Episode Six:  A Touch Of Sunnydale

PREVIOUSLY

- The Sound byte “We shall return your soul (from “Grave”) plays over the DEMON giving Drusilla her soul.

-DRUSILLA morphs into vamp face “SPIKE…..”she growls

ANGELUS “It’s so obvious, I don’t know why I hadn’t seen it” he starts to laugh and turns into SPIKE (human form) “I’m your trigger”

- DEMON “It’s just I happen to agree with gypsy methods of revenge.” The DEMON starts to laugh as it dawns on the group what he means.

- DRUSILLA goes into vamp face, we see ANGELUS behind GUNN.

ANGELUS “Showtime!”

DRUSILLA rips the chains out of the wall, throws GUNN against a wall and runs out the room.

- ANGELUS “Then what do you think you should do”

DRUSILLA “Kill him”

ANGELUS “Exactly”

DRUSILLA “Not just him, kill what made him like he is, kill them all, the council, the slayer, all of them!”

- DRUSILLA “Pathetic creature, why do you assume soul equals good, all of the worst human beings alive had souls. I will never join you”

SPIKE “I’m not giving up on you”

- The doorbell rings

FRED “That was quick” she goes to the door and opens it “Willow!”

WILLOW “hey, can I come in?”

WILLOW and FRED are sitting in chairs placed outside LORNE’s nightclub, the two are talking, LORNE comes out and hands WILLOW a drink.

FRED “So, what brings you here, why didn’t you call ahead”

WILLOW taking the drink from LORNE “Thanks” she puts it down “We were able to find out a bit more about what’s happening to OZ” she pauses for a minute “And with what you told us about Wolfram & Hart being here, we thought it was best my travel here was secret.”

FRED “Good idea, so what is going on with OZ”

WILLOW “It’s a thing, not many werewolves live as long as OZ has, even fewer fight it”

FRED “Not many reference books on the subject”

WILLOW “Yeah, sorry it’s taken so long, but Kennedy’s not crazy about the idea of me spending hours researching my ex-wolf-ex-boyfriend”

FRED smiles “And what about me, you thought I was coming on to you the first time we met”

WILLOW laughs and strokes FRED’s hand “Well you’re my little secret” the two start laughing, LORNE rolls his eyes.

LORNE “So how long did OZ say they’d be”

FRED “He didn’t, he just said they were on there way back and that they hadn’t been able to find GUNN, and judging by the time of day I think it’s safe to say they haven’t run into DRUSILLA”

WILLOW “DRUSILLA’s here”

FRED “Didn’t we tell you, oh that’s right, we didn’t know then”

WILLOW “DRUSILLA’s dangerous, you shouldn’t stay here”

FRED “SPIKE’s insisting we stay till she’s finished, you see, DRUSILLA’s been through some changes…..”

CREDITS:
SPIKE: THE TALKING GIRAFFE VAMPIRE HUNTER

Starring:

Spot As Spike

James Marsters As The Voice of Spike

Amy Acker As Fred

Seth Green As Oz

Andy Hallet As Lorne

Guest Starring:

Alyson Hannigan As Willow

Juliet Landau As Drusilla

David Boreanaz As Angelus

We see an African boy, he’s in the woods, sitting up against a tree, the camera slowly pulls back until it is behind DRUSILLA, in game-face, slowly moving up behind the boy.

DRUSILLA (singing) “Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackb’ry patch”

She moves right up close to the boy, ANGELUS materialises behind her.

ANGELUS “So, how did it go”

DRUSILLA screams from shock, and the boy turns and sees her, screaming, he runs away.

ANGELUS “Sorry, did I interrupt you?”

DRUSILLA shouts and spins around, she swings a fist at ANGELUS and it goes right through him.

DRUSILLA a sudden sign of shock and surprise on her face “That’s not right”

ANGELUS Looking worried “What isn’t?”

DRUSILLA “That” DRUSILLA punches at ANGELUS again, her fist once again, passes through him.

ANGELUS “It’s a side effect, from Wolfram & Hart taking away my soul.”

DRUSILLA “Temporary?”

ANGELUS “I bloody hope so, SPIKE didn’t make being a ghost look like much fun”

DRUSILLA “Why did you make the boy run away”

ANGELUS “It was a waste of time, and I’m not spending every waking moment trying to keep you sane and well, evil so that you can hunt little boys”

DRUSILLA “I haven’t fed in days”

ANGELUS “Then feed, it’s just one little tribe boy isn’t going to get us any closer to our goal of getting SPIKE, he wouldn’t even notice, the whole tribe might, but I just found out that there’s someone even better in town.”

END ACT

ACT TWO

OZ and SPIKE are walking towards LORNE’s club.

SPIKE “Ain’t that nice, they’re both out waiting to welcome us home”

OZ “From the grilling FRED gave me on the phone, I don’t think it’s to welcome us, she was annoyed at us taking so long.”

