XANDER: You're gonna live in that small room over there. I know it looks like a closet, but it's a room now. You're not gonna touch my food. I take the first shower in the morning, and if I use up all the hot water, that's your tough noogies. (to Buffy) And I hate this plan. (to Spike) Are you keeping up, or do you need some kind of English-to-ConstantPainInMyAss translation?

BUFFY: Invitation.

XANDER: (to Buffy) Is there something more emphatic than hate? Can I revile the plan? Fine. (to Spike) I invite you in. Nimrod.

SPIKE: Don't want your soddin' food anyway.

XANDER: (to Buffy) I just don't understand when his problems became your problems... more specifically *mine*.

BUFFY: The school basement is making him crazy. We can't just leave him there.

XANDER: Why not? Crazy-Basement-Guy is better than Stalking-Buffy-Guy.

DAWN: It's true. You guys aren't... You're not starting up again with the whole?

BUFFY: No. A thousand gallons of no. OK, it's just?things are different now?he has a soul.

XANDER: I'm sure that'll be a real comfort when he soulfully attacks you again.

DAWN: Yeah, what does that mean exactly?that Spike is all soul-having?

BUFFY: I don't know, but he's been through a lot, OK, and nobody's attacking? (jumps when Spike touches her arm)

SPIKE: Buffy? Sorry.

BUFFY: No, it's me. I-I just?

SPIKE: I'll go. This can't work.

BUFFY: It will. I-it already is. OK, you know, you've been out of the basement for half an hour, and you've already stopped talking to invisible people.

SPIKE: Bollocks.

BUFFY: OK, so there was that one episode in the car, but?

SPIKE: No, bollocks to the whole thing. I don't need your mollycoddling.

BUFFY: It's not coddling. Now go to your closet. (flees)

• Buffy & Spike
• Spike's Soul
• Xander & Spike

written by: Drew Z. Greenberg; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me. . Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/128_tran.php