DOCTOR: I know I'm repeating myself here, but I don't know what else to say to convince you. I have never in all my years of medicine let a patient with tachycardia this severe leave a hospital.

RILEY: You said you couldn't keep me.

DOCTOR: Legally, no, I can't force you to do a thing. But with that pulse, believe me, I'd get on my knees and beg you if I thought I could change your mind.

RILEY: You can't. I'm going home.

DOCTOR: (gestures to Buffy) And your friend here can't convince you to-

(Riley holds up a hand to stop her.)

RILEY: I'm going.

DOCTOR: All right then, but you're leaving against my recommendation.

(The doctor exits)

BUFFY: What's going on? What are you doing? What if you have a heart attack?

RILEY: Listen to me. Calm down.

BUFFY: *Me* calm down? I'm not the one with a pulse of a hundred and fifty.

RILEY: My heart's different than yours, Buffy. It works differently now, but it's okay.

BUFFY: But you're still a human, Riley. You could still have a heart attack.

RILEY: I'm a human who was used as a lab rat for months.

• Buffy & Riley
• Riley & the initiative

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/82outofmymind.html