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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gregory Scott Cummins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

James Marsters: Spike

School Hard

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

James Marsters credited as playing...

Spike

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Quotes15

  • Big Ugly: When I kill her, it'll be the greatest event since the Crucifixion. And I should know. I was there.
  • Spike: You were there? Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
  • Big Ugly: I oughta rip your throat out.
  • Spike: I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
  • Spike: Yeah, I did a couple of Slayers in my time. I don't like to brag.
  • [laughs]
  • Spike: Who am I kidding? I love to brag!
  • Spike: A slayer with family and friends. That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
  • Buffy Summers: Do we really need weapons for this?
  • Spike: I just like them. They make me feel all manly.
  • Spike: So. How 'bout this Slayer? Is she tough?
  • [Cut to Buffy's room. She's standing at her mirror, trying to brush her hair]
  • Buffy Summers: Ow!
  • Joyce Summers: What's wrong?
  • Buffy Summers: I spent a good part of my allowance on this new cream rinse, and it's neither creamy nor rinsey.
  • Joyce Summers: Life is hard, dear.
  • Buffy Summers: Don't I know it.
  • [studies her image critically]
  • Buffy Summers: Is that a split end?
  • Joyce Summers: I got the mail.
  • Buffy Summers: Good.
  • Joyce Summers: Which included a reminder notice about Parent-Teacher night. Thursday.
  • Buffy Summers: [in trepidation] That's good.
  • Joyce Summers: Which you were planning on telling me about...?
  • Buffy Summers: Oh, for... the last two weeks.
  • Joyce Summers: Uh-huh. So, what do you think your teachers are gonna tell me about you?
  • Buffy Summers: Well, I think they'll all agree that I always bring a pen to class, ready to absorb the knowledge.
  • Joyce Summers: And, uh, this absorption rate? How is it reflected in your homework and test scores?
  • Buffy Summers: What can you really tell about a person from a test score?
  • Joyce Summers: Whether or not she's ever going out with her friends again.
  • [Buffy blanches]
  • Joyce Summers: Well, I'm looking forward to meeting your new principal.
  • Buffy Summers: Won't that be something?
  • [after watching Buffy slay a vampire, Spike comes out of the shadows, slowly clapping his hands]
  • Spike: Nice work, love.
  • Buffy Summers: Who are you?
  • Spike: You'll find out on Saturday.
  • Buffy Summers: What happens on Saturday?
  • Spike: I kill you.
  • [last lines]
  • Spike: How's the Annoying One?
  • Drusilla: He doesn't wanna play.
  • Spike: It figures. Well, I suppose I'd better go make nice.
  • [He walks over to the Anointed One and kneels before him]
  • The Anointed One: You failed.
  • Spike: I, um... I offer penance.
  • Vampire: Penance? You should lay down your life! Our numbers are depleted. The Feast of St. Vigeous has been ruined by your impatience!
  • Spike: I was rash... And if I had to do it all over again...
  • [laughs]
  • Spike: Who am I kidding? I would do it exactly the same, only I'd do this...
  • [grabs the Anointed One]
  • The Anointed One: No!
  • Spike: ...first!
  • [Spike sticks The Anointed One in the nearby cage and starts pulling a chain, lifting the cage up from the floor]
  • Spike: From now on, we're gonna have a little less ritual... and a little more fun around here.
  • [the cage is lifted into the sunlight. The Anointed One screams as he dies]
  • Spike: Let's see what's on TV.
  • Spike: You think you can fool me?... You were my sire, man! You were my... Yoda!
  • Angel: Things change.
  • Spike: Not us! Not demons. Man, I can't believe this. You Uncle Tom.
  • Spike: Me and Dru, we're movin' in... Now... Any of you wanna test who's got the biggest wrinklies 'round here... step on up.
  • [to The Anointed One]
  • Spike: I'll do your Slayer for you. But you keep your flunkies from tryin' anything behind my back. Deal?
  • [the Anointed One nods]
  • Drusilla: I can't see her. The Slayer. I can't see. It's dark where she is. Kill her. Kill her, Spike. Kill her for me?
  • Spike: It's done, baby.
  • Drusilla: Kill her for Princess?
  • Spike: I'll chop her into messes.
  • [to the remains of the Order of Aurelius]
  • Spike: Do you know what I find works real good with Slayers? Killing them.
  • Spike: I'll tell you what. As a personal favor from me to you, I'll make it quick. It won't hurt a bit.
  • Buffy Summers: No, Spike. It's gonna hurt a lot.
  • Buffy Summers: You shouldn't have come here.
  • Spike: No. I messed up your doilies and stuff. But I just got so bored.
  • Spike: So, who do you kill for fun around here?
  • Drusilla: Spike? I'm cold.
  • Spike: I got you.
  • [puts his jacket around her]
  • Drusilla: I'm a princess.
  • Spike: That's what you are.
  • Spike: [to the teacher:] I will be a kind man. You are too old to eat.
  • [breaks his neck]
  • Spike: But not to kill.
  • [to the other vampire:]
  • Spike: I feel better now.

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