- [in Buffy's dream]
- PA Announcer: The demons have escaped. Please run for your lives.
- Riley Finn: This could be trouble. We'd better make a fort.
- Adam: I'll get some pillows.
- [in Willows dream]
- Buffy Summers: [to Riley, in a play] But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no-account hoodlums like you? Hoodlums, yes! I mean you, and your friends, your whole sex. Throw 'em in the sea for all I care. Throw 'em in and wait for the bubbles. Men with your groping and spitting. All groin, no brain. Three billion of ya passing around the same worn-out urge. *Men*... with your... *sales*.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Principal Snyder: I walked by your guidance counselor's office one time. A bunch of you were sitting there, waiting to be shepherded. I remember it smelled like dead flowers. Like decay. Then it hit me. The hope of our nation's future is a bunch of mulch.
- Xander Harris: You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Spike: Giles here is gonna teach me to be a Watcher. Says I got the stuff.
- Rupert Giles: Spike's like a son to me.
- Rupert Giles: That's good. I was into that for a while, but... I got other stuff goin' on... You gotta have something. Gotta be with movin' forward.
- Buffy Summers: Like a shark.
- Xander Harris: Like a shark with feet and... much less fins.
- Spike: And on land.
- Rupert Giles: Very good.
- [in Giles' dream]
- [on stage telling a joke badly and being heckled]
- Anya: Quiet! You'll miss the humorous conclusion.
- [in Giles' dream]
- [with cheese slices on his head and shoulders]
- Cheese Man: I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
- [in Giles' dream]
- Rupert Giles: [singing] It's strange / It's not like anything / We've faced before / It seems familiar / Somehow / Of course / The spell we cast with Buffy / Must have released / Some primal evil / That's come back seeking / I'm not sure what / Willow / Look through the Chronicles / For some reference / To a warrior beast / I've got to warn Buffy / There's every chance she might be next / And Xander / Help Willow / And try not to bleed / On my couch / I've just had it steam cleaned / No wait...
- [microphone screeches and goes dead]
- [in Xander's dream]
- Rupert Giles: [to Spike on a swing] Come on. Put your back into it. A Watcher scoffs at gravity.
- [last lines]
- [Buffy remembering words from the dream]
- Tara Maclay: [voice only] You think you know... what's to come... what you are. You haven't even begun.
- Joyce Summers: I'm, uh, guessing I missed some fun?
- Willow Rosenberg: The spirit of the first Slayer tried to kill us in our dreams.
- Joyce Summers: Oh. You want some hot chocolate?
- [in Giles' dream]
- Spike: I've hired myself out as an attraction.
- Rupert Giles: Sideshow freak?
- Spike: Well, at least it's showbiz.
- [in Buffy's dream]
- Tara Maclay: [first Slayer speaking through Tara] The Slayer does not walk in this world.
- Buffy Summers: I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Anya: [to Xander] I'll be fine. I think I've figured out how to steer by gesturing emphatically.
- [in Buffy's dream]
- [standing in her bedroom in her house]
- Buffy Summers: Faith and I just made that bed.
- Tara Maclay: For who?
- Buffy Summers: I thought you were here to tell me... The guys aren't here, are they? We were gonna hang out and watch movies.
- Tara Maclay: You lost them.
- Buffy Summers: No... No... I think they need me to find them.
- [shot of the digital alarm clock next to the bed, showing 7:30 AM]
- Buffy Summers: It's so late.
- Tara Maclay: Oh... that clock's completely wrong. Here.
- [shot of Tara holding out the Tarot card "Manus". It has a picture of two hands crossed, one open, the other balled into a fist]
- Buffy Summers: I'm never gonna use those.
- Tara Maclay: You think you know... what's to come... what you are. You haven't even begun.
- Buffy Summers: I think I need to go find the others.
- [leaves]
- Tara Maclay: [to herself] Be back before dawn.
- [in Willows dream]
- Rupert Giles: All right everyone! Pay attention! In just a few moments, that curtain is gonna open on our very first production. Now everyone that Willow's ever met is out in that audience, including all of us. That means we have to be perfect. Stay in character, remember your lines and energy, energy, energy especially in the musical numbers!
- [Willow sees a shadowy figure moving in the background]
- Willow Rosenberg: Did anyone see that?
- Rupert Giles: Acting is not about behaving, it's about hiding. The audience wants to find you, strip you naked and eat you alive, so hide.
- [Harmony bites at his neck]
- Rupert Giles: Stop that. Now, costumes, sets, um, the things that you, uh, you know, uh, you, um, you hold them, you touch them, uh, use them, um...
- Harmony Kendall: Props?
- Rupert Giles: No.
- Riley Finn: Props?
- Rupert Giles: Yes! It's all about subterfuge.
- [Harmony continues attempting to bite him]
- Rupert Giles: That's very annoying. Now, go on out there, lie like dogs, and have a wonderful time. Now, if we can stay in focus, keep our heads, and if Willow can stop stepping on everyone's cues, I know this will be the best production of "Death of a Salesman" we've ever done.
- [Harmony continues attempting to bite him]
- Rupert Giles: Stop it. Good luck everyone! Break a leg!
- [in Willow's dream]
- Buffy Summers: Your costume is perfect.
- [whispers]
- Buffy Summers: Nobody's gonna know the truth. You know, about you.
