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Part Two
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FADE IN:
EXT. STREETS OF SUNNYDALE - DAY
Xander walks along the sidewalk whistling "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" to himself. He hears something behind him and looks back. He doesn't see anything. So he shrugs and keeps on walking.
Behind Xander a red car pulls out from a side street. It pulls out and moves forward slowly and then parks along the curb. CAMERA ZOOMS in on the car.
INT. CORDELIA'S CAR - CONTINUOUS
Cordelia is at the wheel.
CORDELIA
(ranting to herself)
I can't believe I'm doing this. I mean this is Xander. Geek extraordinair. He totally ignored me and then he did that spell thing, oh he's getting away.
She puts the car quickly in gear, moves it up farther and then pulls over to a stop again. She grrrs.
CORDELIA
Okay, let's see. Is he that cute? I guess in that sort of weird kind of.. No! He is definitely not cute. And sooo not cool. I only hang out with cool people because they are better. Unless they're always agreeing with me. Xander doesn't always agree.
She thinks on that a moment as she pulls the car out, moves it forward and parks again.
CORDELIA
Hmm.. That's part of his charm. Wait. Ugh, he is NOT charming. He's not charming and not cool and definitely not cute and..and.. I'm still talking to myself.
She pulls the car out and moves forward again.
CORDELIA
It must be stress. From being popular, and having lots of friends, and being attacked by all these freaky creatures. It is not me and it is especially not Xander. I could care less where he goes and what he does.
She gets back onto the street and goes around another corner. She sees Xander approaching one house in particular. She stops and watches him for a moment. She looks from the front door of the house to the mailbox at the street. The name on the box reads, Calendar.
CORDELIA
No way! Tutoring?
(thinks a moment)
At her house?
INT. CALENDAR HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY
Jenny leads Xander into the living room where he meets her grandmother.
XANDER
I assume you're the light bulb.
MAGDA
Excuse me.
XANDER
The master plan. The great idea. The big shebang.
MAGDA
(smiles)
Something like that.
XANDER
Whatever it is let's do it. Get out some herbs, mix up some potions, and whip a little soul retrieving Gatoraid or something.
MAGDA
If only it were that simple.
XANDER
Why am I so completely not surprised to hear that.
MAGDA
Gypsy magic has less to do with spices and more to do with the heart.
XANDER
Are we talking about the physically beating one or is it metaphor story time?
MAGDA
How much is this worth to you, Xander?
XANDER
Is an arm or a leg enough?
MAGDA
I'm serious.
Xander looks at her with determination.
XANDER
Everything.
MAGDA
Hopefully that will be do. We must prepare.
She disappears into the other room.
EXT. CALENDAR HOUSE, OUTSIDE LIVING ROOM WINDOW - CONTINUOUS
Cordelia is trying to push her way through the bushes alongside the house to see in the window. She gets caught on something.
CORDELIA
(speaking quietly to herself)
Damn! Prickily things.
She pulls and a thread gets snagged out of her skirt. She looks at it and GRRRS.
She makes it through the shrubbery.
EXT./INT. ANGLE: POV AS CORDELIA LOOKING IN THE SIDE WINDOW
The window is slightly cracked open so she can hear what is going on inside. None of them notice her. Magda returns lugging a large suitcase.
REVERSE TO
INT. CALENDAR HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS
MAGDA
(indicating the case)
Here we are.
XANDER
So you have a magic wand in there?
MAGDA
Everything but the kitchen sink.
JENNY
Grandmama, you haven't explained what it is we're going to do.
MAGDA
I'm not sure how much of it you want to know dear.
Jenny looks at Xander. He shrugs, obviously not wanting to know all that it entails.
JENNY
You must tell us.
MAGDA
(smiles)
If you insist. Here is how it will work.
INT. LIBRARY - DAY
GILES
I found it!
Willow looks up to see Giles appear from behind a stack of tomes he has piled on the desk in front of him.
WILLOW
Found what?
GILES
Magda Calendar.
WILLOW
Good! Well.. maybe. If she's doing something bad and we're not just invading her privacy.
Giles walks around the table and comes toward Willow to show her.
GILES
She's a gypsy and a seer. A quite powerful one at that. According to the genealogy she is Jenny Calendar's grandmother and.. (he takes a closer look at the book)
Oh, dear.
WILLOW
What?
