[06]

(Campus. Night. Buffy walks straight into another student.)

BUFFY: Ooh!

Eddie: Wow, sorry.

BUFFY: No, I-I wasn't looking.

Eddie: Did you, uh, lose your way?

BUFFY: Me? Oh, no, no, I'm just going to Fischer Hall. Which I know is on the Earth planet. Recently voted 'Most Pathetic.' Uh-huh.

Eddie: Hmm, well, I'm lost and I have a map. So...

BUFFY: Ooh, I come in second. I'm Buffy, by the way.

Eddie: Eddie.

BUFFY: Ok, so... That's Fischer Hall, right?

Eddie: Ok, and this is Dunwirth Building, that's my dorm... it's just... it's us I can't find.

BUFFY: Are we the blue part?

Eddie: No... yes!

BUFFY: Ok, right, so I-I came from there, then we just wanna go that way (She points.) to the bike path.

Eddie: You sound very certain, I'm in.

(They start walking and he sees the books in Buffy's arms.)

Eddie: You're taking 'Psych 105' with Professor Walsh.

BUFFY: Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna try. She's not afraid of the long words, huh?

Eddie: Yeah, she's pretty intense. A lot of the courses are really tough.

BUFFY: I'm a little upset. I had it on good authority that this was a party school.

Eddie: I think it's supposed to get easier.

BUFFY: I still feel like carrying around a security blanket.

Eddie: 'Of Human Bondage.' Have you ever read it?

BUFFY: Oh, I'm not really into porn... I mean I'm just... I'm trying to cut way back.

Eddie: (Laughs.) No, there's no actual bondage, it's just a novel. I've read it, like, ten times. I always keep it by my bed... security blanket.

BUFFY: I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.

Eddie: Mr. Pointy?

BUFFY: Oh, bike path. So it's nice to know that I'm not the only entirely confused person on this campus.

Eddie: I suspect there's a lot of us.

BUFFY: Well, I'll look for you in Psych.

Eddie: Yeah, maybe we can help each other figure out what the hell they're talking about.

BUFFY: (Laughs.) Ok.

Eddie: Maybe even make it through the year. (Laughs.)

BUFFY: Goodnight.

Eddie: Night.

(they go there separate way. Eddie is jumped by a gang led by Sunday: small, pretty, blonde. vampire.)

SUNDAY: I'm sorry... did you lose your way?

[07]

(Eddie's dorm room. The gang clears out his stuff and leaves a note)

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: Diov Llun . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/57freshman.html