BUFFY: Heads up, Andrew. We've got to talk.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: We just spent the day keeping a lid on a war.

ANDREW: Ooh, that would be very exciting on tape.

BUFFY: The school is out of control with energy from the hellmouth. It's time for you to help, Andrew.

ANDREW: Well, right now, I'm really more about the recording of the?

BUFFY: No! No more watching. The seal thing is your baby, and you gotta get in there before it tears everything apart.

(cut to memory)

TITLE: Somewhere in Mexico, 2002.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE: Desde abajo te devora. Desde abajo te devora.

(Andrew & Jonathan have a nightmare, both wake-up)

JONATHAN: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

ANDREW: (Spanish pronunciation) Jesus.

JONATHAN: Did you have it again? I had it again. That voice...

ANDREW: Desme abdo tay deborah. What does it mean? What does it mean?

JONATHAN: Let's try looking it up again in the morning in the dictionario. Holy cats, that was terrifying.

ANDREW: We're fugitives, haunted by our past, tormented by a message we don't understand.

JONATHAN: We're hunted men, driven mad by forces beyond our understanding.

ANDREW: We're men of hidden power, tortured from within by-by a voice from out of nowhere.

JONATHAN: I don't deserve this. I wasn't even that evil.

ANDREW: I thought you were evil.

JONATHAN: Yeah?

ANDREW: Sure. I respected your ideas for evil projects, and I thought you had good follow-through.

JONATHAN: Oh, well, thanks. It's nice that you noticed.

(present)

WILLOW: OK, I think we're getting a little off track here.

ANDREW: I don't want to do this anymore. Everyone's staring at me.

WILLOW: Just focus on the charm. You have to focus on the charm to pull the memories out.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Tell us about the seal.

ANDREW: But it tickles, and I'm all tense. Can't I have a cool, refreshing Zima?

BUFFY: No Zima.

SPIKE: Shut your face about the Zima. Just talk.

BUFFY: You were the first one to uncover the seal and feed it blood. How did you know it was there? How did you know what to do?

ANDREW: I-I don't know. Stuff happened. I forget.

KENNEDY: So remember. Look at the charm.

ANDREW: But, I?I'm not a part of this. I document, I don't participate. I'm a detached journalist, recording with a neutral eye.

BUFFY: Andrew! Stop it, or I'm going to smash this camera over your head. Actually, I'm gonna do that anyway, so you might as well talk.

WILLOW: Stop going off topic.

ANDREW: I wasn't off topic. It's gonna get relevant in a second, because Jonathan's gonna go to the bathroom.

(Mexico, 2002)

JONATHAN: I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

ANDREW: La cucaracha. La cucaracha. La la la la la. (turns over, and sees Warren/First leaning over him)

WARREN/FIRST: Did you get the knife?

ANDREW: Oh, Gosh. Gosh, I'm glad to see you.

WARREN/FIRST: Me too. You're looking good.

ANDREW: Am I? I...probably have pillow creases.

WARREN/FIRST: No, no, it's good. You're a man on the run. You got kind of a wild, desperate thing going. Did you, uh, did you get the knife?

ANDREW: Yeah. It wasn't easy. I had to meet this demon guy who sells all kinds of weird weapons and stuff.

WARREN/FIRST: Yeah, show me.

ANDREW: Well, I didn't buy them, but there were poison arrows and this sort of collapsible sword?

WARREN/FIRST: Show me the knife!

ANDREW: Oh, right.

WARREN/FIRST: Quick, before the shortcake comes back.

ANDREW: Oh, it'll be a while. He's got a shy bladder. (calls over toward the bathroom) Jonathan, you OK in there?

JONATHAN: Don't talk to me. I'm fine.

ANDREW: Pretty knife, except the, uh, the stabbing?I don't?I don't think I can do it. Jonathan has been a good friend to me here in Mehico. He said he'll buy me a burro.

WARREN/FIRST: Oh, you can stab him. It's all part of the plan. That boy's blood is a powerful tribute. It's a?it's a gift to something very big, very important, and ultimately, won't even hurt him. We get a reward. You and me and him too.

ANDREW: We live as gods.

WARREN/FIRST: That's right, man. The trio. Living as gods.

(cut to Andrew's vision of paradise, the trio in togas, with harps, frolicking in a field of dayglow flowers with a pile of gold bars)

ANDREW: (singing) We are gods. Oh, we are gods. We are as gods. We are as gods!

(back to Mexico)

WARREN/FIRST: There's power in that knife. Drive the words deep into him. It's the only way for us to get our reward.

ANDREW: Got it. If I kill him with this knife, we live as gods.

(back to present)

WILLOW: Wait a second. Go back. What was that part again?

ANDREW: You mean this part?

(cut to frolicking)

ANDREW: (singing) We are as gods!

(back to present)

WILLOW: Not that part. We need to see that knife. There's something there.

BUFFY: Kennedy, search his stuff. Find the knife.

ANDREW: It's not in my stuff. It's in the kitchen, in the cutlery drawer. You didn't have any steak knives.

WILLOW: You put your old murder weapon in with our utensils?

ANDREW: I washed it.

SPIKE: What are you looking for?

WILLOW: He said the First said something about words. "Drive the words deep into him."

ANDREW: There was some carving on the blade. I just thought it was a pattern.

KENNEDY: Found it.

WILLOW: OK, you're Mr. Demon-Summoner. How are you with demon languages?

ANDREW: Whoa, you were right. It's in Tawarick. It's, uh, like proto-Tawarick. It's really, really old.

KENNEDY: But, what's the big?

PRINCIPAL WOOD: We never knew anything about this seal. Now, we know this knife and this language are connected to it somehow.

WILLOW: Andrew, do you speak Tawarick?

ANDREW: Yeah, I'm OK with it. It says, "The blood which I spill, I consecrate to the oldest evil."

KENNEDY: Creepy.

BUFFY: Will, what're you thinking? You think you can do something with that?

WILLOW: I? let me work on it.

(... later ...)

WILLOW: I think it's got a shot.

BUFFY: Guess what, Andy. You just won yourself a free vacation to the beautiful downtown hellmouth.

SPIKE: So he can do what? Yell at it in its own language?

WILLOW: Maybe.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: What? I?I'm not following.

BUFFY: Look, we have to deal with the seal right away. We already might have to just shut the school down, and I'm not losing any more territory to the First. Besides, it's the only thing we've got.

WILLOW: The seal responds to this language somehow, or-or the First wouldn't have needed this knife. Andrew knows the language, can really talk to it, maybe give it commands.

BUFFY: Robin, Spike, let's go.

• From Beneath You it Devours

written by: Jane Espenson; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/138_tran.php