Michelle Trachtenberg credited as playing...
Dawn Summers
- Dawn Summers: And these things are shadow-casters. You put them in motion, and they tell you a story. It says, "You can't just watch. You have to see."
- Anya: What the hell does that mean?
- Xander Harris: It's cryptic. I don't like it. Every time instructions get cryptic, someone gets hurt... Usually me.
- Dawn Summers: So, I took a look inside that emergency bag of Principal Wood's.
- Buffy Summers: And?
- Dawn Summers: Smelled weird. Kinda like Grandma's closet, but worse.
- Buffy Summers: I didn't know that was possible.
- Dawn Summers: Willow, how would you get Buffy back?
- Willow Rosenberg: That's what I'm saying. I don't even know.
- Dawn Summers: Okay, but if another witch was to do it, where would she start?
- Willow Rosenberg: Uh, physics, principles, basic laws.
- Dawn Summers: Such as?
- Willow Rosenberg: Uh, conservation of energies. You can't really create or destroy anything, just transfer.
- [Anya scoffs]
- Dawn Summers: I'm sorry. Are you helping?
- Anya: No. But at least I'm not galloping off in the wrong direction.
- Willow Rosenberg: Magic works off physics.
- Anya: Not without a catalyst. If you're talking about transferring energies, you need some kind of conduit.
- Buffy Summers: Don't you have any real homework?
- Dawn Summers: Oh, you mean, like, schoolwork?
- Buffy Summers: Yes.
- Dawn Summers: Well, I've got a system. It's called flunking out. No, just kidding. I'm paying someone to do my work. I'm kidding! I love to see your eyeballs change color when you think I'm gonna flunk out of...
- Dawn Summers: Do you know that ancient Sumerians do not speak English?
- Buffy Summers: They're worse than the French.
- Buffy Summers: Dawn, get the Potentials upstairs and break out that emergency kit.
- Dawn Summers: What are you going to do?
- Buffy Summers: I'm declaring an emergency.