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Flooded
Summary Written by Leoff, courtesy the Buffy Cross and Stake
Episode # 6ABB04
Run Time: 43:32
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy discovers her mother's body. Xander proposes to Anya.
Buffy's leap from the tower to her death. Giles leaving Sunnydale. Willow and
gang talk of raising Buffy. Willow and gang raise Buffy. Spike first seeing
Buffy alive. Spike and Buffy's talk about her being in heaven.
Buffy walks through a darkened basement, looking around as if
stalking something. Finally she sees it… "So, we meet at last, Mr.
Drippy…" As she climbs up to fix a leaky pipe with a wrench, Dawn comes
down the stairs, phone in hand, ready to call the plumber. "Dawn… I've got
it" says Buffy, just as water shoots from… EVERYWHERE! (Everywhere but the
pipe she fixed). It even blasts Dawn on the stairs! Buffy sighs "There…
all better."
Opening credits. Nothing new.
Special Guest Star: Anthony Stewart Head. Guest Starring:
Danny Strong, Adam Busch, Tom Lenk, Todd Stashwick, and Amber Benson as Tara.
In the Summers home, Dawn, Tara, and Buffy talk about how
much water can fit in pipes, eating breakfast, small chat. During this, Buffy
stares blankly at water running out the kitchen sink faucet. Willow notices
Buffy being "somewhere else" and snaps her back to reality by
shutting the water off.
Xander walks up from the basement with "Tito the
Amazing," a plumber (the same Tito that Xander wished to make friends with
from After Life?). Tito informs them that the whole pipe system is pretty much
shot. They need a "Full Copper Re-pipe Job". He hands them an invoice
as he leaves. "That's a weird phone number…" says Dawn as she looks
at it. "Oh, wait… is that the BILL?" Buffy says it's no big deal,
they'll pay him. Willow then says they have to talk.
In the living room, sitting in front of a pile of bill-like
papers, Buffy smiles sarcastically "So you're telling me I'm broke?"
Willow, Tara, Dawn, and Xander all say that she's not broke, but is almost
there. "But I haven't spent any money. I've been all dead and frugal"
Buffy quips. Tara says that Joyce did plan finances well and prepared the
family, but that the finances were sucked up by hospital bills. Anya, sitting
over a stack of figures, says that they're still "haemorrhaging",
that the house is costing them by just "sitting" there. Dawn asks
"What do we do?" "EASY! We burn the house to the ground and
collect the insurance! PLUS… fire… pretty…" Buffy says as the entire group
look at her in shock. "You guys… I'm kidding." Buffy assures them
that while it's a concern, She'll find a way to take care of it.
"I know how" Anya blurts out. If they want to get
rid of all the bills and start a college fund for Dawn, "start
charging!" "For what?" Buffy asks. "Slaying vampires! I
mean, you're supplying a service to the community!" Anya goes on a bit
while Xander looks away, embarrassed, almost in pain. "You can't do that!
Charge innocent people for saving their lives!" Dawn says to Anya.
"Spider Man does…" "Does not…" "Does too"
"Does not" "Does too" "Xander?" Dawn asks…
Xander, looking uncomfortable at being dragged into the middle, says
"ACTION is his reward." Anya gets up in a huff "Why don't you
ever take my side?" and storms out. "Anya, I AM your side!"
Xander follows her.
Xander follows a very angry Anya, asking what's up? Anya says
that he's not supportive of her. Xander says that this is because that they
haven't told the gang about the engagement yet. Anya agrees, saying that it
bothers her not to be able to tell the others and wear her ring. She says its
as if he doesn't want to get married, to which he denies. He starts a very
eloquent speech, saying that he's unsure of himself because of the new steady
paycheck and the getting out of his parent's house, and now marriage, and he
just wants everything to be perfect for her. She melts and they kiss… for a
while. Then she pulls away in a huff. "HEY! You tricked me just now with
your fancy talk and your lips!" She barges off saying "When are you
gonna grow up Xander?"
Buffy stands in a business suit, hair done up conservatively,
saying things like "Collateral? No problem… I love that tie…" Just
then, a loan director walks into his office where Buffy has been standing,
practicing. The greet, with Buffy saying that she didn't know what he needed, "So
I brought everything." As she hands him a large stack of papers. He goes
through them, saying most of it isn't needed "Old report cards… no."
