"Earshot" Transcript Part 1

Transcribed by Sam

Don't you dare take this for your own site without asking her permission first. ( :

Okay everyone. Here’s how it’s going to work. The download was split into 5 different sections. So I’ll do the same with the

transcriptions. However, due to the fact that some of the cast members do tend to mumble (Giles and Oz in particular) and I had

to turn up the sound so loud my neighbors heard it, these are not completely verbatim. If there is a word I cannot understand, I

will put in parenthesis what I think was said. But, worry not, there are very few instances where this happens.

First to make it easier to follow-

[ ]- is actions not concerning the show, i.e. commercials, theme, credits. Also cuts to a different scene.

{ }- is actions take by the cast, i.e. {Buffy walked down the street.}

( )- is misunderstood word.

Also, since this episode has Buffy reading minds, anything said by someone in their head that we hear will be in italics, i.e. Giles is

God .

Got it? Good. Okay, here we go-

[TEASER]

[They show various scenes from ‘Enemies’.]

{BUFFY is running towards the Playground. She trips and falls. A DEMON walks up behind her. She kicks it, sending flying into

the swing set. It charges again. BUFFY kicks again. The DEMON falls to the ground. She pulls out a knife.}

BUFFY- You demons can’t resist a run and stumble, can you?

{BUFFY goes to stab the DEMON. A SECOND DEMON comes from behind and knocks the knife out of her hands. The

FIRST DEMON catches it. BUFFY throws him into the swing set. They DEMONS stand in a line, one behind the other. The

FIRST DEMON crouches down. The SECOND DEMON throws the knife at BUFFY. She catches it (like in the movie :-) ).

The FIRST DEMON charges her. She throws him onto a bench. She stabs him in the heart. The SECOND DEMON runs away.

}

BUFFY- One down. One gone.

[CLOSE-UP on BUFFY’S hand. Some of the DEMON’S blood got on it. It seeps into her hand. She doesn’t notice. ]

[FADE OUT]

[THEME MUSIC]

[FADE IN]

{Everyone is getting ready for a new school day. Kids are running to class.}

[CUT TO BUFFY and WILLOW entering the Library.]

WILLOW- So, Scabby demon got away?

BUFFY- Scabby demon number 2 got away. Scabby demon number 1, big check in the Slay column.

WILLOW- I don’t like this whole, ‘No Mouth’ thing. It’s dis-quieting.

BUFFY- Well, no mouth means no teeth. Unless they’ve got them somewhere else.

{They sit down at the table with XANDER and OZ. GILES enters from his office.}

GILES- Good morning, girls. We’ve been researching the Mayor’s forthcoming Ascension.

OZ- It’s pretty riveting stuff.

BUFFY- What do we know?

XANDER- What don’t we know? Tell her, Giles.

GILES- Well, based on the supposed date, Graduation Day, and the Mayor being impervious to harm, I’ve cross-referenced...

XANDER- He’s across referencing fool.

GILES- And I’ve eliminated several possibilities. It’s not a ritual flaying of the demon Azerath or the ... um...

{He pauses and there is a shot of everyone waiting for his answer.}

GILES- I don’t know what going to happen.

OZ- That was kind of an anti-climax.

BUFFY- We don’t know anything? So the whole Angel/Faith thing was for nothing.

GILES- No. No, if nothing else, Angel’s sherade brought Faith’s treachery out into the open.

[CUT TO quick shot of BUFFY. She is scratching the hand where the demon’s blood landed on her.]

GILES- And this information about the Ascension will prove useful. Eventually. I just need to put it all together.

[WESLEY enters the Library.]

WESLEY- Terribly sorry I was detained. Official council business. Mr. Giles, you were speaking?

GILES- I was just filling Buffy in on my research concerning the Ascension.

WESLEY- Oh. And what took up the rest of the minute?

GILES- Touché. But, of course, my work is unofficial. I’m sure, however, that with the resources of the Council at you disposal,

you will have something to add.

WESLEY- Well, I am pleased to state, with certainty, that the demon Azerath won’t in any way be...

{OZ, WILLOW, BUFFY and XANDER get up and leave.}

WESLEY- I’m sure we’ll find out more soon.

{GILES stifles a laugh.}

GILES- Demon Azerath?

[CUT TO BUFFY, WILLOW, and XANDER walking to their lockers.]

WILLOW- So, have you talked to Angel lately?

BUFFY- Not really. Seeing him bad, even pretend bad, and with Faith...

WILLOW- He only kissed her for the greater good.

BUFFY- I don’t know. To the naked eye, it looked like fun. Or maybe it wasn’t. Maybe he wasn’t even tempted. I just wish I

could be sure.

WILLOW- As always, I advise you to ask.

BUFFY- Do you think he’d tell me?

[The BASKETBALL team enters behind them A STUDENT rushes forward to greet them.]

STUDENT- Hogan! Great game, man.

XANDER- Hogan Martin thinks he’s so hot. Like we should all be awed by him because he put a ball in a net.

HOGAN- Hey Xander.

XANDER- He said my name! He knows my name!

{PERCY is with HOGAN and approaches them.}

PERCY- Hey Willow.

WILLOW- Hey.

PERCY- Look, I can’t make it to the study session today. Could we do it 5th period?

WILLOW- Okay. Did you finish the reading?

PERCY- Most of it.

