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Episode 2.15: Lucky
Previously on ‘Dawn of Faith’ & ‘Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’
Anya has her chain broken – The Wish
Anya is jilted by Xander – Hell’s Bells
Anya needs to be alone – Selfless
Anya dies – Chosen
Andrew helps Linda – Nature Calls
Garrison leaves Andrew – Rat Race
Thalia sees door to Quo’Tarth – falling
Faith tells Connor he’s going home – falling
‘New York – 1935’
A Young woman is running maniacally down a wet alley in the dark of night, her husband, both angry and drunken follows behind her.
He manages to catch up with her before cornering her by the entrance to ‘Jay’s Bar’ where a Jazz band ‘Red Peters and the Solid Senders’ are performing for her thirty fifth birthday.
“Please – I didn’t mean to embarrass you, I’m sorry”
“You’ll be sorry. You’re no lady Lucky, you’re dirty” he slurs as he grasps her wrist tightly
“Please stop! You’re hurting me George!” she yells as a young woman turns the corner covering herself in the rain.
“Excuse me – ma’am are you okay? I heard a noise –“
“Call the police! Please – help me!”
George throws Lucky down and begins to head for the young woman who looks straight at him with her Bambi eyes, only visible through a short red veil that is attached to the front of her hat.
“George don’t!” she calls as he grabs the woman “I wish you’d rot in hell!” she cries.
“Done” calls the woman as she removes the veil to reveal Anyanka “Bye George” she waves as the ground swallows him whole.
‘New York – 2005’
“I can’t believe they’re still playing here!” Anya disses as she twirls a mixer through her cocktail.
She looks across the table at Andrew who is moping, staring into his drink.
“Andrew! You’d depress a dead person – he was never anything that hot!” she rolls her eyes before retreating from his look.
“This was his sweater – it’s all I have left” he sobs as he sinks into his chair.
“Anya! Look they have pink flavour!” says Harmony excitedly as she runs over at full speed tripping on her own skirt and sending the drink all over Andrew who immediately stands and leaves.
“What’d I do?” Harmony asks almost offended as Anya tilts her head and shakes it at her.
“You’re an idiot! You’re like a big blonde…idiot”
Starring:
Eliza Dushku & Michelle Trachtenberg
Also starring
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Amber Benson
With Vincent Karthieser
Guest Starring:
Emma Caulfield, Mercedes McNab, Ben Unwin, Shawn Ashmore as Ryan
NOTE: Amber Benson and Lisa Roxanne do not appear in this episode.
“Have you seen them anywhere?” asks Ryan as Dolly cleans up the diner for closing.
“No sweetie not today”
“Can’t you look into your crystal ball thing?”
“Honey, I don’t have a crystal ball…I see…” she stops mid sentence as the room around her changes, she’s in the middle of a field standing infront of a swirling vortex.
Next second she’s back in the diner
“What happened?” Ryan asks as he holds her up
“They, go to the field they’re about to do something really wrong – stop them”
He sprints from the room as fast as he can as three children giggle at him insanely.
‘New York – 1982’
Hundreds gathers as the cameras flash. A young man with thick, dark brown hair, steps up to the mic.
“In the 30’s – Jay’s bar was the hot spot of the decade, however the untimely death of the manager along with arrest and self inflicted death of his wide strangely turned the crowds away”
The audience laugh before he continues
“Now, almost forty years later, we want to bring that magic back to live – Piper’s…” he cuts the ribbon “Is now open for business”
‘New York – 2005’
“This place is so dated!” says Harmony as she stands in the doorway with Anya.
Back in Boston, Faith, Dawn & Connor are stood at the door to Quo’Tarth.
“You ready?” Faith asks nervously as they stand at the entrance
“No” both Connor & Dawn reply in unison
“Good”
“Why isn’t Thalia here?”
“It’s not safe” says Connor “her power isn’t strength – it will play against her”
“Like fry her?” asks Dawn
“Yes”
“It’s probably best she stays” Dawn nods enthusiastically
“Right, Tara’s spell – should open this right up in just a few seconds so anyone that’s gonna drop out – leave” says Faith. Dawn immediately attempts to walk away
“Kid, that was part of my Buffy speech – you’re coming in, we’re testing your skills chick”
“I hate you!”
“I share the love” Faith replies as she grips her axe handle tightly enough to draw blood.
The portal slowly cracks open “Here we go!” Faith nods as she takes the first step through the door.
