GILES: Spike, um ... we're looking for a demon, um... tall, robed, skin sort of hanging off. Deep voice?

SPIKE: You mean a great tall robe-y thing like that one? (Pointing behind them)

RILEY: Take cover!

SPIKE: Big guy! Kick her ass!

(Toth fires again. Buffy and Xander duck aside, and the bolt shatters Spike's lamp which he's still holding.)

SPIKE: Oh, very nice! I was on your side!

(he angrily tosses the pieces of lamp aside and storms off. They all turn and see Toth standing there. He points his stick at them. Fire flashes out of it and they all duck just in time. Toth fires again. )

XANDER: Watch out!

(Xander thrusts Buffy behind him. The blast hits him full in the chest and he flies backward into a pile of trash. The others rush over. )

RILEY: Hey, you okay?

XANDER: I'm okay.

WILLOW: Buffy, he's gone.

XANDER: I'm fine.

RILEY: Easy, easy.

(Riley and Giles help Xander up. He groans.)

RILEY: He disappeared.

(They look around. No sign of Toth. They start to walk off. )

RILEY: That had to hurt.

XANDER: Yeah, yeah.

GILES: Take it slowly.

(They walk off. The camera pans slowly back across the piles of trash. Among the bags, we see another Xander, lying apparently unconscious. Blackout. )

• Spike's uneasy truce with the gang
• Xander & Buffy

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/81thereplacement.html