Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dawn gets caught stealing by Anya, Xander's emptiness speech to Buffy and Willow about his life without Anya, D'hoffryn offering Anya the chance to go Vengence again, Willow seeing Tara kiss other woman then walk away, Warren's suggestion of becoming supervillians, Johnathan's paranoia starting to show, Spike issues ultimatum to Buffy about their relationship.

Two vampires sit in a small torn up room,talking about the cash they're going to get by selling "it."One wonders how they ever found "it" but the other istoo busy thinking of all the cool things he could get with thecash like some more meanacing attire and a cuppichino machine.They hear a knock at the door and, after preparing to jump whoeverit is, ask "Who's there?" Warren's voice is heard: "Pizza."The two vamps look at each other, puzzled, just as a loud CRASHis heard on the other side of the door, followed by Andrew's groan.Some bickering between Andrew and Johnathan is heard before Warrensays "Fine, girls, allow me" as the door is kicked open.Both vampires rush to attack, but Andrew jumps in the way, wearinga long coat that is completely covered in crosses!

Both vampires recoil as the trio entersthe room, splitting up in search of something. Andrew likes hispower and threatens the two vampires as Warren asks them for the"Za" disk. Johnathan interrupts, saying it's the "Sah"disk, "S A H, there's no Z, bot-boy!" The vampires saythey don't' know what they're talking about, but the second vampis seen feeling his pocket. Warren orders Johnathan to get theSah disk from him, but Johnathan argues back. Fed up, Warren startstowards the vampire, who snarls at him. Andrew then jumps forwardto drive the Vampire off, but trips, falling on the vampire! Hissingis heard and the vampire screams in pain as Andrew tries to getoff of him. Warren fishes in the struggling vampire's pocket andpulls out a small, oval flat metallic disk and getting all giddy,turns to go, helping Andrew up. All three leave with Johnathantaking up the rear, complaining that they're moving too fast.The first vamp starts to chase after them, but he brushes againstthe second vamp, who screams in pain. He is seen with many crossesburned into his face, arms, and chest, and is still smoking. "Thatwas NOT fun." The vamp quips.

Buffy walks through a cemetery on patrol.She halts, sits calmly on a tombstone and yells in back of her"You're not even trying now?!?" From a distance, Spikewalks up, saying that he actually WASN'T following her, as thisis his home base, "like you could ever forget where my tombaway from tomb is?" Buffy looks at him, rolls her eyes, andgets up to walk off. Spike walks along with her, silently fora few steps, before Buffy asks why he DID choose this cemetery,it's not close to anything practical, even if you were a realvampire, there's no living people nearby. Spike answers he likedit because of his crypt, it had a nice feel to it, and besides,his first choice was overrun by "young strapping vamps"who were too upscale for him.

They walk again in silence before Spikeasks "You tell them yet, or do I get to spill the beans thatthe slayer has been shagging yet another undead creature?"Buffy asks him if it's really necessary they know at all, as it'sover between them for good. Spike says he has no qualms aboutletting know all about their "deeds" and thinks it mighttake the slayer off her high horse for a moment and make her thinkabout someone else for a change. Buffy is stunned and wants toargue, but the words don't come fourth, then she says that it'sprobably a moot point anyways, as she's been so confused lately,they'll hopefully be able to forgive her. She tried to kill them,and they forgave, so they would certainly be understanding ofa very small mistake she made. Elsewhere. She glances down atSpike's crotch for a second, smirks, then walks off. Spike standsthere, a little stunned "Mistake? SMALL? Is that some hiddeninnuendo?!?"

Opening credits: Nothing new.

