XANDER: (re candy bar) Mm. Cardboardy! (re egg) Sorry, Junior, but a man's gotta eat.

WILLOW: So, was there any more hatchling activity last night?

BUFFY: No. Uh, you were probably right. It was just a trap from them set for me. And, mm, everyone else's egg seemed perfectly normal.

XANDER: Did you bring the thing that attacked you.

BUFFY: Yeah. Giles wants to see it. He's in full research mode.

WILLOW: Okay. Well, bring it to the science lab, and I'll get Giles, and we'll analyze it.

BUFFY: Great. You know, I always say that a day without an autopsy... is like a day without sunshine.

(Xander looks at the peeled egg just as he's about to bite it; cut to later)

XANDER: Can I just say Gyughhh!

BUFFY: I see your 'Gyughhh!' and raise you a Nyaghhh!

CORDELIA: What is it?

XANDER: We don't know what it is, Cordelia, that's why we're here. Capisce?

CORDELIA: 'Capisce'? What are you, world traveler now?

BUFFY: Hey, where's Giles? I know he won't wanna miss this.

WILLOW: He said to get started. He'll be by as soon as possible.

XANDER: So, okay! Get started, Buffy! Dissect it or something.

BUFFY: Me? Why do *I* have to dissect it?

XANDER: Uh, because you're the Slayer?

BUFFY: And I slayed! My work here is done.

XANDER: Oh, no, I almost *ate* one of those things. I think I've fulfilled my gross-out quota for the decade.

WILLOW: Guys...

XANDER: Do we even know what to look for? I mean, how are we supposed to figure out what this thing is?

BUFFY: Turn it over. Maybe we missed its ID bracelet.

XANDER: So, now I guess, uh, we know what happened to Mr. Whitmore.

CORDELIA: He saw this and ran away?

BUFFY: Try best case scenario.

WILLOW: It's possible that Mr. Whitmore wasn't harmed. Maybe the offspring simply used him to return to the mother bezoar.

XANDER: Yeah. Maybe he... (turns to Willow) What?

BUFFY: What's a bez...

(Cordy knocks Buffy out)

XANDER: Cordy! What...

(Willow knocks Xander out)

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/24badeggs.html