1 00:00:01,516 --> 00:00:03,234 Previously on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": 2 00:00:03,316 --> 00:00:04,590 Why didn't your chip go off? 3 00:00:04,676 --> 00:00:05,870 We were at the Initiative... 4 00:00:05,956 --> 00:00:09,744 - There was a choice. - Right. Either repair the chip, or remove it. 5 00:00:09,836 --> 00:00:12,270 - You removed the chip? - Yeah. 6 00:00:12,356 --> 00:00:15,428 Spike has a soul now. That's what's gonna stop him from hurting people. 7 00:00:15,516 --> 00:00:19,350 - Buffy... - He can be a good man, Giles. I feel it. 8 00:00:20,796 --> 00:00:22,752 How do you know about slayers? 9 00:00:22,836 --> 00:00:25,430 My mother was one. She was killed when I was four. 10 00:00:25,516 --> 00:00:28,508 - Something got her? A demon...? - A vampire. 11 00:00:28,596 --> 00:00:31,713 - How do you two know each other? - He works with me. 12 00:00:31,796 --> 00:00:34,071 You know, in the struggle against evil. 13 00:00:34,156 --> 00:00:35,191 He's a vampire. 14 00:00:35,436 --> 00:00:38,906 - Nice coat. Where'd you get it? - New York. 15 00:00:39,956 --> 00:00:41,025 (thunder) 16 00:00:53,116 --> 00:00:54,708 Well, all right! 17 00:00:54,796 --> 00:00:58,630 Got the moves, don't you? I wanna ride you hard before I put you away, love. 18 00:00:58,716 --> 00:01:02,834 You sure about that? You actually look a little wet and limp to me. 19 00:01:02,916 --> 00:01:05,476 And I ain't your love. 20 00:01:42,356 --> 00:01:44,950 I spent a long time trying to track you down. 21 00:01:45,036 --> 00:01:48,745 Don't really want the dance to end so soon, do you... Nikki? 22 00:01:48,836 --> 00:01:51,908 The music's just starting, isn't it? 23 00:01:55,636 --> 00:01:57,627 By the way... 24 00:01:59,596 --> 00:02:02,156 Iove the coat. 25 00:02:02,836 --> 00:02:04,827 Mama! 26 00:02:08,156 --> 00:02:12,069 You did a good job, baby boy. You stayed down just like mama told you. 27 00:02:12,156 --> 00:02:16,832 - Can we go home now? - Uh-uh. It's not safe there any more. 28 00:02:16,916 --> 00:02:21,546 How about I take you to Crowley's house? You can play with those spooky doodads. 29 00:02:21,636 --> 00:02:24,070 No, I wanna stay with you. 30 00:02:26,156 --> 00:02:28,147 Yeah, I know you do, baby. 31 00:02:28,236 --> 00:02:30,796 But remember, Robin honey, what we talked about. 32 00:02:30,876 --> 00:02:33,629 Always gotta work the mission. 33 00:02:34,156 --> 00:02:35,987 Look at me. 34 00:02:36,076 --> 00:02:40,149 You know I love you, but I got a job to do. 35 00:02:40,756 --> 00:02:43,429 The mission is what matters. Right? 36 00:02:45,676 --> 00:02:48,349 That's my boy. Come on. 37 00:02:57,956 --> 00:02:59,105 Robin? 38 00:03:28,116 --> 00:03:30,107 Spike! 39 00:03:43,636 --> 00:03:45,627 Little tip, mate. 40 00:03:47,076 --> 00:03:49,306 Stake's your friend. 41 00:03:49,396 --> 00:03:51,432 Don't be afraid to use it. 42 00:03:52,196 --> 00:03:54,073 What? 43 00:04:02,956 --> 00:04:05,231 Just waiting for my moment. 44 00:04:59,796 --> 00:05:01,787 (bell rings) 45 00:05:09,036 --> 00:05:11,470 Situation still normal. 46 00:05:11,556 --> 00:05:14,628 Or as normal as this school ever sees. 47 00:05:15,436 --> 00:05:17,028 So it appears. 48 00:05:17,116 --> 00:05:20,074 No fires, no one's head's going kablooey, 49 00:05:20,156 --> 00:05:25,105 and the swing choir and marching band are back to their normal, seething resentment. 50 00:05:25,196 --> 00:05:28,586 Yeah, it's been pretty quiet since you shut down that seal. 51 00:05:28,676 --> 00:05:32,908 - You just may have stopped this thing, Buffy. - No, it can't be that easy. 52 00:05:32,996 --> 00:05:34,588 You call that easy? 53 00:05:34,676 --> 00:05:38,828 Any apocalypse I avert without dying, those are the easy ones. 54 00:05:39,676 --> 00:05:42,873 You know, you're something else, Ms Summers. 55 00:05:42,956 --> 00:05:47,746 I've been watching you when we're out patrolling, and you're... 56 00:05:47,836 --> 00:05:49,906 You remind me of my, um... 57 00:05:50,916 --> 00:05:53,589 - Your mother? - Yeah. 58 00:05:53,676 --> 00:05:56,144 What I remember of her, anyway. 59 00:05:56,236 --> 00:05:58,511 Gotta say, not a line every girl likes to hear, 60 00:05:58,596 --> 00:06:01,713 but in this case compliment taken. 61 00:06:01,796 --> 00:06:04,708 Maybe you're right. Maybe everything is fine. 62 00:06:04,796 --> 00:06:07,913 Everything's terrible. Total catastrophe. 63 00:06:07,996 --> 00:06:10,829 - Giles, what's wrong? - Have you seen the new library? 64 00:06:10,916 --> 00:06:13,749 There's nothing but computers. Not a book to be seen. 65 00:06:13,836 --> 00:06:17,226 I don't know where to begin, Buffy. Who do we speak to? 66 00:06:17,316 --> 00:06:19,466 That would be me. Hi. 67 00:06:19,556 --> 00:06:24,550 - I'm Robin Wood. - Oh, sorry. Rupert Giles. Sorry. 