Buffy to Dawn: they'll take you away! from Tough Love (Season 5) | Next Clip in Episode |
(Summers house. Buffy is folding dish towels on the table while Dawn is doing homework.)
BUFFY: Okay, so, I-I think the next step is to make a chart. A schedule.
(Dawn gives her an angry look)
BUFFY: I'll write down all the things you're supposed to do, and when you have to do them, and then I'll leave a box next to it, which you can mark with an X when you've accomplished the task.
(Dawn stares at her with a sullen expression.)
BUFFY: What? You want gold stars? (rolls her eyes) Okay. You can have gold stars.
DAWN: I don't want gold stars. (scoffs) I don't want any of this.
BUFFY: I'm just trying to give you a normal life.
DAWN: Well good luck. (after a pause) What, what am I doing wrong now?
BUFFY: This is for real Dawn.
DAWN: No, it's not. I'm not real. So why would my exciting graph of chores be real? Who cares if the Key gets an education anyway?
BUFFY: It's a chart, not a graph. And you are real.
DAWN: Yeah? Those monks put grades k-8 in my head, can't we just wait and see if they drop 9 in there too?
BUFFY: Damn it Dawn! This is serious!
DAWN: Why? Why should I care about *any* of this?
BUFFY: (yelling) Because they'll take you away!
DAWN: (long pause, then quietly) Take me away? What do you mean?
BUFFY: They'll take you away from me. That's what your principal told me while you weren't in the room. If I can't make you go to school, then I won't be found fit to be your legal guardian.
DAWN: Where would I go?
BUFFY: I don't know. Dad, maybe. Or foster care. I didn't really want to ask.
DAWN: You could of told me that.
BUFFY: I just did.
written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Once again, I'm typing these up myself as transcripts are scarce.... Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/97toughlove.html