XANDER: (calling down) Hello?

BUFFY: XANDER?

XANDER: Buffy, you okay? Where's Dawn?

DAWN: Here!

BUFFY: Jonathan and Andrew up there with you?

XANDER: Naw. They musta skedaddled while I was out. Weasels. Whoa-- (nearly falls in)

BUFFY: Xander, you gotta find some kind of rope and get us out of here.

XANDER: Right. Okay. I'll... take a look around.

BUFFY: And hurry up before--

ANYA: (teleporting in, startled) Holy frijole!

BUFFY: Anya! What are you doing here? Where's Giles?

ANYA: Giles? He's still at the magic shop.

DAWN: Giles is back? (to Buffy) You didn't tell me that!

BUFFY: Did he stop Willow?

ANYA: No. And things just got a whole lot worse.

BUFFY: How worse?

ANYA: End of the world worse. Willow's going to destroy it.

DAWN: She can do that?

ANYA: She can and she will when she gets to where she's going.

BUFFY: Where is she going?

ANYA: Big old Satanic temple. Kingman's Bluff.

BUFFY: There's no temple on Kingman's Bluff.

(cut to Willow raising the temple out of the ground)

BUFFY: Proserpexa...Who's she?

ANYA: Way up there in the hierarchy of she- demons. Her followers intended to use her effigy to destroy the world. They all died when the temple got swallowed up in the big earthquake of '32.

BUFFY: So now, seventy years later, Willow's going to make their dreams come true?

ANYA: She's going to drain the planet's life force, and funnel its energy through Proserpexa's effigy and burn the Earth to a cinder.

BUFFY: Not if I can help it.

ANYA: You *can't*. Something else Giles said. No magic or supernatural force can stop her.

BUFFY: What does that mean?

ANYA: I don't know. He said "the Slayer can't stop her." Then he said a bunch of other stuff... he really wasn't too clear. (uncomfortable)

BUFFY: Anya, what did...

ANYA: Look, I... I should get back to him. He's alone.

BUFFY: Is he okay?

ANYA: I don't think he has a lot of time left... I'm sorry. (she vanishes)

BUFFY: Xander!?!? Where is that rope? Xander! (under her breath) Where is he?

DAWN: You heard what Anya said... You heard what Giles said...

BUFFY: I heard. And I don't care... I have to try... I'm not just gonna sit here while Willow incinerates what I'm chosen to protect. I have to stop her...

written by: David Fury; No transcript available, so I started with the Shooting Script and spent a couple-three hours editing it to match what was said and shown on the broadcast version. . Full transcript at: