Joyce I think we're just about ready for pie.Xander Then I'll be pretty much ready for barf.Buffy Xander!Xander No, no, barf from the eating. 'Cause all was good, and too much goodness...Joyce I'm taking it as a compliment.Giles Yes, uh, everything was delicious.Anya Yes, I'm going to barf too.
Xander How you doing there, Will, are you in the vomit club too?Willow I had too much nog.Tara Oh, baby, want me to rub your tummy? She likes it when I ... stop explaining things.
Willow Santa always passes me by. Something puts him off. Could be the big honkin' menorah.Tara Oh, did you write him a letter?Xander What'd you ask for?Dawn Um, guys, hello, puberty? Sorta figured out the whole no Santa thing.Anya That's a myth.Dawn Yeah.Anya No, I mean, it's a myth that it's a myth. There is a Santa Claus.Xander The advantage of having a thousand-year-old girlfriend. Inside scoop.Tara There's a Santa Claus?Anya Mm-hmm. Been around since, like, the 1500s. He wasn't always called Santa, but you know, Christmas night, flying reindeer, coming down the chimney -- all true.Dawn All true?Anya Well, he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as, you know, disemboweled children, but otherwise...Tara The reindeer part was nice.
Giles Shall I open another?Joyce Oh, do you think we dare?Buffy As long as you two stay away from the band candy, I'm cool with anything.
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Joyce You are a demon child.Buffy I live to torment you, is that so wrong?Joyce A daughter's duty, I suppose.Buffy Look, all we have to do is just cut off a little bit of the burnt...
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911 operator 911 emergency.Buffy Hello?911 operator Do you have...Buffy My mom, she, she's not breathing.911 operator Is she conscious?Buffy No. I-I-I can't, she, she's not breathing.911 operator OK, I need you to give me your address.Buffy What?911 operator I'm gonna send an ambulance over.Buffy Si-Sixteen thirty Rivelo, it-it's a house, Rivelo near Hadley.911 operator I'm sending a unit right away. Are you alone in the house?Buffy Yes.911 operator Well, did you see what happened, did she fall?Buffy No, no, I-I came home and she-what should I do?911 operator Do you know how to administer CPR?Buffy No, I don't remember.911 operator Okay, it's very simple. You wanna tilt your mother's head back. Cover her mouth with yours, and breathe into her mouth.
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911 operator The body's cold?Buffy No, my mom! Sh-should I make her warm?911 operator No ... if she's not responding to CPR, the best thing is to wait for the paramedics, okay?Buffy When will they be here?911 operator They're very nearby.
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Paramedic 2 Do you need anything, is there someone you can call?Buffy Someone's coming.
Giles What is it? Is it Glory?Buffy I'm waiting. The, the coroner's coming.Giles What?Buffy I have to tell Dawn. She's at school. I'll go there.Giles I'm not sure... Oh god.Buffy No. No. Don't. No, it's too late.Giles Joyce?Buffy They're, they're coming for her, no, no, we're-Giles Joyce!Buffy We're not supposed to move the body!
Dawn“Kevin Berman called me a freak in front of everybody. No, that's no big deal. ”
Xander Do you wanna come up?Anya You're double-parked.Xander Let 'em give me a ticket.
Willow What do you think? The, the, the purple, right? 'Cause, 'cause it's somber? No. No, it's too depressing, i-it's like, um, a ... funeral guy, I ... Well, this is, this is cheerier, maybe, I-I wanna be cheery, like, like everything is normal? No, that's rude, that's, that's disrespectful. "La la la! I don't care!" If I had that blue one - Jo-Joyce really liked the blue one. She told me one time. You, you sure it's not in your room?Tara I-I-I could look again.Willow No, no, I-I, I should, I should wear the purple. The purple, I, I, I think the purple, it's just that it's so, I don't know, i-it doesn't mean something bad?Tara I think it's, um ... royal. Purple means ... royalty.Willow Well, I can't see Buffy at the morgue and be all royal! "Oh, I'm the king of everything, I'm better than you!" I have to be supportive, I, Buffy needs me to be supportive, I... God, why do all my shirts have such stupid things on them? Why can't I just dress like a grownup? Can't I be a grownup?Tara Shh. Shh, darling.Willow I can't do this.Tara We can do this.Willow Okay. We can be there for Buffy. And Dawn. Little Dawn.Tara We can be strong.Willow Strong like an Amazon?Tara Strong like an Amazon, right.Willow Okay. I wish I had the blue.
Xander Hey. How you doing? I know the feeling.Willow I'm afraid I'm gonna start to cry again.Anya Xander cried at the apartment. It was weird.Willow I-i-it's a, it's a thing we do.Anya What's going to happen?Willow Well, I ... I guess we're gonna ... meet them at the morgue, That's where they were ... taking ... her.Tara Um, Giles said that he, he was gonna go with Joyce, and Buffy was gonna go to ... the school to ... tell Dawn.Xander God.Tara Do you know how to, how to get-Xander Yeah. It's at the hospital, it's a wing. We do morgue time in the Scooby gang.Willow I have to change.Xander What else did Giles say?Tara Not a lot.Xander Are they sure this was ... natural? I mean, Glory.Tara Uh, Giles was pretty sure that it wasn't, wasn't her.Xander But, I mean, she said she was gonna come after Buffy's family.Tara I don't-Xander I mean, we should be going after her. I mean, she coulda done it, and, and, covered her tracks.Willow Why would she? She'd want us to know.Xander I'll tell you what it is. It's the frickin' doctors. I mean, they just let her out, you know? Clean bill of health. Dig a hole in your skull. Here's a band-aid. Next!Willow Xander...Xander They should have checked her over, they should have had her in. Well, don't we have enough monsters in this town, the doctors gotta help 'em out?Willow Xander, I-I don't think it was ... any ... it just happened.Xander Things don't happen! I mean .. they don't *just* happen. Somebody... I mean, somebody's got...Willow Okay. Let's go. Come on, you and me. Come on.Xander You know I can't take you.Willow Damn straight.
