Robin Sachs credited as playing...
Ethan Rayne • The First
- [everybody arrives in front of a fortress]
- Ethan Rayne: It's here. The First. I can taste its power in the air.
- Cassandra Rayne: You... I sense something about you, some kinship. Who are you?
- Ethan Rayne: Ethan Rayne, madam. Decidedly *not* at your services.
- Willow Rosenberg: He's your great, great... something. A descendant.
- Cassandra Rayne: I can sense the dark magic in you, the chaos in your soul. I was a soldier of light, and this is what my bloodline has come to? You repulse me.
- Ethan Rayne: The feeling is entirely mutual. This isn't fair, you know. Technically I've won. The power I bargained for should be mine. But if you destroy the First...
- Cassandra Rayne: Silence dog. I would silence you myself if I were able.
- Spike: Here, let me get that for you.
- [Spike punches out Ethan]
- Cassandra Rayne: My thanks, kind sir.
- [Cassandra then glares at the fortress]
- Cassandra Rayne: I... I know this place. This is where I... this is where I died. But who are all of you?
- Buffy: We're trying to finish what you started, Cassandra. Trying to destroy the First. I'm Buffy Summers. The Slayer.
- Cassandra Rayne: A Slayer. This is good fortune. I am but a lost soul, and can no longer wield Hope's Dagger. But you are worthy Slayer. It shall be you.
- Willow Rosenberg: That... that's great and all, so, thanks. But where does Buffy find Hope's Dagger?
- Cassandra Rayne: Inside the fortress. It will still be there. Only one who is worthy may wield it.
- Faith: You don't gotta be virgin or anything, right? Cuz that could be a problem.
- Cassandra Rayne: No. Only one can go, and it should be a Champion of the Powers. There are no Champions present, but a Slayer will more than suffice. Buffy must go alone.
- Faith: Sucks to be you.
- Buffy: At times. Now, for instance.
- [Ethan's unconscience body disappears in a flash of light]
- Willow Rosenberg: Ethan! What happened to him? He just went poof.
- Cassandra Rayne: Perhaps the First has plans for my traitorous descendant after all.
- Buffy: Only one way to find out.
- Xander Harris: Wait a minute. We're all here for a reason. Well, the rest of us are here because Ethan picked us. And Sid want to get away from the First. But what about Ethan? Maybe this is why he's here.
- Ethan Rayne: Don't look at me. You're trying to keep me from getting the power I've worked all these years for, and you want me to help? You're all daft.
- Buffy: No. I think Xander's right. She's *your* ancestor, Ethan. You've got to take the eyes.
- [Ethan takes the eye and a portal appears in midair]
- Faith: Now we're cooking with gas.
- [the First appears]
- The First: [to Buffy] You are a fool, Slayer. Did you truly think that you could do such a thing, in *this place*, without me knowing your every move?
- Sid the Dummy: You know, for a being that likes a good wager, you seem awful eager to disrupt the contest before it's over.
- The First: Little matchstick man. Do not try my patience. You are not even a part of this contest. The only reason I do not destroy you is that I am savoring the nurturing of hope in your heart, just as I will enjoy bearing witness to the destruction of that hope. Now, Slayer, it is time for the final contest to begin.
- Buffy: [to everyone] Ready?
- Xander Harris: Can I go home now?
- Buffy: Let's go.
- Sid the Dummy: Jeez! Took your sweet time. Demons are trying to whittle me down to a toothpick and you five are gallavanting around on your little scavenger hunt.
- Buffy: I'm not sure being eaten by zombie penguins counts as gallavanting.
- Faith: Actually, I'm having a blast. Beats prison hands down. Girl can't get this exercise in stir.
- Spike: Right, look, can we just put the sodding flesh puzzle together and be done with it?
- [They put the body parts together, the body assembles and Cassandra comes back to life]
- Ethan Rayne: It's true. I can't believe it... my own ancestor, a warrior for the Powers.
- Cassandra Rayne: Cold. Why am I so cold?