DAWN: Hey.

AMANDA: Hey, Dawn. Whatcha doing?

DAWN: Uh, just walking. You?

AMANDA: Um, yeah, just walking too. K, well, have a good walk. I guess I'll see you Monday morning?

DAWN: Yeah.

AMANDA: You all right?

DAWN: Sure. Just walking, you know? (notices Amanda's forehead is bleeding) A-are you all right? You've got a thing.

AMANDA: I guess I? I had a bit of a? It's been a bizarre night.

DAWN: What happened? Who did that to you?

AMANDA: Uh, nobody...exactly. I don't think you'd exactly believe me.

DAWN: Try me.

AMANDA: I-I was at school late because of, you know, Swing Choir, and I tore my sweater, you know, the striped ones we wear. So I went to Home Sciences to sew it up.

DAWN: Uh-huh.

AMANDA: And by the time I was finished, the place was empty, so it was all echoy and lonely. And then there was this guy?or thing. And it was?it scratched me, and I kinda dodged it, and it kinda hit its head.

DAWN: What kind of thing?

AMANDA: I don't know. It was messed up. In the face. 'Round here abouts. (runs her finger between her brows, and down the bridge of her nose)

DAWN: And when it scratched at you, did it?was it scratching with its teeth?

AMANDA: Is it real? Was it really a vampire? I bet you think I'm crazy.

DAWN: I?I believe you.

AMANDA: Well, cool. The thing is, after it hit its head, I kinda freaked out. I trapped it in a room, and it's still there, and now I don't know what to do.

DAWN: It's OK. This is totally dealable. Don't worry.

AMANDA: Well, I was thinking of getting your sister.

DAWN: You know something about my sister?

AMANDA: Well, I've heard people talking. A lot of 'em think she's some kind of high-functioning schizophrenic. But I also heard that maybe?like, maybe she could help with this kind of thing. Do you think we should go get her?

DAWN: She's out. I'll take this one.

(cut to Dawn climbing awkwardly through a window)

DAWN: Whew. I think I strained something. Maybe something I'll need later in life. Uh?

AMANDA: Come on. The vampire's upstairs. Are you spooked out?

DAWN: No. I'm all right. I-I can do this. It's mostly instinct. I think.

AMANDA: So, if he scratched me with a tooth, am I?I'm not gonna turn into one, am I?

DAWN: Uh, only if he slashed open one of his own veins and led you to drink deep of his blood.

AMANDA: Nope.

DAWN: Good. You're lucky he didn't hurt you way more than that.

AMANDA: Right. He can do that. So, I was thinking... we don't have to kill the vampire, do we?

DAWN: What?

AMANDA: Just suppose he got out and was maybe like encouraged toward the gym while the marching band was playing because the way they look down on the Swing Choir. It might be, you know, funny. (Dawn gives her a look) I'm just saying.

(they arrive at the door)

DAWN: Well, he didn't break down the door, anyway.

AMANDA: Yeah. Can they do that?

DAWN: They're very strong and, although they feel pain, they don't hold back because of it.

AMANDA: Guess you're some kind of monster expert too?

DAWN: Let's just say it runs in the family. I thought you said it was locked. (peers into the classroom)

AMANDA: It was. It was here.

DAWN: Amanda, it got out.

(commercial)

AMANDA: Where'd it go?

DAWN: I dunno. But we have to get out of here.

(vampire drops from the ceiling and attacks them. they run.)

AMANDA: What are you doing?

DAWN: (trying to operate a fire extinguisher) I can't remember, does it have to be upside down or right side up to work? Which is it?

(she throws it at him, they flee)

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/134_tran.php