Buffy the Vampire Slayer Page #12

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EXT. OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL - SAME TIME

Cassandra stands waiting for Buffy. The sun is down, darkness

increasing. She looks at her watch and gives up, heads for

her car. Her key in the door, she hears a RUSTLING behind

her. Looks slowly around.

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EXT. GRAVEYARD - SAME TIME

Buffy sits fidgeting. Playing with her fingernails. Merrick

stays in the position, listening.

A low, almost inaudible MOAN come from under the ground. Buffy

sits up straight, holds the cross to her. The MOAN becomes

louder, almost a scream. The SOUND is followed by the SOUND

of FINGERS SCRAPPING wood -- of WOOD SPLINTERING -- of digging.

The moaning continues, becoming eerier, somewhat more

articulate.

Buffy and Merrick wait.

ANGLE - THE GRAVE

Finally, fingers break through the ground and hold stiff in

the open air. The moan becomes a triumphant HISS. The fingers

clutch at the ground.

ROBERT BERMAN pops halfway out of his grave like a jack-in-the-

box, his face dirty and dead-white. He sees Buffy in front of

him, and he bobs toward her with a crazy grin, stretching as

to a mother's tit.

Merrick drops down behind Robert and grabs him, raising the

stake. Buffy watches, immobilized.

A pair of arms shoot up from the ground right under Buffy.

They grab her and pull her to the ground. Next to her face,

the face of another vampire, a YOUNG WOMAN, emerges grinning

from the crumbling earth.

Buffy screams lustily, and struggles to break free.

Merrick is momentarily distracted by this, and Robert throws

him off, and pulls himself out of the grave. Merrick falls to

the ground, and his stake goes flying.

Buffy pulls herself out of the girl's grasp, starts running

away, but the girl grabs her. Buffy remembers the cross in

her hand, spins and holds it to the vampire's forehead. It

burns and the lady lets go, screaming and falling to the ground.

BUFFY:

'Bye now.

Buffy runs.

ANGLE - MERRICK AND ROBERT

They are struggling, several feet away. Robert grabs Merrick

by the shoulders and picks him up, preparing to bite him. A

stake suddenly pops out of his chest, planted in his back by

Buffy. He falls and dies.

MERRICK:

Where's the other one?

BUFFY:

She --

It leaps at her, screaming. She throws it off, as Merrick

produces another stake and throws it to her. Buffy sticks it

in the vampire's heart. She dies, screaming, her face still

smoking, blood spurting onto Buffy.

Buffy looks at herself. At the blood.

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EXT. FRONT OF BUFFY'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Merrick walks Buffy to the door. She is silent, slow.

MERRICK:

Go to school tomorrow. Try to act

normal. Don't let anyone know what's

happening. This is important.

When the vampires find out who you

are... you won't be hunting them

anymore.

BUFFY:

All right.

He hands her a piece of paper.

MERRICK:

Meet me at this address after school.

BUFFY:

I have cheerleading squad.

MERRICK:

Skip it.

Buffy nods. Merrick starts back down the path.

BUFFY:

Merrick.

Merrick stops.

BUFFY:

(continuing)

They can't come in, right? Unless

you invite them. Is that true?

MERRICK:

It's true.

Merrick moves on. Buffy goes inside.

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INT. BUFFY'S HOUSE - FOYER - SAME TIME

Buffy shuts the door, turns to go up to her room. She is

startled by someone standing in her path. She almost screams.

It's her mother. She stands, arm akimbo, looking very

confrontational. Buffy looks a sight, and stands uncomfortably

in front of her mother for a moment.

BUFFY'S MOM

Do you know what time it is?

BUFFY:

Uum... around ten?

Mom taps her watch, annoyed.

BUFFY'S MOM

I knew this thing was slow.

She crosses out of the room.

BUFFY'S MOM

(continuing)

You pay a fortune for something...

(calls out)

Honey, come on, we're gonna be late.

Her mother gone, Buffy lets out a small sigh -- of relief or

frustration, it is not clear. She heads upstairs.

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INT. BUFFY'S HOUSE - BATHROOM - NIGHT

Buffy stands at the sink, washing her shirt. She tries to get

the blood off with fierce intensity. She is near tears.

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INT. BUFFY'S HOUSE - BEDROOM - NIGHT

She sits in the middle of the bed in her pajamas, the blankets

pooled around her. She cannot sleep. Finally, she lies back

on the pillow.

Lothos is beside her.

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