(Alley behind the Bronze)

BUFFY: Give it to me.

(Spike lashes out at her and she easily ducks his blows, then wraps her hand around his throat, pinning him against a chain-link fence. Spike smiles and laughs.)

BUFFY: What?

SPIKE: Lesson the second: ask the right questions. You want to know how I beat 'em? The question isn't "How'd I win?". The question is "Why'd they lose?".

BUFFY: What's the difference?

(Spike lunges at her, the pool cue aimed at her throat. Spike stops it inches from her skin. Buffy never even flinches.)

SPIKE: There's a big difference, love.

(Buffy kicks the cue from his hands.)

BUFFY: How'd you kill the second one?

SPIKE: Hmm? A bit like this.

(He sends a series of punches at her but Buffy easily ducks them all.)

BUFFY: That didn't hurt?

SPIKE: I knew I couldn't touch you. If there's no intent to hurt you, then that chip they shoved up my brain never activates. If, on the other hand...

(Spike's face changes and he lunges at her but he's brought up short by a crippling brain seizure.)

SPIKE: See, now that hurt.

BUFFY: Yeah? This hurt too?

(Buffy gut-punches him, then pounds him to the ground.)

• Slayerhood
• Spike's defanging

written by: Douglas Petrie; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/85foolforlove.html