BUFFY: Looks good, doesn't it? They're trapped in here. Terrified. Meat for the beast, and there's nothing they can do but wait. That's all they've been doing for days. Waiting to be picked off. Having nightmares about monsters that can't be killed. But I don't believe in that. I always find a way. I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show 'em why. It's time. Welcome to Thunderdome.

ANDREW: Two men enter. One man leaves.

(fight)

DAWN: (to Willow) This?you planned this. Letting the barrier fail, bringing us here, you and Buffy.

(flashback to the scene from earlier, except this time, we hear Buffy, Willow & Xander communicating telepathically)

BUFFY: (V.O.) Willow, can you hear me?

WILLOW: (V.O.) Yeah.

BUFFY: (V.O.) We're losing them. We can't let that happen. I have an idea. Grab Xander. WILLOW (V.O.) Xander.

XANDER: (jumps, stares at Willow) What?

KENNEDY: (to Xander) I said...

XANDER: I just thought it beared repeating. (leaves the room, follows Buffy and Willow into the kitchen)

BUFFY (V.O.) I gotta slay the NeanderVamp to get Spike outta that cave, but I need those girls to see me do it.

WILLOW (V.O.) I get it, but this isn't the best venue for a smackdown.

KENNEDY (O.S.) ...we can whine like little wusses, or we can get off our asses and fight...

XANDER (V.O.) I know just the place.

(back to Thunderdome)

RONA: (as Ubervamp chokes Buffy) It's killing her!

MOLLY: We have to do something.

WILLOW: Wait!

(Buffy gets the upperhand, strangles the vamp's head off, he dusts)

BUFFY: See? Dust. Just like the rest of 'em. I don't know what's coming next, but I do know it's gonna be just like this. Hard. Painful. But in the end it's gonna be us. If we all do our parts, believe it, we'll be the ones left standing. Here endeth the lesson.

• potential slayers

written by: David Fury; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/133_tran.php