" Do you like cats?" "  I'm more of a dog person myself." " But I'm not, like, "Death to all cats."  Why?" "  Cos I was thinking of getting one." "  Can you have one in dorms?" " No, but this would be a sneaky cat." " That would be cool." " You mean it'd be, sort of like a familiar?" " Actually, I was thinking it'd be sort of like a pet." " You know, we could name her Trixie or Miss Kitty Fantastico or something." " And we could make Kitty go bonkers with string and catnip?" "  Absolutely." "  Fun." " I'm in." "  So you're not allergic or anything?" "  Nope." " Good, cos I want my room to be Willow-friendly." " Me, too." " So, I'm excited about the Scooby meeting." " I think." "  What's it about?" "  I'm not sure." " Probably just your garden-variety disaster." " Zippo." " Patrol's been totally uneventful." " My kill count's way down." " She means there's been less bad-guy activity." "  We know what that often indicates." "  Buffy doesn't make her quota?" " Bad slayer." " I wish it were that innocuous, but with Adam around I feel he's involved somehow." " When things get slow it's usually because there's extra evil brewing." " But the weird thing is, we've been busy at the Initiative." " Our squads have got demons coming out our ears." "  That's a metaphor." "  I got it, thanks." " I'm overhelping, aren't I?" " So the activity's shifted, not stopped." "  It's fascinating." "  To an extremely bored person maybe." " Well, that was a thrilling hour." " I don't appreciate your snide remarks, Anya." " I have a lot of experience." " If I say a matter of import is brewing, I..." "Hey." " Oz." " When... when did you get back?" " Pretty much now." " Oz." " Man..." "Hate to sound grandma, but you don't call, you don't write." " Yeah." " Sorry." " So are you here here, orjust passing through?" " Let's not bombard the poor chap with questions right off." " Can I get you something?" " Tea perhaps?" " I'll pass." " Thanks." " Look, I'm going to Devon's to see if he's got a place I can crash, but" "I was hoping that we could talk." " Later." " Tonight?" " I guess so." " I'll come by your place?" " OK." " It's great to see you guys again." " Really." " Everyone's uncomfortable now." "  You OK?" "  I..." "I just..." "I realised I'm late for study group." "  Tara, wait." "  No, no, it's OK." " You should be with your friends, and... and I should go." " But..." "So, I was missing something this afternoon, wasn't I?" " Break-ups are tough, but when Oz walked in it seemed emotions were running extra high." " Oz and Willow had a rough break-up." " Hold that thought." " Man." " That was record time." "  It's no fun when they're that easy." "  Speak for yourself." " Base, this is Agent Finn." " We've an HST down." " Please send a retrieval team to sector 72." " We're swamped here." " We'll get to it as soon as we can." " So, I was about to say something fascinating." "  Oz and Willow." "  Right." " They had a rough break-up." " Some stuff came up and Oz pretty much bailed overnight." " It left Will really devastated." " I remember." " Before that they were doing great." " She was dealing with Oz being a werewolf..." "Whoa." " Back up there." " Oz is a werewolf and Willow was dating him?" "  Yes." " Hence the high emotions." "  You're kidding me." " Gotta say, I'm surprised." " I didn't think Willow was that kind of girl." "  What kind of girl?" "  Into dangerous guys." "  She seems smarter than that." "  Oz is not dangerous." " Something happened to him that wasn't his fault." " God, I never knew you were such a bigot." " Whoa." " Hey." " How did we get to bigot?" " It's just weird to date someone who tries to eat you." " Yeah, well, love isn't logical, Riley." " It's not like you can be Mr Joe Sensible about it all the time." " God knows, I haven't been." " I'm not talking about you." " How about we don't talk about this at all?" " OK?" " Let's just patrol." " Hey." " Hey." " So, you wanna come inside?" " Actually, I want you to come outside." " I wanna show you something." " Oz." " This is all so weird." " I feel like this isn't really happening." " Like it's a dream or something." " It's real." " Look up." "  What?" "  Look at the sky." " I guess you stopped keeping track after I left." " Full moon." " Full moon." " Full moon, but how?" " I mean, you did it." " How did you do it?" " Where did you go?" " It's a long story." " My God, Oz." " This is..." "I mean, that's wonderful for you." " I talked to Xander, and he said you didn't have a new guy." " No." " No new guy." " I know what I put you through, and I'm not gonna push." " But I am a different person than when I left." " And I can be what you need now." " That's what I want." " That's why I'm here." " This is sector 27." " We're all clear." " Sir." " I love this." " A woman in Tibet traded it to me for the Radiohead record." " Got a lot of mileage out of the barter system." " So, Tibet was your favourite?" " Well, it's where I stayed the longest." " A warlock in Romania sent me to the