XANDER: Buffy, hi.

BUFFY: Hey. Is Willow around?

XANDER: (exasperated) How can I convince you people that it's over? You assume because I'm here, she's here, that I somehow mysteriously know where she is.

BUFFY: (points) Those her books?

XANDER: Yeah. She's in the bathroom. But the fact that I know that doesn't change that I have a genuine complaint here. Look. I'm getting sick of the judgment, the innuendoes. Is a man not innocent until proven guilty?

BUFFY: You *are* guilty. You got illicit smoochies, gonna have to pay the price.

XANDER: But I'm talking about the future guilt. Look, everyone expects me to mess up again. Like Oz. I see how he is around me. You know, that steely gaze... that pointed silence.

BUFFY: 'Cause he's usually such a chatterbox.

XANDER: No, but it's different now. It's more a verbal nonverbal. He speaks volumes with his eyes.

• Xander & Willow

written by: Jane Espenson & Thania St. John; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
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