Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996–2003): Season 6, Episode 11 - Gone - full transcript

- Previously.
- Last night changed things.

The only thing that's different is
that I'm disgusted with myself.

Is this the way
to the movies?

- What is this place?
- I'll just be a minute.

Willow's into something. Her and
dawn have been missing for hours.

Do you know how long I've been out here?
Let's get out of here.

Dawny, I'm sorry. I'm...

- You could have killed her.
- I need help.

No more spells.
I'm finished.

- Got it.
- It's beautiful.

Congratulations. Phase one
of the plan is now complete.



Candles?
We can't have candles?

Dawn, it's a magic clearance.
Everything must go.

B-but they're just candles.

Well, yeah, to you and me,
they're just candles,

but to witches,
they're like bongs.

So, no candles,
no charms.

No...
Bird.

No bird? The peacock
on the table.

It has
two crystals in it.

Tara, she...
She left them.

I'll make sure
she gets 'em.

Dawn, do me a favor. Can you grab the
fertility god statue on the desk over there?

Kokopelli? No.
I love him.

And he was mom's.



Why do we have to get rid
of so many things I like?

Dawn,
I explained this to you.

Willow has a problem.

The next few weeks are gonna be
crazy hard on her as it is.

Any reminder of what it is that
she's trying to stay away from,

you know, could cause her
to give in to temptation.

And that would be bad.

Okay, that's it.
It's finally done.

I mean, it still needs
a trial run, but it's...

- Kinda clunky looking.
- What?

I pictured something cooler...
More ilm, less ed wood.

Do you wanna see cool?
I'll show you cool. Look.

Mama.

Did it?

Is it...
Yeah.

Oh, I'd call that
a successful test.

Oh, that's just
half the test.

Hey. Hey!

- You penis!
- Oh, cheer up, Frodo.

Because thanks to my brains
and our mystical gem,

we got ourselves
an invisibility ray.

And I'd say that makes us
pretty much unstoppable.

Dawn, come on.
You gotta eat breakfast.

Xander's gonna be here
any second.

She's gonna be late
for school again.

How you doing?
I'm okay.

Not "ready to head back to
classes, face the world" okay,

but the shakiness
is only semi now.

I thought I'd spend the day
fishing the net...

For more poop
on the stolen diamond.

I called you before.

Didn't hear you.

Hey, dawnie, I'm making
you a nice omelet.

Not hungry.

Dawn, you need
to eat something.

Thanks for your concern.

Okay, I deserve
the wrath of dawn,

but why is she
taking it out on you?

Because I let it happen.

- Buffy, I was the one who...
- Who was drowning.

My best friend.

I was too wrapped up in my own
dumb life to even notice.

Too...

Morning.

What are you doing,
and here?

Just, uh,
took a stroll.

Found myself in your neck
of the woods.

Couldn't find a less flammable
time of day to take a stroll?

Yeah, well, the fact is
my lighter's gone missing.

Thought it might've dropped out of
my pocket last time I was here.

Haven't seen it.

I'm gonna head back to my room.
Just... get dressed.

Oh, i...

- Lame.
- What?

You.
Making up excuses.

Don't flatter yourself, love.
Bloody fond of that lighter.

Stop trying to see me
and stop calling me that.

So, um, what should I
call you then?

Pet?

Sweetheart?

My, uh,
little Goldilocks?

You know, I love this hair,
the way it bounces around when...

Uh-uh-uh-uh! This flapjack's
not ready to be flipped.

What the hell
is that supposed to...

No. Stop that.

Good Godfrey Cambridge,
spike!

You still trying
to mack on Buffy?

Wake up already.
Never gonna happen.

Only a complete loser would
ever hook up with you.

Well, unless she's
a simpleton like Harmony...

Or a nut sack like drusilla.
Hey!

You really need to get
dawn off to school.

Let's go...
Go fetch her, okay?

You can let yourself out,
right, spike?

- Dawn, you better get going. Xander's here.
- I'm here.

Okay, you have everything you need?
Yep.

And after school, you... yeah.
Let's go, Xander.