monks there to learn some meditation techniques." " Very intense." " All about keeping your inner cool." " Good, cos you were such a spaz before." " So that's it?" " You keep your cool and no more wolfie?" " No, there's more." " I take some herbs and stuff." " Some chanting." " A couple of charms." " It's incredible." " You've been all around the world." " You've had this complete mind/body transformation." " I've just been here." " Same old Sunnydale." "  Doesn't mean you've not gone through a lot." "  It's true." " Some of it, you know, was me telling myself I hated you and cursing your name." "  Not literally." "  Thanks for that." " And, I don't know, I..." "I think I'm getting better at my spells and stuff." "  It's so light out." "  Yeah, we talked all night." " I believe a manly-sized breakfast is in order, don't you?" " Or we could just sleep a little while." " Whatever you want." " I'll have the less confusing waffles right now." " Breakfast it is." " Let me just freshen up." "  Oh..." "Sorry, I'll come back." "  Are you looking for Willow?" "  She's just in the bathroom down the hall." "  No, no." " No, it's OK." "  I saw you at Giles' yesterday." "  Yeah." " Sometimes Willow takes me with her to the Scoobies." " Are you sure you don't wanna come in?" "  What?" "  Your friend came by." " The blonde girl." " But she wouldn't stay." " So what do you think?" " Where do you wanna go?" "  Morning." "  Morning." " Are those, like, regulation?" " Do you have to do those every morning?" " No." " It's just a good way to start the day." " Then you can have your perfectly balanced breakfast, and then you can call your mother." " OK, I've been up less than a minute and somehow I've managed to piss you off." "  I should go home." "  No." " Come on." " Is it that whole thing about Willow last night?" " Look, I only said what I said because I'm concerned." " I don't wanna see her get hurt." " You sounded like Mr Initiative:" ""Demons bad, people good."" " Something wrong with that theorem?" " There's different degrees of..." "Evil?" " It's just different with different demons." " There are creatures - vampires, for example - that aren't evil at all." " Name one." " Rye, we need you downstairs." "  The Beta team got hit." "  Bad?" " We lost Willis." "  Graham?" "  He's walking." " We're going on a hunt." " What kind of demon was it?" " Does it matter?" "  Hey." "  Hey." " You OK?" " Yeah, I just..." "I don't wanna talk about it." " I wanna hear about you and Oz." " You saw him, right?" "  I was with him all night." "  All night?" " Oh, my God." " Wait." "  Last night was a wolf moon, right?" "  Yep." "  Either you're gonna say something kinky..." " No kink." " He didn't change, Buffy." " He said he was gonna find a cure and he did." " In Tibet." " Oh, my God." " I can't believe it." " OK, I'm all with the whoo-hoo here and you're not." " No, there's "whoo" and "hoo"." " But there's "uh-oh" and "why now?"" " And it's complicated." " Why complicated?" " It's complicated because of Tara." " You mean Tara has a crush on Oz?" " No, you..." "Um,..." "Well..." "That's great." " You know, I mean, I think Tara's a really great girl, Will." " She is." " And there's something between us." " It wasn't something I was looking for." " It's just powerful." " And it's totally different from what Oz and I have." " Well, there you go." " I mean, you have to... you have to follow your heart, Will." " And that's what's important, Will." " Why do you keep saying my name like that?" " Like what, Will?" " Are you freaked?" " What?" " No, Will..." "No." " No." " Absolutely no to that question." " I'm glad you told me." "  What did you say to Oz?" "  I was gonna tell him, but then we started hanging out and I could just feel everything coming back." " He's Oz, you know?" " Yeah." " I know." " I don't wanna hurt anyone, Buffy." " No matter what, somebody's gonna get hurt." " And the important thing is you just have to be honest, or it's gonna be a lot worse." " From the sound of those massive mud flaps, I'd peg you as a demon, which means you're in for a world of" "pain." " Spike, I want you to come with me." " Do you?" " Well, let's go then." " Come." "  You're going to help me with my problem." "  Why's that exactly?" " I am going to help you with yours." " Hi." " Hi." " I can only stay for a minute." " I have class." " Me, too." " I have class, too." " I just want you to know that what you saw this morning, it wasn't..." "No, it's OK." " I always knew that if he came back..." "We were just talking." " Nothing happened." " Really?" " But, you know, it was intense, just talking." " We have a lot to talk about." " I kinda feel like my head's gonna explode." " Whatever, you know, happens, I'll still be here." " I'll still be your friend." " Of course we'll be friends." " That's not even a question." " But I'm saying, I know what Oz means to you." " How can you, when I'm not even sure?" " I mean, I know what he meant to me." " But he left and everything