5.03 The Replacement

Riley: Hey Buffy, how's that book? Full of zippy dates and zesty names?
Buffy: I'm fine.
Buffy: Hey. I'm enjoying the studying.
Riley: Who are you lately? Give it up and watch the movie.
Buffy: I guess it has been a long day with the crusades. I can take a little break from the violence for some ooh, fighting.

Riley: He mentioned Buffy? Where do we find him, and how hard can I kill him?

Buffy: Well, if this guy wants to fight with weapons, I've got it covered from A to Z. From axe to ... zee other axe. Relax. Another day, another demon.
Riley: Right. It'll be good.
Buffy: Hey.
*they kiss*
Dawn: *fake gags* My friend Sharon's older brother knows a girl who died because she choked on her boyfriend's tongue.
Buffy: Go away, Dawn.

Buffy: Riley, do you wish-
Riley: No.
Buffy: No? You don't even know what I was gonna say.
Riley: Yes, I do. You wanted to know if I wished you got hit by the ferula-gemina, got split in two.
Buffy: Well, you have been kind of rankly about the whole slayer gig. Instead of having slayer Buffy, you could have Buffy Buffy.
Riley: Hey. I have Buffy Buffy. Being the slayer's part of who you are. You keep thinking I don't get that, but...
Buffy: It's just ... I know how ... un-fun it can be. The bad hours, frequent bruising, cranky monsters...
Riley: Buffy... if you led a perfectly normal life, you wouldn't be half as crazy as you are. I gotta have that. I gotta have it all. I'm talkin' toes, elbows, the whole bad-ice-skating-movie obsession, everything. There's no part of you I'm not in love with.

Xander: Still, I do envy you sometimes. I mean for the sanity. Not that I'm still into Buffy. Not that I ever was.
Riley: Hey, I'm well aware of how lucky I am. Like, lottery lucky. Buffy's like nobody else in the world. When I'm with her it's like ... it's like I'm split in two. Half of me is just ... on fire, going crazy if I'm not touching her. The other half ... is so still and peaceful ... just perfectly content. Just knows: this is the one. But she doesn't love me.