SPIKE: This is my place! You need permission to be here! You need a special slip with a stamp!

WILLOW: Spike?  My God...I-

SPIKE: You go off and you try to wall up the bad parts and put your heart back in where it fell out. You call yourself finished but you're not. Worse than ever, you are. (Pause) You went away. You've been gone since-

WILLOW: Yeah, i needed to go, but I'm back now, and I found...there's a body.

SPIKE: Tragedy? Is there blood?

WILLOW: Well, yeah, and I can't find Buffy, or Xander, or Dawn, and there's this thing killing people. The victim was skinned. What could do that?

SPIKE: You did it once. I heard about it.

WILLOW: Anything other? Other than me?

SPIKE: Look at you...glowing...what's a word means glowing? It's got to rhyme.

WILLOW: Spike?

SPIKE: Oh! No...uh, I should hide...hide from you, hide my face. You know what I did.

WILLOW: What you did? You didn't do anything...did you?

SPIKE: Everyone's talking to me, no one's talking to each other.

WILLOW: Spike...please try to listen to me.

SPIKE: Someone isn't here...button, button, who's got the button? My money's on the witch.

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(Buffy and Xander are walking in the basement and hear Spike yelling) SPIKE: This is my place! You need permission to be here! You need a special slip with a stamp!

(As they walk into the room Spike is still yelling) SPIKE: ...And put your heart back in where it fell out. You call yourself finished but you're not. Worse than ever, you are.

BUFFY: Spike! Spike!

SPIKE: You went away. You've been gone since-

BUFFY: The church.  You scared me a little. I didn't...I didn't know what to think.

XANDER: We're here for a reason, Spike.

SPIKE: Tragedy? Is there blood?

XANDER: He knows. He must have seen the body.

SPIKE: You did it once. I heard about it.

BUFFY: Spike, we need to know who did this.

SPIKE: Look at you...glowing...what's a word means glowing? It's got to rhyme.

BUFFY: Spike, please...

SPIKE: Oh! No...uh, I should hide...hide from you, hide my face. You know what I did.

XANDER: Boy, he's extra useful today.

BUFFY: This isn't the time.

SPIKE: Everyone's talking to me, no one's talking to each other.

BUFFY: Might as well go.

SPIKE: Someone isn't here...button, button, who's got the button? My money's on the witch. Red's a bad girl.

BUFFY: He's talking about Willow.

XANDER: And that means something b/c he's chock full of sanity.

BUFFY: Maybe he saw her.

SPIKE: They think you did it, the Slayer and her boy. They think you took the skin.

BUFFY: Is there something here? Something that killed?

XANDER: Her boy? I'm her boy?

SPIKE: I have to go...there are things here without permission. Have to check the slips, make sure they have authorization.

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SPIKE: William's a good boy...carries the water, carries the sin...suppose to get easier isn't? Suppose to help the help, but it doesn't. Still so heavy.

XANDER: Should have put a leash on him.

BUFFY: Yes, let's tie ourselves to the crazy vampire.

XANDER: You really think it's going to work?

BUFFY: Pretty easy. Spike follows the exciting smell of blood, and we follow the fairly ripe smell of Spike.

SPIKE: That's it, end of the line. Everyone off. Keep your ticket, you'll need that.

BUFFY: It's a rock cliff.

XANDER: Give him a break, Buffy. Maybe it's a vicious, skin-eating rock cliff.

SPIKE: There's a cave in it, look. I'm insane, what's his excuse?

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