XANDER: I'm gonna kill Dave!

BUFFY: He tried to warn me.

XANDER: Warn you that he set you up? (to Giles) Is she gonna be okay?

GILES: She was only grounded for a moment. Still, if you'd been anyone but the Slayer...

BUFFY: Tell me the truth: how's my hair?

XANDER: It's great! It's your best hair ever!

GILES: Uh, oh, yes.

BUFFY: I just... I don't understand what would make Dave do a thing like that.

GILES: I think perhaps I do. (fetches the book) Does this look familiar to either of you?

BUFFY: Yeah, sure. Looks like a book.

XANDER: I knew that one.

GILES: In the dark ages the souls of demons were sometimes trapped in certain volumes. They remained locked within the book, harmless, unless the pages were read aloud. Unless I'm mistaken, this is Moloch, the Corrupter. A very deadly and seductive demon. He draws people to him with promises of love, power, knowledge. Preys on impressionable minds.

XANDER: Like Dave's.

GILES: Dave, and who knows how many others.

BUFFY: And Moloch is inside that book?

GILES: Not anymore.

XANDER: You released Moloch?

BUFFY: Way to go!

GILES: I didn't read it! That dreadful Calendar woman found it and, and it was already blank.

BUFFY: Okay, so a powerful demon with horns is walking around Sunnydale, and nobody's noticed?

XANDER: I-if he's so big and strong, why bother with Dave? I mean, why didn't he just attack Buffy himself?

GILES: I don't know. And I don't know who could've read that book. It wasn't even in English.

BUFFY: Where was it?

GILES: Uh, in a pile with others that were, um, uh, scanned.

XANDER: And that released the demon?

BUFFY: No, he's not out here. (points to the PC) He's in there.

GILES: The scanner read the book. It brought Moloch out as information to be absorbed.

BUFFY: He's gone binary on us.

XANDER: Okay, for those of us in our studio audience, who are me? You guys are saying that Moloch is in this computer?

BUFFY: And every computer connected to it by a modem.

GILES: He's everywhere.

XANDER: What are we gonna do?

GILES: Willow scanned him into her file. It may be... a futile gesture, but I suggest we, um, uh, delete it.

BUFFY: Solid!

XANDER: Don't get too close.

BUFFY: Okay. Okay. So which file do you think it is? Willow? (types) That's probably it, right? I'll just delete the whole thing.

Moloch: (appears on the screen) Stay away from Willow! It is none of your business!

BUFFY: So that's what Malcolm looks like.

(...)

BUFFY: So much for delete file.

GILES: This is very bad.

XANDER: Are we overreacting? He's in a computer! What can he do?

BUFFY: You mean besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me? I don't know. How about mess up all the medical equipment in the world?

GILES: Randomize traffic signals.

BUFFY: Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles.

GILES: Destroy the world's economy.

BUFFY: I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing.

GILES: Right, yours was best.

XANDER: Okay, he's a threat, I'm on board with that now. But what can we do about it?

BUFFY: I think the first thing we do is find Willow. She's probably talking to him right now. God, that creeps me out!

XANDER: What does he want with Willow?

BUFFY: Let's never find out. Okay, I'm gonna check the computer lab, and you guys call her home.

written by: Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/08robot.html