Written by: Dana Reston
Directed by: Stephen Cragg
Transcribed by: The Sunnydale Crypt
Copyright (c) 2003 The Sunnydale Crypt
This is not a novelization or a script. It is only a transcript of the episode "The Witch". 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 Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.
Shot of Sunnydale High School and students outside, then cut to the library.
Giles: (hands on the table, and then turning around, upset) This is madness! What can you have been thinking? You are the Slayer! Lives depend upon you! (starts pacing, and puts his hands through his hair) I make allowances for your youth, but I expect a certain amount of responsibility, and instead of which you enslave yourself to this, this... (stops pacing and looks at Buffy with a glare) Cult?
Buffy: (she has on a cheerleading outfit with a white top and orange and yellow skirt, and pom-poms ups) You don't like the color?
Giles: I d... (sighs, Buffy puts pom-poms behind her, and smiles) Do you, um... (puts some books on a cart) Do you ignore everything I say as a, as a rule?
Buffy: No, I believe that's your trick.
Giles wheels the cart to the counter, and Buffy skips in front of him and does a cheerleader's poses with poms up.
Buffy: I told you, I'm trying out for the cheerleading squad!
Giles: (still very serious) You have a sacred birthright, Buffy. You were chosen to destroy vampires, not to... wave pompoms at people. And as the Watcher I forbid it. (goes back to the table)
Buffy: And you'll be stopping me how?
Giles: Well, I... (sits on the edge of the table and crosses his arms) By appealing to your common sense, if such a creature exists.
Buffy: (moves closer to him) I will still have time to fight the forces of evil, okay? I just... wanna have a life, I wanna do something normal. Something safe.
Cut to the witch's attic. The camera moves through the dark are, wher there are flowers and herbs hanging upside down from the ceiling and other items with tags. The camera then shows the witch, who grabs a gold necklace, and dangles it over a cauldron with a green bubbling liquid in it. She then pulls it away, and goes over to a rack that has a doll hanging on it in a cheerleading outfit. She yanks the doll off the hook violently, and the camera then cuts to the Sunnydale High gym. There the cheerleader tryouts are about to start. There are girls doing different types of moves, and stretching around the gym. The camera cuts in front of a dry erase board that says 'Welcome to the 1996 cheerleading tryouts~~~Please sign-in and fill out an application.' Buffy, Willow and Xander then come through the door.
Willow: Giles didn't approve, huh?
Buffy: He totally lost his water. We haven't seen a vampire in over a week. I'd say he should get a girlfriend if he wasn't so old.
Willow: (smiles at Buffy) Well, we're behind you.
Xander: People scoff at things like school spirit, but look at these girls giving their all like this!
He notices Amber doing the splits between two chairs.
Xander: Ooo, stretchy! Where was I? (Buffy rolls her eyes and keeps walking.)
Willow: You were pretending that seeing scantily clad girls in revealing postures was a spiritual experience.
Xander: Who said I was pretending? (to Buffy) Oh, hey! Here's a good luck thing for tryouts. (hands her a bracelet)
Buffy: What's this?
Willow: (upset that he gave Buffy a bracelet, and not her) What's that?
Buffy: Oh, how sweet! (reads the inscription) 'Yours Always.'
Xander: I-i-it came that way, really, they all said that!
Willow: (exhales)
Cordelia: (approaches them) Just look at that Amber.(Amber pulls her leg straight up to her head) Who does she think she is, a Laker Girl?
Willow: I heard she turned them down.
Buffy is putting on the bracelet as Joy, the cheerleading squad leader, steps up with her clipboard and calls for everyone's attention.
Joy: Okay, listen up! Let's begin with...(checks her clipboard)...Amber Grove. If you're not auditioning, move off the floor.
Willow: (to Amy) Amy! Hi!
Amy: (goes over to her) Hi!
Willow: I didn't know you wanted to be a cheerleader! You lost a lot of weight.
Amy: Had to.
Willow: Do you know Buffy?
Amy: Hi.
Buffy: Hi.
Amy: Oh, how I hate this, let me count the ways.
Amber begins her routine, and has a big smile on her face. She begins with a needle-split lift followed by a double spin and a jumping double spin. Then continues with an aerial and a cartwheel. Jazz slides followed by a single spin. Everyone in the gym is watching her closely, amazed at how good she is.
Amy: (to Buffy) She trained with Benson. He's one of the best coaches money can buy.
Buffy: (staring at her surprised) They have cheerleading coaches?
Amy: Oh, yeah! Don't you have? I train with my mom, three hours in the morning, three at night.
Buffy: Hmm, that much quality time with my mom would probably lead to some quality matricide.
Amy: Oh, I know it's hokey. But she's really great. (smiles and nods, proudly)
Cordelia turns her back to Amber clearly jealous.
Cordelia: Hmm!
Buffy, Xander, Willow and Amy are still very impressed, but then Amber's hands begin to smoke. The group begins to notice, and have a look on their faces indicating they notice something is wrong.
Buffy: What the...?
Willow: That girl's on fire!
Cordelia: (facing away, not seeing the smoke) Enough of the hyperbole!
Amber's drops her pompoms and screams as her hands burst into flame. Buffy looks for something to put the flame out with. Amber waves her hands in the air trying to put out the flames. Buffy runs up the bleachers and pulls down a banner. She runs back to Amber, knocks her down and puts out the flames with it. Everyone stares and is unsure of exactly what happened. Cordelia finally turns around as well.
Buffy: (trying to comfort Amber) It's okay, it's okay, you're gonna be... okay. (then to herself) Oh, God!
Opening credits play.
Cut to the library, where Buffy is pacing and fiddling with her hands. Willow and Xander are sitting at the table.
Buffy: I've been slaying vampires for more than a year now, and I have seen some pretty cringeworthy things, but... nobody's hands ever got toasted before.
Giles: (comes out of the book return cage) I imagine not.
Buffy: So...this isn't a vampire problem.
Giles: No.
Buffy: (turns to Giles) But it is funky, right? Not of the norm?
Giles: (looks up from a book he's paging throught to look at Buffy) Quite. Spontaneous human combustion is, is rare, and, and scientifically unexplainable. But there have been cases for hundreds of years. Usually all that's left is a pile of ashes.
Willow: That's all that would have been left if it hadn't been for Buffy.
Xander: So, we have no idea what caused this. That's a comfort.
Giles: (small smile on his face) But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! (sits on the edge of the table) There's a veritable cornucopia of, of fiends and devils and, and ghouls to engage. (everyone looks at him) Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Buffy: Any common denominators in cases of spontaneous combustion?
