Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
Transcribed by: The Sunnydale Crypt
Copyright (c) 2002 The Sunnydale Crypt
This is not a novelization or a script. It is only a transcript of the episode "Welcome to the Hellmouth". This transcript also includes descriptions of the settings, action scenes and camera movements. If you find any mistakes, please e-mail me.
In Every Generation there is a choosen one, she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness, she is the slayer.
Front view of Sunnydale High. Cut to a hallway that leads to the library, and then the camera turns and goes down another hallway and goes into a classroom. The camera then goes past some desks, and up past a few things by the window. A fist then comes through the window, and opens it. A boy and girl(Darla) stick their heads in.
Darla: Are you sure this is a good idea?
Boy: It's a great idea! Now come on.
Boy climbs in the window, and then the camera cuts to the hallway, and the two come out of the classroom.
Darla: Do you go to school here?
Boy: I use to... on top of the gym its so cool... you can see the whole town!
Darla: I,I,I,I don't want to go up there.
Boy: Ohh, you can't wait huh!
Darla: We're just gonna get in trouble.
Boy: Yeah, you can count on it.
He goes to kiss her.
Darla: Huh, what was that!
Boy: What was what?
Darla: I heard a noise.
Boy: It's nothing.
Darla: Wa, well maybe it's something.
Boy: Or maybe it's something!
Darla: That's not funny.
He turns and looks around the corner.
Boy: Helloooooo!
Looks back at her and opens his arms.
Boy: There's nobody here!
Darla: Are you sure?
Boy: Yes, I'm sure.
Darla: Okay.
She turns around quickly and growls revealing her vampire face, and bites him, he moans and they fall to the floor.
The prolouge ends and the theme song plays.
Buffy toss and turns in her bed, as
she has a nightmare. In the nightmare she see's a pool of blood, vampires
carrying torches, graves, then an ancient artifact appears, the master, then an
arm smashes out of a blue box, a few demons appear, the master's hand, a book
with Vampyr written on it, a picture of the devil helping a man underground, her
taking a silver cross on a necklace out of a small box, lots of vampires, some
more demons, another pool of blood, a gold ring, more graves, more vampires, and
then the Master.
Buffy's alarm goes off, and she is startled awake.
Her mom calls from downstairs.
Joyce: Buffy?
Buffy sits up
Buffy: I'm up mom!
Joyce: Don't want to be late for your first day!
Buffy: (to herself) No,huh,...wouldn't want that.
The camera cuts to the school, and then shows a few school buses pulling up, and Buffy and her mom in their jeep as Joyce drops Buffy off.
Joyce smiles.
Joyce: Okay.
Buffy sighs and opens the door.
Joyce: Have a good time. I know you're going to make friends right away, just think positive.
Buffy nods, and closes the door.
Joyce: And honey...
Buffy turns around
Joyce: try not to get kicked out.
Buffy smiles and nods again.
Buffy: I promise.
Joyce smile and nods also.
Joyce: Okay.
Joyce starts the car, and Buffy turns and looks around.
The camera then show Xander on his skateboard, weaving through the crowd, and trying to keep his balance.
Xander: 'Scuse me, comin' through, pardon me, 'scuse me, whoa! 'Scuse me, not sure how to stop! Please move, whoa, 'scuse me... (Xander notices Buffy) Whoa!
Xander continues looking at Buffy as she climbs the stairs, and then Xander crashes into the hand rail.
Xander: Ohh, God...Okay I feel good
Xander lays on the ground as Willow walks up to him.
Xander: Willow, you're so very much the person I wanted to see.
Xander gets up and starts climbing up the stairs with Willow.
Willow: Oh, really?
Xander: Yeah, I kinda had a problem with the math.
Willow: Ahh, which part?
Xander: The math. Can you help me tonight, pleeease be my study buddy?
Willow: Well...what's in it for me?
Xander: A shiny nickel.
Willow: Okay. Do you have theories in trig? You should check it out.
Xander: Check it out?
Willow: From the library? Where the books live.
Xander: Right, I'm there. See I wanna change.
Xander and Willow enter the school, and see their friend Jesse.
Jesse: Hey, Hey!
Xander and Jesse shake each others hands.
Xander: Hey, Jesse, what's what?
Jesse: New girl.
Xander: That's right, I saw her, pretty much a hottie!
Willow: I heard someone was transferring...
Xander: So tell!
Jesse: Tell what?
Xander: What's the sitch, what do ya know about her?
Jesse: New girl!
Xander: Well you certainly a font of nothing!
The camera then cuts to Principal Flutie's office, Buffy is sitting down, and Pricipal Flutie is walking towards his desk.
Principal Flutie: Buffy Summers, sophmore, late of Hemery High in Los Angeles. Interesting record, quite a career...
Principal Flutie sits down and starts to rip up Buffy's record.
Pricipal Flutie: Welcome to Sunnydale! A clean slate Buffy, that's what you get here. What's past is past. We're not interested in what it says on a piece of paper even if it says...(staring at the paper) whoa...
Buffy: Mr. Flutie
Principal Flutie: All the kids here are free to call me Bob...
Buffy: Bob...
Principal Flutie: But they don't.
Buffy: I know my transcripts are a little...colorful...
Principal Flutie begins taping Buffy's record back together, after looking at it.
Pricipal Flutie: Heeey, we're not caring about that... Do you think, ahh...colorful is the word? Not, um, dismal?
Buffy: Wasn't that bad!
Pricipal Flutie: You burned down the gym.
Buffy: I did, I really did, but you're not seeing the big picture here, I mean that gym was full of vampi...asbestos.
