(Prof Walsh's office)

WALSH: So, the Slayer.

BUFFY: Yeah. That's me.

WALSH: We thought you were a myth.

BUFFY: Well, you were myth-taken.

(joke falls flat)

WALSH: And to think all that time you were sitting in my class. Well, most of those times. I always knew you could do better than a B minus. Now I understand your energies were directed in the same places as ours, in fact. It's only our methods that differ. We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.

BUFFY: Well, it's more effective than it sounds.

WALSH: Oh, I'm, heh, quite sure of that. As I'm just as sure that we can learn much from each other. I'm working on getting you clearance to come into the Initiative. I think you'll find the results of our operation most impressive. Agent Finn here, alone, has killed or captured-- how many is it?

RILEY: (note of pride) Seventeen. Eleven vampires, six demons.

BUFFY: Oh . . . Wow. (trying to sound impressed) I mean, that's . . . seventeen.

WALSH: What about you?

BUFFY: Me?

WALSH: How many hostiles would you say you've slain?

(Glancing back and forth between them, Buffy is considering, and from her expression we cut away)

• Academics
• Slayerhood
• the Initiative

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joseph B. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/68anewman.html