SPIKE curiously “We only work with two people don’t we?”

OZ “You being funny” he looks at SPIKE “Obviously not” he squints “Huh, wonder who the other one is”

SPIKE “Got me”

The two walk on for a moment.

SPIKE surprised “It’s WILLOW!”

OZ “WILLOW?!” OZ starts into a run towards the building.

The camera is now on FRED, WILLOW and LORNE

LORNE “So how long you in town red”

WILLOW “I dunno, a week? I’ve got nothing urgent to get back to the council for, as long as I don’t outstay my welcome.”

OZ comes to a halt, “Well, there’s no chance of that happening”

WILLOW turns and sees OZ “OZ” the two hug

FRED looks around concered “Where’s SPIKE”

OZ “Oh, he’s on his way, I guess I left him when I ran ahead to greet our guest”

FRED “What took so long, you phoned ages ago”

OZ “We ran into DRUSILLA”

WILLOW “Are you ok?”

OZ “Yeah we’re both fine, daylight was on our side, she didn’t have much choice but to leave”

LORNE “Wait, you didn’t kill her”

OZ “Nope, SPIKE wants to help her”

SPIKE walks up to the group “Hello WILLOW”

LORNE “Are you crazy!”

SPIKE “And a good morning to you to LORNE”

WILLOW “Hi SPIKE, LORNE’s concerned because you want to help DRUSILLA”

LORNE “Why shouldn’t I be, just days ago he set out to kill her, you recommended we all go back to America when you heard she was here”

SPIKE “She has a soul”

WILLOW “Man, how many times did I hear that line from Buffy” SPIKE looks at her “Except it was ‘he’ has a soul” SPIKE clears his throat “And, erm, she had a good point, carry on”

SPIKE “Thank you. As I was saying, she has a soul, she’s more human than vampire”

OZ “She did say that she didn’t want your help SPIKE, she says she wants to be evil”

SPIKE “So did Darla when she first got her soul, she thought she could cope with it and continue evil, but in the end she did the right thing”

FRED “And dusted herself, bringing upon the birth of a child that was so messed up Angel did a big brain wipe on every one to make them forget it”

LORNE “God, where was one of those after GodFather 3”

SPIKE “The point, of the story is that she wasn’t able to continue evil with a soul”

WILLOW “So what are you going to do”

SPIKE “Haven’t a clue, this is more Angel’s department. But he’s not here, so I might need you and a little magic”

WILLOW “Great, what did you have in mind”

END SCENE

WILLOW and OZ are sitting in a room talking.

OZ “So, how’s Kennedy?”

WILLOW “She’s good, she says hi”

OZ “I somehow doubt that”

WILLOW “C’mon, you two didn’t get on that badly” she pauses for a second “Nope, that ‘Kennedy says hi’ wasn’t believable at all”

OZ “She know you’re here”

WILLOW “No, she thinks I’m on business bringing in a slayer. It was a lie, but I usually end up finding one, sometimes I think that spell worked a little too well”

OZ “They bug you huh”

WILLOW “You would think that 20 bathrooms would be enough, but you’ve never tried to use one in the morning when you live with over 100 other girls, I envy Buffy and Xander, they got off lightly as Watchers.”

OZ “Xander a watcher, now that is funny”

WILLOW “He’s pretty good, anyway, I should be telling you whats going on with you”

OZ “ah, good, what’s up with me these days?”

WILLOW “You’re a werewolf”

OZ “uh-huh”

WILLOW “But you’re unlike any other werewolf. You know when you came back to Sunnydale and you thought you’d cured it. You’ve advanced since then”

OZ “Don’t even wear the charms anymore” showing his bare hand

WILLOW “Exactly, the werewolf has receded so deeply, that you have it under almost complete control. It’s like a vampire, when they get angry, or hurt, or need to fight, their faces and muscles change shape, you never see the full vampire, just the effects of it’s power on the human body”

OZ “So I’m basically a super-powered human”

WILLOW “Pretty much, but, if you were to somehow completely lose it, the wolf could come out completely, sending you right back to day 1 in your recovery.”

OZ “Really don’t want that”

A knock comes at the door.

OZ “Come in”

FRED sticks her head round the door, “WILLOW, SPIKE’s waiting for you outside”

WILLOW “Ok” to OZ “Gotta go, magictime”

END ACT

ACT THREE

SPIKE and WILLOW are walking through a wooded/jungle area, it is night.

WILLOW “So, how do you like being a giraffe”

SPIKE “If I had to be honest, I’d say it’s my least favorite transformation so far, even being a bloody spook was better”

WILLOW “Yeah, I heard about your amazing mug lifting”

SPIKE “And demon face punching, though that made me concentrate so hard I kinda got a migraine”

WILLOW “And ghosts can’t take a tylenol”
SPIKE “No.”

