CALEB: You're searching for something, girl. What would that be now?

GIRL: Oh. You. I was looking for you.

CALEB: Is that right?

GIRL: I heard you speakin' tonight. Preachin'. I felt your words go straight to me.

CALEB: Well, the truth is like a sword, isn't it, girl? Cuts deep.

GIRL: (smiles) Yeah.

CALEB: The words I use got a power to them. A power, now. They're not just words?they're truth.

GIRL: They brought me here.

CALEB: They called you. You know why? Because you're human. You got your urges. A woman's got hers. A man's got his. Our whole race can be do damnably weak... That's why we seek the strength, the power.

GIRL: It's not wrong to be drawn to the power, is it, preacher? (follows him into the shadow)

CALEB: Oh, no, child. It's not wrong... (the girl gasps and falls to the ground, revealing a bloody stomach wound) Just human.

(The girl's body transforms into Buffy's form.)

BUFFY/FIRST: Most people don't like visits from their dead, you know.

CALEB: Heathens. No appreciations for life's pleasures. Do it again.

BUFFY/FIRST: I take requests. One of those potentials you killed, perhaps?

CALEB: No, save them for later. I'm in more of an old memory lane kind of mood. Back before I met you, there was this choir girl in Knoxville I used to give singing lessons to...why, she even screamed on key. Show me her.

BUFFY/FIRST: All these girls...they followed you willingly. You tricked them.

CALEB: I only told them the truth. As for following, well, that seems to be what they do best.

• From Beneath You it Devours

written by: Drew Goddard; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/140_tran.php