Dawn I like the Jello.Joyce Help yourself. There's something about food that moves by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.Dawn It's good and wiggly. This girl at school told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet, and that if you eat Jello there's some cows out limping with no feet. But I told her I'm sure they kill 'em before they take off their feet. Right?Buffy You're the one who insisted on teaching her to talk.
Giles My god, what a rough night.Willow I just did two of 'em! Yay on me!That was pretty cool. Except the part where I was all terrified and ... and now my knees are all dizzy.Xander Not so much a big success night for me. But I think I should get points just for showing up. Unlike some Riley Finn who shall remain unnamed.Giles Yes, that was disappointing. Things would have been easier if he'd been here.Willow Oh, piffle, who needs him when I'm dusting two at a ti- Whoops. Maybe it would've been good if ... he'd shown up.Giles Perhaps he forgot.
Willow You know what's weird?Tara Japanese commercials are weird.Willow Yes. And also, you know some of the stars we're looking at ... don't even exist any more? In the time that it takes for their light to reach us, they've died. Exploded. Poof.Tara Were, um ... were things rough at the hospital?Willow You know, I used to love to look up at them when I was little. They're supposed to make you feel all insignificant, but ... they made me feel like ... like I was in space ... part of the stars. There's ... Canis Minor ... and ... and Cassiopeia.Tara And the big pineapple.Willow Hmm. You know, I'm not sure I remember that one.Tara Oh, it's, it's a major one. See those three bright stars right over there?Willow Yeah.Tara And see those stars along there? That's the bottom of the pineapple.Willow It's big.Tara Hence the name. The real ones never made sense to me, I ... sort of have my own.Willow Teach me.Tara See those stars over there? "Short man looking uncomfortable."Tara Uh... "Moose getting a sponge bath." Umm... "little pile o'crackers." Tha-that was a bit of a stretch. You do it. What would you call ... mm, that one?Willow Hmm, let's see. A huge flaming meteor about to crash into something!
Riley Everyone stay close. I'm glad you called me in on this.Xander Glad you answered.Riley Oh, yeah. I'm sorry about last time. Heard I missed out on some fun.Xander Oh, yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment, and near-death hijinks.Riley Look, there it is.Willow Wow. We have meteorite.Anya Is it hot? 'Cause, uh, if there's radiation, you could like go all sterile.Riley No, it's not hot. It's warm. And broken. It's sort of-Giles Hollow.Riley Yeah.Anya So, uh, we're all thinking the same thing, right?Xander Festive pinata? Delicious candy?Willow Something evil crashed to earth in this and then broke out and ... slithered away to do badness.Giles In all fairness, we don't really know about the slithered part.Anya Oh, no. I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.Tara Let's look around. Maybe we can figure out where it went.
Anya So, uh, we're all thinking the same thing, right?Xander Festive pinata? Delicious candy?Willow Something evil crashed to earth in this and then broke out and ... slithered away to do badness.Giles In all fairness, I don't think we know about the slithered part.Anya Oh, no. I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.Tara Let's look around. Maybe we can figure out where it went.
Anya Yep, the space lamb got 'im.Xander I don't see any marks on him.Willow I-I know him! He, he was at the hospital, a mental patient. They released him today.
Riley Oh, that might be toxic, don't touch it.Xander Oh yeah, touching it was my first impulse. Luckily I've moved on to my second, which involves dry-heaving and running like hell. Oh, man, does that smell.
Willow So .. so we'll just figure this out ourselves. We're experienced.Anya Yes - 'cause it seems that we're always dealing with creatures from outer space - except that we don't ever do that.Riley This is definitely new teritory.
Xander I still don't get why we had to come here to get info about a killer snot monster.Giles Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
Willow Queller. I-I don't know why they call it that, it didn't hit a place called Queller or anything. It landed just outside of Reykjavik in Iceland.Xander Wait, I just saw... Queller. Quell ... here, here! "Primitive people used to believe that the moon was a cause of insanity. Sometimes they would pray to the moon to send a special meteor to fix the problem the moon had caused. These meteors were expected to *quell*" the madmen.Tara The man in the woods. He was a mental patient.Xander And he got pretty well ... quelled.Willow Okay, I'm looking in history right now. It says in the Middle Ages there were these sweeping plagues of madness. People were losing their marbles everywhere. But then it would suddenly subside. And these dates look pretty close. Like-like maybe it happened after each one of the meteor events.Giles So something emerged from the meteors ... and quelled the madmen.Xander Meteor go boom, crazy guy goes bye-bye.Tara Xander's little book made it sound like this Queller thing had to be summoned. So ... who summoned it?Xander Who else? My money's on Glory, our resident beastie summoner.Willow We should call Buffy. E-except we can't call Buffy. Can we?Giles No, but we better call Riley.