“Where’s Xander?” asks Andrew in a sulk
“He’s in San Diego with Oz, I told you this!”
“Why’s he with Oz?”
“Since that little adventure called the Sunnyhell High School Reunion they’ve been in lots of contact and not the good kind – no oil or Jell-O or thongs – just phone talk” sighs Anya
“Eww! Xander in a thong!” hisses Harmony as she spits her drink out
“Oh no, you’d be pleasantly surprised. He’s very toned now” Anya smiles enthusiastically.
“I love these girlie nights out!” smiles Harm “they’re so…cool”
“Except Andrew – he’s not a girl, he has a penis”
“Ahn!”
“Sorry, little man – big penis, it’s surprising much like Xanders behind only, unless it’s in a sentence the two don’t belong together. No sir, Andrew can not have Xander!”
“Anya…” starts Andrew “stop talking. I don’t like Xander however thong worthy, I’m in love with Garrison”
“Right and that’s why you lied to him? To show him your love?” asks Anya
“Hey – I came here for support!”
“Well, you came to the wrong place because you’re not getting it here – you’re only gonna get the truth from us”
“…Truth is you suck!” says Harmony bluntly
“Fine one to talk Mrs. Pot” laughs Anya as Harmony sits open jawed and offended
“It’s Kendall okay!”
“Grr argh” Anya dances from side to side as she mocks vampires by sticking to straws in her mouth “I’m very drunk – please excuse my out there behaviour and pending horniness”
Over in Boston Faith is still reluctant to continue forward. Elsewhere, Ryan is sprinting toward them at a great speed.
“No!!!” he yells as the gateway closes behind them.
On the other side, the three of them are stood at the very top of a hill. The sky is a scarlet red, purple lightning flash throughout, the trees are rotted and dead and the ground is black and coal like.
“You grew up here?” asks Dawn who is evidently about to have a heart attack from fear.
Connor makes no reaction as he leads them down the hill.
“Stay close and don’t do anything that I don’t do unless I say otherwise” he looks around with great detail as he holds his axe steady and ready.
“What’s that?” Dawn cries as she whips her head up in reaction to the overhead screeching.
“Get down!” Connor hurls himself at both the women and pulls them behind a rock.
“Over react enough junior?!” Faith snaps
“It’s a denaria demon! You can’t see them until they’re close enough –“ all three of them stare from a gap in the rock and look up a the large, thick skinned, dragon like creature as it simply appears from the sky.
“Stay completely still –“ Connor gestures them back further behind the rock as he leaps into the demon’s view.
Immediately the demon spots him, it’s eyes fiery, yellow, raged it howls as it shoots directly at him only to hit the ground within a minute as Connor hurls the axe through the air and spins it between the eyes.
“Whoa check it out – short stack can sock it to ‘em”
“I’m not gonna boast. It was just a baby – they’re here like dogs back home – harmless”
“You’re kidding right? Dogs?”
“Yeah maybe not dogs” he begins to lead them further down the hill “More like cats”
The sisters glare at eachother in shock before very quickly following on behind.
END OF PART ONE
As Ryan rushes through the centre of Boston in a state he physically crashes into Garrison.
“In a hurry?” he laughs as he helps his friend up
“Just a bit – my idiot girlfriend, her idiot sister and that idiot weird kid have gone to some nasty hell dimension that said idiot weird kid grew up in”
“They’ve gone to Quo’Tarth?”
“That’s the place – man, I wish we knew how to get there”
Before either of them follows a move, Anya appears with them, sipping on a cocktail.
“Damn! I knew I should’ve gone off duty – you make it I grant it wish away – oh…” she startles
“It’s you and…you, Dawns little friend and Andrews former man that I hate because you made him really boring and annoying”
“Anya” nods Garrison, clearly not overly thrilled to see her
“Where’s the person that can get us there?”
“Who?” Anya looks confused
“To Quo’Tarth”
“You’re going there? You’re crazy…” then she realises “Dammit! I’m the person that knows how to get there! Fine, I’ll tell you but I’m not going – I’m, um, too drunk, I’d be bad for you”
Both of them look at her like she’s an idiot
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it”
Back in New York, Shawn has arrived at the bar after a call from Harmony saying she is too drunk to drive the two of them home.
“Yo’ you gotta start drinkin’ less Harm…” he says as he drags her out of the club from under her arms.
