(Magic shop. Buffy breaks in the store and starts scavenging.)

BUFFY: Okay. Credit card slips, sales receipt. Help me look.

RILEY: (disapprovingly) You shouldn't have done that to the door.

BUFFY: I do not have time to play by the rules tonight.

RILEY: I have a master key. It opens every shop on Main Street.

BUFFY: Oh. Well . . . next time, absolutely.

RILEY: I don't know what I'm looking for.

BUFFY: I do. "Ethan Rayne."

RILEY: Who's that?

BUFFY: (handing it to him) Professional bad guy. He's gotta be the guy that made the demon attack Giles. At least we know who we're looking for.

RILEY: (into phone) Command, are you there?

BUFFY: What are you doing?

RILEY: (into phone) It's agent Finn. I need a search. Local hotel registrations matching the name Ethan Rayne. R-A-Y-N-E. Call me back.

BUFFY: (impressed) You can do that?

RILEY: It'll take a couple of minutes.

BUFFY: Get in the car. Be ready to go.

RILEY: Buffy. Earlier, when I talked to Professor Walsh, she gave me very specific orders.

BUFFY: Yeah?

RILEY: She said when we located the demon I . . . I'm not supposed to bring you along.

BUFFY: (not missing a beat) Oh.

RILEY: Uh, what are you doing?

BUFFY: (faces him) I'm *going* to the car.

RILEY: Buffy, I can't take you with me.

BUFFY: You're not taking me with you. I am going and I am letting you come along.

RILEY: Buffy, it's not really your call. This is a military operation now.

BUFFY: (steely) Then call out the troops. Because nothing less than that is gonna stop me. This demon did something to Giles and I'm gonna kill it.

(She leaves and Riley has no choice but to follow.)

• Buffy & Riley
• the Initiative

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/68anewman.html