(workout room)

BUFFY: I just don't know what I'm gonna do. She's messing up. I'm messing up. It's a mess.

GILES: You're just going to have to put your foot down with her.

BUFFY: I try! It's just, my foot's not used to being put down. I want you do it! You can be the foot putting downer!

GILES: No, Buffy, I don't think I can.

BUFFY: Please! Pretty please? I mean, *your* foot is way bigger than mine! Any you're *so* much more grown up than me. Dawn needs an authority figure, a strong guiding hand, she'll listen to you!

GILES: (scoffs) Like you always have!

BUFFY: I listen! I do!

GILES: Then perk up your ears. I may be a grown-up. But you're her *family*. Her only real family now. She needs you to do this.

BUFFY: Right. She needs me. Me the grown-up. The authority figure. The strong guiding hand and stompy foot that is me.

GILES: That's the spirit.

BUFFY: Okay. I can do this.

GILES: I know you can.

BUFFY: (desperate) Please?

GILES: No.

BUFFY: Okay. Here we go. Early to Bed. Early to rise. Balanced breakfasts. Hospital corners. It's a new beginning. Discipline. Authority. Order.

• Buffy & Dawn
• Buffy & Giles

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Once again, I'm typing these up myself as transcripts are scarce.... Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/97toughlove.html