Man, this place gives me the creeps. It's like in Wonder Woman, issue 297–299.
"Catacombs". Yeah, with the skeletons.
AXAndrew, Xander
That was cool.
[Pause]
[embarrassed] Move it! This way!
[He shoves Andrew ahead.]
“Bring on the Night” · Season 7
In this episode: Xander Harris (3), Willow Rosenberg (3), Buffy Summers (2), Rupert Giles (2), Anya Jenkins (1), Andrew Wells (1)
Hey, junior Slayers, don't look so worried. I mean, sure, we don't know where Spike is or how to fight the First, or if and when the super-styled vampire is gonna attack us all. However, house -- boarded up. Now all we gotta do is trap this Übervamp in the pantry, and it's game over.
Xander, newbies. Let's ease them into the whole "jokes in the face of death" thing.
Who's joking? That pantry thing could work. You saying M. Night Shyamalan lied to us?
Uhm, Buffy? I just.. I-I want you to know that I'm, I'm really sorry for letting you down. You know, here, before with the magic going all "aaah" and me going all "eeeh" and everything getting all "rrrr".
We're back at square one.
Which square would that be, exactly?
I'm not sure. The First predates everything we've ever known. Or can know. It's everywhere, it's pure. I don't know if we can fight it.
You're right. We don't know how to fight it. We don't know when it'll come. [We] can't run, can't hide... can't pretend it's not the end 'cause it is. Something has always... been there to try and destroy the world. We've... beaten them back, but we're not dealing with them anymore. We're dealing with the reason they exist. Evil. The strongest. The First.
Buffy, I, um... I-I know you're... you're tired...
I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. [near sobbing] I'm standing on the mouth of Hell and it is going to swallow me whole. [hardens] And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Well, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now, 'cause we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them, and cut out their hearts, one by one, until the First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil. And that's us. Any questions?
[to Buffy] Are you sure this thing called itself The First?
Pretty sure. It claimed to be the original evil, the one that came before anything else.
AAnya
Please, how many times have I heard that line in my demon days? "I'm so rotten, they don't even have a word for it. I'm bad. Baddy bad bad bad. Does it make you horny?" [everyone stares at her] Or terrified. Whatever.
[Giles and Buffy discuss her encounter with a new breed of vampire]
Uh, what you fought was a vampire, but it was, um, something more than that. It was a Turok-Han. [Giles sees Buffy's nonplussed expression] As Neanderthals are to human beings, the Turok-Han are to vampires. Primordial, ferociously powerful killing machines, as single-minded as animals. They are the vampires that vampires fear. An ancient and entirely different race and, until this morning, I thought they were a myth."
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