BUFFY: Randy!

SPIKE: (vamped, turns to her) Hey, I'm a superhero too! (Buffy runs off screaming) Joan, where're you going? Hey! Joan! Wait up! Wait up! (she takes him down) Bloody hell, what are you doing?

BUFFY: You don't know who you are.

SPIKE: Right, none of us do, and we're being chased by-

BUFFY: You're a vampire!

SPIKE: How can you say - I, me, a vampire? No.

BUFFY: Check the lumpies. And the teeth. (he does) I kill your kind.

SPIKE: And I bite yours. So how come I don't wanna bite you? And why am I fightin' other vampires? I must be a noble vampire. A good guy. On a mission of redemption. I help the hopeless. I'm a vampire with a soul.

BUFFY: A vampire with a soul? Oh my god, how lame is that?

(... later ...)

SPIKE: I'm a hero really. I mean, to be cast such an ugly lot in life and then to rise above it. To seek out better, nobler things. It's inspirational, isn't it? And the two of us... (gestures from Buffy to himself) natural enemies, thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness. Utter trust. No thought of me biting you, no thought of you staking me.

BUFFY: Depends on how long you keep on yapping.

• Buffy & Spike
• Funnies

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/108tabularasa.html