(Magic Box)

TRAVERS: Well, your Slayer's twenty minutes late and counting, Rupert.

GILES: Buffy will be here, I assure you.

TRAVERS: (chuckles) Yes, but when?

(Cut to: Buffy walking through a dark alley. She looks at her watch.)

BUFFY: Crap.

(She walks faster. Suddenly she's attacked by someone wearing armor. Two other knights appear.)

BUFFY: Uh ... guys? A-any way we could ... not do this?

(Overhead shot of the three knights circling her. Blackout & Resume. Fight ensues. Buffy takes down 2 knights, and pins the third.)

BUFFY: Okay. Let's see what you are.

(She removes the chain-mail mask to reveal an ordinary-looking human man with a symbol on his forehead. )

BUFFY: Or who you are.

KNIGHT: One soldier in a vast army.

BUFFY: What army?

KNIGHT: The Knights of Byzantium, an ancient order. And now your enemy.

(she pushes the staff harder into his throat)

BUFFY: You work for Glory?

KNIGHT: You think we align ourselves with the beast? You must be mad.

BUFFY: You're the ones tried killing me.

KNIGHT: No, we were fools, three alone. But if it takes a hundred men, we send a hundred men, and if it takes a thousand, we send a thousand.

BUFFY: A thousand?

KNIGHT: So long as you protect the key, the brotherhood will never stop until we destroy it and you. You are the Slayer, and we know what we must do. Now, be done with it. Kill us, and let legions follow.

(Buffy shoves the staff into his throat again, then tosses it aside, gets up and picks up the sword. The knight gets to his feet, and she puts the sword to his throat. He turns his head away waiting for the kill stroke. )

BUFFY: Go.

(The knight looks surprised, edges around her and leaves. Buffy stares at the sword. )

• Buffy vs Glory

written by: Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/90checkpoint.html