TEXT: <unk> means inaudible, so uncertain. <unk> unknown word Narrator: "Hush, a special Buffy" A lecture hall. Professor Walsh is lecturing to Buffy and the class. Riley is leaning against a wall. Walsh: "So this is what it is.. talking about communication talking about language... not the same thing. It's about inspiration... Not the idea, but the moment before the idea when its <unk>total<unk> When it blossoms in your mind and connects to everything It's about the thoughts and experiences that we don't have a word for. A demonstration. Buffy, Summers, come on down <unk>to<unk> the front here." Buffy walks down. Walsh: "A typical college girl, one assumes." Walsh (to buffy): "Lie down on my desk" Buffy: "what?" Walsh: "Go ahead, you're perfectly safe." Buffy: "oh" Buffy sits, then lies on the desk but doesn't completely lie down. She is resting on her elbows. Walsh: "Riley, if you could oblige." Riley: "A demonstration, <unk>right/alright<unk>." Walsh: "Be a good boy." Riley leans over Buffy. He puts a hand on her waist. Buffy: "This feels very strange." Riley: "Don't worry. <unk>If<unk> I kiss you ((it'll<unk> make the sun go down." They kiss and the class watches. He brings a hand around her holding her up and she brings her arm around him and then to his neck. They continue to kiss and it gets darker. The classroom is empty when the camera zooms out from them. Riley: "See." She sits up Buffy: "Fortune favors the brave." Faintly a little girl is humming or chanting. Buffy: "do you hear that?" Buffy walks towards the sound Buffy eventually sees a little girl holding an ornate box in the hall. The little girl is still chanting: "Can't even shout Can't even cry The gentlemen are coming by looking in windows knocking on doors They need to take seven and they might take yours Can't call to mom can't
SUMMARY:
The Gentlemen steal the voices of the population of Sunnydale , rendering everyone in the town (including the Scooby Gang) unable to speak. Giles reveals that the only thing that can defeat The Gentleman is a real human scream. This episode is mostly silent (aside from music and ambient sound) from the point The Gentlemen steal Sunnydale's voices.