Pricipal Flutie: Buffy, don't worry... any other school they might say watch or step, or we'll be watching you, but that's just not the way here. We want to service your needs, and help you to respect our need, and if your needs and our needs don't mesh...
He puts the badly taped together record, back into his folder, and slaps it shut. Buffy then kind of gives him a smile.
Buffy then leaves his office, and goes into the hallway. She looks through her backpack as she walks, and runs into somebody.
Buffy: Ooh, opp, sorry!
Girl she runs into: That's okay.
Xander walking in the opposite direction hears this and turns around to help Buffy pick up her things.
Xander: Can I have you?
Buffy looks at him strangely, and Xander laughs.
Xander: Ahh, can I help you?
Buffy smiles and sighs with relief.
Buffy: Thanks!
Xander: I don't...know you, do I?
Buffy: I'm Buffy, I'm new.
Xander: Xander...is me...hi.
Buffy: Um, thanks!
Xander: Well um, maybe I'll see you around. Maybe at school (laughs), since...we...both...(nods his head because what he was about to say) go there.
Buffy: Great...it was nice to meet you.
Buffy then walks away, and Xander stands there, thinking about the stupid pick-up he just used.
Xander: We both go to school...very suave...very not pathetic. Oh, hey, hey you forgot yourrr... stake.
Buffy keeps walking not hearing him yell to her, and Xander stands there holding the stake up.
The camera then cuts to a chalkboard where a teacher is writing the words "Black Death" in cursive.
Teacher: It's estimated that 25 million people died in that one four year span. But the fun part of the black plague is that it originated in Europe how...?
The camera shows Buffy and Cordelia taking notes.
Teacher: As an early form of germ warfare. If you'll look at the map on page 63, you can trace the spread of the diesease into Rome and then north...
Buffy looks around for a textbook that she can see the map in, but then Cordelia taps her and lets her look at her book with her.
Buffy: Thanks!
Cordelia: Sure!
Teacher: And this popular plague lead to what social changes?
The teacher points.
Teacher: Steve!
The bell rings, and the students start to leave.
Cordelia shakes Buffy's hand.
Cordelia: Hi, I'm Cordelia.
Buffy: Buffy(smiling)
Cordelia: If you're looking for a textbook of your very own, there's probably a few in the library.
Buffy and Cordelia stand up.
Buffy: Ohh, great, thanks, where would that be?
Cordelia and Buffy begin to leave the room.
Cordelia: I'll show you, come on. So you're from Hemery in L.A. right.
Buffy: Yeah.
Cordelia: Oooh, I would kill to live in L.A., that close to that many shoes
Buffy laughs, and they go into the hallway.
They come around a corner.
Cordelia: Well, you'll be okay here, as long as you hang with me and mine, you'll be accepted in no time. Of course... we do have to test you coolness factor. You're from L.A., so you can skip the written, but let's see... vamp nail polish.
She stares at Buffy waiting for an answer.
Buffy: Um...over.
Looks at Cordelia to see if she got the answer right.
Cordelia: So over! James Spader.
Buffy: (says with a laugh) He needs to call me!
Cordelia: Frappaccinos.
Buffy: Trendy, but tasty.
Cordelia: John Tesh!
Buffy: The devil.
Cordelia: That was pretty much a gimmee, but...you passed!
Buffy acts relieved.
Buffy: Ohh good.
The two laugh.
Cordelia then see's Willow getting a drink at the bubbler.
Cordelia: Willow Nice dress, good to know you've seen the softer side of Sears.
Buffy looks at Cordelia, thinking that was mean, and Willow looks down at her outfit.
Willow: Oh, well, well my mom picked it out.
Cordelia: No wonder you're such a guy magnet. Are you done?
Willow looks at the bubbler.
Willow: Ooh!
Willow then walks away.
Cordelia turns towards Buffy.
Cordelia: If you want to fit in here, the first rule is, know your losers. Once you can identify them all by site, there a lot easier to avoid.
Buffy smiles, but them looks towards Willow, feeling bad for her.
Cordelia and Buffy come around another corner and finally get to the library.
Cordelia: And if you're not to swamped with catching up you should come to the Bronze tonight.
Buffy: The who?
Cordelia: The Bronze...it's the only club worth going to around here. They let anybody in, but it's still the scene...it's in the bad part of town.
Buffy: Where's that?
Cordelia: About a half a block from the good part of town (laughing) we don't have a whole lot of town here, but um... you should show!
Buffy: Well, I'll try. Uh, thanks. (points toward the library)
Cordelia: Good...so I'll see you at gym, and you can tell me absolutely everything there is to know about you.
Cordelia waves goodbye to Buffy!
Buffy: Great! (to herself sarcastically) Ooh, that sounds like fun.
Buffy then turns towards the library, and slowly walks in look to see if anyone is in there.
Buffy: Hello!(walks towards the desk) Is anybody...here?
Looks at a newspaper on the desk with a story circled, with the heading "Local Boys Still Missing"
The librarian(Giles) taps Buffy on the back, and startles her. She turns around quickly, and faces him.
Buffy: Ooh.(laughs) Anybody's here!
Giles: Can I help you?
Buffy: I was...looking for some...well...books. I'm new!
Giles looks at her questionably.
Giles: Miss Summers?
Buffy: Good call...guess I'm the only new kid huh?
Giles: I'm Mr. Giles, the librarian. I was told you were coming!
He quickly goes behind his desk.
Buffy: Great! So, um, I'm gonna need 'Perspectives on 20th Century...'
Giles: (while Buffy's talking) I know what your after.
He bends down and grabs a book that says "Vampyr", then puts it on the desk.
Buffy backs away a bit, with a look of shock.
Buffy: That's not what I'm looking for.
Giles: Are you sure?
