BUFFY: It'll be just like it was when I was a kid. Only without me building a fort out of my mashed potatoes.

RILEY: Sounds like fun.

BUFFY: It will be. Um, you know, if you don't already have plans... You should come. I'm a great cook... In theory. I've eaten a lot.

RILEY: That sounds so great, but I'm outta here tonight. I caught a last-minute flight back to Iowa.

BUFFY: Iowa. That's one of the ones in the middle, right?

RILEY: My folks are there. We always do thanksgiving at my grandparents' house. A little farm outside Huxley.

BUFFY: Sounds nice.

RILEY: It is. After dinner, we all go for a walk down by the river with the dogs. There's trees and... And I know what you're thinking. It's like I grew up in a Grant Wood painting.

BUFFY: Exactly. If I knew who that was.

RILEY: Just a guy who painted stuff that looked like where I grew up.

BUFFY: Well, have fun at the homestead.

RILEY: Always do. What's the line? Home's the place that, when you have to go there...

BUFFY: They have to take you in.

• Buffy & Riley

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