1 00:00:02,276 --> 00:00:05,029 Previously on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": 2 00:00:05,836 --> 00:00:08,396 - Robson! Dear God, I thought you... - Gather them. 3 00:00:08,476 --> 00:00:09,955 I understand. 4 00:00:10,036 --> 00:00:11,230 I saw Mom. 5 00:00:11,316 --> 00:00:14,911 It's the Big Bad, Dawn. The one we knew was coming. 6 00:00:17,396 --> 00:00:20,149 I did what you told me. It's not my fault it didn't work. 7 00:00:20,236 --> 00:00:23,706 - I would do this stuff if I could. - I don't think I can kill anybody else. 8 00:00:23,796 --> 00:00:26,788 It's my fault the ritual didn't work. I don't have enough blood. 9 00:00:26,876 --> 00:00:30,312 Look who I found, buying mass amounts of blood at the butcher shop. 10 00:00:30,396 --> 00:00:33,513 - Just tell us what... you... know. - Ow! 11 00:00:33,596 --> 00:00:36,064 I believe in you, Spike. 12 00:00:40,476 --> 00:00:42,512 They were after Spike all along. 13 00:00:43,916 --> 00:00:45,634 I'm getting tired of subtle. 14 00:00:45,716 --> 00:00:49,504 It's about time we bring some authority to our presence. 15 00:00:49,596 --> 00:00:52,508 Now, Spike, you wanna see what a real vampire looks like? 16 00:00:58,076 --> 00:01:02,627 It's a loop, like the mummy hand. I'm doomed to replace these windows for eternity. 17 00:01:02,716 --> 00:01:06,311 We should board these up until things are less Hellmouthy. 18 00:01:06,396 --> 00:01:10,071 Nothing, and nothing. Cliffs Notes to nothing. Nothing abridged. 19 00:01:10,156 --> 00:01:13,705 Yeah, my search isn't turning anything up either. 20 00:01:13,796 --> 00:01:17,027 Are you sure this thing called itself the First? 21 00:01:17,116 --> 00:01:21,985 Pretty sure. It claimed to be the original evil, the one that came before anything else. 22 00:01:22,076 --> 00:01:24,351 How many times have I heard that as a demon? 23 00:01:24,436 --> 00:01:27,030 "I'm so rotten, they don't have a word for it." 24 00:01:27,116 --> 00:01:31,109 "I'm bad. Baddy bad bad bad. Does it make you horny?" 25 00:01:32,076 --> 00:01:35,113 - Or terrified. Whatever. - (Buffy) It wasn't a line. 26 00:01:35,196 --> 00:01:38,506 When I came up against this thing, I felt it. 27 00:01:38,596 --> 00:01:43,909 It was... ancient and enormous. It nearly got Angel to kill himself. 28 00:01:44,476 --> 00:01:48,151 If we don't rescue Spike soon, God knows what the First'll get him to do. 29 00:01:48,236 --> 00:01:51,626 I wish Sleeping Ugly would come to. He's been out all night. 30 00:01:51,716 --> 00:01:55,231 Yes, he was just starting to squeal when the spooky SWAT attacked. 31 00:01:55,316 --> 00:01:59,707 Said the First was held up at the Seal of... Danzar something? 32 00:02:02,196 --> 00:02:07,145 Maybe he's just faking so he doesn't have to answer any more questions. 33 00:02:08,756 --> 00:02:11,828 - Hm. Or maybe he's in a fugue state. - (Buffy) Dawn. 34 00:02:11,916 --> 00:02:14,635 - What? - He'll come to when he comes to. 35 00:02:14,716 --> 00:02:20,268 Keep reading. If we're gonna rescue Spike, we need to figure out how to fight this thing. 36 00:02:20,356 --> 00:02:22,665 Anya gets to hit him. 37 00:02:22,756 --> 00:02:27,466 Hey! Here, the First! Bank of Delaware. Sorry. 38 00:02:30,516 --> 00:02:33,394 Hand me the Watchers' Codex again. 39 00:02:34,996 --> 00:02:37,510 (Joyce) Can I get you anything else, baby? 40 00:02:37,596 --> 00:02:40,110 How about some tea? 41 00:02:42,076 --> 00:02:43,714 Mom? 42 00:02:45,516 --> 00:02:47,666 You're not real. 43 00:02:47,756 --> 00:02:51,271 OK, is that slang, like you're not for real, or... 44 00:02:51,356 --> 00:02:53,824 You're the First. 45 00:02:53,916 --> 00:02:57,625 Oh, baby, you're so tired, you're not making sense. 46 00:02:57,716 --> 00:03:00,310 - Maybe you should get some sleep. - No. 47 00:03:00,396 --> 00:03:02,387 You can't win against this thing. 48 00:03:02,476 --> 00:03:05,195 - Not if you don't rest. - Stop. 49 00:03:05,276 --> 00:03:07,585 Stop being like this. 50 00:03:09,156 --> 00:03:10,908 It's a lie. 51 00:03:10,996 --> 00:03:15,069 I don't want to scare you, but I want you to take care. 52 00:03:15,156 --> 00:03:18,432 You need to wake up. 53 00:03:18,516 --> 00:03:21,189 - What? - (Xander) You're dreaming. 54 00:03:21,276 --> 00:03:23,915 Buff, wake up. 55 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:26,954 - Did you see it? - There's nothing to see. 56 00:03:27,036 --> 00:03:31,314 You were just doing a little dream-talking, that's all. 57 00:03:31,396 --> 00:03:32,795 Oh. 58 00:03:32,876 --> 00:03:35,436 You OK? 59 00:03:36,236 --> 00:03:38,909 - What'd you see? - Nothing. 60 00:03:39,916 --> 00:03:41,827 It was nothing. 61 00:03:41,916 --> 00:03:44,066 (chanting in Latin) 62 00:03:59,876 --> 00:04:03,471 (Spike's voice) Go on. Give him a kick, then. 63 00:04:03,556 --> 00:04:06,434 You always liked that, didn't you? 64 00:04:08,076 --> 00:04:12,672 Kick a dolly when he's down. That was always your style. 