Doppelgängland

Written By: Joss Whedon

Act 1 Part 2

INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY - DAY

Willow is there. Oz approaches.

OZ
Hey, Baby.

WILLOW
Oz. Hi.

OZ
There's something about you that's
causing me to hug you.
(which he is)
It's as if I have no will of my own.

She hugs him back perfunctorily. They start for the grassy fountainy area.

WILLOW
Where were you yesterday?

OZ
We got back late, sort of very.

WILLOW
We? Who? Where?

OZ
The Band. We had a gig in
Monterrey Sunday night.

WILLOW
You did? How come I didn't know?

OZ
I thought you did...

WILLOW
Maybe I would have liked to go.

OZ
Didn't figure you for missing school.

WILLOW
You think I'm boring.

OZ
I'd call that a radical
interpretation of the text.
We're playing the Bronze tonight.

WILLOW
I can't. I have too much homework.

OZ
Well, you'll be there in spirit.
If you get done early.

He goes in a classroom. Willow goes outside.

EXT. STEPS TO FOUNTAIN QUAD - DAY

Willow catches up with Percy.

WILLOW
Percy! Hey. Listen, why don't we
get together at lunch and we can go
over your Roosevelt paper, what books
you'll need and stuff.

PERCY
What are you talking about?

WILLOW
Tutoring you. The history paper?

PERCY
Snyder said you were gonna do it.

WILLOW
He never said that.

PERCY
What meeting were you in?

WILLOW
Look, I'll pick up the books.
Just meet me at lunch and we'll --

PERCY
I don't have time at lunch.
I have to hang out.

WILLOW
Oh. Well...

PERCY
What, you got something better to do?
Just type it up and put my name on
it. And don't type too good. Dead giveaway.

He bails. Willow sits, unable to shake her crankiness as she goes through her lunchbag. She pulls out a banana.

WILLOW
I'm gonna eat this now. It's not
lunchtime and I don't even care.

Buffy and Xander come happily up to her.

BUFFY
Hey!

XANDER
Willow! Did you remember to tape
Biography last Friday?

WILLOW
Uh huh.

BUFFY
(to Xander)
What did I tell you? Old reliable.

WILLOW
(bitterly)
Oh, thanks!

BUFFY
What?

WILLOW
Old reliable? Yeah, great!
There's a sexy nickname.

BUFFY
Oh, Will, I didn't mean --

WILLOW
No, it's fine. I'm old reliable.

XANDER
She just meant, you know, the geyser.
You're like a geyser of fun that goes
off at regular intervals.

WILLOW
That's old faithful.

XANDER
Isn't that the dog that the guy has
to shoot --

WILLOW
That's old Yeller.

BUFFY
Xander, I beg you not to help me.
(to Will)
Will, I didn't mean it in a bad way.
I think it's good to be reliable.

WILLOW
Well maybe I don't wanna be reliable
all the time. Maybe I'm not just
doormat... person. Homework Gal.

XANDER
I'm thinking nervestrike.

She's up and ready to head inside. Starts in, turns back.

WILLOW
Maybe I'll change my look.
Or cut class. You don't know.
(holds up banana)
And I'm eating this banana.
Lunchtime be damned!

She starts off again, Buffy coming up to her.

BUFFY
Willow, I really didn't mean --

WILLOW
(not unkindly)
Buffy, I'm storming off. It doesn't
work if you come with me.

BUFFY
Oh.

She lets her go.

INT. SCHOOL LOUNGE HALL - DAY (PREVIOUSLY SCENE B)

Willow comes grumpily inside, starts heading up the stairs.

ANYA
Willow?

Willow turns, sees Anya coming up the steps. Willow comes back down a few, clearly not that familiar with the girl.

WILLOW
Uh, hi...

ANYA
Anya. I'm sort of new here.
I know Cordelia...

WILLOW
(deadpan)
Ooh, fun.

ANYA
Listen, I have this little project
I'm working on, and I heard you were
the person to ask --

WILLOW
Uh huh. That's me.
Reliable dog geyser person.
(resigned)
What do you need?

ANYA
It's nothing big. Just a little
spell I'm working on.

Willow perks up.

WILLOW
A spell? Ooh. I like the black arts.

