Kendra: Did anyone explain to you what 'secret identity' means?

BUFFY: Nope. Must be in the handbook. Right after the chapter on personality removal. (re crossbow) Be careful with that thing!

Kendra: Please. I'm an expert in all weapons. (it accidently goes off)

GILES: Is everything alright?

BUFFY: Yeah, it's okay. Kendra killed the bad lamp.

Kendra: Sorry! Dis, uh, trigger mechanism is different. Perhaps when dis is over you can, uh, show me how to work it.

BUFFY: When this is over I'm thinking pineapple pizza and teen video movie fest. Possibly something from the Ringwald oeuvre.

(...)

Kendra: Your life is very different dan mine.

BUFFY: You mean the part where I occasionally have one? Yeah, I guess it is.

Kendra: De tings you do and have, I was taught, distract from my calling. Friends, school... even family.

BUFFY: Even family?

Kendra: My parents, dey sent me to my Watcher when I was very young.

BUFFY: How young?

Kendra: I don't remember dem, actually. I've seen pictures. But, uh, dat's how seriously de calling is taken by my people. My modder and fadder gave me to my Watcher because dey believed dat dey were doing de right ting for me, and for de world. Please, I don't feel sorry for meself. Why should you?

BUFFY: I don't know, I... I guess it just sounds very lonely.

Kendra: Emotions are weakness, Buffy. You shouldn't entertain dem.

BUFFY: Kendra, my emotions give me power. They're total assets!

Kendra: Maybe. For you. But I prefer to keep an even mind.

BUFFY: Mm. I guess that explains it.

Kendra: Explains what?

BUFFY: Oh, well, when we were fighting, uh, you're amazing! Your technique, it's flawless, it's, hmm, better than mine.

Kendra: I know.

BUFFY: Still, I woulda kicked your butt in the end. And ya know why? No imagination.

Kendra: Really? Ya tink so?

BUFFY: Oh, I know so. You're good, but power alone isn't enough. A good fighter needs to know how to improvise, to go with the flow. Uh-uh, seriously, don't get me wrong, y-you really do have potential.

Kendra: Potential? I could wipe de floor wit you right now!

BUFFY: That would be anger you're feeling.

Kendra: What?

BUFFY: You feel it, right? How the anger gives you fire? A Slayer needs that.

• Slayerhood

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/22myline2.html