65 00:04:17,836 --> 00:04:20,589 Has buckets of energy, poor dear. 66 00:04:20,676 --> 00:04:26,273 He's been laying in wait for his moment since before the bug walked. 67 00:04:30,436 --> 00:04:35,146 There, there, pet. Soon as the moon comes, you'll have your carnage. 68 00:04:37,436 --> 00:04:41,668 Little girls tear so easily, like pink paper. 69 00:04:41,756 --> 00:04:45,032 Till then, we'll have our way with this one. 70 00:04:45,116 --> 00:04:47,710 Got it coming, he does. 71 00:04:52,236 --> 00:04:54,386 - (thud) - Aargh! 72 00:05:48,916 --> 00:05:51,191 That was something. 73 00:05:51,276 --> 00:05:53,471 Maybe if you threw hot water on him. 74 00:05:53,556 --> 00:05:55,467 Good thinking. 75 00:05:55,556 --> 00:05:58,070 - Whoa, hey. - Hi. 76 00:05:59,836 --> 00:06:02,828 - Nothing. - What? 77 00:06:02,916 --> 00:06:07,194 Oh, I thought you were gonna ask us what we were doing. 78 00:06:07,676 --> 00:06:10,474 - No, I was going to ask... - (coughs) 79 00:06:10,556 --> 00:06:13,024 Oh! Look who's awake. 80 00:06:13,116 --> 00:06:16,665 Silly Andrew, you drooled all over yourself. 81 00:06:17,596 --> 00:06:20,554 I'm... I was about to be dead. 82 00:06:22,396 --> 00:06:24,273 You saved me. 83 00:06:24,356 --> 00:06:26,392 For the time being. 84 00:06:26,476 --> 00:06:28,751 But if you don't tell us what we need to know, 85 00:06:28,836 --> 00:06:34,468 then I'm gonna offer you to the First on a platter and let him chop you into tiny pieces. 86 00:06:34,556 --> 00:06:35,750 The first what? 87 00:06:35,836 --> 00:06:38,748 The evil thing posing as Warren to get you to kill Jonathan. 88 00:06:38,836 --> 00:06:42,465 - Not very ominous-sounding. - It is if you understand the context. 89 00:06:42,556 --> 00:06:46,674 No, an evil name should be like Lex or Voldemort or... 90 00:06:46,756 --> 00:06:49,509 Hey, I was intimidating here. 91 00:06:50,596 --> 00:06:53,713 Oh, sorry. Go ahead. 92 00:06:55,436 --> 00:06:57,870 Forget it. Where's the seal? 93 00:06:57,956 --> 00:07:00,026 It's around this corner, I think. 94 00:07:00,116 --> 00:07:03,233 - You'd better be right this time. - I told you, I'm not sure. 95 00:07:03,316 --> 00:07:06,626 Maybe you should get sure. I'm sick of all the run-around with you. 96 00:07:06,716 --> 00:07:09,708 Whoa. Check out the goat-headed badness. 97 00:07:10,756 --> 00:07:14,192 - What's it do? - I don't know. Something not good. 98 00:07:14,276 --> 00:07:18,315 It didn't work cos... there wasn't enough blood. 99 00:07:18,396 --> 00:07:20,068 OK. 100 00:07:24,516 --> 00:07:26,746 There's blood on this. Lots. 101 00:07:26,836 --> 00:07:30,431 Looks like the First made another sacrifice. Or a music video. 102 00:07:30,516 --> 00:07:32,711 The seal could've been activated. 103 00:07:32,796 --> 00:07:36,391 - Maybe that's what it needed Spike for. - That wasn't there before. 104 00:07:36,476 --> 00:07:39,513 - I had nothing to do with that. - Thanks for clearing that up. 105 00:07:39,596 --> 00:07:42,827 We thought you were up to no good at this satanic manhole cover. 106 00:07:42,916 --> 00:07:44,952 You killed your best friend! 107 00:07:45,036 --> 00:07:47,345 He's in a place of joy and peace. He told me. 108 00:07:47,436 --> 00:07:50,951 No, nobody told you. You got tricked by a fake ghost. 109 00:07:51,036 --> 00:07:54,711 Can we save the encounter session? We need to cover this thing up. 110 00:07:54,796 --> 00:07:58,311 Whatever it does, we can't leave it exposed like this. 111 00:08:06,996 --> 00:08:11,990 This place gives me the creeps. It's like in Wonder Woman, issue 297-299. 112 00:08:12,076 --> 00:08:15,591 - "Catacombs". Yeah, with the skeletons. - (both) That was cool. 113 00:08:15,676 --> 00:08:17,667 Move it. This way. 114 00:08:18,676 --> 00:08:22,510 So what next? We found the seal, but no Spike. 115 00:08:22,596 --> 00:08:26,350 I don't know. The First was camped underground last time I found him... 116 00:08:26,436 --> 00:08:27,789 Buffy? 117 00:08:28,396 --> 00:08:30,068 - Hey! - Hey. 118 00:08:31,676 --> 00:08:33,826 I... thought that you were... 119 00:08:33,916 --> 00:08:38,114 Sick? She was. Vomiting and oozing from various places and... 120 00:08:38,196 --> 00:08:41,905 Yeah, I remember, so please don't go on. 121 00:08:43,436 --> 00:08:45,267 Oh, but now it's amazing. 122 00:08:45,356 --> 00:08:48,587 - The doctor gave her some cream. - Some pills. 123 00:08:48,676 --> 00:08:51,270 And a cream. And I'm all better. 124 00:08:54,636 --> 00:08:57,150 Oh, yeah. Um... 125 00:08:57,236 --> 00:09:01,673 Apparently somebody left this in the courtyard, and I was just returning it. 126 00:09:01,756 --> 00:09:05,192 That's some full-service principalling. 127 00:09:05,276 --> 00:09:07,267 I try. 128 00:09:10,116 --> 00:09:10,946 Oh! 129 00:09:11,036 --> 00:09:14,267 I was down here helping Dawn with a school project. 