FAITH: All right, well cool. While Willow?s does that, the rest of us can?

ANDREW: We?re back!

GILES: Spike.

SPIKE: Hey.

ANDREW: Hi, everybody. I missed you guys a lot. Sorry we took so long getting back from our mission mission but we had to wait out the sun and, well, I think our mission went very well. We rode on Spike?s hog, which was very cool, and played some amusing games and, oh, we got some information. But do you know what? I really need to urinate. (exit)

SPIKE: He?s a breath of fresh air, isn?t he? Thank god I don?t breathe. So I think we got a lead. Where?s Buffy?

DAWN: She?s not here right now.

SPIKE: When?s she get back?

WILLOW: (nervous) While you were gone, we all got together and talked out some disagreements that we were having and eventually, after much discussion, Buffy decided that it would be best for all of us if she took a little time off. A little breather.

SPIKE: Uh-huh. I see. Been practicing that little speech long, have you? So Buffy took some time off right in the middle of the apocalypse and it was her decision?

XANDER: Well, we all decided.

SPIKE: Oh, yeah, you all decided. You sad, sad, ungrateful traitors. Who do you think you are?

WILLOW: We?re her friends. We just want?

SPIKE: Oh, that?s ballsy of you. You?re her friends and you betray her like this?

GILES: You don?t understand.

SPIKE: You know, I think I do. Rupert. You used to be the big man, didn?t you? The teacher, all full of wisdom. Now she?s surpassed you and you can?t handle it. She has saved your lives again and again. She has died for you. And this is how you thank her?

• Spike & Andrew
• Spike's uneasy truce with the gang

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; original transcript by Buffy vs Angel. Edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://ww3.buffy-vs-angel.com/buffy_tran_142.shtml