DAWN: OK, so I looked up demons that skin their victims and demons that flay their victims 'cause, you know, same thing. There's a ton of prospects. Anything else gone? Uh, eyeballs, toenails or viscera? That's guts.

BUFFY: She knows about viscera. Makes you proud.

XANDER: Just skin.

DAWN: OK, I'll work on that.

XANDER: What's up?

BUFFY: I need to do something. I just?I have this feeling in my gut?

XANDER: In your viscera!

BUFFY: ?that we know exactly who did this. And all of this work that we're doing is just a way for us to convince ourselves that Willow's OK.

DAWN: Oh, guys! I got a good one. A demon called "Gnarl." He's a parasite with these nasty long fingernails. He secretes something through them and uses that to paralyze his victims. He then cuts strips of their skin while they're still alive. It takes hours.

XANDER: We didn't find any strips of skin. Which, by the way, gghhhh!

DAWN: You wouldn't. He eats them. That's why he's a parasite. It's like his natural food.

BUFFY: Dawn, you're new at this, and I get why you're proud, but I'm not exactly sure why this demon is any more likely than any of the others.

DAWN: You never said pool of blood.

BUFFY: There was no pool, just splatters.

DAWN: (smiling) Then this is your guy. He laps up the blood. You could say it's like his natural beverage.

XANDER: You're terrifying.

DAWN: Now if we just knew how to find this thing.

XANDER: Well, we could ask some questions over at Willy's place.

BUFFY: Or, we could be smart. (realizes she just insulted Xander's intelligence) Sorry, Xander.

XANDER: (not getting the insult) What?

BUFFY: W-whoever did this had to get blood on them, which means they left a trail.

DAWN: Right, minute traces of blood.

BUFFY: And we have a way to track it.

DAWN: We have a? Oh, I get it.

XANDER: What? How? What's going on?

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me. . Full transcript at:
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