GILES
She is perhaps one of the few people still living who would know how to bring Angel back. In a manner of speaking.
WILLOW
That's good right? Please tell me that's good.
GILES
The text states when a creature is cursed such as Angel a gypsy must forfeit his or her life for the process to occur. This gypsy in death becomes the soul's watcher to ensure that the cursed is in eternal torment. The records are sketchy at best. But, apparently those of the soul watcher's family are then entrusted to keep an eye on the damned here on earth. Which means...
WILLOW
Ms. Calendar is the great great great.. well something of the gypsy girl Angel killed?
GILES
It means I think Jenny is about to do something that is quite arguably insane.
WILLOW
What are we going to do?
GILES
I'm not sure. Bloody hell. Where is Buffy anyway? She was supposed to be here for combat practice.
INT. THE BRONZE - DAY
The chairs are still up on the various tables and someone is mopping the floor. The bartender is sitting reading a book. Buffy enters. She looks around and then heads for an empty booth. The man mopping the floor looks up as she passes but then goes back to his job.
She slides in the booth and goes as far back into the corner as possible. She reaches into her jacket pocket and digs something out. She places the ring Angel gave her on the table. She holds it between her fingers moving it around and watching the light reflect off the shiny surface.
Holding the ring with one hand, she flicks it with the other. It goes spinning around the table like a top. She watches it for a moment, then slams her hand down on it. The table GROANS under the pressure of her blow and a slight SPLINTER is heard.
The bartender looks up in the direction from which the sound came. Seeing only a young and ostensibly helpless Buffy, he goes back to reading.
ANGLE: BUFFY'S HAND ON TABLE
She lifts her hand to show the ring underneath. Then she picks up the ring. There is a small circular indentation left behind in the wood of the table. She looks at the ring in her hands and then puts it away.
EXT. SUNNYDALE CEMETERY - DUSK
CAMERA PANS across the tombstones until the POV stops at a small wood just outside the graveyard.
DISSOLVE TO
EXT. WOODS NEAR CEMETERY - DUSK
Xander and Jenny watch as Magda shuffles with things in her suitcase. She stops and looks around the clearing for a moment.
MAGDA
It will do quite nicely, no?
XANDER
It's a clearing all right.
MAGDA
I will become darkness. Darkness shall be coming soon. Jenny will help you find the progeny.
XANDER
How do we convince the vamp to come here?
MAGDA
You smell of blood do you not?
XANDER
(uneasy)
I guess.
MAGDA
Well then, that should be more than enough.
Xander watches Magda briefly as she begins to dig in her bag. He shrugs and then pushes back one of the branches. He motions to Jenny.
XANDER
Shall we.
Jenny, looks at her grandmother, then back at Xander. She steps past him.
EXT. DOWNHILL IN WOODS NEAR CEMETERY - DUSK
Jenny is in the lead. She steps over some branches. Xander is looking back over his shoulder.
JENNY
Xander, watch the..
Not paying attention he trips over the clutter and falls to his left.
ANGLE: ON CORDELIA HIDING BEHIND A BUSH
Xander come spilling through and falls to the ground right next to her. He doesn't notice her at first as he recovers from the fall. Then he looks in her direction and his eyes snap wide open. He scrambles to his feet. She stands up.
XANDER
What the hell are you doing here?!
CORDELIA
(hesitates for a moment)
I was.. just, um, about to ask you the same thing. You guys come rushing through the brush like that when I'm just trying to take a stroll. I thought you were vampires or something.
XANDER
The sun's still out.
CORDELIA
Then I thought you were something.
JENNY
Do you guys need a moment?
XANDER & CORDELIA
NO!
JENNY
We really should get moving.
Xander glares at Cordelia then begins to turn back toward Jenny.
CORDELIA
You are crazy. It will never work.
XANDER
Oh, gee, we weren't being followed. (shrugs)
At least we'll try.
CORDELIA
To prove what? That you make a better cadaver than a boyfriend?
XANDER
Ooo, big word.
JENNY Guys! We have to stay focused.
CORDELIA
Well, why don't you go help grandma and we'll round up the vamps.
XANDER
I thought you just said we were crazy.
CORDELIA
I did.
Xander's about to argue but Jenny cuts in.
JENNY
She's right. They might figure something is up if they see you and me, Xander.
CORDELIA
Then it's settled.
Cordelia begins to walk off. Xander looks at Jenny.
XANDER
But..
