TARA: We've been scouring all the international periodicals for any other meteorite landings in the last week.

ANYA: Big zippo.

GILES: Well, then it would appear that the world is not being invaded.

TARA: I'm pretty pleased about that.

WILLOW: Uh, guys? I've got some stuff. The most recent meteoric anomaly was the Tunguska blast in Russia in 1917. Some witnesses claimed the meteor was hollow.

XANDER: Hmm. Maybe with a chewy demon center like ours.

GILES: How far back does this list of anomalies go?

WILLOW: Pretty far. Back to the Queller impact in the twelfth century.

TARA: The what?

WILLOW: Queller. I-I don't know why they call it that, it didn't hit a place called Queller or anything. It landed just outside of Reykjavik in Iceland.

XANDER: Wait, I just saw... (flipping pages) Queller. Quell ... here, here! "Primitive people used to believe that the moon was a cause of insanity. Sometimes they would pray to the moon to send a special meteor to fix the problem the moon had caused. These meteors were expected to *quell*" (slams the book down on the table) the madmen.

TARA: The man in the woods. He was a mental patient.

XANDER: And he got pretty well ... quelled.

WILLOW: Okay, I'm looking in history right now. It says in the Middle Ages there were these sweeping plagues of madness. People were losing their marbles everywhere. But then it would suddenly subside. And these dates look pretty close. Like-like maybe it happened after each one of the meteor events.

GILES: So something emerged from the meteors ... and quelled the madmen.

XANDER: Meteor go boom, crazy guy goes bye-bye.

TARA: Xander's little book made it sound like this Queller thing had to be summoned. So ... who summoned it?

XANDER: Who else? My money's on Glory, our resident beastie summoner.

WILLOW: We should call Buffy. E-except we can't call Buffy. (looks up at Giles) Can we?

GILES: No, but we better call Riley.

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
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