WILLOW- Percy...

PERCY- I’ll finish it at lunch.

WILLOW- That’s my little trooper.

HOGAN- I don’t know what you’re doing to him. I actually heard him complete a sentence. Had clause and everything.

PERCY- You’re watching the game, right?

WILLOW- Wouldn’t miss it.

[PERCY and HOGAN Exit.]

XANDER- See ya , Hogan! See ya ladies.

[XANDER exits. WILLOW and BUFFY move on to their next class.]

BUFFY- You’re going to the game? I didn’t know you like basketball.

WILLOW- I didn’t either. But now I’m starting to really get into it. Especially now that we’re in the championships. It’s so

exciting. It’s too bad your patrolling. We’re all going. Oz, Xander. Everybody.

[WILLOW exits and leaves BUFFY alone.]

BUFFY- Yeah. Everybody that currently isn’t Buffy.

{BUFFY itches her hand again.}

[CUT TO GILES in his office. BUFFY is there too.]

GILES- You touched one of the demons?

BUFFY- A good touch. Not a bad touch. Anyway, it’s been itching like crazy. No big. Just another problem for the people at

Lubriderm, right?

GILES- Is this the demon in question?

{He lays a book in front of her.}

BUFFY- In the disgusting flesh.

GILES- Hmmm.....

BUFFY- What?

GILES- It says it can infect the host.

BUFFY- Infect? Infect?

{GILES pays no attention, keeps flipping though the book}}

BUFFY- Giles! Infect?

GILES- Infect the host with an aspect of the demon. That’s all it says.

{She grabs the book.}

BUFFY- An aspect of the demon.

GILES- It is rather terse, isn’t it?

BUFFY- You mean like a part of it?

GILES- There could be any number of explanations for your hand. A new fabric softener can cause... irritation. In any case I

would not advise you track the one that got away. Minimize your exposure.

BUFFY- Part of the demon. Hope it’s not the outside part.

[CUT TO the courtyard at the High School. It’s a Pep Rally for the Basketball team. Cheerleaders are there doing silly cheers as

each team member comes out. CORDELIA is among them.]

CHEERLEADERS- H... O... G... A... N... . Go Hogan!

[PAN to BUFFY, XANDER, WILLOW, and OZ watching.]

BUFFY- Is it me or is this really lame?

OZ- I don’t know. I usually enjoy lameness but this is leaving me kinda cold.

WILLOW- Well, according to Freddie’s latest editorial, “The Pep Rally is a place for pseudo-prostitutes to provoke men into a

sexual frenzy which will, when thwarted, be replaced by mindless athletic compitition”.

XANDER- And the downside being?

WILLOW- The school paper is edging on depressing lately. Have you guys notice that?

OZ- I don’t know. I go straight to the Obits.

{BUFFY starts running her hands through her hair as if looking for something.}

WILLOW- What are you doing, Buffy?

BUFFY- Nothing. Looking for horns.

{She gets up. WILLOW follows.}

WILLOW- You know, Buffy? I don’t even think Giles was right about you becoming like a demon. I mean, he’s totally burnt.

You know, dealing with Faith and this Ascension thing. Between you and me, he’s not doing his best work,.

BUFFY- What if he’s right? I’m suddenly going to grow this demon part and we don’t know what it is. I mean, it could be claws

or scales.

{WILLOW suddenly stares at her. BUFFY instinctively checks herself}

BUFFY- What?!

WILLOW- Was it a boy demon?

{BUFFY gets the ‘deer caught in the headlights’ look on her face.}

{CUT TOP CHEERLEADERS.]

CHEERLEADERS- T... O... M.... Tom! It’s Tom! Go Tom!

[CUT TO XANDER. He’s clapping, his eyes on CORDELIA.]

XANDER- They really are very good.

OZ- Their spelling’s improved.

XANDER- You know, Oz? I look at all this beauty. All these healthy young women and I wonder why I ever wasted my time on

Cordelia. I mean, look at her? She’s no better than the rest of them.

OZ- Well, none of them are really my...

XANDER- Oh my God! He’s looking at her!

[CUT TO WESLEY climbing the stairs. He looks at CORDELIA.]

[CUT TO OZ and XANDER.]

XANDER - He’s got his adult, Pierce Bronson-y eyes all over my Cordy!

[CUT TO WESLEY as he takes one last look and leaves.]

[CUT TO OZ and XANDER.]

OZ- You’re a very complex man, aren’t you?

[CUT TO WILLOW and BUFFY.]

BUFFY- It’s just that I’m scared, Will. There’s this thing in me and I can’t find it. I can’t stop it. What if it changes me? I mean

not just the way I look. All the sudden I could be something that’s not me anymore.

{WILLOW looks away form her and starts clapping.}

WILLOW- Yeah! Whoo hoo!

{WILLOW turns back. BUFFY looks hurt.}

WILLOW- Sorry. They spelled ‘Percy’ and I have to show support. He’s needy. But I heard what you said. And I would be

frightened too , okay?

{FADE TO BUFFY walking down a street. She stops at a tree and pulls out a mirror checking for horns and scales.]

BUFFY- Still got a mouth.

[ANGEL appears out of nowhere behind her. She can’t see him in the mirror. She turns and jumps.]

ANGEL- Sorry.

BUFFY- That’s okay. I didn’t see you so I should have know you were there. What are you doing here?

