Casa Summers. Something about the knife's description catches Willow's attention. She demands to see it. Buffy dispatches Kennedy to search through Andrew's stuff, but he but he 'fesses up that it's in the cutlery drawer. Willow is incredulous: "You put your old murder weapon in with our utensils?" And you put your old murder weapon in that fugly top, Willow. You know what they say: "People who live in glass houses or have flayed someone alive lose pretty much ANY and ALL moral high ground they may once have had." Spike wants to know why Willow is interested in the knife, and she explains that the line "drive the words deep into him" piqued her interest. Andrew tells her that there's carving on the blade, but he thought it was just a pattern. Kennedy trots back with the knife in hand. Willow cursorily examines it before handing it to Andrew, asking how he is with demon languages. Andrew recognizes the carvings on the knife as a demon language that he's familiar with. Even though he mistook it for a "pattern" before. No fucking way. There's no way that you could look at an object and see the letters of a language you are familiar enough with to translate and mistake it for a pattern. Didn't Jane E. study linguistics at Berkeley? That's a pretty sloppy oversight for someone with that kind of background. Andrew translates the inscriptions as reading, "The blood which I spill, I consecrate to the oldest evil." Willow thinks she might have something to go on. Cut to Willow in the dining room, typing away on her iBook. Buffy stands behind her. Willow gets up, saying, "I think that's got a shot," and they go to join the rest of the gang in the living room. Buffy tells Andrew that he's won a "free vacation to the beautiful downtown Hellmouth." Willow claims that because the Seal responded to the language on the knife when it was plunged into Jonathan's gut, they're going to have Andrew talk to the Seal in the inscription language and ask it very, very nicely if it would consider not spewing its evil influence anymore. Buffy gathers up Wood, Spike, and the Seal Whisperer and they head out.









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