BUFFY: Um, you know, a girl died here last night.

WILLOW: How?

BUFFY: Well, the flu.

XANDER: Flu doesn't exactly sound monsterrific.

BUFFY: I know. But there's this Dr. Backer, and he's been giving them these experimental treatments. I-I'm not sure what he's up to, but he's a little creepy. A-and then there was this kid, Ryan. He said he saw something.

GILES: Saw what?

BUFFY: Death.

CORDELIA: Death?

WILLOW: *The* Death? As in, 'it is your time'?

GILES: Buffy, a-a-a frightened child...

BUFFY: Yeah, but I thought I saw something. I'm not sure, I was really out of it, but...

CORDELIA: But you do know that you saw death.

WILLOW: Did it have an hourglass?

XANDER: Ooo, if he asks you to play chess, don't even do it. The guy's, like, a whiz.

BUFFY: Maybe it wasn't death. Maybe it was something else.

CORDELIA: So this isn't about you being afraid of hospitals 'cause your friend died and you wanna conjure up a monster that you can fight so you can save everybody and not feel so helpless?

GILES: Cordelia, have you actually ever heard of tact?

CORDELIA: Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.

WILLOW: Your mom did tell us about your cousin.

BUFFY: This has nothing to do with that. This little boy Ryan is afraid of something, something real. As long as I'm forced to stay here, I'm gonna find out what.

written by: Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali; . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/30killed.html