- [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?
- Willow Rosenberg: Nervous?
- Xander: No way. I'm full of that good old kamikaze spirit.
- Rupert Giles: Xander, just because this is never gonna work is no need to be negative.
- Colonel McNamara: You've got some nerve, lady.
- [opens Buffy's weapon bag]
- Buffy Summers: You have to listen to us.
- Colonel McNamara: 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 McNamara: Like...
- Willow: It's a gourd.
- Rupert Giles: Magic gourd.
- Colonel McNamara: [stares in disbelief] What kind of *freaks* are you people?
- Buffy Summers: 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 McNamara: And you do?
- Buffy Summers: I'm the Slayer... You're playing on my turf.
- [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 Harris: 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 Harris: 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 Harris: Anya, you... Forget it.
- Anya: So they all think you're a lost, directionless loser with no plans for his future. Pfft!
- Xander Harris: Anya, you can't pfft that stuff away.
- Anya: Why not?
- Xander Harris: 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 Harris: Yeah... Yeah, it doesn't matter.
- [looks to the ceiling, unconvinced]
- [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 Maclay: Hey, look. You did it!
- Willow Rosenberg: I didn't. I haven't even finished typing in the new code.
- Tara Maclay: Something's doing it.
- Willow Rosenberg: 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.
- Colonel McNamara: Every inch of this installation is under constant 24-hour surveillance.
- Willow Rosenberg: Including the secret lab?
- Colonel McNamara: Including everything...! What secret lab?
- Spike: Well, then everything's all right and we all get to be not staked through the heart. Good work team.
- [Buffy and Willow are rope climbing down a shaft]
- Buffy Summers: How you doing?
- Willow Rosenberg: Super. What was I thinkin' using stairs all this time?
- [preforming the spell]
- Willow Rosenberg: Spiritus... spirit.
- [Willow hands a card to Xander]
- Xander Harris: Animus... heart.
- [Willow hands a card to Giles]
- Rupert Giles: Sophus... mind.
- Willow Rosenberg: And Manus... the hand.
- [last lines]
- Mr. Ward: The Initiative itself will be filled in with concrete. Burn it down, gentlemen. Burn it down and salt the earth.
- Buffy Summers: Sorry, I don't jump through hoops on command. I've never really been one to toe the line.