GILES: Blood.

WILLOW: In Sunnydale. What a surprise.

XANDER: Okay, here's what we're gonna do: she should probably make the rounds again tonight, and we should try to figure out who that bracelet belongs to.

GILES: Yes, good idea, yes. She'll patrol, and, and we'll reconvene...

BUFFY: (interrupting) Uh, hello? She's standing right here? And she's not available.

GILES: Why not?

XANDER: Buffy, this is a little more important than...

BUFFY: I've got a mountain of homework to do, and, um... my mom's not really feeling well, and she could probably use my help, and, um, to be truthful I'm not really feeling all that well myself.

GILES: Oh, w-w-well, um, sorry, of course. If-if-if you're not well.

BUFFY: Oh, I'll take an early pass this evening, and, um, one later on, but for the bulk of the evening...

GILES: Oh, you should stay home with your mother.

(Cut to later)

BUFFY: Well, say it.

XANDER: I'm not gonna say it.

WILLOW: You lied to Giles.

XANDER: 'Cause she will.

BUFFY: Look, I wasn't lying. I was just... protecting him from information that he wouldn't be able to... digest properly.

XANDER: Like a corn dog.

WILLOW: Like you don't have a sick mother, but you'd rather go to a frat party where there's gonna be drinking and older guys and probably an orgy.

XANDER: Whoa! Whoa-ho-ho, rewind. Since when do they have orgies, and why aren't I on the mailing list?

BUFFY: There's no orgies!

WILLOW: I heard a lot of wild things go on at frat parties.

BUFFY: Okay, you know what? Look, seven days a week I am busy saving the world. Once in a great while I wanna have some fun. And that's what I'm gonna have tonight. Fun!

• Buffy & Giles

written by: David Greenwalt; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/17reptile.html