- Andrew Wells: Uh, Willow, a call for you from L.A. Somebody named Fred. Guy sounds kind of effeminate.
- Rupert Giles: Everything's terrible! Total catastrophe!
- Buffy Summers: Giles, what's wrong?
- Rupert Giles: [loudly] Have you seen the new library? Th-Th-Th-Th-There's nothing but computers. There's not a book to be seen. I-I don't know where to begin, Buffy.
- Spike: Oh, you have got to be joking! What now?
- Rupert Giles: t shall access the cerebral cortex via the optic nerve.
- Spike: Oh, bollocks! All the rubbish people keep stickin' in my head, it's a wonder there's any room for my brain.
- Rupert Giles: I don't think it takes up that much space, do you?
- Buffy Summers: Spike is the strongest warrior we have. And we are gonna need him if we're gonna come out of this thing alive. If you try anything again, he'll kill you. More importantly, I'll let him.
- Principal Robin Wood: You remind me of my, um...
- Buffy Summers: Your mother?
- Principal Robin Wood: Yeah. Yeah, what I remember of her anyway.
- Buffy Summers: Gotta tell ya, not a line every girl likes to hear, but in this case, compliment taken.
- Principal Robin Wood: Wait, sorry. Chip?
- Rupert Giles: Uh, it's a long story.
- Buffy Summers: The military put a chip in Spike's head, so he couldn't hurt anyone.
- Rupert Giles: And that would be the abridged version.
- [regarding the lyric that triggers Spike]
- Buffy Summers: [to Giles] Uh, boring, old and English. Hmm. Just like you- ull Brynner... Yul Brynner... But a-a British Yul Brynner.
- [last lines]
- Rupert Giles: Buffy. I...
- [sighs]
- Rupert Giles: I-I understand your anger. Please believe me, we d- we did what we...
- Buffy Summers: He's alive. Spike's alive. Wood failed.
- Rupert Giles: Well, that doesn't change anything. What I told you is still true. You need to learn...
- Buffy Summers: No... I think you've taught me everything I need to know.
- Buffy Summers: I have a mission... to win this war. To save the world... I don't have time for vendettas.
- Spike: Right. Let's get this over with. What are you gonna do? Some hypno-beam, a disarming spell?
- Rupert Giles: Not exactly. The First has brainwashed you. There's something in you subconscious that it's using to provoke a violent reaction. So... we have to put this in your brain.
- Spike: Bugger that!
- Dawn Summers: "Hopefully"? So, it might not work?
- Rupert Giles: W-Well, the stone's just a catalyst for the process. The rest is up to Spike.
- Spike: And how do you expect to get that hunk of rubble into my cranium?
- [first lines]
- [New York City, 1977]
- Spike: Well, all right! Got the moves, don't ya? I'm gonna ride you hard before I put you away, luv.
- Nikki Wood: You sure about that? You actually look a little wet and limp to me. And I ain't you "luv."
- Spike: I don't give a piss about you mum. She was a Slayer. I was a vampire. That's the way the game is played.