You will
come straight home.

Sure. Maybe we can
find some time...

For you to get me into
another car accident.

Oh, good morning.
You must be dawn.

- Huh?
- May I help you?

I'm Doris Kroeger from social services.
We had an appointment.

- Oh, for Wednesday.
- This is Wednesday.

Right. Well, dawn,
you better...

And, Xander,
you'll drive safely.

Yes, ma'am.

A little bit on the
tardy side, isn't she?

Yeah, well, it's been one
of those mornings, you know.

Great. Come on in.

Sorry about the mess. We're
doing a little house clean.

So, we gonna chat this out
or what?

Uh, now's really
not a good time.

Um, I have company.

No worries.
I'll wait.

Um, miss summers, if you
and your boyfriend...

Would like to...
He is not...

Not my... my boyfriend.

He's, um, just, uh...

Spike, this nice woman is,
uh, from social services.

Oh, right.

Uh, hey,
Buffy's a great mum.

She takes good care
of her little sis.

Like, um, when dawn was hanging
out too much in my crypt,

Buffy put a right stop to it.

I'm sorry. Did you say... crib.
Crib.

He said crib.

You know kids today and
their buggin' street slang.

Uh, spike, didn't you have to go now,
you know? Because of that thing.

Uh, thing.
Uh, my blanket.

He sleeps here?

What? No. No.

Oh, Th-Th-the blanket.

That's, um...
It's a security thing, yeah.

He has issues.

No. Just me and dawn
living here.

Buffy, I'm not feeling hot, so I'm
gonna take a quick nap, okay?

O-okay, wil!

That's Willow.
She, uh...

She kind of lives here,
too, actually.

Oh, so you live
with another woman?

Oh. Oh, it's not
a gay thing, you know.

I mean, well, she's gay,
but we don't gay...

Not that there's anything...
Oh... wrong with...

You know, I know
what that looks like,

but I-i... I swear it's not
what it looks like.

It's magic weed.

It's not mine.

I think I've seen enough. No.

Actually, I really don't
think that you have.

It's just... it's been kind of...
Kind of a bad time.

It's been a bad time now for a
while, hasn't it, miss summers?

Your sister's grades have fallen
sharply in the last year...

Due in large part to her
frequent absences and lateness.

But there are good reasons.
I'm sure there are.

But my interest
is in dawn's welfare...

And the stability
of her home life...

Something I'm just
not convinced...

That an unemployed young woman
like yourself can provide.

I can. I-i do.

Well, we'll just have to see
about that then, won't we?

Oh, and I'm going to recommend
immediate probation in my report.

What does that mean?

It means that I'll be monitoring
you very closely, miss summers.

And if I don't see
that things are improving,

I'll be forced to recommend that you be
stripped of your sister's guardianship.

You can't do that.

I do what is in dawn's
best interest,

as should you.

Have a nice day.

Didn't go well, huh?

- Why won't you go?
- I just thought you'd want...

Get out of here!

Just getting
what I came for, love.

So long, Goldilocks.

Well, I think
I can work with this.

What exactly would you
like me to do?

Just make me...
Different.

I'm scared. What
if we get caught?

No way. We'll be invisible. Plus
their security's gotten lax.

You should know. You've
cased this joint enough.

Okay, this is it.

Remember.
We're professionals.

- Uh, slayer.
- What? W-where?

There.
Headed this way.

- Give it!
- No. I need to be invisible.

I need it more. Buffy
can't see me! Uh!

Watch it! Don't...
Give it!

You overloaded it!

Oopsie.

What happened to Buffy?
She's gone.

She's right here... table four.
I put her with your family.

Great. Except we don't
hate Buffy.

Let's put her back
at table one.

Where do I put d'hoffryn?

We're not inviting d'hoffryn.
I have to. He's my ex-boss.

- You're inviting your work buddies.
- She's got a point.

Hey, Buffy...

Where... where are you?

At table four apparently.

Well, that remains
to be seen... like you.

Don't strain yourself
looking, Xander.

I'm invisible girl.

Uh, Xander?
Sorry!

