(Joyce returns home)

JOYCE: Buffy? Girls? Where is everybody?

(She looks in the living room and dining room but sees no one. Suddenly, Dawn is right behind her, holding a teacup and saucer. Joyce starts.)

DAWN: Hi, mom.

JOYCE: Oh! Dawn. Where's Buffy?

DAWN: You don't have to worry about her.

JOYCE: You're probably right. I mean, it's not like she's never patrolled before. Anyway, I was feeling kind of- what's the medical term?- crappy. So I called off the big night out.

DAWN: Want tea, mom? I made it for you.

• Joyce's Illness

written by: Douglas Petrie; . Full transcript at:
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