The Best Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 4, Episode 21 Quotes

Colonel: Every inch of this installation is under constant 24-hour surveillance.
Willow: Including the secret lab?
Colonel: Including everything...! What secret lab?

[Buffy and Willow are rope climbing down a shaft]
Buffy: How you doing?
Willow: Super. What was I thinkin' using stairs all this time?

Xander: Does anybody else miss the mayor, "I just wanna be a big snake?"

[first lines]
[Buffy goes to Riley's hideout looking for him]
Buffy: Riley...? Riley...

[Xander is lying in his bed, brooding. Anya comes in]
Anya: Xander... You said you wanted to check the board at the unemployment office this morning.
[looks under covers]
Anya: You can't go like that. They won't even interview you if you're naked.
Xander: I'm not going. There's never anything good. Maybe I *should* join the army.
Anya: Don't they make you get up really early in the morning?
Xander: Oh, yeah. Never mind.
Anya: Are you still upset about that fight you had with your friends? It was hours ago! Get over it.
Xander: Anya, you... Forget it.
Anya: So they all think you're a lost, directionless loser with no plans for his future. Pfft!
Xander: Anya, you can't pfft that stuff away.
Anya: Why not?
Xander: I don't know... 'Cause I think maybe they're right.
[Anya looks at him for a few seconds, then lies down with him]
Anya: So what if they are? You're a good person and a good boyfriend and... And I'm in love with you. Whatever they think of you, it shouldn't matter.
Xander: Yeah... Yeah, it doesn't matter.
[looks to the ceiling, unconvinced]

Willow: Nervous?
Xander: No way. I'm full of that good old kamikaze spirit.
Rupert: Xander, just because this is never gonna work is no need to be negative.

[preforming the spell]
Willow: Spiritus... spirit.
[Willow hands a card to Xander]
Xander: Animus... heart.
[Willow hands a card to Giles]
Rupert: Sophus... mind.
Willow: And Manus... the hand.

Adam: I didn't send for you, Spike.
Spike: Yeah, well... I'm not much the being-sent-for type.

[seeing Forrest is a zombie-robot]
Forrest: Oh, God.
Forrest: God has nothing to do with it.

Xander: Spike's working for Adam? *After all we've done*- Nah, I can't even act surprised.

[last lines]
Mr. Ward: The Initiative itself will be filled in with concrete. Burn it down, gentlemen. Burn it down and salt the earth.

Xander: Great plan. That's right up there with "duck and cover."

Colonel: You've got some nerve, lady.
[opens Buffy's weapon bag]
Buffy: You have to listen to us.
Colonel: You think you and your friends can just keep waltzing into a government installation brandishing weapons like...
[stops and considers something he just picked out of the bag]
Colonel: Like...
Willow: It's a gourd.
Rupert: Magic gourd.
Colonel: [stares in disbelief] What kind of *freaks* are you people?

[Buffy and Willow hug at the bottom of the elevator after a long talk]
Buffy: Let's promise to never not talk again.
Willow: I promise, I promise.
[Xander touches ground between them. Both girls hug him at once]
Buffy: Xander!
Willow: Oh, wonderful Xander!
Buffy: You know we love you, right?
Willow: We totally do.
Xander: Oh, God. We're gonna die, aren't we?

Adam: You can't last much longer.
Buffy: [under the Enjoining Spell] We can. We are forever.

Adam: So you failed.
Spike: Well, hey, you're supposed to be so smart. You let me plan this thing.
[Adam stares at him, unimpressed]
Spike: Okay, let's not quibble about who failed who.

Buffy: This is not your business. It's mine. You, the Initiative, the boys at the Pentagon. You're all in *way* over your heads, messing with primeval forces you have *absolutely* no comprehension of.
Colonel: And you do?
Buffy: I'm the Slayer... You're playing on my turf.

Spike: Well, then everything's all right and we all get to be not staked through the heart. Good work team.

[Spike finds Riley in the cave with Adam]
Spike: Slightly stiffer than usual.
[clicks his fingers in Riley's face, with no response]
Spike: Subtle, but I like it.
[pokes Riley in the chest, still no response]
Spike: What's with him?
Adam: I activated his chip.
Spike: Oh. So it's chips all around, is it? Someone must've bought the party pack.

[the disc is decrypting]
Tara: Hey, look. You did it!
Willow: I didn't. I haven't even finished typing in the new code.
Tara: Something's doing it.
Willow: Must be programmed to self-decrypt at a certain point. That is so annoying! I-It's like somebody blurting out the answer to a riddle just when you've- I mean, yippee! We have the information.

Xander: See what you get for taking French instead of Sumerian?
Buffy: What was I thinking?

Buffy: Sorry, I don't jump through hoops on command. I've never really been one to toe the line.