68 00:06:24,636 --> 00:06:28,549 Buffy tells me you're something of a freelance demon-fighter. 69 00:06:28,636 --> 00:06:30,627 Oh, yes. 70 00:06:31,476 --> 00:06:33,831 I'm relieved. 71 00:06:33,916 --> 00:06:37,067 We're running dangerously low on allies. 72 00:06:37,156 --> 00:06:39,795 So we didn't stop it, then? 73 00:06:39,876 --> 00:06:45,746 No, the seers at the coven are certain the First is continuing to gather its forces. 74 00:06:46,316 --> 00:06:49,228 I'm afraid war is inevitable. 75 00:06:50,836 --> 00:06:54,431 - So we should go before the school board. - What? 76 00:06:54,516 --> 00:06:58,111 Well, I can have my backup library sent from home in the meantime. 77 00:06:58,196 --> 00:07:00,187 - It's not much, but... - Giles. 78 00:07:00,276 --> 00:07:06,033 Knowledge comes from crafted bindings and pages, Buffy, not ones and zeros. 79 00:07:06,116 --> 00:07:09,347 - Did you bring back any potentials? - No. 80 00:07:09,436 --> 00:07:13,554 Actually, my trip was about something else. It's regarding Spike. 81 00:07:13,636 --> 00:07:15,513 Spike? What about him? 82 00:07:15,596 --> 00:07:19,908 I told you my concerns when you recklessly chose to remove the chip from his head. 83 00:07:19,996 --> 00:07:22,908 - Wait, sorry. Chip? - It's a long story. 84 00:07:22,996 --> 00:07:26,068 The military put a chip in his head so he couldn't hurt anyone. 85 00:07:26,156 --> 00:07:27,145 The abridged version. 86 00:07:27,236 --> 00:07:30,353 But he wouldn't hurt anyone any more because he has a soul now. 87 00:07:30,436 --> 00:07:32,745 - Unless the First triggers him. - The chip? 88 00:07:32,836 --> 00:07:38,991 No, the trigger's a posthypnotic thing. The First put it in his head. It... made him... 89 00:07:39,076 --> 00:07:42,386 - He was killing again. - So he has a trigger, a soul and a chip? 90 00:07:42,476 --> 00:07:44,990 - Not any more. - It was killing him, Giles. 91 00:07:45,076 --> 00:07:47,590 - The trigger? - The chip. The trigger's not active. 92 00:07:47,676 --> 00:07:50,588 Because the military gave him a soul? 93 00:07:52,396 --> 00:07:53,795 Sorry. 94 00:07:53,876 --> 00:07:57,471 We don't know that the trigger is inactive. 95 00:07:58,116 --> 00:08:01,028 What I brought back may help us to disarm it, 96 00:08:01,116 --> 00:08:05,632 and to ascertain exactly what it is that causes Spike's behaviour. 97 00:08:05,716 --> 00:08:09,311 It was that song, Giles. It was that song that Spike was singing. 98 00:08:09,396 --> 00:08:12,513 He has no memory of it. Is there part of it that you remember? 99 00:08:12,596 --> 00:08:18,068 It didn't have a catchy hook, like "I'm coming up, so you better get this party started." 100 00:08:18,156 --> 00:08:23,549 Boring, old, and English. Just like yo... ul... Brynner. 101 00:08:23,636 --> 00:08:25,592 Yul Brynner. 102 00:08:26,516 --> 00:08:29,428 A British Yul Brynner. 103 00:08:30,236 --> 00:08:35,105 This thing you brought to keep Spike from killing again. How's it work? 104 00:08:35,756 --> 00:08:37,747 It will require a bit of magic. 105 00:08:38,076 --> 00:08:40,465 We couldn't have put these chains back up a week ago. 106 00:08:40,556 --> 00:08:43,275 No, we gotta work on Spike now of all times. 107 00:08:43,356 --> 00:08:45,347 What? 108 00:08:46,476 --> 00:08:48,467 Nothin'. 109 00:08:51,916 --> 00:08:54,589 What are you doing here? You came to see the show? 110 00:08:54,676 --> 00:08:57,270 - I thought you might need support. - Uh-huh. 111 00:08:57,356 --> 00:08:59,665 Let's get this over with. What are you gonna do? 112 00:08:59,756 --> 00:09:02,429 Some hypno-beam? A disarming spell? 113 00:09:02,516 --> 00:09:06,429 Not exactly. The First has brainwashed you. 114 00:09:06,516 --> 00:09:11,351 There's something in your subconscious that it's using to provoke a violent reaction. 115 00:09:11,436 --> 00:09:13,427 So... 116 00:09:14,236 --> 00:09:16,750 we have to put this in your brain. 117 00:09:16,836 --> 00:09:18,588 Bugger that! 118 00:09:18,676 --> 00:09:24,831 The prokaryote stone will move within your mind to reveal the root of the trigger's power. 119 00:09:24,916 --> 00:09:28,431 It can unleash ideas, images, memories. 120 00:09:28,516 --> 00:09:32,634 Hopefully, once you understand what it is that's... setting you off, 121 00:09:32,716 --> 00:09:34,866 you can break its hold on you. 122 00:09:34,956 --> 00:09:37,993 Hopefully? So it might not work? 123 00:09:38,076 --> 00:09:41,625 The stone's just a catalyst for the process. The rest is up to Spike. 124 00:09:41,716 --> 00:09:44,753 And how do you get that hunk of rubble into my cranium? 125 00:09:44,836 --> 00:09:47,396 - Willow? - OK. 126 00:09:47,476 --> 00:09:51,355 I just hope my pronunciation is in the ballpark. 