ANGEL- It’s a dangerous time, you know. With Faith.

BUFFY- Yeah. Faith.

{She starts to walk away. ANGEL follows.}

BUFFY- She... Well... Faith. What can you say about her?

ANGEL- I just to make sure that you okay, you know? That you’re safe.

BUFFY- And the fact that you’re right here. Is that mean Faith’s around? Are you keeping me safe by tracking me or by tracking

her?

ANGEL- I’m tracking you. Something bothering you.

BUFFY- Alot of things. The most recent being this demon. Actually two. I touched one of them and now I’m going to get a big

case of the Bumpies or a tail or something.

ANGEL- Aspect of the demon.

BUFFY- You know the drill.

ANGEL- By rumor. But that doesn’t mean anything. I mean sometimes demon just like to exaggerate their power.

BUFFY- Demon hype. Maybe not. I spend all my time in the dark here anyway. You know it’s not like I’d be at a game with my

friends where someone could see my in my new monster part.

ANGEL- Hey. I won’t let anything happen to you if I can help it. No matter what,. I’ll always be with you. Hey, I love you. Even

if you’re covered with slime.

BUFFY- I liked everything until that part.

[CUT TO Sunnydale High, the next day. WILLOW, OZ and Xander are all sitting in the lounge.]

WILLOW- Could you believe it? Right at the buzzer, three points for the win.

OZ- Yeah, it was intense.

XANDER- Yeah for a minute there I thought you were going to make an expression.

OZ- Well, I felt one coming on. No lie.

WILLOW- Man, I have never seen anyone jump like Hogan Martin. They should call him ‘The Jumper’.

XANDER- Or a name that isn’t an article of women’s clothing. Hey remember when the...

WILLOW- Shhh!!

[BUFFY enters.]

BUFFY- Hmm... Quietness. Either we lost or we won and you don’t want me to feel bad.

WILLOW- Yeah it wasn’t really a great game.

XANDER- Yeah, tall hoops with thin tall guys. What’s the point?

[CORDELIA enters.]

OZ- Pretty dull.

CORDELIA- Are you guys crazy? It was an incredible game. I have never cheered so hard before in my life. I still have knee

marks on my back.

{Everyone stares at her.}

CORDELIA- From the pyramid.

{She leaves in disgust.}

WILLOW- Yeah, well. I still bet patrolling was way better cause... Wow. Important.

BUFFY- Well, I thought I saw a four legged demon. But it was just a dog.

OZ- A were-dog?

BUFFY- Regular.

XANDER- Tuff luck.

BUFFY- Yeah.

{CORDELIA starts to talk with a few cheerleaders. XANDER watches her.}

XANDER (in his head)- I wonder if she and Wesley have kissed?

BUFFY- It really bugs you, huh?

XANDER- What?

BUFFY- Cordelia and Wesley smooching.

XANDER- Man, you read my mind.

{BUFFY sits for a minute. Then the realization hits her. This is her aspect of the demon.}

End Part 1

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"Earshot" Transcript Part 2

Transcribed by Sam

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Part 2-

[FADE IN]

{BUFFY is walking down a hallway. She bumps into a teacher.}

TEACHER- Hey. Watch where you’re going now.

BUFFY- I’m sorry Mr. Beach. I will.

TEACHER- Students. If we could just get rid of all the students.

{He walks into a classroom. We hear another voice.}

MALE STUDENT- When I’m a software jillionare and you’re all still flipping burgers, who’s the loser then?

{BUFFY walks by a group of students. One is fixing his pants.}

MALE STUDENT # 2- I swear someday my pants are going to fall down.

{BUFFY smiles. There is a girl at the water fountain.}

FEMALE STUDENT- Take French I said. it’ll be easy. French babies learn it. Idiot!

{BUFFY passes her and walks toward another group of students.}

MALE STUDENT # 3- Look at Buffy. She’s so beautiful. Look at that body.

{BUFFY stops in front of him and plays with her hair, teasing him.}

MALE STUDENT # 3- Oh, I’d love to just shove her against that locker and ... Ooohhhh!

{BUFFY stares at him for a minute then runs away.}

[CUT TO GILES and BUFFY in the library. GILES is grabbing books.]

BUFFY- Is this it? Is this the aspect thing? Cause if it, it’s way better than a tail. I mean, I have a hard enough time as it is finding

jeans that fit.

GILES- Buffy. Slow down. I’m not even convinced that this is genuine mind reading. You may just be...

BUFFY- When I came in here you thought, “Look at her shoes. If a fashion magazine told her to she’d wear cats strapped to her

feet.”

GILES- I... Uh... The demons are telepathic. Of course. I should have know. That’s why they don’t need mouths.

GILES- Course. The demons are telepathic.

BUFFY- I now. You just told me. That’s why they don’t need mouths. And you should have know.

GILES- This is astounding.

BUFFY- It was happening out in the hallway. Principle Snyder has ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ stuck in his head. And the boys at

this school are seriously disturbed. It’s weird. But Giles, think about. Think about what I could do.

GILES- It could be very useful. You could anticipate you enemies every move. you could turn hi plans against him.

BUFFY- Oh way better than that.

[CUT TO BUFFY, XANDER, and WILLOW in English class.]

BUFFY- Jealousy.

MISS MURRAY- Buffy. Right. Very good.

NANCY- I knew that.

