Take part in the intimidation angle

"Hello, Chris," Xander said as he stepped into the room.

"Hi, Xander," Chris said, and immediately noticed something was different. "I'll be going."

When Xander didn't move Chris turned and headed for the other door, but Buffy was standing there. "Um, what's going on here?"

"We're asking the questions!" Xander shouted.

"Uh, what...what questions?"

"Well..." Xander said as she paused to think, "Willow?"

She appeared from behind Xander. "This doesn't have to be hard. We just need to know what is going on. With the bodies."

"Bodies?" he asked nervously.

"The chopped up girls in the dumpster," Buffy said.

Xander studied Chris' face, "I'm not seeing a look of surprise."

"They were already dead," he defended himself.

"Still, really gross," Xander said.

"I didn't want to do it," Chris said. "I had to."

"Eric made you do it?" Willow asked gently.

"No. It was for my brother."

"Chris, Darryl is dead," Willow said and then realized were she lived. "Isn't he?"

"Oh, it's one of those," Buffy said. "Did you reanimate him with magic?"

"Magic? What? Magic isn't real."

"Science then," Willow said as she snapped her fingers. "A Frankenstein! Oh, that explains...you don't have a head, do you?"

"Well..."

"I was really expecting to punch someone during this," Xander said as he cracked his knuckles.

"I couldn't do it. She's still alive."

"Who?" Buffy asked.

"Cordelia."

-

Xander walked outside of the building with Willow by his side. He tried to shake his clothing out, but that wouldn't do much for the smoke fumes.

He glanced over to were Cordelia was talking with the cheerleaders, "You know, I expected at least a thank you for saving her life."

"Really?" Willow asked.

"Okay, not really, but I guess something," Xander mused. "How did things go elsewhere?"

"Giles and Miss Calendar's date seemed to go quite well."

"I meant with getting everyone out okay."

"Oh, yeah, everyone seems to have been evacuated without a problem," she answered.

Xander looked over and saw Buffy and Angel walking away from the scene, "Speaking of relationships..."

"How are you and Amy?" Willow asked.

"She wasn't thrilled when I told her the intimidation plan," Xander admitted.

"Oh, I thought it was cute."

"Me threatening someone was cute?" Xander asked. "You are a weird girl, Willow Rosenberg."

As they walked away they heard Cordelia talking to the cheerleaders, "I'm done with high school boys. College boys. Frat boys. That's were it is at."