Her clothes are, uh,
invisible... too.

Buffy, how did
this hap...

Wait a sec. Have you been
feeling ignored lately?

Yeah, ignored.
I wish.

No, this isn't a Marcie deal.
I don't know what happened.

- I left main street after getting my hair cut and was...
- you cut your hair?

- Oh, yeah.
- Really? How short?

About up to here. Well,
if you could see my hand,

it's kind of above my shoulders.
Ah, that sounds so adorable.

I was thinking about getting my
hair cut before the wedding.

Could we get back to freaking
out about no-show Buffy?

- This is serious.
- I know.

It kind of fits
the day I've had.

Willow's still a wreck,
dawn's mad at both of us...

And the social services lady
put me through a wringer.

Says she's gonna watch me.
I'd like to see her try now.

You know, there may be
an upside to no-see me.

Buff, did you see
anyone or...

Anything suspicious
before you...

Cleared up?

Nope. Didn't see nothin'.

Hmm. See what I did there
with the eyeballs?

Why would anyone make
her invisible anyway?

I mean, invisible slayer's gotta be way
more effective than the standard variety.

Yeah. I'm less with the "why"
and more with the "how."

We get the "how," then we got how to
make her unseen sight seen again, right?

S'all right.

Buffy, could you focus,
please?

I am. Just...
This is kind of fun.

It would help if we had
a little bit more to go on.

Or anything to go on.

Well, I could go check the spot
where Buffy disappeared,

you know, snoop for clues.

Yeah. Right. Uh,
hey, you know what?

I'm just gonna
go for a walk.

A walk? Yeah. You
know, clear my head.

You guys keep working on the
"whats" and the "hows."

"Clear my head."
Buffy!

Uh, it seems pretty obvious it's some
kind of spell that's done this to her.

A spell from who?
You said it yourself.

It makes no sense for one of her
enemies to make her invisible.

Maybe it's a mistake.
A magical mistake.

Who'd be messing with
that kind of pow...

Willow.

Xander.

How's it going?
Um, good.

I-I found out some stuff about the
diamond stolen from the museum.

It's called
the illuminata.

There's rumors of it having
quasi-mystical quantum properties.

Willow, we need to talk.

We are talking. Well, I'm talking,
and you're looking at me funny.

Is there something
you want to tell me?

It was nothing. I-i... I didn't slip.
Wil, nobody's mad.

Relapse is a part of recovery.
We understand that.

- We just have to figure a way to fix it.
- Fix what?

Fix Buffy.
Buffy's broken?

Wil, you know
what I'm talking...

You don't know?

Rhymes with... "Blinvisible"?
What?

Buffy was in town, leaving
the haircutting place...

- When she suddenly just...
- Buffy got her hair cut?

Yeah! Adorable apparently.

I personally couldn't tell
since she's all "blinvisible."

And you think I have
something to do with this?

No. Not...

Well, come on, wil. Some of the spells
you've done have caused some weird stuff...

To happen to each of us
at one time or another.

- And let's not forget the recent forgetting.
- Oh, I see.

So, now when anything nasty happens,
I get conveniently blamed for it?

- No one's blaming.
- So I guess it wouldn't matter...

If I just jump off the wagon
completely,

since you already think
I'm making pit stops.

Look, if you say
you didn't do it...

Willow, where you going?
For a walk.

A couple of circuits are burned
out, and the wiring's all fried.

But we had
so many plans.

Naked women and all...
Well, all the naked women.

This is your fault. If you
hadn't grabbed it from me...

Hey, we got a lot bigger
problems here, bonehead.

- The slayer's invisible now.
- He's right. She could be anywhere.

Even here,
right now.

Watching, listening
to every word we say.

For all we know,
she could be one of us.

Oh!
No, wait.

I wouldn't sweat
the slayer too much.

Says you.

In my book, an invisible slayer
means a whole world of trouble.

I am the ghost
of fashion victims past.

Studded caps...
Not a good idea.

Hey, I'm doing you
a favor!

Nah. Too easy.

Hmm.

So long, copper!

