SPIKE: Are you sure you still wanna go back in this place with me?

BUFFY: Eh, nothing good on TV tonight.

SPIKE: Here we are. Yep, here we are. You think the stuff's still good?

SPIKE: I don't know. Worked pretty good when the Initiative held me captive here. Every time I'd get a little...rambunctious, the chip'd kick in. I feel like my head was gonna explode. They'd dope me up, and everything would be all daffodils and teddy bears. For a couple of hours anyway.

BUFFY: Maybe we should search for files and stuff. Find out everything we can about the chip?shelf life.

SPIKE: I'll take whatever I can get.

BUFFY: Ready?

SPIKE: Yeah.

(Together, they pull the chain, hoisting up a metal grate in the ground)

(... later ...)

BUFFY: Be careful. (RE: bodies) Oh, God. They just left them.

SPIKE: They just sealed the place off. Left everything as it was.

BUFFY: I'm thinking brief stay.

SPIKE: Yeah, you're not wrong. I think I can get us to the med lab, find the drug.

(... later...)

SPIKE: You hear that?

BUFFY: Yep.

SPIKE: Think something survived?

BUFFY: Sounds like.

SPIKE: You see where?

BUFFY: No, it sounded like it was coming from over there. Whatever it is, it's not?

(something grabs Buffy)

SPIKE: Buffy!

(... later ...)

SPIKE: (holding his head) Not now... (collapses on the floor)

BUFFY: Spike!

(... later...)

(fights Demon)

BUFFY: Hey. Are you still with us?

SPIKE: (inaudibly) Yeah.

BUFFY: That guy was? (the lights come on in the room, and Buffy looks up at a half-dozen army men are pointing guns at her and Spike) just the beginning.

SPIKE: What's happening?

SOLDIER Miss Summers. Agent Finn reported that you tried to contact him earlier today.

BUFFY: I knew it! (whispers to Spike) Government conspiracy.

SOLDIER: He indicated you might be needing our assistance. We're to provide you anything you need to help assface here. Those were his exact words, ma'am.

(... later ...)

SOLDIER: Med team tells me they took a look at the chip. You were right. It's degraded. Leave it as it is much longer, it'll be fatal to him.

BUFFY: OK. So, how long t?

SOLDIER: Now.

BUFFY: Right, of course. Um, what do we do next?

SOLDIER: Agent Finn said it was your call, ma'am.

BUFFY: My?what was my call?

SOLDIER: All decisions regarding Hostile 17 are to be left in your hands. This chip...we can either repair it... or remove it.

• Buffy & Spike
• Spike's defanging
• the Initiative

written by: Drew Z. Greenberg; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/135_tran.php