It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield from Empty Places (Season 7) | Next Clip in Episode |
ANDREW: No one's here. These kinda places make me feel funny inside.
SPIKE: I'll buy that. You and me got something else in common after all.
ANDREW:(attacked) Spike!
SPIKE: Tell me about the mark.
MONK: Oh...
SPIKE: Hey! Are you part of Caleb's faction?
MONK: No! No!
SPIKE: Then tell me what happened.
MONK: I c-can't.
ANDREW: "Can't" is a 4-letter word! I'm Andrew. I'll be your bad cop this evening. You don't start singing, my associate here?
SPIKE: We're trying to fight him. Caleb. We need your help.
MONK: You can't fight him. You can't stop him. You can only run.
ANDREW: "Run" is a 4-letter wor? (catches himself ) A 3-letter word.
SPIKE: Talk.
MONK: I'll do better. I'll show you. One night, some time ago, a man arrived at our doors.
SPIKE: And you said, "come in, do some damage"?
MONK: We are?we are a benevolent order, and, yes, we welcomed him. We offered to feed him... but he had come for something else. Behind this, he revealed something even we didn't know was here. A secret room. He was excited, talking the whole time... destiny, that sort of thing.
SPIKE: Yeah. We hear he's a real smooth talker.
MONK: He was going on about this ancient inscription.
ANDREW: Neat.
MONK: He read it... and he didn't like what it said. His temper... He was the purest evil I've ever seen. He burned his mark upon me. And then I ran and I hid... and I listened to the others die.
ANDREW: Running away...saved your life. (to Spike) What does it say?
(The inscription is Latin words written with Greek letters: Non tibi est. Ei solae tractare licet.)
SPIKE: "It is not for thee. It is for her alone to wield."
written by: Drew Z. Greenberg; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/141_tran.php