TERZA SERIE
Contents
1 Anne
2 Dead Man’s Party
3 Faith, Hope and Trick
4 Beauty and the Beasts
5 Homecoming
6 Band Candy
7 Revelations
8 Lovers Walk
9 The Wish
10 Amends
11 Gingerbread
12 Helpless
13 The Zeppo
14 Bad Girls
15 Consequences
16 Dopplegangland
17 Enemies
18 Earshot
19 Choices
20 Prom
21 Graduation Part 1
22 Graduation Part 2
Anne
Written by Joss Whedon Directed by Joss Whedon Transcribed by AleXander Thompson
Disclaimer
I do not own the characters in this story, nor do I own
any rights to the television show "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer". They were created by Joss Whedon and belong to
him, Mutant Enemy, Sandollar Productions, Kuzui En-terprises,
20th Century Fox Television and the WB Tele-vision
Network.
This is not a novelization or a script. It is a straightfor-ward
and dry transcript of the episode "Anne". It also
includes descriptions of the settings, action scenes and
camera movements where I felt they were needed.
I made every effort to accurately transcribe the dialogue
from this episode. If you notice anything that is tran-scribed
incorrectly, please let me know and I will post an
update. rev 98.10.12
This episode was originally broadcast on September 29,
1998.
Copyright (C) 1998 Alexander Thompson
Prologue
The Sunnydale cemetery at night. The camera fades in
on Andrew Hoelich’s gravestone and slowly pans down
to the ground in front of it. A bouquet of fresh flow-ers
is there. A hand comes out of the freshly filled grave
and claws for solid ground. Slowly Andrew pulls himself
out of his grave, now a newly made vampire. He growls
when his head clears the earth, and continues to climb
out on his stomach. He crawls along the ground, pulling
out his legs as the camera pulls back, and stops when he
sees a pair of wide-spread legs standing before him. He
looks up to see who it is.
Willow That’s right, Big Boy.
Cut to Willow.
Willow smiles mischievously Come and get it.
Andrew suddenly hops to his feet and roars at her. Taken
aback by this, Willow takes a few quick steps backward.
The vampire takes two steps toward her. Xander grabs
him by the collar of his suit and pulls him back away
from Willow. Andrew loses his balance in the process.
Xander I got him! Go!
Oz jumps out from behind a bush and starts to run to-ward
them, but then hesitates a moment to get a stake
from his jacket pocket.
Xander Any time now...
Andrew has regained his balance, and using Xander’s
grip to stabilize himself, kicks up with both legs and does
a double pike snapping kick to Oz’s face. Oz stumbles
backward and falls. Without pausing, Andrew leaps up
again and does a back tuck over Xander’s head. Xan-der
tries to rush him, but Andrew uses his momentum
to deflect him into Willow. They both go crashing to the
ground. Willow moans, but quickly sits up to watch An-drew
run away.
Willow He’s getting away! And... ow.
Oz scrambles to his feet and picks up his stake. He
watches the demon running and holds his stake by the
tip, preparing to throw it like a knife. Andrew leaps over
a rock and continues running. Oz throws the stake. It
whistles through the air as it flies end over end, and hits
the rock, bouncing off of it with a loud thunk and flying
wild.
Oz shaking his head That really never works.
Willow and Xander get up, and Oz turns to them.
Oz Are you guys all right?
Xander First of all, what was with the acrobatics? How
did that happen?
Oz looking in the direction that Andrew went Wasn’t
Andy Hoelich on the gymnastics team?
Xander gestures with his arm That’s right, he was!
shouting after Andrew Cheater!
Oz gives Xander a brief look and then stares into the dis-tance
again looking for Andrew.
Xander to Willow Okay, and the, uh, second problem
I’mhaving... ’Come and get it, Big Boy’?
Willow Well... stammering W-well, the Slayer always
says a pun or-or a witty play on words, and I think it
throws the vampires off, and, and it makes them fright-ened
because I’m wisecracking. Okay, I didn’t really
have a chance to work on that one, but you try it every
time.
Oz Uh, if I may suggest: ’This time it’s personal.’ I mean,
there’s a reason why it’s a classic.
Xander steps away I’ve always been amazed with how
Buffy fought, but... picks up his bag in a way, I feel like
we took her punning for granted. steps back
Willow gives Xander a scolding look Xander, past tense
rule.
Xander Oh, sorry. I just meant we in the past took it for
granted and, uh... we won’t when she gets back.
Willow Do you think Buffy knows school’s starting to-morrow?
Oz Tomorrow. Willow looks at him Right. Big day.
1.Willow goes to Oz Oh, I’m gonna be busy a lot. But, but
only till 3:00, and that’s when you usually get up.
Xander I can’t wait to see Cordelia. pauses I can’t believe
I can’t wait to see Cordelia.
Willow smiling I wonder what our first homework as-signment’s
gonna be.
Xander puts his hands on his hips and gives her a look.
Willow Hey, you’re excited over Cordelia, okay? We’ve
all got issues.