changed." " I changed, and then we..." "What?" " I don't know." " I just..." "Life was starting to get so good again, and you're a big part of that." " And here comes the thing I wanted most of all, and" "I don't know what to do." " I wanna know, but I don't." " Do what makes you happy." " Willow." " Hey." " I thought I sme... heard Willow." " Hey." " You're... you're coming back to school here, huh?" " Pretty much feeling oddly motivated." " That's..." "That's great." " I mean, that's great for you and Willow, right?" "  I hope so." "  Good." " That's..." "Because..." "Is that her sweater?" " I just hope that you guys'll be very happy." " You smell like her." " She's all over you, d'you know that?" " I can't." " I..." "I can't talk about this." " But there's something to talk about?" "  Are you two involved?" "  I have to..." "I have to go." " Because she never said anything to me." " We talked all night, and she never..." "No, stop." " Is she in love with you?" " Tell me." " Is she?" " Run." "  Are you OK?" "  What's going on?" " Looks like one of the demons that took out Graham's guys." " We'll take it back and make an ID." "  If it is, we'll put him down." "  You don't understand..." "Listen, we know what we're doing." " You're in shock." "  But..." " We'll handle it." " No." " Well, that sounds like a lot of fun." " You see my problem, though." " Total annihilation of the humans doesn't help me." "  I'll need heavy casualties on both sides." "  I get that." "  I'm still not sure how the Slayer fits in." "  The humans need a leader." " A champion." " The Slayer can do that." " Yeah..." "The thing about the Slayer is, she is whiny, but when it comes to the fighting she does have a tendency to win." " Then I guess you should be on her side." " This all goes down, the chip comes out, yeah?" " No tricks?" " Scout's honour." "  You were a Boy Scout?" "  Parts of me." " What's up?" " You OK?" " Oz." " We were talking and he changed right in front of me." "  What?" " It's daylight." "  I know, but it happened." "  Oh, my God." " Are you all right?" "  I'm fine." " Riley and the commando guys stopped him, but they don't know it's Oz." "  I tried to tell them, but they took him away." "  When?" " Just now?" "  I think they might hurt him." "  I have to go find Buffy." " I know." " Tara said they took him, right before she found me." " So that's good, right?" " I mean, they probably haven't had time to eviscerate him yet." " An, you can help by making this a quiet time." " Again we're faced with the prospect of having to infiltrate the Initiative." " It'd be great if we knew someone dating a man on the inside, with connections." " Wait." " He's still not answering his pages." " I left him another message." "  So what do we do?" "  We need to move fast." " So we make a plan without Riley and hope he calls." " What's the word?" " Is this the animal that took apart our men?" "  We don't know yet." "  Why the delay?" " Graham gave a description." " He described characteristics present in over 40 known varieties of demon." "  So we're crosschecking DNA evidence..." " And how long's that gonna take?" " I have no idea." " I don't need a bunch of tests to know that this thing's a killer." "  Hey, he's coming to." " Oz." "  We gave him Haldol to keep him quiet." "  Why?" " He's not a threat now." "  You only stay if you let us do our work." " Only Colonel McNamara can place a cease order on medical testing." " He said proceed." " I always suspected werewolf transformations being based on a lunar cycle was just talk." " That's enough." " He's a student." " I know him." "  Take him out." "  Yes, sir." " Let's go." " See that?" " Transformation related to negative stimulation." " Something's wrong." " Riley usually returns my calls by now." "  We can't wait much longer." "  I know." " OK." " Xander, you and I are gonna go in." " We've done it before." "  I'm going with you." "  No." " It's too dangerous, Will." " You need to help Giles hack into the electrical grid and power down the Initiative." " Giles can do it without me." " I can give him all the instructions, I can show him what to do." "  Of course." "  I can'tjust sit here." " OK." " OK, you can back us up." " You get into the Initiative via the elevator in the Lowell House, but my clearance is gone." "  So we grab a guy, make him take us." "  Or you could just use the back way." "  Hell of a lot less bother." "  How did you get in?" " The door was unlocked." " You might wanna watch that." " Someone dangerous could get in." " Or someone formerly dangerous and currently annoying." " Now, now." " None of that." " Or I won't help you get Red's mongrel back." " Bad news travels fast with us demons." " We all like a good laugh." " Short of cash, Spike?" " I happen to be seeking monetary gratification, yeah." " But I also get a kick out of jacking up those army ginks myself." " I know how to find the big guy who can take you to Oz." " Uh-huh." " So what's the going rate on a wild-goose