So to speak, as Willow pushes her along outside. Buffy tells them about the girl dying, "Dr. Backer" and his experimental treatments, and what the little boy, "Ryan," said. It's a good thing this isn't Smallville, because that show is not very kind to little boys named Ryan. Giles starts to pooh-pooh the ravings of a scared little boy, but Buffy says she thought she saw something, too. Willow asks if Death had an hourglass. Xander: "Ooh, if he asks you to play chess, don't even do it. The guy's like a whiz." I must say that Strega's recent definition of "playing chess" produced an extremely unpleasant mental image there. Buffy speculates that it wasn't death. Cordy: "So this isn't about you being afraid of hospitals 'cause your friend died and you want to conjure up a monster that you can fight so you can save everybody and not feel so helpless?" Hee. Everyone's shocked for a beat, possibly because she uttered that sentence without taking a breath; then Giles asks if she's ever heard of tact. The answer? "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass." Willow admits that Joyce told them about Celia, but Buffy says that has nothing to do with this. Oh, but it does, my dear. Just not the way they think it does. Remember clever and subtle? That was a show called Buffy The Vampire Slayer, not to be confused with the show that's on UPN at eight o'clock on Tuesdays called Buffy The Bitch-Faced Girl Who Never Needs Her Friends, Which Is Actually A Good Thing Because They're All Hollow Shells Of Their Former Selves. No wonder they can't come up with a spin-off. Anyway, Buffy is sure that Ryan was afraid of something real. Xander: "So is this the part where we say, 'What can we do to help?'"