- Willow Rosenberg: You can't stop this.
- Xander Harris: Yeah. I get that. It's just, where else am I gonna go? You've been my best friend my whole life. World gonna end, where else would I wanna be?
- Willow Rosenberg: Is this the master plan? You're gonna stop me by telling me you love me?
- Xander Harris: Well, I was gonna walk you off a cliff and hand you an anvil, but it seemed kinda cartoony.
- Willow Rosenberg: Still making jokes.
- Xander Harris: I'm not joking... I know you're in pain. I can't imagine the pain you're in. And I know you're about to do something apocalyptically evil and stupid, And, hey, I still wanna hang. You're Willow.
- Willow Rosenberg: Don't call me that!
- Xander Harris: The first day of kindergarten, you cried because you broke the yellow crayon and you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far. Ending the world, not a terrific notion... But the thing is... yeah, I love you. I love crayon-breaky Willow and I love scary-veiny Willow. So if I'm goin' out, it's here. If you wanna kill the world... well, then start with me. I've earned that.
- Willow Rosenberg: You think I won't?
- Xander Harris: It doesn't matter. I'll still love you.
- Willow Rosenberg: Shut up!
- [casts a spell on him, so he bleeds from his cheek]
- Xander Harris: I love you.
- [Willow casts another spell on him, making him fall over from pain and bleed from other parts of his body as well]
- Xander Harris: I... love you.
- Willow Rosenberg: Shut up!
- [casts a spell again, but hits him weakly]
- Xander Harris: I love you, Willow.
- Willow Rosenberg: Stop!
- [tries to cast another spell, but fails]
- Xander Harris: I love you!
- Willow Rosenberg: [crying] Stop!
- [Xander comes towards her, and she starts hitting him all over his body, but falls on her knees into a moving hug with him, with her bawling]
- Xander Harris: [whispering] I love you...
- [while still crying and hugging Xander, Willow's hair gradually becomes redder and her veins disappears, allowing the old Willow to appear]
- Rupert Giles: Buffy, what's happened here?
- Buffy Summers: God. I don't even know where to start.
- Rupert Giles: Well, Willow's clearly been abusing the magics.
- Buffy Summers: She has... She was, and I barely even noticed. Giles, everything's just been so... Xander left Anya at the altar, and Anya's a vengeance demon again. Dawn's a total klepto. Money's been so tight that I've been slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace, and... and I've been sleeping with Spike.
- Rupert Giles: [pause; then laughs] I'm sorry.
- Anya: Giles...! You're not dead!
- Rupert Giles: No.
- Anya: [hugs him tightly] Ohh!
- Rupert Giles: However, I am still in some pain.
- Anya: Oh. Well, why aren't you dead? Why aren't I dead?
- Rupert Giles: Uh, the threat's gone. Willow has been stopped.
- Anya: Oh... You mean she's, uh...
- Rupert Giles: No, she's alive. It, uh, the magic she took from me, it did- it did what I hoped it would do.
- Anya: Oh, you dosed her. You knew she'd take your powers all along.
- Rupert Giles: Well, I- The gift that was given me by the coven, it's the true essence of magic. It... Willow's magic came from a place of rage and power.
- Anya: And vengeance. Don't forget vengeance.
- Rupert Giles: Oh. How could I? In any case, the magic she took from me, tapped into... the spark of the humanity she had left. Helped her to feel again. Gave Xander the opportunity to reach her.
- Anya: Xander?
- Rupert Giles: Yes. It was he who got to her in time... He saved us all.
- Anya: Thanks a lot for coming. It was good of you to teleport all this way. Though, in retrospect, it probably would have been better if you hadn't come and given Willow all that magic that made her, like, ten times more powerful. That would have been a plus.
- [last lines]
- Cave Demon: You have endured the required trials.
- Spike: Bloody right I have. So you give me what I want. Make me what I was, so Buffy can get what she deserves.
- Cave Demon: Very well. We will return your soul.
- [Spike yells in pain as he gets his soul back]
- Dawn Summers: Where are we going?
- Xander Harris: I have no idea.
- Dawn Summers: What?
- Xander Harris: I don't know, okay? I can't even run away well. That's something I'm usually good at.
- Dawn Summers: Maybe we should go back and help.
- Xander Harris: Yeah, 'cause I've been such a big help already. Standing around like a monkey while Buffy gets shot. Tara's dead and Willow's... losing...
- Dawn Summers: Well feeling sorry for yourself isn't helping either, Xander, okay...? You know, if Spike were here, he'd go back and fight.
- Xander Harris: Sure, if he wasn't too busy trying to rape your sister.
- Dawn Summers: [stunned] What?
- Xander Harris: Forget it.
- Dawn Summers: I don't believe you.
- Xander Harris: Fine.
- Dawn Summers: He wouldn't do that.
- Xander Harris: Is this blind spot, like, a genetic trait with the Summers women? The only useful thing Spike ever did was finally leave town.
- Buffy Summers: Willow, listen to him. I don't want to fight you anymore.
- Willow Rosenberg: I don't wanna fight you either. I wanna fight *him*.
- Rupert Giles: Stay down.
- Willow Rosenberg: No. Remember that little spat we had before you left? When you were under the delusion that you were still relevant here? You called me a rank, arrogant amateur... Well, buckle up, Rupert... 'cause I've turned pro.
- [first lines]
- Buffy Summers: Giles?
- Anya: Giles.
- Willow Rosenberg: Uh-oh. Daddy's home. I'm in wicked trouble now.
- Rupert Giles: You have no idea.
- Willow Rosenberg: Get out of here.
- Xander Harris: Oh, no. You're not the only one with powers, you know. You may be a hopped-up uber-witch, but this carpenter can drywall you into the next century.