chase, Spike?" " Fine, if you're not interested." " But I was stuck in that hole, and I've heard things from guys who've gotten out." " I can get you in." " No alarms, no cameras, no waiting." " Oz." " Put these on, man." " Come on." " End of the line." " At ease." "  Permission to speak, Colonel." "  Denied." " Being new around here, Finn, I had a look at your record and Professor Walsh's notes." " Until recently you were an exemplary soldier headed for the top." " Then you meet this girl, this slayer, and suddenly begin to exhibit signs of disloyalty." " You abuse your command." " But tonight?" " To release a lethal HST back into the population..." " Sir, the prisoner..." " You will speak when I tell you to." " Tomorrow I'll institute a court martial to investigate your involvement with the Slayer and her band of freaks." " They're anarchists, Finn." " Too backwards for the real world." " You help us take them down and you just might save your military career." " Otherwise, you'll go to your grave labelled a traitor." " No woman's worth that." " I mentioned I'd kill you if this is a scam, right?" "  Look, would I wear this if it was?" "  You do sort of look like an evil olive." " Guys?" " Check it out." " For a nasty town like Sunnydale, nobody seems to mind their locks." " You first." " Try tapping in "XH4J7" for the emergency shutdown command." " That covers the entire electrical grid for the university and outlying area." " Slap my hand now." "  Beg your pardon?" "  In celebration." " Yes." " You know who I am?" "  Yeah." "  Then you know I'm pretty good with this." " Take us to him." " Finn stays in the brig." " Helping an HST escape is a court-martial offence." " You'll make matters worse." " Riley tried to help Oz escape?" " That's who you came for." "  The wolf." "  Guess we're two for one." " Get dressed." " Hey, you dropped..." " How'd you get in?" "  Talk later." " Stealthy escape now." " Buffy." " I leave now, I can't ever come back." " I just wanted to hear that out loud." " Hold it." " Stay back, or I'll pull a "William Burroughs" on your leader here." " You'll bore him to death with free prose?" " Was I the only one awake in English that day?" " I'll kill him." " Get him out." "  Oz." "  Willow, get back." " Let's go." " You're a dead man, Finn." " No, sir." " I'm an anarchist." " I hope everybody else is OK." " It was better to split up, right?" " I mean, we're just too findable in a big clump." " It was better." " Besides, I think it's mostly me the Initiative wants now." " Probably." " So what shall we do?" " We'll be safe for tonight at least." " The camps are still blacked out, so that oughta slow the Initiative down." " I'll figure out my next move tomorrow." " Quite a day, huh?" " You woke up to a big bowl of Wheaties." " Now you're a fugitive." " I don't know." " I'm sorry it ended that way, but I am glad it's done." " I'm glad I know where I stand, finally." " I was wrong about Oz." " I was being a bigot." " No, you weren't." " You were thrown." " You found out that Willow was in kind of an unconventional relationship, and it gave you momentary wiggins." " It happens." " Still, I was in a totally black-and-white space - people versus monsters." " And it ain't like that." " Especially when it comes to love." " I have to tell you some stuff, about my past." " And it's not all stuff that you're gonna like." " You can tell me anything." " I think so." " I think I can." " This thing looks pretty good, considering you drove it overseas." " Well, it broke down outside of Mexico." " I traded my bass to have it fixed and garaged." " I shouldn't have come back now." " I just thought I'd changed." " You have changed." " You stopped the wolf from coming out." " I saw it." " But I couldn't look at you." " I mean, it turns out the one thing that brings it out of me is you." " Which falls under the heading of "Ironic" in my book." " It was my fault." " I upset you." " Well, so we're safe then, cos you'll never do that again." " But you're happy?" " I am." "  I can't explain it." "  It may be safer for both of us if you don't." " I missed you, Oz." " I wrote you so many letters." " But I didn't have any place to send them, you know?" " I couldn't live like that." " It was stupid to think that you'd just be waiting." " I was waiting." " I feel like some part of me will always be waiting for you." " Like, if I'm old and blue-haired and I turn the corner in Istanbul and there you are," "I won't be surprised." " Because you're with me, you know?" " I know." " But now is not that time, I guess." " No." " What are you gonna do?" " I think I'd better take off." " When?" " Pretty much now." " No candles?" " Well, I brought one." " It's extra flamy." "  Tara, I have to tell you..." " No, I understand." " You have to be with the person you love." " I am." " You mean...?" " I mean." " OK?" " Oh, yes." " I feel horrible about everything I put you through, and I'm gonna make it up to you." " Starting right now." " Right now?"