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Date Posted: 13:46:52 07/31/02 Wed
Author: Jeanny & Dawneen
Subject: Buffy #06 - The Box (unedited) - Previous Scenes & Teaser

TARA
(v.o.)
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Season VI, Episode XIX: Seeing Red

SPIKE
This isn't the way it's supposed to be.
It's the chip. Steel and wires and silicon.
It won't let me be a monster. And I can't
be a man. I'm nothing.


Season VI, Episode XXI: Grave

DEMON
Your soul is returned to you.


Season VI, Episode III: ???
BUFFY tells SPIKE he has to earn her trust, a soul doesn't automatically make him a good person, etc.


Season VI, Episode V: All The Way

XANDER
We're getting married!

Closeup of XANDER and ANYA kissing

BUFFY
(v.o.)
This is the way life's supposed to work out.


Season VI, Episode XVI: Hell's Bells

XANDER
We can't start over. If it's a mistake, it's forever, and I
don't want to hurt you. Not that way.

ANYA is approached by D'HOFFRYN

D'HOFFRYN
It's time you got back to what you do best...don't you
think?


Season VI, Episode XX: Villains

XANDER
It seems Anya's got her vengeance on again.


Season VII, Episode I: Stone Cold

ANYA
I want us back Xander.

XANDER
Ahn...don't. I don't know if I feel the same way
anymore.

Clip of SPIKE and ANYA's fling from Season VI, Episode XVIII: Entropy

ANYA
(v.o.)
Is this because of Spike?

XANDER
(v.o.)
It's because of us.


Season VII, Episode III: ??
ANYA does the big I love you fade thing


Season VII, Episode IV: Unreality
XANDER beats up D'Hoffryn - the Magic Box burns

XANDER
Bring her back.
(to Buffy)
Anya's gone.


Season VII, Episode V: ?
GILES announces he's leaving for good and that XANDER gets the Magic Box. ANYA's Funeral


Season VII, Episode I: Stone Cold

FEMALE VAMPIRE
With the slayer gone the Mother can arise.

BUFFY
All this... for your mother?


Season VII, Episode V: ?
BUFFY meeting SARIA, telling GILES she thought she used to be a slayer, DAWN having the slayer dream and waking in shock


TEASER

Scene I: Outside Magic Box, Mid-Afternoon

Establishing shot of the burned building.

BUFFY
(v.o.)
Do you two want to be alone?


Scene II: Inside Magic Box, Mid-Afternoon
XANDER POV shot, looking up at BUFFY standing over his body, clearly from the angle he is lying on the floor.

BUFFY
(looking amused, like she caught him doing something naughty)
Because I could come back later.

Switch to BUFFY's POV, Xander looking up at her with a charred and sooty book held close to his face. We can read the title: The Secret Lives of Wood Nymphs. Xander shuts the book, sending up a smattering of ash.

XANDER
Not necessary.

BUFFY
The sooty look doesn’t do it for you with the
nymphs?

XANDER sets the book aside and pushes himself up on his elbows, then allows BUFFY to pull him the rest of the way to his feet.

XANDER
(trying for light, but mostly sad)
Besides, Ahn had a charm put on the book...nobody
gets to see the goods until you pay for it. She said that
letting people ogle the supernatural naked without
charging was unAmerican.

BUFFY
(amused, remembering)
Sounds like Anya.
(puzzled)
Then what were you...

XANDER
I...just wanted to look at it. Or, I mean, I guess not
look at it. Because it reminded me of her, that I
couldn‘t really see anything except a glowing spectral
price tag..
(shrugs)
Not that everything else doesn’t remind me of her.
But some things, her things...
(off her look)
it‘s okay. I don't want to
forget. Not again.

XANDER walks to a box he has set up on a folding card table. The box contains things that he's been able to salvage. He puts the book beside it among a few others, all of which are burnt to some degree. BUFFY follows.

BUFFY
I know you miss her.

XANDER
Yeah. I do. A lot. More than I...

XANDER picks up a strange talisman that’s resting on top of the items in the box...it's about the size of a half-dollar, with cryptic symbols...and there's a faint jagged line that runs down its center. He’s not really paying attention to it, lost in his thoughts, but he begins to play with it as he continues speaking, rolling it around his fingers like it was money.