130 00:09:14,356 --> 00:09:18,793 - For science. - We buried a... time capsule. 131 00:09:18,876 --> 00:09:24,234 "Hello, people of the future. Kids today like Red Bull and Jackass!" 132 00:09:24,316 --> 00:09:26,876 - We'd better go. - Buffy? 133 00:09:27,676 --> 00:09:30,827 If you are feeling better, I could really use you back at work. 134 00:09:30,916 --> 00:09:33,953 I've been waitlisting kids who really wanna see you. 135 00:09:34,036 --> 00:09:38,746 Oh, yeah. I'm sorry, you know, I just... I've been ill and stuff. 136 00:09:38,836 --> 00:09:43,466 No, it's fine, and I understand. It's just... things are starting to back up. 137 00:09:43,556 --> 00:09:49,028 Well, I'll be there tomorrow. No problem. 100% ooze-free. 138 00:09:49,116 --> 00:09:51,107 Good. 139 00:09:51,196 --> 00:09:52,993 OK. 140 00:10:06,116 --> 00:10:07,993 How's it going? 141 00:10:08,076 --> 00:10:10,988 Dawn's trying to find out about the Seal of Danzalthar. 142 00:10:11,076 --> 00:10:14,591 Will's about to do a locator spell, see if we can find the First. 143 00:10:14,676 --> 00:10:17,873 Why don't you go get some rest? You haven't slept for two days. 144 00:10:17,956 --> 00:10:22,108 - We'll call you if we find anything. - Nah, I couldn't sleep. Too much going on. 145 00:10:22,196 --> 00:10:25,825 It'll be OK, Buff. We've faced this kind of stuff before. 146 00:10:25,916 --> 00:10:31,309 You didn't see the First. I did. I felt it. It was like... 147 00:10:39,356 --> 00:10:41,711 Aargh! 148 00:10:41,796 --> 00:10:43,309 Will! 149 00:10:45,236 --> 00:10:48,751 (demonic voice) You only make me stronger! 150 00:10:52,316 --> 00:10:53,669 Will! 151 00:10:53,756 --> 00:10:57,192 - It's still in me, I feel it! - No, it's not. It's gone. You're OK. 152 00:10:57,276 --> 00:11:00,234 I don't wanna hurt anybody. Please don't let it make me! 153 00:11:00,316 --> 00:11:04,832 We won't, I promise. We won't use magic to fight this until we know what we're doing. 154 00:11:04,916 --> 00:11:08,113 I can't. I can't. I'm sorry. 155 00:11:11,956 --> 00:11:14,311 - Let me come with you. - I'm going alone. 156 00:11:14,396 --> 00:11:17,194 You don't know how to fight the First, or where it is. 157 00:11:17,276 --> 00:11:20,632 It's out there. It's hurting my friends. I'll find it. 158 00:11:20,716 --> 00:11:23,310 - Buffy. - Giles! 159 00:11:24,676 --> 00:11:26,792 Nice place. Bit of a mess. 160 00:11:28,116 --> 00:11:30,676 This is the Slayer? 161 00:11:31,436 --> 00:11:32,664 Huh! 162 00:11:32,756 --> 00:11:37,386 Sorry to barge in. I'm afraid we have a slight... apocalypse. 163 00:11:42,436 --> 00:11:45,667 - They're all slayers? - (Giles) Potential slayers. 164 00:11:45,756 --> 00:11:51,626 Waiting for one to be called. There were many more like them all over the world, but... 165 00:11:51,716 --> 00:11:54,833 now there's just a handful, all on their way to Sunnydale. 166 00:11:54,916 --> 00:11:57,749 The others were murdered. 167 00:12:00,236 --> 00:12:02,067 (Giles) In cold blood. 168 00:12:04,876 --> 00:12:07,549 As well as their watchers. 169 00:12:07,796 --> 00:12:09,991 We always feared this day would come, 170 00:12:10,076 --> 00:12:14,194 when there'd be an attack against not just one slayer, but the whole line. 171 00:12:14,276 --> 00:12:16,267 It's started. 172 00:12:16,356 --> 00:12:19,075 The First. That's what it wants. 173 00:12:19,156 --> 00:12:26,267 Yes, to erase all the slayers-in-training and their watchers, along with their methods. 174 00:12:26,356 --> 00:12:29,268 And then Faith, and then me. 175 00:12:31,116 --> 00:12:37,032 And with all the potentials gone and no way of making another, it's the end. 176 00:12:37,116 --> 00:12:39,710 No more Slayer. 177 00:12:39,796 --> 00:12:42,026 Ever. 178 00:12:43,316 --> 00:12:48,071 But we haven't found any information on the First. No documentation... 179 00:12:48,156 --> 00:12:51,512 That's because it predates any written history. 180 00:12:51,596 --> 00:12:55,555 And... it rarely shows its true face. 181 00:12:55,636 --> 00:12:58,275 The only record I know was in the Council library. 182 00:12:58,356 --> 00:13:02,235 What about the Council? What do they say about this? 183 00:13:02,316 --> 00:13:03,544 Gone. 184 00:13:04,916 --> 00:13:07,111 - (Willow) What? - Obliterated. 185 00:13:08,076 --> 00:13:11,512 They were in session, and there was an explosion. 186 00:13:11,596 --> 00:13:15,111 That means all the Council's records are destroyed? 187 00:13:16,476 --> 00:13:17,989 Annabelle? 188 00:13:24,876 --> 00:13:31,315 That's what's left of the mystic secrets of the watchers. 189 00:13:31,916 --> 00:13:35,113 And whatever I could find on the First. 190 00:13:35,196 --> 00:13:39,030 When I learned what was happening, I... 191 00:13:39,116 --> 00:13:42,153 - I stole them. - And you blew the Council up! 192 00:13:42,236 --> 00:13:45,865 This is what happens when you're stuffy and repressed. You overreact. 