[Scene: Sunnydale High School]
Buffy: Thanks for coming Xand.
Xander: No prob, I forgot my level here anyway working on the gym. What is it you need again?
Buffy: I'm going down into the basement, by the seal. I need to see if uh. . .(she trails off when she sees Principal Wood coming their way) if I-I left my, my. . .uh. . .
Xander: (covering for her) Notebook.
Buffy: Right, notebook, hey Principal Wood.
Principal Wood: Buffy, what are you doing here? Office hours are over.
Buffy: I know. I um left my. . .
Xander: Notebook.
Buffy: Notebook here, and I really need it so. . .
Principal Wood: Oh, well uh. . .did you deal with the problem at home?
Buffy: What?
Principal Wood: You said you had problems at home you had to deal with. Did you? Deal with them I mean?
Buffy: Oh, the-the problems, yes, yes they're uh. . .actually we're still working on them, yep in work mode, well uh, got to go get that. . .
Xander: Notebook
Buffy: Right, notebook, see ya (takes Xander's arm and leaves with him)
Cut to the basement door
Xander: That was close.
Buffy: Too close. (opens the door and goes down the stairs followed by Xander)
Xander: Okay, so what exactly are you looking for?
Buffy: Something.
Xander: And that something would be?
Buffy: Proof, o-or evidence, something that tells us why Spike picked this of all places to camp out at.
Xander: Well is the hellmouth Buff.
Buffy: Xander we had this conversation okay. Spike is not evil. I think that the first told him to come down here.
Xander: Why?
Buffy: I don't know. So it could control him more. Make him crazy.
Xander: Which it did a great job on by the way.
Buffy: (looking under rubble and papers) You're not helping Xander.
Xander: I'm sorry, but. . .I'm not so sure you're thinking clearly about this.
Buffy: I know I'm right about this, I know it.
[Scene: Summers' House]
Dawn: (as she and Willow are researching) So, do you think that Buffy's gone totally crazy?
Willow: I think that she has a lot of faith in people. And I also think that her conviction in Spike is clouding her judgment. Her feelings for him are making her see him as an innocent victim, but. . .I'm just worried that. . .
Dawn: That Spike is using all this "I have a soul" business as a copout and is planning on killing all of us?
Willow: In a nutshell.
Dawn: I know where you're coming from. I'm scared too. But I also know that with or without a soul. There's one thing about Spike that never changed.
Willow: His impressionistic attitude?
Dawn: His love for Buffy.
Cut to the basement
Spike: I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill.
The first/Buffy: Spiky.
Spike: Go away. I'm not listening to you. I won't hurt anyone else. Leave me alone!
The first/Buffy: Spike it's okay, it's me. (Spike looks up at her) That's right. It's okay baby.
Spike: Baby? What-what are you-
The first/Buffy: Spike. . .I have to talk to you.
Spike: About what? Did something happen? The first/Buffy: Willow's dead. (Spike looks frightened and shocked) She lost too much blood. You did kill her.
Spike: No, oh god no, I. . .no, please.
The first/Buffy: Spike. . .I think we both know what you have to do.
Spike: What? What do I have to do?
The first/Buffy: Kill yourself.
Cut to upstairs - Buffy walks through the door with Xander
Dawn: Did you find anything?
Buffy: No, if there is something there we didn't find it. How's Spike?
Willow: We haven't checked on him.
Buffy: Any luck on the research.
Willow: Not really. We've looked everywhere. There doesn't seem to be any info on the first. At least not on the internet.
Buffy: You'll keep looking?
Willow: Of course. (Buffy goes downstairs)
Cut to the basement
Buffy: Spike?
Spike: No, get away from me.
The first/Buffy: Spiky, baby-
Spike: Shut your mouth!
Buffy: Spike, is it here? Is the first here?
The first/Buffy: Spike if you don't kill yourself, you'll end up killing her, is that what you want? You're nothing but a killer, which is all you ever were, it's all you'll ever be. Accept that. (dissolves away)
Spike: No (huddles down and covers his head with his hands) No. I'm not a killer. I'm not, please.