Buffy asks about the loan, but the Banker lays it all out: the only collateral
she has is the house, and that has been losing equity for the past few years,
and property values haven't ever been competitive in Sunnydale. The real
problem is that she has no income.
Just then, a body comes smashing through the office window
and slides across the desk where Buffy and the Banker sit. Buffy looks to see a
great, grey-green horned demon bellowing in the middle of the bank. "No
job? I wish…" Buffy sighs
Commercial Break: At McDonalds, we love to see you smile!
Back in the bank, Buffy starts a good pun before getting
ready to kick the demon's ass. But something blocks the kick! "Stupid
Skirt!" she says as we see the long, conservative skirt block her kick.
Slitting the skirt side with the Banker's letter opener, Buffy begins to kick
ass! The fight rages on in the bank while we cut away briefly to someone's
hands grabbing cash from the teller drawers. The Demon grabs Buffy over his
shoulder, then a shot it heard. A panicked bank guard says "put the girl
down!" Buffy goes FLYING into the bank guard and both tumble to the floor.
Buffy picks up the gun with two fingers "These things… never
helpful!" as she tosses it aside (and it goes off). She turns to go after
the Demon, but it has already fled outside. Buffy collects herself and goes
back into the loan director's smashed office. "Now, about my loan. Not
that I'm going to start charging you for saving your life or anything, but…
lets talk rates."
Night at the Magic Box has Willow talking to Buffy in the
workout room. Punching a bag, Willow notices Buffy is angry, and thinks that's
a good thing. Buffy pauses, then says she's better now as she stops punching
the bag. Willow says she'll make her mad again… "Ready? Um…. Last
semester, I slept with Riley…" "And you know I really doubt it"
says an unbelieving Slayer. "Caught me… big fib… to cover up the sleazy
affair I had with Angel!" "Will, what the hell are you doing?"
"Pissing you off?" Buffy asks why. Willow starts to say she hasn't
been big on the whole range of emotions thing, then starts to stutter and get nervous,
then tells Buffy to forget it.
In the front room, Anya tries to goad Xander into telling
Tara and Dawn, who are grabbing books off in the distance, about the
Engagement. Xander says he's gonna tell them now… as soon as Willow and Buffy
come in. Anya "Dares" him, but he uses some very reasonable logic…
would she be happy knowing that he announced their engagement because he tried
to win a dare? She backs down, but is still confrontational. Dawn and Tara walk
up. Dawn complains that she wants to help with research, but Tara says she's
not old enough, she's only 15. "You know, if you don't let me look at the
pictures, I'm going to learn everything I need to know about demons on the
street!" Tara hands her a book begrudgingly, and Dawn opens it to a
full-page picture. "That's a weird place for a horn… oh, that's not a
horn…"she says as she slowly closes the book back.
Xander asks what kind of demon would rob a bank… Dawn opens
up the book again and says "This kind?" The book shows a small
drawing of the bank demon, called a M'Bashnick. Buffy and Willow walk in as
Dawn holds up the book, asking "Is this your guy?" Buffy looks a
little disgusted… "doing research now? Want a cappuccino and a pack of
cigarettes to go with it?" Buffy looks at the picture and says that it's
the guy. She starts commenting on it's strength when her attention is drawn to
the front door. She stares to see… GILES! He drops two suitcases as Buffy walks
up and they embrace. "Oh god… you're alive, and you're here… and you're
still remarkably strong!" he winces as she loosens up. The hug is
meaningful to Buffy. Giles looks astonished… "You're…" "A
miracle" Buffy finishes. "yes, but then you always were…" says
Giles as he caresses her cheek.
Strange, useless scene of the M'Bashnick demon walking the
darkened streets. Doesn't really do anything but walk and growl.
Giles and Buffy are in the workout room and sit and talk.
Giles explains that his life has been pretty much boring. Buffy says he's
acting very bummed, and he replies that it was very hard to leave Sunnydale and
that coming back is… bewildering. He asks how she is, noting she looks tired.
She talks of having trouble sleeping, bad dreams, etc… but she's doing better.