Willow adjusts herself, trying to look naturalas she waits for Tara to come out of class. The two girls smileand greet each other awkwardly. Tara asks how Willow's doing afterthe "Basement Deal", and asks how Buffy's doing. Willowanswers both are ok. Awkward silence. Tara knows why, and tellsWillow that the other girl was "just a friend", whichWillow first tries to toss off or not know what she's talkingabout, but is really breathing a big sigh of relief. Willow suggeststhat Tara and her friend come over, or maybe just Tara. The twobabble a little about bringing friends over, or not, but it'sclear that Willow's asking her out for Coffee. "With us,Who are Just friends"

In the Troika's lair, Warren flips the shinydisk into the air, commenting that this is going to be THE bigscore. Johnathan grabs it out of the air and says this is onlya small part of the plan, there's a lot more to do. He's stillvery nervous. Andrew sits in a corner, babbling about his closeencounter with the vampire. Warren tells the both of them to chillout, and then smiles, knowing what will get them up and going."A little spying? Maybe the two girlfriends have made upand are looking for some lovin?" Smiles light up the facesof the three Troika members as they rush over to some computermonitors

Walking down the middle of a mall's hallway,Dawn and Buffy carry shopping bags and giggle, talking about theirpurchases. Buffy asks to see what Dawn bought, but Dawn is defensiveand hides her bag. Buffy gets a disturbed, hurt look on her face,but Dawn says it's NOT bad, she didn't take anything. Buffy wantsproof, and Dawn pulls out a beautiful lacey blouse. "I gotit for you, for a late Birthday present. I wanted to BUY somethingfor you" as she shows her the receipt. Smiling, Buffy tellsher to hide it again, she didn't see a thing yet.

Buffy sees a good looking boy walk by andpoints him out to Dawn. Dawn says to wait and see if he startssmoking when he hits sunlight. If he doesn't then she'll considerit. Both laugh (although Buffy a little nervously), and continue.Dawn then asks what about her, anyone strike her interest? Buffysays "let's see: Angel vampire. Parker loser. Riley marriedto Lara Croft. Oh, I don't see myself as wanting to try anythingstill." Dawn suggests Richard (the guy from her B-day party),but Buffy says she definitely scared him off she can't figureout why, he was only trapped, terrorized, and stabbed in her home."Besides, that night I was actually thinking Clem was a realnice guy demon" Dawn looks at Buffy in disbelief, then laughswhen she sees Buffy's smirk. Dawn then asks Buffy if they cando something REALLY fun. She wants to go on patrol with Buffy,to which Buffy repeatedly says "no way, no how, no never,no no, no no no, not even no-ness." Dawn pleads a little,to which Buffy answers "sometime, but not now."

Anya stands in a dark void. Slowly her facemorphs into that of Anyanka and she starts calling out, wantingvengence against the man who has wronged her. She feels a surgeof power rise within as she calls out for Xander to be cursedwith loneliness, disease, and bankruptcy! Winds start to whipup around her in a rising crechendo

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The winds continue to rise as Anyanka beseechesthe unseen for vengence, but then quickly dies down into nothing."Oh, come ON! Stupid curse guidelines!" She cannot curseXander herself, being the one who can deliver the curse! She thinksthat one of the others will definitely help her against Xander.

Brief scene of Andrew watching a monitor,a bit bored. "It was better when the girl was with him. Nowall he does is pout, eat, and leave." The camera focusesin on a monitor that show's Xander's apartment, with Xander watchingtelevision and eating chips.

Willow and Tara sit at a table at an outsidecafé with coffee and rolls. Willow talks, almost reminiscingabout everything that's happened to the group since Tara's beenaway. She mentions the old snake-woman at the Doublemeat palace,the invisibility ray, and then starts to talk of Spike's Demoneggs. Tara seems almost jealous at all the fun she's missed outon! Anya then approaches, very cheery, asking the girls how they'redoing, seeing if they're back together, wondering if the Coffee'sgood, if they've seen Xander and would like to see him impaledon a tree, etc The two girls look at her shocked, but Anya laughsit off sort of. Anya starts to question the two wiccans aboutXander and how he's doing, and then dovetails the conversationinto how they are lucky they like women and not men, cause menare evil, like Xander, who left her at the altar. The two wiccanssit uneasily, occasionally attempting to defend Xander, but Anyakeeps interrupting and badmouthing men in general, and pinpointingXander. Anya can soon see that Willow and Tara are not interestedin wishing Xander harm, and that they are also both "lost"in each other.