Oz I guess we should pack it in.
Xander Yeah.
They all start to walk away from Andrew’s grave.
Willow Wouldn’t it be great if Buffy just showed up to-morrow?
Like nothing happened?
Xander She can’t just show up, she got kicked out.
WillowWell, yeah, I-I know. I just wish... I wish we knew
where she was.
Cut to a Los Angeles beach. A wave crashes on the sand.
In the far distance a pier stretches out into the water.
Buffy steps into view, walking barefoot across the sand.
She stops and looks out over the ocean. She closes her
eyes and raises her head to just feel the sun on her face
and listen to the waves come in. The camera pans down
from her face to her waist. A pair of hands reach around
her and clasp in front, and she covers them with hers.
The camera pans back up to her face. She looks back at
Angel leaning his head over her shoulder. She reaches up
with her hand and brushes it against his cheek.
Buffy How did you find me here?
Angel If I was blind, I would see you.
She lowers her hand to take his again at her waist and
closes her eyes. She embraces his arms tightly to her.
Buffy Stay with me.
Angel Forever. That’s the whole point. I’ll never leave.
whispering into her ear Not even if you kill me.
Buffy’s expression turns from contented to dismayed.
Cut to Buffy’s tiny apartment in a run-down downtown
Los Angeles neighborhood. She wakes from her dream
and looks around sadly. Slowly she gets up and goes over
to the window overlooking the street below. The camera
pans away from the window, past the sidewalk and into
the street. A police siren gets louder as it nears, and an
instant later an LAPD squad car races across the inter-section
at the end of the block against the red light.
Part 1
Behind the counter at a small, sleazy diner known as He-len’s
Kitchen. The cook puts two burgers with fries up on
the pick-up counter. A waitress walks past the counter to
hang an order on the spinner. Buffy walks behind her to
pick up the two burgers. She has her hair in two short
braids to keep it out of the way. Her expression emotes a
combination of sadness and boredom. She takes the two
plates, walks them over to a nearby table and sets them
down in front of two roughneck types. They both eye her
lecherously. Buffy takes out her order pad.
Buffy Anything else?
Roughneck That’ll do us, Peaches.
She tears off their bill and puts it on the table.
Buffy Pay at the counter.
Roughneck Sure you don’t want me to work it off for
you?
The other roughneck laughs at that. Buffy walks away,
and as she goes he reaches out with his hand and slaps
her on the behind. Buffy stops in her tracks. The two men
just chuckle. She turns her head slightly, but thinks bet-ter
of doing anything about it. She walks up to another
table where a young couple is sitting. They are too into
each other to notice Buffy.
Buffy You guys ready?
Rickie still looking at his girl Yeah. I think we’re good.
Um... looks at Buffy’s name tag ’Anne’.
Buffy glances at them briefly, then looks down at her pad
to take their order.
Buffy What’ll you have?
Rickie reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of
change.
Rickie Well, okay. . . What can we get with this?
He dumps the change onto the table. It’s mostly pennies,
a few nickels, no quarters.
Buffy Um...
Lily to Rickie Can we get cake?
Rickie to Lily Don’t be stupid. We gotta eat healthy. We
can’t have cake. to Buffy Can we get pie?
Buffy We’ve got a peach pie. writes the order I can’t
guarantee there’s a peach in it.
Lily to Rickie We shouldn’t have blown all our money.
Rickie to Lily Come on, it was worth it.
Lily smiles. Rickie looks up at Buffy as the two of them
hold out their forearms.
Rickie Hey, check this out.
Buffy looks at their arms as they hold them out together
and sees they each have a tattoo of half of a heart with a
ribbon across it. On their respective halves of the ribbon
they have the other’s name tattooed.
Buffy It’s nice. It’s nice and, uh, permanent. smiles
weakly
Rickie looking at Lily Yeah, forever. puts his arm around
Lily I mean, that’s the whole point.
Lily looks at him and smiles. Buffy looks down sadly. A
moment later she looks up at Lily, and there’s a spark of
2.recognition in her face. Lily looks up at Buffy and thinks
she also recognizes her.
Lily Hey, do I know you?
Buffy looks away I don’t think so.
Lily looks harder Really? Where’re you from?
Buffy avoids the issue I’ll get your pie.
Lily watches as Buffy goes to the cash register. Rickie dis-tracts
her, and they are in their own little world again. At
the register Buffy puts down the order. The other waitress
looks at her.
Buffy I’m not feeling great. unties her apron Do you
think you can cover for me?
Waitress Sure. looks at the order Okay.
Buffy gives Rickie and Lily one last look and goes out of
the diner.
Cut to the Sunnydale High School library. Students
are busy looking for books they will need during the
semester. Willow and Giles walk out of the stacks on the
mezzanine level. Willow has several books in her arms.
Giles So, no joy at the cemetery?
They come down the stairs.
Willow No, he got away. We still have some glitches in
the system, like... vampires getting away. But I think
we’re improving. smiles
They split up as Giles heads through the door to go be-hind
the check-out counter.