She gets up, ready to do the punching bag thing as Giles goes off to the
others.
Anya is the first to bear-hug Giles back home. "GILES!
We're so glad to see you! We missed you! You can't have the store back! You
signed papers!" The others mention that they've found a demon who robs
banks. Giles mentions he's heard of it before, that they work as mercenaries
for others, and he wonders who is around who's powerful enough to control it?
The M'Bashnick demon throws a table aside in a basement in
anger, bellowing to someone off screen that they had a deal. They have what
they want, now he wants what he wants: the head of the slayer! We then see
three slacker guys (Warren from "I was Made to Love You," Andrew
(Tucker from "The Prom"'s brother), and Jonathon in the middle)
sitting on a couch, eating junk food and counting wads of cash. "OK… Yeah…
sure… we can do that." They all say.
Commercial Break: Windex makes it SHINE!
The demon paces the room, saying that he did what they asked,
causing chaos and carnage. He said they told him they were powerful men,
commanding computers and the very demons below. "Yeah, we're like
supervillians" they all chuckle. The demon asks which is the leader… all
three speak up. The demon says he's going to kill the leader… all three point
to each other. The demon says he'll kill them all. "Wait! Ahhh… no
fair!" Jonathon shakes his head and confronts the demon, saying they
didn't know the slayer would be there, and then offers the demon some wads of
cash. The other two geeks agree, and also hint that Jonathon is their leader.
"You guys suck" Jonathon says as the demon grabs him by the throat.
All three start to offer him anything he wants as the demon
lets Jonathon go. They offer a spell "to make you look super-cool to the
other demons" Warren chimes in with "Just throwing it out there…
robot girlfriend?" The demon seems interested, but Andrew says "don't
trust him… robo-pimp-daddy is all mouth." The three start to argue, which
helps to introduce them a little to the audience. Here Andrew tells who he is…
he did not make the devil dogs that screwed up prom, that was his brother
Tucker! Andrew made flying monkey demons that ruined the school play! Jonathon
and Warren laugh, saying that was cool. The demon then gets pissed, saying he
doesn't want spells or robots or flying monkey demons, he wants the Slayer
DEAD! The three go off in a corner to "discuss" things."
Night at the Summers home has Buffy making up the couch with
sheets for Giles to sleep on. Buffy hints that she's got some money problems.
Giles is concerned, but says that she's got a lot on her mind… being recently
brought back to life and such. Giles says he'll help her straighten things out
tomorrow, and they both go off to bed, but Giles looks concerned still.
The three guys discuss killing Buffy for the demon, but none
of them wants to do it. "Yeah, she saved my life a bunch of times!"
Jonathon admits "Plus she's really hot!" Warren thinks that they
should kill her, but the other two balk, saying that it's not in the original
mission statement. FLASHBACK to the three sitting in Warren's mom's basement,
sitting around a Dungeons and Dragons type game drinking Coke. "So… you
guys wanna team up and take over Sunnydale?" Jonathon and Andrew think for
a moment… "ok." FLASH-FORWARD to the present. The three then look at
a whiteboard with their mission "To Do" list, which lists the
following:
-Control the Weather
-Miniaturize Fort Knox
-Conjure Fake ID's
-Shrink Ray
-Girls
-Girls
-The Gorilla thing.
The three then take a vote who doesn't want to kill Buffy,
all three raise their hands. They then wonder what to do about the M'Bashnik
demon. Warren gets the cool idea of walking up to the demon and handing him a
piece of paper "here's the Slayer's name, address, and phone number. You
wanna kill her? Make it so…" The other two guys are in awe of Warren's "power."
Back in the Summers kitchen at night, Willow and Giles both
walk in for a late night snack. Willow asks how his talk with Buffy went, and
he says ok, then wants to know about the spell she cast. Willow starts telling
the story, mentioning the demon-bikers interrupting but how she kept it
together, said it was all scary and cool, and then… Buffy. "You're a very
stupid girl" Giles mutters. Willow looks and sounds hurt when she asks
why? "You were the one I trusted most to respect the forces of nature".
The two start a hurtful argument. Willow tries to defend herself and her
actions, but Giles stands firm, saying she was lucky everything turned out ok
with such powerful magics.