Buffy: (kneels down beside him) Spike.
Spike: (looks at her) Buffy? No, you're not her. You-you're the first.
Buffy: Spike, I'm not the first, here (takes his hand and puts it up to her face) see, I'm solid.
Spike: I remember. (smirks at her, she smirks back) Buffy I can't hold on much longer.
Buffy: You have to.
Spike: You don't understand! I can't! I'm using every ounce of energy I have in me to not go over the edge, and I can't do it anymore. It's so hard. You have no idea. I'm being pulled apart inside. Buffy I can't.
Buffy: (puts her hands on either side of his cheeks and cuffs his head in her hands) Spike look at me. (he looks up at her) Remember what you told me at Xander's? The thing about your soul. How the chip was done to you, how you couldn't help it. You're right. But the fact that you went, you risked your life for a soul. . .it says more than love Spike. It says that you're stronger than anyone knows, even you. You can do this. I believe in you. I do.
Dawn: (from the basement door) Buffy, I think we got something.
Buffy: (to Dawn) I'll be right there. (to Spike) I'll be back. (goes upstairs)
Cut to upstairs
Buffy: What do you got?
Dawn: Well, it isn't exactly about the first. But, Willow remembered some cases that she had found concerning, strange behavior.
Buffy: Will?
Willow: Well, um. . .I was looking for other cases like Spike. People going insane. And I came across these unsolved murder cases. Domestic stuff.
Buffy: What do you mean?
Willow: Well, there's this one. This father went all Amityville on his family. He killed his two sons, and his wife.
Buffy: Why?
Willow: Why does anyone kill anyone?
Buffy: Do you think the first was. . .(thinking) Oh, Stephanie.
Xander: Who's Stephanie?
Buffy: This girl, this girl I talked to today, uh, Stephanie Mills.
Dawn: Hey I know her. She's a sophomore.
Xander: What about her?
Buffy: She said that h-her dad um, he. . .well he's a vampire.
Willow: Oh, do you think that that has something to do with the first's big plan?
Buffy: I don't know. Will, can you get me an address for Stephanie, I want to go pay her a visit. Make sure daddy didn't come home.
Willow: Sure.
[Scene: Michaels Street - Buffy is walking down the street and stops and
looks at the paper she has. It has printed on it 5917. she looks at the house in front of her and it's the right one. She goes up and walks up the
stairs to the porch and knocks]
Buffy: H-hello? (knocks again when there's no answer) Hello, is anyone home? (goes over to the window and looks in. Hey eyes go wide and she goes back over to the door and kicks it open. Stephanie is lying dead on the ground. There are two bite marks on her neck) Oh god. (checks her pulse) Stephanie? Stephanie? (she's dead) No. (gets up and walks into the kitchen and dining room area and there is a boy lying on the ground. Same wounds on his neck. Buffy checks his pulse too, but he's dead also.) Oh god. (gets up and walks upstairs and checks in a bed room and there's nothing there. She checks in another, nothing. She checks in the last bedroom and the mother is sitting up right against the bed.) Oh, a-are you okay?
Chastity: They're both. . .he killed them.
Buffy: Who? Who killed them?
Chastity: My husband. (looks at Buffy with tears in her eyes) They're both dead. My children.
Buffy: (sincere) I know. I'm so sorry. (helps her up) Come on, I'll take you and get that wound taken care of. (she helps her out of the house)
Chastity: What if he comes back?
Buffy: I'll take care of him.
[Scene: Mausoleum]
The first/Buffy: Ah, daddy killed the little children. Oh well. I'm focused on what's important, my lover. (smiles)
[Scene: The Summers' House - Buffy walks through the door]
Willow: Oh my god.
Dawn: What happened?
Buffy: He got to them. (helps Chastity over to the couch) Would you like something? Tea, coffee, hot chocolate?
