(Cut to: Spike holding a box of chocolates. He talks to someone we can't see.)

SPIKE: (sincerely) Um ... there's something I got to tell you. About showing you Riley in that place.

(he takes a deep breath)

SPIKE: I didn't mean to ... (long pause) Anyway, I know you're feeling all betrayed -- (defensive) by him, not me.

(The camera pans around and we see he is talking to a mannequin, which has no legs but wears a blue blouse and a blonde wig. It's set up on a block of stone so that it is about Buffy's height.)

SPIKE: I was trying to help, you know. Not like I made him be there, after all. Actually trying to help you. Best intentions.

(He gets a little agitated, paces a few steps away.)

SPIKE: I mean, you know, pretty state you'd be in, thinking things are all right while he's toddling halfway round the bend.

(he stares at the mannequin, gets madder)

SPIKE: Oh, I'll insult him if I want to! I'm the one who's on your side! Me! Doing you a favor! (very angry) And you, being dead petty about it -- me, getting nothing but your hatred and your venom and - you ungrateful bitch!

(He loses control of himself, smashes the box of chocolates over the mannequin's head.)

SPIKE: Bitch!

(He hits the mannequin with the chocolates again and it falls over. The box of chocolate goes flying. Spike sighs. He picks up the mannequin and replaces it. He carefully rearranges the wig, sighs again, picks up the box of chocolate, tries to stuff the chocolates back in. He composes himself and faces the mannequin again. )

SPIKE: (quietly) Buffy ... there's something I wanted to tell you.

• Buffy & Spike
• Funnies

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/89triangle.html