Det. Stein: Ma'am, I'm Detective Stein. I'm sorry, but I need to ask you a few questions. Your relationship with the deceased?

JOYCE: We were, uh, seeing each other.

Det. Stein: Can you tell me what happened?

JOYCE: He fell. Down the stairs, he fell.

Det. Stein: I see. Uh, did he slip? Do you know what made him fall?

BUFFY: I hit him. I hit him.

Cut to interrogation.

BUFFY: He was in my room. And we got into an argument.

Det. Stein: About what?

BUFFY: He, um...

Det. Stein: Was this the first time that you two had had an argument?

BUFFY: No. He threatened me. He, he said that he would slap me.

Det. Stein: That was tonight.

BUFFY: No. But he had my diary, and I-I tried to take it back, a-and that's when he hit me.

Det. Stein: Where? (no mark) Well, it doesn't look like he hit you very hard.

BUFFY: I don't bruise easily.

Det. Stein: So you've been hit before?

BUFFY: Yes.

Det. Stein: But Ted never hit you.

BUFFY: I told you...

Det. Stein: Before tonight, Ted never hit you before tonight?

BUFFY: What do you want? I-I told you what happened, I didn't mean to!

Det. Stein: I believe you. Things get outta hand. He's a big guy.

written by: David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/23ted.html