Chastity: Just some water please.
Buffy: Okay, Dawn.
Dawn: Yeah. (goes into the kitchen)
Andrew: Anything I can do?
Buffy: Go upstairs and get the first aid kit (he nods and goes upstairs)
Chastity: What was he? I mean, it was Hal, but. . .his face was messed up. It was like he wasn't-
Buffy: Wasn't human? Well he isn't.
Chastity: What was he? What is he?
Buffy: Okay, this is going to be hard for you to accept. It's going to be hard to believe, your husband is a. . .vampire.
Chastity: What? A what?
Dawn: (comes back into the living room and gives Chastity the glass) A vampire. They're um. . .well they were human at one point, but, then they weren't. They're monsters. Bloodsuckers. They need blood to live.
Chastity: I know what a vampire is, but. . .they're not real, they're just campfire stories.
Buffy: No, they're defiantly real. Believe me.
Chastity: What are you? I mean, h-how do you know all this? Why were at my house? (Andrew comes back downstairs with the first aid kit)
Buffy: I'm. . .I'm the slayer. The vampire slayer, and I was at your house because. . .this afternoon Stephanie came into my office at school. See I'm also the councilor at Sunnydale High. She came and told me that her father was acting strange. That his face was messed up. I told her not to invite him in, who did?
Chastity: My son. He's only. . .he was only five. He didn't know. (Andrew cleans up her wound and puts a band aid on it)
Buffy: It's okay.
Chastity: No it's not. My children are dead.
Buffy: I know. Look if you want, you can stay here tonight, if you'd feel safer. I know that you don't know me, but you can trust me, I'm one of the good guys, I promise. (they hear Spike screaming from downstairs)
Chastity: What's that?
Buffy: Uh, I'll be right back, guys, keep researching, um, Dawn, get the guest sheets for Mrs. Mills okay.
Chastity: Call me Chastity please. (Buffy smiles and then goes downstairs)
Willow: (notices that there are many rips in her shirt and pants) Come on, let's go get you cleaned up. (takes her by the arm and leads her upstairs)
Dawn: I'll get back to researching.
Cut to downstairs
Buffy: Spike? Spike what's wrong? (sees Spike broke free of his chains and he is vamped out) Spike?
Spike: Sorry pet, gotta go. (starts to leave, Buffy stops him)
Buffy: Spike you're not going anywhere. (she grabs his arm and he punches her, she punches him back and he grabs her by the throat)
Spike: You try to save people, that's sweet, but see that's the bad thing about you luv, you can't see what's right in front of you. (throws her across the room and she crashes into a wooden cabinet and it falls on top of her, knocking her unconscious. Spike goes up the stairs and out the back door.)
[Scene: Summers' House - resume from before]
Buffy: (coming to) Oh. (looks around her and realizes that Spike is really gone) Oh no. (gets up and walks upstairs)
Cut to upstairs
Dawn: Buffy what happened?
Willow: Is Spike okay? (notices the cut on her forehead) Are you okay?
Buffy: Spike's gone. He broke free from his chains and he knocked me unconscious. He could be going anywhere.
Xander: Well, let's see, I feel a big "I told you so" coming on.
Willow: Xander.
Xander: I'm just saying. We all knew this would happen. We tried to warn you Buff.
Buffy: I don't need this right now okay. Let's think, where would he go?
Dawn: Well not to be a smart ass, but. . .Spike's going all crazy evil so where do evil people go?
Buffy: The hellmouth. Okay, um, I'm going to go there, uh, just make sure Chastity's safe okay. (goes to leave)
Xander: Wait Buff, you're going in alone? What if he decides to you know, make you all dead like him?
Buffy: He won't hurt me. . .much, look I have to do this okay. (leaves)
Willow: I'm worried.
Dawn: You're not the only one.
Cut to the school. Spike is entering it
Xander: (V.O.) Yeah, I think it's fair to say, William the Bloody is back and he's out for blood.
