GILES: I'm glad you're here, um... I have something I really have to tell you all. Um ... I know it feels like we've been through this before-

BUFFY: Why don't you just jump to the chase? Tell them that you're-

(Spike bursts in, wearing an ancient suit, bow-tie & hunting hat)

GILES: Spike?

ANYA: Holy moly.

SPIKE: You need to give me asylum.

XANDER: I'll say.

SPIKE: No need to get cute. It's a disguise. Happens there's a bloke I'd rather not see just now. (to Buffy) You met him, I believe. Toothy bloke with the baby-seal breath? Nasty fellow, him. And ugly too. He's got a mouthful of choppers just waiting to be yanked out and worn as necklaces.

GILES: Well, now that we've recovered from Spike's ... sartorial humor, I'll jump to the chase. Um ... I'm headed back to England and I plan to stay ... indefinitely.

XANDER: Now? Not now, I mean, not after ... everything.

GILES: Yes, now.

ANYA: For real this time? 'Cause honest to Pete, a young shopkeeper's heart can only take so much ... I mean, not that I want you to go-

BUFFY: I can't do this. I just, I don't think...

WILLOW: Buffy, listen. I know this must be awful for you, and I, I'm sorry, I ... I'm so sorry for...

BUFFY: Sorry. Everybody's sorry. I know that you guys are just trying to help ... but it's just, it's too much. And, and I, I can't take it any more. (tearful) If you guys ... if you guys understood how it felt ... how it feels. It's like I'm dying, it-

(Suddenly she falls to the floor, unconscious. So does everyone else.)

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/108tabularasa.html