Giles: Uh, rage. In most cases the person who combusted was, was terribly angry or, or upset.
Xander: So maybe Amber's got this power to make herself be on fire. (Willow nods in agreement) It's like the human torch, only it hurts.
Buffy: I need to get the skinny on Amber. Find out if she's had any colorful episodes before. (starts to walk up the steps)
Willow: (Big smile) That means hacking illegally into the school's computer system. At last, something I can do!
She and Xander get up and go over to Buffy.
Xander: (puts backpack on) I'll ask around about her.
Buffy: You guys don't have to get involved.
Xander: (wondering why Buffy doesn't want their help) What d'ya mean? We're a team! Aren't we a team?
Willow: Yeah! You're the Slayer, and we're, like, the Slayerettes!
Buffy: I just don't like putting you guys in danger.
Xander: Oh, huh, I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.
Buffy: Okay, just...walk softly, at least until we know a little more. I mean, what if Amber isn't causing these problems herself?
Giles: Well, then we have to determine who or what did, and, uh, deal with it accordingly.
Cut to the kitchen in Buffy's house, where there are several wooden boxes and crates. Joyce is trying to pry one open with a crowbar and Buffy comes in.
Buffy: Hey!
Joyce: Hi, how was school?
Buffy: Mm, a reverent joy. What's all this? (walks up to one of the boxes)
Joyce: It's for the tribal art display.
Buffy: Cool! (takes a look at one of the sculptures, then waits for her mom to ask about the tryouts, but when she see's she doesn't, Buffy brings it up) We had tryouts today.
Joyce: Oh, great! How'd it go? (exhales)
Buffy: I didn't actually get to try out. There was an accident. Pretty fierce competition, though.
Joyce: (smiles to reassure Buffy) Oh, I know you'll do fine. Keep on pluggin', just have to get back on the horse.
Buffy: Hey, Mom?
Joyce: Yeah?
Buffy: What was I trying out for?
Joyce: Oh, uh... (stops prying at the crate, thinks for a second, then looks at Buffy) Some activity? I have no idea, I'm sorry. (Makes a 'duh' face)
Buffy: That's okay. Your platitudes are good for all occasions.
Joyce: (exhales) I'm distracted. (starts prying again and exhales) Got a lotta inventory to go through here. (exhales) This is my Gallery's first major show. (exhales and gives up) You know, it might not physically kill you to give me a hand here. (places the crowbar, and goes to check her clipboard)
Buffy grabs the lid of the crate and effortlessly tears it off.
Buffy: It was cheerleading.
Joyce: Oh good! I'm glad you're taking that up again, it'll keep you out of trouble.
Buffy: I'm not in trouble.
Joyce: No, not yet.
Buffy is hurt, and Joyces realizes she shouldn't have said that. She then walks back over to the crate and places the top aside, checking to see what's inside.
Joyce: I mean, you stopped cheerleading just before the trouble, so it's good you're going back.
She lifts out a statue part way, as Buffy goes to the refrigerator to get a bottle of juice.
Joyce: Oh, dear. (places it back in the crate)
Buffy: What?
Joyce: The fertility statue, you don't need to see it.
She puts the lid back and goes back to the clipboard again.
Buffy: Y'know, there's this girl, Amy, and, um, she trains with her mom, like, three hours a day.
Joyce: Uh-huh.
Buffy: Sounds like her mom's pretty into it.
Joyce: Sounds like her mom doesn't have a lot to do.
She walks out of the kitchen with a one of the pieces for her gallery. Buffy then lifts the crate's lid a bit and looks in to see the fertility statue.
Buffy: Jeepers!
Cut to the gym the next day, where tryouts are being held again.
Joy: (pacing) Despite the terrible thing that happened yesterday we still have to pick new cheerleaders. If you make the team you'll find your names posted in the quad after lunch. Let's begin with group performance.
Amy: (to Buffy) Why do my hands have to sweat when I get nervous?
Buffy: (to Amy) Don't worry. You'll do great.
Joy: (loudly) Five, six, seven, eight!
All girls trying out: Sunnydale! Sunnydale! We never fail! We never fail! Jump and Shoot! Swish and score! The other team is such a bore! (one of the girls) Yeah!
All the girls do a cartwheel, and as Amy finishes hers, she crashes into Cordelia. Cordelia yelps as she falls and then quickly gets up.
Cordelia: (to the captains) You saw that, right? That wasn't me! You saw that, right? (looks at Amy and signs, then back again) Right?
Cut to the hallway. Amy is looking at the trophies in the case upset about the tryouts. Buffy comes up next to her, and is changes back into her regular outfit, carrying some books. Amy notices her, smiles and points to a picture in the case.
Amy: That's my mom!
Buffy: No! (reads the inscription) 'Catherine Madison'. Get down with your bad self!
Amy: Her nickname was 'Catherine the Great'. She took that team and made them tri-county champions. Y'know, no one's ever done that before, or since. She and my dad were homecoming king and queen. They got married right after graduation.
Buffy: (big smile) That's kinda romantic.
Amy: Well, he was a big loser. Never made any money. Ran off with Miss Trailer Trash when I was twelve.
Buffy: Okay, that part's less romantic. My folks split up, too.
Amy: Drag, huh? Uh, he left my mom with nothing. She put herself through cosmetology school. (smiles) Bought me everything I ever wanted. (shakes her head) And never once gained a single pound.
Buffy: (walks around to face Amy) Uh, she sounds really great, Amy, but, um... it doesn't mean that you need to lock step as far as this cheerleading thing.
Amy: She was the best! And I can't get my body to move like hers! I choked in there so bad!
Buffy: No, Amy, you did fine.
Amy: (more upset then before) I'm gonna get changed.
Buffy: Wait! No...
Willow: (walks by as Amy goes to the locker rooms) Hey, Amy! (goes over to Buffy) Is she okay?
Buffy: No, she's, she's wiggin' about her mom, big cheer queen back when.
Willow: Yeah, her mom's kinda...
Buffy: ...Nazi like?
Willow: Heil. If she gains an ounce she padlocks the fridge and won't eat anything but broth.
Buffy: So, mommy dearest is really... Mommy Dearest?
Willow: There's a bitter streak. But Amy's nice. We used to hang in Junior High. When her mom would go on a broth kick, (smiles about the memory) Amy'd come over to my house and we'd stuff ourselves with brownies!
Buffy smiles back, then they start down the hall.