Buffy: I'm way sure!
Giles is now confused
Giles: My mistake?
He puts the book back, and Buffy quickly leaves.
Giles: So, what is it you said...
He stares at Buffy as she leaves the library.
The Camera then cuts to the girls locker room, where some girls are talking about Buffy as they walk to their lockers
Girl 1: The new kid? She seems kind of weird to me. What kind of name is Buffy?
Girl 2: Hey, Aphrodisia!
Girl 1: Oh hey!
Now opening their lockers.
Girl 3: Well, the chatter in the caf is that she got kicked out, that's why her mom had to get a new job.
Girl 1: Neg!
Girl 3: Pos! She was starting fights!
Girl 1: Negly!
Girl 3 gets her lock open.
While opening her locker, she says
Girl 3: Well I heard from Blue, and she said that...
The boy that Darla had killed fell out of her locker, onto Girl 3, and then she let it fall to the floor, while she screamed.
The camera then shows Willow taking her lunch bag out of her backpack. Willow begins opening her sandwich, and Buffy walks up to her.
Buffy: Uhh, hi, Willow right!
Willow: Why? I,I, mean hi! Uh, do you want me to move?
Buffy: Why don't we start with, Hi I'm Buffy, and, uh, then let's segue directly into me asking you for a favor. (Buffy sits next to Willow) It doesn't involve moving, but it does involve hanging out with me for a while.
Willow: But aren't you hanging out with Cordelia?
Buffy: I can't do both?
Willow: Not legally.
Buffy smiles
Buffy: new school, and...Cordelia's been really nice...to me...anyway, but, um, I kinda have this burning desire not to flunk all my classes, and I heard a rumor that you were the person to talk to if I wanted to get caught up.
Willow: Oh, I could totally help you out! Uh if you have sixth period free, we could meet in the library!
Buffy: Or not...or you could meet some place quieter...louder, uh that place just kinda gives me the wiggins.
Willow: Yeah, it has that effect on most kids. I love it though it's a great collection, and the new librarian is really cool.
Buffy: He's new?
Willow: Yeah he just started. He was a curator at some British museum, or The British Museum, I'm not sure. But he knows everything, and he brought all of these historical volumes and biographies, and am I the single dullest person alive.
Buffy: Not at all.
Buffy puts some yogurt in her mouth, and then Jesse and Xander show up.
Jesse: Hey!
Xander: You guys busy? Are we interrupting? We're interrupting.
Xander tosses his backpack to Jesse
Buffy: Hey!
Willow: Hey?
Jesse: Hey there!
Willow: Buffy this is Jesse and that's Xander!
Buffy smiles!
Xander: Oh, me and Buffy go way back, old friends, very close. Then there's that period of estrangement where I think we were both growing as people, but now here we are, like old times, I'm quite moved.
Jesse: Is it me, or are you turning into a bibbling idiot?
Xander: No, it's, uh, it's not you.
Jesse and Xander sit down.
Buffy: Well, it's nice to meet you guys(laughs), I think.(looking at Willow with a smile)
Jesse: Well, you know, we wanted to welcome ya, make ya feel at home, unless you have a scary home.
Xander unzips his backpack and pulls out the stake Buffy had dropped earlier.
Xander: And to return this. The only thing that I can think is that you're building a really little fence.
Xander hands her the stake.
Buffy: Hah, no, um, a-a-actually it was for self-defense. Everyone has them in L.A. Pepper spray is just so passé.
Xander sits down next to her.
Xander: So, what do you do for fun, what do you like, what do you look for in a man? Let's hear it!
Jesse: If you have any dark, painful secrets you'd like us to publish?
Buffy looks around.
Buffy: Gee, everyone wants to know about me. How keen.
Xander: Well, not much goes on in a one Starbucks town like Sunnydale, you're pretty big news.
Buffy: I'm not...really.
Cordelia walks up to them.
Cordelia: (to Buffy) Are these guys bothering you?
Buffy: Ah, no!
Willow: She's not hanging out with us!
Jesse stands up next to Cordelia.
Jesse: Hey, Cordelia?
Cordelia: Oh, please. I don't mean to interupt your downward mobility, but I just wanted to tell you that you won't be meeting Coach Foster, the lady with the chest hair, because gym was canceled due to the extereme dead guy in the locker.
Buffy: What?
Willow: What are you talking about?
Cordelia: Some guy was stuffed in Aura's locker!
Buffy: Dead?
Cordelia: Totally dead, way dead!
Xander: So not just a little dead then?
Cordelia: Don't you have an else where to be?
Jesse: (to Cordelia) You know if you need a shoulder to cry on, or even to nibble on...
Cordelia sighs.
Buffy: How did he die?
Cordelia: I don't know.
Buffy: Well, were there any marks?
Cordelia: Morbid much! I didn't ask!
Buffy looks around and picks up her stuff.
Buffy: Um, I, I, gotta book. I'll, I'll see you guys later.
Buffy walks off quickly, and Cordelia stares at her.
Cordelia: What's her deal?
The camera then cuts to a hall and Buffy walks quickly to the girls locker room. The door is locked, so she pulls the it, causing it to break open. She walks into the locker room and finds the body, she uncovers it, and sees the bite marks on the boys neck. Buffy: (she sighs) Oh, great!
The camera then cuts to the library. Buffy pushes both doors open.
Buffy: Okay, what's the sitch?
Giles head appears from behind the bookcase.
Giles: Sorry!
Buffy: You heard about the dead guy right? The dead guy in the locker.
Giles steps out from behind the bookcase.
Giles: Yes.
She puts her stuff down on a table and begins to walk up the stairs to him.