Hey. Hey!
That's mine! Stop!

Hello, Mrs. Kroeger.

What?
Where's my...

Losing my mind.

Ah.

Okay. Who's the...

Kill, kill, kill.

- What?
- I didn't say anything.

Not you, the mug. It's...

But I, uh...
I heard something.

Kill, Doris.
Kill everybody.

You know you want to. Shut up.
Shut up. Just shut up!

Okay. No.

No.

Yahtzee.

Doris, I've got a few,

so if you want to discuss
that case file now.

What? Oh. Oh, yes.
The, um, summers file.

It's, uh...
It's right over here.

Uh... uh, it's a 15-year-old girl...
Mm-hmm.

Living under her older
sister's guardianship.

The house is a
complete... what is this?

"All work and no play make
Doris a dull girl." What?

"All work and no play
make Doris..."

the pages are filled with it.
Uh. I-i...

I-I... I didn't do this.
I...

It was the voice.
Excuse me?

There was a voice
before.

It made
my coffee dance.

It told me to...
To what?

Nothing.
Doris,

uh, take the rest
of the day off.

See your doctor.
What about my cases?

We'll, uh, put
someone else on them...

And have them redo
the summers interview.

♪♪ I'm not crazy.

I am not crazy! No one
said that you were.

♪♪

Hey, wil.
What you doin'?

Look, Xander, I figured out this is where
Buffy disappeared, from what you told me.

So don't start jumping
to any conclusions.

No jumping. Look,
feet firmly planted.

I'm not feeling like myself
right now. Sorry.

Me too. Sorry.

So, what have we found out so far?
Take a look at that.

Something sped out of here
pretty damn quick...

To make that kind
of tread mark.

- Those could have been made anytime.
- Yeah, but this wasn't.

What is it? Paint that I
scraped off the fire hydrant.

Oh. What fire hydrant?

Ow!
That one.

Whatever hit this fire hydrant hit
it after it was made invisible.

And betcha-by-golly-wow,
that something...

Was the same something
that shot out of that alley.

Black paint?
Buffy's phantom Van.

We need to let Buffy... whoa!
There's something there.

It-it's a pylon. One of those
orange traffic cones.

You should take it
to the magic box.

It might help you and Anya figure
out what kind of spell was used.

- What about you?
- Well, I got paint scrapings...

And a tire mark.

I'm gonna find this Van
that's been stalking Buffy.

By the way,
where is Buffy?

Oh, my god. The blood!
Look at all the blood!

♪♪

Whatever beastie you are,
I know you're here,

and I hurt beasties.

Hey, watch it.

A ghost, is it? Go and haunt
the living like a good spook.

Wh...

Buffy?
I told you...

Stop trying to see me.

- Oh, I got it.
- Really?

Yeah. We'll put d'hoffryn
at your parents' table...

And move your uncle Rory
to table five near the bar.

An, honey, we're looking
for invisibility spells here.

Well, obviously, I haven't
found anything yet.

At least nothing that would explain why
things near Buffy become invisible.

Eww! Xander.

What happened? An unpleasant
tactile experience...

Like putting my hand
in pudding.

- Eww!
- Like pudding.

Am I right? Rice or
tapioca... lumpy like that.

We have to find Buffy.
She's gotta know.

I don't think Buffy's gonna be
too broken up over a pylon.

Anya, whatever's happening to the
pylon will probably happen to her.

If we don't find Buffy... i mean, if we
don't figure out how this was done...

She's pudding?

What do you mean
she's gonna fade away?

The slayer got slammed with a big-ass dose
of radiation when the gun overloaded.

Her cells are mutating
at an accelerated rate.

Eventually, her molecular makeup will start
losing its integrity, and then... pfft.

- But wouldn't that kill her?
- Let me think.

Yeah.
Wait a minute.

We're not killing anybody,
especially not Buffy.

You guys are so immature.
We're villains!

When you gonna get that
through your thick skulls?

We're not killers.
We're crime lords.

Yeah, like...
Like Lex Luthor.

He's always trying to take over
Metropolis, but he doesn't kill superman.