Buffy: Hey, any word on Amber?
Willow: Nothing thrilling. Average student...Got detention once, for smoking. Regular smoking... with a cigarette, not, like, being smoky.
Buffy: Hmm. (grins)
Willow: All pretty normal.
Buffy: So we just have to wait and we'll see what happens. Maybe nothing will.
Cut to the girls' locker room, where there are showers dripping. The camera then cuts to a row of lockers, and follows them around a corner to Amy alone at her locker, and putting her shoes away. She begins to rub her shoulder, because it hurts, and then hears a locker close and turns to look, but there is no one there. The camera shows the showers still dripping. Amy then closes her locker and starts to go, but is surprised by Cordelia, who comes around the corner of the row of lockers..
Cordelia: I have a dream. It's me on the cheerleading squad, adored by every varsity male as far as the eye can see!(looks to the side, then back at Amy) We have to achieve our dreams, Amy. Otherwise we... wither and die!
Amy: Look, I'm sorry about...
Cordelia: (cuts Amy off) Shhh! If your supreme klutziness out there today takes me out of the running, you're gonna be so very beyond sorry! (smiles) Have a nice day.
Cordelia turns and leaves, and throws her scrunchie into an open locker. She then slams the door as she rounds the corner, but it doesn't stay shut. Amy leans against her locker, still startled about the whole thing.
Cut to outside the school. Willow and Xander are walking along the colonnade.
Willow: I told Buffy about Amber.
Xander: Cool! Was she wearin' it? (Willow looks at hims unsure of what he's talking about) The bracelet, she was wearin' it, right? Pretty much like we're goin' out.
Willow: Except without the hugging or kissing or her knowing about it.
Xander: So I'm just a figure of fun. (exhales) I should ask her out, right?
Willow: You won't know till you ask.
Xander: That's why you're so cool! You're like a guy! (hits her shoulder with the back of his hand) You're my guy friend that knows about girl stuff!
Willow: Oh, great. I'm a guy.
Xander: Oh, hey, they're posting the list!
He runs off to see the cheerleader list. The, camera cuts to the crowd of girls in front of the bulletin board. Buffy and Amy are at the back. Some girls are jumping because they made it, and others are crying because they didn't.
Amy: I can't take this.
Joy steps away from posting the list on the bulletin board. Lishanne sees her name on the list.
Lishanne: Yes!
Xander comes up behind Buffy and Amy.
Xander: Cover me, I'm goin' in.
He pushes his way through the crowd and looks at the list. Cordelia comes out of the crowd.
Cordelia: (to Amy) You're lucky!
Amy: I made it?
Cordelia: (Xander makes a grunting sound) I made it!
Xander comes back out of the crowd and gets hit on the way.
Xander: One of those girls hit me really hard! You should test for steroids. Okay, not only did you make the team, but you, Miss Summers, are the first alternate, and Amy's number three.
Amy looks at Buffy, disappointed, and leaves.
Xander: And what a better way to celebrate than with a romantic drive through...
Willow: (cuts him off) Xander, alternates are the ones who didn't make the team, they only fill in if something happens to the ones who did.
Buffy: Excuse me. (walks off to talk with Amy)
Xander: (embarassed and upset at the same time) For I am Xander, King of Cretins. May all lesser cretins bow before me.
Buffy: (catches up with Amy) At least it's over. (trying to look Amy in the face) And you know what I think we should do about it? Brownie pig-out, my house, after school.
Amy: It's just how many more hours a day can I practice? Y'know, how much more can I do? This would never happen to my mother...Never.
She walks away, and Buffy watches her, feeling upset for Amy.
Cut to the outside of Amy's house. The camera zooms in on the outside of the attic, the cuts to the inside of the attic. The camera pans from the wall across a bunch of tagged personal items that she's taken from people. Cut to the cauldron, and the witch stirs the pot.
Amy: Give me the power. Give me the dark.
She goes to grab a doll from her rack.
Amy: I call on you...laughing gods.
She yanks the doll off of the rack violently.
Amy: Let your blackness crawl beneath my skin.
She wraps Cordelia's scrunchie around the doll's head.
Amy: Accept thy sacrifice... of Cordelia...Feed on her.
She drops the doll into the green liquid.
The scene begins in Buffy's kitchen, where half a bagel pops-up in the toaste. Buffy pulls it out, and quickly drops it on the plate, because it's very hot. She takes it to the island in the middle of the kitchen and grabs a butter knife. Her mother comes in.
Joyce: Look what I found. It's my yearbook from junior year. (finds herself) Oh, look! There I am.
She puts the book down on the island and goes to get a cup of coffee. Buffy looks at the picture.
Buffy: Mom, I've accepted that you've had sex. I am not ready to know that you had Farrah hair.
Joyce: This is Gidget hair. Don't they teach you anything in history?
Buffy: Well, it's really cool, but I gotta book.
Joyce: Well, I was thinking. I know the cheerleading thing didn't work out... Maybe you should think about joining the yearbook staff. I did, it was a lot of fun.
Buffy: Not really my tip, mom. (bites into the bagel, and walks over to the refrigerator, as her mom follows)
Joyce: I was, uh, photo editor. I got to be on every page, made me look much more popular than I was.
Buffy: (grabs a juice box from the refrigerator) And have you seen the kids that do yearbook? Nerds pick on them. (walks to her bag)
Joyce: (insulted) Some of the best times I had in school were working on the yearbook!
Buffy: (faces Just) Oh, this just in: I'm not you! I'm into my own thing.
Joyce: Your own thing, whatever it is, got you kicked out of school, and we had to move here to find a decent school that would take you! Buffy is hurt, grabs her bag and starts to go.
Joyce: Honey, uhhh... (Buffy leaves, and Joyce knows she shouldn't have said that either) Uhhh! Great parenting form! Little shaky on the dismount.
Cut to the hall at Sunnydale High. Cordelia walks past Willow and Xander in a daze.
Xander: Cordelia, you haven't been mean to me all day. Is it something I've done? (to Willow) Okay, see how she has no clue that I'm even a mammal, much less a human being?
Willow: (takes the pen out of her mouth) I see that.
Xander: This is the invisible man syndrome. A blessing in Cordelia's case. A curse in Buffy's.
Willow: (closes her locker) You're not invisible to Buffy.
She puts the pen back in her mouth and they start to walk down the hall.
Xander: It's worse! I'm just like a part of the scenery, like an old shoe. Or a rug that you walk on every day but don't even really see it.
