Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Goodbye Iowa (2000)

Alyson Hannigan: Willow Rosenberg

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• Buffy Summers : Okay, everybody grab a weapon. We've gotta move.

  Xander Harris : And storm the Initiative. Yeah. Let's take on those suckers!

  Buffy Summers : I was thinking more that we'd hide.

  Xander Harris : Oh, thank God.

  Rupert Giles : Buffy, I think perhaps we should talk about this.

  Buffy Summers : We need to relocate someplace we're less likely to be found. We need to come up with a plan.

  Willow Rosenberg : We could go to my place.

  Buffy Summers : The Initiative guys know how close we are. They'll automatically check the places that you hang out. Xander, what about your basement? The guys haven't seen us together that much and-and there's enough room.

  Willow Rosenberg : Ooh, plus, mirrored ball.

  Xander Harris : Cool! Come on down and boogie at Xander's hideaway.

  Anya : Yes. Come Boogie.

  Rupert Giles : Absolutely not. I will not squat in that dank hole.

  Spike : What, it was good enough for me, but you're above it all?

  Rupert Giles : Precisely. Besides, I-I don't see why we can't stay right where we are. It's very unlikely that those Initiative boys are gonna come around here to look for our...

  Rupert Giles : [Riley enters]  Buffy...! God, Buffy, are you okay...? What happened?

  Buffy Summers : You know?

  Riley Finn : I know something went down... Tell me.

  Buffy Summers : Maggie tried to kill me.

  Anya : It didn't work, but they're all upset anyway.

  Riley Finn : Okay, listen. I need you to go over everything step by step. There has to be, has to be some kind of mistake.

  Xander Harris : There was no mistake. And how do you know something happened?

  Riley Finn : I was on a mission... but I came back and... I'm not sure. Look, let's just keep our heads and not jump to any...

  [Riley stops and stares at Spike] 

  Buffy Summers : What?

• [Giles wakes up in Xander's basement where everyone spent the night] 

  Rupert Giles : Must we have the noise? My head is splitting.

  [tuns TV off] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, look who's Cranky Bear in the morning.

  Rupert Giles : Yes. I can't imagine why I didn't sleep well in my beach ball.

  Anya : Every time you moved, it made squeaky noises. It was irritating.

  Rupert Giles : Really? I'm surprised you could hear it over your Wagnerian snoring.

  Buffy Summers : Okay, you guys. Could we not, please? Everything's screwed up enough without you two doing scenes from my parents' marriage.

• [watching Wyle E. Coyote and Roadrunner] 

  Buffy Summers : That would never happen.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, no, Buff. That's why they call them cartoons, not documentaries.

• Anya : You know, you really should get yourself a *boring* boyfriend, like Xander... You can't have Xander.

  Buffy Summers : That was the idea. Riley was supposed to be Mr. Joe Guy. We were gonna do dumb things like hold hands through the daisies, going Tra-la-la.

  Willow Rosenberg : Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.

  Anya : So dump him. But you can't have Xander.

• [first lines] 

  Buffy Summers : So Maggie sends me down into the sewers with one of those Blasto-guns, and the next thing I know, it's raining monsters.

  Xander Harris : Hallelujah.

  Buffy Summers : And then this gate slams down behind me and-and I try to use the gun, but it goes pfft.

  Rupert Giles : You're saying that Maggie Walsh set you up?

  Buffy Summers : That's exactly what I'm saying... She sent me on a one-way recon.

  Spike : Got to hand it to you, Goldilocks. You do have bleeding tragic taste in men. I've got a cousin married to a regurgitating Frovalox demon that's got better instincts than you.

  Buffy Summers : What does my taste in men have to do with this?

  Spike : You think Riley was out knitting booties for your future offspring while Maggie stringing you up...?

  Buffy Summers : You guys think Riley had something to do with this?

  Rupert Giles : Probably not, but, um... we'd be remiss if we didn't think of all the possibilities.

  Buffy Summers : Right... Remiss... No...! No. Maggie made sure that he was nowhere around when she sent me on this very special make Buffy dead assignment.

  Willow Rosenberg : Plus, Riley? He seems like he wouldn't tell a little *white** lie, let alone a whole bunch of big dirty ones.

  Xander Harris : That's why they call it the secret forces, Wil. 'Cause they kinda keep the whole lying thing to themselves.

  Buffy Summers : All I know is that Maggie has it in for me, which means the Initiative has it in for me.

  Xander Harris : I'm guessing the mad scientist isn't too keen on the fact that the entire Scooby Gang knows that the Initiative is up to no good.

  Buffy Summers : Which brings us back to the "not safe for any of us" concept.

  Rupert Giles : What could have happened to make Professor Walsh want to kill you?

  Buffy Summers : I don't know... She wasn't keen on the fact that I was asking a lot of questions, that's for sure.

  Anya : So you were getting too close to something.

  Spike : Clearly. Although one can only imagine what she'd be so desperate to hide.

• [last lines] 

  Buffy Summers : I never should have let them take Riley. I need to be with him.

  Willow Rosenberg : I'm sure he's okay.

  Buffy Summers : There's no way he can be. Everything he's ever believed in has been taken away or... He's alone. He has nothing to hold on to.

• Buffy Summers : The Initiative probably has him locked in some medical ward. There's no way I can get near him until I come up with a better plan than just storming in and getting us all shot.

  Willow Rosenberg : Yeah, you might want to work the kinks out of that one.