Radio: A spokesman for the archbishop denied the allegations, blaming computer error for the apparent financial discrepancy.

GILES: Binding rituals...

Radio: In Washington D.C., the FBI today reported that all of its serial killer profiles have been mysteriously downloaded from its central computer.

JENNY: Hi. I got your message. What's so urgent?

GILES: Um, thank you for coming. Uh, I need your help. (laughs nervously) But before that, um, I need you to believe something that, um, you may not want to. Uh, there's, uh... something's got into the, um... i-i-inside, um... There's a demon in the Internet.

JENNY: I know.

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GILES: You already know? How exactly is that?

JENNY: Come on, there've been portents for days. I mean, power surges, online shutdowns... You should see the bones I've been casting. I *knew* this would happen sooner or later. I mean, it's probably a, a mischief demon, y'know, like Kelkor, or...

GILES: It's Moloch.

JENNY: The Corrupter? Oh, boy. I shoulda remembered, I just don't...

GILES: Uh... You don't seem exactly surprised by... Who are you?

JENNY: I teach computer science at the local high school.

GILES: A profession that hardly lends itself to the casting of bones.

JENNY: Wrong and wrong, snobby. You think the realm of the mystical is limited to ancient texts and relics? That bad old science made the magic go away? Mm. The divine exists in cyberspace same as out here.

GILES: Are you a witch?

JENNY: Mm. I don't have that kinda power. 'Technopagan' is the term. There are more of us than you think.

GILES: Well, uh, you can definitely help me. Um... What's in cyberspace at the moment is less than divine. I have the binding rituals at hand, but I'm completely out of my idiom.

JENNY: Well, I can help! I think... I hope, I mean, well, this is my first real... Do you know how he got in?

GILES: He was, uh, 'scanned' is the term, I believe.

JENNY: And you want him back in the book?

• Giles & Jenny

written by: Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/08robot.html