Willow: (takes the pen out again, making a connection) Like a pen that's all chewed up, and you know you should throw it away, but you don't, not 'cause you like it so much, more 'cause you're just used to...
Xander: (cuts her off) Will, yeah, that is the point, you don't have to drive it through my head like a railroad spike. I'm gonna take your advice...and not beat around the bush.
Willow: Or I could be wrong! Maybe you should beat around the bush more.
Xander: Nah, I gotta be a man and ask her out. Y'know, I gotta stop...giving her ID bracelets, uh, subtle innuendoes, taking Polaroids outside of her bedroom window late at night, (notices Buffy coming out of a classroom, beginning to talk very quickly) that last part is a joke to relieve the tension because here she comes.
Xander: Okay, into battle I go. (quickly turns to Willow) Would you ask her out for me?
He grabs her by the shoulders, and she is surprised. Buffy sees Cordelia trying to work the combination on a locker.
Xander: No. Man. (lets go of Willow) Me battle. (to Buffy) Buffy! Would you like to, uh...
Buffy: (reaches Willow and Xander, and cuts Xander off) Is that even Cordelia's locker?
Cordelia stops trying and continues down the hall.
Xander: Huh? Oh, I don't know. What I'm saying is accompany me Friday night...
Buffy: (she watches Cordelia go and cutting him off again) Xander, I have to, um... (faces him) We can make this up later. You don't mind, do you? (laughs a bit)
She gives him her book and follows Cordelia. Xander whistles making the sound of a bomb falling and exploding. Willow looks at him and continues chewing on her pen.
The camera cuts outside, where Buffy opens the door. She sees Cordelia and starts to follow. Then the camera cuts to Mr. Pole, the Driver's Ed. Teacher. He's begins pacing, then checks his watch, and sits on the hood of the car. He turns and sees her coming.
Mr. Pole: Nice of you to join us, Cordelia. We didn't keep you waiting or anything, did we? It's your turn to drive. (to the others) Okay, people, let's buckle up.
Cordelia: (goes around the front of the car) I don't wanna drive today, Mr. Pole.
Mr. Pole: You've flunked Driver's Ed. twice already. Show me some moves, or you'll be taking the bus to college.
The students and Mr. Pole get in the car. Cordelia gets in last. Buffy keeps an eye on her from behind a school bus.
Mr. Pole: Okay. Check the brake. Check the mirror. Start the engine.
Cordelia skips checking the brake and the mirror, and turns the key and the engine starts, but she is still out of it.
Mr. Pole: Hello? Put the car in drive.
Cordelia struggles with the shifting lever, and the camera shows the front of the car through Cordelia's point of view, which is blurred.
Mr. Pole: Let's move forward through the cones with a gentle even turn to the...
The car takes off backward, crashes into some signs and stops. Cordelia gets it in drive, and the car races forward.
Mr. Pole: Slow down. Slow, slow, turn right! (Begins yelling) Turn right!
Cordelia is screaming, as she loses control of the car. She keeps knocking down cones and signs, and some even go across the hood and windshield. Buffy begins running after them.
Mr. Pole: (still yelling) Brakes! Brakes!
The car crashes through a fence and bushes and out onto the street, where it comes to a sudden halt. Another car barely manages to swerve around them.
Mr. Pole: Everybody out!
They all get out. Cordelia is still confused, and she walks into the middle of the street. A delivery van is coming the other way, but doesn't slow down. Buffy comes running. Cordelia turns to see the van coming and screams. Buffy leaps over the Driver's Ed. car and grabs Cordelia, pulling her down and out of the way. The van takes out the open car door as Buffy and Cordelia roll to a stop.
Cordelia: Oh, my God, I, I can't see anything!
Buffy: It's, it's okay, it's... (sees Cordelia's eyes) Oh God!
Cordelia: What's happening? I can't see anything!
Her eyes are completely white.
Cut to the library. Buffy and the Scoobies are inside.
Giles: Witchcraft. Blinding your enemy to disorient and disable them is, it's classic!
Xander: First vampires, now witches. No wonder you can still afford a house in Sunnydale.
Giles: Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?
Willow: Maybe because they met her? (Giles slowly turns his head to look at her) Did I say that?
Giles: And setting Amber ablaze?
Xander: Yeah, those guys don't hang...
Buffy: They're both cheerleaders.
Giles: Someone doesn't like cheerleading.
Buffy: Or likes it too much.
Willow: Amy!
Buffy: Amy!
Xander: So, you guys are leaning towards Amy?
Buffy: She's desperate to get on that team, and I've got this feeling she'd do just about anything to make her mom's dream come true.
Giles: (unsure Buffy's theory is a good one) Uh, let me make sure I have this right. This witch is casting horrible and disfiguring spells so that she can become a cheerleader?
Buffy: I think you're underestimating the amount of pressure a parent can lay on you. If you're not a picture perfect carbon copy they tend to wig.
Willow: (looking at Giles) Cheerleading was kind of her mom's last hurrah.
Xander: Look, we still have to stop Amy. We should grab her and...
Giles: (interrupts) I think we should be sure she's the witch before we arouse her suspicions. She's, she's capable of some fairly unpleasant things.
Buffy: Okay, alright, (gets up, trying to put herself in the witch's position) so, you're in high school, you are desperate to make the team and please your mom, so you turn to witchcraft. What's the first thing you're gonna do?
Willow: Check out the books on witchcraft!
She and Buffy go over to the computer to access the on-line library card catalog.
Xander: Uh, no! No, that would be the last thing you would do! You don't wanna leave a paper trail. Forget that!
Willow: (Begins typing) It'll just take a minute.
Xander quickly gets up and stands behind them.
Xander: We don't have a minute! Cheerleaders are in danger. Buffy's in danger. (to Buffy) You were the first alternate, you are on the team now that Cordelia's out. You could be next. We gotta get you to a safe house. (Tries to pull her away, and out of the libray)
Willow: Xander...
Xander: Yeah.
Willow: (exhales and reads the monitor) 'Witches: Historic Roots to Modern Practice.' Checked out by Alexander Harris.
Buffy: (reads the next title on the list) 'The Pagan Rites', checked out by Alexander...
Xander: (interupts, knowing he's been caught) Alright, alright, it's not what you think.
Willow: You like to look at the semi-nude engravings?
Xander: Oh, well, uh, I-I guess it is what you think.
Giles: Have you all quite finished? We have to find a conclusive test. There may be something in here... (looks through a book) Yes, this should do it. You'll need some of her hair..a little quicksilver and...some aqua fortis.
