SPIKE: (leading down basement stairs) Down here. (Buffy hesitates) You won't come down? I understand. It's a risky proposition.

SPIKE-2: There's an order. The slayer's not in order. But it can't hurt to play. Get your claws in the mouse, you know?

SPIKE: (to Spike-2) You are not here.

BUFFY: (comes down the stairs) All right. What do you want to show me?

SPIKE: I've been remembering. The girl. I walked her home. The one you saw. And the one before that. And I think I killed her. And I think I?I think I killed the lady who lived here. And there might be others.

BUFFY: Oh, my God.

SPIKE: Here. I-I think I buried them here.

BUFFY: Spike, why?

SPIKE: (upset) Well, I don't know, do I? I don't even know how! Shouldn't be able?

SPIKE-2: (singing) Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard the fair maid sing in the valley down below. Oh, don't deceive me. Oh never leave me. How could you use a poor maid so?

BUFFY: What? What is it? Spike!

(Spike, mesmerized by the song, vamps out and attacks Buffy)

BUFFY: What are you doing? (he cuts her) Oh! (they scuffle) Spike, listen to me, you don't want to do this.

SPIKE-2: And it's just about to get fun.

(Vampires start rising from the basement floor)

BUFFY: Oh, God!

SPIKE-2 (to Spike): You know what I want you to do. They're waiting for you. Take her, taste her, make her weak.

BUFFY: (struggling against vampire captors) Spike, no!

(he tastes blood from her cut)

SPIKE: (in human face, horrified) I remember. (staggers away, hides in a corner)

SPIKE-2: (to cowering Spike) You failed. Now she's gonna kill you. You lose, mate.

BUFFY: (staking elderly vamp) Sorry, ma'am, but it's my job.

(she walks over to Spike with a wooden tool handle. He offers his chest to her for staking)

SPIKE: Do it fast, OK? He said you'd do it.

BUFFY: Who said?

SPIKE: Me. It was me. I saw it. I was here the whole time, talking and singing. (sobs) There was a song.

BUFFY: What are you talking about?

SPIKE: I don't know. Please, I don't remember. Don't make me remember. (to invisible person) Make it so I forget again! I did what you wanted!

BUFFY: There's something here. (throws away the handle)

SPIKE: Oh, God, no, please. I need that. I can't cry the soul out of me. It won't come. I killed, and I can feel 'em. I can feel every one of them.

BUFFY: There's something playing with us. All of us.

SPIKE: What is it? Why is it doing this to me?

BUFFY: I don't know.

SPIKE: Will you... Help me. Can you help me?

BUFFY: I'll help you.

• Buffy & Spike
• From Beneath You it Devours
• Spike's Soul

written by: David Fury and Jane Espenson; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/130_tran.php