Kay.

Are we just staying here, then? In this house, I mean?

I guess?

I'll fix the doorknob.

S'cool.

We should, like, tell Ryan what the plan is. And that he can eat stuff, if he for some reason doesn't wanna ditch us.

"We've been gone three weeks."

" - I see."

"Your unit's out a hundred miles west of here. If you want to -"

"What're you guys doing?"

"Going to Canada, probably, with the things we'll need from our base here for the research we want to do."

"The research into making your - into making Karen -"

"Immortal, indestructible, and easier to keep out of trouble, yeah."

"Do you think I should - just go west and pick up where I left off and -"

"- are you looking for personal advice or strategic advice or -"

" - I don't know. Either?"

"My immediate strategic assessment is that I don't think anyone should do anything in Sunnydale without a lot more backup. Ideally this would include 'living in it' or 'driving through it' but we've got no choice about doing at least one of those. We don't seem to have particularly drawn any attention yet so we're going to stay here until my brother arrives in a few hours. My larger scale strategic assessment is that Sunnydale was a terrible idea to put a city and everyone should cut their losses and move to literally anywhere else, and I don't care where because none of this is my problem anymore. Doesn't need to be yours, either.

I don't have personal advice."

"That's not very helpful."

"Sorry. I guess I'd wait until we have backup and then I'd go join your team."

Sigh.

Karen is honestly kind of failing to take any actions of any kind.

How long until your brother gets here?

I think at least three hours. Maybe as many as five.

I wanna ask for something but it's really stupid.

Will it give me a chance to top the chocolate-searching boats?

 ...no. Just, uh. It's a well-known fact that everything becomes at least twelve percent less personally terrible if you're watching either the fourth Star Trek movie or The Princess Bride. Messing with the VCR just sounds hard right now.

Oh. Uh, I can figure that out.

He actually cannot and has to enlist Ryan but eventually they get the movie running.

Thanks.

It doesn't even help twelve percent. Maybe, like, four. But at least it gives her something to focus on while she waits.

He pulls up five hours later in a fancy sports car wearing the skin of a dented old Honda.