MISS MURRAY- But what’s his motivation. What reason does he give for destroying his commanding officer? Casio has my

place. Twixt my sheets he has done my office.

BUFFY- Well, he was passed over for promotion. Casio got it instead. And people were saying that Othello slept with his wife.

WILLOW- Buffy did the reading? Buffy understood the reading?

{BUFFY looks hurt.}

XANDER- When did she study? Was I supposed to study? Miss Murray’s kinda hot.

{BUFFY half turns, then turns back.}

NANCY- I was gonna say Casio. I hate her.

{NANCY glances at Buffy. She smiles back smugly.}

MISS MURRAY- Any other reason?

NANCY- Race!

MISS MURRAY- Good. Nancy. Can’t forget that.

{PAN TO a boy dressed head to toe in black.}

FREDDY- Look at them scrambling for the teachers praise like pigeons for old breadcrusts.

BUFFY- Will, who’s that?

WILLOW- That’s Freddy Iverson. He write those editorials for the school paper. He’s sardonic.

FREDDY- Breadcrusts. That’s deep. I should write that down.

MISS MURRAY- Is there something else at work here?

BUFFY- Well he admits to himself that his motives are... spurious? He does them because he enjoys them. It’s not like he’s a real

person at all. It’s like he’s the dark half of Othello himself.

{Everyone looks at her, shocked.}

MISS MURRAY- Buffy. Really very astute. I said something like that in my dissertation.

BUFFY- I know. I mean, I agree. With that.

MISS MURRAY- Yes and doesn’t that explain Othello’s readiness to believe Iago? Within seconds he turns on Desdemona. He

believes that she has been unfaithful. And we’re all like that. WE all have our own little internal Iago’s telling us that our husbands,

girlfriends, or whoever don’t really love us. We can never really see what’s in someone heart.

[FADE TO ANGEL in his mansion. He is walking towards a curtain. Suddenly it’s pulled back, letting sunlight in. It’s BUFFY.

ANGEL shields himself from the light.]

BUFFY- Oh! Sorry! Sorry about the daylight. I just ducked out of school and that’s when they have it. You look good. I mean, I

know I just saw you last night but I mean sometimes things can change real quick. I mean really quickly. Listen to me I’m talking

like Faith.

{She looks for a reaction. ANGEL just looks tired.}

BUFFY- You know, not that she was so bad to have around. Well, before the evil. I think she was just really hurting also. And

some people, protective type people, are drawn to that. I guess. You see, the thing about Faith...

ANGEL- You can’t get into my mind.

BUFFY- How did... why not?

ANGEL- It’s just like the mirror. the thoughts are there but they cast no reflection in you. You got your aspect of the demon.

BUFFY- Yeah. Giles doesn’t know how long it’s going to last. it’s okay. A little headachy but...

ANGEL- You don’t have to play games with me. Ever.

BUFFY- Well, you’re not exactly Joe ‘Here’s-What-I’m-Thinking’.

ANGEL- So ask me.

BUFFY- Oh but that would have made sense.

ANGEL- What do you want to know about? Faith? About kissing her? Pretending to have no soul? Hurting you?

BUFFY- Well, since you brought it up...

ANGEL- I hated hurting you. More than I could stand.

BUFFY- But the thing about Faith. I know she has that whole ‘Bad Girl’ thing working for her.

ANGEL- Kissing her meant nothing. I don’t want a bad girl. I’ve done that before.I’ve had dozens of girls like that. More.

BUFFY- Oh this honesty stuff is fun.

ANGEL- And there’s no comparison. In 243 years I’ve loved exactly one person.

BUFFY- Oh... It is me right?

ANGEL- Next time, just ask.

BUFFY- Okay.

ANGEL- And Buffy? Be careful with this gift. Things that seem good and strong and powerful are often painful.

BUFFY- Like, say, immortality?

ANGEL- Exactly. I’m dying to get rid of that.

BUFFY- Funny.

ANGEL- I’m a funny guy.

[CUT TO XANDER, BUFFY, CORDELIA, OZ, WILLOW, WESLEY and GILES in the Library. They are gathered around

the table.]

XANDER- She can read our minds? Our every impulse and fantasy?

BUFFY- Every one.

XANDER- Oh God.

CORDELIA- I don’t see what this has to do with me. I don’t see what this has to do with me.

WILLOW- I think it’s great. I mean you enjoy all your other slayer powers.

BUFFY- Yeah it’ll be fun. And did you see Nancy Doyle’s face in English class today?

WILLOW- Yeah. She’s hardly even human anymore. And she doesn’t need me!

BUFFY- No, I do need you!

CORDELIA- Okay what are you talking about. Because you are so creepy right now.

GILES- I think there must be some precedence for this. I’ll go and research it. Wesley, would you give me a hand?

WESLEY- Of course. Where should we start?

OZ- I am my thoughts. If Buffy can hear them then she becomes me. I cease to exist. Hmm...

XANDER- What am I going to do? I think about sex all the time. Sex. Help. 4 times 5 is 30. 6 times 5 is 42. Naked girls. Naked

women. Naked Buffy. God stop me!

BUFFY- God Xander! Is that all you think about?

XANDER- Actually.. Bye!

{He gets up and runs.}

WESLEY- Xander has just demonstrated something. Chance are you are all going to be thinking things that you don’t want Buffy

to hear. It’s all a question of mental discipline.