They’re the last three people in the entire building with the exception of the bar manager
“I don’t feel so good – hey Shawn will you rub my…”
“I ain’t rubbin’ your nothin’ little man…”
“But…”
“Nah-ah, it’s bad enough that I gotta give up my bed mate, let alone start rubbin’ you, how long are you here for?” he acts from Andrews look “not to be rude”
“No, it’s okay!” Andrew plops himself down on a chair as Harmony slips to the floor out of Shawn’s arms “I’m gonna leave tomorrow”
“Dude, I wasn’t…”
“No, it’s cool – kinda forget to tell most people I was going and I guess they’re kinda pissed right now”
“He’ll get over it y’know, in time” Andy smiles
“I know – thanks and…I thought we were the only people here?”
“We are…cept that big pink mess on the floor” he looks at Harmony
“Who’s she?” Andrew points to the fire exit by the stage
“Dancer? Waitress…” he stops as she runs through the actually closed door “Ghost?”
“Oh my god!” squeals Harmony “I love that film!”
Over in Quo’Tarth
“Why exactly are we here? I mean…what are we doing here? Is not more dangerous for us to come here than for a few of them to come to us?” asks Dawn as they stand at the centre of a forest which appears as if it’s been burnt down.
“I – actually I don’t know…I just feel like…”
“We should” Connor cuts Faith off
“Right, I dunno, it just…something doesn’t feel right about this”
“Think it’s got anything to do with him?” Dawn points over to an incredibly tall, yet frail old man who is clamping a block of wood carved into the shape of the musical box.
“Damn! That thing is like inter dimensional famous!” Faith throws her arms down as she storms towards the man
“Who are you? What’s that? Why do I feel I should’ve come here? Why do I want to smash your face in…oh and you got five seconds” she says as she releases him from her grip.
Back in New York Shawn, Harmony and Andrew approach the woman who is repeatedly running through the door before reappearing at the end of the corridor.
“Excuse me miss?!” Shawn calls out, she actually stops in her tracks and turns to him, face streaming with tears.
“Hurry, I have to leave”
“Where are you going to?”
“I have to get away from him…”
“From who?” Shawn checks around “There’s nobody there…”
“My Husband…George…”
“He’s attacking…he…um…attacked you?”
“No, not today, but he will…” she trembles
“Why?”
“I caught him” she gulps as if she’s coming out for the first time with a big revelation
“Caught him? Masturbating?” asks Harmony
The woman looks offended at her brassy attitude before turning her attention back to Shawn.
“With another woman, the village bicycle is what they call her!”
“Who?”
“Someone who doesn’t know the dirty trollop?! Who else, Anyanka is who! She’s a witch everybody says so!”
“She’s not a witch!” Andrew steps forward to defend his friend “She’s a wish demon”
“Vengeance demon” Harmony corrects him
“Nah ah – she does good wishes and undoes vengeance spells, You’re the vengeance demon remember! You were a bad vampire…now you’re on of them…or were until you pissed D’Hoffryn off”
“Bite me!”
“You bite me!”
“Fine!” Harmony gets her game face on and leans in to Andrews’s neck. Shawn pulls them both apart by the collars “Play nice”
“You people are insane” cries Lucky as she runs through the door, re-starting her loop.
Back in New York, Ryan is setting up a large floor symbol to open dimensions into different worlds whilst Anya drinks more and Garrison prepares the literature side of the spell.
“What?” he asks Anya who is starting at him curiously
“Oh, nothing – I’m just wondering what’s going on in that strangely large yet very pretty head of yours”
“Well, could you not”
“I can’t help it I’m bored…”
She receives serious looks from both of them
“Bored of…I’m bored of waiting for…and…No, I am bored, hurry up with the damn spell – teleporting traffic is a bitch at this hour!”
“You get traffic?” asks Ryan
“Yes, a lot – once I crashed into this witch – lost an earring!”
“Ryan…” Garrison urges him to continue with the set up
“Yes, you’d better do as the captain says”
“Excuse me?”
“I called you captain – it was a sarcastic remark to imply that you were a complete control freak”
“You don’t even know me”
“You’re right one thing I definitely don’t know is why the hell Andrew misses you”
“He misses me”
“You’re surprised? What are you like blind, death and dumb! You’re his first boyfriend – you’re his only sex and you were his best friend”
“It’s in the past…” Garrison looks down at the book and continues through it, avoiding eye contact.
Anya crawls under the table and pops up with her face under his
“No it’s not! Why did you say that when you’re lying! Humans are bad liars!”
