(as they walk down the hospital hall, Buffy bumps into a man passing the opposite direction)

BUFFY: Oh, excuse me.

MAN: Careful, the facts say a-a picnic is in order.

(It's the security guard from the warehouse in No Place Like Home. He stares at Dawn.)

GUARD: What is that thing? There-there's no data. There's no pictures on this one there! What is the data? (scared) There's no one in there.

DAWN: (scared) Buffy?

(Buffy grabs Dawn and turns her away)

BUFFY: Come on, honey. Don't worry about it.

(Buffy and Willow stare over their shoulders as they hustle Dawn away. The guard turns to his wife.)

GUARD: I'm going home? (Wife nods) Home? Home, home, home.

(His wife escorts him away.)

DAWN: What's wrong with him? Is it like Mom? A thing in his head?

BUFFY: I don't think so, I-I think it's, it's different. Don't, don't worry about it.

• Dawn as the Key

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/87listeningtofear.html