193 00:13:45,956 --> 00:13:48,516 Not... I didn't. 194 00:13:49,356 --> 00:13:54,225 Must've been an agent of the First, after my little burglary session. 195 00:13:54,316 --> 00:13:58,867 The knowledge contained in these files had to be protected, 196 00:13:58,956 --> 00:14:03,393 and there wasn't time for bureaucracy or debate. 197 00:14:03,476 --> 00:14:07,594 - The Council knows no other way. - And it cost them their lives! 198 00:14:09,956 --> 00:14:12,072 Go on. 199 00:14:12,156 --> 00:14:14,750 Can we gag him? 200 00:14:17,716 --> 00:14:20,867 But what do these records say about the First? 201 00:14:20,956 --> 00:14:24,426 (Giles) Very little. It can change form. 202 00:14:25,276 --> 00:14:29,792 It only appears in the guise of someone who has passed away. 203 00:14:29,876 --> 00:14:32,834 - Our ghosts. - Also it's not corporeal. 204 00:14:32,916 --> 00:14:36,989 It can't touch or fight on its own. It only works through those it manipulates. 205 00:14:37,076 --> 00:14:39,226 And its followers, the Bringers. 206 00:14:39,316 --> 00:14:44,185 - Those freaks in the black robes. - With the hoodies and crazy alphabet eyes. 207 00:14:44,276 --> 00:14:46,744 - I never saw 'em, I just heard... - Sh! Molly. 208 00:14:46,836 --> 00:14:50,033 Mr Giles doesn't need us prattling on. 209 00:14:50,116 --> 00:14:53,870 The First is unlike anything we've faced before. 210 00:14:53,956 --> 00:14:58,984 There's evil and then there's... the thing that created evil. 211 00:14:59,956 --> 00:15:02,629 - The source. - That's what this thing claims to be? 212 00:15:02,716 --> 00:15:04,752 That's what it is. 213 00:15:04,836 --> 00:15:08,192 It has eternities to act, endless resources. 214 00:15:09,716 --> 00:15:12,310 How to defeat it, I... 215 00:15:13,876 --> 00:15:17,505 Honestly, I don't know. But we have to find a way. 216 00:15:18,436 --> 00:15:23,385 If the slayer line is eliminated, then the Hellmouth has no guardian. 217 00:15:23,476 --> 00:15:26,070 The balance is destroyed. 218 00:15:27,436 --> 00:15:31,668 I'm afraid it falls to you, Buffy. Sorry. I mean, we'll do what we can. 219 00:15:31,756 --> 00:15:36,876 But... you're the only one who has the strength to protect these girls - 220 00:15:36,956 --> 00:15:39,470 and the world - against what's coming. 221 00:15:42,756 --> 00:15:44,667 But no pressure. 222 00:15:44,756 --> 00:15:47,350 (Kennedy) That's it? That's the plan? 223 00:15:47,436 --> 00:15:50,553 I don't see how one person, even a slayer, could protect us. 224 00:15:50,636 --> 00:15:54,072 I saw what those Bringers can do. They tore apart my watcher. 225 00:15:54,156 --> 00:15:57,751 - We'll use all our resources... - If this thing is the root of all evil, 226 00:15:57,836 --> 00:16:00,828 isn't the Hellmouth its number-one vacation spot? 227 00:16:00,916 --> 00:16:03,953 Shouldn't we be hiding on the other side of the globe? 228 00:16:04,036 --> 00:16:07,073 - Kennedy! - No, she's not wrong. 229 00:16:07,156 --> 00:16:10,831 We need more muscle. That's why we need to find Spike. 230 00:16:10,916 --> 00:16:16,354 Yeah, he'll help. If he's not crazy or... off killing people or... dead. 231 00:16:17,596 --> 00:16:20,633 Or, you know, all of the above. 232 00:16:32,956 --> 00:16:36,551 That's why our kind make such good dollies. 233 00:16:45,476 --> 00:16:47,592 Hard to kill. 234 00:16:48,676 --> 00:16:51,144 Tried to enlighten little Buffy, didn't you? 235 00:16:51,236 --> 00:16:55,434 Spilled, spilled, spilled our secrets like seed. 236 00:16:57,516 --> 00:16:59,586 But you forgot. 237 00:16:59,676 --> 00:17:02,270 I say what you tell and what you know. 238 00:17:03,316 --> 00:17:05,307 I say when this is over. 239 00:17:07,796 --> 00:17:09,832 And I'm not done with you yet. 240 00:17:11,836 --> 00:17:14,145 Not nearly. 241 00:17:14,236 --> 00:17:16,227 (clicks tongue) 242 00:17:24,956 --> 00:17:30,394 This place you originally saw the First, you say it was... a Christmas tree lot? 243 00:17:30,476 --> 00:17:35,311 Under it. There was a hidden cavern. Just happened to be under a tree lot. 244 00:17:35,396 --> 00:17:38,468 The Bringers were doing some kind of ritual. 245 00:17:39,676 --> 00:17:45,785 - Giles, this is bad, isn't it? A new kind of bad. - Just in time for Christmas. 246 00:17:45,876 --> 00:17:48,754 You know, I didn't even realise it was December. 247 00:17:48,836 --> 00:17:52,545 Maybe when we get home, we should decorate the rubble. 248 00:17:53,636 --> 00:17:58,312 Think you'll ever show up for a real visit? The kind where the world isn't about to end? 249 00:17:58,396 --> 00:18:00,990 If we survive this, I promise. 250 00:18:01,076 --> 00:18:03,670 Good. Cos I miss you. 251 00:18:05,516 --> 00:18:07,507 I miss you too. 252 00:18:08,556 --> 00:18:11,116 So, how long have you followed Buffy? 