BUFFY: Sorry, new plan. The prom's a go and you're pathetic.

Tucker: Maybe. Maybe not.

Tucker breaks a vase over Buffy's head - she brushes the shards off her jacket. He brandishes a screwdriver at her. She sees videotapes on top of the TV with labels like "Prom Night IV" and "Pump Up the Volume".

BUFFY: So that's how you did it? That's how you brainwashed the hounds to go psycho on prom?

Tucker: Neat, huh?

BUFFY: I don't get it. What kind of sicko wants to destroy the happiest night of a senior's life?

Tucker: I have my reasons.

Quick flashback to more innocent Tucker and a girl.

Tucker: Do you want to go to the prom with me?

Girl: No.

Back to Buffy and Tucker.

BUFFY: Whatever. Every maladjust has his reasons. Luckily for me, you're an incompetent maladjust.

Buffy disarms him and ties his hands behind him with an electrical cord. She opens a door and starts to push him through it.

BUFFY: Now I'm gonna lock you in here and then I'm gonna party like it's ...

In the room are three empty cages before three blank TV sets.

Tucker: Gotta have a redundancy system. Any incompetent knows that. My three fiercest babies are on their way to the dance right now. You think formal wear makes them crazy, wait 'til they see the mirror ball.

written by: Marti Noxon; . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/54prom.html