(Willow's room, she works at her laptop)

TARA: Maybe you should rest. Clear your head?

WILLOW: Can't. Not now. I--I think I'm on to something. I've been assuming the --the ciphertext was encrypted with an asymmetric algorithm. Then it hit me. A hexogonic key pattern. It's--

TARA: Hey, look, you did it.

WILLOW: I didn't. I haven't even finished typing in the new code.

TARA: Something's doing it.

WILLOW: Must be programmed to self-decrypt to a certain point. That is so annoying. It's like someone blurting out the answer to a riddle just when you've--I mean Yippee! We have the information.

TARA: I'm not sure if Yippee's the right response, either. Read that.

(The phone rings. Tara gets up to answer it.)

TARA: Hello? Yeah, she's right--I mean, let me check.

(She moves the phone to her shoulder.)

TARA: It's Buffy.

(Cut to a close up of Willow's face.)

• Willow & Buffy
• Willow & Tara

written by: David Fury; Transcribed by Sean Johnson . Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season4/transcripts/77_tran.htm