BUFFY: But there goes our lead suspect. Which then puts us right back at square boned.

XANDER: You're not boned, you're Buffy. Eradicator of evil. Defender of, um... things that need defending.

BUFFY: Tell that to Theresa. She could have used my defending before she was ripped apart by that...

XANDER: Werewolf.

BUFFY: Nowhere in any of the reports did it say anything about her being mauled. I mean, they were linked to the animal attacks from the other night, so we just assumed werewolf.

XANDER: What else should we have assumed?

Cut to the funeral home.

BUFFY: Vampire.

XANDER: So that's good, right? I mean in the sense of the werewolf didn't get her, and... No. There is no good here.

BUFFY: No good. Instead of not protecting Theresa from the werewolf, I was able to not protect her from something just as bad. She had a lot of friends.

XANDER: Buffy, you can't blame yourself for every death that happens in Sunnydale. If it weren't for you people'd be lined up five deep waitin' to get themselves buried. Willow would be Robbie the Robot's love slave, I wouldn't even have a head, and Theresa's a vampire.

Theresa: Angel sends his love.

• Slayerhood
• Xander & Buffy

written by: Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/27phases.html