XANDER
I mean, I loved her. I expected to miss her. But I just
can‘t stop thinking...she was this beautiful vibrant alive
woman...demon...whatever...and now she’s gone. And
I did that. It‘s my fault.

BUFFY
Don’t say that. You aren’t responsible for Anya’s...she
chose this, Xander. You’ve got to move on. Life...life
goes on. You’ve got to start letting this guilt go.

XANDER
(seeing her concern)
Don’t worry, Buff. I’m sad, but I’m not suicidal.
(looking around speculatively)
Though if I was, pretty much came to the right place.

BUFFY
I know it’s a little hellish... and charred. But you’re
Xander Harris, Master Carpenter. You can fix it up good
as new in no time.

XANDER
But do I want to? I mean, haven’t you noticed how
everyone who owns this place ends up with a toe tag?
It’s like a curse or something. Remember, we tried to
warn Giles, and look what happened to him!

BUFFY
(flatly)
He’s in England.

XANDER gives her a pointed, just-proved-my-point look.

XANDER
Plus, I think I have sufficient evidence to state that
magic and I are better off as distant acquaintances.

BUFFY
(trying to help)
Well, then you can do something else. You can
change it, make it something else. Something
Xandery.

XANDER
(wistfully, looking at the amulet again)
I’m not sure I can. This place...Anya loved it so much.
I don’t think she’d like it if I messed around with it too
much.
(wanting to change the subject)
How come you came by, anyway? Not that I don’t
appreciate the pep talk, but isn’t it patrol time?

BUFFY
Actually, I came to ask for your help. You know Will‘s
still checking out my new bestest girl-pal, the vamp
that would be Slayer on the ‘net. Plus the vamp cult
that hurt Dawnie.

XANDER
Right. The mother thing.

BUFFY
She’s pretty much tapped out. I came by hoping there
might be a text or too that survived. You know, maybe
a Watcher diary or two. Anything that might help tell
what I’m up against. Heck, even a cryptic prophecy
would be welcome at this point.

XANDER
Don‘t suppose wood nymphs hold the key?

BUFFY
Thinking you’re right.

XANDER
(gesturing to the small collection of charred books on the table)
Well, as you can see there hasn’t been much in the
literary works department. In fact, I haven’t found a lot
of anything that wasn’t...

XANDER reaches to grab one of the other books, and the talisman slips from his hand. It hits the ground and breaks into two pieces along the jagged crack.

XANDER
(staring down in dismay)
...broken.

BUFFY looks down and winces sympathetically. Extreme close-up of the broken amulet.

BUFFY
Oops. Was that valuable?

Now we see the two of them, still looking down. While BUFFY is more curious and sympathetic, XANDER is more sorrowful. We can tell he’s thinking it’s one more piece of ANYA he’s lost.

XANDER
I have no idea. I don’t even know what half this stuff is.
I’m hoping Will can help me sort it out later.

BUFFY grabs the books off the table and tilts her head at him hopefully.

BUFFY
Speaking of Will...why don’t you come home with me?
We’re having pizza night in the land of women who
should never cook. I know Dawn would be thrilled to
see you. And of course, I’d love you to come, too.
(a pause, where the two deal with the suddenly innuendo charged atmosphere, then awkwardly)
To have pizza.

XANDER gives her a weak smile, then spares one more rueful glance at the broken talisman. He picks up the talisman pieces, puts them on the table, then lifts the box and joins her. XANDER speaks as they both walk out of frame, the camera staying on the shot with the broken talisman.

XANDER
Sure, why not.
(o.s.)
I hope that thing wasn’t valuable. Giles didn’t keep
enough insurance on this place. What if it was one
of those one-of-a-kind things. Or breaking it is like a
mirror, you know, seven years of flat beer...

BUFFY
It didn’t look like that...It looked like a Hellmouth
commemorative coin.

O.S. We hear the shop bell jingle as one of them opens the door.

BUFFY
I cannot believe that that bell still works. I think
you’re right, this place is cursed.

We see the broken talisman pieces begin to glow, one white, one red.


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