Willow: Well, that's just mercury and nitric acid. You can get that in the science lab.
Giles: (reads) 'Heat ingredients and apply to witch, and if a spell has been cast in the previous 48 hours, witch's skin turns blue.' Hmm. (shuts the book) Oh, and you'll need some Eye of Newt.
Cut to science class, where Dr. Gregory is shown holding a frog as reflected in a mirror above him. It pans down to show him holding the frog up for the class to see.
Dr. Gregory: Those of you in track one may begin your dissections... now.
He runs his finger down the center of the frogs stomach to show where to begin. The camera then cuts to Xander trying to cut one of the frog's eyes off, but having trouble.
Dr. Gregory: Those of you in track two (cut to him, putting on some black rubber gloves) take your hydrochloric acid and your ammonium hydroxide and carefully pour them into your beakers.
He begins to pour,and then the camera cuts to Xander still struggling with the frog's eye.
Dr. Gregory: Now slow, slow...
Xander: I can't.
Willow grabs the frog and cuts off the eye easily.
Dr. Gregory: ...capping one, I'm being safe. And you get...
Willow: (drops the eye into the beaker) Eye of Newt!
Cut to Dr. Gregory, who has mixed the ingredients in the beaker as they begin to bubble and smoke.
Dr. Gregory: ...that.
Camera cuts to Xander again.
Xander: How's Buffy doing with the hair?
They look toward Buffy, and the camera cuts to Lishanne at another lab table.
Lishanne: (to Buffy) Isn't this exciting!
Buffy: Oh, yeah! (to Amy) Amy, help me. Um, which is the hydrochloric acid and which is the, uh, ammonium hydroxide?
Amy: Well, the bottle that says 'hydrochloric acid' is usually the hydrochloric acid.
Buffy: Read the bottles. Good concept! (laughs nervously and drops her pencil with a troll topper on it) Oops.
She bends down to pick up the pencil, and reaches into Amy's red bag. There is a brush in there, and Buffy pulls some hair off it. She then gets up and tries to pretend nothing happened. She looks at Amy to see if she noticed, and Amy pretends she didn't by giving a fake smile. Buffy waves her pencil and smiles back. She heads back to her lab table with a look like 'that was a close one'. She tosses the hair on Willow and Xander's lab table as she walks by. Willow picks up the hair and mixes it into the potion. Amy looks back at them to see what they're doing. Willow and Xander look back nervously.
Xander: (in a low voice) Wave hi to the nice little witch!
Amy overhears, and checks on them again. Willow takes the potion and pours some of it into a test-tube.
Willow: All set. (hands the tube to Buffy) Do you have a plan?
Buffy: Spill it on her. Try 'n' make it look natural.
Xander: We're right behind you, only... further back.
Buffy slowly walks towards Amy again.
Dr. Gregory: Lishanne, can you tell me why these chemicals have this reaction?
Buffy pours the potion onto Amy's arm and gasps as though it were an accident. She then notices the potion turn blue when it hit her skin.
Dr. Gregory: Lishanne?
Amy looks at Buffy knowing that Buffy knows about the spells.
Dr. Gregory: Are you... Oh, my God!
Buffy looks over at Lishanne and sees her shaking her head back and forth quickly. She turns to the camera, and everyone sees that she no longer has a mouth. Buffy stares in amazement, then looks at Amy, who looks amazed, too. Everyone else is stunned to, and no one will go by Lishanne.
Cut to the hall as Buffy, Willow and Xander discuss what happened in class.
Xander: Did you see? Amy was as freaked out as the rest of us.
Willow: So it's not her?
Buffy: The test was positive! She's our Sabrina. I just don't think she realizes what she's doing.
Willow: Well, should we talk to her?
Buffy: Maybe we should talk to her mother. I wonder if she knows what she's created.
The camera cuts to Amy's house. She walks pushes open the gate which has a gargoyle face on it. Then, she passes through one more gate. The camera then cuts to the inside of her the house, as Amy walks in. She then looks for her mother.
Amy: Where are you?
Cut to Catherine, who She quickly turns off the TV and gets up. Amy sees her.
Amy: Another productive day in front of the TV?
Catherine just stares at her.
Amy: I got a history report due tomorrow. (drops her backpack) Write it!
Catherine is still staring, ang then exhales.
Amy: (puts her hand to her chin) I should be on that team by now. But instead Miss Buffy and friends are sneaking around stealing bits of my hair.
Catherine shakes her head. Amy then opens her hand, out drops Buffy's bracelet, and dangles it for a second.
Amy: I'll be upstairs.
Catherine watches her go, and sighs in relief that she's gone.
The scene begins the next morning in Buffy's room. The camera pans through it and stops on Buffy still sleeping. The alarm clock goes off. She tries to stop the alarm, and ends up smashing the entire clock by accident.
Buffy: Oh! Oops!(smiles, and rolls over) Oh... (sits up) Mm...
The camera cuts to the kitchen. Joyce is making fresh-squeezed orange juice. Buffy then enters dancing and singing and wearing her cheerleading outfit.
Buffy: Macho, macho, man! I want to be a macho man. Macho... Oh, hey, juice! (grabs the glass and drinks the entire thing in one gulp) Mm... Quality juice. Not from concentrate!
Joyce: (glances at Buffy) You're in a good mood.
Buffy: I am! I'm on the squad, which is great, 'cause I feel like cheering and leading others to cheer. Ooo, hey, juice!
Buffy grabs the second glass and takes a sip.
Joyce: Listen, honey, about yesterday, I really...
Buffy: (cuts her off) Mm! That is totally yester. (walks to the cupboard and grabs a box of raisins) Besides, it's not like you were wrong, y'know. I did get kicked outta school. I'm just wacky that way!
Joyce: Still, I just want you to know that, despite the problems you've had, I really...
Buffy: (cuts her off again) Mom, you just don't get it. And, believe me, you don't want it. Y'know, there are just some things about being a Vampire Slayer that the older generation...
Joyce: (now cutting Buffy off) A what?
Buffy: It's a... long story.
Joyce: Buffy, are you feeling well?
Buffy: What? Oh, I'm, I'm fine, y'know? What, like, I can't be in a good mood? Is it, like, a new house rule? Fine, y'know? It's just fine, fine, fine, 'cause... (stats singing again) I'm a macho, macho man! I want to be a macho man! (bobs her head) Macho, macho man! (leaves the kitchen) I want to be a macho man!
Joyce watches her go.