ANYA
Yeah. I need a secondary to create
a temporal fold. I heard you were a
pretty powerful wicca, so...

WILLOW
You heard right, mister. I'm always
ready to work some dark mojo. So tell me...
(sly smile)
... is it dangerous?

ANYA
Oh, no.

WILLOW
(disappointed)
Well, could we pretend it is?

INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT

We are close on a spell set-up that sits on the floor. In the middle of the usual accoutrement is a white plate on which is a finger painted representation of a necklace.

The camera pulls out to find Anya and Willow finishing the set up. The desks have been pushed away from the center of the room, forming a rough circle around the circle of majick. Anya is taking colored sand and funneling it into a small glass vial with a paper funnel. Willow is laying bones and whatnot about.

ANYA
The necklace was a family heirloom.
Passed down for generations, then it
was stolen from my Mom's apartment.

WILLOW
How does the spell work?

ANYA
We both call on Eyrishon, the endless
one. Offer up the standard supplication.
Then there's a teensy temporal fold -
we hope -- I pour the sacred sand on
the representation of the necklace
and Eyrishon brings it forth from
the time and place where it was lost.

WILLOW
Cool.

ANYA
Of course, there's a lot of theory
there, but I figure it's worth a
shot. Are we ready?

WILLOW
I think so.

They sit facing each other, cross-legged in the circle. Close their eyes. Anya begins, holding out her right hand, palm up.

ANYA
Eyrishon. K'shala. Meh-uhn.

Willow does the same gesture.

WILLOW
Diprecht. Doh-tehenlo Nu-Eyrishon.

ANYA
The child to the mother.

WILLOW
The river to the sea.

Anya holds out the vial. Willow wraps her hand around Anya's.

ANYA
Eyrishon. Hear my prayer.

A moment. Nothing.

Then LIGHT, streaming from the ceiling, wrapping the girls in electric auras. Willow is jolted -- transfixed. This is more than she expected. CLOSE ON: WILLOW'S EYES

As they suddenly jolt open.

WHITE OUT.

Images flash before us, rapidfire, distorted. Images from the alternate universe from episode nine: Anyanka and Giles. Vampire Willow (heretofore referred to as Vampwill) fighting Buffy. Buffy killing Xander. The necklace. And others, so fast we can't even register them.

Willow is shaking, so is Anya -- a huge thunderclap and Anya turns the sand vial over.

CLOSE ON: WILLOW'S LEG

As it is jolted, kicks out, knocking the plate aside and the sand pours onto the leg instead, the frame WHITES OUT again...

INT. THE PLANT (ALTERNATE UNIVERSE NEW FOOTAGE) - NIGHT 9

We see Vampwill about to be impaled By Oz -- and she disappears. Oz looks about him, confused.

INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT

The light is suddenly sucked back and the girls break apart, breathing hard. Willow is more than a little freaked.

WILLOW
What was that? That was -
what was that?

ANYA
(looking for her necklace)
It's not here. It's not here!

WILLOW
Okay, that's a little blacker
than I like my arts.

ANYA
Oh, don't be such a wimp.

WILLOW
That wasn't just a temporal fold,
that was some weird Hell place.
I don't think you're telling
me everything.

ANYA
I swear, I'm just trying to find
my necklace.

WILLOW
Did you try looking inside
the sofa in HELL?

ANYA
Look, we'll try again, and if --

WILLOW
I think emphatically not.

ANYA
I can't do it by myself!

WILLOW
Well, that's a relief.
I'm out of here.

ANYA
Fine. Go! Idiot child.

Willow grabs some spell stuff.

WILLOW
I believe these chicken bones are
mine. Magic is dangerous, Anya.
It's not to be toyed with. Now if
you'll excuse me, I have someone
else's homework to do.

She strides out, leaving Anya desolate in the midst of her failure. Anya picks up the plate --

ANYA
Nothing. Nothing!

She throws the plate to the ground, smashing it.

INT. THE PLANT - NIGHT

	It's the same plant from the alternate universe, but dark and abandoned. The moment we see it Vampwill's face rears into frame, incohately hissing with pain.
	We find her on the ground, smoke surrounding her. As it clears she gets her bearings, looks around. Looks very confused.

VAMPWILL
This is weird.

BLACK OUT.

END OF ACT ONE

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