253 00:18:11,196 --> 00:18:13,915 I don't "follow" her. She's my best friend. 254 00:18:13,996 --> 00:18:15,315 Huh. 255 00:18:15,396 --> 00:18:18,433 She seems like a good leader. Her hair is shiny. 256 00:18:19,276 --> 00:18:21,836 Does she make you stab things? 257 00:18:21,916 --> 00:18:24,635 OK, so Annabelle can sleep down here, 258 00:18:24,716 --> 00:18:29,153 - Molly can sleep in Dawn's room... - Not if Dawn actually wants to sleep. 259 00:18:29,236 --> 00:18:32,308 - Molly will talk her ear off. - OK, then Molly down here, 260 00:18:32,396 --> 00:18:35,229 you with Dawn, and Annabelle in my room. 261 00:18:35,316 --> 00:18:37,147 Bad idea. Annabelle snores. 262 00:18:37,236 --> 00:18:39,750 - You wanna do the sleeping arrangements? - OK. 263 00:18:39,836 --> 00:18:42,828 You... better not hog the covers. 264 00:18:45,356 --> 00:18:47,426 - Does she wanna eat? - What? 265 00:18:47,516 --> 00:18:50,428 Oh, she's... she's new. 266 00:18:50,516 --> 00:18:53,633 Annabelle and Molly are starved. I burnt the mac and cheese. 267 00:18:53,716 --> 00:18:57,629 I'll put hot sauce on it, tell 'em it's an American thing. Say it's blackened. 268 00:18:57,716 --> 00:18:59,832 It's not blackened so much as ruined. 269 00:18:59,916 --> 00:19:02,384 Or we can order pizza. 270 00:19:02,476 --> 00:19:06,674 - As long as it's plain. I'm veggie. - Cracked, you mean. 271 00:19:06,756 --> 00:19:12,467 - Just because you'll eat any kind of trash. - Oh, brill! Biscuits! 272 00:19:12,556 --> 00:19:16,469 You don't mind, do you? I got a case of the nerves after Mr Giles' lecture. 273 00:19:16,556 --> 00:19:21,630 Knock yourself out. I feel a cookie problem coming on myself. 274 00:19:27,916 --> 00:19:32,990 (Giles) So the entrance to the cave... was above ground here? 275 00:19:33,076 --> 00:19:36,751 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was around here somewhere. 276 00:19:36,836 --> 00:19:38,872 Well, we'll just keep... 277 00:19:38,956 --> 00:19:40,947 - Argh! - (crash) 278 00:19:41,516 --> 00:19:43,507 (Buffy) Found it! 279 00:19:47,356 --> 00:19:50,632 - Good lord, are you all right? - Peachy. 280 00:19:50,716 --> 00:19:53,833 Except my knees bend backwards now. 281 00:19:53,916 --> 00:19:57,147 Giles, stay up there. I'm gonna check it out. 282 00:19:57,236 --> 00:19:58,988 Right. 283 00:20:28,556 --> 00:20:29,989 (growls) 284 00:22:08,876 --> 00:22:12,107 ..the others just yet. It'll give us a chance to... 285 00:22:13,796 --> 00:22:17,345 - Sorry about the British invasion. - We've been up for hours. 286 00:22:17,436 --> 00:22:19,392 4pm, London time. 287 00:22:19,476 --> 00:22:21,467 Are you all right? You look... 288 00:22:21,556 --> 00:22:26,425 Oh. Yeah, I'm OK. I just... got into a fight is all. 289 00:22:27,436 --> 00:22:29,188 You wanna tell me with what? 290 00:22:29,276 --> 00:22:33,394 Yes, Buffy, but don't you think we should discuss this privately? 291 00:22:34,796 --> 00:22:38,709 You mean, not in front of the next generation? 292 00:22:38,796 --> 00:22:43,312 No time to coddle them, Giles. Welcome to the war room, guys. 293 00:22:44,476 --> 00:22:47,673 What you fought was a vampire, but it was more than that. 294 00:22:47,756 --> 00:22:50,953 It was a... Turok-Han. 295 00:22:51,036 --> 00:22:55,348 As Neanderthals are to human beings, the Turok-Han are to vampires. 296 00:22:55,436 --> 00:23:00,351 Primordial, ferociously powerful killing machines, as single-minded as animals. 297 00:23:00,436 --> 00:23:06,352 They are the vampires that vampires fear. An ancient and entirely different race. 298 00:23:06,436 --> 00:23:09,587 Until this morning, I thought they were a myth. 299 00:23:09,676 --> 00:23:14,033 So, the First shows up, and now this. You think it's a coincidence? 300 00:23:14,116 --> 00:23:18,667 I think it's more likely that the Turok-Han is here as an agent of the First. 301 00:23:18,756 --> 00:23:20,792 Erm... 302 00:23:20,876 --> 00:23:23,151 Did you slay it? 303 00:23:24,156 --> 00:23:27,705 No, it's still out there. Somewhere. 304 00:23:27,796 --> 00:23:29,787 What's it want? 305 00:23:30,716 --> 00:23:33,992 All of us dead. 306 00:23:34,996 --> 00:23:38,227 For now it looks like sunlight's keeping this Ubervamp away. 307 00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:41,945 (Giles) So, until sunset, I suggest you get some rest. 308 00:23:42,036 --> 00:23:45,665 A few hours sleep will do a world of difference. 309 00:23:45,756 --> 00:23:47,986 No sleep today. Can't. 310 00:23:48,076 --> 00:23:51,432 - Oh, come on, you're exhausted. - It comes with the gig. 311 00:23:51,516 --> 00:23:56,385 Somehow I don't think taking on prehistoric evil comes with nap time. 312 00:23:56,476 --> 00:24:01,789 Sorry, potential guys. I know you came a long way, and you wanna get into it, 313 00:24:01,876 --> 00:24:06,506 but the best thing you can do now is just sit tight. Wait it out. 314 00:24:06,596 --> 00:24:12,626 I'm gonna go to work, see what I can find out. I'll be back before sunset. 