Then the camera cuts to the gym where cheerleading practice is being held. Buffy is next to Joy in the lineup.
Joy: (loudly) Five, six, seven, eight!
The cheerleaders begin practicing a routine, along with a song.
Buffy: Turn up the music!
The routine continues until Buffy accidentally stomps on Joy's foot.
Joy: (yells) Ow! Get it together Buffy! We have a game in less than four hours!
Xander and Willow come in.
Buffy: (jumping out of excitement) Willow! Xander! My buds are here! I love my buds! Hi! (notices everyone staring) Hi... Oh...
She gets back in line, and the routine continues.
Xander: (to Willow) Is it me, or is Buffy a bit looped?
The cheerleaders continue the routine as one side of the line helps the other do cartwheels.
Willow: We better get her outta there.
Xander: Yeah, before she...
Buffy overthrows Joy's aerial, sending her crashing into the gym wall.
Xander: ...hurts someone. Ay...
Joy gets up as Buffy comes running over.
Buffy: Did I do that?
Joy: (pushes Buffy) You are so out of here!
Willow and Xander come running up and each grab one of Buffy's arms.
Willow: It's not her fault!
Xander: She's on medication.
Buffy: (to Xander) What?
Joy: Well, obviously not enough. Who's our next alternate? (sees Amy behind her) Oh. Amy, you just made cheerleader.
Buffy: No, no, no. You don't want her, she's a wi...
Xander quickly puts his hand over Buffy's mouth, even though she continues trying to talk.
Xander: A wise choice indeed!
He and Willow pull Buffy away, nodding and smiling nervously at Amy and Joy. Amy stares after them.
The camera cuts to the hall outside the gym. Willow and Xander are holding up Buffy they walk down the hall.
Buffy: She's a witchy!
Willow: Buffy...
Buffy: I just got kicked off the team, didn't I?
Xander: I don't think it was your fault.
Buffy: Hmm, I know you don't, that's 'cause you're my friend. You're my Xander-shaped friend! (leans her head on his shoulder) Do you have any idea why I love you so, Xander?
Willow: We gotta to get her to a...
Xander: (stops Willow with a gesture) Let her speak!
Buffy: I'll tell you! You're not like other boys at all.
Xander: Well...
Buffy: You are totally, and completely one of the girls (laughs)! (to Willow) I'm that comfy with him.
Willow has a huge smile on her face.
Xander: That's great.
Buffy: Any other guy who would give me a bracelet, they'd... wanna date me, and be like a...
She begins to feel woozy.
Buffy: Oh! I, I don't feel so good.
Willow: Buffy?
Buffy collapses into their arms.
Cut to the Giles' office in the library. Buffy is lying back in a chair with a wet towel on her forehead. Willow holds Buffy's head and keeps and uses the other hand to hold the cloth.
Willow: (panicked) We've gotta get her to a hospital!
Giles: They can't help her. This is a bloodstone vengeance spell. (takes her pulse) Hits the body hard like a, a quart of alcohol, and then it e-eradicates the, uh, immune system.
Xander: A vengeance spell, like she's trying to get even with Buffy?
Buffy: 'Cause she knows I know she's a witch.
Giles: The others she just wanted out of the running. You she intends to, um...
Buffy: (weakly) Kill?
Willow: How much time do we have?
Giles: Oh, uh, I'm sure, uh...
Buffy: Truth. Please.
Giles: Couple of hours...Three at most. (puts the back of his hand on the towel for a second)
Xander: Well, how do we reverse the spell?
Giles: (gets up) Well I, I've been researching that, and, uh, we can reverse all the spells if, um... (takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes) ...we can just lay our hands on, on Amy's spell book.
Willow: And if we can't get a hold of it?
Giles: Well, the other way is to cut the witch's head off. (puts his glasses back on)
Xander: Show of hands! (raises his hand)
Buffy: It's not Amy's fault. She only became a witch to survive her mother.
Xander: (to Buffy) Look, I don't care why, I just care that you go on breathing.
Buffy: Giles, where would she be casting these spells?
Giles: Oh, she needs a, a sacred space. A-a-a pentagram, um, large pot.
Buffy: Her home. Okay. Help me up.
Xander and Willow rush to help her up.
Buffy: We'll just go to her house and we'll get her book.
Willow: Okay, we'll go with you.
Buffy: (looking at Willow)Uh, no! You guys stay here and keep an eye on Amy.
Giles: (takes Buffy from them, and helps her out) And keep her away from the science lab. We'll need it to cast our counter-spells.
He and Buffy leave, and Willow and Xander exchange worried looks. Xander exhales.
The camera cuts to Giles' car pulling up to Amy's house. It then cuts inside. Catherine has a plate of brownies on her lap and takes a bite out of one. Giles knocks on the door. She looks up and is startled, and quickly places the last piece of the brownie in a paper bag. Giles knocks again, and Buffy watches as Catherine slides the plate under the coffee table and gets up. Giles knocks a third time, and Catherine opens the door.
Catherine: Who are you? Wha, um, uh, is there something wrong?
Giles: Mrs. Madison, we need to talk to you about your daughter.
Catherine: I'm not allow... You'll have to come back later.
She begins to close the door, but Giles pushes it open.
Giles: Excuse me!
Catherine: What?!
Giles: (turns to help Buffy) You alright? (looks for a place to sit her down) Um, in here. (helps Buffy into the living room, then begins to speak to Catherine) Your daughter is meddling with something very dangerous, are you aware of that? (sits Buffy on the couch)
Catherine: Uh, I don't know what you're talking about.
Giles: Oh, I think you know only too well.
Catherine: You've got to go. She's gonna be home soon, and you...
Giles: (interrupts, indicating Buffy) This girl is very sick. (now very angry) Now you will shut up and you will listen to me! Your daughter has access to some very powerful magicks, and somehow your obsession with cheerleading has made...
Catherine: (interrupts, and seems almost insulted that he said that) I don't care about cheerleading! It's not my fault she's doing stuff.
Buffy sees the brownies and realizes who Catherine really is.
Giles: As her mother you should assume some responsibility for her actions.
Catherine: (laughs) Well, you know, these kids today! I... (slows down a bit) She's out of her mind. Ever since dad, her dad... left I can't control her.
Buffy slowly gets up.
Giles: You're afraid of her?
Buffy: Amy?
Catherine looks at Buffy and realizes with a look of shock. Giles looks at Catherine for a second to see her reaction, then turns his head to look at Buffy.
Buffy: Are you Amy?
