OZ: The house separated us. It wanted to scare us.

WILLOW: But - we got away.

BUFFY: No. We were brought here. We all got so scared that we ended up here. - Why?

XANDER: (re pentagram on the floor) I saw them painting that. They were copying it out of that!

WILLOW: I think it's Gaelic.

BUFFY: Can you translate?

Rumbling voice: Release me! Release me!

BUFFY: Will, give me something.

WILLOW: Okay, uhm, uhm, the icon's called the-the Mark of Gachnar. I-I think this is a summoning spell for something called..

XANDER: Gachnar?

WILLOW: Well, yes. Somehow the beginning of the spell must have been triggered. Uhm, Gachnar is trying to manifest itself, to-to come into being.

BUFFY: How?

WILLOW: I-it feeds on fear.

BUFFY: Our fears are manifesting it. We're feeding it. We need to stop.

XANDER: If we're close our eyes and say it's a dream it'll stab us to death! These things are real.

Rumbling voice: Release me!

BUFFY: Okay, so our fears are feeding it, if we get everyone out of here..

XANDER: Good plan. Lets go!

(Wall bursts open to reveal Giles with the running chainsaw in his hands. )

XANDER: Giles? Everyone, it's Giles! With a *chainsaw*.

(Anya runs in and hugs Xander)

XANDER: Glad you could make it.

GILES: The walls closed up behind us. Gachnar, of course. It's presence infects the reality of the house, but it's not managed to achieve full manifestation. We can not allow this to come into being.

BUFFY: But if it does I can fight it, right?

GILES: (showing book) Buffy, this is Gachnar.

BUFFY: I *don't* want to fight that. So, we break the spell.

XANDER: What ever we do, lets do it fast.

GILES: I have it, I have it. Uhm, ?The summoning spell for Gachnar can be shut down in one of two ways. Destroying the mark of Gachnar...

(Buffy walks over to the mark and puts her fist through it, ripping up the floorboards. Gets up and looks over at Giles with a proud smile)

GILES: (irritated)...is *not* one of them and will in fact immediately bring forth the fear demon itself.

(oops)

• Giles role as Watcher
• Scoobies

written by: David Fury; . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/60fearitself.html