Buffy - 7x02 - “Beneath You”

Buffy - 7x02 - “Beneath You”

Buffy - 7x22 - “Chosen”

Oh, Angel.

Buffy - 7x18 - “Dirty Girls”

lol, spike vs angel

35:24

CUT TO: SUNNYDALE CEMETERY— CHAPEL— NIGHT

Buffy opens the door and walks inside. The chapel is apparently deserted. Suddenly Spike appears out of the darkness behind her and she whirls around, angry.

SPIKE: It didn’t work.

BUFFY: What the hell are you—

SPIKE: It didn’t work.

He stands before her, shirtless, the scars on his chest prominently displayed. He tosses aside his blue shirt.

SPIKE: Costume. Didn’t help. Couldn’t hide.

BUFFY: No more mind games, Spike.

SPIKE: No more mind games. No more mind.

BUFFY: Tell me what happened to you.

She reaches out to touch the scars and he flinches away from her.

SPIKE: Hey, hey! No touching! Am I flesh? Am I flesh to you? Feed on flesh. My flesh. Nothing else. Not a spark. Oh, fine. Flesh, then. Solid through. Get it hard, service the girl.

He starts to unbutton his pants and Buffy reaches out to stop him.

BUFFY: Stop it! You—

Spike seizes her by the throat and she breaks his grip and throws him across the room where he lands on the church pews, shattering them.

SPIKE: Right. Girl doesn’t want to be serviced. Because there’s no spark. Ain’t we in a soddin’ engine?

BUFFY: Spike, have you completely lost your mind?

SPIKE: Well, yes. Where have you been all night?

BUFFY: You thought you could just come back here and be with me?

SPIKE: First time for everything.

BUFFY: This is all you get. I’m listening. Tell me what happened.

SPIKE: I tried to find it, of course.

BUFFY: (annoyed) Find what?

SPIKE: The spark. The missing… the piece. That fit. That would make me fit. Because you didn’t want… god… I can’t! Not with you looking.

He stands up and moves off into the shadows.

SPIKE: I dreamed of killing you.

Spooked in spite of herself, Buffy bends down and picks up a splintered piece of wood and wields it as a stake.

SPIKE: I think they were dreams. So weak. Did you make me weak? Thinking of you, holding myself and spilling useless buckets of salt over your… ending. Angel, he should have warned me. He makes a good show of forgetting but it’s here in me… all the time. The spark. I wanted to give you what you deserve. And I got it. They put the spark in me… and now all it does is burn.

Buffy is stunned.

BUFFY: Your soul…

SPIKE: (laughs) A bit worse for lack of use.

BUFFY: You got your soul back. How?

SPIKE: It’s what you wanted, right? (looks up) It’s what you wanted, right?

Spike puts his hands to his head and winces.

SPIKE: And now everybody’s in here, talking. Everything I did, everyone I… and him… and it… the other. The thing beneath… beneath you. It’s here, too. Everybody. They all just tell me go. Go… to hell..

BUFFY: Why? Why would you do that?

SPIKE: Buffy, shame on you. Why does a man do what he mustn’t? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would nev— (beat) To be a kind of man.

Spike approaches the large cross standing at the head of the chapel.

SPIKE And she shall look on him with forgiveness and everybody will forgive and love… and he will be loved. So everything’s okay, right?

Buffy watches in stunned silence, a single tear tracking down her cheek, as Spike drapes his arms over the cross and rests his head upon it. Smoke starts to curl up around him as the religious icon singes his flesh.

SPIKE Can we rest now? Buffy, can we rest?

FADE TO BLACK

END

Buffy - 7x01 - “Lessons”

Buffy - 6x08 - “Tabula Rasa”

I must be a noble vampire!