TEXT: •I do not own the characters or situations of BTVS, and I claim no credit for the content of this episode. I have merely transcribed what appeared on my screen, with help from the closed captions. •I prefer that you link to this transcript on the Psyche site rather than post it on your site, but you can post it on your site if you want, as long as you keep my name and email address on it. Please also keep my disclaimers intact. •You can use my transcripts in your fanfiction stories; you don't have to ask my permission. (However, if you use large portions of episode dialogue in your fanfic, I recommend you give credit to the person who wrote the episode.) •I apologize in advance for my lame transcription of the fight scenes. I don't know the names of different punches and kicks. Use your imagination. [SCENE_BREAK] Teaser GILES VOICEOVER: Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer... Buffy sitting on the steps of Hemery High in "Becoming." WATCHER: You are the chosen one. Brief montage of several of the monsters Buffy has fought. WATCHER: You alone can stop them. BUFFY: Who? WATCHER: The vampires. Buffy timidly staking a vampire, looking shocked when it dusts. WATCHER: You see your power. BUFFY: Why can't you people just leave me alone? GILES: Into each generation a Slayer is born. WILLOW: You're the Slayer, and we're like the Slayerettes. XANDER: The three of us have been together from the beginning. We've always gone on patrols, and, uh, done demon research with her and everything. BUFFY: We're talking about two very powerful witches (shot of Willow and Tara doing a spell) and a thousand-year-old ex-demon (shot of Anya) XANDER: Anya, you wanna marry me? Willow and Tara slow-dancing at the Bronze. Buffy and Angel sitting on Angel's bed in "Becoming" BUFF
SUMMARY:
Buffy is dead, and the Scooby Gang must do the best they can without her. But concern about the way she died leads Willow to believe that she may have been pulled into a hell dimension. Unable to bear the thought of their friend enduring eternal torment, Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara decide to perform a resurrection spell that will bring Buffy back from the dead. As a gang demon bikers attack, the Scooby Gang is chased away from Buffy's grave thinking that the resurrection was a failure. They do not realize that the Slayer is alive... right where they left her. Buffy is awake but disoriented and afraid as she must claw her way out of her own grave. Buffy may be alive again, but the trauma she suffers is far from over.