GILES: (entering) Everything's terrible. Total catastrophe.

BUFFY: Giles, what's wrong?

GILES: Have you seen the new library? There's nothing but computers. There's not a book to be seen. I?I don't know where to begin, Buffy. I mean, who do we speak to?

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Uh, that would?that would be me. Hi. I'm Robin Wood.

GILES: Oh, sorry. Rupert Giles. Sorry. Buffy tells me you're something of a freelance demon fighter. (Robin points to his office door, then closes it) Oh, yes, yes. I, um, I'm relieved. We're running dangerously low on allies.

BUFFY: So, we didn't stop it, then?

GILES: Uh, no, the seers at the coven are certain the First is continuing to gather its forces. I'm afraid war is inevitable. So, we should go before the school board.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: What?

GILES: Well, I can have my backup library sent from home in the mean time. It's not much, but?

BUFFY: Giles.

GILES: Knowledge comes from crafted bindings and pages, Buffy, not ones and zeros.

BUFFY: So, did you bring back any potentials?

GILES: Um, no. Actually, m-my, uh, my trip is about something else...regarding Spike.

BUFFY: Spike? What about him?

GILES: I told you my concerns when you recklessly chose to remove the chip from his head.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Wait, sorry, chip?

GILES: Uh, it's a long story.

BUFFY: The military put a chip in Spike's head so he couldn't hurt anyone.

GILES: And that would be the abridged version.

BUFFY: But he wouldn't hurt anyone anymore because he has a soul now.

GILES: Unless the First triggers him again.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Triggers the chip?

BUFFY: No, the trigger's a post-hypnotic thing. The First put it in his head. It was?made him? He was killing again.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: So, he has a trigger, a soul, and a chip?

GILES: Not anymore.

BUFFY: (angrily) It was killing him, Giles.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: The trigger?

BUFFY: No, the chip. The trigger's not active anymore.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Because the military gave him a soul? (Buffy and Giles glare) Sorry.

GILES: We don't know that the trigger is inactive. What I brought back may help us to disarm it, to ascertain exactly what it is that causes Spike's behavior.

BUFFY: It was that song, Giles. I'm telling you, it was that song that Spike was singing.

GILES: He has no memory of it. Is there any part of it that you can remember?

BUFFY: It wasn't like it had a catchy hook or anything like "I'm coming up, so you better get this party started." It was boring, old, and English. Just like you?ull. (covers) Yule Brenner. A British Yule Brenner.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: This thing you brought to keep Spike from killing again... How's it work?

GILES: Well, it will require a bit of magic.

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