WILLOW: Okay, before the vineyard was just, you know, a vineyard, it was a monastery. It could have been put there then. Some creepy monks messing with powers they don?t understand.

GILES: No, it?s older than that. It?s pre-Christian.

WILLOW: Okay, well, I found references to stories the monks used tontell about something older. Like some kind of pagan temple.

GILES: Native American?

WILLOW: No. I don?t know? (sighs) Okay, maybe we?re just going about this the wrong way. Maybe we should research the weapon itself.

(She brings up a website showing the evolution of axe-type weapons.)

WILLOW: Look, maybe it?s the Axe of Dekeron, said to have been forged in hell itself, lost since the Children?s Crusade where it was said to have killed? oh. Children. I hope that?s not it.

GILES: Well, I have references to the Sword of Moskva, the Reaper of the Tigris? how are we supposed to narrow this down? The illustrations are never clear enough. Oh, damn, we?re running out of time. We really haven?t got anything useful.

(Willow goes over to the scythe and picks it up. She closes her eyes and holds it with both hands, concentrating.)

GILES: Do you sense any of the power that Buffy spoke about?

WILLOW: Gotta say no. Must be a Slayer thing.

GILES: Tapping into magicks might help with that.

WILLOW: Maybe. But, I mean, if Caleb is scared of this thing? it must be pretty dangerous and tapping into that?

(She quickly puts the axe back down on the bed and steps away.)

GILES: Willow, you could do it without endangering yourself.

WILLOW: If I tried something big, I?d change and then it?s all black hair and veins and lightning bolts. I can hardly do a locator spell without getting dark roots.

GILES: And if it was necessary?

WILLOW: Honestly? I don?t know.

GILES: (sighs) All right. Do what you can. That?s all any of us can do.

WILLOW: I guess so. (off website) Man, none of these sound right. I mean, look. Here?s one that?s just ?m? question mark. What the heck is that?

GILES: Let me see. That?s not a question mark. It?s the International Phonetics Alphabet symbol for glottal stop.

WILLOW: A whoey?

GILES: A sort of gulpy noise. Now I?m remembering something here. (beat) Hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs stand for sets of consonants, as you know.

WILLOW: Yes, absolutely.

GILES: The ?m? plus glottal stop is represented by a picture that?s commonly thought to symbolize a sickle or a scythe. It?s in thousands of carvings in Egypt, throughout the ancient world.

WILLOW: Carvings like you?d have on a pagan temple?

GILES: (nods) Go back. See what else we can find out about this temple. The scythe is a symbol of death. Let?s see where these pagans buried their dead.

written by: Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson; original transcript by Buffy vs Angel. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
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