BUFFY: Wow! Apparently Noah rejected the hyenas from the Ark because he thought they were an evil impure mixture of dogs and cats.

WILLOW: Hyenas aren't well liked.

BUFFY: They do seem to be the schmoes of the animal kingdom.

WILLOW: Why couldn't Xander be possessed by a puppy or, or some ducks?

BUFFY: That's assuming 'possession' is the right word.

GILES: Oh, I'll say it is. The Masai of the Serengeti have spoken of animal possession for, for generations. I... I should have remembered that.

BUFFY: So how does it work?

GILES: Well, apparently there's a, a sect of animal worshipers known as Primals. They believe that humanity, uh, consciousness, uh, the soul, is a, is a perversion, a dilution of spirit. Uh, to them the animal state is holy. They are able, through trans-possession, to, to, um, draw the spirit of certain animals into themselves.

BUFFY: And then they started acting like hyenas.

GILES: Well, only the most predatory of animals are, are of interest to the Primals, so, uh, yes, yes, that would fit, yes.

BUFFY: So, what happens to the person once the spirit's in them?

GILES: If it goes unchecked...

(He hands Buffy a book open to a certain page. She takes one look, slams the book shut and quickly gets up to go.)

BUFFY: I gotta find Xander.

(Willow picks up the book and opens it to the bookmark. There's a drawing of people with limbs bitten off, heads missing and other massive injuries.)

written by: Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/06pack.html