[On getting Buffy to go where Adam wants her to] Right. The Initiative. But getting her there, that's what the bleeding discs are for, innit? I mean, the little witch gives her the info, and pop! All sends her back down the rabbit hole.
Ah, Willow. So high, perky, good with maths. Natural choice.
One of the friends from which you so efficiently separated her.
Damn right I did! You should have seen 'em, they won't be talking to each other for a long, long- [pointed stare from Adam] -hang on, I think I might have detected a small flaw.
Well, hey, you're supposed to be so smart, but you let me plan this thing! [Adam glares] Well, let's not quibble about who failed who, the important thing is making sure the Slayer is where we want-
Gone. [Walks to the door] So, um, we'll do this chip thing when I get back?
I do speak Sumerian, it's not that. Only an experienced witch can incant it, and you have to be within striking distance of the subject.
See what you get for taking French instead of Sumerian?
So, no problem, all we need is combo-Buffy. Her with Slayer strength, Giles' multi-lingual know-how and Willow's witchy power. Yeah, don't tell me, I'm just full of helpful suggestions!
As a matter of fact you are.
Oddly, Anya decided not to join us, despite all the fun we had at our last meeting.
And I don't think Tara felt welcome.
Why? Because of the things that we said? Will, who told you that we were talking behind your back, specifically?
Well, I... Spike, specifically, but...
And who told you that we thought you'd be better off joining the army?
That's not... exactly what he said.
Well, um, S-Spike can be very convincing when-when, uh, I'm very stupid.
He played us. He wanted us to fight to split us up. That's where it came from, the stuff we said the other night.
Of course. Well, piffle. Let's-let's move on.
So why do you think Spike made with the head games?
He's all dressed up with no one to bite. He's got to get his ya-yas somehow.
I think it was more than that. I think it was Adam.
Spike's working for Adam?! After all we've done... Nah, I can't even act surprised.
I just went to Adam's lair, and he was gone, but Spike just happened to be there. And he made this big noise about getting the information off those encrypted disks.
Oh, I decrypted 'em. Well, they decrypted themselves, but I almost had it.
Bunch of stuff we already knew about 314. But it also said there's some final phase where Adam manufactures a bunch of creepy cyber-demonoids like him. There's a special lab in the Initiative, but it didn't say where.
Adam fed Spike those disks. It has to be. He wanted me to know about his evil-guy assembly line. This lab, it's in the Initiative?
Well, give the demon his due. He thought this one out.
You know how overcrowded the containment cells have been at the Initiative? Those demons were just too easy to catch. It's like they wanted in that place.
Adam's gonna make sure the demons attack the Initiative from the inside.
Demons versus soldiers. Massacre, massacre.
And Adam has a neat pile of body parts to start assembling his army. Diabolical yet... gross.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor, "I just want to be a big snake?"
I've got to shut him down, Giles. His final phase is about to start.
We need to warn the Initiative.
They're not gonna listen to me.
He's a deserter. He got some bad news, anyway, and kind of took off.
Okay, I'm confused again. Adam has the evil plan. Why is he so anxious for you to know about it?
He wants me there. Probably figures I'll even the kill ratio.
He's not worried you might kill, oh, say, him?
There's certainly no lack of supplies. Only wish I knew which ones would kill Adam.
According to Riley, his power sourse is a uranium core embedded somewhere inside his chest, probably near the spine?
Great. So we just ask him to lie down quietly while we do some exploratory surgery.
What about magic? Some kind of, I don't know, uranium-extracting spell? I know, I'm reaching.
Perhaps a paralyzing spell. Only I can't perform the incantation of this.
Right. Don't you have to speak it in Sumerian or something?
I do speak Sumerian. It's not that. Only a-an experienced witch can incant it, and you'd have to be within striking distance of the subject.
See what you get for taking French instead of Sumerian?
So, no problem. All we need is Combo-Buffy, her with Slayer strength, Giles' multilingual know-how, and Willow's witchy power. Yeah, don't tell me, I'm just full of helpful suggestions.
As a matter of fact, you are.
