- Jonathan Levinson: Of course I'm scared. Last time we were here, 33.3 bar percent of us were flayed alive.
- Buffy Summers: I just...
- [sighs]
- Buffy Summers: If you knew what I've done, what I've let myself become. My best friends don't even... You'd laugh if you heard some of the things I've done to them.
- Holden Webster: Buffy... I'm here to kill you, not to judge you.
- Holden Webster: I heard a lot of rumors about you back then. You were all mysterious.
- Buffy Summers: I was?
- Holden Webster: Well, you were never around. A lot of kids thought you were dating some really old guy, or that you were just heavy religious. Scott Hope said you were gay.
- Buffy Summers: What? I dated that ringworm.
- Holden Webster: He says that about every girl he breaks up with. And then last year, big surprise, he comes out.
- Buffy Summers: Men. Do I know how to pick 'em.
- Dawn Summers: [sing song voice] Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious. I love you more than all the other fishes.
- [last lines]
- Cassie Newton: [as the First] You don't know hurts. This last year is gonna seem like cake after what I put you and your friends through and I am not a fan of easy death. Fact is, the whole good versus evil, balancing the scales thing? I'm over it. I'm done with the mortal coil. But believe me, I'm going for a big finish.
- Willow Rosenberg: "From beneath you, it devours."
- Cassie Newton: [as the First] Oh, not it. Me.
- Jonathan Levinson: We should have stayed in Mexico.
- Andrew Wells: I didn't like it there. Everybody spoke Mexicoan.
- Jonathan Levinson: You could've learned it. You learned the entire Klingon dictionary in two and a half weeks.
- [accidentally smears pizza sauce on one of Buffy's shirts]
- Dawn Summers: Oh! Ah. Hmm. She'll think it's blood.
- Jonathan Levinson: No, I'm serious. I really miss it. Time goes by, and everything drops away. All the cruelty, all the pain, all the humiliation. It all washes away. I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to everyday. I miss the people who never knew I existed. I miss 'em all... I wanna talk to them, you know? I wanna find out how they're doing. I-I wanna know what's going on in their lives.
- Andrew Wells: You know what? They don't wanna talk to you. All those people you just mentioned? Not *one* of them is sitting around going, "I wonder what Jonathan's up to right now?" Not one of them cares about you.
- Jonathan Levinson: Well, I still care about them. That's why I'm here.
- Warren Meers: [as The First] We've been over this. Now, that death thing was all part of the master plan. Come on. "If you strike me down..."
- Andrew Wells: "... I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Of course. Do you think Willow could kill me, too?
- Warren Meers: [as The First] Hey, don't worry. If Short Round pulls of his end of the bargain, we'll both become gods.
- Andrew Wells: "That boy is our last hope."
- Warren Meers: [as The First] "No. There is another."
- Andrew Wells: Wait. Really? Who's our last hope?
- Warren Meers: [as The First] No, I was just going with it. It was a thing. No, he's our last hope.
- Cassie Newton: [as the First] Hey.
- Willow Rosenberg: I know you. I mean, I-I saw your picture.
- Cassie Newton: [as the First] Yeah.
- [chuckles]
- Cassie Newton: I know. It's kinda weird because we never really met.
- Willow Rosenberg: Or kinda weird 'cause you're really dead.
- Holden Webster: Oh, my God!
- Buffy Summers: Oh, your God, what?
- Holden Webster: Oh, well, you know, not my God, because I defy him and all of his works. Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?
- Buffy Summers: Nothing solid.
- Andrew Wells: [to Warren/The First] You keep leaving me. I hate it when you leave me. One time you died, and I ended up a Mexican.
- Holden Webster: Hey, I-I don't bean to be Count Buttinsky here, but you just don't seem as thrilled. Is it because we're gonna fight?
- Buffy Summers: It's 'cause I'm gonna win.
- Holden Webster: [laughing] Hello. Two years of Tae Kwon Do and vampire strength. I think somebody's countin' their chickens.
- Dawn Summers: I cast you out with every prayer from every god that walks the Earth and crawls beneath...! I cast you out with the strength of those who love me! I cast your out with the strength I have inside me! And I cast you out into the void.
- [to a vampire she went to school with]
- Buffy Summers: Yeah, what I really need is emotional therapy from the evil dead.
- Joyce Summers: [as the First] I love you and I love Buffy, but she won't be there for you.
- Dawn Summers: What? Why are you...
- Joyce Summers: [as the First] When it's bad, Buffy won't choose you. She'll be against you.
- Buffy Summers: You son of a bitch.
- Holden Webster: What?
- Buffy Summers: I think I'm gonna kill you just a little bit more than usual.
- Holden Webster: We're gonna have to fight to the death, aren't we?
- Buffy Summers: It's the time-honored custom.