315 00:24:12,716 --> 00:24:17,506 How do you plan to research something as ill-defined as the First? 316 00:24:18,356 --> 00:24:20,506 I have the best plan ever. 317 00:24:20,836 --> 00:24:22,906 I already rechecked the basement. 318 00:24:22,996 --> 00:24:26,386 Wait, you know, hold on, I'm gonna try something. 319 00:24:26,476 --> 00:24:29,991 Maybe the First isn't ready for modern technology. 320 00:24:30,076 --> 00:24:35,070 "Displaying results 1 through 10 of... 900,517." 321 00:24:36,436 --> 00:24:39,553 OK, I gotta narrow this down. I'll call you back? 322 00:24:39,636 --> 00:24:41,433 Yeah. 323 00:24:45,436 --> 00:24:48,269 "Manifestations of evil"? 324 00:24:50,836 --> 00:24:53,987 "..in... the... movies." 325 00:24:54,676 --> 00:24:56,667 You're searching for evil movies? 326 00:24:56,756 --> 00:25:00,749 I know it's not the all-time most kosher use of my office hours, 327 00:25:00,836 --> 00:25:03,304 but, you know, looking at some downtime. 328 00:25:03,396 --> 00:25:07,594 What can I say? I just love those evil, evil movies. 329 00:25:08,636 --> 00:25:12,026 Like Exorcist, you know, Blair Witch... 330 00:25:12,116 --> 00:25:15,472 As opposed to, say, Rob Schneider's oeuvre. 331 00:25:15,996 --> 00:25:18,954 - Different kind of evil. - Yeah. 332 00:25:19,036 --> 00:25:23,029 Buffy, I'm not that big a fan of scary movies, even the hokey ones. 333 00:25:23,116 --> 00:25:28,349 Sometimes they go to a place that I think kids could stand to avoid. 334 00:25:29,236 --> 00:25:32,751 - Well, it's not for the kids. - Yeah. 335 00:25:33,236 --> 00:25:36,592 Yeah, I'm only saying that once you see true evil, 336 00:25:36,676 --> 00:25:42,194 it can have some serious afterburn, and then you can't unsee what you saw. 337 00:25:43,516 --> 00:25:45,632 Ever. 338 00:25:47,836 --> 00:25:50,145 That's just one opinion. 339 00:25:50,236 --> 00:25:52,830 I better get back to work. 340 00:25:55,996 --> 00:25:58,556 What kind of movies do you like? 341 00:25:58,636 --> 00:26:00,945 Oh, me? Mysteries. 342 00:26:01,956 --> 00:26:06,825 I love finding out what's underneath it all at the very end. 343 00:26:08,196 --> 00:26:12,075 (Drusilla) Think of it as a game. A fun, funny game. 344 00:26:13,076 --> 00:26:17,752 Without all the rules, or any of the bothersome winning part. 345 00:26:17,836 --> 00:26:22,830 But still, there are sides. You have to choose a side, Spike. 346 00:26:23,956 --> 00:26:27,312 Then we can fly. Be free and visit all our friends 347 00:26:27,396 --> 00:26:31,071 as they come squirming up from out the earth. 348 00:26:32,156 --> 00:26:37,435 I know you like a good wriggle and a giggle and a squiggle. 349 00:26:38,716 --> 00:26:40,547 You're not Drusilla. 350 00:26:42,396 --> 00:26:46,628 - No, I'm really not. - She was crazier than you. 351 00:26:46,716 --> 00:26:48,911 Mmm, daddy. 352 00:26:49,916 --> 00:26:55,070 No kicking. It's almost Christmas Day today and you've gone spoiling it. 353 00:26:56,196 --> 00:26:58,790 I've been so very good all year. 354 00:27:00,156 --> 00:27:01,271 (growls) 355 00:27:01,356 --> 00:27:03,426 But I could be bad if you like. 356 00:27:10,356 --> 00:27:12,745 Bad daddy. Needs a caning. 357 00:27:13,596 --> 00:27:18,875 Never learned his headmaster's lesson while all the school bells ring 358 00:27:18,956 --> 00:27:22,073 and ring and ring 359 00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:25,715 and ring and ring. 360 00:27:27,716 --> 00:27:32,073 Choose a side. Choose our side. 361 00:27:32,156 --> 00:27:34,750 You know that it's delicious. 362 00:27:37,676 --> 00:27:39,792 What do you say? 363 00:27:40,836 --> 00:27:43,714 - Dru, love... - Hm? 364 00:27:44,796 --> 00:27:47,071 Get bent. 365 00:27:49,316 --> 00:27:53,355 Stupid, stubborn... daddy. 366 00:27:59,516 --> 00:28:02,110 And ring and ring... 367 00:28:03,396 --> 00:28:05,114 (bell) 368 00:28:08,596 --> 00:28:10,587 Ow. 369 00:28:16,596 --> 00:28:19,190 Buffy, what happened? 370 00:28:21,756 --> 00:28:25,874 - It's OK, Mom. - I tried to warn you, but... 371 00:28:25,956 --> 00:28:31,394 Right. The last thing you need now is one of helpful Mom's guilt trips. 372 00:28:31,476 --> 00:28:33,944 - I'll get you some ice. - No. 373 00:28:34,036 --> 00:28:36,152 Mom, I can't. 374 00:28:36,316 --> 00:28:39,388 - Buffy, you have to heal. - I don't have time. 375 00:28:39,476 --> 00:28:41,706 Are you worried about the sun going down? 376 00:28:41,796 --> 00:28:43,912 There's some things you can't control. 