Buffy: 'Cause it's the weirdest thing. He's got two little, little holes in his neck, and all his bloods been drained. Isn't that bizzare? Aren't you just going, oooh?
Giles stares at her for a second.
Giles: I was afraid of this.
Buffy: Well I wasn't! It's my first day. I was afraid that I was going to behind in all my classes, that I wouldn't make any friends, that I would have last months hair! I didn't think that there would be vampires on campus, and I don't care!
Giles: Then why are you here?
Buffy: To tell you that...I don't care, which...I don't, and...have now told you, so...bye.
She turns and begins to leave.
Giles: Is he, w,will he, rise again?
Buffy turns back around.
Buffy: Who?
Giles: The boy!
Buffy: No, he's just dead.
Giles: Are you sure?
Buffy: To make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood, and then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly, their just gonna kill you. Why am I still talking to you?
She turns, goes down the steps, and gets her things. Giles stands by the hand rail, and begins to talk to her again.
Giles: You really have no idea what's going on, do you? You think it's coincidence, your being here? That boy was just the beginning.
Buffy turns around.
Buffy: Oh, why can't you people just leave me alone?
Giles: Because you are the Slayer. (comes down the stairs) Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires...
Buffy: (interrupting and saying the same thing as Giles) ...with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil blah, blah, blah... I've heard it, okay?
Giles smiles.
Giles: I really don't understand this attitude. You, you've accepted your duty, you, you've slain vampires before.
Buffy: Yeah, and I've both been there and done that, and I'm moving on!
Giles puts up his pointer finger, and then runs behind his desk, and grabs some books.
Giles: What do you know about this town?
Buffy: It's two hours on the freeway from Neiman Marcus?
Giles: Dig a bit into the history of this town, and you'll find a, a steady stream of fairly odd occurences. I believe this whole area is a center of mystical energy (comes back with four books) that things gravitate towards it that, that, that you might not find elsewhere. (puts the books on a table).
Buffy: Like vampires?
Giles begins handing her the books her brought out.
Giles: Like zombies, werewolves, incubi, succubi, everything you've ever dreaded was under your bed, but told yourself couldn't be by the light of day. They're all real!
Buffy: What, you like sent away for the Time Life series.
Giles: Ah, w-w-w-yes.
Buffy: Did you get the free phone?
Giles: Um, the calendar.
Buffy: Cool! But, okay, (gives back the books) first of all, I'm a vampire slayer. And secondly, I'm retired. Hey, I know! Why don't you kill 'em?
Giles: I-I'm a Watcher, I-I haven't the skill...
Buffy: Oh, come on! Stake though the heart, a little sunlight! It's like falling off a log!
Giles: A slayer slays, a watcher...
Buffy: Watches?
Giles: Yes. No! (he puts the books onto the table). He, he trains her, he, he, he prepares her...
Buffy: Prepares me for what? For getting kicked out of school? For losing all of my friends? For having to spend all of my time fighting for my life and never getting to tell anyone because I might endanger them? Go ahead! Prepare me.
Giles and Buffy stare at each other for a moment, then Buffy sighs, picks up her stuff and leaves.
Giles: Damn!
Giles follows her into the hallway.
Xander comes out from behind a bookcase holding the book Willow told him to get earlier.
Xander: What?
The camera then cuts to the hallway, where Giles catches up to Buffy.
Giles: It's getting worse!
Buffy stops walking.
Buffy: What's getting worse?
Giles pushes her off to the right side of the hallway.
Giles: The influx of the undead, the... supernatural occurrences, it's been building for years. There's a reason why you're here and a reason why it's now!
Buffy: Because now is the time my mom moved here!
She begins to walk away.
Giles: Something's coming, something, something...(he puts his arm in front of her)something is, is gonna happen here. Soon!
Buffy: Gee, can you vague that up for me?
Giles: The signs, as far as I can tell, point to a crucial mystical upheaval, very soon. Days. Possibly less.
Buffy: Oh, come on! This is Sunnydale! How bad an evil can there be here?
The camera then cuts to the front of the school, but then goes behind some bushes, and continues to go underground, until it reaches the Master's lair. There are candles everywhere, and vampires holding torches are gathering. The camera moves around the the Master's lair and you can hear Luke chanting, and then the camera finally comes to him.
Luke: The sleeper will wake. The sleeper will wake. The sleeper will wake. The sleeper will wake. The sleeper will wake, and the world will bleed. (looking upward)Amen!
The camera then goes to Buffy's room, where she holds up some outfits that she is considering wearing to the Bronze. She first holds up a shiny black outfit and says in the mirror to herself.
Buffy: Hi! I'm an enormous slut! (then holding up a second outfit with a flower pattern on it) Hello! Would you like a copy of "The Watchtower"? (holds the outfits lower) I used to be so good at this.
Joyce: Hi, hon!
Buffy turns around at puts the outfits back in her closet.
Buffy: Hey!
Joyce: Are you, ah, going out tonight?
Buffy: Yeah, I'm going to a club.
Joyce: Oh! Will there be boys there?
Buffy: No mom, it's a nun club.
Joyce: Well, just be careful.
Buffy: I will.(smiling)
Joyce grabs a pillow off of Buffy's bed.
Joyce: You know, I think we can make it work here. (the camera shows Buffy taking out and looking at more outfits) I've got my positive energy flowing...(puts the pillow back and pats it)I'm going to get the gallery on its feet... (grabs another pillow) oh, ah, we may have found a space today.
Buffy looks at here.
Buffy: That's great!
Buffy goes back to picking an outfit.
Joyce: Oh, and that school is a, a very nurturing environment, which is just what you need.
Buffy: Well, actually...
Joyce cuts here off.
