(Sewers. Buffy continues fighting the demons, and finally manages to take them both out. Meanwhile, Riley returns to HQ)

RILEY: Regret to report Hostile 17 is still at large. I left Beta Team to comb the area but the tracer's--

(Prof Walsh does her best shaken and upset)

WALSH: Riley, something's happened. I-I don't know what to say. It-it-it's about Buffy.

RILEY: Buffy?

WALSH: Two of our hostiles broke free and escaped into the tunnels. She . . .went after them on her own. She's dead, Riley.

RILEY: (shocked) . . . . What?!

WALSH: I did everything I could to stop her. I told her to wait for a back-up team, she kept insisting she didn't need any team. She could handle it by herself. I-I'm so, so sorry.

RILEY: I don't understand.

WALSH: I know what she meant to you.

RILEY: How could this happen?

WALSH: She was a very, very special girl.

WALSH: I didn't understand at first. But she had something. I don't know . . . maybe I could have stopped her.

(Riley sees Buffy's face in the monitors behind Walsh.)

WALSH: It's hard not to blame myself.

BUFFY: (steely voice) Professor Walsh. That simple little recon you sent me on . . . wasn't a raccoon. Turns out it was me trapped in the sewers with a faulty weapon and two of your pet demons. If you think that's enough to kill me, you really don't know what a Slayer is. Trust me when I say you're gonna find out.

WALSH: Riley . . .

(Without a word he starts walking away.)

WALSH: Agent Finn. I order you to stop!

(He doesn't.)

WALSH: Agent Finn!

(He's gone.)

WALSH: RILEY!!

• Buffy & Riley
• Riley & the initiative
• the Initiative

written by: David Fury; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/69theiinteam.html