Buffy the Vampire Slayer Page #36

Buffy looks, by this time, like sh*t. She props herself up as

best she can, looks about her. There is nothing wooden, nothing

sharp, within reach.

LOTHOS:

(continuing)

You would challenge me?

Andy charges Lothos from behind. Pike tries to stop him, but

is too late, as Lothos grabs him by the face without even

looking at him.

LOTHOS:

(continuing; to Buffy)

I'll rip the flesh from your stinking

bones!

Squeeze Andy's head until we hear something crack. Lets him

drop. Looks around at the cowed students.

LOTHOS:

(continuing)

I am a God! A God!

BUFFY:

I am so sure.

Lothos roars. Furious, he charges Buffy, his feet just skimming

the ground, racing toward her, violently fast, upon her...

She spins, on her feet in a flash, one quick motion. She

thrusts her palm forward and stops him, cold, like Superman

stopping a train, palm at his chest.

Silence. Buffy looks directly into his eyes, the mad rictus

of his face.

Lothos stops, almost wide-eyed, as he looks down at his chest.

Sticking out of the middle of his chest is a small eraser, and

a #2.

He steps back, staring at Buffy. The expression on his horrible

face seems to have changed to one almost of respect. Her look

is unfathomable.

Lothos smiles, graciously.

LOTHOS:

It doesn't... hurt... as much as I

had imagined.

He falls gently to the ground. He's dust before he hits it.

Silence. One by one the vampires, stricken, slip out into the

night.

ANGLE - PIKE

Kneeling by Andy's body. He gets up, and walks toward what's

left of Lothos, warily keeping his eye on the spot. In the

background we see Gary Murray, running out after a vampire.

GARY MURRAY:

Just a minute, you! I'm not finished

with you!

Pike kneels by the pile of dust with a pencil in it.

Everybody is looking at Buffy. She stares back at the students

who cast her out. Turns and walks out. Pike follows her.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. THE SCHOOL - EARLY MORNING

We see the direct aftermath; the gym, police cars, people

helping the wounded. Over this is the voice of a reporter.

REPORTER (V.O.)

The death toll now reaches twelve

and a half in the tragedy of Hemery

High School. It was at the Senior

Prom five days ago that the school

was beset by a roving gang of crack-

crazed gunmen. Survivors say some

two hundred of the ruffians laid

the school gym under a kind of siege,

claiming several lives in the

process. Said one administrator,

'Things here will never be the same.'

CUT TO:

EXT. CAMPUS - DAY

Students walk, holding their books talking.

CUT TO:

INT. THE CLASSROOMS - DAY

Students passing notes, yawning, falling asleep.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MALL - DAY

Students window shopping, sucking on slurpies, laughing.

DISSOLVE TO:

ANGLE - A POOL

SHOT FROM ABOVE, the blue water FILLING THE SCREEN. Kimberly

dives gracefully into it, comes up on the other side.

EXT. KIMBERLY'S BACKYARD - DAY

Kim climbs out and joins Jeffrey, Jennifer and a boy and girl

we don't know. They are all in bathing gear, with fluorescent

zinc on their noses.

JENNIFER:

She was even crazier after that. I

mean it, you wouldn't even have

recognized her.

KIMBERLY:

Buffy?

Jennifer nods. Kimberly wrinkles her nose in distaste.

JENNIFER:

She didn't even hardly talk to anyone

in school. All year. She didn't

even go to the prom.

JEFFREY:

I heard she got straight A's.

Jennifer glares at him.

JEFFREY:

(continuing)

That's what I heard.

KIMBERLY:

The worst is, her parents -- this

is true -- her parents were gonna

send her to the Bahamas for

graduation, and she refused. True

story. She said she didn't want to

go. It is to vomit.

BOY:

Well, where is she now?

CUT TO:

EXT. A COURTYARD - LATE EVENING

Buffy and Pike are walking up the elaborate stone drive toward

us. We can't really tell where they are, but there are trees,

hills in the background.

Buffy leads the way. She is confident, at ease. She wears a

large old sports jacket, a baseball cap pulled backward. Skirt

and sneakers. Casual, cool, but disarming. She carries a

knapsack.

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