Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

The Gift (2001)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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• [last lines] 

  Buffy Summers : [voice-over]  Dawn, listen to me. Listen... I love you. I will *always* love you. But this is the work that I have to do... Tell Giles that... tell Giles I figured it out, and, and I'm okay... And give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world... is to live in it... Be brave. Live. For me.

• [Standing before the gang as they prepare to leave to fight Glory] 

  Buffy Summers : Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.

  [turns and leaves the room] 

  Spike : Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?

  Rupert Giles : "We few, we happy few..."

  Spike : ...we band of buggered.

• Buffy Summers : We're not all gonna make it. You know that.

  Spike : Yeah... Hey, always knew I'd go down fightin'.

  Buffy Summers : I'm counting on you... to protect her.

  Spike : Till the end of the world... Even if that happens to be tonight.

• Glory : Wow. The Slayer's a robot. Did everybody else know the Slayer was a robot?

  Buffy Summers : [from behind]  Glory?

  [attacks her with Olaf's hammer] 

  Buffy Summers : You're not the brightest god in the heavens, are you?

• [as the group ponders how to stop Glory] 

  Anya : Okay. But I'm still not hearing enough ideas. She's a God. Let's think outside the box.

  Spike : Why don't you go think outside the bleeding box.

  Rupert Giles : Yes, Anya, apart from your incredibly uninfectious enthusiasm, have you anything else to contribute?

  Anya : The Dagon Sphere!

  Rupert Giles : Sorry?

  Anya : When Buffy first met Glory she found that magical, glowy sphere that was meant to repel Glory. We've got it in the basement. It might drive her away or hurt her. Oh! And Olaf the Troll God's enchanted hammer. You wanna fight a god, use the weapon of a god.

  Spike : Uh, nah, that thing's too heavy to...

  [Buffy easily picks up the hammer] 

  Spike : Yeah, good.

  Buffy Summers : I like this. Thanks.

  Anya : Here to help. Wanna live.

• Buffy Summers : This is how many apocalypses for us now?

  Rupert Giles : Oh, uh, well... six at least... Feels like a hundred.

  Buffy Summers : I've always stopped them... always won.

  Rupert Giles : Yes.

  Buffy Summers : I sacrificed Angel to save the world. I loved him so much. But I knew... I 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 that... I just wish my mom was here.

  [pause] 

  Buffy Summers : The spirit guide told me, that death is my gift. I guess that means a Slayer really is just a killer, after all.

  Rupert Giles : I think you're wrong about that.

  Buffy Summers : It doesn't matter. If Dawn dies, I'm done with it. I'm quitting.

• Buffy Summers : You ever heard the expression, "biting off more than you can chew?"

  [he shakes his head no] 

  Buffy Summers : Okay. Um, how about the expression, "Vampire Slayer?"

  Vampire : What the hell you talkin' about?

  Buffy Summers : Wow, never heard that one. Okay, how about, "Oh, God, my leg, my leg?"

  [he attacks her and she breaks his leg] 

  Vampire : Oh, God, my leg!

  Buffy Summers : See? Now we're communicating.

• Glory : You're just a mortal. You couldn't understand my pain.

  Buffy Summers : Then I'll just have to settle for causing it.

• [after slaying a vampire in an alley] 

  Buffy : Wow. Been a long while since I met one who didn't know me.

• Buffy Summers : Will, you're up.

  Rupert Giles : Need anything?

  Willow Rosenberg : Could use a little courage.

  [Spike holds out a flask for her] 

  Willow Rosenberg : The real kind... But thanks.

• Buffy : Come on. Say it. We're "bloody well" talking about this! Tell me to kill my sister.

• Buffy Summers : What have you got for me?

  Willow Rosenberg : Some ideas. Well, notions or theories based on wild speculation. Did I mention I'm not good under pressure?