Giles: (looks back at Catherine) I don't understand.
Buffy: She switched! She switched your bodies, didn't she?
Giles: Good Lord!
Buffy: She wanted to relive her glory days.
Catherine: She said I was wasting my youth...(quietly)So she took it.
The scene continues in the living room at Amy's house. The camera pans to them sitting on the couch.
Catherine: I didn't know anything about her powers. I mean, when dad was here they would fight and yell and he would... call her a witch and... I mean, I would, just thought he meant... Oh, God, when he left I wanted to go with him. But she wouldn't even let me call. She went crazy, I mean, she'd lock herself upstairs for days, and she was always coming down on me, telling me I didn't deserve to have it so easy, and that I didn't know... how hard it was to be her, and... I guess she showed me, huh?
Buffy: (grabs her hand) Amy, it's gonna be okay.
Catherine: A few months ago, I woke up in h... her bed! I didn't know where I was, and... then I looked in the mirror...
Giles: She locked herself upstairs?
Catherine: Yes.
Giles: Where?
The camera cuts to the attic. Giles begins pounding on the door trying to get in. He gets the door open starts to look around. Catherine follows after him, very afraid.
Catherine: (she grabs his arms, but he gently pushes them away) Don't! If she finds out I've been here she'll kill me!
Giles walks around the cauldron and up to the cheerleader dolls. He grabs two dolls and turns them around to examine them.
Giles: My God! (exhales) I believe we can reverse your mother's spell. Well, all of them, in fact. (lets go of the dolls)
Catherine: (a little more relaxed, and a hint of excitement in her voice) You could? Really, you could?
Giles: We need to find her books. There'd be specific...volumes she'd need for this kind of casting.
He looks around an comes across a chest. There are some things on top that he pushes away.
Giles: Collect those dolls, and, uh, any other personal effects...
As he starts to open the trunk, a black cat jumps out and surprises him.
Giles: Ah! Nice...kitty... Let's see what you were guarding. (opens the trunk) Ah, yes! (takes out a book) This is it.
The camera cuts to Giles and Catherine coming back down the stairs and going into the living room.
Buffy: Did we find?
Giles: We found. Come on.
He helps Buffy up from the couch.
Catherine: But where are you going?
Giles: We're going to school...(Buffy is weaker, so Giles picks her up)...and you're coming with us.
The camera cuts to the gym. A pair of white doors opens, and The Sunnydale High Razorbacks basketball team runs out onto the court. The camera pans across the court, then back and across the cheerleaders, stopping on Amy. Amy has a big grin on her face. The camera then quickly goes over toXander and Willow in the stands. Next, the camrea cuts to the science lab. Giles carries Buffy in and lays her down on a lab table, and knocks everything off as he does it. He then takes off his coat.
Giles: (to Buffy) I'm gonna stop this. I promise.
Buffy looks up at him. He folds his coat and puts it under her head as a pillow. The camera gives you her perspective, and as she looks at Giles, everything is wavy, and her hearing isn't as good.
Giles: You just hang on.
Buffy moans, and Giles quickly goes to the box of of magic supplies Catherine has set on Dr. Gregory's table. He reaches in to get Amy's spell book.
Catherine: (looking over at her) How is she?
Giles: We only have a few minutes left.
Cut to the gym and where the cheerleaders have begun another cheer.
All cheerleaders: Go, Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go!
One of the captains: Six, seven, eight!
All cheerleaders: Go Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go!
One of the captains:Six, seven, eight!
All cheerleaders: Go Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go!
One of the captains: Six, seven, eight!
All cheerleaders: Go Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go, Sunnydale go! Go!
The camera focuses on Amy in slow motion as she cheers. Then it slowly pans across the crowd, then back to Amy with a smile on her face.
The camera cuts back to the science lab, where Catherine is cutting an eye off a frog, and is very grossed out by it.
Giles: Right! Here we go!
The camera then cuts to Buffy who's getting weaker. Cut back to Giles as he says the spell as he mixes a potion.
Giles: The center is dark. Centrum est obscurus. The darkness breathes. Tenebrae respiratis. The listener hears. Hear me! (Buffy lifts her head to see what Giles is doing, but quickly drops it back down)
Cut back to the gym where the cheerleaders are doing another cheer. The camera focuses on Amy and she stops cheering and blinks a few times, startled, as the Giles' spell begins to work. She has a vision showing what Catherine sees in the science lab, the book and the frog. The camera then shows her again and she begins cheering again, but has a worried look on her face. The camera cuts back to the lab.
Catherine: Oh, it's... it's working!
Giles picks the book up from the table and reads.
Giles: Unlock the gate. Let the darkness shine. Cover us with holy fear.
Catherine stumbles backward into a model skeleton, then covers her face with her hand.
Giles: Show me...
The lights go out in the classroom, and then the camera cuts to the gym. Some of the cheerleaders are lifting Amy. When she is up, she puts her fists in the air and gives the crowd a big smile. She stops smiling, and blinking very quickly as she has another flash to the lab, where she sees Buffy. The vision ends, and she begins to lose her balance. Xander and Willow watch, and Amy and the cheerleaders supporting her collapse. The crowd reacts to the fall. Then the camera cuts back to Amy.
Joy: Amy, what's your problem?
Amy gives her a glare, which causes Joy to back away a bit. Amy gets up, and the other cheerleaders back away from her. Amy looks around and runs from the gym. The camera cuts back to the lab.
Catherine: She's coming!
Giles gives her a worried look.
The camera cuts to the hall, as Amy violently pushes open a door, and is comfronted by Willow.
Willow: Amy!
Amy: Get out of my way!
Willow: W-wait! I-I-I need to talk to you, I-I can help you.
Amy: Help me? With what?
Willow: Uh, well, y'know, all your witchcraft! I, I know this really good cauldron.
Xander begins sneaking up behind Amy.
Willow: Do you actually ride a broom?
Amy notices and quickly turns, growls and holds out her hand like she's grabbing Xander's neck. His hand goes to his throat. Amy makes a fist and twists it, causing Xander to collapse to the floor, choking.
Willow: Xander!
Amy spins around and punches Willow in the face, knocking her to the floor, and then starts running to the lab.
The camera goes back to the lab, where Giles is holding up his arms and chanting.
Giles: Corsheth and Gilail! The gate is closed! Receive the dark! Release the unworthy! Take of mine energy and be sated!