Joyce: Oh, not to nurturing. I know, you're sixteen, I've read about the dangers of over-nurturing.
Buffy walks over to her bed and lays an outfit on it.
Joyce: It's hard...new town and everything...it is for me too. I'm trying to make it work (skakes her head, and grabs Buffy's hands) I'm going to make it work.
Buffy smiles.
Buffy: I know.
Joyce rubs Buffy's head.
Joyce: Oh, you're a good girl Buffy, you just fell in with the wrong crowd. But that is all behind us now
Buffy: It is! From now on I am only going to hang out with the living,(takes the dress off her bed, and looks at her mom) I mean lively...people.
Buffy goes back to her closet, and makes a face about the thing she accidently said.
Joyce: Hmm. Okay. You have fun.
Buffy looks back at her and smiles, and then continues looking for something to wear.
The camera then cuts to the street, where Buffy is walking on the sidewalk heading to the Bronze. Then a pair of legs walk in front of the camera, and the person watches Buffy, and then follows after her. Then the camera gets closer to Buffy, and she turns her head and looks behind her, but doesn't see anything, so she continues walking. Then the camera shows Buffy walking onto another street, and she is now walking faster. On the building she is walking past you can see the shadow of the person following her, and then we see the same pair of legs following her. Now Buffy is running, and she runs into an alley, she hears a cat, then stops running and turns around to look behind her again. She then looks up, and then the camera shows the person who was following her. He slowly continues walking, and looking for her. The camera then show the person in a blue light for a second. The camera slowly moves up, and shows Buffy hanging in a headstand on a bar above the person following her. After the person gets far enough in front of her, she swings down and kicks him in the back. He falls over and Buffy jumps down. The person then lays on the ground.
Angel: Aah, Heh, heh. Is there a problem ma'am?
Buffy: Yeah, there's a problem. Why are you following me?
Angel: I know what you're thinking. But don't worry, I don't bite.
Buffy lets him stand up now, but keeps her fists up. Angel smiles.
Angel wipes himself off.
Angel: The truth is...I thought you'd be taller, or bigger muscles and all that. You're pretty spry, though. (he rubs his neck)
Buffy: What do you want?
Angel: The same thing you do. (still in pain)
Buffy opens her arms up, and then drops them to her side.
Buffy: Okay...what do I want?
Angel walks closer to her.
Angel: To kill 'em...to kill 'em all.
Buffy: (being sarcastic)Sorry, that's incorrect. But you do get this lovely watch and a year's supply of Turtle Wax. (now being more stern) What I want is to be left alone!(then she starts walking away from him)
Angel slowly turns around.
Angel: Do you think that's an option anymore? (Buffy stops) You're standing at the mouth of Hell. (Buffy turns back around) And it's about to open
She looks at him, and he reaches into his jacket.
Angel: Dont't turn your back on this.
He pulls out a small box, and tosses it to her.
Buffy looks down at the box.
Angel: You've got to be ready.
Buffy: What for?
Angel: (smiles) For the Harvest.
Buffy shakes her head.
Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say...I'm a friend.
He walks past her, and she turns.
Buffy: Yeah, well maybe I don't want a friend.
He turns, and walkS backwards
Angel: I didn't say I was yours.
He walks off, and she opens the box he gave her. Inside is a silver cross on a necklace, she takes it out and looks at it.
The camera then shows the Bronze, and some people standing outside of it. The camera then shows a couple walking in, and a sign above the entrance that's lite up and says Bronze. The camera slowly goes over to Buffy, who is walking up to the entrance, she reaches into her pocket, and pulls out some money, and hands it to the person standing at the door. She walks in, and the camera goes past her, and shows a pool table, and then goes around a post, and shows a bunch of people dancing to Sprung Monkey who is playing "Believe" on the stage.
Sprung Monkey Lyrics: Oh, I just want to believe / Can you hear me? / Can you see me? / What's inside of me? / Oh, I just want to believe / If my life can have a purpose / Help me to believe / Oh, I just want to believe / Can you hear me? / Can you see me? / What's inside of me? / Oh, I just want to believe / If my life can have a purpose / Help me to believe
Buffy dances a little, and then she sees a guy waving in her direction. She waves back, then notices someone behind her waving back and pulls her hand down, and feels embarrassed.
Sprung Monkey Lyrics: Everybody wants to find the circle / The line of truth that has no end / Because so many nights I've slept with the feeling of empty / And I say, right now I'm ready to believe
Buffy walks over to the bar, and finds Willow eating raisins.
Buffy: Hey!
Willow: Oh, hi! (Buffy walks around her and sits on the chair next to her, and Willow turns to face her.) Hi!
Buffy: Oh, are you here with someone?
Willow: No, I'm just here. I thought Xander was gonna show up.
Buffy: Oh, are you guys going out?
Willow: No, we're just friends. We used to go out, but we broke up.
Buffy: How come?
Willow: He stole my Barbie. (Buffy stares at her, kind of confused) Oh, we were five.
Buffy: Oh.
Willow: I,I,I don't actually date a whole lot...lately.
Buffy: Why not?
Buffy sticks a cherry in her mouth, and looks at Willow.
Willow: Well, when I'm with a boy I like, it's hard for me to say anything cool, or, or witty, or at all. I,I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away.
Buffy: (laughing a little) It's not that bad.
Willow: No, i-it is. I think boys are more interested in a girl who can talk.
Buffy: You really haven't been dating lately.
Willow: It's probably easy for you.
Buffy: (looking in her up) Yeah, real easy.
Willow: I, I mean, you don't seem to shy.
Buffy: Well, my philosophy...Do you wanna her my philosophy?
Willow: (very excited) Yeah, I do.
