(Initiative)

Angleman: Keep me posted. I'll be in records

(Angleman enters a room with his card and Buffy manages to follow him before the door shuts. She grabs his shirt.

BUFFY: (pissed) Now I don't generally like to kill humans, but I've learned that it pays to be flexible in life.

Angleman: I was wondering when you'd turn up.

BUFFY: (mock disappointment) Oh darn! (takes off her glasses) So this isn't a surprise? Now you can tell me what you did to Riley and after that we can take a tour of room 314.

Angleman: Somebody's coming, you know? I'm sure they've already seen you on the security monitors.

(Riley enters)

RILEY: Monitors are non-functional at this time, sir. Went down about ten minutes ago.

BUFFY: What? I didn't do that.

XANDER: Thank god for small favors and we'll worry about details later, huh, Buff?

Angleman: Finn take this girl to the stockade immediately.

BUFFY: Riley, he can tell us what we need to know. (to Angleman) Maggie wanted me dead, didn't she?

Angleman: (a beat) She did. (to Riley) But understand the Initiative has no interest in eliminating the Slayer. It was her own vendetta.

BUFFY: Why? Spell it out for me. I feel an attack of "dumb blonde" coming on.

Angleman: I don't know.

BUFFY: (jerks him closer) Well. Think. Harder.

Angleman: It was . . . the project.

BUFFY: Project? 314.

Angleman: It . . . It escaped.

RILEY: (stepping closer) That's enough! You're making her sound like some psychopath. She wasn't like that! She was a brilliant woman!

Angleman: She was. I--it's not--

RILEY: (angry) All she was doing was trying to help people . . . and this is the way you want them to remember her?!

BUFFY: (to Riley) Angleman said Walsh was feeding you drugs.

RILEY: (to Buffy) You're doing this to me, aren't you? (glaring) This all started because of you!

BUFFY: Look, if you will just listen to me, okay? I am trying to help you get to the truth.

RILEY: You want truth? Then tell me . . . (grabs her arm) what did you do to her, Buffy?

BUFFY: (breaks the hold) Stop it! I didn't do anything! Riley, stop! This isn't about us! Everything that we need to know is here. We just need to find out what was in 314.

(A commando's body suddenly drops to the floor behind them. They all turn and look up. On a catwalk Adam is looking down at them.)

ADAM: Me.

• Buffy & Riley
• Riley & the initiative

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
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