Giles: Maybe.
Maybe not. In my experience, there are... two types of monster.
The first, uh, can be redeemed, or more importantly, wants to be
redeemed.
Buffy: I
was just thinking about the life of a pumkin. Growing up in the
sun, happily entwined with others, then someone comes along cuts
you open and rips your guts out.
Sander: Okay, on that happy note.
Buffy: But ... when I kissed you ... you know I was thinking about
Giles, right?
Spike: You know, I always wondered about you two.
Buffy: What? Oh, gross, Spike! He left. I was depressed. Ergo vulnerability
and, and bad kissing decisions. Okay, but, that's all that it was.
You have to let it go.
Spike: Did it work?
Buffy: What?
Spike:You convince yourself?
Spike: (to
Buffy) I hope you don't think this antidote's gonna rid you of
that nasty martyrdom.
See, I figured it out, love. You can't help yourself. You're not
drawn to the dark like I thought. You're addicted to the misery.
Spike: You're not friends. You'll never be friends.
You'll be in love til it kills you both. You'll fight,
and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other til it
makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love
isn't brains,
children. It's blood. Blood screaming inside you to
work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least
I'm man
enough to admit it.
Joyce Summers: This is not
a good town. How many of us have lost someone who just... disappeared
or got skinned or suffered 'neck rupture'?! And how many of us
have been to afraid to speak out? I was supposed to lead us in
a moment of silence. But silence is this town's disease. For too
long it has been plagued by unnatural evils. It's not our town
anymore. It belongs to the monsters, to the witches and Slayers.
Anya: [crying]
I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this.
I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I
don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead
anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's
crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and
I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever,
and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever,
and no one will explain to me why.
Buffy: I was happy. Wherever
I was... I was happy.. at peace. I knew that everyone I cared about
was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything. Nothing had
form. But I was still me, you know? And I was warm, and I was loved,
and I was finished. Complete. I - I don't understand theology or
dimensions, any of it really... but I think I was in heaven. And
now I'm not. I was torn out of there, pulled out, by my friends.
Everything here is hard and bright and violent. Everything I feel,
everything I touch, this is Hell. Just getting through the next
moment, and the one after that, knowing what I've lost. They can
never know. Never.
Buffy: It's not your fault.
You're not the one doing this.
Spike: I already did it. It's already done.
You wanna know what I've done to girls Dawn's age? This is
me Buffy. You've got to kill me before I get out.
Buffy: We can keep you locked up. Keep
you here and we'll figure out-
Spike: Have you ever really asked yourself
why you can't do it? Off me? After everything I've done
to you, to people around you. It's not love. We both
know that.
Buffy: You fought by my side. You've saved
lives. You've helped-
Spike: Don't do that. Don't rationalize
this into some noble act. We both know the truth of it.
You like men who hurt you.
Buffy: No.
Spike: You need the pain we cause you.
You need the hate. You need it to do your job, to be the
slayer.
Buffy: No. I don't hate like that. Not
you, or myself. Not anymore.
Willow: Faith, wait. I want
to talk to you.
Faith: Oh yeah? Give me the speech again,
please. Faith, we're still your friends. We can help you.
It's not too late.
Willow: It's way too late. You know, it
didn't have to be this way. But you made your choice. I
know you had a tough life. I know that some people think
you had a lot of bad breaks. Well, boo hoo! Poor you. You
know, you had a lot more in your life than some people.
I mean, you had friends in your life like Buffy. Now you
have no one. You were a Slayer and now you're nothing.
You're just a big selfish, worthless waste.
Faith: You hurt me, I hurt you. I'm
just a little more efficient.
[punches Willow]
Willow: Aw, here I just thought you didn't
have a come-back.
Glory: Funny. 'Cause I look
around at this world you're so eager to be a part of ... and all
I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out.
Who's not crazy? Look around. Everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting
up ... shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains
out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. *I'm* crazy? Honey, I'm
the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind. 'Cause
at least I admit the world makes me nuts.
Buffy: You're right. We
don't know how to fight it. We don't know when it'll come. Can't
run, can't hide. Can't pretend it's not the end 'cause it is. Something's
always been there to try and destroy the world, and we've beaten
them back. Well, we're not dealing with them anymore. We're dealing
with why they exist. Evil. The strongest. The First.
Giles: Buffy, um, I-I know you're tired-
Buffy: I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared.
I'm standing on the mouth of hell and it's gonna swallow
me whole. And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're
not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come,
like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse?
We'll give them one. Anyone else who wants to run? Do it
now, 'cause we just became an army. We just declared war.
From now on we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek
them out. We will find them and cut out their hearts till
the First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill
myself. There is only one thing on earth more powerful than
evil, and that's us. Any questions?
Spike: What's this? Sittin'
around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's
not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little
demon ass! What, can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Let's
find her! She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires!
Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for... the
safety of puppies... and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil!
Let's kill something! Oh, come on!
Forrest: This is the burden
we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any
girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet, we must Clark
Kent our way through the dating scene, never to use our unfair
advantage. Thank God we're pretty.
Spike: We're out of Wheat-a-Bix.
Rupert Giles: We are out of Wheat-a-Bix because you ate it all. Again.
Spike: Get some more.
Rupert Giles: I thought vampires were supposed to eat blood.
Spike: Yeah, well, sometimes I like to crumble up the Wheat-a-Bix in the blood.
Gives it a little texture.
Rupert Giles: Since the picture you just painted means that I will never touch
food of any kind again, you'll just have to pick it up yourself.
Spike: Sissy.
Buffy: This is how many apocalypses for
us now?
Giles: Oh,uh, six at least. Feels like a hundred.
Buffy: I've always beaten them. Always won.
Giles: Yes.
Buffy: I sacrificed Angel to save the world. I loved him so much. But I knew,
what was right. I don't have that anymore. I don't understand. I don't know how
to live in this world, if these are the choices. If everything just gets stripped
away. I don't see the point. I just wish- I just wish my mom was here.
[gets up]
Buffy: The spirit guide told me, that death is my gift. I guess that means that
a Slayer really is just a killer after all.
Giles: I believe you're that.
Buffy: It doesn't matter. If Dawn dies, I'm quitting.
Spike: Uh... I do remember what I said.
The promise. To protect her. If I had done that... even if I didn't
make it... you wouldn't have had to jump. But I want you to know
I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but... after that.
Every night after that. I'd see it all again... do something different.
Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different
ways... Every night I save you.
Nancy: I thought you were Xander's ex-girlfriend.
Anya: I am.
Nancy: But you and Spike . . .
Anya: Had a thing.
Spike: Didn't last.
Nancy: But you're Buffy's . . .
Spike: Briefly.
Buffy: NEVER serious.
Nancy: Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?
[Xander and Spike look at each other]
Anya: At least we're all bipeds, which is more than I can say about Ronnie the
worm boy.
Xander: Good Godfrey Cambridge, Spike!
Are you still trying to mack on Buffy? Wake up already. Never gonna
happen! Only a complete loser would ever hook up with you, unless
she's a simpleton like Harmony or a nut sack like Druscilla...
Xander: "
I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away."
Xander: Where is he?? Where's the creep that turned me into his spider-eating
man-bitch?
Buffy: He's gone.
Xander: Dammit! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick
of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.
As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's
butt-monkey!
Buffy: Check. No more butt-monkey.
Xander: I'm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex.
Spike: Oooh. Poor watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? "Cuppa
tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..." |