127 00:09:52,276 --> 00:09:55,029 (reads spell) 128 00:10:07,996 --> 00:10:11,227 Oh, you have got to be joking? What now? 129 00:10:11,316 --> 00:10:15,104 It has to access the cerebral cortex via the optic nerve. 130 00:10:15,196 --> 00:10:17,391 Oh, bollocks. 131 00:10:17,476 --> 00:10:22,231 All the rubbish people keep sticking in my head, it's a wonder there's room for my brain. 132 00:10:22,316 --> 00:10:26,309 I don't think it takes up that much space, do you? 133 00:10:36,396 --> 00:10:37,545 Ow! 134 00:10:37,636 --> 00:10:39,831 - Ow, ow! - Spike! 135 00:10:42,116 --> 00:10:44,072 - Spike, listen to me. - Yeah. 136 00:10:44,156 --> 00:10:44,986 Are you all right? 137 00:10:45,556 --> 00:10:48,309 How do I know if this bug-ugly's doing its... 138 00:10:51,196 --> 00:10:55,348 (William) "Yet her smell, it doth linger, painting pictures in my mind, 139 00:10:55,436 --> 00:10:58,075 Her eyes, bowls of honey, 140 00:10:59,156 --> 00:11:01,431 Angels' harps, her laugh." 141 00:11:01,996 --> 00:11:08,868 "O lark, grant a sign if crook'd be Cupid's shaft." 142 00:11:08,956 --> 00:11:13,313 "Hark, the lark, her name it hath spake." 143 00:11:14,516 --> 00:11:17,155 "'Cecily' it discharges 144 00:11:17,236 --> 00:11:19,670 From 'twixt its wee beak." 145 00:11:23,156 --> 00:11:25,954 - Oh, William! - It's just scribbling. 146 00:11:26,036 --> 00:11:28,948 Nonsense. It's magnificent. 147 00:11:29,636 --> 00:11:34,949 I wonder, though. This Cecily of whom you write so often... 148 00:11:35,036 --> 00:11:37,834 Would that be the Underwood's eldest girl? 149 00:11:37,916 --> 00:11:40,874 No, no. I do not presume. 150 00:11:40,956 --> 00:11:43,151 She's lovely. 151 00:11:43,236 --> 00:11:46,911 You shouldn't be alone. You need a woman in your life. 152 00:11:46,996 --> 00:11:49,112 I have a woman in my life. 153 00:11:49,196 --> 00:11:51,266 But you ne... 154 00:11:56,996 --> 00:11:59,271 Well, do not mistake me. 155 00:11:59,356 --> 00:12:03,713 I still have hopes that one day there will be an addition to this household. 156 00:12:04,516 --> 00:12:09,351 I will always look after you, Mother. This I promise. 157 00:12:27,076 --> 00:12:30,352 Should I send the coach for Doctor Gull? 158 00:12:31,676 --> 00:12:33,667 I'll be all right. 159 00:12:36,156 --> 00:12:38,909 Oh, it's passed. 160 00:12:38,996 --> 00:12:43,148 - Just sit with me a while, will you? - Of course. 161 00:12:52,596 --> 00:12:55,429 # Early one morning 162 00:12:55,516 --> 00:12:59,191 # Just as the sun was shining 163 00:12:59,276 --> 00:13:02,586 # I heard a maid sing 164 00:13:02,676 --> 00:13:05,509 # In the valley below 165 00:13:06,316 --> 00:13:09,228 # "Oh, don't deceive me" 166 00:13:09,316 --> 00:13:12,035 # "Oh, never leave me" 167 00:13:12,116 --> 00:13:17,065 # "How could you use a poor maiden so?" 168 00:13:23,956 --> 00:13:25,708 (roars) 169 00:13:30,876 --> 00:13:31,911 Dawn! 170 00:14:03,716 --> 00:14:06,435 Get these sodding things off me. I'm fine. 171 00:14:06,516 --> 00:14:09,030 Shouldn't you take a little time? Calm down? 172 00:14:09,116 --> 00:14:11,630 I am calm. 173 00:14:11,716 --> 00:14:16,232 This stone of yours is out, right? Did its job, so I'm de-triggered, right? 174 00:14:16,316 --> 00:14:19,672 Spike, what do you remember about the song? 175 00:14:20,316 --> 00:14:25,231 Oh, yeah, the song. It's called "Early One Morning". Old folk ditty. 176 00:14:25,316 --> 00:14:27,784 - What's it mean to you? - Mean? 177 00:14:27,876 --> 00:14:31,152 Nothing. It's just... my mum. 178 00:14:31,636 --> 00:14:35,914 It was her favourite. She used to sing it to me... when I was a baby. 179 00:14:38,076 --> 00:14:40,510 - And? - No "and". That's it. 180 00:14:41,436 --> 00:14:45,315 Shouldn't you check on Dawnie? I clocked the niblet pretty fierce. 181 00:14:45,396 --> 00:14:47,705 She'll be OK. She's tough. 182 00:14:47,796 --> 00:14:48,672 Ow! 183 00:14:48,756 --> 00:14:50,667 - Sorry. - (phone rings) 184 00:14:50,756 --> 00:14:54,305 - It doesn't look like anything's broken. - Did you use a magic x-ray? 185 00:14:54,396 --> 00:14:57,035 That's just what people usually say. 186 00:14:58,116 --> 00:15:00,346 So Spike's trigger's been active all this time. 187 00:15:00,436 --> 00:15:04,714 How can Buffy take this for granted? He lives in our house, we train with him. 188 00:15:04,796 --> 00:15:06,514 Don't waste your time. 189 00:15:06,596 --> 00:15:10,555 Spike's got a "Get Out of Jail Free" card that doesn't apply to the rest of us. 190 00:15:10,636 --> 00:15:14,470 He could slaughter a hundred frat boys and... 191 00:15:15,836 --> 00:15:19,829 Forgiveness makes us human. Blah-dee-blah-blah-blah. 192 00:15:20,196 --> 00:15:23,586 Willow, call for you from LA. Somebody named Fred. 193 00:15:23,676 --> 00:15:26,554 The guy sounds kind of effeminate. 