- [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.
- Rupert Giles: Can you move?
- Ben: Need a... a minute. She could've killed me.
- Rupert Giles: No, she couldn't. Never. And sooner or later, Glory will reemerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy. And the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn't take human life... She's a hero, you see... She's not like us.
- Ben: Us?
- 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?
- Xander Harris: Hey, I happen to be...
- Spike: A glorified bricklayer?
- Xander Harris: I'm also a swell bowler.
- Anya: Has his own shoes.
- Spike: The gods themselves do tremble.
- Spike: Blood is life, lack-brain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going, makes you warm, makes you hard, makes you other than dead.
- [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.
- Anya: No, no, no, it's an omen! It's a higher power trying to tell me through bunnies that we're all gonna die. Oh god.
- 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.
- Anya: You're proposing to me 'cause we're gonna die. And-And you think it's romantic and sexy and-and you know you're not gonna have to go through with it 'cause the world's gonna end.
- Xander Harris: I'm proposing to you, Anya, because it's not.
- 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.
- Xander Harris: And I think we're gonna get through this. I think I'm gonna live a long and silly life, and I'm not interested in doing that without you around.
- Anya: Oh... Okay.
- Xander Harris: Okay?
- Anya: Yes. I mean, yes... No.
- Xander Harris: No?
- Anya: After... Give it to me when the world doesn't end.
- 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 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?
- Willow Rosenberg: Well, I've been charting their essences, mapping out. I think... if I can get close enough, I may be able to reverse what Glory did, like, take back what she took from Tara. It-It might weaken Glory or make her less coherent or it might make all our heads explode.
- Dawn Summers: You. You can help me. Untie me. Please. Help me. She's coming.
- Doc: Well, it seems she's running a bit late, is the thing. And uh, if Her Splendidness can't be here in time to bleed you...
- [whispers]
- Doc: Hey, kid. Wanna see a trick?
- [pulls out a knife]