(Summers dining room)

GILES: I cringe to think what the place would have looked like if I'd been away for longer than three days.

BUFFY: Well, maybe we would have had time to clean it up. You know, if Willow used some magicks to help.

GILES: Yes, 'cause nothing could possibly go wrong with that.

(Joyce enters with tea tray)

JOYCE: Rupert, I still don't understand -

(Giles gets up and takes the tray)

JOYCE: oh, thank you - why the other Watchers made you go all the way to England when they don't know anything.

GILES: (Well, they don't know it ... yet. I mean, they have no record of, of Glory or anyone like her, but, uh, based on the information that I've given them, they're gonna look into it. Um, they might have something soon.

BUFFY: What about the key? Were they all over it?

GILES: (warily) Yes. (to Joyce) You, you know all of this?

JOYCE: I got some of it myself, Buffy told me the rest.

GILES: Well, they're interested, certainly, and, uh, full of theories. Most of them ... nonsensical.

(The camera pans past Giles into the hallway. We see Dawn coming down the stairs, stopping when she hears voices.)

BUFFY: They don't know that it's Dawn.

GILES: No.

JOYCE: I still can't begin to grasp this. I mean, she's my little girl, I...

GILES: It is disorienting.

BUFFY: Giles, what happens if they figure it out? What would they do?

GILES: I don't know.

JOYCE: Oh, I can't even think about this. It's too ... I'll get some more milk.

(Dawn looks upset. Fade to black)

• Dawn as the Key

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
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