XANDER: Buffy?

BUFFY: Dawn?

XANDER: She's OK. (looks at the dead robed people at her feet) Is this it? I thought there was more of them.

BUFFY: Spike.

(they rush to the basement and see he's gone)

XANDER: They were so fast. And organized.

BUFFY: They were after Spike all along.

XANDER: And we were just in the way.

BUFFY: I know these guys. I fought them before. We aren't being haunted. This isn't some demon. It's all the same thing. Spike's ghosts, the people you guys saw, from beneath us, it's all the same thing. I know what we're up against. The First.

• From Beneath You it Devours

written by: Drew Goddard; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/131_tran.php