XANDER: (to himself) No, we couldn't have put these chains back up a week ago. Nah, we gotta work on Spike now, of all times.

SPIKE: What?

XANDER: Nothing.

SPIKE: (to Robin) What are you doing here? You came to see the show?

PRINCIPAL WOOD: I thought you might need support.

SPIKE: Uh-huh. Right, let's get this over with. (to Giles) What're you gonna do? Some hypno-beam? A disarming spell?

GILES: Not exactly. The First has brainwashed you. There's something in your subconscious that it's using to provoke a violent reaction. So... we have to put this in your brain.

(displays a little polished stone)

SPIKE: Bugger that!

GILES: The Prokaryote stone will move within your mind to reveal the root of the trigger's power. Can unleash ideas, images, memories... Hopefully, once you understand what it is that's... setting you off, you can break its hold on you.

DAWN: Hopefully? So, it might not work?

GILES: The stone's just a catalyst for the process. The rest is up to Spike.

SPIKE: And how do expect to get that hunk of rubble into my cranium?

GILES: Willow?

WILLOW: OK. I just hope my pronunciation is in the ballpark. (reading) "Kun'ati belek sup'sion. Bok'vata im kele'beshus. Ek'vota mor'osh boota'ke."

(The stone starts to move like it's alive, no longer solid, but liquid.)

SPIKE: Oh, you have got to be joking? What now?

GILES: It has to access the cerebral cortex via the optic nerve.

SPIKE: Oh, bollocks. With all the rubbish people keep sticking in my head, it's a wonder that there's room for my brain.

GILES: I don't think it takes up that much space, do you?

(The liquid stone crawls out of the box, slides under Spike's eyelid)

SPIKE: Ow. Oh, ow!

BUFFY: Spike! Spike, listen to me.

SPIKE: Yeah.

BUFFY: Are you all right?

SPIKE: How am I supposed to know if this bug-ugly's doing its job?

• Spike's uneasy truce with the gang

written by: David Fury and Drew Goddard; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/139_tran.php