TITLE CARD: Westbury, England

GILES: That doesn't belong there.

WILLOW: No, it doesn't.

GILES: That's the flora kua alaya. A native of Paraguay, if my botany serves.

WILLOW: Is there anything you don't know everything about?

GILES: Synchronized swimming. Complete mystery to me. Yep. Paraguay. Where does it come from?

WILLOW: Paraguay.

GILES: Who brought it through the Earth?

WILLOW: It's all connected. The root systems, the molecules...the energy. Everything's connected.

GILES: You sound like Miss Hartness.

WILLOW: She's taught me a lot.

GILES: Then why aren't you in your lesson?

WILLOW: Sorry.

GILES: It's alright. She was just--

WILLOW: --afraid. Yeah, they all are. The coven is--they're the most amazing women I've ever met. But there's this look that they get. Like I'm gonna turn them all into bangers and mash, or something. Which I'm not even really sure what that is.

GILES: They're cautious. I trust you understand that.

WILLOW: I don't have that much power, I don't think.

GILES: Everything's connected. You're connected to a great power, whether you feel it or not.

WILLOW: Well you should just take it from me.

GILES: You know we can't. This isn't a hobby or an addiction. It's inside you now, this magic. You're responsible for it.

WILLOW: Will they always be afraid of me?

GILES: Maybe. Can you handle it?

WILLOW: I deserve a lot worse. I killed people, Giles.

GILES: I've not forgotten.

WILLOW: When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or--with the torture. Instead, you go all Dumbledore on me. I'm learning about magic. All about energy and Gaia and root systems.

GILES: Do you want to be punished?

WILLOW: I wanna be Willow.

GILES: You are. In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed.

• Giles & Willow
• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/123_tran.php