James Marsters credited as playing...
Spike
- Spike: And just what brings our good principal to this neck of the gloom?
- Buffy Summers: I'm showing him our operation. Us.
- Spike: Fine by me. Big fight against evil comin' up. The more good guys we've got, the longer we'll all live.
- Principal Robin Wood: Is that what you are? A good guy?
- Spike: I haven't heard any complaints. Well, I have heard a few complaints over the years, but then I just killed whoever spoke up, and that was pretty much that.
- Buffy Summers: He's joking.
- Principal Robin Wood: No, he's not.
- Spike: No, I'm not.
- Spike: But, that's the old me I'm talkin' about.
- Principal Robin Wood: Why dont you tell me about that?
- Spike: There's not much to tell. I've changed.
- Principal Robin Wood: Oh. Now that you have a soul.
- Spike: Yeah. That was a big deal. Very... private.
- [to Buffy]
- Spike: What, are you just telling everyone now?
- Spike: Anya, *think*. I fight, demon boy gets lucky, I get knocked out, you get killed. True...? We both know the safest and sanest way of saving your life was to keep you with me, away from danger.
- Anya: Oh.
- [starts leaving]
- Spike: No need to thank me. I'm just the one who beat him off...
- [to Buffy]
- Spike: "Repelled him" would perhaps be the better phrase.
- Buffy Summers: Force yourself to do what can't be done or else we are not an army. We're just a bunch of girls waiting to be picked off and buried.
- [Spike starts to leave]
- Buffy Summers: Where are you going?
- Spike: Out. Since I'm neither a girl nor waiting, all this speechifying doesn't really apply to me, does it?
- Buffy Summers: Fine. Take a cell phone. That way, if I need someone to get weepy or wailed on, then I can call you.
- Spike: I don't know your feelings, big guy... but to me, a tussle like that... is good for the soul.