Act III
Willow: Buffy...That zucchini you're holding...I can sense something's wrong with it.

Buffy looks up, and at that moment the neighbours burst in.

Neighbours: You stole our breakfast!
Willow: (edges in front of the food-laden counter) I don't know what...
Buffy: You stole their breakfast?!!
Neighbours: (lunge at Willow)
Buffy: (lunges at Willow)
Spike: No! It was me!
Buffy: You stole their breakfast? (lunges at Spike)
Neighbours: No, he didn't ! Lay off the naked guy! (lunge at Buffy)

Melee ensues, with humourous destruction of the premises.

Buffy, looking for a handy weapon, grabs the zucchini and smashes Spike on the head with it. The zucchini explodes.

Blue flash.

Eveyone is knocked on his or her ass.

Beat.

Beat.

CU on Buffy. A look of realization on her face.

Buffy: I see it. I was so wrong. I didn't understand. But I see it now.
Willow: (crawling out of a corner) What, Buffy?
Buffy: (slowly stands up) It's OK to lose sometimes. It's OK if breakfast doesn't pan out. There are other meals during the day!
Willow: (slowly stands up) It's true! There's lunch!
Spike: (slowly stands up) And there is dinner!

Beat. We notice that Spike is still naked.

Beat. The silence is deafening.

Beat.

Neighbour: Hey, naked guy? Would you like to be my dinner?

Cut to: Summers' lawn.
Buffy and Spike, in profile.
The walkway an unbridgeable abyss between them.
Buffy: So this is it? This is your solution? You are moving in with THEM?
Spike: Yes. They are nice to me. They don't beat me and they *like* it when I'm naked.
Buffy: I...I'm sorry. I guess I took the nudity for granted.

CU on Spike. He tries to hide his ambivalence, but it's kind of big.

Spike: Good-bye, Buffy.

He leaves.

CU on Buffy. She stares after Spike or possibly at the lighting crew.
Her face reflects the turmoil of someone with a medium intensity intestinal cramp.

FIN
Note: The neighbours are such rich material! They could work so well in the season arc. They could be evil Goths who plan to turn the entire world into a tube of black lipstick! Joss, what are your thoughts?

Heh, heh, heh.

He tries to hide his ambivalence, but it's kind of big.

Heh.

t giggle

Clerk: Goddess Anhedonia! Grant me the power to screw with people's heads with the Zucchini of Despair!

Clerk: I feel powerful... Yet... What's the fucking point, really

BWAH!!!!

Hey, PMM, does your freaky knowledge of the Angelverse extend to the layout of Angel's room at the Hyperion?

Hey, PMM, does your freaky knowledge of the Angelverse extend to the layout of Angel's room at the Hyperion?

Pre-Connor quake? The one we saw in Loyalty?

Yes. Around the time of Epiphany.

Let me check the files. I know what the one in Loyalty looks like pretty well, but I can't remember if he switched rooms after Connor was born.

Hee. You have files? I'm a little scared. (But still need the layout. And a room number, if one exists.)