XANDER: So you got your somber on, Will, is the urn not up to spec?

WILLOW: It's the one. Which means it's time.

XANDER: It's time? Like, *time* time? With the... timeliness?

ANYA: Are you sure?

WILLOW: I am.

TARA: Mercury's in retrograde, and we have... (to Willow) Do we have everything?

WILLOW: Just about.

XANDER: But why the sudden rushy-rush? I mean, did the bot blow our cover at school?

TARA: No, she did great, she impressed all the teachers.

XANDER: And they still thought it was Buffy?

WILLOW: Tomorrow night, we'll meet back here.

XANDER: Whoa! Let's apply the brakes and check the rear- and side-view mirrors here. This is deep stuff, Willow. We're talking about raising the dead.

WILLOW: It's time we stop talking. Tomorrow night ... we're bringing Buffy back.

(...)

XANDER: Tomorrow? I don't know.

ANYA: Um, Di-Discovery Channel has monkeys. And our tape machine's all wonky.

WILLOW: Guys, I need you on board here.

XANDER: It's just ... It feels wrong.

TARA: It is wrong. It's against all the laws of nature, and practically impossible to do, but it's what we agreed to. If-if you guys are changing your minds-

WILLOW: Nobody's changing their minds. Period.

XANDER: Excuse me? Who made you the boss of the group?

ANYA: You did.

TARA: You said Willow should be boss.

ANYA: And then you said "let's vote," and it was unanimous...

TARA: ...and then you made her this little plaque, that said "Boss of Us," you put little sparkles on it...

XANDER: Valid points, all. But we ... I mean... We were just talking then.

WILLOW: Xander, I can do this, I promise. But not without you.

ANYA: Should we maybe tell Giles? You know, now that we're really ready? It's not like he's going anywhere. Ever.

WILLOW: No. No one else can know. Not Giles, not Spike, not Dawn. They might not understand.

TARA: What if something does go wrong?

WILLOW: I'm telling you it won't.

XANDER: Scenario -- We raise Buffy from the grave, she tries to eat our brains. Do we, a) congratulate ourselves on a job well done-

WILLOW: Xander, this isn't zombies.

ANYA: Zombies don't eat brains anyway unless instructed to by their zombie masters. A lot of people get that wrong.

WILLOW: This isn't like Dawn trying to bring Mrs. Summers back, or anything we've dealt with before. Buffy didn't die a natural death. She was killed by mystical energy.

TARA: Which means we do have a shot.

WILLOW: It means more than that. It means we don't know ... where she really is.

XANDER: We saw her body, Will. We buried it.

WILLOW: Her body, yeah. But her soul ... her essence ... I mean, that could be somewhere else. She could be trapped, in-in some sort of hell dimension like Angel was. (tearfully) Suffering eternal torment, just because she saved us, and I'm not gonna let ... I'm not gonna leave her there. It's Buffy.

XANDER: What time do we meet?

• Buffy's Death & Revivification
• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Marti Noxon & David Fury; Transcribed by joan the english chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/101bargaining.html