(Initiative. The demon containment cells are overflowing)

Lieutenant: Cell capacity maxed out three days ago, sir. We keep up this pace they'll be nowhere left to contain the hostiles.

McNamara: (coldly) They're animals, lieutenant. We pack them in until we're out of room and then we pack them in some more.

Lieutenant: (worried) They're going to start tearing each other apart, sir.

McNamara: I have no problem with that scenario.

(communications room)

Commando: (on radio) Back-up team! Request immediate back-up! Over! They're tearing us apart over here! Two men down! From out of nowhere! Mayday! Repeat! Mayday!

(Cut to Riley at the ruins of Sunnydale High School, sitting on his sleeping bag. He puts down the soup can he was eating out of and lifts up his jury-rigged cell phone he was listening to.)

Commando: (on phone) --Team Epsilon requesting immediate back-up! We're in the alley behind the school building! Where the hell is-- Fall back! Fall back! It's coming--

(The transmission is cut off. Riley gets up and grabs his commando gear. Cut to a shot of Riley running down an empty street. Cut to an alley and we see a commando go flying across the alley and hit the wall. Riley comes running around the corner just in time to see him fall to the pavement unconscious. He hears fighting further down the alley and raises his flashlight, shining it on the back of a figure in a long black coat. As soon as the light hits him, the person whirls around and glares at Riley. Off Angel's pissed off expression, fade out. )

• the Initiative

written by: Douglas Petrie; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
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