Commercial Break
Buffy: Thanks for coming Xand.
Xander: No prob, I forgot my level here anyway working on the gym. What is it you need again?
Buffy: I'm going down into the basement, by the seal. I need to see if uh. . .(she trails off when she sees Principal Wood coming their way) if I-I left my, my. . .uh. . .
Xander: (covering for her) Notebook.
Buffy: Right, notebook, hey Principal Wood.
Principal Wood: Buffy, what are you doing here? Office hours are over.
Buffy: I know. I um left my. . .
Xander: Notebook.
Buffy: Notebook here, and I really need it so. . .
Principal Wood: Oh, well uh. . .did you deal with the problem at home?
Buffy: What?
Principal Wood: You said you had problems at home you had to deal with. Did you? Deal with them I mean?
Buffy: Oh, the-the problems, yes, yes they're uh. . .actually we're still working on them, yep in work mode, well uh, got to go get that. . .
Xander: Notebook
Buffy: Right, notebook, see ya (takes Xander's arm and leaves with him)
Cut to the basement door
Xander: That was close.
Buffy: Too close. (opens the door and goes down the stairs followed by Xander)
Xander: Okay, so what exactly are you looking for?
Buffy: Something.
Xander: And that something would be?
Buffy: Proof, o-or evidence, something that tells us why Spike picked this of all places to camp out at.
Xander: Well is the hellmouth Buff.
Buffy: Xander we had this conversation okay. Spike is not evil. I think that the first told him to come down here.
Xander: Why?
Buffy: I don't know. So it could control him more. Make him crazy.
Xander: Which it did a great job on by the way.
Buffy: (looking under rubble and papers) You're not helping Xander.
Xander: I'm sorry, but. . .I'm not so sure you're thinking clearly about this.
Buffy: I know I'm right about this, I know it.
[Scene: Summers' House]
Dawn: (as she and Willow are researching) So, do you think that Buffy's gone totally crazy?
Willow: I think that she has a lot of faith in people. And I also think that her conviction in Spike is clouding her judgment. Her feelings for him are making her see him as an innocent victim, but. . .I'm just worried that. . .
Dawn: That Spike is using all this "I have a soul" business as a copout and is planning on killing all of us?
Willow: In a nutshell.
Dawn: I know where you're coming from. I'm scared too. But I also know that with or without a soul. There's one thing about Spike that never changed.
Willow: His impressionistic attitude?
Dawn: His love for Buffy.
Cut to the basement
Spike: I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill, I won't kill.
The first/Buffy: Spiky.
Spike: Go away. I'm not listening to you. I won't hurt anyone else. Leave me alone!
The first/Buffy: Spike it's okay, it's me. (Spike looks up at her) That's right. It's okay baby.
Spike: Baby? What-what are you-
The first/Buffy: Spike. . .I have to talk to you.
Spike: About what? Did something happen? The first/Buffy: Willow's dead. (Spike looks frightened and shocked) She lost too much blood. You did kill her.
Spike: No, oh god no, I. . .no, please.
The first/Buffy: Spike. . .I think we both know what you have to do.
Spike: What? What do I have to do?
The first/Buffy: Kill yourself.
Cut to upstairs - Buffy walks through the door with Xander
Dawn: Did you find anything?
Buffy: No, if there is something there we didn't find it. How's Spike?
Willow: We haven't checked on him.
Buffy: Any luck on the research.
Willow: Not really. We've looked everywhere. There doesn't seem to be any info on the first. At least not on the internet.
Buffy: You'll keep looking?
Willow: Of course. (Buffy goes downstairs)
Cut to the basement
Buffy: Spike?
Spike: No, get away from me.
The first/Buffy: Spiky, baby-
Spike: Shut your mouth!
Buffy: Spike, is it here? Is the first here?
The first/Buffy: Spike if you don't kill yourself, you'll end up killing her, is that what you want? You're nothing but a killer, which is all you ever were, it's all you'll ever be. Accept that. (dissolves away)
Spike: No (huddles down and covers his head with his hands) No. I'm not a killer. I'm not, please.