GILES- He’s right.

WESLEY- Look at Cordelia. No, don’t look at Cordelia. She’s a student. I’m am bad. I’m a bad, bad man.

{BUFFY smiles and wiggles her eyebrows at him.}

WESLEY- Excuse me.

{HE walks into Giles’ office.}

WILLOW- What’s it like, Buffy?

BUFFY- I don’t know. It’s a little weird. Look please don’t for a second think that I don’t’ need you because I do. And I want

to share this with you. It’s like all these doors are opening to all these little worlds and I can just walk inside.

OZ- What if no one else exists either? Buffy is all of us. We think, therefore she is.

WILLOW- She knows so much. She knows what Oz is thinking. I don’t even know that! Before long she’ll know him better than

I do!

BUFFY- No. Don’t think that.

WILLOW- I can’t help it, Buffy. I just can’t.

{She grabs her stuff and leaves. OZ starts after her.}

OZ- Uh.. If you don’t need me, I’m gonna follow the red head.

BUFFY- Guess I won’t be writing that book ‘How to win friends through Telepathy’.

CORDELIA- Whatever. I wonder when I can go. Whatever. Can I go?

WESLEY- Excuse me, but can you hear me thinking in here? I can go down the hall.

BUFFY- You know what? you stay. I’ll go. I’m getting a headache anyway.

{BUFFY pushes past GILES as he tries to stop her leaving.}

[CUT TO BUFFY walking down a hall full of students. There are tons of voices. You can barley make them all out. ‘This one is

so cute.’ ‘I have to finish my homework.’ ‘What about college?’ ‘Am I pregnant?’]

{CUT TO GILES and WESLEY hurriedly looking through books. GILES finds something.]

GILES- Here. It’s happened before. A man in Equador.

WESLEY- Can we contact him?

GILES- I’d say not. He can’t communicate with anyone?

WESLEY- Dead?

GILES- No. He’s in complete isolation. The power. He can’t shut it off.

[CUT TO BUFFY in line at the Food counter. JONATHAN is next to her. We still hear more people’s random thoughts in the

background. ‘I hate school.’ ‘I’m so ugly.’ ‘Who will I take to the prom?’]

JONATHAN- Are you done with the mash potatoes?[ She doesn’t even know I’m here. ]

{BUFFY hurriedly walks away. The thoughts get louder and louder. The room starts to spin. Suddenly you here a voice.]

VOICE- [By tomorrow, they’ll all be dead. All of them. ]

{The voices increase in volume. BUFFY drops her tray. It slowly crashes to the ground.}

[FADE OUT}

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"Earshot" Transcript Part 3

Transcribed by Sam

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Part 3

[FADE IN]

{BUFFY drops the tray of food. Everyone claps. The voices get louder and louder. BUFFY grabs people as they walk by trying

to find the one who is planning the murder. She grabs JONATHAN.}

JONATHAN- She touched me.

{The dizziness gets worse. She grabs her head in pain. Then collapses in the middle of the cafeteria.}

[CUT TO BLACK SCREEN. We hear the Scooby gangs voices. Slowly we fade in on their faces. They are leaning over

BUFFY.]

WILLOW- I think she’s waking up.

XANDER- Thank God.

GILES- I think she’s all right.

CORDELIA- I told them not to move you. They probably severed you spinal cord.

{They are outside in the courtyard.}

BUFFY- I’m okay.

{She starts to sit up. GILES rushes to help her.}

GILES- Buffy?

BUFFY- No really. I’m all right. There’s a killer in the cafeteria.

XANDER- See? I’ve been saying for years that lunch lady’s gonna do us all in with that Mulligan stew.

CORDELIA- Xander...

XANDER- I mean, what the hell’s a Mulligan?

BUFFY- But I mean someone was thinking it. They said “This time tomorrow, I’ll kill you all”. I have to find them.

{GILES helps her to her feet.}

GILES- Well did you recognize a voice?

BUFFY- No.

WILLOW- Boy or girl?

BUFFY- I don’t know. I mean, it was hardly human. It was so full of anger and pain.

{BUFFY walks away. Everyone’s thoughts suddenly fill her head. She starts to fall again and GILES catches her.}

GILES- Buffy, you can’t.

BUFFY- No, I have to find them.

OZ- Are you sure they meant it?

XANDER- Yeah. I mean who hasn’t idley thought about taking out the whole place with a semi-automatic?

{Everyone stares at him.}

XANDER- I said idley.

BUFFY- I know the difference. He... She... Whoever. They meant it.

GILES- She looks so tired.

WILLOW- How horrible.

CORDELIA- I’m not getting any younger.

XANDER- I bet it was Larry.

OZ- Who could it be?

{BUFFY grabs her head again.}

BUFFY- Shut up!

{Everyone looks hurt.}

BUFFY- I’m sorry. Look, could you guys just not think so loud? Or so much?

GILES- Buffy, you should go home. No, I’ll take you home.

{He takes her by the arm and leads her to his car.}

BUFFY- Yeah. No wait! I need you guys to go back into the cafeteria. Make a list of everybody that was there. We have to find

the killer before lunch tomorrow.

WILLOW- We’ll do it, Buffy. A list of all the students.

BUFFY- Nancy was there. She’s scary. Oh, and teachers too. And Mr. Beach, he thought something about getting rid of all the

students.