The two continue walking in silence for a moment

WILLOW “Do you have any idea where DRUSILLA’s going to be”

SPIKE “Not really, but I don’t think she’s going to be too hard to find, she knows I don’t want to kill her.”

WILLOW “Are you really sure that’s the best idea?”

SPIKE “No, but when am I ever sure about anything. All I know is that she deserves a chance, the same chance I got, that Angel and Darla got.”

WILLOW “And what if that doesn’t work”

SPIKE “Then I will have to kill her.”

Suddenly DRUSILLA jumps down from the trees, landing in front of them.

DRUSILLA “Are you too talking about little old me.”

WILLOW quickly gets down on the ground and starts chanting.

DRUSILLA starts walking towards SPIKE “Look at you, you and your new friend, the slayer’s second in command” She spits on the ground “You’re sick, I remember when we first went to Sunnydale, you told me you wouldn’t stop till the slayer and her friends were all dead, look at you now, you’re out for a moonlight stroll with one of them”

SPIKE “DRUSILLA I want to help you”

DRUSILLA “When are you going to get it through your head that I don’t want your help, you have nothing I want” DRUSILLA morphs into vamp face and stares at WILLOW “Except food”

SPIKE “WILLOW”

As he shouts WILLOW raises her hand and a blue bolt of energy shoots out, hitting DRUSILLA and throwing her against a tree. WILLOW drops her hand and stands, DRUSILLA is now bound to the tree with rings of light.

DRUSILLA “What have you done to me”

END SCENE

OZ is sitting on his own in a room, FRED knocks at the open door and comes in and sits next to him.

FRED “You Ok, you haven’t spoken since WILLOW left. Was her news bad”

OZ “No, it was pretty good, pretty much what I was expecting, keep my inner cool, noone gets hurt”

FRED “Well you’re pretty good at that” she smiles.

OZ “I suppose, except, I’m really not”

FRED “What do you mean?”

OZ “The whole time I was talking to WILLOW I could feel the wolf fighting me for control, she just brings it out in me. I know, I know we havent been together in years, and I’m not even her type anymore.”

FRED “That’s one way of putting it”

OZ “It’s just, 5 years later and I’m not over her, I can’t stand the fact that there’s someone else in her life”

FRED puts her hand on OZ’s. “Maybe it’s just that you haven’t got anybody else.”

OZ “Maybe, but did you know, that the month or so I’ve spent here is the longest I’ve stayed in a single place since I left Sunnydale, how am I going to find somebody”

FRED “It’s not that hard” she stands and offers her hand to OZ “Let’s go get some dinner”

END SCENE

We see SPIKE and WILLOW stand together looking at DRUSILLA, then ANGELUS appears between the two.

ANGELUS “Get down now!”

DRUSILLA struggles against her bonds, “I Can’t”
ANGELUS “Get down or I’ll return you to the insane wreck that soul made you”

DRUSILLA “No, Daddy help!”

 SPIKE “Do you know what she’s talking about”

We now see that WILLOW’s hair is black, her face is in pain “It’s here!”

SPIKE “What is?”

WILLOW “The first, it’s what’s controlling DRUSILLA”

WILLOW screams, “GET OUT” her hair suddenly turns bleach blonde as she screams firing bright yellow energy at ANGELUS.

ANGELUS “NOOO”

WILLOW “LEAVE”

ANGELUS “You know you can’t kill me” ANGELUS shatters into pieces and the demon/devil spectre thing raises from where he was standing into the sky.

WILLOW crawls over to SPIKE and grabs onto his leg “It nearly had me again”

SPIKE “But it didn’t get you, but at least we now know what’s been going on. And DRUSILLA doesn’t seem to be much threat anymore.”

The camera turns round to DRUSILLA who is still held up against the tree, but crying.

END ACT

ACT FOUR

LORNE and WILLOW come out of a door inside the ranch, the rest of the gang are gathered in a room.

SPIKE “You get her sealed down there.”

LORNE “Yep, there was a cage down there and Sabrina enhanced the locks a little”

WILLOW “Just a standard, magical barrier.”

SPIKE “And she’s ok?”

WILLOW “She’s still crying, but other than that she seems to have lost her murderous urges”

FRED “And the first”

WILLOW “It’s temporarily defeated, but it’ll be back.”

SPIKE “And it’ll be after DRUSILLA”

WILLOW “Probably, so I’d get her fixed or dead before then. If I can I’ll get one of those rock-worm things Giles used on you so you can find out what he was controlling her with”

SPIKE “Thanks”

OZ “Are you sure you have to leave so soon”

WILLOW “Believe me, I think you guys need all the help you can get, but I know Giles would disagree and say ‘stake DRUSILLA and get them all home’”

The two hug OZ “Ok, it was good to see you.”

FRED “So, what time’s your flight?”

WILLOW “Flight?” she clicks her fingers and disappears in a puff of smoke, as the smoke clears, the camera rises looking down on the gang.

ECECUTIVE PRODUCER:

JOSS WHEDON