Buffy: Life is short.
Willow: (nodding her head) Life is short.
Buffy: Not original, I'll grant, but it's true. You know, why waste time being all shy and worried about some guy and if he's going to laugh at you? Seize the moment 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
Willow: Oh, that's nice!
Buffy looks up at the balcony, and see's Giles wandering around.
Buffy: Um, I'll be back in a minute.
Buffy walks around Willow's chair, to start her way upstairs.
Willow: Oh, t-that's okay. You don't have to come back.
Buffy smiles.
Buffy: I'll be back in a minute.
Buffy leaves.
Willow: (to herself) Seize the moment.
The camera cuts to Buffy walking through a crowd of people talking and dancing, and goes upstairs.
Sprung Monkey Lyrics: I feel love with my friends / I feel love in my songs / If I could just hold love / Then all the answers might come / I said, oh, if we're all children of God / And we just turned away / I got a lack of belief / I said a world without faith / It's time we turn back around
Buffy finally finds Giles.
Buffy: So, you like to party with the students. Isn't that kinda skanky?
Giles: (sounding a little irritated) Uh, right this is me having fun Watching... clown hair prance about is hardly my idea of a party. I'd much rather be at home with a cup of Bovril and a good book.
Buffy: You need a perosonality, stat!
Giles: (points to the crowd below) This is a perfect breeding ground for vampire activity. It's dark, it's crowded... Besides, I knew you were likely to show up, and I have to make you understand...
Buffy: ...that the Harvest is coming. I know, your friend told me.
Giles: What did you say?
Buffy: The Harvest. That mean something to you? 'Cause I'm drawing a blank?
Giles: (Looking puzzled) I'm not sure. Uh... (talking louder)W-who told you this?
Buffy: This... guy. Dark, gorgeous in an annoying sort of way. I figured you two were buds.
Giles: No. (puzzled again) The Harvest. Did he say anything else?
Buffy: Something about the Mouth of Hell. I really didn't like him!
The band finishes there song, and the crowd starts clapping, and they start their next song "Swirl". Buffy leans on the rail of the balcony, and stares down. Giles then moves to the other side of her, and looks at the crowd with her.
Giles: Look at them, throwing themselves about, completely unaware of the danger that surrounds them.
Buffy: Lucky them.
Giles: Or perhaps you're right. Perhaps there is no trouble coming, the signs could be wrong. It's not as though you've been having the nightmares.
The camera gets a little closer to Buffy's face, and she is shocked that Giles knows about the nightmares she has been having. The camera then cuts to Cordelia and some of her friends.
Cordelia: My mom doesn't even *get* out of bed anymore. And the doctor says it's Epstein-Barr. I'm like, pleeease! It's chronic hepatitis, or at least chronic fatigue syndrome. I mean, *nobody* cool has Epstein- Barr anymore.
Jesse finds Cordelia and goes over to her holding a water bottle.
Jesse: Hey, Cordelia!
Cordelia: Oh, yay, it's my stalker. (makes a face)
Jesse: Hey, you, uh, you look great!(He takes a drink of his water)
Cordelia: Well, I'm glad we had this little chat.
Jesse: (coughs) Listen, uh, you know, you wanna dance, you know? (he shakes his hips, and puts his fingers in the air, doing a dance himself)
Cordelia: With you?
Jesse: Well, uh, yeah.
Cordelia: Well, uh, no!(smiles and begins walking away, and leaves Jesse behind) C'mon, guys.
Jesse: Fine! Plenty of other fish in the sea. Oh, yeah, I'm... on the prowl. Witness me prowling!
Cut to Buffy and Giles on the upper level.
Buffy: I didn't say I'd never slay another vampire. It's not like I have all these fluffy bunny feelings for them, I'm just not gonna get way extracurricular with it. You know, if I see one, sure I'll...
Giles: (interrupting Buffy) Will you be ready? There's so much you don't know about them, about your own powers. A vampire appears to be completely normal until the feed is upon them, only then do they reveal their true demonic visage.
Buffy: You're like a textbook with arms, I know this.
Giles: The point is, a Slayer should be able to see them anyway. Without looking, without thinking. Can you tell me if there's a vampire in this building?
Buffy: Maybe...
Giles: You should know. Even through this mass and this(closes his eyes trying to think of a word to use to describe the Bronze) ... din,(opens them again) you should be able to sense them. Well, try! Reach out with your mind. (Buffy looks around) You have to hone your senses, focus until the energy washes over you, until you, you feel every particle o-of...
Buffy: (interupting Giles) There's one!
Giles: W-where?
Buffy: Right there, talking to that girl.
Giles: You don't know...
Buffy: Oh, please! Look at his jacket! He's got the sleeves rolled up, and the shirt! Deal with that outfit for a moment.
Giles: It's dated?
Buffy: It's carbon dated. Trust me, only someone living underground for ten years would think that was still the look.
Giles: But you didn't... hone.
Buffy: (notices that the girl is Willow) Oh, no.
Giles: Isn't that...
Buffy: (finishing Giles' sentence) Willow.
Giles: What's she doing?
Buffy: Seizing the moment!
Buffy walks away from Giles, to go and rescue Willow.
Lyrics: We're formed in liquid / Pushed out still dripping / A world was thrown before my eyes
The camera cuts to Willow being taken out of The Bronze, by the vampire. The camera then cuts back up to Giles, who is trying to figure out what to do.