In the Summer's living room, Anya talkswith Buffy about what a horrible thing it was to be left at thealtar with guests and food rotting on a nearby table and everything!Buffy sits silently as Anya badmouths Xander's family, his clothing,his home, and those stupid Babylon Five collector's plates. Dawnwalks in, saying she thought they were cool, and then defendsXander, saying that it was wrong what he did, but it's betterthat he told Anya his true feelings before it was too late. Buffyjoins in, saying that she feels sorry for what happened, but understandsthat Xander felt rushed and he wanted to make sure of what hewas doing. Buffy then starts to tell Anya that Xander does stillcare about her and wishes to see her, but Anya talks over her,saying that it's another trick of Xanders to suck her in, havesex with her, then drop her.

Anya excuses herself and hurries out thedoor, leaving Buffy and Dawn looking troubled. Buffy asks Dawnif she's done her homework yet, to which Dawn mumbles somethingunder her breath. Buffy starts to walk up to her, a little miffed,but then gets a curious look on her face and continues past Dawnto the opposite wall which has a desk. "Do moths eat lamps?"Buffy asks as she walks over to a desk lamp, looking at an unusualhole in the lamp shade.

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A scene of Dawn searching the upstairs halland looking at a black dot in the hallway light.

A scene of Buffy searching her room andfinding a similar black dot "cube" thing in her closetdoorframe.

A scene of Bufffy and Willow searching herroom, finding yet another black cube hidden in the front of adresser drawer handle.

Dawn on phone, talking to Xander. Xanderhangs up and starts to look around his place, a bit paranoid.His search takes the Troika's monitor's point of view as he isseen looking around, at walls and lamps and pictures, then helooks straight at the cameral and slowly approaches it, his jawwide open. His hands reach up and grab it, then the picture goesblack.

"Uh oh" Says Johnathon. Warrenasks what's up, just as we see a close up of Dawn on another monitor,looking straight into the camera. After a few seconds, the imagegoes to fuzz. A few of the monitors show fuzz as Andrew approaches.All three Geeks stare as yet another monitor, showing Willow'sface for a second, goes blank. "This could be a really badthing" Warren says as the others stare open mouthed at him.

Later that evening, Xander barges in thefront door of the Summers home and walks up to Dawn, Willow, andBuffy in the kitchen. On the counter sit a bunch of small blackcube "cameras." Xander reaches in his pocket and addstwo to the collection that he found at his place. Willow wonderswhere they came from, who planted them, but then thinks up a waythat should be easy for them to trace where the signal comes from.Buffy starts to question who would do it, and the three geeksare brought up JUST as Spike walks in. He's noticed everyone wasin a rush to get to the Summer's house and wanted to know whatwas up. Xander turns and accuses Spike of planting the cameras,but Spike doesn't have the slightest idea where they got the "squarejujubes" from. Xander turns to Buffy and points out all thecreepy stuff Spike has done up until then, and that the camerasare just another sick way of scooping out Buffy's life. Buffystands confused for a while, but then slowly starts to look atSpike differently, as if she's nervous. Xander tells Spike toget out as Spike tries to reason with Buffy, but Buffy quietlyasks him to leave and to take his "toys" with him, tryingto hand Spike the cameras. Spike shoots Xander a VERY dirty lookand barges out.

Anya notices Spike walking angrily downthe middle of the street and asks what's wrong? Spike says thatAnya was lucky in getting blown off at the Altar by "Buffy'sboy" Xander. Anya smiles and asks Spike what's really wrong,if they can talk about it, but someplace not as open.

