Act II, scene ii

   

[Downtown Sunnydale]

[Enter Buffy]

 
1 Buffy

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Angel would, were he not Angelus call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Angelus, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

   

O Angelus, Angelus! wherefore art thou Angel?
Deny thy sire and refuse thy demon;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Slayer of vampires.

   

[Enter Adam]

 
   

Or not.

 
2 Adam

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.

 

  Buffy

There are more things in heaven and earth, Adam,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

[Adam and Buffy fight]

3 Adam

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

 
4 Buffy

Something is rotten in Sunnydale.

 
   

[Alarums, Enter Demons, Watchers, Giles, Xander of SD, Willow, and Oz, Alarums, fighting, Oz is killed]

 
  Xander

You bastards sons, you hast slain Oz.

5 Willow

A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
The bold winds speechless and the orb below
As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;
And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne
With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
Now falls on Priam.
Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,
In general synod 'take away her power;
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
As low as to the fiends!'

  Xander

That’s it, This has got to stop,
It is time for me to act like a man
And hide. Willow, I have known you since
We were but glimmers
and you afeared retribution
for the breaking of a yellow crayon,
Bring balance to your smittings.
The Mall was a goodly place before you
Smote it.

[To Adam and his demons]

Villains, I’d flee now.

[Willow waves hands, smites Demons. Black clad commandoes run up, grab a demon and run away.]

 
6 Adam

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Willow falls and make
By inch-meal a disease! Your spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Fie a pox upon it.

[Exit Adam]

7 Buffy

We are suffering the after-ness
Of a night of badness

 
8  

Oh, Angel, man-nymph in whose orisons,
All my sins be remembered,
With all my love I do commend me to you:
And what so poor a woman as Buffy is
May do, to express her love and friending to you,
God willing, shall not lack.
And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
I pray, that we two go together.

 
   

[Exit Buffy]

 
  Giles

Buffy is fair distracted in her affections.
When you live atop a mystical convergence
It is only a matter of time before a fresh hell
Break loose.

  Xander

Merry Giles, stop with the laugh track.

   

[Enter Glory/Ben and her/his minions]

  Giles

Good Lord.

 
  Xander

That was swift

 
  Glory

I’m looking for my key.
And I’m getting very cranky.

 
   

[Enter Faith]

 
9 Faith

'Rise ye sons of heroic SunnyD,
ye sons of warrior fathers
With your shields on the left protect you
And with your right your spear hurl boldly
Spare not in the least your lifeblood
For this is not like to Sunnydaleans!'

 
  Glory

You, deliver up my key.

 
10 Faith

Come and get it

 
  Glory

If I win this next battle

   

I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the
carcases of the host of the Watchers this day unto the fowls of the
air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know
that I should not be messed with.

  Faith

If

 
   

[Glory and Faith fight. Glory breaks her shoe.]

 
  Glory

You broke my new Jimmy Choos. Bitch.

[Minions hand Glory Ben’s coat. She puts it on]

 
11 Ben

Not in the face, not in the face

 
  Faith

Wast there not a woman here?

[To Giles]

I am the Slayer, come to resolve your ills.

 
  Giles

But if you are Slayer, What then is Buffy,
Or for that matter, Joan?

[Exit all]

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