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Buffy Quote of the Week
From Dirty Girls

INT. WINE CELLAR AT THE SHADOW VALLEY VINEYARDS - NIGHT
Resume. Caleb has knocked Buffy across the room.

Spike vamps out and attacks Caleb. Caleb pushes him down with ease. Spike tries to get up, but Caleb head-butts him, then throws him across the room into a huge wine storage tank that busts when Spike hits it. Wine pours out of the tank and washes Spike across the floor. Kennedy and the other potentials get into gear and join the fight.

KENNEDY: Let's go!

The Bringers come back out of the shadows to fight the potentials as well. Kennedy storms Caleb but has to engage a Bringer instead. Caleb punches Kennedy, knocking her into a stack of wine barrels.

RONA: (worried) Kennedy!

Rona runs toward Kennedy, but Caleb cuts her off. She swings the spiked baseball bat at Caleb, but he catches it and looks her in the eyes.

CALEB: (to Rona) Miss, I do believe you have your own problems you should be worrying about.

Caleb breaks Rona's arm with ease, sending her reeling back in agony. Caleb chuckles and bends to pick up a knife from the floor. He tosses the knife to a nearby Bringer, who swings it back ready to plunge it into Rona's body. An arrow pierces the Bringer's forearm as he rears back. They turn to look, and see Xander standing there with a bow. Faith's there beside him. The Bringer leaves Rona and fights with Xander.

CALEB: Oh, good. There's more of you.

Faith charges at Caleb. Xander sees Buffy lying unconscious against the wall where she fell when Caleb threw her.

XANDER: Buffy!

Xander runs to Buffy, fighting off Bringers on his way to her side. Holding a knife in each hand, Faith engages Caleb in a fight, but she's not seeming to faze him.

CALEB: (looks Faith up and down) Well, you're the other one, aren't you. Your Cain to her Abel. (Faith throws a knife at Caleb) No offense meant to Cain, of course.

Faith attacks Caleb with her other knife, but he grabs her arm, twists it, and crosses it with her other arm in a fashion such that she can't move, but is looking right at him. He squeezes her hands until she's forced to drop the knife. Faith grunts at him and knees him in the crotch, causing Caleb to let go of her just enough that she can escape his grasp. She backhands him across the face.

FAITH: (through gritted teeth) Never was much for the good book.

Caleb grabs Faith's arm and twists it painfully behind her back, causing her to double over. She falls to her knees as he twists and pulls her arm and walks around to the front of her.

CALEB: Oh, it has its moments. Paul had some good stuff, for instance. But overall I find it a tad complicated (slaps Faith). I like to keep things simple. (kicks Faith across the room into a stack of wine barrels) Good folk, bad folk, (a potential with long black hair swings at Caleb, but he grabs her sword, then her face) clean folk, dirty folk...

Caleb snaps the potential's neck and drops her to the ground.

MOLLY: (seeing Caleb kill the potential) No...!

CALEB: Yes. (walks toward Molly)

Xander is at Buffy's side as she recovers and gets back into the game.

BUFFY: (weakly trying to sit up) Xander, get them out of here. We have to retreat. Do it.

Xander leaves. Caleb walks menacingly toward Molly, who backs up slowly, frozen with fear. She raises her arm back to stab him, but he grabs her wrist, then her neck. Another potential fights a Bringer. A Bringer throws Amanda against a wall and attacks her. Buffy stands just as Caleb squeezes Molly's neck, lifting her off the floor. Buffy tries to go to her, but Bringers keep attacking her, slowing her down.

CALEB: (to Molly) What can I say? I work in mysterious ways. (stabs Molly, lets go of her neck, dropping her to the ground) Also some fairly straightforward ones.

Enraged at seeing what he did to Molly, Buffy rushes Caleb. She fights him more evenly this time, avoiding his punches, and landing a few of her own. She punches him so hard, Caleb is sent flying across the room.

SPIKE: (grabs Buffy's arm) We're all leaving.

Spike pulls Buffy away from the fight. Xander goes to Kennedy's side.

XANDER: (to Kennedy) Are you OK? (Kennedy nods) Let's go. Come on.

Xander helps Kennedy to her feet. Spike escorts Rona out of the building.

XANDER: (waving to the others) Let's go! Come on!

Caleb grabs Xander and turns him around so he's facing Caleb.

CALEB: You're the one who sees everything, aren't you? (rears his hand back in front of Xander's face) Well, let's see what we can't do about that.

Caleb plunges his thumb into Xander's left eye, gouging it out. Xander screams in agony. Spike charges Caleb, knocking Xander away from Caleb. Xander, bleeding from his eye, stumbles back, falling to the ground in front of wine barrels.

BUFFY: (goes to Xander's side) Xander! Come on.

Buffy and Spike lift Xander to his feet, and carry him out, one supporting each of his arms. Caleb sits up but doesn't pursue them as they walk out. He stands and smiles while watching them leave.

Cut to:

INT. SUNNYDALE HOSPITAL - NIGHT
Buffy walks through the hospital, past the beds of her friends who were hurt tonight. Past Rona and the other potentials, to Xander's bed where Willow sits at his side, holding his hand.

CALEB (V.O.): Now, it's a simple story. Stop me if you've heard it. I have found and truly believe that there is nothing so bad it cannot be made better with a story.

Buffy just stares at Xander, his head and his eye bandaged.

CALEB (V.O.): And this one's got a happy ending.

Cut to:

INT. LIVING ROOM AT BUFFY'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Buffy walks through the living room at her house where a room full of potentials attends to their wounded, including Kennedy. Buffy looks away. Dawn watches Buffy walk out of the room.

CALEB (V.O.): There once was a woman, and she was foul, like all women, for Adam's rib was dirty—just like Adam himself—for what was he, but human.

Cut to:

INT. STREET IN SUNNYDALE - NIGHT
Walking alone, her arms crossed, Buffy walks down a desolate street at night looking forlorn and troubled.

CALEB (V.O.): But this woman, she was filled with darkness, despair, and why? Because she did not know. She could not see.

Cut to:

INT. WINE CELLAR AT THE SHADOW VALLEY VINEYARDS - NIGHT
Caleb is talking to Buffy/First in the cellar.

CALEB: She didn't know the good news, the glory that was coming. That'd be you. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. You show up, they'll get in line.

Cut to:

INT. STREET IN SUNNYDALE - NIGHT
Walking alone, her arms crossed, Buffy walks down a desolate street at night looking forlorn and troubled.

CALEB (V.O.): 'Cause they followed her. And all they have to do is take one more step, and I'll kill them all. See? I told you it had a happy ending.

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