In the Magic box, Anya and Spike sit atthe group table, obviously both VERY tipsy. Anya pours Spike anothershot of something. She asks him how mad at Xander he is, and hesays he's very bloody mad. He's mad at what Xander has againsthim and is mad at Xander always being around to harass him. Anyais excited at this news and keeps prying, asking Spike what he'ddo to Xander if he had the chance. Spike gets up and walks overclose to Anya and pins her arms to the table and says he'd dothis and he'd breathe down Xander's neck first, getting him allnice and buggered, then he'd show his true nature and really scarethe willies out of him. Anya, arms pinned against the table, smiles,seeing her wish is about to come true, but Spike's "breathing"is a little too arousing. The two slowly close in on each otherand they kiss! Spike lifts Anya up on the table as they stillkiss and Anya doesn't resist!

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"Finally, some action!" Says Warrenas the other two geeks run over to check out the monitor. Theyboth see a figure on top of Spike, grinding back and fourth onthe table in the Magic Box. Andrew says that Buffy and Spike aregetting boring to watch, but Warren smiles "That's not Buffy.That's the construction worker's chick." All three peer intothe monitor "She never did THAT with the construction worker!"Johnathan says.

With Willow in the lead, Dawn, Xander, andBuffy watch Willow as she uses some sort of "scanner"in the air, with one of the camera's connected by some wires tothe antenna. The Scanner gives out some sort of static when pointedin a certain direction, which they head in. Dawn asks Willow ifshe knows what she's doing. Xander says he learned a while agonot to bother asking that question anymore when it comes to electronicsand Willow. Xander then looks behind them and asks Buffy "Isn'tSpike's crypt behind us?" Buffy questions it herself as thegroup marches on.

In the trio's lair, the three geeks sit,munching on popcorn, commenting on Spike's "form." ButJohnathan looks up at another monitor and notices the scoobiesapproaching the very outside of their house! The three drop whatthey're doing as they quietly listen. They hear footsteps on thefloor above them and muffled talk. Warren jumps up and startspointing at certain things as Andrew and Johnathan quietly grabthings like magic items, action figures, books, papers, a wadof cash, and a laptop computer. All three, arms loaded, rush upand out the basement door. Just as it closes, Buffy and crew walkdown stairs and start looking around. Buffy realizes that it wasn'tSpike who had the cameras, it was the geeks!

They explore the basement briefly, but aresoon attracted to the monitors. The group comments that they hadcameras everywhere! Buffy's home, Xander's home, one at the DoublemeatPalace, and a few at the Magic Box! Willow glances up at one ofthe monitors and goes "erp!" She tells Xander to lookaway, but Xander wants to know whats up and before she can stophim, he sees the monitor that shows Spike and Anya having mad,drunken sex! He stares silently as the glow of the monitor batheshis face. Buffy's face joins his, both of them watch with mouthswide open. Buffy backs up and turns away, slightly teary-eyed.Dawn notices and asks Buffy what is wrong? Buffy walks Dawn apartfrom Willow and Xander and says "Dawn, I have to tell yousomething..."

Willow sees the two sisters talking andknows something is up, but she turns to Xander who still stands,speechless. "Make a sound, Xander" she says. "Oh,I'm going to make several dozen sounds, Will." Xander answersback.

In her bedroom, Willow surprisingly hearsTara at the bedroom doorway. "Things Fall apart, they fallso hard. There's so much to work through, trust has to build again,on both sides. You have to learn if you are even the same peopleyou were, if you can fit in each other's lives, it's a long andimportant process and can we just skip all that and can you justbe kissing me now?" Willow looks at her lover, questioningsilently if she just Tara nods yes back silently. Willow standsby the bed as Tara walks up and lays some major kissage on herlover. VERY intense and passionate!

A door is seen and knocking/banging is heardon the other side. The door opens by an unseen hand and the threegeeks stand with all sorts of junk in their arms. "We didn'tknow where else to go." Andrew says. Warren interrupts him"We, ah, kinda got caught, and we're maybe hoping that youmight, ah... let us hang at your place for a while? Just untilwe re-establish ourselves, sir..." The camera pans aroundas we hear a familure voice. "Sure, come on in guys. It'snot like you don't already owe me a lot anyways." Clem standsthere, a sly smirk comes across his already happy face...

Grrr Arrg...