Sarah Michelle Gellar credited as playing...
Buffy Summers
- Buffy Summers: Was it sudden?
- Tara Maclay: What?
- Buffy Summers: Your mother.
- Tara Maclay: No... And yes... It's always sudden.
- Anya: I wish that Joyce didn't die... because she was nice. And now we all hurt.
- Xander Harris: Anya, ever the wordsmith.
- Buffy Summers: Thank you.
- Buffy Summers: She's cold...
- 911 Operator: The body's cold?
- Buffy Summers: No, my mom! Should-Should I make her warm?
- [first lines]
- [Buffy enters her house, sees a bouquet of flowers and a note for her mom]
- Buffy Summers: Hey, flower-gettin' lady, want me to pick Dawn up from school?
- [sees her mom lying on the couch]
- Buffy Summers: Mom? What are you doing?
- [moves closer to see her lying still with her eyes open and fixed]
- Buffy Summers: [quieter] Mom...? Mom...? Mommy?
- Joyce Summers: I think we're just about ready for pie.
- Xander Harris: Then I'll be pretty much ready for barf.
- Buffy Summers: Xander!
- Dawn Summers: Gross.
- Xander Harris: o, no, barf from the eating, 'cause all was good, and too much goodness...
- Joyce Summers: I'm taking it as a compliment.
- [last lines]
- Dawn Summers: Is she cold?
- Buffy Summers: It's not her... It's not her... She's gone.
- Dawn Summers: Where'd she go?
- Joyce Summers: You are a demon child.
- Buffy Summers: I live to torment you. Is that so wrong?
- Joyce Summers: A daughter's duty, I suppose.