Because it's superman's
book, you moron!

Well, Lex doesn't kill him,
does he?

Listen, Warren...
You get that ray working,

and the first thing we're
gonna do is find Buffy...

And "re-visible" her
before it's too late.

You got me?

Fine.

Whatever you guys say.

Spike?

Spike?

What are you doing?

What am i... what does it look
like I'm doing, you nit?

I'm exercising,
aren't I?

Exercising... naked...

In bed.

A man shouldn't use immortality
as an excuse to let himself go.

You gotta keep fit
for the killing.

Yeah-huh.

Looks like you had a little trouble
upstairs... a mini disaster area.

So what, you just come here
to criticize my housekeeping?

No. Uh, no.
I'm looking for Buffy.

Haven't seen her.
Well, you wouldn't.

Fact is, she's come down with a
slight case of invisibility.

- Yeah? Huh. How did, uh...
- we don't know yet.

Anyway, she's not at the house, and
I really, really need to find her.

Tell you what. I'll take a peek
around first chance I get,

and, if we bump
into each other,

I'll clue her that you're
on the lookout.

After your... exercises.

Yeah, right.

You know,
kidding aside, spike,

you really should
get a girlfriend.

That was bloody stupid.

What's the matter?
Ashamed to be seen with me?

Come on. He had no idea
I was here.

This is perfect.

Perfect for you.

Well,
picture me confused.

I thought this is
what you wanted.

What I want...

This vanishing act's right
liberating for you, isn't it?

Go anywhere you want,
do anything you want.

Or anyone. What are
you talking about?

The only reason you're here
is that you're not here.

Right, of course. As usual, there's
something wrong with Buffy.

She came back all wrong. You know, I
didn't ask for this to happen to me.

Not too put off by it,
though, are you?

No. Maybe 'cause for
the first time since...

I'm free.

Free of rules
and reports.

- Free of this life.
- Free of life?

Got another name for that...
"dead."

Why do you always have to... i
thought we were having fun.

Yeah, now. But sooner or later,

your chums are gonna work out a way
to bring you back to living color.

You need to go.

Get dressed... if you can find
your clothes... and push off.

'Cause if I can't have all of you,
I'd rather... hey, that's cheating.

I don't believe this.

He threw me out?
He threw me.

Did I, like, fall into some
backward dimension here?

Is this bizarro world?

And after he's always
going on and on about...

Being the only one
that understands me.

We're alike, you and me.
Birds of a bloody feather.

Oh, he's just so...

Hey, I'm walking here!

Insensitive.
It is.

Willow? Willow!

Dawn?
Hey, dawn, come here.

You wanna see
something neat?

There you are!

Buffy?
Where are you?

I'm invisible.
Check this out.

Whoooo. Whoooo.

Unidentified flying pizza
coming in for a landing.

W-what are you talking... okay,
not the most clever ad lib.

But come on... points for spontaneity.
Stop it.

- Just... stop.
- Sorry, dawn.

I'm... I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to freak you out.

What would you think would happen?
You're freakin' invisible, Buffy.

I know. Xander and Anya are working
on it, "muldering" out what happened.

What about you? Shouldn't you
be working on it?

- Of course, i...
- do you even care about... about who did this to you...

Or... or if you're gonna
be stuck this way?

You're making jokes and flying pizzas.
I don't think that's...

I can't talk to you like this.
I can't see you.

How can I talk to you
if I can't see you?

Dawn! Dawn!

Buffy, it's Xander.
Where are you?

Listen, we got
a new problem here.

Tell her.
I'm trying to.

Anya and I think whatever made you
invisible is slowly killing you.

Tell her about the pudding.
Anya!

Buff, if we don't... if this
isn't reversed, you're gonna,

well, dissolve or fade...
Into nothing.

Wow.

Now!

Hey! Let go of me!

Congratulations.
You're our first hostage.

Dawn, I'm going out
to find Xander!

If he calls...

Xander? Don't talk.
Just listen, slayer.

You don't have
a lot of time.

Who is this?
You sound familiar.