- Willow Rosenberg: Costume?
- Buffy Summers: You're already in character! Oh, I shoulda done that!
- [in Willows dream]
- Riley Finn: [in a play] Why, hello, little lady. Can I hold those milk pails for you?
- Harmony Kendall: Why, thank you, but they're not very heavy. Why have you come to our lonely, small town which has no post office and very few exports?
- Riley Finn: I've come looking for a man... a salesman.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Soldier: [Apocalypse Now on TV] We gotta keep goin' men. We gotta take that hill... Damn this war.
- Rupert Giles: I have to say, I really feel "Apocalypse Now" is overrated.
- Xander Harris: No, no. It gets better.
- Soldier: [on TV] Men.
- Xander Harris: I remember that it gets better.
- Soldier: [on TV] Oh, my God. What's happened to my men? *Aah*!
- Buffy Summers: Want some corn?
- Xander Harris: Butter flavor?
- Buffy Summers: New car smell.
- Xander Harris: Cool.
- [in Xander's dream]
- [door at the top of his basement stairs is being broken down]
- Xander Harris: That's not the way out.
- [door slams open showing Xander's father]
- Xander's Father: What the hell is wrong with you? You won't come upstairs? What are you, *ashamed* of us? Your mother's crying her guts out!
- Xander Harris: You don't understand.
- Xander's Father: [comes down the steps] No. You don't understand. The line ends here with us and you're not gonna change that. You haven't got the heart.
- [reaches into Xander's chest and rips out his heart]
- [in Willow's dream]
- Xander Harris: So whatcha been doin'? Doing spells?
- [to Oz]
- Xander Harris: She does spells with Tara.
- Oz: Yeah, I heard about that.
- Willow Rosenberg: I'm gonna be late.
- [leaves]
- Xander Harris: Sometimes I think about two women doin' a spell... and then I do a spell by myself.
- [in Willow's dream]
- Tara Maclay: I think it's strange. I mean, I think I should worry that we haven't found her name.
- Willow Rosenberg: Who, Miss Kitty?
- [Shot of their kitten playing with a ball of red yarn in slow-motion]
- Tara Maclay: You'd think she'd let us know her name by now.
- Willow Rosenberg: She will. She's not all grown yet.
- [in Buffy's dream]
- Riley Finn: We're drawing up a plan for world domination. The key element? Coffee makers that think.
- Buffy Summers: World domination? Is that a good?
- Riley Finn: Baby, we're the government. It's what we do.
- [in Willows dream]
- Tara Maclay: [backstage] Things aren't going very well.
- Willow Rosenberg: No! This drama class is just... I think they're really not doing things in the proper way, and now I'm in a play and my whole family's out there, and... why is there a cowboy in "Death of a Salesman", anyway?
- Tara Maclay: You don't understand yet, do you?
- Willow Rosenberg: [whispers] Is there something following me?
- Tara Maclay: Yes.
- Willow Rosenberg: Well, what, uh, what should I do? The-The play's gonna start soon, and I don't even know my lines.
- Tara Maclay: The play's already started. That's not the point.
- Buffy Summers: You know, you could have brought that up to us before we did it.
- Rupert Giles: I did. I said there could be dire consequences.
- Buffy Summers: Yes, but you say that about chewing too fast.
- [in Buffy's dream]
- Adam: [to Buffy] Aggression is a natural human tendency... though you and me come by it another way.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Principal Snyder: Are you a soldier?
- Xander Harris: I'm a comfortador.
- Principal Snyder: You're neither. You're a whipping boy, raised by mongrels, and set on a sacrificial stone.
- Xander Harris: Dinner is served.
- [entering with a bowl of popcorn]
- Xander Harris: And my very own recipe.
- Willow Rosenberg: Ooh! You pushed the button on the microwave that says "popcorn"?
- Xander Harris: Actually, I pushed defrost, but, uh, Joyce was there in the clinch.
- Xander Harris: Yeah. From now on, you keep your Slayer friends out of my dreams. Is that clear?
- Willow Rosenberg: She's not good for the sleepin'.
- Buffy Summers: Ahh... well, at least you all didn't dream about that guy with the cheese. Don't know where the hell that came from.
- [in Xander's dream]
- Xander Harris: I move pretty fast. You know, a man's always after...
- Joyce Summers: Conquest?
- Xander Harris: I'm a conquistador.
- Xander Harris, Joyce Summers: Are you sure it isn't comfort?
- Xander Harris: I'm a comfortador, also.
- Joyce Summers: I do know the difference. I've learned about boys.
- [in Xander's dream]
- [in bathroom, he turns and finds scientists and soldiers from the Initiative watching]
- Xander Harris: Okay, I'm gonna find another bathroom.
- [first lines]
- Buffy Summers: Are you sure you'll be all right? 'Cause I can be there in the morning.
- Riley Finn: It's just a debriefing. They're not gonna make me disapper and they're not pinning anything on me. I got Graham and a lot of the guys testifying I'm the reason they're alive. I might actually get out of this with an honorable discharge.
- Giles: In return for your silence no doubt.
- Riley Finn: Oh yeah. Having the inside scoop on the administration's own Bay of Mutated Pigs is definitely an advantage.
- Giles: It's like you're blackmailing the government.
- [they look at her]
- Giles: In a... patriotic way.