Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Lessons (2002)

Michelle Trachtenberg: Dawn Summers

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• Dawn Summers : But, he's new. He doesn't know his strength. He-He might not know all those fancy martial arts skills they inevitably seem to pick up.

• Buffy Summers : It doesn't matter how well prepped you are or how well armed you are. You're a little girl.

  Dawn Summers : Woman.

  Buffy Summers : Little woman.

  Dawn Summers : I'm taller than you.

• [Buffy is smothering Dawn with advice on her first day of high school] 

  Dawn Summers : I know! You never know what's coming. The stake is not the power. To Serve Man is a cookbook. I love you. Go away.

• Buffy Summers : Talisman must've been destroyed.

  Dawn : How'd you know it was a talisman?

  Buffy Summers : There's always a talisman.

• [seeing a zombie walking towards them] 

  Kit Holburn : It's not real.

  Dawn Summers : Lesson One: It's always real.

• Xander Harris : I managed to scare up the plan from the old high school. You remember the very center of Sunnydale's own Hellmouth?

  Buffy Summers : Under the library.

  Xander Harris : Right. So I lined up the plans, new and old, and right exactly where the library was, we now have...

  Buffy Summers : Principal's office.

  Dawn Summers : So the principal's evil?

  Buffy Summers : Or in a boatload of danger.

  Xander Harris : Well, the last two principals were eaten. Who'd even apply for that job?

• Dawn : You really weren't kidding about this place. I guess it hasn't changed.

  Buffy Summers : I don't know. Seems smaller.

• Buffy Summers : The next vampire you meet, you run away. I just wish that was all we had to worry about. Vampires, demons, they're nothing compared to what's coming.

  Dawn Summers : I know. I just can't believe it's back.

  Buffy Summers : Believe me. I thought I was long past it.

  Dawn Summers : I guess you never are.

  Buffy Summers : Just a few more days till it starts and then we'll never know what's coming next.

  [cut to a ribbon cutting ceremony] 

  Principal Robin Wood : It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the official opening, on the very ground that it first stood upon, of the brand-new, state-of-the-art, Sunnydale High!

• [on cell phones] 

  Dawn Summers : What do they want.

  Buffy Summers : So far, to piss me off.

  Dawn Summers : Please tell me it's working.

  Buffy Summers : Oh, I'm damage-bound.

• Dawn Summers : I love to dance. I like music. I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out. So, mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art.

• Buffy Summers : Now, remember, if you see anything strange or, you know... dead.

  Dawn Summers : I got it.

  Buffy Summers : And-And stay away from hyena people, or, uh, any lizard-type athletes, you know, or-or if you see anyone that's invisible...

  Dawn Summers : Hey, Buffy. I think it's pretty safe to say I'm not going to see anybody that's invisible.

  Buffy Summers : You know, you could still drop out. Only nerds finish high school.

  Dawn Summers : You know, I don't really think it's fair for you to try and scare me on my first day of high school. 'Cause it is *so* redundant.

• [training, Dawn tried fighting a vampire but Buffy had to step in as it as started to bite her] 

  Dawn Summers : It's nothing. It's just a scrape... Plus, I had a plan the whole time.

  Buffy Summers : Really?

  Dawn Summers : Yeah. I planned to get killed, come back as a vampire and bite you.