ANDREW: (narrating) She's like a woman fighting for more than life. She fights like fighting is her life. It's like the air she breathes, and she knows she will win because there is no alternative.

BUFFY: (knocks out the last Bringer) It's your turn, Andrew.

ANDREW: So, you figure, what? I, uh... I stand on the seal, and hold the knife, and command it to stop glowing in Tawarick?

BUFFY: Or we could do this?

ANDREW: What?

BUFFY: Doesn't really make sense, does it? Bringing you here to talk to it. This thing doesn't understand words, it understands blood.

ANDREW: Blood opens it. You don't want to open it. Opening it would be bad.

BUFFY: Yeah, Willow did a little research. Turns out, the blood of the person that awoke it?you?different kind of deal. It reverses the whole thing.

ANDREW: So, how much blood...are you gonna?

BUFFY: I don't know. Maybe not enough to kill you.

ANDREW: So, this is my redemption at last? I buy back my bruised soul with the blood of my heart. But-but not enough to kill?

BUFFY: Stop! Stop telling stories. Life isn't a story.

ANDREW: (frightened) Sorry. Sorry.

BUFFY: Shut up. You always do this. You make everything into a story so no one's responsible for anything because they're just following a script.

ANDREW: Please don't kill me. Warren said Jonathan would be OK. I trusted him, and I lost my friend.

BUFFY: (angrily) You didn't lose him. You murdered him.

ANDREW: (softly, sincerely) I know, but you don't need to kill me. You said we could all get through this.

BUFFY: I made it up. I'm making it all up. What kind of hero does that make me?

ANDREW: No, you're doing great. Really. Kudos.

BUFFY: Yeah? Well, I don't like having to give a bunch of speeches about how we're all gonna live, because we won't. This isn't some story where good triumphs because good triumphs. Good people are going to die! Girls. Maybe me. Probably you. Probably right now.

ANDREW: Don't! Please! Don't, please!

BUFFY: When your blood pours out, it might save the world. What do you think about that? Does it buy it all back? Are you redeemed?

ANDREW: (crying) No.

BUFFY: Why not?

ANDREW: Because I killed him. Because I listened to Warren, and I pretended I thought it was him, but I knew?I knew it wasn't. And I killed Jonathan. And now you're gonna kill me. And I'm scared, and I'm going to die. And this?this is what Jonathan felt.

(Andrew's tears fall on the seal. It stops glowing. Buffy releases him.)

ANDREW: It stopped.

BUFFY: Didn't want blood. It wanted tears.

ANDREW: Thanks.

BUFFY: Sorry, I had to?

ANDREW: You?you weren't really going to stab me, were you?

BUFFY: I wasn't going to stab you.

ANDREW: What if the tears didn't work?

written by: Jane Espenson; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/138_tran.php