“I’m not lying…he messed up and…”
“Oh because you’ve never messed up! Who hasn’t…If you can name one person who hasn’t been to the dark side and killed a few people, I’ll eat a hat!”
“I haven’t” calls Ryan
“Neither have I” Garrison smiles “…or Dawn, or Tara…”
Anya is clearly blown out as she tenses up with a false grin stuck to her face “Give me a hat” she sighs letting go and holding out her hand.
END OF PART TWO
“three…two…” Faith raises her fist ready to collide
“Stop…please, I’ll tell – I’ll tell”
“He’s not from here” Connor looks down at him suspiciously
“How can you tell?” Dawn questions as she stands nervously
“Faith would’ve been dead before she reached ‘five’”
“Oh”
The man crawls to height before smoothing his bony fingers around the wooden box
“Don’t you hear the music…” he begins to wave from side to side as if in a catatonic state
“Is…is he dancing?” asks Dawn as he moves around smiling to the music that doesn’t play.
“It’s his sound”
“Who’s sound?”
“The Music Man”
“Great – we haven’t been playing this tune for months” Faith relaxes onto her hip as she rolls her eyes and loosens her arms
“No pun intended” she frowns “The Music Man, where does he live? What does he do?”
The man begins to laugh maniacally as he falls onto a rock unable to stand from laughing.
“He does not do the deed – we work his magic!”
“Who we…we who?”
“Everyone…he sings the song and we dance the dance…Me, the choir master, the choir”
“The choir?” Faith quizzes “The children!” she clicks on
“Faith?” Connor wants to know what’ she’s realised
“The children, the attacks – they’re being controlled by something, think about it…”
Dawn finishes her lead “the mall, the park…Casey…the children in that – the place Tara was in…or fake Tara…it’s all connected to the box?”
“Looks that way” speaks Connor bluntly
“Hey mister!” Faith turns back to him “This music man got a name?”
“He’s got a hundred” he laughs
“A Hundred? Sweet…” asks Dawn “Tell me you’re kidding”
“A Rose by no other name could smell so sweet” smiles the man as if completely high “It’s not the sweet one – he is but a minion of the master”
“But none of us have burst into song…”
“A MINION!!!” the man yells in Dawns face
“Dude” starts Faith “save your bad breath”
“Four little girls…” starts to ramble as Dawn and Faith glare at eachother from the corners of their eyes.
“Not as they should, one of them was bad…” he begins to laugh “there’s just so much blood”
“Blood?” Dawn gulps
“You don’t belong her, neither do you…” he stops as he sees Connor, somehow noticing him for the first time “Steve The Hunter!” he gasps as he runs off shouting the exact same thing
“Guys time to leave” he grabs them “Not many people here respond well to that name”
He grabs them both as they run to where the portal was…
“Where is it?” they look out on the horizon as hundreds of thousands of demons charge across the land.
“Where’s the portal Connor?!!?!” calls Faith in a state of frustration as she tears her hands up the side of the mountain.
“Connor, they’re getting close…”
Suddenly Dawn feels a rush of power, almost as if she’s just been activated, switched on, charged…
“Weapons!” she commands
“Dawn – no way!”
“Not all of them, there’s around a dozen will be here long before any of the others…we have to”
The three of them turn to face them, ready as they launch amongst them.
In Boston, Anya is pacing anxiously waiting for the portal to open
“Come on, come on!”
The room lights up with a dark blue glow as small crackles of lightning begin to tear down the fabric of space around the symbol.
“It’s working!” Anya cheers “Oh my god! It’s working…it’s really working…Ryan…that hole is getting pretty huge”
It opens far enough for them to witness the others battling the demons, Ryan attempts to enter but is shot back by shockwaves as are the others.
Anya crashes into Garrison before both of them disappear
“What the -?”
Faith and Connor leap out of the portal as Dawn continues to fight on
“Dawn come on!” calls Faith as she kicks at the barrier attempting to get in. Dawn continues to battle on with five of the demons as the portal begins to close in on her.
“Dawn!” calls Connor as he runs at the barrier tearing through it and grabbing her by the shirt. He tugs her through just as the portal is closing.
They land on the floor, breathless, in a pile.
Ryan looks on at them as neither moves until they see him in which case they shift apart awkwardly.
“Where’d Anya go?” ask a panting Faith
In New York
“Dammit!” Anya stamps her foot down as she and Garrison appear in Piper’s bar “Now I can’t say that it’s not possible to transport other people!”
