- Spike: I've been alive a bit longer than you. And dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine. And done things I'd prefer you didn't... Don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years. And there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You... Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you. Or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you *are*. What you do. How you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are... You're a *hell* of a woman... You're the One, Buffy.
- Buffy Summers: [through tears] I don't wanna be the One.
- Spike: I don't wanna be this good-looking and athletic. We all have crosses to bear.
- Spike: So, uh, Buffy took some time off right in the middle of the apocalypse and it was her decision.
- Xander Harris: Well, we all decided.
- Spike: Oh yeah. *You* all decided.
- [chuckles]
- Spike: You sad, sad, ungrateful traitors! Who do you think you are?
- Willow Rosenberg: We're her friends. We just wanted...
- Spike: Oh, that's ballsy of you! You're her *friends* and you betray her like this.
- Rupert Giles: Uh, you don't understand.
- Spike: You know, I think I do... Rupert. You used to be the big man, didn't you. The teacher, all full of wisdom. Now she's *surpassed* you, and you can't handle it. She has saved your lives again and again. She has *died* for you, and this is how you thank her.
- Anya: We're all on death's door, repeatedly ringing the doorbell like maniacal Girl Scouts trying to make quota.
- Spike: No?
- Buffy Summers: No.
- Spike: You mean no as in "eventually"?
- Buffy Summers: You really have problems with that word, don't you?
- Spike: You can get them back!
- Buffy Summers: Can? Maybe. Should? I'm just so tired.
- Spike: They need you!
- Buffy Summers: Well, I...
- Spike: It's bloody chaos over there without you!
- Buffy Summers: It is?
- Spike: Yeah! Yeah. It's uh... There's junk. You know, food cartons. Sleeping bags not rolled up. Everyone's very scared and, uh, unkempt.
- Buffy Summers: Sounds dire.
- Spike: I didn't see a lot. I came, hit Faith a bunch of times, and left.
- Buffy Summers: Really? I mean, not that I'm glad, but...
- Spike: Oh, you say the word and she's a footnote in history. I'll make it look like a painful accident.
- Buffy Summers: That's my problem. I say the word, some girl dies. Every time.
- Faith: Hey! Good one. How did you...
- Principal Robin Wood: That's exactly what The First does. Finds your Achilles' Heel.
- Faith: No, it just talked to me. What, it does a heal thing, too?
- Principal Robin Wood: Um, it's, um... It's a phrase. Your weak spot.
- Faith: Oh. The school thing. I was kinda absent that decade.
- Andrew Wells: Hi, everybody. I missed you guys a lot. Sorry it took so long to get back from our mission mission, but we had to wait out the sun. Uh, I think our- our mission went very well. We, uh, we rode on Spike's hog, which was very cool, and, uh, uh, played some amusing games, and, uh- Oh! We got some information. You know what? I really need to urinate.
- Spike: He's a breath of fresh air, innit he?
- [sighs]
- Spike: Thank God I don't breathe.
- Caleb: You whore!
- Buffy Summers: You know, you really should watch your language. Someone didn't know you, they might think you were a woman-hating jerk.
- Dawn Summers: I've been reading this old Turkish spell book. There's an old conjuration that the ancient Turks used to communicate with the dying.
- Dawn Summers: Oh, yeah. I think I've read a translation of that.
- Dawn Summers: There's a translation of it?
- [sighs]
- Dawn Summers: I'm over it.
- Andrew Wells: I spy with my little eye something that begins with a 'T'.
- Spike: Tapestry.
- Andrew Wells: Hey! Good one. How did you...
- Spike: Tapestry's the only thing in the whole bloody room.
- Mayor Richard Wilkins III: [as The First] No matter what you do, Buffy will always see you as a killer. Not as a person. And now you have what she so desperately wants. The respect of these girls. All she needs is an excuse, and she'll finish what she started when she stuck that knife in your belly. You stay on guard, Faith. Buffy's dangerous. If you're not careful, she'll destroy you. I'm just sayin'!
- Buffy Summers: [as the First] You realize what will happen if the Slayer and her girls get it, don't you?
- Caleb: They won't.
- Buffy Summers: [as the First] That's right. They won't. Because you're going to kill all of them. And everyone they know.
- Caleb: Hallelujah.
- Kennedy: [making out with Willow] Something not right?
- Willow: No. No, I just, uh... I guess I'm a little scared.
- Kennedy: It's probably stupid to ask why, huh? Death, war, apocalypse...
- Willow: Me. I-I'm just scared that if we... and then I'll... and then...
- Kennedy: And then? Isn't that the good part?
- Willow: Good? Yeah, good-good feeling. But also...
- Kennedy: Bad stuff? Like unrestrained moaning and screaming with joy?