377 00:28:43,996 --> 00:28:46,908 The sun always goes down, the sun always comes up. 378 00:28:46,996 --> 00:28:50,272 - Everyone's counting on me. - They do that. 379 00:28:50,356 --> 00:28:54,713 I'm sorry, but these friends of yours put too much pressure on you. They always have. 380 00:28:54,796 --> 00:29:00,075 - Something evil is coming. - Buffy, evil isn't coming, it's already here. 381 00:29:00,636 --> 00:29:02,786 Evil is always here. 382 00:29:02,876 --> 00:29:06,585 - Don't you know? It's everywhere. - And I have to stop it. 383 00:29:06,676 --> 00:29:10,510 - How are you gonna do that? - I don't know yet, but... 384 00:29:10,596 --> 00:29:16,705 Buffy, no matter what your friends expect of you, evil is a part of us. All of us. 385 00:29:17,396 --> 00:29:22,914 It's natural. And no one can stop that. No one can stop nature, not even... 386 00:29:22,996 --> 00:29:24,873 (bell) 387 00:29:26,556 --> 00:29:29,309 Oh, I'm sorry. What were we talking about? 388 00:29:29,396 --> 00:29:33,230 - Only my life. You're just like all the others. - No. No, no. I'm different. 389 00:29:33,316 --> 00:29:36,114 I'm hip, I relate to the young people. 390 00:29:36,196 --> 00:29:38,664 No, don't go... 391 00:29:39,276 --> 00:29:42,427 - Roger. - Roger! See? I knew that! 392 00:29:46,436 --> 00:29:48,427 Oh! 393 00:29:50,676 --> 00:29:52,029 This day's almost over. 394 00:29:52,356 --> 00:29:55,553 And the sun will go down in 17 minutes. 395 00:29:55,636 --> 00:29:58,025 Hey, junior slayers, don't look so worried. 396 00:29:58,116 --> 00:30:00,755 We don't know where Spike is or how to fight the First, 397 00:30:00,836 --> 00:30:03,794 or if and when the superstyle vampire is gonna attack us. 398 00:30:03,876 --> 00:30:06,674 However, house - boarded up. 399 00:30:06,756 --> 00:30:11,750 Now all we gotta do is trap this Ubervamp in the pantry, and it's game over. 400 00:30:11,836 --> 00:30:17,513 Xander, newbies. Let's ease them in to the whole "jokes in the face of death" thing. 401 00:30:17,596 --> 00:30:20,827 Who's joking? That pantry thing could work. 402 00:30:20,916 --> 00:30:23,908 Are you saying M Night Shyamalan lied to us? 403 00:30:23,996 --> 00:30:25,429 You'll be OK. 404 00:30:25,516 --> 00:30:29,191 OK, or even better. It's like our guarantee. 405 00:30:30,196 --> 00:30:36,226 Buffy, I just... I want you to know that I'm really sorry for letting you down. 406 00:30:36,316 --> 00:30:41,151 You know, here before, with the magic going all "argh" and me going all "eee" 407 00:30:41,236 --> 00:30:46,026 and everything getting all "rrr". I wish I could help out. 408 00:30:46,116 --> 00:30:48,710 No one expects you to make everything right. 409 00:30:48,796 --> 00:30:53,506 I can't do everything, but I should at least be able to do something. 410 00:30:53,596 --> 00:30:56,633 I have so much power, but when I try to use it... 411 00:30:56,716 --> 00:31:00,504 - Don't, OK? - OK. 412 00:31:02,116 --> 00:31:05,188 But... you need help, Buffy. 413 00:31:05,276 --> 00:31:10,350 I know you, and I know you'll never admit it, but you need help. 414 00:31:11,356 --> 00:31:15,747 I'll be OK. OK, or better. It's like my guarantee. 415 00:31:15,836 --> 00:31:18,304 Hey, are we getting weapons? 416 00:31:18,396 --> 00:31:22,025 Trained fighters? Patton is coming? I've heard worse ideas. 417 00:31:22,116 --> 00:31:24,550 We'll be armed when the Slayer feels we're ready. 418 00:31:24,636 --> 00:31:26,991 I feel ready. 419 00:31:27,076 --> 00:31:30,466 You're frightened. You must learn to control your fear. 420 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:33,787 You know what would help with that? Weapons. 421 00:31:35,796 --> 00:31:38,356 - I don't know. - We're sitting ducks without them. 422 00:31:38,436 --> 00:31:40,996 We're with the Slayer. Safe as houses. 423 00:31:42,156 --> 00:31:44,750 Do you see the house we're in? 424 00:31:49,156 --> 00:31:52,592 lt'll come straight for us, won't it? 425 00:31:53,836 --> 00:31:56,430 We should load them up, Giles. 426 00:31:57,436 --> 00:32:00,109 Listen to me. I've got a bad feeling about this. 427 00:32:00,196 --> 00:32:03,427 Of course you've got a bad feeling. You're tied to a chair. 428 00:32:03,516 --> 00:32:08,067 No. Yeah, but above and beyond that, I'm telling you my Spider-Sense is tingling. 429 00:32:08,156 --> 00:32:13,276 This is gonna get hairy. I'm talking weird with a beard. Better untie me. 430 00:32:13,356 --> 00:32:15,745 And that'll help us how? 431 00:32:16,636 --> 00:32:22,108 OK, I know what you're thinking. "Andrew, bad guy." 432 00:32:22,196 --> 00:32:28,066 You think I'm a super-villain like Dr Doom or Apocalypse or The Riddler. 433 00:32:28,156 --> 00:32:30,590 I admit I went over to the dark side, 434 00:32:30,676 --> 00:32:35,147 but just to pick up a few things, and now I'm back. I've learned. 435 00:32:35,236 --> 00:32:38,433 - I'm good again. - And when were you good before? 436 00:32:38,516 --> 00:32:41,189 OK, technically, never. Touché. 