The Best Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 5, Episode 8 Quotes

Xander: Am I right, Giles?
Rupert: I'm almost certain you're not, but to be fair, I wasn't listening.

[last lines]
Riley: [hugging Buffy] It's okay. Just let it out. I'm right here.
Buffy: [sighs and sniffles] I can't
[steps back]
Buffy: Not now. The need me... If I start now... I won't be able to stop.
Joyce: [from other room] Buffy.

Spike: Okay. How 'bout this one. Twice in recent memory, she's had the lover Wiccas do a de-invite on the house, keep out specific vamps. Ever ask yourself why she's never taken my name off the guest list?
Riley: Because you're harmless.
Spike: Oh yeah, right. Takes one to know, I suppose. Least I still got the attitude. What you got, a piercing glance? Face it, white bread. Buffy's got a type, and you're not it. She likes us dangerous, rough, occasionally bumpy in the forehead region. Not that she doesn't like you, but sorry, Charlie, you're just not dark enough.

Rupert: Yes, um, in any event, uh, since you're all here, Tara and I could use your help researching Buffy's mysterious woman.
Xander: Oh yeah. This has been fruitful, trying to look up something you... never saw and don't know the name of.
Anya: Just do what I do. Flip through the pages and look busy.
Willow: It'd be nice if we knew where she was, where she's hiding out.
Xander: No doubt lurking around some sewer or condemned church or rat-infested warehouse. You know, the usual haunts.
[cut Glory in a beautiful, well-appointed apartment]

- The Sobekian transmogrification spells were lost thousands of years ago.
- And besides, the young woman to whom I sold them... would have to have enormous power--
- Young woman?
- Oh, dear lord.
- What?

Rupert: The, uh, demon woman was here. the one who attacked you.
Willow: It's no biggie. She-She just got an amulet and a bloodstone.
Anya: That can create a monster.
Willow: Okay, biggie.

- What is a CAT scan exactly?
- I don't know.
- It's some x-ray, I guess.
- Where do they get the CAT scan from?
- I mean, do they test it on cats or--
- Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
- Dawn, I'm really--

- It's this whole big thing.
- It will work, your extremeness, provided you have the other items you need.
- Don't worry.
- I'll have them all right.
- I'll have it all.

- Well, my mom's gonna wake up soon, and I should be there when the doctors tell her.
- She's in good hands,
- Buffy.
- There's really nothing else you can do.
- Okay. Bye.
- Bye.

- He is arisen.
- 'Bout damn time.

- God,
- I love you so much. oh, god, no. Please, no.
- Are you okay?
- You know the "nothing"
- I've been dealing with the last couple of weeks?
- It might not be nothing.
- What is it?
- I'm staying overnight at the hospital for observation.
- I'm getting a CAT scan.

- -[Hissing continues]
- -[screaming continues]
- -[Roars]
- -[screaming continues]
- Dawn, you okay?
- Why was the big snake afraid of Dawn?
- It knows.

Xander: Just once I would like to run into a cult of bunny-worshippers.
Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.

- -So, any monster reptile sightings?
- -None.
- Tara and I did a mini-patrol earlier, but the biggie snake was nowhere to be--

Glory: Tick-tock, Dreg. Tick-frickin'-tock.

- Is she awake yet?
- Yeah.
- She's waiting for us.
- Can we take her home now?
- We'll see.
- Go get your stuff.

- I mean until we knew what it was--
- I understand.
- How's she doing?
- Well, she just had a CAT scan.
- I was about to go in and find out.
- Will you sit with Dawn while I talk to Mom?
- She's in the waiting room.
- Yeah. Yeah, you got it.

- Listen, your mom's gonna be unconscious for at least another six, seven hours.
- A break?
- I just mean go out.
- Get some air.
- Come back later on this evening, talk to the doc then if you want.
- My unsolicited advice of the day.

- Will you do me a favor and drop Dawn off at school... and tell her I'll meet her at the magic shop when she gets off?
- Of course.
- Whatever you need me to do.
- Buffy, what do you want me to tell Dawn...
- About your mom?
- Tell her we don't know anything yet.

- Glory. Glory, your most fresh and cleanness, it's just a matter of time.
- Oh, everything takes time!
- What about my time?
- Does anyone appreciate that
- I'm on a schedule here?
- Tick-tock, Dreg.
- Tick-fricking-tock!

- No. I'm fine.
- I think I should talk to Dawn alone.
- Okay.
- Oh, do I have bed hair?
- I don't look like scary mom, do I?
- No. You look beautiful.

- Chill, worm.
- I'm gonna make you a star.

- Hello?
- Buffy?

Anya: I mean, I for one didn't wanna start my day with a slaughter... Which really just goes to show how much I've grown.

- There, that feels more real.
- Don't you think?
- Oh, no.
- Even if I do have to carry your performance.
- Scene.
- Arise. Arise!
- Arise!

Spike: Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
Riley: Am I dark enough for you now?
Spike: Bloody pull me back in, you sod. I'm startin' to sizzle!
Riley: You don't know anything about Buffy. You never did. I'm the one that knows what she needs.
Spike: Oh yeah? That's why you're with her at hospital right now giving her what she needs.
Riley: What are you talkin' about?
Spike: Don't you know? Didn't she tell you?
Riley: You tell me.
Spike: Her mum's sickly. Buffy took her to hospital for a bit of prod and probe. Bite-sized one went, too... You know, it's-it's funny her not calling you about that. I've known since last night.

- Do you?
- Hey, I'm not trying to get-- it's cool.
- You okay?
- Just a little crazed.
- I hear ya.
- If, uh, she needs me--

- Well, you keep working on it.
- I'll go kill it.
- -Buffy?
- -What? I'm going.
- Buffy, this chick creamed you last time.
- That's because I wasn't ready for her last time.
- I am now.
- But you--
- But what?
- Wil, I can't just sit here.
- I have to do something.

Willow: Giles, the Dagon Sphere. You said that was created to repel...
Rupert: That Which Cannot Be Named.
Willow: So, I'm thinking maybe she...
Rupert: Predates language itself?
Xander: Well, hey, if it means I don't have to read anymore, *whoo*. And might I add a big *hoo*.

[Riley's throwing Spike out after catching him smelling Buffy's sweater]
Spike: Look, I know for a bleedin' fact the Slayer wouldn't mind me bein' here.
Riley: Right. What's a little sweater-sniffing between sworn enemies?

[first lines]
Dawn: What is a CAT scan exactly?
Buffy: I don't know. It's some X-ray, I guess.
Dawn: Where do they get the CAT scan from...? I mean, do they test it on cats or... or does the machine sort of look like a cat?

- You tell me.
- Her mum's sickly.
- Buffy took her to hospital for a bit of prod and probe.
- Bite-sized one went too.
- You know, it's funny her not calling you about that.
- I've known since last night.
- Oh! Blanket! Blanket!

- That's, um-oh.
- Your receipt.
- And...
- Thank you.
- She could be anywhere.
- But if she's as powerful as Buffy says,
- I imagine it won't be long before she makes herself known.

Anya: You sold someone a Kohl's Amulet and a Sobekiam Bloodstone.
Rupert: Yes, I believe I did.
Anya: Are you stupid or something?
Rupert: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.

- Okay. Let's do this.
- Stay close.
- I will.

Buffy: How did she get away with this bad mojo stuff?
Anya: [whispers] Giles sold it to her.
Rupert: I-I-I-I didn't know it was her. I-I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.

Riley: And you let Buffy go after her? Alone?
Rupert: "Let" isn't really a factor when she sets her mind to something. You know that.