Buffy the Vampire Slayer Page #19

BUFFY:

Oh, wonderful. My secret weapon is -

PMS. That's just great. Thanks

for telling me.

MERRICK:

You'll get used to it. I'm more

worried about your tactical mistakes.

BUFFY:

You are such a wet.

MERRICK:

A what?

BUFFY:

A wet! Didn't I just kill that

vampire? I think I did. I didn't

see you killing any vampires. You

were too busy playing 'Beat the

Clock'.

MERRICK:

Don't start with me again.

BUFFY:

Aren't I, like the chosen one? The

one and only? The Grand High Poobah

and doesn't that mean you have to

be nice to me? Like, ever?

MERRICK:

Buffy...

BUFFY:

And why are you always wearing black?

It's so down. It's totally not

your color. I don't think you have

a color.

MERRICK:

What do you want? Encouragement?

(in bad American accent)

'Gosh, Buffy, you're so special, I

just want to give you a great big

hug, oh I'm just having a warm

fuzzy.'

BUFFY:

Oh, f*** you!

Merrick turns on her.

MERRICK:

Do you know how many girls I've

trained to be Slayers? Five. Five

properly prepared girls, girls who

faced their responsibilities, who

worked hard to become women overnight --

harder than you've ever worked in

your life -- and I saw them ripped

apart. Do you want to live? Do

you?

BUFFY:

I...

MERRICK:

What did you think, that being able

to jump about and hit people makes

you a Slayer?

Buffy looks at him a bit.

BUFFY:

Five?

MERRICK:

Five.

BUFFY:

So, basically, I've got the life

expectancy of a zit, right?

MERRICK:

Not if you're careful.

BUFFY:

How can you keep doing this?

MERRICK:

It's what I was raised to do. There

aren't many of us left, the Watchers.

BUFFY:

Watchers?

MERRICK:

There's a small village in Hampshire,

near Stonehenge...

(sees she doesn't know it)

... near a bunch of big rocks.

That's where I was born. My father

taught me about the training, about

finding the Slayers, reading the

signs. There's a small cluster of

us, a few families, really... most

of the neighboring villagers think

we're just a bunch of harmless old

loonies. I thought so myself for a

time, when I was younger...

(stops himself)

I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to...

I shouldn't go on like this.

BUFFY:

I wish you would.

MERRICK:

It isn't important.

BUFFY:

I'm curious, is all.

MERRICK:

Buffy, don't... don't start thinking

of me as your friend. It interferes

with the work, and it...

BUFFY:

And it makes it worse when I die,

right?

Silence.

BUFFY:

(continuing)

Well, you know, I'm not gonna kick

so easy. I've got a few things the

other girls didn't have.

MERRICK:

As for example, what?

BUFFY:

Well... there's my keen fashion

sense, for one.

MERRICK:

Vampires of the world, beware.

BUFFY:

(impressed)

Merrick. You made a joke. Are you

okay, I mean, do you want to lie

down? I know it hurts the first

time.

In spite of himself, Merrick smiles.

CUT TO:

INT. SCHOOL HALL - DAY

Buffy, Nicole, Kimberly, and Jennifer are walking down the

hall.

JENNIFER:

So they found Cassandra's body out

by the railway tunnels. Nobody's

saying anything, but they think she

was involved in something, like,

illegal or something. Like dealing.

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