I'm nobody.
No one you know.

We've got your friend Willow, and if you
don't want anything nasty to happen to her,

you better meet us...
Alone.

Where?

Hey!

Just stay still,
and you won't get hurt.

You okay, wil?
Buffy?

Where are the bad guys?

All around you, slayer,
so don't try anything.

He's bluffing, Buffy. There... there's
just three of them, I think.

More than enough to cause some
serious carnage, right, guys?

Guys? Guys!

- Kick! Use the kick!
- I tried that.

He keeps blocking it
with his drunken monkey fist.

Oh. Scary video carnage.

Hey! Slayer's here.

Sorry. Didn't see her.

Why don't we continue this in a
less crowded area, like over there?

- Where?
- Over... follow me.

Ow! Ow.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess
you're the ones that did this to me.

It was an accident.
Who's that?

Nobody you know.

They're the ones from your mystery Van.
Oh. You.

So what annoying thing are
you gonna do to me now?

Save your life...
Make you visible.

Right. I'm supposed
to believe that?

They told me
everything, Buffy.

- Something's happening to you, that you're...
- fading away. I know.

I can fix that. Pick up that air
hockey mallet on the table.

- What for?
- It'll give me a target to aim at.

Now hold still, and all your
troubles will soon be gone.

- You're on the wrong setting.
- What?

The gun, it's not set for reversing
the particle ionization.

It'll accelerate her molecular dissolution.
I saw the plans.

- Mind your own business.
- What's she talking about?

- That's what I'd like to know.
- He's trying to kill you!

- Willow!
- Ow!

- Playtime's over.
- - You haven't won yet, slayer.

No. That part comes after
I beat the snot out of you.

You'll have
to find me first.

And there's three of us
against just one of you.

- Hey, you lied to us.
- Fight her yourself.

You think she cares about that?
I go down, we all go down.

And I promise,
you're all going down.

We may not have your powers, slayer, but
you'll find that we are not so easy to...

Ow! Get her!

Wait a minute.
Who's biting my leg?

- Sorry. Where is she?
- Here.

Whoa!

She can't find us
if we split up.

- You go that way.
- Which way?

That way. Over...

Just keep
talking, boys.

- Ow! Ow, ow!
- Watch the chest hair.

- I know that voice.
- You-you're...

Jonathan?
You have chest hair?

Warren?

- Who are you?
- Andrew.

I summoned the flying monkeys
that attacked the high school.

During the school play,
you know?

He's Tucker's brother.
He's Tucker's brother.

- Oh.
- Oh.

So you three
have, what,

banded together to
be pains in my ass?

We're your
arch "nemesises-ses."

You may have beaten us this
time, slayer, but next time...

Um, uh, next time...

Maybe not!

What do mean
it's locked?

- You were supposed to check it.
- I forgot.

I give you my arch
"nemesises-ses."

What's going on
in here?

- I got a bunch of scared kids
saying this place is haunted.

Oh, my god. Buffy? I know.
They're gone.

I guess we should chase them. No.
Your hair... it is adorable.

It's pretty neat,
you finding the Van.

So... how did you manage
to do it exactly?

I mean,
to locate it.

The hard way...
The spell-free way,

the "oh, my god,
my head's gonna fall off",

"my feet are killing me" way.

I don't know how
I got through this day.

Well, the important thing
is that you did.

It's a good first step.

How are you doing,
post-invisibleness?

Okay.

I still have to do some damage
control from my giddyfest.

Dawn was pretty
freaked out.

The whole "taking a vacation from
me" thing didn't work out too well.

Tell me about it.

Except...

When I got
Xander's message,

you know,
that I was...

Fading away,

I actually
got scared.

Well, yeah.
Who wouldn't?

Me.

I wouldn't.

Not too long ago, I probably
would have welcomed it.

But I realized...

I'm not saying that I'm doing
backflips about my life, but...

I didn't...

I don't...
Wanna die.

That's something,
right?

That's something.

♪♪

So I guess we both
made good first steps.

I guess.

Yay for us.

Yay.

♪♪

Grr! Arrgh!