BUFFY: Giles, I have an idea what's making my mom sick.

GILES: Have you spoken with her doctors?

BUFFY: They won't find anything. What's hurting her- it's supernatural. (picks up the orb) The night watchman who found this thing? He went crazy- like overnight.

(Willow, Giles and Anya back away cautiously.)

BUFFY: It won't hurt us. I had it on me all night. But this guy, he saw things... he said things.

GILES: Such as?

BUFFY: They'll come at me through my family.

GILES: Who will?

BUFFY: I don't know... yet. But whatever touched this guy, it made him see through what the rest of us are seeing. He knew someone's hurting my mom and they're trying to get to me.

GILES: It's possible but still... the ramblings of a madman aren't much to go on.

BUFFY: Yeah, but it's a start. We need to find out who's making my mom sick and how.

WILLOW: Then what?

BUFFY: Then I hunt them... find them... and kill them.

• Joyce's Illness
• solving things with violence

written by: Douglas Petrie; . Full transcript at:
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