Anya Are we gonna see the body?Willow What?Anya Are we gonna be in the room ... with the dead body?Willow I don't know. No.Tara But I guess we should take over patrolling and all that.Xander Yeah.Willow Oh, yeah.Tara For however long.Xander You know it.Willow I can't wear this. I, I really should have the other. Joyce liked it so.Tara Do you think you coulda left it in the laundry room?Willow Maybe.Tara I'll go check. I'll, I'll just be one minute.Xander We're cool.
Anya Are they gonna cut the body open?Willow Oh my god! Would you just ... stop talking? Just ... shut your mouth. Please.Anya What am I doing?Willow How can you act like that?Anya Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?Xander Guys...Willow The way you behaveAnya Nobody will tell me.Willow Because it's not okay for you to be asking these things!Anya But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.
Xander Sorry, sorry, some ... pent-up...Willow Xander...Willow Where did your hand go?Xander As I was saying, some frustration, and now, uh ... I appear to be stuck.Anya My god. Is your hand okay?Xander Pretty much. I, I'm really sorry.Anya You could have hit an electrical...thing!Xander And once again with the sorry.Willow Did it make you feel better?Xander For a second there.Willow A whole second?Xander In my defense, some crappy wallmanship.Willow Yeah, you can hear everything next door.Xander Who did the drywall in this place?Willow I always forget to ask.Tara Did I miss something?Anya Xander decided that he blames the wall.Willow Can you ... turn your wrist?Xander Hold on.Xander It's okay.Tara It hurts.Willow Here, wash it off.Anya Band-aids?Willow Underneath.
Xander If there's anything we can do.Dawn Glad you're here.Willow Love you so much.Buffy I know.Dawn They're not telling us anything.
Anya I wish that Joyce didn't die......because she was nice. And now we all hurt.Xander Anya, ever the wordsmith.Buffy Thank you.
Buffy I'm sorry ... you have to go through all of this.Tara You don't have to worry about me.Buffy Everybody wants to help. I don't even know if I'm ... here. I don't know what's going on. Never done this. That's just an amazingly dumb thing to say. Obviously ... I've never done this before.Tara I have.Tara My mother died when I was seventeen.Buffy I didn't know. I'm sorry.Tara No, no, I didn't mean to ... I'm only telling you this because ... I know it's not m-my place, but ... There's things ... thoughts and reactions I had that ... I couldn't ... understand ... or even try to explain to anyone else. Thoughts that ... made me feel like I was losing it ... or, like I was some kind of ho-horrible person. I know it's different for you ... because it's always different, but ... if you ever need....Buffy Was it sudden?Tara What?Buffy Your mother.Tara No. Yes. It's always sudden.
Willow We panicked.Buffy Uh-huh.Willow Have anything you want.Anya The sandwiches are meat.Buffy I'm just not hungry
Dawn Is she cold?Buffy It's not her ... it's not her ... she's gone.Dawn Where'd she go?
Buffy“Mom? Mom? Mommy? ”
Xander How you doing there, Will, are you in the vomit club too?Willow I had too much nog.Tara Oh, baby, want me to rub your tummy? She likes it when I ... stop explaining things.
Willow Santa always passes me by. Something puts him off. Could be the big honkin' menorah.Tara Oh, did you write him a letter?Xander What'd you ask for?Dawn Um, guys, hello, puberty? Sorta figured out the whole no Santa thing.Anya That's a myth.Dawn Yeah.Anya No, I mean, it's a myth that it's a myth. There is a Santa Claus.Xander The advantage of having a thousand-year-old girlfriend. Inside scoop.Tara There's a Santa Claus?Anya Mm-hmm. Been around since, like, the 1500s. He wasn't always called Santa, but you know, Christmas night, flying reindeer, coming down the chimney -- all true.Dawn All true?Anya Well, he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as, you know, disemboweled children, but otherwise...Tara The reindeer part was nice.
Giles Shall I open another?Joyce Oh, do you think we dare?Buffy As long as you two stay away from the band candy, I'm cool with anything.
Dawn“Kevin Berman called me a freak in front of everybody. No, that's no big deal. ”
Anya Are we gonna see the body?Willow What?Anya Are we gonna be in the room ... with the dead body?Willow I don't know. No.Tara But I guess we should take over patrolling and all that.Xander Yeah.Willow Oh, yeah.Tara For however long.Xander You know it.Willow I can't wear this. I, I really should have the other. Joyce liked it so.Tara Do you think you coulda left it in the laundry room?Willow Maybe.Tara I'll go check. I'll, I'll just be one minute.Xander We're cool.