RILEY: I think we're being watched.

BUFFY: I dunno. Does the Initiative do that?

RILEY: Maybe.

BUFFY: You seem a little...somewhere else. Is there anything I can do?

RILEY: Give me an order. That's what I do isn't it? Follow orders.

BUFFY: You don't have to.

RILEY: Don't I? All my life that's what I've been groomed to do. They say jump, I ask "How high?", I get the job done. Just don't know if it's the right job anymore.

BUFFY: I know how you feel. Giles used to be part of this Council. And for years all they ever did was give me orders.

RILEY: Ever obey them?

BUFFY: Sure. The ones I was going to do anyway. The point is, I quit the Council. And I was scared. But it's okay now.

RILEY: Now, see, that's where you and I are different. I just suck at the whole gray area thing.

BUFFY: It's a choice. Go back in there and make some changes from the inside. Or you can quit the team, fight demons in your own way.

RILEY: You make it sound so simple. I don't even know what my way is.

BUFFY: Well, it's time to find out.

RILEY: I'm a soldier. I got a way, which one of them?

BUFFY: Good man.

• Buffy & Riley
• Riley & the initiative
• Watcher's Council

written by: Douglas Petrie; . Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season4/transcripts/71_tran.htm