DAWN: So, what is it?

BUFFY: What's what?

DAWN: Last night, you said you weren't helping Spike out of pity. What is it?

BUFFY: It's a good question.

DAWN: Is sitting there drinking soda some kind of a Zen non-answer?

BUFFY: No, I just... I don't know what I'm feeling. I think I can't stand him, but sometimes...

DAWN: You love him?

BUFFY: No. I?I feel for him.

DAWN: Feel what, exactly?

BUFFY: Dawn...

DAWN: No, I'm?I'm just trying to understand. I mean, none of it makes sense. First you say Spike disgusts you, but secretly you two are doing it like bunnies. And then Spike says he'd die for you, but he tries to rape you.

BUFFY: For the record, Spike knew how wrong it was. That's why he went away.

DAWN: But to get a soul? Like that would make him a better man? Xander had a soul when he stood Anya up at the altar. And now he says he still wants her? I just don't think it's the school basement that's making people crazy.

BUFFY: I should really get back. You comin' with?

DAWN: I just don't see why people bother. I mean, you put all this energy into chasing and having and brooding and? I just don't understand these relationships where you all do insane things.

BUFFY: Bye, rant girl. (walks away)

DAWN: Well, you could, like, paint a beautiful mural on every ugly wall in the world, and then you could paint a beautiful mural on every ugly mural in the wor?

(Dawn spots RJ, gets swoony to the theme of "A Summer Place", loses her balance and topples over)

• Buffy & Spike
• Spike's Soul

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