BUFFY: (walks up as the fight ends) Faith! What are you doing?

FAITH: Just blowing off steam. Well, it started that way. Turned when the cops went evil on us.

BUFFY: Girls, go home. I need to talk to Faith for a minute.

DAWN: Buffy, we weren't?

BUFFY: Dawn? you, too. Go. (the girls walk away; to Faith) What is this?

FAITH: They needed a break, all right? They've been running themselves into the ground. Things just got out of hand.

BUFFY: Taking a break is one thing?I get blowing off steam?but they were fighting. And those girls were drunk! What were you thinking?!

FAITH: Seemed like a good idea at the time.

BUFFY: Yeah, what if someone had gotten hurt?

FAITH: They didn't.

BUFFY: Faith, I need to know that these girls are gonna be safe when I'm not around.

FAITH: No one got hurt, B. Look, you don't even know these girls. Maybe you should have a little more confidence in 'em, let them mess up sometimes, you know, get down and dirty. How the hell else are they gonna learn?

BUFFY: Learning from your mistakes is one thing. But you don't throw children into?

FAITH: They're not children.

BUFFY: That really isn't the point. (walks off)

FAITH: Yeah, what about the vineyard?

BUFFY: What?

FAITH: How safe were they when you dragged them off to meet Caleb? How safe was Rona or Amanda or Molly?

(Buffy slugs Faith, leaves. )

• Faith vs/& Buffy

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