(Buffy and Riley race to the scene in Riley's car)

BUFFY: Can't this thing go any faster? Ultimate driving machine, my ass.

RILEY: We're pushing 70.

Pause. Buffy looks meditative.

BUFFY: Riley, do you wish-

RILEY: No.

BUFFY: No? You don't even know what I was gonna say.

RILEY: Yes, I do. You wanted to know if I wished you got hit by the ferula-gemina, got split in two.

BUFFY: Well, you have been kind of rankly about the whole slayer gig. Instead of having slayer Buffy, you could have Buffy Buffy.

RILEY: Hey. I *have* Buffy Buffy. Being the slayer's part of who you are. You keep thinking I don't get that, but...

BUFFY: It's just ... I know how ... un-fun it can be. The bad hours, frequent bruising, cranky monsters...

RILEY: Buffy... if you led a perfectly normal life, you wouldn't be half as crazy as you are. I gotta have that. I gotta have it all. I'm talkin' toes, elbows, the whole bad-ice-skating-movie obsession, everything. There's no part of you I'm not in love with.

(Buffy looks up at him. He glances at her. She smiles a little, then looks out her window. )

BUFFY: We better get there soon. If Xander kills himself, he's dead. (frowns) You know what I mean.

• Buffy & Riley

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/81thereplacement.html