(Riley's bedroom. Riley and Buffy are asleep until the alarm goes off)

RILEY: Morning.

BUFFY: Morning.

(Riley gets up and starts doing pushups)

BUFFY: Those like, regulation? Do you have to do those every morning?

RILEY: No, just a good way to start the day.

BUFFY: Great, then you can have your perfectly balanced breakfast, and then you can call your mother.

RILEY: Okay, I'm up less than a minute, and somehow I've managed to piss you off.

BUFFY: I should go home.

RILEY: No, come on. Is it that whole thing about Willow last night? Look, I only said what I said because I'm concerned. I don't wanna see her get hurt.

BUFFY: You sounded like Mr. Initiative. Demons bad, people good.

RILEY: Something wrong with that theorem?

BUFFY: There's different degrees of-

RILEY: Evil?

BUFFY: It's just... different with different demons. There are creatures - vampires, for example -- that aren't evil at all.

RILEY: Name one.

• Buffy & Riley
• philosphies on monsters, animals, killers, etc
• Riley & the initiative
• the Initiative

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcript by joan the english chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season4/transcripts/75_tran.htm