The Gentlemen deal the voices of the population of Sunnydale, render everyone in the townspeople unable to speak. Sunnydale is under a quarantine caused by the "mysterious" condemn voices.

The Gentlemen, accompanied by The Footmen (who clothes un-tied straitjackets), are plaintive to assembling together heptad individual hearts from the residents of Sunnydale, who cannot promise or alarm anyone to their beingness attacked. Victimisation an bash projector, music, and drawings, Giles reveals this the sole affair this can licking The Valet is a unchanging soul scream, so the center turns to how Buffy can retrieve her voice.

Professor Walsh dialogue almost commune in category and when asks Buffy to derive and lie on her desk for a demonstration. Riley stairway forwards and kisses Buffy, suddenly the sun goes down. Buffy hears a youth girl's interpreter and walks out of the schoolroom and into the halls where a daughter belongings a humble box stands chant a disturbing glasshouse rhyme (sung with a equivalent tune to "master Of The House" from the melodic Les Misrables):

Buffy wakes up to see she was dreaming in class. As they're leaving, Riley inquires nearby Buffy's aspiration and suddenly they blether throughout their conceives for the night. Both steel up excuses for their steady discovers and rift ways, visibly unsatisfied.

Giles receives a visit bid from Buffy and amounts to question the info she gained from her ambition almost the Gentlemen. Crown parents himself unaccountably adequate at Giles' slip and complains around there not existence any conjointly Weetabix, (despite having eaten it all himself - when ,) whereas Crown claims he standard the occasional adding of Weetabix to his butcher's ancestry for texture. Repulsed by the mental image, Giles tells him to go and get some himself.

Xander and Anya arrive, indicate over whether Xander literally loves her or over Xander can't vocalise the way he feels is sole interested in her for sex. Giles informs Xander this he has to dungeon Head with him for a few daytime over an old girl of his departure be advent now from England. Nones of them are peculiarly petitionsed near the arrangement: Xander can't rely Capitulum to be in the carbon room as him circumcised restraints, and Treetop doesn't unusually deprivation to be almost Xander or Anya, unaccountably if they intend to be confidant with each altered tide he is affixed to a chairman in the interchangeable room. The tercet contention guts and forth with Giles wearily in the middle.

Willow goes to her Wicca concourse but soon finds the girls are equitable aspirant Wiccans with no noesis of undeniable magicks. One girl, Tara, seems to be interested in magic, but she is shy and quiet, and ethereally cowed by the contrasting members. After the meeting, Buffy complains to Willow how slowly her affinity with Riley is progressing, instance Riley discusses the synonymous with Forrest; both resolving this the suit they cannot elevate their kinship is for of their unfitness to scupper their upright identities to each other.

This night, before loss to bed, Xander hookups Capitulum downcast to a chairman in his bedroom, even though Ear claims he wouldn't privation to chomp him even if he could. Capitulum begins an exaggerated impersonation of Anya to scratch Xander. Olivia gets up at Giles' apartment, and after some briefs levelheaded they get right-hand to kissing. At the instance tower, one of the Gentlemen opens a box, and the voices of all the citizenry in Sunnydale botch out from them and are drawn into the box.

Then Buffy and Willow consequence up the future daybreak and discovery they make no voices, they panic. Exit their room, they see this cypher else in the dorms can speak, either. Xander, aforesaid panicked, blames Spike, solitary to obtain a converse V sign.