- [Giles and company are researching old magic books]
- Riley Finn: These spells. These really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out, or learn to excrete gold coins?
- Anya: That one's not so much fun.
- Willow Rosenberg: They work, Riley, but they take concentration, being attuned with the forces of the universe.
- Xander Harris: Right, you can't just go
- [reading]
- Xander Harris: "librum incendere" and expect...
- [Xander's book bursts into flames and he slams it shut, extinguishing it]
- Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
- Willow Rosenberg: Hey, I found the mark. It's part of an augmentation spell. Jonathan did an augmentation spell.
- Riley Finn: What, um... did he have, uh... you know.
- Willow Rosenberg: Him... and how we see him. This spell turns the sorcerer into a sort of paragon, the best of everything, everyone's ideal. Bu-But there's a drawback.
- Riley Finn: A drawback?
- Xander Harris: That happens a lot.
- [after seeing vampires drinking sloppily from a dead victim]
- Willow Rosenberg: I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
- Spike: Oh, look. Jonathan. Taking the little sidekick out for a walk, are we?
- Buffy: Shut up, Spike.
- Spike: Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, semi-harsh language from Betty. You're feisty when big guy's standing beside you. Someday, sweet Slayer, I would love to take you on... see you face the evil alone for once.
- [Jonathan slams Spike up against the crypt wall]
- Jonathan Levinson: That's enough of the creepy small talk. We're looking for a monster.
- Spike: Why would I know about that?
- Jonathan Levinson: Every demon in this town's gunning for you right now, so I figure you're probably keeping pretty good track of 'em. Big arms, mark on its head. Have you seen it?
- Spike: No, but then again, I'm probably lying.
- Riley Finn: Did anyone else feel way too tall? I felt *way* too tall.
- Xander Harris: I liked his clothes. He had really cool clothes.
- Willow Rosenberg: I still don't understand how he got the house and everything.
- Anya: And who really did star in The Matrix?
- Riley Finn: Wait! That wasn't real either?
- Buffy: Anya, when you were a demon, you granted wishes, right?
- Anya: Vengeance wishes on ex-boyfriends. I'd wish he was a dog, or ugly, or in love with President McKinley or something.
- Buffy: But someone could wish the whole world to be different, right? That's possible?
- Anya: Sure, alternate realities. You could, uh, could have like a world without shrimp, or with, you know, nothing but shrimp. You could even make like a-a freaky world where Jonathan's, like, some kind of not-perfect mouth-breather if that's what's blowing up your skirt these days. Just don't ask me to live there.
- Buffy: Anya, tell them about the alternate universes.
- Anya: Oh, okay, um... say you really like shrimp a lot, or we could say you don't like shrimp at all. "*Blah*, I wish there weren't any shrimp," you'd say to yourself...
- Buffy: Stop! You're saying it wrong... I think that Jonathan may be doing something so that he's manipulating the world, and we're all, like, his pawns.
- Anya: Or prawns.
- Buffy: Stop with the shrimp! I am trying to do something here!
- Xander Harris: [practicing a quick draw with a stake] The quick draw is about more than speed. It's also about pointing the stake the right way. And there can be splinter issues. It is a true test of dexterity.
- Anya: [re milk carton] Can you open this?
- Xander Harris: No. I tear it and it gets all sloshy.
- Jonathan Levinson: Hi. I wasn't sure you'd come over. Everyone's mostly forgetting. But, I think some people are kind of angry.
- Buffy Summers: Yeah!
- Jonathan Levinson: Nobody's even talking to me. And.. the twins moved out.
- Buffy Summers: Why did you do it anyway? No. I get why. How?
- Jonathan Levinson: After the thing with the bell tower and the gun, I went to counseling. You know other kids with problems a-and one of them had this spell. He glossed right over the monster. Well, anyway I just - I-I just wanted to apologize. Nobody was supposed to get hurt.
- Buffy Summers: Jonathan you get why everyone is angry though, right? It's not just the monster. People didn't like being the little actors in your sock puppet theater.
- Jonathan Levinson: You weren't! You weren't socks! We were friends.
- Buffy Summers: Jonathan, you can't keep trying to make everything work out with some big gesture all at once. Things are complicated. They take time and work.
- Spike: I live here. I wasn't exactly pining for a noisy visit from Wonder Jonathan and his fluffy battle kittens.
- [last lines]
- Buffy Summers: I'm glad we talked this all out.
- Riley Finn: We haven't talked at all.
- Buffy Summers: Oh... Well, whatever we're doing, we're doing it great.
- [they start kissing again]
- Buffy Summers: Mmm, Jonathan.
- Adam: I'm aware. I know every molecule of myself and everything around me. No one - no human, no demon has ever been as awake and alive as I am. You are all just shadows.
- [first lines]
- [Buffy knocks a vampire down]
- Buffy Summers: Xander! Anya!
- [Xander and Anya try to hold the vampire]
- Willow Rosenberg: Buffy, another one!
- [Buffy starts fighting another vampire]
- Willow Rosenberg: Buffy!
- [tosses Buffy a stake and she dusts the first vampire as the other runs away]
- Buffy Summers: Where's the other one.
- Xander Harris: Where's the other one.
- Anya: In there.