He puts his hand in the mixture he made for his spell. He makes a face indicating it is painful, because the mixture is boiling. The camera goes back to the halls, and Amy slams through another door and continues walking to the lab. When she finally gets there, she tries the door, but it's locked. She tugs on the knob a few times. The camera cuts back inside. Giles takes his hands out of the mixture, and Catherine looks at the door and sees Amy trying to get in.
Giles: Be sated! Release the unworthy!
The camera goes back to Amy. She stops pulling on the door and notices a fire axe in a glass case. She breaks the glass with her fist and takes out the axe. The camera then goes back inside to Buffy.
Giles: Release!
Amy begins to chop down the door.
Giles: Release!
Buffy has her eyes closed now. Then, Amy manages to make a hole, reach through and get the door open. She comes in the room, and heads over to Buffy.
Giles: (yells) RELEEEEASE!
Amy lifts the ax above her head, but stops when there's a flash of light and the spells are all broken. Amy and Catherine have switched back to their correct bodies. Amy looks around, a bit confused, then steps back and lowers the axe. Buffy is completly cured now, and is strong again. Giles looks over to see Buffy getting up off the table.
Amy: Buffy?
Buffy: (smiling) Amy?
Catherine jumps at Buffy from the side and knocks her to the floor. Giles begins moving towards Buffy and Catherine, holding his arm out and pointing at her.
Giles: You... you...
Catherine growls and looks at him. She then uses magic to send a lab table over and knock him down. He falls backwards, and is knocked out. Amy watches unsure what to do, but is still holding the ax in her hands near to her. Catherine gets up, and gives Amy an evil smile.
Catherine: You! You little brat!
Amy: (holds the axe, showing she's willing to use it) Mom! Please!
Catherine puts out her hand, and the axe flies out of Amy's hands to hers.
Catherine: How dare you raise your hand to your mother! I gave you birth. I gave up my life so you could drag that worthless carcass around and call it living? (swings the axe into a lab table) You've never been anything but trouble. I'm going to put you where you can't make trouble again!
Buffy: (gets up behind Catherine) Guess what?
Catherine turns and looks at her.
Buffy: I feel better!
She punches Catherine, causing her to fly through the air. She lands on a lab table and rolls off and hits a shelf full of bottles. She then gets up.
Catherine: That body was mine! Mine!
Buffy: Oh, grow up!
Catherine growls, then holds her arm out toward Buffy using magic to send her flying against the wall. Buffy hits the wall and falls to the floor. She gets up, craning her neck, as Catherine begins to cast a spell.
Catherine: I shall look upon my enemy!
She looks up at Buffy, and the spell she is casting is such black magic, it causes her eyes to become black.
Catherine: I shall look upon her (glowing things start circling her head) and the dark place will have her soul!
Buffy looks around for a way to stop her, and sees the pole holding up the mirror above her.
Catherine: Corsheth, take her!
Buffy does a standing hook kick, to knock the pole out from under the mirror and letting it fall. Catherine release energy from her hand, but it hits the mirror, and bounces back to her. The energy surrounds her, then makes a roaring sound, and causes her to dissappear. Buffy begins looking around, and Amy is relieved that it's over. Buffy finds Giles knocked out next to the model skeleton, as he begins to wake up.
Giles: Well, that was, um, interesting.
Buffy helps him up.
Buffy: You guys okay?
Amy: I'm fine!
Giles: I assume the, uh, all the spells are reversed. It was my first casting, so... (inhales) I may have got it wrong.
Buffy: You saved my life! You were a god!
Amy: Well, I didn't think you'd pull it off.
Suddenly Xander runs in and grabs Amy.
Xander: (shouting) I got her! I got her! Cut her head off!
Buffy: Xander, what are you doing?
Xander: Saving you?
Buffy: Get your hands off of her.
Xander: But she's evil.
Giles: It wasn't exactly her.
Amy: I was my mom.
Xander: Oh! (lets go of her)
Willow runs in holding a bat.
Willow: Where is she?!
Xander: Uh, hey Willow! It's cool!
Willow: It is?
Xander: Yeah, I took care of it.
They all look at him.
The camera cuts to Buffy's room, as she pushes the alarm clock pieces into a wastebasket. Then, her mom walks in.
Joyce: I don't get it.
Buffy: What?
Joyce: I've been doing a lot of thinking about...where you're coming from, how to relate to you...and I've come to a very simple conclusion: I don't get it.
Buffy: I'm inscrutable, huh?
Joyce: You're sixteen...I think there's a, a biological imperative whereby I can't understand you because I'm not sixteen.
Buffy: Do you ever wish you could be sixteen again?
Joyce: Oh, that's a frightful notion. (exhales) Go through all that again? Not even if it helped me understand you.
They both just smile at each other.
Buffy: I love you, mom.
She gets off her bed, and gives her mom a kiss on the cheek. Then, quickly leaves the room.
Joyce: I don't get it!
Next, the camera cuts to on of the halls at Sunnydale High. Buffy and Amy are walking together talking.
Amy: My dad is so impossible! He doesn't ever want me going anywhere! He wants to spend total 'quantity time together'. And I'm, like, 'Dad, I can go out, it's perfectly safe!' But he's got all this guilt about leaving me with my mom. And he's being a total pain.
Buffy: You're loving it.
Amy: (smiling) Every single minute.
They go around a corner, and the camera stays in front of them.
Amy: This Saturday night he wants to stay in and make brownies,. Well, the brownies were my idea.
Cordelia and some of the other cheerleaders come up behind them.
Cordelia: (sarcastically) Hey, I'm really sorry you guys got bumped back to alternate. Hold it, wait... No I'm not!
Amy: Well, I know that I'll miss the intellectual thrill of spelling out words with my arms.
Cordelia: Ooo, these grapes are sour!
Buffy and Amy stop at the trophy case while Cordelia and the other cheerleaders walk on.
Amy: (to Buffy) Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that you wanted to be on the squad.
Buffy: Oh, hey, that's okay. (waving her hands) Cheerleading's just a little too hairy for me these days.
Amy: (takes a breath) That's for sure.
They go around to the front of the case and look at Catherine's picture.
Amy: Catherine the Great.
Buffy: And there's been no sign of her?
Amy: That last spell...She said I'd never make trouble again. Wherever she is I don't think we'll have to worry.
They look at Catherine's cheerleading trophy.
Buffy: Twisted.
They continue on.
Amy: I'm just happy to have my body back. I'm thinking of getting fat.
Buffy: Y'know, I hear that look's in for spring.
The camera zooms in on the cheerleading trophy, and Catherine's eyes are looking out and she's making muffled sounds.