Buffy: (kneels down beside him) Spike.
Spike: (looks at her) Buffy? No, you're not her. You-you're the first.
Buffy: Spike, I'm not the first, here (takes his hand and puts it up to her face) see, I'm solid.
Spike: I remember. (smirks at her, she smirks back) Buffy I can't hold on much longer.
Buffy: You have to.
Spike: You don't understand! I can't! I'm using every ounce of energy I have in me to not go over the edge, and I can't do it anymore. It's so hard. You have no idea. I'm being pulled apart inside. Buffy I can't.
Buffy: (puts her hands on either side of his cheeks and cuffs his head in her hands) Spike look at me. (he looks up at her) Remember what you told me at Xander's? The thing about your soul. How the chip was done to you, how you couldn't help it. You're right. But the fact that you went, you risked your life for a soul. . .it says more than love Spike. It says that you're stronger than anyone knows, even you. You can do this. I believe in you. I do.
Dawn: (from the basement door) Buffy, I think we got something.
Buffy: (to Dawn) I'll be right there. (to Spike) I'll be back. (goes upstairs)
Cut to upstairs
Buffy: What do you got?
Dawn: Well, it isn't exactly about the first. But, Willow remembered some cases that she had found concerning, strange behavior.
Buffy: Will?
Willow: Well, um. . .I was looking for other cases like Spike. People going insane. And I came across these unsolved murder cases. Domestic stuff.
Buffy: What do you mean?
Willow: Well, there's this one. This father went all Amityville on his family. He killed his two sons, and his wife.
Buffy: Why?
Willow: Why does anyone kill anyone?
Buffy: Do you think the first was. . .(thinking) Oh, Stephanie.
Xander: Who's Stephanie?
Buffy: This girl, this girl I talked to today, uh, Stephanie Mills.
Dawn: Hey I know her. She's a sophomore.
Xander: What about her?
Buffy: She said that h-her dad um, he. . .well he's a vampire.
Willow: Oh, do you think that that has something to do with the first's big plan?
Buffy: I don't know. Will, can you get me an address for Stephanie, I want to go pay her a visit. Make sure daddy didn't come home.
Willow: Sure.
[Scene: Michaels Street - Buffy is walking down the street and stops and
looks at the paper she has. It has printed on it 5917. she looks at the house in front of her and it's the right one. She goes up and walks up the
stairs to the porch and knocks]
Buffy: H-hello? (knocks again when there's no answer) Hello, is anyone home? (goes over to the window and looks in. Hey eyes go wide and she goes back over to the door and kicks it open. Stephanie is lying dead on the ground. There are two bite marks on her neck) Oh god. (checks her pulse) Stephanie? Stephanie? (she's dead) No. (gets up and walks into the kitchen and dining room area and there is a boy lying on the ground. Same wounds on his neck. Buffy checks his pulse too, but he's dead also.) Oh god. (gets up and walks upstairs and checks in a bed room and there's nothing there. She checks in another, nothing. She checks in the last bedroom and the mother is sitting up right against the bed.) Oh, a-are you okay?
Chastity: They're both. . .he killed them.
Buffy: Who? Who killed them?
Chastity: My husband. (looks at Buffy with tears in her eyes) They're both dead. My children.
Buffy: (sincere) I know. I'm so sorry. (helps her up) Come on, I'll take you and get that wound taken care of. (she helps her out of the house)
Chastity: What if he comes back?
Buffy: I'll take care of him.
[Scene: Mausoleum]
The first/Buffy: Ah, daddy killed the little children. Oh well. I'm focused on what's important, my lover. (smiles)
[Scene: The Summers' House - Buffy walks through the door]
Willow: Oh my god.
Dawn: What happened?
Buffy: He got to them. (helps Chastity over to the couch) Would you like something? Tea, coffee, hot chocolate?
