Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

You worry about me because you have to. I'm your job. Protect the Key, right?
Oh, nothing, no.
It's OK. Don't worry about it. Next time we see him, we'll thank him.
It's beautiful. Thank you, guys.
Is she mad about the whole fire thing?
We imagine what we'll be like in ten years and write a letter to our future self.
We're goin' up against a god, an actual mightier-than-thou god.
- I bet you know where she put it. - She doesn't know.
Oh, right. Of course. Can't let Dawn hear anything.
It's just like mine.
I thought you said this skank was tough.
No.
The Slayer is the only thing standing between Dawn and this god from the bitch dimension
No contact with civilians. There's probably a code name for it.
Is that supposed to scare me?
Hey, this doesn't have to be a complete waste of my precious time.
OK. Small talk over. I'm in a bit of a crunch, so let's cut right to the ooey-gooey centre.
- You could have stopped her. - Oh, yeah, here it comes.
Thank you. Thank you.
Even if I knew, I'd die a thousand deaths before I'd tell you.
Are you giving Buffy a birthday present?
Makes your skin sing.
So this Key thing...
I can take care of myself.
- Previously on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": - We had to hide the Key.
- Once drained, all that's left is... - Crazy people.
Watch the hair.
I guess that's you, niblet.
A crazy Hell god? And the fun just keeps on leavin'.
How could you let her find out like that? From books and papers?
Xander, Giles, take the centre of town. Willow, Tara, west side.
then screechy siren things will, you know, screech.
oh god the pdidjnbs! and the yourfirueejdiwuwjmns!
Very amusing. I'm sure Dawn feels that way about her schoolwork sometimes.
From what the Council's discovered from the Book of Tarnis and other sources,
Dawn? Did you know your sister took my Key? And she won't give it back.
She's real. She's just kinda... new.
Very irritating, irrational. You know what I mean, tiny snapdragon? Like...
- Jeez! Lurk much? - I wasn't lurkin'.
Yeah, we're doing an early-warning incantation.
I know how difficult the first time can be.
What am I?
Just find her. Please.
summoned armies to control the Key.
All pushing at our reality, trying to find a way in.
Which is why there's been an increase in the ranks of the mentally unstable in Sunnydale.
It doesn't matter where you came from, or how you got here.
yeah.
As opposed to the other kind we're always in?
an energy matrix vibrating at a dimensional frequency beyond human perception."
Oh, my God. Weird. And chocolates? Lame.
Look, if Glory knew that you guys knew where it was...
I don't want the book, just what's inside. I think it was Giles's notes.
- Dawn! - Oh, baby.
I mean...
I usually just burst through doors.
She's been keeping those since...
and funny hats, and those candles that don't blow out.
The birds have been pecking too hard.
You'll find her.
You know what the Key is?
She's been extremely forgiving of your considerable foibles up until now,
- You should've said something. - Will, there...
Unfortunate, but not completely unexpected.
Yeah. Shouldn't we try to find it before she does?
- How could all that never really happen? - It takes some getting used to,
first you see one, then two... then the picnic's ruined.
- How can you talk as if she's a thing? - I'm not!