BUFFY: (upset) Don't tell me to calm down!

GILES: I-I-I only meant...

BUFFY: They were kids, Giles. Little kids! You don't know what it was like to see them there. My mom can't even talk.

GILES: I'm sorry. I... I just want to help.

BUFFY: I know.

GILES: Do we know how? Uh... It wasn't a vampire?

BUFFY: No. There were no marks. Wait. I-I mean, there, there was a mark, um, a-a symbol. (goes to write on Giles' papers)

GILES: Oh, uh, 12th century, Papal Encyclical. Write on this.

BUFFY: I-it was on their hands. The cops are keeping it quiet, but I got a good look at it. (draws) There. Find me the thing that uses this symbol and point me at it.

GILES: (thoughtfully) Hmm.

BUFFY: Hmm. What? Giles, speak.

GILES: What? Oh, sorry. Um, no, it... I just wonder if we're looking for a thing. The use of a symbol o-o-on a victim like this suggests a, a ritual murder and a cult sacrifice by a group.

BUFFY: A group of... human beings? Someone with a soul did this?

GILES: Yes, I'm afraid so.

written by: Jane Espenson & Thania St. John; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
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