Chastity: Just some water please.
Buffy: Okay, Dawn.
Dawn: Yeah. (goes into the kitchen)
Andrew: Anything I can do?
Buffy: Go upstairs and get the first aid kit (he nods and goes upstairs)
Chastity: What was he? I mean, it was Hal, but. . .his face was messed up. It was like he wasn't-
Buffy: Wasn't human? Well he isn't.
Chastity: What was he? What is he?
Buffy: Okay, this is going to be hard for you to accept. It's going to be hard to believe, your husband is a. . .vampire.
Chastity: What? A what?
Dawn: (comes back into the living room and gives Chastity the glass) A vampire. They're um. . .well they were human at one point, but, then they weren't. They're monsters. Bloodsuckers. They need blood to live.
Chastity: I know what a vampire is, but. . .they're not real, they're just campfire stories.
Buffy: No, they're defiantly real. Believe me.
Chastity: What are you? I mean, h-how do you know all this? Why were at my house? (Andrew comes back downstairs with the first aid kit)
Buffy: I'm. . .I'm the slayer. The vampire slayer, and I was at your house because. . .this afternoon Stephanie came into my office at school. See I'm also the councilor at Sunnydale High. She came and told me that her father was acting strange. That his face was messed up. I told her not to invite him in, who did?
Chastity: My son. He's only. . .he was only five. He didn't know. (Andrew cleans up her wound and puts a band aid on it)
Buffy: It's okay.
Chastity: No it's not. My children are dead.
Buffy: I know. Look if you want, you can stay here tonight, if you'd feel safer. I know that you don't know me, but you can trust me, I'm one of the good guys, I promise. (they hear Spike screaming from downstairs)
Chastity: What's that?
Buffy: Uh, I'll be right back, guys, keep researching, um, Dawn, get the guest sheets for Mrs. Mills okay.
Chastity: Call me Chastity please. (Buffy smiles and then goes downstairs)
Willow: (notices that there are many rips in her shirt and pants) Come on, let's go get you cleaned up. (takes her by the arm and leads her upstairs)
Dawn: I'll get back to researching.
Cut to downstairs
Buffy: Spike? Spike what's wrong? (sees Spike broke free of his chains and he is vamped out) Spike?
Spike: Sorry pet, gotta go. (starts to leave, Buffy stops him)
Buffy: Spike you're not going anywhere. (she grabs his arm and he punches her, she punches him back and he grabs her by the throat)
Spike: You try to save people, that's sweet, but see that's the bad thing about you luv, you can't see what's right in front of you. (throws her across the room and she crashes into a wooden cabinet and it falls on top of her, knocking her unconscious. Spike goes up the stairs and out the back door.)
[Scene: Summers' House - resume from before]
Buffy: (coming to) Oh. (looks around her and realizes that Spike is really gone) Oh no. (gets up and walks upstairs)
Cut to upstairs
Dawn: Buffy what happened?
Willow: Is Spike okay? (notices the cut on her forehead) Are you okay?
Buffy: Spike's gone. He broke free from his chains and he knocked me unconscious. He could be going anywhere.
Xander: Well, let's see, I feel a big "I told you so" coming on.
Willow: Xander.
Xander: I'm just saying. We all knew this would happen. We tried to warn you Buff.
Buffy: I don't need this right now okay. Let's think, where would he go?
Dawn: Well not to be a smart ass, but. . .Spike's going all crazy evil so where do evil people go?
Buffy: The hellmouth. Okay, um, I'm going to go there, uh, just make sure Chastity's safe okay. (goes to leave)
Xander: Wait Buff, you're going in alone? What if he decides to you know, make you all dead like him?
Buffy: He won't hurt me. . .much, look I have to do this okay. (leaves)
Willow: I'm worried.
Dawn: You're not the only one.
Cut to the school. Spike is entering it
Xander: (V.O.) Yeah, I think it's fair to say, William the Bloody is back and he's out for blood.
Commercial Break