(in trashed school hallway)

BUFFY: Riot that almost happened.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Looks to me like it happened after all.

(Someone throws a glass bottle against a wall, shattering it.)

SPIKE: Looks to me like it's still happening. Nice way to run a school. There's got to be kids injured in here.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Yeah, easy picking for the likes of you, huh?

SPIKE: (annoyed/hurt) Hey, here to help, you know.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Right.

ANDREW: Check out Spike and the Principal. There's something going on there. Sexual tension you could cut with a knife.

SPIKE: These kids went nuts, didn't they?

PRINCIPAL WOOD: (sarcastically) No kidding.

BUFFY: Shh, they'll hear you.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Buffy, they're all the way down?

(Wood is attacked. Buffy dragged off. Spike is attacked)

BUFFY: Spike!

SPIKE: The kids are getting stronger.

ANDREW: Oh, God. Struck down before I achieve redemption.

BUFFY: Spike! Don't kill them. They're just students.

SPIKE: They'll live.

BUFFY: OK, Spike, Wood. I need you guys to stay here, hold our line of retreat.

ANDREW: So, I'll be staying here with these men, helping out that holding the line thing. (Buffy frowns and grabs Andrew's arm) I'll be with Buffy.

• Spike vs Principal Wood

written by: Jane Espenson; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/138_tran.php