GILES- Come on.

{Everyone walks away. GILES and BUFFY head to his car.}

BUFFY- I can’t shut it out, Giles. It’s like this pressure on my head. It’s like there’s a bunch of strangers walking around. Look

at this, I can’t even be around people anymore. Not like they’re clambering to be near me anyway. Even you.

GILES- I’m sorry, Buffy. it’s hard for all of us. But Wesley and I are looking for a way to help.

BUFFY- I’ll be okay, right? I mean, even if you can’t get rid of it?

GILES- You’ll be fine. I promise. If it doesn’t go away, she’ll go crazy.

[CUT TO WILLOW, XANDER, OZ, and CORDELIA in the Library.]

WILLOW- I think we have a list of everybody in the cafeteria. I’m gonna do some computer work. Cross reference them with

the FBI serial killer profiles and see who I can toss out.

XANDER- I’m still having trouble with the fact that one of us is going to gun everyone down for no reason.

CORDELIA- Yeah, because that never happens in American high schools.

OZ- Face it. It’s bordering on trendy at this point.

WILLOW- Besides that. Sunnydale High? Center of evil and all that? Let’s get to work. We have till lunchtime tomorrow. We

hope.

[CUT TO BUFFY in bed. Her mother is tucking her in. JOYCE looks uncomfortable.]

JOYCE- There. You look better already.

BUFFY- Thanks mom.

JOYCE- I’m just going to get you another pillow.

BUFFY- I really don’t need one.

JOYCE- But you need another blanket.

BUFFY- But mom, I’m fine.

JOYCE- Oh. How about some soup? Chicken and stars?

BUFFY- Mom, please. Just come sit with me.

JOYCE- I’ve... Uh... I’ve got laundry.

BUFFY- Why are you...

{She pauses, then sits up quickly.}

BUFFY- You had sex with Giles?

JOYCE- Umm....

BUFFY- You had sex with Giles!

JOYCE- It was the candy. We were teenagers.

{She runs from the room.}

BUFFY- On the hood of a police car?!

JOYCE- I’ll be downstairs. you feel better.

BUFFY- Twice?!

{CUT TO SCOOBY GANG in Library.]

WILLOW- Okay, I’ve taken our list and narrowed it down to a dozen or so strong suspects. Here are you personalized

assignments.

{She hands out papers.}

XANDER- Oh I was hoping there would be assignments.

CORDELIA- I think that I should work with Wesley.

XANDER- You have no shame.

CORDELIA- Oh please. Like shame is something to be proud of?

WILLOW- Be quite!

{Everyone looks up, shocked}

WILLOW- Sorry. But this is important. Now, talk to everyone on your list. And use the sample questions.

{No one moves.}

WILLOW- Today people!

{Everyone slowly exits.}

WILLOW- Oh! And write neatly and label your worksheets.

[CUT TO WILLOW in the Library. JONATHAN is sitting in a chair. WILLOW walks around it.]

WILLOW- Fantasies are fun. Aren’t they Jonathan?

JONATHAN- I guess.

WILLOW- We all have fantasies that we’re powerful, respected. Where people pay attention to us.

JONATHAN- Maybe.

WILLOW- But sometimes the fantasy isn’t enough, is it Jonathan? Sometime we have to make it so people don’t ignore us.

Make them pay attention. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you?

JONATHAN- You want me to pay attention?

{WILLOW looks confused.}

{CUT TO OZ talking to HOGAN.]

HOGAN- This is for the yearbook?

OZ- Yeah. Personality profile.

HOGAN- Can you ask it again?

OZ- Sure. Have you ever felt that you’ve created a false personality for yourself, one that does everything right? And how much

strain does it put on you to maintain it?

HOGAN- Wow. I guess moderate strain. Is that a good answer? I want to get this right.

OZ- Yeah, that’s good.

[CUT TO MR. BEACH in his classroom. CORDELIA enters.]

CORDELIA- Hi Mr. Beach, I was just wondering if you were planing to kill a bunch of people tomorrow? Oh, it’s for the

yearbook.

[CUT TO XANDER asking questions to a group of pretty girls.]

XANDER- Okay, turn offs include smoking, insensitive men and Burenkstocks. Now, your idea of the perfect romantic evening.

Candy. let’s start with you.

[CUT TO OZ entering an office.]

OZ- Freddy?

{He looks around the room. There are frames on the wall with newspaper headlines in them. ‘Teachers fail competency exams’. ‘

Drop-outs find happiness’. ‘Apathy on the rise, no one cares’. OZ leaves.}

[PAN DOWN. FREDDY is hiding underneath he desk.]

[CUT TO BUFFY looking out her window. More thoughts still attack her. She can’t shut them out. She slams her window closed

and climbs into bed. She can still hear them. She pulls a pillow over her head.]

[CUT TO WESLEY and GILES in the Library. They have a concoction brewing.]

WESLEY- Well, it seems to be coming along all right.

GILES- Yes. Buffy’s being driven mad, we have no proof that this is going to work and it requires the heart of the second demon

which we have no idea how to get without the Slayer.

{He looks very upset and throws down his glasses.}

WESLEY- Negative thinking gets no results.

GILES- Who is going to get the demon heart? Twerp.

[CUT TO ANGEL kicking the crap out of the second demon. He throws him though a table, then into the monkeybars BUFFY

had thrown him into the day before. The demon gets away.]

