BUFFY: (shackled in a cave) What is this?

BROWN HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): We are at the beginning. The source of your strength. The well of the slayer's power.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): This is why we have brought you here.

BUFFY: I thought I brought me here. Listen, you guys. I'm already the slayer, bursting with power. Really don't need any more.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): The First Slayer did not talk so much. (re box he's holding) Herein lies your truest strength.

BLACK HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): The energy of the demon. Its spirit.

BROWN HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): Its heart.

BUFFY: This is how you?

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): Created the slayer? Yes.

(Black demon energy comes out of the box, whirls around the cave)

BROWN HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): It must become one with you.

BUFFY: No!

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): This will make you ready for the fight.

BUFFY: By making me less human?

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): This is how it was then. How it must be now.

BLACK HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): This is all there is.

BUFFY: Make this stop!

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): This is what you came for.

BUFFY: No, this isn't the way.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): Do not fight this.

(... later ...)

BUFFY: You think I came all this way to get knocked up by some demon dust? I can't fight this. I know that now. But you guys? You're just men. Just the men who did this...to her. Whoever that girl was before she was the First Slayer.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): You don't understand.

BUFFY: No, you don't understand! You violated that girl, made her kill for you because you're weak, you're pathetic, and you obviously have nothing to show me.

(....later....)

(fights & defeats two of the men, breaks the main man's staff)

BUFFY: I knew it. It's always the staff.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): We offered you power.

BUFFY: (sarcastically) Tell me something I don't know.

RED HAT SHADOW MAN (SUBTITLE): As you wish. (holds his hand to Buffy's head)

• Slayerhood

written by: Douglas Petrie; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/137_tran.php