194 00:15:27,676 --> 00:15:31,385 Spike, listen to me. What is it about your mother? 195 00:15:31,476 --> 00:15:34,593 I don't know. I got along fine with her. She was a nice lady. 196 00:15:34,676 --> 00:15:38,749 - There has to be more than that. - Well, there bloody well isn't! 197 00:15:39,396 --> 00:15:42,354 - What are you doing? - I'm going to unchain him. 198 00:15:42,436 --> 00:15:45,906 This is pointless, Giles. He doesn't know anything. 199 00:15:45,996 --> 00:15:50,467 - Your prophylactic stone didn't work. - He's not cooperating. This takes time. 200 00:15:50,556 --> 00:15:55,346 He's blocking what's in his consciousness. And while he does, he's endangering us all. 201 00:15:55,436 --> 00:15:59,429 - So the trigger's still working? - Much as ever. 202 00:16:10,996 --> 00:16:14,875 Ooh! Such a pretty house you have, sweet Willy. 203 00:16:15,796 --> 00:16:19,425 Smells of daffodils... and viscera. 204 00:16:20,276 --> 00:16:22,665 Don't get too attached, now. 205 00:16:25,756 --> 00:16:27,747 Won't be here for long, love. 206 00:16:28,556 --> 00:16:32,390 Well then... shall we give it a proper goodbye? 207 00:16:33,236 --> 00:16:35,830 You're a saucy one, aren't you? 208 00:16:51,836 --> 00:16:56,034 Dru... we'll bring this world to its knees. 209 00:16:56,116 --> 00:17:00,951 It's ripe and ready, my darling. Waiting for us to devour its fruit. 210 00:17:01,036 --> 00:17:06,633 We'll ravage this city together, my pet. Lay waste to all of Europe. 211 00:17:07,236 --> 00:17:11,707 The three of us will teach those snobs and elitists with their falderal just what... 212 00:17:11,796 --> 00:17:14,071 - Three? - You, me and Mother. 213 00:17:14,156 --> 00:17:20,391 We'll open up their veins and bathe in their blood as they scream our names across... 214 00:17:20,476 --> 00:17:24,469 - What? - You... wanna bring your mum with us? 215 00:17:25,316 --> 00:17:27,955 Well, yeah. 216 00:17:28,516 --> 00:17:30,507 You'll like her. 217 00:17:31,596 --> 00:17:33,587 To eat, you mean? 218 00:17:35,476 --> 00:17:38,752 - William? - Uh... Mother. 219 00:17:38,836 --> 00:17:43,512 Where have you been? I've been beside myself for days. 220 00:17:43,596 --> 00:17:46,588 You needn't have worried, Mother. 221 00:17:46,676 --> 00:17:49,827 You'll never have to worry about anything again. 222 00:17:49,916 --> 00:17:52,384 Something has happened. 223 00:17:54,476 --> 00:17:58,071 - I've changed. - I don't... Who's this woman? 224 00:17:58,156 --> 00:18:02,468 - I'm the other that gave birth to your son. - I beg your pardon? 225 00:18:02,556 --> 00:18:04,547 It's true, Mother. 226 00:18:07,316 --> 00:18:09,750 Drusilla... she... 227 00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:13,911 She has made me what I am. 228 00:18:14,916 --> 00:18:18,750 I am no longer bound to this mortal coil. 229 00:18:18,836 --> 00:18:22,112 I have become a creature of the night. 230 00:18:22,196 --> 00:18:24,391 A vampire. 231 00:18:24,476 --> 00:18:26,228 Are you drunk? 232 00:18:28,196 --> 00:18:30,187 A little bit. 233 00:18:31,516 --> 00:18:33,791 Think of it. 234 00:18:33,876 --> 00:18:36,026 No more sickness. 235 00:18:36,116 --> 00:18:38,710 No more dying. 236 00:18:38,796 --> 00:18:41,264 You'll never age another day. 237 00:18:42,116 --> 00:18:45,711 - Let me do this for you. - What are you talking about? 238 00:18:45,796 --> 00:18:50,392 - And why are you acting so strangely? - It's all right, Mother. 239 00:18:52,156 --> 00:18:54,147 It's only me. 240 00:19:01,276 --> 00:19:04,473 We'll be together... forever. 241 00:19:06,396 --> 00:19:07,795 William... 242 00:19:09,796 --> 00:19:13,471 It only hurts... for a moment. 243 00:19:18,156 --> 00:19:20,147 (Willow) Buffy? 244 00:19:20,756 --> 00:19:25,511 I just got a phone call. I'm gonna have to take off for a while. Maybe a day or two? 245 00:19:25,596 --> 00:19:28,588 - What's wrong? - Nothing you need to worry about. 246 00:19:28,676 --> 00:19:33,067 I'll give you the full scoop later. Maybe I'll even bring back some good news? 247 00:19:33,556 --> 00:19:35,274 Could use a little of that. 248 00:19:35,356 --> 00:19:39,747 OK. I guess now is as good a time as we're likely to see for a while. 249 00:19:39,836 --> 00:19:42,304 - Just hurry back. - Will do. 250 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:46,425 Think about what you're doing. 251 00:19:46,516 --> 00:19:48,507 I have. 252 00:19:56,996 --> 00:19:58,987 - Buffy... - Don't. 253 00:20:03,276 --> 00:20:05,267 Mr Giles. 254 00:20:06,996 --> 00:20:08,987 You got a moment? 255 00:20:10,636 --> 00:20:14,231 - What's on your mind? - The same thing that's on yours. 256 00:20:14,316 --> 00:20:16,591 We got ourselves a problem. 