BUFFY: (kicking Spike out of bed) Did you kill her?

SPIKE: What?

BUFFY: The girl. Last night.

SPIKE: What girl? What are you talking about?

BUFFY: I caught the first act. I missed the curtain call. Did you kill her? Did you turn her? Is she one of your kind now?

SPIKE: Did-did you?are you following me?

BUFFY: Answer the question. Where is she?

SPIKE: Who knows? I talked to her is all.

BUFFY: Really. Looked like more than talking to me.

SPIKE: Well, I certainly didn't off her. Where are you getting this? You know I can't.

BUFFY: Right. The chip.

SPIKE: (incensed) No, not the chip! Not the chip, dammit. You honestly think I'd go to the end of the underworld and back to get my soul and then? Buffy, I can barely live with what I did. It haunts me. All of it. If you think that I would add to the body count now, you are crazy.

BUFFY: So, what?you just troll the Promenade looking for drunk co-eds cause you're hungry for conversation?

SPIKE: Oh, is that what this is? Right.

BUFFY: What?

SPIKE: You're jealous!

BUFFY: Don't play games. Not now.

SPIKE: Yeah, you saw me chatting up another bird, giving the eye to somebody else. Touched a nerve, didn't it?

BUFFY: Don't flatter yourself.

SPIKE: It burns, huh? But you can't admit it, so you trump up some charge about me being back on the juice.

BUFFY: This vampire I killed told me?

SPIKE: Told you what? That I go out? Yeah, I talk to people. Women. Talk to them 'cause I can't talk to you.

BUFFY: Oh, Spike, save it.

SPIKE: As daft a notion as "Soulful Spike the Killer" is, it is nothing compared to the idea that another girl could mean anything to me. This chip, they did to me. I couldn't help it. But the soul, I got on my own... for you.

BUFFY: (quietly) I know.

SPIKE: So, yeah. I go and pass the time... with someone. But that's all it is is time, 'cause, God help me Buffy, it's still all about you.

BUFFY: Spike, this vampire told me you sired him.

SPIKE: That doesn't mean?

BUFFY: He said you killed him. Dumped him in a parking lot somewhere.

SPIKE: And you believe him? Vampires aren't?

BUFFY: I did follow you last night, and you know what? You didn't look lonely or casual to me. You looked like you were on the prowl.

SPIKE: You can't know that.

BUFFY: So, then, tell me. Tell me what happened. You talked to her, then what?

SPIKE: We talked. That's all I remember.

BUFFY: All you remember?

SPIKE: I don't know. I go out. I talk to people or I don't. It's boring. It all bleeds together.

BUFFY: Well, if you seem to forget that much, then?

SPIKE: Not that. The taste of human blood. That, I'd remember.

BUFFY: You were camped out on the hell mouth talking to invisible people. Recently. How can you be sure of?

SPIKE: No! You are wrong. You've got an accusation from a pile of dust and not a shred of proof.

BUFFY: So, I'll get some. (exits)

(Spike looks like he's having doubts)

• Buffy & Spike
• Spike's Soul

written by: David Fury and Jane Espenson; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/130_tran.php