VAMPIRE: Buffy? (laughs) Buffy Summers?

BUFFY: Have we?

HOLDEN; Oh, uh. Webs? Holden Webster. We went to school together. European History. I let you crib off my Vaclav Havel essay. You?you really don't remember me?

BUFFY: Sure! Sure.

HOLDEN: OK, um, junior year, spring production of Pippin, uh, I did the lighting design.

BUFFY: I didn't see it.

HOLDEN: But you'd helped me move the lighting board, and I dropped it on your foot.

BUFFY: Right, foot. Yes, of course. History class. It's all coming back. Sorry.

HOLDEN: Well, you know, it's not like I was a big part of your life or anything.

BUFFY: No, I just?I didn't recognize you, you know, your face, all demon, and I think you've filled out a lot.

HOLDEN: Oh, yeah, well I got into to Tae Kwon Do in a big way at Dartmouth, so...

BUFFY: That's great.

HOLDEN: Yeah.

BUFFY: So what have you been up to?

HOLDEN: Well, apparently dying. (they laugh) Uh, no, but other stuff. Uhh, you know, majoring in Psych. Really liking that. Uhh, took a year of to do an internship at the Sunnydale Mental Hospital.

BUFFY: Wow. That's gotta be a... popular jo

HOLDEN: I?I keep telling them we ought to get a velvet rope and a bouncer. Hey, you remember Jason Wheeler, you know, "Crazy J"?

BUFFY: Oh, yeah.

HOLDEN: He always had that shtick of "Yeah, I'm crazy, I'm crazy."

BUFFY: How is he?

HOLDEN: Crazy. He's been in the chronic ward since graduation. (laughs, then stops) Not really that funny, I guess.

BUFFY: Ironic, sorta.

HOLDEN: Yeah. Whoa. Did my face just change?

BUFFY: Yeah. You look human now. You can do that?go back and forth.

HOLDEN: Oh, so I'm a vampire. (laughs) How weird is that?

BUFFY: Sorry.

HOLDEN: No, no. Feels great. Strong. Like I'm connected to a powerful all-consuming evil that's gonna suck the world into a firey oblivion. How 'bout you?

BUFFY: Not so much connected.

HOLDEN: No, no. I mean, with the stake and the cross?you do this kind of thing a lot?

BUFFY: I'm the slayer. It's sort of a thing.

HOLDEN: So, what?you like fight vampires professionally? Or?

BUFFY: Oh, I don't get paid. It's more like a calling. Since?even in school.

HOLDEN: I heard a lot of rumors about you back then. You were all mysterious.

BUFFY: I was?

HOLDEN: Well, you were never around. A lot of kids thought you were dating some really old guy, or that you were just heavy religious. Scott Hope said you were gay.

BUFFY: What? I dated that ringworm.

HOLDEN: He says that about every girl he breaks up with. And then last year, big surprise, he comes out.

BUFFY: Men. I know how to pick 'em.

HOLDEN: So, all that time, you were a slayer?

BUFFY: The.

HOLDEN: "The", like as in "the only one"?

BUFFY: Pretty much.

HOLDEN: Oh. So, when you said not connected, that was kind of a telling statement, wasn't it??

BUFFY: Ah, Psych 101 alert.

HOLDEN: Well, I'm just saying.

BUFFY: Yeah, what I really need is emotional therapy from the evil dead.

HOLDEN: Hey, it was your phrase.

BUFFY: I'm connected. I'm connected to a lot of people, OK.

HOLDEN: No. No, I hear ya.

BUFFY: I really am.

(Buffy's lost her cell... it's ringing)

written by: Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
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