257 00:20:17,476 --> 00:20:20,912 - Spike. - Yeah. If that trigger's still working, 258 00:20:20,996 --> 00:20:25,626 then the First must be waiting for just the right time to use it against us. 259 00:20:25,716 --> 00:20:29,629 It does seem doubtful the First simply forgot it had such a powerful weapon. 260 00:20:29,716 --> 00:20:35,586 A while back, it slipped up. It told Andrew it wasn't time yet for Spike. 261 00:20:35,676 --> 00:20:42,309 So, whatever the First's ultimate plan is, Spike must play an integral part in that. 262 00:20:42,916 --> 00:20:45,669 Something needs to be done. 263 00:20:47,676 --> 00:20:49,871 Buffy would never allow it. 264 00:20:49,956 --> 00:20:53,949 Buffy would listen to her watcher, wouldn't she? 265 00:20:54,036 --> 00:20:58,109 I don't think you have much of an idea of the watcher-slayer dynamic. 266 00:20:58,196 --> 00:21:01,108 - Actually, I was raised by a watcher. - You what? 267 00:21:01,196 --> 00:21:06,714 Bernard Crowley. Took me in when I was a young kid, trained me. 268 00:21:06,796 --> 00:21:09,230 Crowley. 269 00:21:09,316 --> 00:21:11,147 I remember the name. 270 00:21:11,236 --> 00:21:16,310 New York-based watcher. Resigned shortly after his slayer was... 271 00:21:21,596 --> 00:21:23,791 You're Nikki Wood's son. 272 00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:27,429 Yes. 273 00:21:28,916 --> 00:21:30,952 Spike killed your mother. 274 00:21:32,516 --> 00:21:34,313 Yes. 275 00:21:38,996 --> 00:21:41,146 Does Buffy know this? 276 00:21:41,236 --> 00:21:43,909 She knows my mother was a slayer. 277 00:21:44,556 --> 00:21:47,195 She... doesn't know about Spike. 278 00:21:47,876 --> 00:21:51,949 And this has nothing to do with personal vengeance? 279 00:21:52,036 --> 00:21:54,550 Does it matter? 280 00:21:54,636 --> 00:21:57,548 He's an instrument of evil. 281 00:21:57,636 --> 00:22:00,708 He's gonna be our undoing in this fight, Buffy's undoing, 282 00:22:00,796 --> 00:22:03,754 and she will never, never see it coming. 283 00:22:03,836 --> 00:22:07,511 Now, I'm talking about what needs to be done. 284 00:22:09,796 --> 00:22:12,390 For the greater good, Giles. 285 00:22:13,436 --> 00:22:15,631 And you know I'm right. 286 00:22:26,436 --> 00:22:28,586 What exactly do you propose? 287 00:22:30,516 --> 00:22:33,906 I just need you to keep Buffy away for a few hours. 288 00:22:36,996 --> 00:22:40,875 I don't know, Giles. Is this really a primo time for a training session? 289 00:22:40,956 --> 00:22:43,186 I'm still your teacher, Buffy. 290 00:22:43,276 --> 00:22:48,145 As adept as you are as a slayer, there are always new things to learn. 291 00:22:48,236 --> 00:22:53,515 Now more than ever it's crucial to maintain focus on your calling. 292 00:22:53,596 --> 00:22:56,986 In case you haven't noticed, our plates are kinda full right now. 293 00:22:57,076 --> 00:23:02,309 Plus, I'm not sure how I feel about leaving Spike at Robin's house to watch over him. 294 00:23:02,396 --> 00:23:07,993 For what it's worth, everyone at your house seemed quite relieved at the arrangement. 295 00:23:08,076 --> 00:23:11,034 Buffy... 296 00:23:11,116 --> 00:23:15,951 While I'm not technically your watcher any more, 297 00:23:16,036 --> 00:23:18,755 the fact that your life is such chaos 298 00:23:18,836 --> 00:23:23,466 only underscores the importance of the lessons I can impart to you. 299 00:23:23,556 --> 00:23:26,150 Fine. Impart away. 300 00:23:26,236 --> 00:23:29,626 We're on the verge of war. It's time you looked at the big picture. 301 00:23:29,716 --> 00:23:32,708 Hello! All I do is look at the big picture. 302 00:23:32,796 --> 00:23:36,345 The other day, I gave an inspirational speech to the telephone man. 303 00:23:36,436 --> 00:23:40,395 It takes more than rousing speeches to lead, Buffy. 304 00:23:40,476 --> 00:23:46,108 If you're gonna be a general, you need to make difficult decisions regardless of cost. 305 00:23:46,196 --> 00:23:48,756 Have you seen me with those girls? 306 00:23:48,836 --> 00:23:54,035 The way I've treated my friends and my family and Andrew? 307 00:23:54,116 --> 00:23:57,028 Believe me. I know how to make hard decisions. 308 00:23:57,116 --> 00:23:59,391 That's what we're here to find out. 309 00:24:01,956 --> 00:24:03,947 While we work on the basics. 310 00:24:06,316 --> 00:24:08,193 You live in a garage? 311 00:24:08,276 --> 00:24:12,554 This is just a workroom. Kind of my... sanctuary. 312 00:24:13,196 --> 00:24:16,154 A little place to unwind, eh? 313 00:24:16,236 --> 00:24:22,994 A hard day's principalling got you down, you need a place to cut loose, let your hair down. 314 00:24:23,076 --> 00:24:25,067 So to speak. 315 00:24:32,916 --> 00:24:38,513 - What the bloody hell is this? - I told you. It's my... sanctuary. 316 00:24:39,836 --> 00:24:43,272 It's the Hellmouth, Spike. You can never be too careful. 