Magda wanders in to the store, swamped at once by the sheer
amount of pink inside. Dawn is still giving her a cold look.
DAWN
So what are you gonna do with me
now? Model something for me and try
to scare me to death?
Magda doesn't answer, instead she just reaches up and pinches
a nerve on the side of Dawn's neck. Dawn lets out a soft gasp
before fainting away into Magda's arms.
Magda heaves Dawn up and carries her over to one corner of
the room, checking that the coast is clear before shoving
open an 'Employees Only' door and disappearing inside,
reappearing moments later without Dawn but wearing a
triumphant smirk.
28 INT. WILLOW & KENNEDY'S APARTMENT. DAY. 28
Willow is seated inside another magic circle, legs folded and
eyes closed as the dust making up the circle glows softly.
Jody whispers to Kennedy.
JODY
(whisper)
So.. do you two do this sort of
thing often?
KENNEDY
(concentrating on Willow)
Huh?
JODY
(waves hand towards
Willow)
You know.. this magic thing.
KENNEDY
Yeah, pretty much every day.
(turns to Jody; smirks)
Why? Not freaked out by it, are ya?
JODY
Me? Heck, no, I think it's damn
cool as a matter of fact..
The circle suddenly glows with fierce intensity, then dies
down as Willow's eyes snap open.
WILLOW
(gasps)
Pink!
Buffy and Kennedy sit up and lean towards her.
BUFFY
Pink?
WILLOW
Sorry.. just getting..
(deep breaths)
Whoo! Ahem. I think I found her.
One of the girls is giving off so
many happy vibes at the moment, she
stuck out like a Smurf in a goth
bar..
Willow chuckles at her own joke. Kennedy grins but Buffy
doesn't get it.
BUFFY
Huh?
WILLOW
(stops herself laughing)
Er, nothing, sorry. They're at the
mall.
JODY
Crystal City?
WILLOW
That's the one!
BUFFY
Good work, Will. Kennedy, grab
something sharp and follow me.
Looks like we've got a fight on our
hands.
KENNEDY
(grins)
Groovy.
WILLOW
I'd better come too, you could use
some backup by the sounds of
things.
BUFFY
Sure thing.
(to Jody)
You coming as backup too?
JODY
What, join up in a three against
three face off between six
superpowered chicks?
(beat)
I think I'll pass.
BLACK OUT:
END OF ACT TWO
ACT THREE
FADE IN:
29 INT. CLOCK WORKSHOP. DAY. 29
A trap door in the floor opens into a massive cluttered
workspace, tables and scaffolding with more tables. All kinds
of ancient clocks and gadgets and pieces of gadgets scattered
everywhere. Tattles and Willow crawl up into the room.
TATTLES
This way!
Willow follows Tattles through the precarious support
structure to a rickety old ladder. Tattles looks Willow over.
TATTLES (cont'd)
Taledraw was right, you're skinny
enough to be okay. Come on.
Tattles climbs, Willow follows. The ladder CREAKS. TRINKETS
gazes over the edge of a platform from above at the two girls
approaching. He wears an oversized T-shirt with the
Animaniacs plan to escape from the watertower and colourful
jam shorts.
TRINKETS
Hey Tattles, get off on the third
tier and take the second lift on
your right.
Tattles smiles up at him and nods. They climb a few more feet
and hop off onto the scaffolding.
TATTLES
That's Trinkets, he makes the
niftiest things.
Tattles walks toward the lift, Willow still looking as
confused as ever.
30 INT. CLOCK WORKSHOP - UPPER LEVEL. DAY 30
Trinkets watches the lift SHUDDER to stop with Willow and
Tattles on it. He wipes his palm on his pants and extends his
hand toward Willow. She takes it and he shakes it vigorously.
TRINKETS
(grinning broadly)
Wonderful to meet the new Teach.
Many things you can show us, I'm
sure.
WILLOW
Why do you all keep calling me
'Teach?'
TRINKETS
(surprised)
Tattles hasn't told you about your
new role? Well, she's always been
one for surprises so I won't ruin
it for her.
Willow sighs and holds up her hands.
WILLOW
Okay, look. I think I've been a
real sport up till now, but I want
to go home now! Don't bother with
this 'Teach' thing, alright? Just
point me to the door and I'll be on
my way out of here.
TRINKETS
(beat; smiles)
Let me show you something.
He leads her across the scaffolding to an edge.
Beyond it stands a massive gaming set, multi-tiered boards
with all different types of pieces, some human, some demon,
some indistinguishable. Different sections of the board all
in different colours and shapes. The whole system is easily
thirty feet around and a hundred feet tall with kid sized
ladders running amidst it.
TRINKETS (cont'd)
This is the war as I track it.
WILLOW
(cocks head sideways)
It looks like a giant 'Star Trek'
chess set..
TRINKETS
(proudly)
Yeah, for the new century I kind of
modelled it after that!
He steps up to the edge, gazing across the set. He waves a
hand across it to indicate his creation.
TRINKETS (cont'd)
Down below us on one of those
boards around the thirty feet level
is you. Don't get me wrong, as
planet bound spots go it's a pretty
good one. You hit the game board
around five feet and have been
climbing since.
Now if you look up, somewhere above
us around the ninety feet level are
Tattles, my brother, and me. We're
giving you a chance to make one
doozy of a checker jump. It's not
about power. It's about your
ability to do what's right. Believe
me, you have a lot more options at
ninety feet, than at thirty feet.
WILLOW
But I'd have to leave my friends
behind.
TRINKETS
In a manner of speaking.
WILLOW
I.. I don't want to leave my life!
TATTLES
This is your calling, Teach. This
is where your life has led you. But
don't worry, it's not now. But it
will be soon.
Willow gazes up at the huge board, rising past us and out
shot, not knowing whether to be honoured or scared stiff.
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