Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Lessons (2002)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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• [last lines] 

  Warren Meers : [as The First]  Of course she won't understand, Sparky. I'm beyond her understanding. She's a girl with sugar and spice and everything useless, unless you're baking. I'm more than that. More than flesh...

  [morphs into Glory] 

  Glory : [as The First]  ... More than blood. I'm... You know, I honestly don't think there's a human word fabulous enough for me. Oh, my name will be on everyone's lips, assuming their lips haven't been torn off. But not just yet. That's alright, though...

  [morphs into Adam] 

  Adam : [as The First]  ... I can be patient. Everything is well within parameters... She's exactly where I want her to be... and so are you, Number 17. You're right where you belong...

  [morphs into the Mayor] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : [as The First]  ... So what'd ya think? You'd get your soul back and everything'd be Jim-Dandy? Soul's slipperier than a greased weasel. Why do you think I sold mine?

  [chuckles] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : Well, you probably thought that you'd be your own man, and I respect that...

  [morphs into Drusilla] 

  Drusilla : [as The First]  ... But you never will. You'll always be mine. You'll always be in the dark with me... singing our little songs. You like our little songs, don't you? You've always liked them. Right from the beginning. And that's where we're going...

  [morphs into the Master] 

  The Master : [as The First]  ... Right back to the beginning. Not the Bang. Not the Word. The true beginning. The next few months are going to be quite a ride, and I think we're all going to learn something about ourselves in the process. You'll learn you're a pathetic schmuck, if it hasn't sunk in already. Look at you, trying to do what's right, just like her. You still don't get it. It's not about right. Not about wrong...

  [morphs into Buffy] 

  Buffy Summers : [as The First]  ... It's about power.

• Buffy Summers : It doesn't matter how well prepped you are or how well armed you are. You're a little girl.

  Dawn Summers : Woman.

  Buffy Summers : Little woman.

  Dawn Summers : I'm taller than you.

• Buffy Summers : They talked about protecting people. Told me to leave.

  Xander Harris : No damage, though.

  Buffy Summers : I think I may have destroyed Dawn's social life in all of about 30 seconds, but apart from that, no.

  Xander Harris : Ah, being popular isn't so great. Or so I've read in books.

• Buffy Summers : If I'm the one who let you die, why take it out on her? I'm right here. Come on. What are you after? Fear? Revenge? Tasty brains?

  Dead Nerd : I think I'd like Dawn to be my girlfriend.

  Buffy Summers : Again, wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys. And, no offense, but they were hotties. I mean, I'm sure you had a great personality, but...

  Dead Girl : Busy making out with your dead boyfriend while I was ripped to death by a werewolf...? Is that why you let me die?

  Dead Nerd : I was screaming for help when they pulled me down...

  Buffy Summers : *Hello*! Not making myself clear. I don't care how you died. I'm sorry for your loss, but *where* is my sister? *Dawn*!

  Dead Janitor : She's not gonna hear you. This place is like a maze.

  Dead Girl : This place is ours now. It was built on our graves.

  Dead Janitor : All we want is for you to leave, so we can rest again.

  Buffy Summers : Actually, I'm thinking all you want is to get between me and that door. Who's for finding out why.

• [first lines] 

  Buffy Summers : It's about power... who's got it, who knows how to use it.

• Xander Harris : How, exactly, do you *make* cereal?

  Buffy Summers : Ah. You put the box near the milk. I saw it on the Food Channel.

• Buffy Summers : Talisman must've been destroyed.

  Dawn : How'd you know it was a talisman?

  Buffy Summers : There's always a talisman.

• Xander Harris : I managed to scare up the plan from the old high school. You remember the very center of Sunnydale's own Hellmouth?

  Buffy Summers : Under the library.

  Xander Harris : Right. So I lined up the plans, new and old, and right exactly where the library was, we now have...

  Buffy Summers : Principal's office.

  Dawn Summers : So the principal's evil?

  Buffy Summers : Or in a boatload of danger.

  Xander Harris : Well, the last two principals were eaten. Who'd even apply for that job?

• Dawn : You really weren't kidding about this place. I guess it hasn't changed.

  Buffy Summers : I don't know. Seems smaller.

• Buffy Summers : The next vampire you meet, you run away. I just wish that was all we had to worry about. Vampires, demons, they're nothing compared to what's coming.

  Dawn Summers : I know. I just can't believe it's back.

  Buffy Summers : Believe me. I thought I was long past it.

  Dawn Summers : I guess you never are.

  Buffy Summers : Just a few more days till it starts and then we'll never know what's coming next.

  [cut to a ribbon cutting ceremony] 

  Principal Robin Wood : It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the official opening, on the very ground that it first stood upon, of the brand-new, state-of-the-art, Sunnydale High!

• [on cell phones] 

  Dawn Summers : What do they want.

  Buffy Summers : So far, to piss me off.

  Dawn Summers : Please tell me it's working.

  Buffy Summers : Oh, I'm damage-bound.

• Xander Harris : How are you?

  Buffy Summers : My sister's about to go to the same high school that tried to kill me for three years, I can't change districts, I can't afford private school, and I can't begin to prepare for what could possibly come out of there. So, peachy with a side of keen. That would be me.

• Buffy Summers : Now, remember, if you see anything strange or, you know... dead.

  Dawn Summers : I got it.

  Buffy Summers : And-And stay away from hyena people, or, uh, any lizard-type athletes, you know, or-or if you see anyone that's invisible...

  Dawn Summers : Hey, Buffy. I think it's pretty safe to say I'm not going to see anybody that's invisible.

  Buffy Summers : You know, you could still drop out. Only nerds finish high school.

  Dawn Summers : You know, I don't really think it's fair for you to try and scare me on my first day of high school. 'Cause it is *so* redundant.

• Buffy Summers : Spike? Are you real?

  Spike : [laughs crazily, then looks at her]  Buffy, duck.

  Buffy Summers : What? Duck? There's a duck?

  [Gets hit from behind] 

• [training, Dawn tried fighting a vampire but Buffy had to step in as it as started to bite her] 

  Dawn Summers : It's nothing. It's just a scrape... Plus, I had a plan the whole time.

  Buffy Summers : Really?

  Dawn Summers : Yeah. I planned to get killed, come back as a vampire and bite you.

• Buffy Summers : So, you're the new principal. I expected you to be more... aged.

  Principal Robin Wood : [laughs]  You seem a bit young to have such a grown-up daughter.

  Buffy Summers : No. Uh, Uh. No, uh, sister.

  Principal Robin Wood : Oh, right. Um, of course.

  Buffy Summers : You didn't really think she's my... It's my hair. I-I have mom hair.

• Principal Robin Wood : The school board recommended I spend a little time reading your record. It's, um, quite a page-turner. Kind of a checkered past.

  Buffy Summers : Um, more like a plaid. Kind of a clan tartan of badness, really.