Giles For God’s sake be careful. they meet at the counter
I mean, uh, I appreciate your efforts to keep the vam-pire
population down until Buffy returns, but, uh...
Well, if anything should happen to you and... you
should be killed, I should take it somewhat amiss.
Giles scans Willow’s books to check them out.
Willow You’d be cranky?
Giles Entirely.
Willow Well, we try not to get killed. the phone in Giles’
office rings That’s part of our whole mission statement.
’Don’t get killed.’
She takes the books and stacks them together again.
Giles Good. taps on one of her books I think you’re going
to love that one. goes to get the phone
Willow picks the books up and starts out of the library.
Before she can take more than a few steps, Cordelia
comes up to her.
Willow Hi!
Cordelia Hey, Willow. puts her bag on the counter
Willow How was your summer?
Cordelia Oh, I can’t believe you brought that up. Las
Palmas was the nightmare resort. They order you
around and make you have organized makes quotes
with her fingers ’fun’, and I used sarcastic quote marks.
takes her bag and starts out Plus the fact there are cock-roaches
in Mexico big enough to own property. It was
all about dread. How was your summer?
Willow Oh, it was okay.
They walk through the library doors and into the hall.
Cordelia Is Xander around?
Willow Well, uh, yeah. Somewhere.
They stop in the hall.
Cordelia Good. Great. I haven’t seen him yet. pulls her
hair behind her ears Do I look okay?
Willow Oh, yeah! nods and smiles
Cordelia worried How’s my hair?
Willow Uh, it’s good! smiles
Cordelia He didn’t meet anybody over the summer, did
he? No, who’s he gonna meet in Sunnydale, but mon-sters
and stuff? But then again he’s always been at-tracted
to monsters. worried How’s my hair?
Willow Still good.
She turns to leave and sees Oz.
Willow smiles hugely Hi!
Cordelia grabs her arm and turns her around to look at
her.
Cordelia Maybe he’s forgotten me. lets go Well, I’ll just
have to make him remember. smiles See ya. walks off
Willow turns back to Oz You came to visit me. sees his
books You came with books? Are they books for me?
Oz Well, actually, they’re kind of for me.
Willow I don’t get it.
Oz Well, it’s sort of a funny story. they walk You remem-ber
when I didn’t graduate?
Willow Well, I know you had a lot of incompletes, but
that’s what summer school was for.
Oz Yeah. Well, you remember when I didn’t go?
Two students run past them, and the camera follows
them down the hall past a teacher.
Teacher Whoa. Slow down, people. they stop running
Summer is over. Be somber.
Willow and Oz walk by as the teacher goes back into his
classroom.
Willow But you never said anything. How am I sup-posed
to react to this rather alarming news?
Oz Well, actually, I was pretty much banking on you
finding it cute.
Willow Well, traditionally, you know, repeating a grade
isn’t exactly a turn-on. they stop by the lounge A-and
you’re practically a genius. You’re Mr. Test Scores. I-it’s
all a little weird.
Oz So the cute thing is out?
Xander rushes up to them.
Xander Have you guys seen Cordelia?
Willow Yeah. She’s around here somewhere.
Xander I don’t want to come on too geeky, but, uh, okay,
I’m psyched! flashes a big grin There’s gonna be some
heat, if you know what I mean. So you guys might want
3.to duck and cover. Willow sighs And I’m starting to be
geeky. grins again Okay, bye. he goes, but comes right
back How’s my...
Willow interrupts Your hair is fine.
Xander big grin Cool. darts away
Larry and another jock walk behind Willowand Oz, and
the camera follows them into the lounge.
Larry This is our year, I’mtelling you. Best football sea-son
ever. I’m so in shape, I’m a rock. they stop by the
vending machines It’s all about egg whites. If we can fo-cus,
keep discipline, and not have quite as many mys-terious
deaths, Sunnydale is gonna rule!
Willow and Oz walk into the lounge on the other side of
the tables.
Willow I’mtrying to get to cute, really. But I’mstill sorta
stuck on ’strange’.
Oz Well, I’d be willing to bargain down to ’eccentric’
with an option on ’cool’.
They walk past the raised area where the couches are.
Behind them Xander and Cordelia finally meet. The
camera closes in on them.
Xander Hey!
Cordelia Hey.
Xander Good summer?
Cordelia It was all right.
Xander Cool!
Cordelia sounding disappointed Yeah.
Xander Well, I’ll see ya.
Cordelia Yeah, whatever.
He turns and goes down the steps. Cordelia walks the
other way toward the hall.
Cut to Buffy’s apartment. She’s sitting calmly on the edge
of her bed in her nightshirt, holding a can of Spaghetti-O’s
in her lap. The camera pans up from the can to her
face. She just stares blankly into the room, breathing
calmly.
Cut to the street in front of Helen’s Kitchen. Buffy walks
along the street. A homeless man is sitting on the curb.
Ken, the local shelter operator, approaches the man
and crouches down beside him, holding out one of his