Defensive, Willow says "I wasn't lucky… and how would
you know, you weren't even there!"
"If I had been I'd have bloody well stopped you. The
magic's you've channelled are more ferocious and primal than anything you hope
to understand and you are lucky to be alive you rank, arrogant amateur…"
Very seriously, Willow responds "You're right. The
magics I've used are very powerful. I'm very powerful. And maybe its not such a
good idea for you to piss me off."
Willow then backpedals a bit, saying she doesn't wish to
fight, but Giles reminds her that they don't know where Buffy was or are sure
that she is completely ok.
Buffy stands on her front porch staring out into the night as
a cigarette butt is tossed at her feet. She grinds it with her foot "Hello
Spike." The two start to talk. Buffy says that everyone cares for her,
which makes it all that much harder, she's exhausted from trying to try to be
happy so much for them. Spike thinks for a moment "you want me to take
them out? Give me a hell of a headache but I can probably thin the hurt a
little." Buffy smirks at this a little, which Spike notices. "Knew I
could get a grin…" The two sit on the porch. Buffy asks why Spike's always
around when she's miserable. He says he's not much one for crowds, to which
Buffy understands and agrees with. Buffy's mood cheers up a little "So
what do you know about finances?"
Downstairs, Giles hears Dawn come down the stairs. Both can't
sleep and contemplate mixing cereals to "experiment." Both notice the
doorknob start to giggle and turn, wondering what's up. Then the door bursts
open, throwing Dawn back! The M'Bashnik demon charges Dawn as she screams!…
Commercial break: Viagra! It's what makes you GO!
Dawn screams just as Buffy grabs the demon from behind and
throws him across the living room and… onto the living room table, shattering
it. "Oh! Table!" Buffy looks worried. The demon stands up and throws
aside a piece of the table, hitting a lamp and shattering it. "You have
cost me, Slayer!" "I cost you? That's a designer lamp, you
mook!" Buffy charges in and the battle ensues. She fights the demon into
the living room and towards the kitchen, but Spike interrupts and starts to
wrestle him. "Spike, no! I want him in the kitchen!" Buffy says as
Spike kicks him backwards into the kitchen. Brief fight as Buffy tells Spike to
open the door to the Basement. Both the Slayer and Demon go flying down the
basement stairs and now they fight in the flooded area, with water up around
their knees! They tussle a bit, then the demon grabs the one overhead pipe that
Buffy had "fixed" earlier. Buffy grabs the pipe from him and starts
beating him, saying "No… copper… re-pipe... No… more… full… copper…
re-pipe!"
"oh… did you know this place was flooded?" Spike
innocently asks from the stairs.
Down in Warren's basement, the three
"supervillians" congratulate themselves. They've got the money, and
new equipment, but the Slayer is still a problem. They play with a periscope
and flamethrower as they wonder what to do with Buffy? "We could hypnotize
her… Make her our willing sex bunny…" Jonathon runs over to the white
board and adds "Hypnotize Buffy" to the top. The three revel in their
fortune with lots of "geek talk" about robbery. "Crime is our
wormhole" and such.
Xander tries to revive the coffee table as Anya presents
Buffy with "an approximation of your spanking new debt." Buffy now
sees how expensive it was each time she trashed the house in a fight! Anya
brings up the charging option, which Buffy MOSTLY disagrees with. Giles comes
out with Tara nursing his head after being knocked out. Xander calls the table
a goner as Willow and Dawn do the same with a lamp they tried to nurse back to
health.
Willow, Tara, Xander, Anya, and Dawn all go to throw out the
trash as Giles tells Buffy that it will be OK. Buffy looks dejected and sad,
wondering how Mom did these kinds of things. Then the phone rings. Dawn says
it's probably creditors. Buffy walks back in in shock. "Buffy, what is
it?" Giles asks. "It's Angel." She says uncomfortably. "Is
he in trouble?" "He… he knows that I'm… he he needs to see me, and I
need to see him."
Buffy says that she's going to meet him, not in Sunnydale and
not in LA, but she needs to go now. Buffy thanks both of them for taking care
of things and she walks out, leaving Dawn and Giles looking worried.
Grrr… Arrg….