JENNY
Go with her. We need all the help we can get.
He looks back in Cordelia's direction. Waits a beat and then suddenly starts as though he just had a great moment of realization.
XANDER
Ah, there's the impending sense of doom I was waiting for.
He follows.
INT. CALENDAR HOUSE - NIGHTFALL
ANGLE: FROM INSIDE ON FRONT DOOR
The door SPLINTERS and SLAMS open. Giles is standing there. Willow peaks her head in.
WILLOW
Well, that solved the key dilemma.
Giles adjusts his tie.
GILES
Yes. It did.
He steps inside. Willow watches him go for a moment. With trepidation she enters also, clutching her backpack.
Giles enters the living room and begins to look around. He spots an assortment of luggage in the corner. He walks over to it. He tries to unlatch a suitcase but it won't open.
WILLOW
We're not missing a key again?
He stands up, raises the case over his head, and sends it plummeting into the hard wood floor. The case CRACKS and its contents, mostly clothes spill everywhere.
WILLOW
Very subtle.
GILES
You sift through that stuff. I'll check the others.
WILLOW
Just don't drop any on me okay?
Ignoring her, he grabs another case and lifts it up.
INT. THE LAIR - NIGHT
Drusilla appears extremely weak. She clutches the cage and leans against it for support. The teenage girl is inside the cage. She is quite dead.
DRUSILLA
Why won't you dance for me anymore? I so do want to see you dance. Little feet. Such little feet moving everywhere.
Angel enters the room. He stops and watches Drusilla for a moment. She begins to cry. He approaches, crouches down, and puts his hand on her shoulder to comfort her. She pushes him away violently, stands up, and moves away from him.
DRUSILLA
You destroyed her. Her heart no longer drum rolls.
Angel grows angry. He rushes forward with his vamp face on. He grabs her by the neck and lifts her into the air.
ANGEL
I should care because?
DRUSILLA
(puppy dog eyes)
Because you love me.
ANGEL
You're insane.
DRUSILLA
That's what mommy said the day before she died.
His anger lessons. He lets her down.
ANGEL
You have to feed. You are weak.
DRUSILLA
(smiles)
Shall we go dancing then?
Indicating the door.
ANGEL
After you my sweet.
EXT. STREETS OF SUNNYDALE - NIGHT
Cordelia is walking down the street toward her car followed in toe by Xander. He still appears a bit perplexed on how this all happened. Just as she reaches the driver's side door he catches up. She starts to open it but he's standing in the way.
CORDELIA
Do you mind?
XANDER
So you were following me.
She closes the door.
CORDELIA
I was not following you.
XANDER
Then what exactly were you doing?
CORDELIA
I just thought you were about to do something really stupid. Which you were.
XANDER
And that concerns you how?
CORDELIA
If you go and get yourself killed who would I have left to make fun of? Willow's too easy and Buffy might wig Steven Seagal on me.
XANDER
Well, as long as I'm sure that's your real reason.
CORDELIA
Look Xander, I don't even pretend to know why you do the freaky things you do. And I don't know why I'm now helping you do them.
XANDER
So what you're saying is you care.
CORDELIA
No, I'm just saying it makes no sense.
He reaches over to hold onto her hand. She pulls away.
CORDELIA
What are you doing?
Lowers his head.
XANDER
I just thought..
Raises it.
XANDER
Maybe
She gives him a quick kiss, then suddenly realizes what she just did and blushes.
CORDELIA
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..
He kisses her back. They look at each other a moment. Then embrace and fall into a more passionate kiss. They break off and watch each other holding the moment for a smidgen longer than just a passing flirtation.
CORDELIA
We should really go. There are important things to do. Buffy to think about.
XANDER
(still lost in Cordelia's eyes)
Yeah.. Buffy.
EXT. STREET ENTRANCE TO SEWERS - NIGHT
Buffy throws her book bag down next to the manhole. She crouches and opens the bag to check its contents. There are a few vials of holy water, a number of stakes, a few silver crosses, and some bulbs of garlic. Everything appears to be in order.
Leaning forward she begins to move the manhole cover. Hanging down can be seen her cross necklace.
CU ON NECKLACE
to reveal she has looped Angel's ring onto the necklace also.
The manhole cover is off. She pulls a stake from her backpack and zips it back up. She grabs the pack and then leaps down inside.
FADE OUT.
END ACT TWO
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