Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

The I in Team (2000)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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• [speaking over a comm-link through a monitor] 

  Buffy Summers : Professor Walsh...? That simple little recon you sent me on... wasn't a raccoon.

  [Walsh slowly faces the monitor with Riley beside her] 

  Buffy Summers : Turns out it was me trapped in the sewers with a faulty weapon and two of your pet demons... If you think that's enough to kill me... you really don't know what a Slayer is... Trust me when I say you're gonna find out.

• Rupert Giles : It'll be dark soon... I think it would be wise for you to leave Sunnydale.

  Spike : I'm not going anywhere... not until those bastards undo whatever they did to me. Put me back the way I was.

  Xander Harris : Sure, just explain to the nice scientist guys that you *really* miss killing and torturing innocent people.

  Spike : You think that would work?

  Rupert Giles : Spike, Lord knows why I'm telling you this. It's for your own good. As long as the Initiative is in operation, it's not safe for you here.

  Buffy Summers : No... It's not safe for any of us.

• Buffy Summers : You're quite the regimental soldier.

  Riley Finn : I am how they trained me.

  Buffy Summers : They? Who they?

  Riley Finn : You know, the government. Plucked me out of Special-Op training for this.

  Buffy Summers : What did they tell you it was for?

  Riley Finn : Didn't. In the military, you learn to follow orders. Not ask questions.

  Buffy Summers : I don't understand. Aren't you curious about all the science and research stuff they're doing?

  Riley Finn : I know all I need to know. We're doing good here. Protecting the public. Removing the subterrestrial threat... It's work worth doing.

• Professor Maggie Walsh : This is your objective. Sub-T-67119. Demon class, Polgara species. Though visual confirmation has not yet been made, we're confident of the target's approximate position, as it leaves behind a distinct protein marker. Dr. Angleman will brief you on its defenses.

  Dr. Angelman : When threatened, bone skewers jut from the creature's forearms during battle. It's imperative when ensnaring it not to damage its arms. That's all you really need to know.

  Buffy Summers : Question.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Buffy?

  Buffy Summers : Why exactly can't we damage this Polka thing's arms? I-I, um, not-not that I want to. It's just, in my experience, when fighting for your life, body parts get damaged and better its bits than mine. Or ours.

  Dr. Angelman : We wish to study the physiology of every subterrestrial's natural defenses. Part of the research we do here. Uh... Yes?

  Buffy Summers : What do they want?

  Dr. Angelman : Want?

  Buffy Summers : Why are they here? Sacrifices, treasure, or-or they just gettin' rampagy? I find it's easier to predict their responses if I know...

  Dr. Angelman : Uh, they're not sentient, just destructive, I believe.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : They do have keen eyesight, however. You might wanna be suited up for this.

  [Buffy glances at the green-clad commandos around her] 

  Buffy Summers : Oh, you mean the camo and stuff? I thought about it, but, on me, it's gonna look all Private Benjamin.

  [some of the commandos chuckle] 

  Buffy Summers : Don't worry. I've patrolled in this halter many times.

  [all the commandos laugh] 

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Why don't we give our attention to Dr. Angleman...

  [Buffy raises her hand] 

  Professor Maggie Walsh : ... and save all questions until the end?

  Dr. Angelman : Actually, I'm finished.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Oh. Uh, well, Agent Finn, deploy the teams.

  Riley Finn : Okay, listen up. We'll be going in a four-squad setup. Team Leaders: Gates, Taggart, and Stavros. Alpha Team, you're with me.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Report for TLs for assignments and weapon requisitions. Reminder: this is a zap-and-trap, people. Capture, not a kill. Any questions?

  [sees a raised hand] 

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Buffy.

• Professor Maggie Walsh : Your visitor's pass. And I've assembled some reading material to bring you up to speed.

  Buffy Summers : Oh. And I thought I was never gonna get homework from you again.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : You can't take that home. That's classified material. Highly sensitive. When you're through reading those pages, you'll have to eat them.

  Riley Finn : She's joking.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Don't worry. Doesn't happen very often. Shall we...? Much of our hands-on research with the HSTs is performed here. We call this "The Pit."

  Buffy Summers : And what do you call those?

  [Buffy sees a pair of green squid-faced demons lying on two tables, while scrub-clad techs work on them] 

  Riley Finn : Tough. It took eight of us to bring those two down.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : They'll be under our control soon enough. Doctor Angleman! Head of our science team. He's a leader in the field of xenomorphic behavior modification.

  Buffy Summers : Behavior modification?

  Professor Maggie Walsh : We've made significant advances in reconditioning the sub-terrestrials, bringing them to a point where they no longer pose a threat.

  Buffy Summers : So I've seen.

  [Walsh and Riley look at her] 

  Buffy Summers : On the Discovery Channel. With gorillas and sharks. They-They made them all nice. You haven't seen it?

• [Professor Walsh running a testing mission at night] 

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Lights...! Took the patrol team 42 minutes to track you. And you neutralized them in 28 seconds.

  Buffy Summers : I was just lucky.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : I see. Well, still. Very impressive.

  [leaves] 

  Buffy Summers : [to Riley]  I was just being modest with the whole lucky thing. You got that, right?

  Riley Finn : I got it.

  Graham Miller : Awesome, Buffy.

  Forrest Gates : Pfft!

  Riley Finn : See? You're a hit. Everybody loves you.

• Professor Maggie Walsh : It's a small job. Reconnaissance. Probably a waste of a Slayer's abilities, but my boys are on assignment, so I...

  Buffy Summers : No, it's okay. I'm up for some action.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : I doubt you'll get any on this one. We have a reading of a class-three subterrestrial moving through the sewer tunnels just on the edge of town.

  Buffy Summers : Class three?

  Professor Maggie Walsh : It's a low-level threat. Minimal aggression. Meager defenses.

  Commando : Professor Walsh.

  [approaches and hands her a taser rifle] 

  Professor Maggie Walsh : They barely show up on the scanner and occasionally turn out to be raccoons.

  Buffy Summers : [looking at the gun]  Wow. You're not crazy about raccoons, huh?

  Professor Maggie Walsh : We always take precautions. All we need you to do is get a visual on this thing. This will feed me back an image, and I can advise you from there. I don't wanna put you in any unnecessary danger.

  Buffy Summers : Oh, that's okay. Danger's my birthright. Sorry. Um, Professor Walsh... there's, um, there's still some stuff about all this that I'm not clear on.

  Professor Maggie Walsh : Well, when you get back, we can have a talk.

  Buffy Summers : Good. Okay. When I get back... Am I supposed to salute you?

  Professor Maggie Walsh : No.

• [Willow, Xander and Anya have been waiting for Buffy at the Bronze; now she shows up with Riley, Forrest, Graham, and others] 

  Buffy Summers : Oh, you know, I didn't think that you would mind. Uh, Riley and the guys were throwing a little impromptu celebration in my honor. And it made it, like, impossible to not invite them.

  Willow Rosenberg : Oh, that's neat about the celebrating. I-I just thought this was supposed to be, you know, us. Just the Scooby corps, you know? I mean, I could have invited somebody else if I knew it was an open free-for-all.

  Buffy Summers : I'm sorry. I had no idea. My total bad. So, who did you want to invite?

  Willow Rosenberg : What?

  Buffy Summers : You said you wanted to invite someone.

  Willow Rosenberg : No, not... No one. I mean... I meant a hypothetical someone, which is to say no one.