MASTER: Fear is a wonderful thing. It is *the* most powerful force in the human world. Not love, not hate... Fear! When you were a mortal boy, what did you fear?

Collin: Monsters.

MASTER: Ooo. We are *defined* by the things we fear. (goes to the large cross) This symbol, these two planks of wood, it confounds me. Suffuses me with mortal dread. But fear is in the mind. (puts his hand on the cross and holds on while it burns) Like pain. It can be controlled. (lets go) If I can face my fear, it cannot master me. Something is happening above. Something new, powerful, psychic force. Do you feel it?

Collin: I feel change.

MASTER: Change. Yes. For the worse.

• Buffy vs the Master

written by: David Greenwalt; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/10nightmares.html