SPIKE: Thank God. You scared me half to death ... or more to death. You - I could kill you.

DAWN: Spike.

SPIKE: I mean it. I could rip your head off one-handed and drink from your brain stem.

DAWN: Look.

SPIKE: Yeah? I've seen the bloody bot before. Didn't think she'd patch up so- (breaks off, realizing)

DAWN: She's kind of, um ... She's been through a lot ... with the ... death. But I think she's okay. Spike? Are *you* okay?

SPIKE: I'm ... what did you do?

DAWN: Me? Nothing.

SPIKE: Her hands.

DAWN: Um, I was gonna fix 'em. I don't know how they got like that.

SPIKE: I do. Clawed her way out of a coffin, that's how. (to Buffy) Isn't that right?

BUFFY: (quietly) Yeah. That's ... what I had to do.

SPIKE: Done it myself. Um ... We'll take care of you. Come here. (to Dawn) Get some stuff, uh, mercurochrome, bandages.

DAWN: Okay. (exits)

BUFFY: How long was I gone?

SPIKE: Hundred forty-seven days yesterday. Uh ... hundred forty-eight today. 'Cept today doesn't count, does it? How long was it for you ... where you were?

BUFFY: (pause) Longer.

• Buffy & Spike
• Buffy's Death & Revivification
• Dawn & Spike

written by: Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick; action descriptions condensed by me. . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/103afterlife.html