Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

This Year's Girl (2000)

Marc Blucas: Riley Finn

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• Riley : I've never seen anybody get under your skin this way before. What did she do to you exactly?

  Buffy : It's a long story.

  Riley : I'm from Iowa. We drive four hours for a high school football game. Try me.

• Willow : Yeah, we were pretty worried about you there for awhile, mister.

  Riley : Me too. Hey, look, I know my behavior was pretty out there.

  Willow : Forget it. Tell you what. You two crazy kids take down an unstoppable killer cyber-demon hybrid thingy and, uh, we'll call it all even.

• Buffy : [on phone]  Thank you. I'll let you know.

  [hangs up] 

  Giles : What is it?

  Buffy : It's Faith... She's awake... She beat someone up, took her clothing and disappeared out of the hospital. No one knows where she is.

  Xander : I'd say this qualifies for a worse timing ever award.

  Willow : What do we do?

  Giles : Well, we have to find her.

  Willow : What about Adam?

  Xander : I'd hate to see the pursuit of a homicidal lunatic get in the way of pursuing a homicidal lunatic.

  Buffy : Well, Faith's not exactly Low-Profile Girl. I'll patrol and wait for her to make a move.

  Giles : And then what?

  Willow : Oh, I have an idea. Beat the crap out of her.

  [grins] 

  Xander : Good plan.

  Buffy : Good on paper, but we still have a decision to make... Do we hand her over to the cops? They wouldn't know what to do with a Slayer even if they knew we existed.

  Willow : What about the Council?

  Xander : Been there, tried that. Not unlike smothering a forest fire with napalm, as I recall.

  Giles : Well, the Initiative, they do have, uh, containment facilities.

  Xander : One word. Evil.

  Buffy : There's no way around it. Faith is back and, whether I like it or not, she's my responsibility.

  Willow : Yeah. Too bad. That was the funnest coma ever.

  Buffy : We have no idea where she is. We don't know what she's thinking, what she's feeling.

  Xander : Who she's doing.

  Buffy : She could be terrified. Maybe she doesn't even remember. Or-Or maybe she does and-and she's sorry and she's alone, hiding somewhere?

  Giles : Well, uh, perhaps there's some form of, uh, rehabilitation we just haven't thought about.

  Willow : And if not, ass-kicking makes a solid Plan "B."

  Buffy : I'm not gonna rule it out. First thing, we need to find her. Then we can take it from there.

  Riley : Who's Faith?

• Riley Finn : All my life, that's what I've been groomed to do. They say jump, I ask how high, I get the job done... Just don't know if it's the right job anymore.

  Buffy Summers : I know how you feel... Giles used to be part of this Council. And for years, *all* they ever did was give me orders.

  Riley Finn : Ever obey them?

  Buffy Summers : Sure... The ones I was going to do, anyway.

• Buffy Summers : Riley... I'm not leaving him down there with the people that created this thing. I don't care how many guns they have, I'm going in. Okay... Wil, I need you to hack into the security mainframe and buy me a 10-minute shutdown of operation systems.

  Willow Rosenberg : That could be...

  Buffy Summers : Tricky, not impossible. If you can't do it on-line, then use magic. Xander, any gear you've been saving for a rainy day I want you to give to me.

  Xander Harris : You want stealthy stuff?

  Buffy Summers : No, we tried sneaking in. This time I'm gonna use force. I figure I'll go in through the elevator shaft and use the cable as tow lines, then blast open the facility doors and find the infirmary.

  Riley Finn : [suddenly in the room]  Am I really worth all that?