BUFFY: Okay ... so you're telling me I'm broke?

WILLOW: Not yet, but ...

TARA: Money's definitely becoming an issue.

XANDER: As in your being almost out of it.

BUFFY: But I haven't spent any money. I was all ... dead and frugal.

WILLOW: I-I know, this comes as a bit of a shock after ... a bit of a shock, but ... it took us by surprise too.

TARA: Your mother prepared everything really well. She had insurance ... (nervously) life insurance.

XANDER: Which should have left you covered, but ... hospital bills.

WILLOW: Pretty much sucked up all the money.

ANYA: Which you're still hemorrhaging, by the way.

BUFFY: How am I doing that?

ANYA: No, not you, the house. Uh, see, this house, just sitting here, doing nothing, um, by itself costs money.

DAWN: So, what do we do?

BUFFY: Easy. We burn the house to the ground and collect the insurance. Plus, fire? Pretty. (blank stares) You guys, I'm kidding. Okay, it's, it's bills, it's money. It's pieces of paper sent by bureaucrats that we've never even met. It's not like it's the end of the world. Which is too bad, you know, 'cause that, I'm really good at. I'll take care of this. I promise. I ... just don't know how yet.

written by: Douglas Petrie and Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
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