317 00:24:43,356 --> 00:24:48,350 Just... stay away from the walls, you'll be all right. 318 00:24:49,556 --> 00:24:51,672 It's a bit much, isn't it? 319 00:24:54,556 --> 00:24:56,547 (typing) 320 00:24:57,396 --> 00:25:00,433 What's your story, Wood? 321 00:25:01,796 --> 00:25:03,673 No story, really. 322 00:25:03,756 --> 00:25:07,385 Just... trying to do what's right. 323 00:25:09,076 --> 00:25:11,067 Make a difference. 324 00:25:13,156 --> 00:25:16,466 How about you? What kind of man are you, Spike? 325 00:25:16,556 --> 00:25:20,390 Sorry. Not much for self-reflection. 326 00:25:20,796 --> 00:25:22,787 Yeah, makes sense. 327 00:25:26,236 --> 00:25:32,709 See, you strike me as the kinda guy who just careens through life. 328 00:25:35,276 --> 00:25:40,111 Completely oblivious of the damage he's doing to everyone around him. 329 00:25:40,196 --> 00:25:41,675 That right? 330 00:25:41,756 --> 00:25:43,906 I know more about you than you think, Spike. 331 00:25:43,996 --> 00:25:47,909 I've been searching for you for a very, very long time. 332 00:25:51,956 --> 00:25:54,629 Ever since you killed my mother. 333 00:25:55,836 --> 00:26:00,352 - I've killed a lot of people's mothers. - Yeah. 334 00:26:00,956 --> 00:26:03,151 You'd remember mine. 335 00:26:06,156 --> 00:26:08,067 She was a slayer. 336 00:26:09,076 --> 00:26:11,271 So that's it, isn't it? 337 00:26:12,836 --> 00:26:15,430 Brought me here to kill me? 338 00:26:18,036 --> 00:26:21,028 No. I don't wanna kill you, Spike. 339 00:26:22,196 --> 00:26:26,587 I wanna kill the monster who took my mother away from me. 340 00:26:31,116 --> 00:26:35,746 # Early one morning just as the sun was rising 341 00:26:35,836 --> 00:26:40,910 # I heard a young maid sing in the valley below 342 00:26:40,996 --> 00:26:43,430 # "Oh, don't deceive me" 343 00:26:43,516 --> 00:26:45,905 # "Oh, never leave me" 344 00:26:45,996 --> 00:26:48,066 # "How could you use..." 345 00:26:48,156 --> 00:26:50,829 There he is. 346 00:27:08,516 --> 00:27:10,393 Mother? 347 00:27:10,476 --> 00:27:13,673 (music box plays "Early One Morning") 348 00:27:18,156 --> 00:27:19,748 Hello, William. 349 00:27:20,236 --> 00:27:24,115 - Look at you. - Mm, yes. All better. 350 00:27:24,676 --> 00:27:27,236 - You're glowing! - Am I? 351 00:27:28,956 --> 00:27:33,347 Well, I suppose I have you to thank for that. How ever will I repay you? 352 00:27:33,436 --> 00:27:36,075 Seeing you like this is payment enough. 353 00:27:36,156 --> 00:27:39,865 Oh, William. You're so... 354 00:27:41,156 --> 00:27:43,147 tender. 355 00:27:44,236 --> 00:27:47,512 This is as it should be, Mother. You and I together. 356 00:27:47,596 --> 00:27:52,351 - All of London laid out before us. - Ah, yes. Us. 357 00:27:52,436 --> 00:27:58,511 First we'll feast. Then the night is yours. Theatre, perhaps. Dancing? 358 00:27:58,596 --> 00:28:01,872 - Tell me. What's your pleasure? - Pleasure? 359 00:28:03,356 --> 00:28:05,551 To take my leave of you, of course. 360 00:28:06,636 --> 00:28:10,424 "The lark hath spake from 'twixt its wee beak." 361 00:28:11,196 --> 00:28:15,872 You honestly thought I could bear an eternity listening to that twaddle? 362 00:28:17,876 --> 00:28:20,185 That's right, dog. Fight back! 363 00:28:23,276 --> 00:28:25,426 I feel extraordinary. 364 00:28:25,516 --> 00:28:28,792 It's as though I've been given new eyes. 365 00:28:29,396 --> 00:28:31,751 I see everything. 366 00:28:32,236 --> 00:28:36,070 Understand... everything. 367 00:28:37,196 --> 00:28:40,586 - Mother... - I hate to be cruel. 368 00:28:40,676 --> 00:28:44,874 No, I don't. I used to hate to be cruel in life. 369 00:28:44,956 --> 00:28:46,947 Now I find it rather freeing. 370 00:28:47,556 --> 00:28:52,186 Nothing less will pry your greedy little fingers off my apron strings, will it? 371 00:28:52,276 --> 00:28:53,550 Stop, please. 372 00:28:53,636 --> 00:28:58,107 Ever since the day you first slithered from me like a parasite. 373 00:29:01,876 --> 00:29:03,946 - What are you s...? - Had I known better, 374 00:29:04,036 --> 00:29:07,426 I could have spared myself a lifetime of tedium and just... 375 00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:12,348 ..dashed your brains out when I first saw you. 376 00:29:12,916 --> 00:29:15,384 (growls) 377 00:29:20,596 --> 00:29:25,226 God! I prayed you'd find a woman to release me, 378 00:29:25,316 --> 00:29:27,876 but you scarcely showed an interest. 379 00:29:27,956 --> 00:29:31,949 Who could compare to your doddering housebound mum? 380 00:29:32,036 --> 00:29:36,109 A captive audience for your witless prattle. 381 00:29:38,316 --> 00:29:42,628 Whatever I was, that's not who I am any more. 382 00:29:42,716 --> 00:29:44,069 Darling... 