[CUT TO BUFFY in bed. She stirs slowly and moans. JOYCE is sitting by her side. She gets up and goes to the window.]

[CUT TO NANCY in the cafeteria with WILLOW.]

NANCY- Do I often imagine classmates are spying on me or are otherwise acting suspiciously?

WILLOW- Right.

NANCY- Not till just now.

{CUT TO XANDER and LARRY in the lounge.]

LARRY- What? Talk louder, dude.

XANDER- I’m just saying it’s gotta be frustrating. Having the secret. you gotta be filing up with resentment. Unexpressed rage

just waiting to bust out? Today at lunch?

LARRY- What secret? Being gay? Man, I’m out. I’m so out I’ve got my grandma fixing me up with guys.

XANDER- That’s... nice.

LARRY- But it sounds like you’re having a rough time with it?

XANDER- Ah...

LARRY- Look, just do it. You know that weird Freddy Iverson guy that writes in the school paper?

XANDER- He’s gay?

LARRY- No dude. But I’d bet he’d write a coming out announcement for you. Something tasteful.

{XANDER is speechless.}

[CUT TO OZ trying to get into FREDDY’S office. He knocks.]

OZ- Freddy?

[PAN LEFT. FREDDY is hiding behind a pole. They both leave in separate directions.]

{CUT TO OZ, WILLOW, XANDER, and CORDELIA in Library.]

WILLOW- He’s the only one we couldn’t find?

OZ- Yup. Freddy Iverson.

CORDELIA- The newspaper guy? But we can’t figure if it’s him without the worksheet, right?

XANDER- Ah, but we do have this, people. Today’s editorial entitled, ‘The Big Game Draws In Mindless, Braindead Mob’.

CORDELIA- Does he mention the cheerleaders? Cause we were on.

[CUT TO BUFFY in her room, still tossing around and moaning.]

[CUT TO JOYCE and GILES standing together in her doorway.]

JOYCE- I can’t stand this. I keep wondering if I’m hurting her with my thoughts.

GILES- You’re not. Not anymore. She can’t pick on thought out of the (group?)

{There is a knock at the door. They run down. WESLEY answers the door. It’s ANGEL, covered in a cape and smoking

slightly. He holds up a bottle with a blue liquid inside.}

ANGEL- I got it.

[CUT TO BUFFY’S room. ANGEL lifts her up.]

BUFFY- No... Go away.

ANGEL- I’m going to help you.

{He makes her drink the blue goo, then lays her back down and kisses her forehead gently. Suddenly she starts to toss round

violently. ANGEL can barely hold her down.}

ANGEL- Giles!

[CUT TO the courtyard of Sunnydale high. OZ, WILLOW, XANDER, And CORDELIA walk around looking for the would-be

assassin.]

[PAN UP to the clocktower. Someone is up there looking down from the balcony. It’s JONATHAN. He has a case which he

opens to reveal a high powered riffle. He begins to put it together.]

[FADE OUT]

[COMMERCIAL]

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"Earshot" Transcript Part 4

Transcribed by Sam

Don't you dare take this for your own site without asking her permission first. ( :

[FADE IN]

{ ANGEL is knelling by BUFFY’S bed holding her hand. She slowly opens her eyes.}

BUFFY- Angel?

{JOYCE, GILES, and WESLEY enter the room.}

JOYCE- Oh, thank God. Are you all right? Do you hear thoughts?

BUFFY- No. Did you find the killer?

[CUT TO FREDDY siting at his desk. WILLOW, OZ, XANDER and CORDELIA burst in.]

FREDDY- Oh. Hey Oz. You got me. What are your friends gonna do? Hold me down?

WILLOW- You better believe it, buster. You can’t threaten a murder without getting us pretty darn ticked.

FREDDY- Murder? What murder? Aren’t you here about the review?

OZ- Review?

FREDDY- Yeah, last Thursday?

{He hands a paper to OZ.}

OZ- ‘Dingoes Ate My Baby played as thought they had plump Polish sausages taped to their fingers.’

FREDDY- Sorry man.

OZ- No. It’s fair.

FREDDY- I just get alot of hate mail and I thought that you were here to deliver some personally.

XANDER- Ah... did you get any tasteful announcment about me from Larry?

WILLOW- Xander. We have to figure this out.

CORDELIA- We have no shot. The killer could be anyone. We lose.

{BUFFY enters.}

BUFFY- We still have a few minutes.

WILLOW- Buffy!

XANDER- You’re okay! Can you hear thoughts?

{BUFFY shakes her head no.}

XANDER- Just when I wasn’t thinking about sex.

BUFFY- Okay. Here’s the plan. We’re going to get Snyder to evacuate the school and hope that the killer’s not waiting outside.

CORDELIA- ‘ By this time tomorrow you will all know what I have done. I’m sure you will understand that I had to do it. And

although death is never easy, it’s the only way.’ God doesn’t anyone write in to praise the cheerleaders? We are so unsung.

{WILLOW grabs the letter from CORDELIA.}

WILLOW- Jonathan. Oh, I had him in my grasp! Slippery weasel!

BUFFY- Spilt up. Find him!

{They all run.}

[CUT TO JONATHAN assembling his riffle.]

[CUT TO OZ checking a classroom.]