“Shawn? Why am I back here…why are you all still here and who is the crazy lady running through the door?”
“Garrison!” Andrew smiles
“Hey” he replies before quietly looking down to the floor
“Hey! Crazy lady…stop acting crazy…”
“Ahn, maybe you shouldn’t do that…”
“Shawn, be quiet! Lady…stop running!”
Lucky pauses and turns her head completely to smile at Anya, whose face immediately drops.
“Oh”
“Yes, Oh indeed…first Anyanka, you sleep with my husband then you kill him!”
“Hey listen lady! You asked for it both times except the first time perhaps”
“You killed him!”
“You asked me too!!”
Everyone stands scared as the furniture in the room begins to throw itself around the more Lucky is worked up
“I took my own life to be with him! But I could never find him!”
Anya looks guiltily at the floor “He went to hell!”
“You sent him there! He belongs with me bitch!!!!”
“Wait…”
“No! You must pay for what you did!”
“No, listen – I can …you can unwish it…I’m not a vengeance demon you can unwish it!”
The storm calms as a smile creeps across Lucky’s face
Within minutes of the request, the ghost of George appears.
“Honey, I’m so sorry!” he says as he approaches her.
Andrew looks up at Garrison who is still staring at the floor
“I never meant for this to happen!” starts Lucky “I can forgive you, true love surpasses forgiveness” she smiles
Garrison looks up at Andrew who nervously looks away upon eye contact
The two spirits come closer and kiss before becoming human again.
Andrew and Garrison both look up at eachother with a half smile
“Gross!” Harmony yells as she looks at the two piles of dust on the floor
“What did you expect? They’d be like 102!” Anya says as she looks upon what the couple would now be had they not died young.
END OF PART THREE
The following morning everyone is back at Piper’s as the manager talks to Anya who is clearly talking about the rest of the group.
“I can always give you a ride if you like” Andrew says to Garrison “or…not”
“Ride sounds good” he gives a half smile “Where’s the blonde girl?”
“She’d look like Not-so-Plucky-Lucky and George if she came out right now!” laughs Shawn
“Vampire?”
He nods as he chomps into a club sandwich
“So, is the whole thing gone?” asks Andrew in reference to his bar “that sucks”
“It’s workable, anything can be rebuilt…it’s not completely collapsed”
“How collapses is it?”
“Just internally – it’s kinda just a big mess – few weeks of cleaning up and it’ll all be cool”
“You mean that?” asks Andrew hopefully
“Yeah” Garrison smiles sincerely.
“Hey Monkey boy!” Anya calls him over to the bar
“What? And don’t say that” whines Andrew
“Hey, you’re Andrew Wells?” asks the barman “You own ‘Andrew’s Bar’ in Boston?”
“I did” he pouts
“Yeah, your friend here told me – this might be your lucky day” he grins
“Why lucky?”
“So happens that my L.A branch of Pipers hasn’t been doing so well with the clientele…as a demon bar everyone got killed and…well same as a human bar…it’s too crazy with that Wolfram & Hart lot”
“So…?”
“So, I’ve been building in Boston – looking to open in a few days. I mean, I can’t offer you anything permanent but it’ll be something until you’re back on your feet”
“Are you kidding? Barman at a place like this?” Andrew grins
“Oh now Barman we’re full…”
“Oh” he’s disappointed “cleaner?”
“I was thinking manager – I mean, if you have the time, it’s just with two bars and my family being based here I can’t run the both fulltime”
“Oh my god totally!” he jumps up and down excited as Anya imagines the endless free drinks.
“Great – well, come through here and we can talk contracts…you wanna bring a witness?” he asks
Andrew grabs Anya and pulls her along, skipping.
Over at Boston
Faith is stood looking at the former location of the orphanage. One of the builders removes a large plastic sheet to reveal ‘Piper’ in large neon letters.
Faith shakes her head before walking away, just missing the arrival of a taxicab.
A large, butch woman with red hair steps out, her prison I.D bracelet still attached – she pulls out a small piece of paper and smiles at it.
It reads
‘Faith Monroe – Flat 42a, Union Street’
END
Co-starring
Megan Mullally as Dolly
Alastair Duncan as George
Kristin Dattilo as Lucky
Andy Umberger as Quo’Tarth Man
Spice Williams as Debbie (Taxi Woman)
Kevin West as Bar Manager
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