383 00:29:45,676 --> 00:29:47,985 It's who you'll always be. 384 00:29:48,076 --> 00:29:51,671 A limp, sentimental fool. 385 00:29:58,636 --> 00:30:00,547 Hurts, don't it? 386 00:30:01,156 --> 00:30:03,795 This what it felt like 387 00:30:03,876 --> 00:30:06,390 when you beat the life out of her? 388 00:30:06,476 --> 00:30:08,467 Toyed with her? 389 00:30:08,556 --> 00:30:10,751 When you snapped her neck? 390 00:30:14,876 --> 00:30:17,754 - Don't kill him yet. - What? Why not? 391 00:30:17,836 --> 00:30:20,828 Because I'm asking you not to. 392 00:30:22,236 --> 00:30:25,194 Would you let this vampire live if it would save the world? 393 00:30:25,276 --> 00:30:28,234 Sure. Seems like a nice enough guy. 394 00:30:28,316 --> 00:30:30,113 - Thanks. - No problem. 395 00:30:30,196 --> 00:30:32,585 - My name's Richard. - Hi, Rich. 396 00:30:37,036 --> 00:30:42,713 We talked about this. I wouldn't sacrifice Dawn to stop Glory destroying the world. 397 00:30:42,796 --> 00:30:46,311 Yes, but things are different now. After what you've been through. 398 00:30:46,396 --> 00:30:49,194 Faced with the same choice now... 399 00:30:51,236 --> 00:30:54,546 - you'd let her die. - If I had to. 400 00:30:54,636 --> 00:30:57,548 To save the world. Yes. 401 00:31:03,836 --> 00:31:06,794 - Can I kill this guy yet? - No. 402 00:31:08,076 --> 00:31:12,035 So you really do understand the difficult decisions you'll have to make? 403 00:31:12,116 --> 00:31:14,584 That any one of us is expendable in this war? 404 00:31:14,676 --> 00:31:16,587 Have you heard my speeches? 405 00:31:16,676 --> 00:31:20,908 That we cannot allow any threat that would jeopardise our chances of winning? 406 00:31:20,996 --> 00:31:22,987 Yes, I get it. 407 00:31:23,076 --> 00:31:25,715 And yet there is Spike. 408 00:31:28,036 --> 00:31:32,632 An animal like you never cared for anyone but yourself. 409 00:31:33,436 --> 00:31:35,427 No one else mattered. 410 00:31:38,196 --> 00:31:41,711 Just... all about the hunt. 411 00:31:48,076 --> 00:31:50,067 Yeah. 412 00:31:59,756 --> 00:32:04,671 You wanna run, don't you? Scamper off and cry to your new little trollop. 413 00:32:04,756 --> 00:32:10,911 Do you think you'll be able to love her? To touch her without feeling me? 414 00:32:10,996 --> 00:32:14,432 All you've ever wanted was to be back inside. 415 00:32:14,516 --> 00:32:20,705 You finally got your wish, didn't you? Sank your teeth into me. An eternal kiss. 416 00:32:20,796 --> 00:32:22,991 No. I only wanted to make you well. 417 00:32:23,076 --> 00:32:25,226 You wanted your hands on me. 418 00:32:25,316 --> 00:32:28,194 Perhaps you'd like a chance to finish what you started? 419 00:32:28,276 --> 00:32:30,187 I loved you. I did. 420 00:32:30,276 --> 00:32:33,268 - Not like this. - Just like this. 421 00:32:33,356 --> 00:32:35,916 This is what you've always wanted. 422 00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,191 Who's my dark little prince? 423 00:32:38,276 --> 00:32:40,187 No! 424 00:32:41,516 --> 00:32:42,631 Get out. 425 00:32:43,596 --> 00:32:45,666 Get out! 426 00:32:52,076 --> 00:32:54,909 There, there, precious. 427 00:32:54,996 --> 00:32:57,829 It will only hurt for a moment. 428 00:32:59,036 --> 00:33:00,992 I'm sorry. 429 00:33:01,076 --> 00:33:02,191 What? 430 00:33:03,436 --> 00:33:04,994 I'm sorry. 431 00:33:25,796 --> 00:33:29,425 Sorry? You think sorry's gonna make everything right? 432 00:33:29,516 --> 00:33:31,427 I wasn't talking to you. 433 00:33:34,996 --> 00:33:39,592 I don't give a piss about your mum. She was a slayer. I was a vampire. 434 00:33:41,756 --> 00:33:44,828 - That's the way the game is played. - Game? 435 00:33:52,396 --> 00:33:55,593 - She knew what she was signing up for. - I didn't sign up for it. 436 00:33:55,676 --> 00:34:00,033 That's the rub, isn't it? You didn't sign up for it and somehow it's my fault. 437 00:34:00,116 --> 00:34:02,152 You took my childhood. 438 00:34:02,236 --> 00:34:04,670 You took her away. 439 00:34:06,836 --> 00:34:09,191 She was all I had. She was my world. 440 00:34:09,276 --> 00:34:12,074 And you weren't hers. Doesn't that piss you off? 441 00:34:12,156 --> 00:34:14,795 Shut up. You didn't know her. 442 00:34:19,036 --> 00:34:20,867 I know slayers. 443 00:34:24,476 --> 00:34:28,264 No matter how many people they've got around them, they fight alone. 444 00:34:28,356 --> 00:34:30,347 Life of the Chosen One. 445 00:34:30,876 --> 00:34:34,232 The rest of us be damned. Your mother was no different. 446 00:34:34,316 --> 00:34:37,865 No. She loved me. 447 00:34:39,196 --> 00:34:42,586 But not enough to quit, though, was it? 448 00:34:42,676 --> 00:34:45,748 Not enough to walk away... for you. 449 00:34:48,196 --> 00:34:51,791 I'll tell you a story about a mother and son. 450 00:34:53,596 --> 00:34:56,474 See, like you, I loved my mother. 