XANDER: We're going up against a god. An actual mightier-than-thou god.

WILLOW: Well, you know what they say, the bigger they are-

ANYA: The faster they stomp you into nothing.

(Everyone looks at her. We see Giles sitting between Buffy and Xander, looking through books and papers. )

BUFFY: She's right. I've thrown everything I've got at her and she just shrugs it off. WILLOW: Then we have to find something heavier to throw.

GILES: That might pose some difficulty. From what the Council's been able to discover from the book of Tarnis and, and, and other sources, Glory and two of her fellow hellgods ruled over ... one of the more seriously unpleasant demon dimensions.

TARA: There's more than one?

ANYA: Oh, there are thousands of demon dimensions. All different.

GILES: All pushing on the edges of our reality, trying to find a way in.

BUFFY: I guess Glory found one. The question is, why?

GILES: There's nothing to indicate that here. Just ... vague references to ... chaos and destruction.

(Sound of teakettle whistling. Giles gets up to get it.)

BUFFY: Okay, so, we know where Glory's from. What do we know about her? You know, she's tough, yeah, but, but no bolts of lightning, no blasts of fire, shouldn't a god be able to do that kind of stuff?

GILES: (pouring tea) Uh, usually, yes, but um, being in human form must be severely limiting her powers. All we have to worry about right now is she's immortal, invulnerable, and insane.

XANDER: A *crazy* hellgod? And the fun just keeps on leaving.

GILES: From what I've been able to gather, her living in this world is ... seriously affecting her mental state as well. She's only being able to keep her mind intact by, uh, extracting energy from us. Well, from, from the human brain.

TARA: She, she, she's a brain-sucker?

GILES: She, um ... (reads) absorbs the energies that bind the human mind into a cohesive whole. Once drained, all that's left behind is, uh-

BUFFY: Crazy people.

GILES: (pouring more tea) Which is, I'm afraid, why there's been a marked increase in the ranks of the mentally unstable here in Sunnydale.

TARA: At least vampires just kill you.

• Buffy vs Glory
• Funnies

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
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