[CUT TO JONATHAN. ]

[CUT TO WILLOW checking the Library.]

WILLOW- Jonathan! Are you in here?

[CUT TO JONATHAN.]

[CUT TO XANDER running into the cafeteria.]

XANDER- Jonathan! Jonathan! Oh, Jell-O.

[CUT TO JONATHAN.]

[CUT TO CORDELIA in the lunge. She pulls two boys aside wearing striped shirts. Neither of them is him.]

[CUT TO JONATHAN]

[CUT TO BUFFY in the courtyard. She looks through all the students jammed in there. She glances up at the clocktower and

sees someone there. She runs up the stirs, jump onto the roof and makes her way to the clocktower.]

[CUT TO NANCY on a bench watching her.]

NANCY- Oh I coulda done that.

[CUT TO JONATHAN loading a single bullet in the riffle. BUFFY launches herself through the window and into the clocktower.

JONATHAN points the riffle at her.]

JONATHAN- Get away from me!

BUFFY- Okay, Jonathan. You wanna point that somewhere else?

JONATHAN- Don’t you try and stop me.

BUFFY- No. No stopping. Just here for the view. Hey look! City Hall.

JONATHAN- Go away!

BUFFY- It’s never gonna happen.

JONATHAN- You think I won’t use this?

BUFFY- No, Jonathan. I just...

JONATHAN- Stop doing that!

BUFFY- Doing what?

JONATHAN- Stop saying my name like we’re friends. We’re not friends. You all think I’m an idiot. A short idiot.

BUFFY- I don’t. I don’t think about you much at all. Nobody here really does. And it bugs you, doesn’t it? You have all this

pain, all these feelings. And nobody’s really paying attention.

JONATHAN- You think I just want attention?

BUFFY- No, I think you’re just up in the clocktower with a high powered riffle cause you want to blend in. Believe it or not,

Jonathan, I understand about the pain.

JONATHAN- Oh. Right. The burden of being athletic and beautiful. That’s a crippler.

BUFFY- You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life, on occasion, sucks beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more

than I can handle. And it’s not just me. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their

own. Beautiful ones, popular ones, the guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness.

The confusion. It looks quite down there. It’s not. It’s deafining.

{She turns to him,}

BUFFY- You know. I could have taken that by now.

JONATHAN- I know.

BUFFY- I’d rather do it this way.

{She holds out her hand. He hands over the riffle. She pulls back the bolt. the bullet goes flying.}

JONATHAN- I just wanted it to stop.

BUFFY- Yeah, well. Mass murder? Not reccomended for that kind of pain. And prison? It’s alot like highs school. Except

instead of nuggies, it’s...

JONATHAN- What are you talking about?

BUFFY- Actions. Consequences. Stuff like that.

JONATHAN- But I wouldn’t ever hurt anybody! I came up here to kill myself.

[CUT TO XANDER sneaking around the kitchen of the cafeteria. He spies the Jell-O bowls. He picks on up and is about to put

it in his mouth when he turns. He sees a LUNCHLADY pouring Rat Poison into a pot. XANDER drops the Jell-O and runs.

LUNCHLADY follows him, grabbing a meat cleaver.]

[CUT TO XANDER running into the cafeteria itself. He starts knocking over trays of food and pulling out of peoples hands.]

XANDER- Rat Poison! Rat Poison! Don’t eat the food!

{He slips on spilled food on the floor. Everyone runs as the LUNCHLADY approaches him. BUFFY runs in a grabs the meat

cleaver.}

BUFFY- Okay. Let’s calm down.

LUNCHLADY- Vermin! You’re all vermin! You come in here and you eat and you eat. Filth!

BUFFY- I know. But I don’t see this as being settled with logic.

{BUFFY knocks the meat cleaver from her hands and swings at her head. LUNCHLADY ducks. BUFFY kicks her back,

knocking her over a table. BUFFY and XANDER exchange a glance.}

[FADE TO the outside of Sunnydale high, the next day. WILLOW and BUFFYare walking together.]

WILLOW- So you feel better about Angel?

BUFFY- Well, we talked. Then he ripped out the heart of a demon and feed it to me. Then we talked some more.

WILLOW- See? That’s how it should work.

{GILES joins them.}

GILES- Morning.

BUFFY & WILLOW- Morning Giles.

WILLOW- Oh I should get to the Yearbook office. I’m going to give them the murderer profiles. It’s really a good read.

{She exits leaving BUFFY and GILES alone.}

GILES- How are you?

BUFFY- Big on the quite. Nobody in here but me.

GILES- Jonathan? How’s he?

BUFFY- Pretty crappy. His parents are freaking. He got suspended. And toteing a piece to school is not exactly winning him in

with the popular crowd. But, I think he’s dealing.

GILES- It was nice of you to check on him.

BUFFY- Well it was nice to be able to help someone in a Non- Slaying capacity. But he’s starting to get that look like he’s going

to ask me to Prom.

GILES- Well, it would probably be good for his self esteem if you were to...

BUFFY- Oh come on! What am I? Saint Buffy? He’s like three feet tall!

GILES- I see that you’ve overcome you psychic encounter more or less intact. Feel up to some training?

BUFFY- Sure. We can work it after school. That is, of course, if you’re not too busy having sex with my mother.

{GILES walks headlong into a tree and falls to the ground.}

[FADE OUT]

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