BUFFY: (re girly pillow shams) I know they're ... so cute you could die, but... ...it's all I got.

GILES: (laughs) Think nothing of it. It's, it's, uh, whimsical.

BUFFY: They were mine when I was little. Couldn't find the guest sheets. Mom always did this stuff. They don't actually fit. I blame the sofa. We need one of those pull-out kinds. The kind with no payments 'til two-thousand-and-infinity.

GILES: What?

BUFFY: Oh, it's ... just money stuff. It turns out ... Mom left me some, and while I was dead, it got squandered on luxuries like ... food and clothing.

GILES: How bad is it?

BUFFY: Anya says pretty bad. I'm kinda taking her word for it. Actually, I'm kinda trying to not think about it.

GILES: Sound policy. At least for tonight.

BUFFY: Figured I'd put it out of my mind. You know, take a break. Get some perspective ... and then wake up at four a.m. terrified.

GILES: Buffy, perhaps you're putting too much pressure on yourself. I mean, to return from some ... unknown level of Hell ... it's only natural that coming back ... will be a process.

BUFFY: In the meantime, I'm scaring people.

GILES: Well, that can take time, too. (pause) Well, if it's any consolation, life can be ... pretty overwhelming even for people who haven't been ... where you have.

BUFFY: I guess.

GILES: Look, tomorrow morning, you and I will sit down together and we'll go through everything. Every bill, one by one. We'll work it out together.

BUFFY: I'm glad you're back.

GILES: Well, I'm glad you are too.

(Giles reaches out, but she gets up and leaves)

• Buffy & Giles

written by: Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
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