Buffy Spike?Spike Yeah. Listen, uh, did you hear a noise?Buffy What the hell are you doing in my house?Spike Right then, caught me. Your basement's full of junk. And me being in need of, uh, junk...Buffy You were stealing?Spike Well, yeah. Can't exactly work the counter at Burger Barn, can I?Buffy Wait, are those pictures of me?
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Dreg Sir, forgive me. I just want to understand. Why summon the Queller?Ben What do you think? Because I'm cleaning up Glory's mess. Just like I've done my whole damn life.
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Joyce Buffy, uh, I'm gonna ask you something, a-and if I'm, if I'm being crazy you just tell me, okay?Buffy You got it.Joyce The other day ... well, actually, I'm, I'm not sure when, the days seem to all bleed together...Buffy It's not important.Joyce No, I guess it isn't. I do know I was ... pretty out of it, and I had ... not-not a dream ... exactly, more like I had this ... knowledge, i-it just came to me like ....truth, you know? Even though it didn't seem...possible, even though I shouldn't even think such things.Buffy What?Joyce That Dawn...She's not ... mine, is she?Buffy No.Joyce She's ... she does belong to us, though.Buffy Yes, she does.Joyce And she's important. To the world. Precious. As precious as you are to me.Joyce Then we have to take care of her. Buffy, promise me. If anything happens, if I don't come through this..Buffy Mom.Joyce No, listen to me. No matter what she is, she still feels like my daughter. I have to know that you'll take care of her, that you'll keep her safe. That you'll love her like I love you.Buffy I promise.Joyce Good. Good.Joyce Oh, my sweet brave Buffy. What would I do without you?
Dawn I like the Jello.Joyce Help yourself. There's something about food that moves by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.Dawn It's good and wiggly. This girl at school told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet, and that if you eat Jello there's some cows out limping with no feet. But I told her I'm sure they kill 'em before they take off their feet. Right?Buffy You're the one who insisted on teaching her to talk.
Giles My god, what a rough night.Willow I just did two of 'em! Yay on me!That was pretty cool. Except the part where I was all terrified and ... and now my knees are all dizzy.Xander Not so much a big success night for me. But I think I should get points just for showing up. Unlike some Riley Finn who shall remain unnamed.Giles Yes, that was disappointing. Things would have been easier if he'd been here.Willow Oh, piffle, who needs him when I'm dusting two at a ti- Whoops. Maybe it would've been good if ... he'd shown up.Giles Perhaps he forgot.
Willow You know what's weird?Tara Japanese commercials are weird.Willow Yes. And also, you know some of the stars we're looking at ... don't even exist any more? In the time that it takes for their light to reach us, they've died. Exploded. Poof.Tara Were, um ... were things rough at the hospital?Willow You know, I used to love to look up at them when I was little. They're supposed to make you feel all insignificant, but ... they made me feel like ... like I was in space ... part of the stars. There's ... Canis Minor ... and ... and Cassiopeia.Tara And the big pineapple.Willow Hmm. You know, I'm not sure I remember that one.Tara Oh, it's, it's a major one. See those three bright stars right over there?Willow Yeah.Tara And see those stars along there? That's the bottom of the pineapple.Willow It's big.Tara Hence the name. The real ones never made sense to me, I ... sort of have my own.Willow Teach me.Tara See those stars over there? "Short man looking uncomfortable."Tara Uh... "Moose getting a sponge bath." Umm... "little pile o'crackers." Tha-that was a bit of a stretch. You do it. What would you call ... mm, that one?Willow Hmm, let's see. A huge flaming meteor about to crash into something!
Riley Everyone stay close. I'm glad you called me in on this.Xander Glad you answered.Riley Oh, yeah. I'm sorry about last time. Heard I missed out on some fun.Xander Oh, yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment, and near-death hijinks.Riley Look, there it is.Willow Wow. We have meteorite.Anya Is it hot? 'Cause, uh, if there's radiation, you could like go all sterile.Riley No, it's not hot. It's warm. And broken. It's sort of-Giles Hollow.Riley Yeah.Anya So, uh, we're all thinking the same thing, right?Xander Festive pinata? Delicious candy?Willow Something evil crashed to earth in this and then broke out and ... slithered away to do badness.Giles In all fairness, we don't really know about the slithered part.Anya Oh, no. I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.Tara Let's look around. Maybe we can figure out where it went.
Anya So, uh, we're all thinking the same thing, right?Xander Festive pinata? Delicious candy?Willow Something evil crashed to earth in this and then broke out and ... slithered away to do badness.Giles In all fairness, I don't think we know about the slithered part.Anya Oh, no. I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.Tara Let's look around. Maybe we can figure out where it went.
Xander I still don't get why we had to come here to get info about a killer snot monster.Giles Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
Buffy Spike?Spike Yeah. Listen, uh, did you hear a noise?Buffy What the hell are you doing in my house?Spike Right then, caught me. Your basement's full of junk. And me being in need of, uh, junk...Buffy You were stealing?Spike Well, yeah. Can't exactly work the counter at Burger Barn, can I?Buffy Wait, are those pictures of me?