(resume)

ADAM: I've been thinking about the world. I wanted to see it. Learn it. I saw the inside of that boy and it was beautiful. But it didn't tell me about the world. It just made me feel. So now . . . I want to learn about me. Why I feel? What I am? So I came home. I'm a kinematically redundant, biomechanical demonoid. Designed by Maggie Walsh. She called me Adam and I called her mother.

Angleman: Adam. Maggie would want you to stand down.

ADAM: (looks at him) Yes. But I seem to have a design flaw. In addition to organic material, I'm equipped with GP-2/D-11 Infrared Detectors. A Harmonic Decelerator, plus DC Servo.

BUFFY: She pieced you together from parts of other demons.

ADAM: And man. And machine. Which tells me what I am . . but not who I am. Mother wrote things down. Hard data, but also her feelings. That's how I learned that I have a job here. And that she loved me.

RILEY: She wasn't your mother! And she didn't love you!

XANDER: Is that really the issue?

RILEY: She made you because she was a scientist!

XANDER: (warningly) Rileeey.

ADAM: Riley Finn.

(He pulls out another disk, this one labeled "FINN," and loads it into his chest.)

RILEY: Stop! Those files--

ADAM: Oh! Mother created you, too.

RILEY: Maggie is not my mother! (to Buffy) I have a mother! A real--

ADAM: A birth mother. Yes. But after you met Maggie, she was the one who shaped your basic operating system. She taught you how to think. How to feel. She fed you chemicals to make you stronger. Your mind and body. She said that you and I were her favorite children. Her art. That makes us brothers. Family.

RILEY: No! I'm not like you!

ADAM: That's pain, isn't it? Why? Because your feeding schedule --the chemicals-- have been interrupted? Or do you miss her? Tell me.

RILEY: I'll kill you!

ADAM: (calmly) You won't. You haven't been programmed to.

RILEY: I cannot be programmed! I'm a man!

ADAM: It's here. The plan she had for us. What happens. How it ends.

RILEY: (quietly) No.

ADAM: Do you want to hear?

RILEY: No!

(Riley pulls his pistol and Adam disarms Riley. Buffy, Riley & Xander all take a wack at Adam. meanwhile, Angleman starts to run.)

ADAM: Doctor.

(Adam skewers Engelman in the middle of his chest and Engelman falls, dead. Riley grabs Adam around the throat from behind. Adam breaks the hold, turns and stabs Riley with his skewer on his left side, and Riley falls clutching his wound. Buffy kicks Adam in the back. Adam spins and Buffy dodges the skewer. Adam knock Buffy to the floor. Adam picks up Buffy who is holding the skewer and throws her about 3 yards or meters into a steel door. She doesn't rise. The commandos are pounding on the door. Adam looks around.)

ADAM: Thank you. This has been... very interesting.

(he leaves)

• Buffy vs Adam
• Riley & the initiative

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/70goodbyeiowa2.html