451 00:34:57,636 --> 00:35:00,708 So much so I turned her into a vampire. 452 00:35:02,756 --> 00:35:05,065 So we could be together forever. 453 00:35:06,116 --> 00:35:09,745 She said some nasty bits to me after I did that. 454 00:35:09,836 --> 00:35:13,112 Been weighing on me for quite some time. 455 00:35:16,716 --> 00:35:19,708 But you helped me figure something out. 456 00:35:19,796 --> 00:35:23,709 You see, unlike you, I had a mother who loved me back. 457 00:35:24,476 --> 00:35:29,675 When I sired her, I set loose a demon, and it tore into me. 458 00:35:30,636 --> 00:35:33,912 But it was the demon talking, not her. 459 00:35:37,236 --> 00:35:39,431 I realise that now. 460 00:35:40,516 --> 00:35:43,906 My mother loved me... with all her heart. 461 00:35:45,516 --> 00:35:47,507 I was her world. 462 00:35:49,596 --> 00:35:54,272 # Early one morning just as the sun was rising 463 00:35:54,356 --> 00:35:56,108 # I heard a young maid sing... 464 00:35:56,196 --> 00:35:59,745 That's a nice little song you got there. 465 00:36:02,596 --> 00:36:05,508 Thanks, doc. You cured me after all. 466 00:36:07,316 --> 00:36:09,307 I got my own free will now. 467 00:36:09,396 --> 00:36:13,184 I'm not under the First's or anyone else's influences now. 468 00:36:15,156 --> 00:36:17,795 I just wanted you to know that... 469 00:36:17,876 --> 00:36:20,549 before I kill you. 470 00:36:28,036 --> 00:36:30,675 Spike's a liability, Buffy. 471 00:36:31,156 --> 00:36:33,954 He refuses to see it, and so do you. 472 00:36:35,156 --> 00:36:40,753 Angel left here because he realised how harmful your relationship with him was. 473 00:36:40,836 --> 00:36:43,714 Spike, on the other hand, lacks such self-awareness. 474 00:36:43,796 --> 00:36:47,584 Spike is here because I want him here. We need him. 475 00:36:47,676 --> 00:36:50,827 - I'm in the fight of my life. - Really? 476 00:36:51,316 --> 00:36:52,669 Not you, Richard. 477 00:36:52,756 --> 00:36:56,066 You want Spike here even after what he's done to you in the past? 478 00:36:56,156 --> 00:36:59,148 It's different now. He has a soul. 479 00:36:59,236 --> 00:37:03,514 And the First is exploiting that to his advantage. 480 00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:04,585 Oh, my God. 481 00:37:06,836 --> 00:37:10,465 You're stalling me. You're keeping me away... 482 00:37:10,556 --> 00:37:16,188 It's time to stop playing the role of general, and to start being one. 483 00:37:17,636 --> 00:37:20,275 This is the way wars are won. 484 00:37:28,356 --> 00:37:30,347 Spike? 485 00:37:31,236 --> 00:37:33,227 What happened? 486 00:37:40,196 --> 00:37:43,188 - Oh, my God. - I gave him a pass. 487 00:37:43,276 --> 00:37:47,269 Let him live, on account of the fact I killed his mother. 488 00:37:47,356 --> 00:37:50,029 But that's all he gets. 489 00:37:50,116 --> 00:37:54,189 He even so much as looks at me funny again, I'll kill him. 490 00:38:24,196 --> 00:38:27,313 I lost my mom a couple of years ago. 491 00:38:28,676 --> 00:38:32,271 I came home and I found her dead on the couch. 492 00:38:33,196 --> 00:38:34,834 I'm sorry. 493 00:38:36,716 --> 00:38:41,107 I understand what you tried to do, but she's dead. 494 00:38:41,196 --> 00:38:42,868 Because he murdered her. 495 00:38:42,956 --> 00:38:46,869 I'm preparing for a war, and you want revenge on a man that no longer exists. 496 00:38:46,956 --> 00:38:51,871 Buffy, don't delude yourself. That man still exists. 497 00:38:51,956 --> 00:38:55,187 Spike is the strongest warrior we have. 498 00:38:55,276 --> 00:38:59,554 We are gonna need him if we're gonna come out of this thing alive. 499 00:38:59,636 --> 00:39:02,867 If you try anything again, he'll kill you. 500 00:39:04,156 --> 00:39:08,069 More importantly, I'll let him. 501 00:39:11,276 --> 00:39:13,506 I have a mission. 502 00:39:13,596 --> 00:39:17,066 To win this war. To save the world. 503 00:39:18,316 --> 00:39:20,989 I don't have time for vendettas. 504 00:39:23,516 --> 00:39:26,314 The mission is what matters. 505 00:39:50,676 --> 00:39:52,667 Buffy... 506 00:39:54,476 --> 00:39:56,467 I... 507 00:39:58,076 --> 00:40:00,146 I understand your anger. 508 00:40:01,636 --> 00:40:04,946 - Please believe me, we did what we... - He's alive. 509 00:40:05,356 --> 00:40:08,348 Spike's alive. Wood failed. 510 00:40:10,276 --> 00:40:13,632 Well, that doesn't change anything. 511 00:40:13,716 --> 00:40:16,230 What I told you is still true. 512 00:40:16,316 --> 00:40:18,307 - You need to learn... - No. 513 00:40:19,476 --> 00:40:22,468 I think you've taught me everything I need to know. 514 00:40:47,476 --> 00:40:49,706 Visiontext Subtitles: Claire Bates 515 00:40:54,356 --> 00:40:56,233 Urgh! Argh! 516 00:40:57,516 --> 00:40:59,507 ENGLISH SDH