Lyrics: Now paint a picture / Crayon stick figures / With blue-haired people, purple skies
The camera then cuts to Buffy, cutting through the crowd, trying to find Willow. Buffy finally gets through the crowd, and goes and checks the back area of the Bronze. Buffy breaks a leg of a stack of chairs, to use as a stake. She begins walking slowly, and looks behind her quickly. The camera then quickly zooms past the wall, and shows a shadow walking quickly behind a curtain. Buffy stomps up the stairs loudly, and then stands there for a second. She turns, and goes back down the stairs, to a bathroom door, and quickly opens it, and puts her stake up. She sighs, disappointed that she didn't find Willow and the vampire yet. Buffy begins to walk on, and some one comes up behind her. Buffy quickly turns, and Cordelia gasps, as Buffy pushes her against the wall, with her stake up, and her hand around her neck.
Buffy: (recognizing) Cordelia! (she lets go)
Cordelia: God! What is your childhood trauma?!
Cordelia's friends then stand in the doorway of the bathroom.
Buffy: Have you guys seen Willow? Did she come by here?
Cordelia: Why? Do you need to attack her with a stick? Jeez!
Buffy turns and goes.
Cordelia: (To her friens) Excuse me, I have to call *everyone* I have *ever* met, right now.
Cordelia goes into her purse and pulls out her cell phone.
The camera cut to the main floor, where people are still dancing, and Giles finally catches up with Buffy.
Giles: That *was* quick. Well done! I-I need to go to the library. This Harvest thing...
Buffy: (Buffy interrupts Giles) I didn't find them!
He grabs Buffy by the arm and turns her to face him.
Giles: The vampire is not dead?
Buffy: No, but my social life is on the critical list.
Giles: (lets go of her) So, what do we do?
Buffy: I'll take care of it!(she tries to walk away)
Giles: I-I-I need to come with you, yes?
Giles grabs her arm again to turn her
Buffy: Don't worry. One vampire I can handle.
Buffy leaves, walking past Jesse, who is talking to Darla, and the camera stays by them.
Jesse: So, um, what did you say your name was?
Darla: Darla. (she turns in the chair she is sitting in, to face him)
Jesse: Darla. You know, I haven't seen you around before. Are you from around here?
Darla: No, but I have family here.
Jesse: Have I met them?
Darla: (she shrugs her shoulders) You probably will.
The camera then cuts to the Master's lair, and a boiling pool of blood. The Master then rises out of the pool of blood as Luke kneels and watches him rise. Luke smiles, and the Master steps out of the pool over to Luke and offers his hand, and Luke takes it happily.
Luke: Master!
Continuing in the Master's lair.
Master: I am weak. Luke: (quotes scripture) 'In the Harvest he will be restored.'
Master: The Harvest.
Luke: We're almost there. Soon you'll be free!
The Master reaches his arm out to test his mystical prison, and where he touches, the invisible walls of prison vibrate.
Master: I must be ready. I need my strength.
Luke: I've sent your servants to bring you some food.
Master: Good. Luke?
Luke: Yes?
Master: Bring me something... young.
The camera cut to a sidewalk next to the cemetery. Willow and the vampire are walking.
Willow: Sure is dark.
Thomas: It's night.
Willow: Well, that's a dark time, night. Traditionally. I still can't believe I've never seen you at school. Do you have Mr. Chomsky for history?
Thomas (the vampire) looks at her, but keeps walking ignoring what she is saying, and continues into the cemetery.
Willow: Uh, the ice cream bar is this way. It's past Hamilton Street?
Thomas: I know a shortcut.
He grabs her hand and walks a little faster.
The camera then cuts to Buffy, who is still looking for Willow outside the Bronze. Xander then walks up to Buffy.
Xander: Hey, you're leaving already?
Buffy: Oh, Xander! Have you seen Willow?
Xander: Not tonight, no.
Buffy: She left with a guy.
Xander: We're talking about Willow, right? Scorin' at the Bronze, work it girl...
Buffy: (interrupts Xander) No, I need to find her. Where would he take her?
Buffy starts to walk away from him.
Xander: Why? Oh, hey, I hope he's not a vampire, because then you might have to slay him.
Buffy stops walking and wonders how Xander knew about her being the Slayer.
Buffy: Was there a... a school bulletin? Was it i-in the newspaper? Is there anyone in this town who doesn't know I'm the Slayer?
Xander: No. I only know that you think that you're the Slayer, and the reason why I know that...
Buffy: (interrupts Xander again) Well, whatever, it doesn't matter, just tell me, where would Willow go?
Xander: You're serious!
Buffy: We don't find her, and there's gonna be one more dead body in the morning!
The camera cuts back to the cemetery, and Willow and Thomas are walking.
Willow: Oh, okay, th-this is nice... and scary. Are you sure this is faster?
They reach the mausoleum.
Thomas: Hey! Ever been in one of these?
He points to a mausoleum, and walks over to it.
Willow: No. Thank you. (she turns away)
Thomas: Come on. (he comes up behind her and pulls her hair back) What are you afraid of?
He moves in toward her neck. She lets out a yelp. He then grabs her and violently pushes her into the mausoleum. The camera cuts to inside the of the mausoleum. Willow stumbles down the stairs and hits the side of a stone coffin. She turns around, angry at him.
Willow: That wasn't funny!
Thomas comes down the steps, and starts to cirle her. She backs away from him, against a wall, and trips over some stones.
Willow: I think I'm gonna go.
Thomas: Is that what you think?
He walks towards her, but she quickly gets past him, but only because he lets her. Then from out of no where Darla appears and blocks Willow's way out of the mausoleum. Willow backs up.
Darla: Is this the best you could do? (walking down the steps)
Thomas: She's fresh!
Darla: Hardly enough to share.
Thomas: Why didn't you bring your own? (putting his arms out)
Darla: (she gives him a look) I did.
Jesse stumbles into the mausoleum, holding his neck.
