BtVS: Beneath You
As my Xanga readers know, I enjoy posting excerpts from BtVS, Angel, ER, and Firefly. I've probably posted the following a couple times, but it's good shit. Here's the final moments from the 7th season episode entitled, "Beneath You:"
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 (horrified): 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
Genius and powerful.
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 (horrified): 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
Genius and powerful.