BUFFY: Dawn? Dawn!

WILLOW: Buffy, it's OK. She's OK. Not hurt. She's just exhausted. Finally fell off to sleep.

BUFFY: What the hell happened? Downstairs looks like?

WILLOW: Hell happened? Yeah. This big evil that's been promising to devour us?well I think it's started chomping.

BUFFY: Oh, God. And it started with Dawn?

WILLOW: Both of us. Buffy, this thing knows us. It made us think that we were talking to people we knew. Mine said it came with a message from Tara. But Dawn actually saw... your Mother. This thing?it had me for a while?I mean, before it started letting loose with the pulse-pounding terror. But before that, the lies were very convincing. It just seems real.

BUFFY: Lies.

WILLOW: I mean maybe?maybe to confuse us, to mess us up. Or maybe just to be cool.

BUFFY: Vampire I killed last night told me Spike sired him?two nights ago.

WILLOW: Well, that's impossible, right? So maybe it was another one. A fake-out. You got one too. It wasn't a real vamp.

BUFFY: It dusted real enough.

WILLOW: Buffy, do you think Spike is?

BUFFY: I can't. (sighs) I hope not. But if I'm wrong and he is, then I have to see it for myself. I have to be there to stop it.

• From Beneath You it Devours

written by: David Fury and Jane Espenson; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/130_tran.php