Jesse: Hey. Wait up.
Willow: Oh, my God, Jesse!
He manages to stumble over to Willow, put falls, and Willow tries to catch him.
Jesse: Y'know, you gave me a hickey.
Thomas gives Darla a look.
Darla: (she shrugs) I got hungry on the way.
Willow: Jesse, let's get outta here!
Willow tries to help Jesse up again.
Darla: Oh, you're not going anywhere.
Darla walks closer to Willow and Jesse.
Willow: (yells at Darla) Leave us alone!
Darla: You're not going anywhere until we've (she morphs to her vampire face) fed!
Willow screams and falls back down next to Jesse, and Buffy and Xander finally show up.
Buffy: Well, this is nice. I-it's a little bare, but a dash of paint, a few throw pillows... call it home!
Buffy wipes some dust off the coffin, and then wipes it off her fingers. She then moves behind the coffin to draw the vampires away from the others.
Darla: Who the hell are you?
Buffy: You mean there's actually someone in this town who doesn't know already? Whew, that's a relief, I'm telling you! Having a secret identity in this town is a job of work.
Xander: Buffy, we bail now, right? (pointing to the door behind him, with his thumb.)
Thomas: Not yet!
Buffy: Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit? Live in the now, okay? You look like DeBarge!
The vampires move closer to Buffy, and are growling. She then turns to Darla.
Buffy: Now, we can do this the hard way, or... well, actually there's just the hard way.
Darla: That's fine with me!
Buffy: Are you sure? Now, this in not gonna be pretty. We're talking violence, strong language, adult content...
Thomas growls, and runs up from behind Buffy. She pulls the chair leg out from inside her shirt, and he attacks from behind, but Buffy stakes him before he is able to do anything. He falls back and turns to ashes. Nobody can believe she was able to dust one of the vampires, especially Darla.
Buffy: See what happens when you roughhouse?
Darla: He was young and stupid!
Buffy: Xander, go!
Darla: Don't go far!
Buffy and Darla start to fight. Darla punches high, but Buffy blocks. Xander makes his way over to Willow and Jesse, and together the two help Jesse up. Darla throws a backhand punch, but Buffy blocks again and uses a front snap kick and kicks Darla in the stomach stomach. As she leans forward from the pain, Buffy slams her elbow into Darla's back.
The camera cuts to outside the mausoleum, and Xander, Willow, and Jesse finally get out.
The camera goes back to Darla and Buffy's fight. Darla hits the wall and falls to the floor, exhausted.
Buffy: You know, I just wanted to start over. Be like everybody else. Have some friends, y'know, maybe a dog... But, no, you had to come here, you couldn't go suck on some other town. (she leans against the wall, with her foot on Darla's chest)
Darla: Who are you?
Buffy: Don't you know...uhh?
Luke comes from out of no where, and grabs Buffy by the neck, from behind.
Luke: I don't care!
He throws Buffy across the room. He then grabs Darla by the arm and pulls her up.
Luke: You were supposed to be bringing an offering for the Master! We're almost at Harvest, and you dally with this child!
Darla: (afraid) We had someone, but then she came. She killed Thomas. Luke, she's strong.
Luke: You go. I'll see if I can handle the little girl.
He lets Darla go, and she runs off, looking back for a second. He approaches Buffy as she starts to get up, sore from being thrown. Luke attacks Buffy with a double punch, but she blocks it and delivers a punch to his gut and a hopping front snap kick to his jaw. He falls back a little, but isn't affected much by her hits.
Luke: You're strong.
He hits her with a backhand, and she goes flying into the side of the coffin.
Luke: I'm stronger!
The camera goes back to Xander, Willow, and Jesse who are still running.
Willow: We'll get the police, it's just a few blocks up!
They stop running as group of vampires approaches them. The camera the goes back to the mausoleum.
Luke: You're wasting my time.
The circle the coffin, and Buffy backs away up some stairs in the back of the mausoleum.
Buffy: Hey, I had other plans, too, okay?
Luke shoves the heavy lid off of the coffin, and Buffy does a cartwheel on the side of the coffin and over it to avoid the top and kicks Luke in the chest with both feet, knocking him down. She grabs her stake from the floor and lunges at Luke, but he is manages to grab her wrist, before she can stake him.
Luke: You think you can stop me? Stop us?
He grabs the stake with his other hand and breaks it. Then he grabs her by the top of her shirt, and pulls her closer to his face.
Luke: You have no idea what you're dealing with.
He throws her again, and she hits the top corner of the coffin. She rolls off onto the floor, and then rolls over again, dazed. Luke gets up and heads towards her, quoting scripture again.
Luke: 'And like a plague of boils, the race of man covered the Earth.'
The camera then cuts to the library, where Giles is paging through an old book and stops on a picture of Satan with lightning coming from his hand to a man who is underground.
Luke: 'But on the third day of the newest light would come the Harvest. And the blood of men will flow as wine.'
The camera cuts to the Master sitting in a blackchair.
Luke: 'When the Master will walk among them once more!'
The camera then cuts to Xander, Willow and Jesse surrounded by vampires, now including Darla.
Luke: 'The Earth will belong to the old ones.'
The camera the goes back to Buffy and Luke, as Luke gets closer to Buffy's face.
Luke: 'And Hell itself will come to town.'
He grabs Buffy and growls. She pants as he lifts her by the throat and throws her in the coffin. She lands in the coffin next to a skeleton, and lets out a scream, but then remains silent, still breathing heavily, and wonders what happened to Luke. She slowly starts to get up, but Luke jumps up and into the coffin.
Luke: (smiling, and then opening his mouth widely) Amen!
He moves in to bite Buffy.
To Be Continued...
