BUFFY: I'm never gonna stop washing my hands.

XANDER: So, the dummy tells us that he's a demon hunter. And we're, like, fine, la la la la. He takes off, and now there's a brain. Does anybody else feel like they've been Keyser Soze'd?

BUFFY: Sid's on the level, I'm sure of it. But why would the demon have rejected the brain? I-I mean, I thought Morgan was the smartest kid in school.

WILLOW: He was, look at his grades: all A's. He was even taking college classes. Wait a second.

BUFFY: What?

WILLOW: All these sick days.

XANDER: He was off for, like, half the year!

BUFFY: Check the school nurse's file.

WILLOW: (types) Look at this! 'In case of emergency, contact Dr. Dale Leggett, California Institute of Neurosurgery, Cancer Ward.'

XANDER: Brain cancer?

WILLOW: That's why he had all the headaches.

BUFFY: This means that whatever's out there still needs a healthy, intelligent brain.

XANDER: In other words, I'm safe! (smiles)

BUFFY: And it's gonna be looking for the smartest person around.

(She and Xander look at Willow)

WILLOW: What?

(...)

WILLOW: What could a demon possibly want from me?

XANDER: What's the square root of 841?

WILLOW: 29. Oh, yeah.

BUFFY: Don't worry, Willow. As long as you're with us there's absolutely no way that demon is gonna get what he wants.

(...)

BUFFY: This is ridiculous. We can't just sit here and wait for him to come to us. We have to figure out who we're dealing with.

XANDER: I still vote dummy.

BUFFY: No. Okay, so we ruled out all the people in the talent show...

WILLOW: That's because they were all there. But that's before we found the brain.

BUFFY: Right. So it probably *is* one of them. And, and Giles doesn't know! He's with them all right now!

XANDER: Uch! Giles can handle himself. I mean, he *is* really... (clicks in his mind) smart!

written by: Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/09puppet.html