437 00:32:41,276 --> 00:32:46,714 But I'm like Vader in the last five minutes of Jedi, with redemptive powers, and... 438 00:32:46,796 --> 00:32:51,187 mine is a redemptive struggle... of... 439 00:32:51,276 --> 00:32:57,829 epic redemption which chronicles... These ropes itch. 440 00:33:02,876 --> 00:33:04,867 How are we doing on time? 441 00:33:04,956 --> 00:33:07,629 Sunset should be any minute now. 442 00:33:08,596 --> 00:33:10,666 Done everything we can. 443 00:33:10,756 --> 00:33:15,546 And don't worry, everyone here understands that you're calling the shots. 444 00:33:15,636 --> 00:33:19,788 - I just hope I'm calling the right ones. - You have all my faith. 445 00:33:19,876 --> 00:33:21,867 And they're depending on you. 446 00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:26,106 That's not exactly what I needed to hear. 447 00:33:26,196 --> 00:33:28,664 Guys? 448 00:33:28,756 --> 00:33:30,394 Annabelle split. 449 00:36:24,436 --> 00:36:26,427 (Xander) Buffy! 450 00:36:31,836 --> 00:36:33,906 Oh, God almighty. 451 00:36:36,596 --> 00:36:39,713 (Drusilla) Do you know why you're alive? 452 00:36:39,796 --> 00:36:46,235 Never figured you for... existential thought, love. 453 00:36:46,316 --> 00:36:48,989 I mean, you hated Paris. 454 00:36:49,076 --> 00:36:53,831 You're alive for one reason, and one reason only. 455 00:36:53,916 --> 00:36:56,271 Because I wish it. 456 00:36:56,356 --> 00:36:58,950 Do you know why I wish it? 457 00:36:59,956 --> 00:37:03,551 - Because I'm not done with you. - Give it up. 458 00:37:05,036 --> 00:37:09,029 Whatever you are, whatever you get away with, I'm out. 459 00:37:10,116 --> 00:37:13,392 You can't pull this puppet's strings any more. 460 00:37:13,476 --> 00:37:15,785 And what makes you think you have a choice? 461 00:37:15,876 --> 00:37:20,347 What makes you think you will ever be any good at all in this world? 462 00:37:20,436 --> 00:37:23,075 She does. 463 00:37:25,276 --> 00:37:27,585 Because she believes in me. 464 00:37:33,396 --> 00:37:37,025 (Giles) We could make plans as we always do, but Buffy was our plan. 465 00:37:37,116 --> 00:37:41,348 - There is no backup. - (Willow) Giles, she looks bad. 466 00:37:41,436 --> 00:37:46,829 (Giles) She does. I'm afraid there may be internal bleeding. 467 00:37:46,916 --> 00:37:53,992 - (Willow) What does that mean? Will she... - (Giles) Die? I don't think so. I don't know. 468 00:37:54,076 --> 00:37:59,867 (Willow) What do we do if she can't fight? If she can't beat this thing? 469 00:38:00,996 --> 00:38:06,116 - We're back at square one. - Which square would that be, exactly? 470 00:38:06,196 --> 00:38:08,391 I'm not sure. 471 00:38:08,476 --> 00:38:11,866 The First predates everything we've ever known. 472 00:38:11,956 --> 00:38:15,505 Or can know. It's everywhere, it's pure. 473 00:38:18,476 --> 00:38:21,036 I don't know if we can fight it. 474 00:38:21,116 --> 00:38:23,676 You're right. 475 00:38:26,876 --> 00:38:29,948 We don't know how to fight it. 476 00:38:30,036 --> 00:38:32,186 We don't know when it'll come. 477 00:38:33,356 --> 00:38:36,109 We can't run, can't hide. 478 00:38:37,516 --> 00:38:40,986 Can't pretend it's not the end, cos it is. 479 00:38:42,836 --> 00:38:47,512 Something's always been there to try and destroy the world. 480 00:38:47,596 --> 00:38:50,190 We've beaten them back. 481 00:38:51,316 --> 00:38:54,388 But we're not dealing with them any more. 482 00:38:54,476 --> 00:38:58,105 We're dealing with the reason they exist. 483 00:38:58,196 --> 00:39:01,586 Evil. The strongest. 484 00:39:02,916 --> 00:39:05,714 The First. 485 00:39:05,796 --> 00:39:07,388 Buffy, um... 486 00:39:07,476 --> 00:39:11,264 - I know you're very tired... - I'm beyond tired. 487 00:39:12,276 --> 00:39:14,267 I'm beyond scared. 488 00:39:15,276 --> 00:39:20,304 I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. 489 00:39:20,396 --> 00:39:23,274 And it'll choke on me. 490 00:39:26,116 --> 00:39:28,266 We're not ready? 491 00:39:28,356 --> 00:39:30,950 They're not ready. 492 00:39:31,036 --> 00:39:35,791 They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. 493 00:39:35,876 --> 00:39:37,787 I'm done waiting. 494 00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:41,551 They want an apocalypse? Well, we'll give 'em one. 495 00:39:43,156 --> 00:39:48,992 Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. Cos we just became an army. 496 00:39:50,476 --> 00:39:52,865 We just declared war. 497 00:39:53,796 --> 00:39:59,268 From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. 498 00:39:59,356 --> 00:40:03,110 We will find them and cut out their hearts one by one, 499 00:40:04,236 --> 00:40:07,865 until the First shows itself for what it really is. 500 00:40:08,876 --> 00:40:11,515 And I'll kill it myself. 501 00:40:14,076 --> 00:40:20,390 There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. 502 00:40:23,716 --> 00:40:25,707 Any questions? 503 00:40:44,956 --> 00:40:47,231 Visiontext Subtitles: David Van-Cauter 504 00:40:51,916 --> 00:40:53,747 Urgh! Argh! 505 00:40:54,476 --> 00:40:56,467 ENGLISH SDH