Nicholas Brendon credited as playing...
Xander Harris
- Xander Harris: [to Gachner] Who's the little fear demon? Come on, who's the little fear demon?
- Rupert Giles: Don't taunt the fear demon.
- Xander Harris: Why? Can he hurt me?
- Rupert Giles: No. It's just tacky.
- Buffy Summers: This is Gachnar?
- Xander Harris: Big overture, little show.
- Gachnar: I am the Dark Lord of nightmares. The bringer of Terror! Tremble before me. Fear me!
- Willow Rosenberg: He... He's so cute.
- Xander Harris: Sad Buffy.
- Willow Rosenberg: She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
- Oz: She's still suffering a little post-Parker depression.
- Xander Harris: Bailing on the Buff. Does anyone else wanna smack that guy?
- [raises his hand. Willow and Oz do the same]
- Xander Harris: People, prepare to have your spines tingled and your gooses bumped by the terrifying... Fantasia... Fantasia?
- Oz: Maybe it's 'cause of all the horrific things we've seen, but... hippos wearing tutus just don't unnerve me the way they used to.
- Xander Harris: Phantasm. It was supposed to be Phantasm. Stupid video store.
- Xander Harris: Hail, ye olde... varletty... thou.
- Willow Rosenberg: I'm-I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake... and plus, she had that close relationship with God.
- Xander Harris: [to Oz] And you are...?
- [Oz reveals a name tag saying "GOD"]
- Xander Harris: Of course. I wish I'd thought of that before I put down my deposit. I could've been God.
- Oz: Blasphemer.
- Anya: You haven't called...! Not once.
- Xander Harris: You said you were over me.
- Anya: And you just accepted that? I only said that because I thought that's what you wanted to hear.
- Xander Harris: Well, that's the funny thing about me, I tend to hear the actual words people say and accept them at face value.
- Anya: That's stupid.
- Xander Harris: I accept that.
- Willow Rosenberg: I'm serious, Buffy. We don't know what we're dealing with.
- Xander Harris: Okay, my turn. Does anyone hear that?
- Buffy Summers: Well, as soon as we start dealing with it, I'll know what it is I'm dealing with. Do you hear something?
- Xander Harris: Like I said... sounds like a hissing.
- Buffy Summers: It's like a "ssss" noise?
- Xander Harris: I thought the word "hissing" kind of covered that nicely.
- Buffy Summers: I'm gonna get going.
- Xander Harris: [checking his watch] Now? The night's still... Well, okay, it's a little mature, but still.
- Xander Harris: [Buffy is dressed as Red Riding Hood] Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl?
- Buffy Summers: Weapons.
- Xander Harris: Oh.
- Xander Harris: No, it's cool. You guys got your little college thing. I'm fine. I mean, I got better things to do than tag along to some fraternity.
- Willow Rosenberg: You can come.
- Xander Harris: 'kay. But only because I lied about having better things to do.
- [Xander still thinks no one can see or hear him]
- Xander Harris: I'd offer my opinion but you jerks aren't gonna hear it, anyway. Not that Didn't-Go-To-College Boy has anything important to say. I might as well hang out my new best friend, bleeding dummy head, for all you dorks care.
- Buffy Summers: What is wrong with you?
- Xander Harris: You... You heard that...? You can see me?
- [Buffy nods]
- Xander Harris: Good. Oh, God, good.
- Xander Harris: I wasn't scared, I was in the spirit.
- Willow Rosenberg: And we back ya up on that... even if they question us separately.
- [first lines]
- [Xander has carved a pumpkin]
- Xander Harris: I don't know. Uh, I was going for ferocious-scary but it's coming out more dryly-sardonic.
- Willow Rosenberg: It does appear to be mocking you with its eye-holes.
- Oz: Yet its nose-hole seems sad and full of self-loathing.
- Xander Harris: What do you think, Buff?
- Buffy Summers: I was just thinking about the life of a pumpkin. Grow up in the sun, happily entwined with others... and then someone comes along, cuts you open, and rips your guts out.
- [Oz is setting up a sound system and he tilts his head and grimaces]
- Xander Harris: Sensing a disturbance in the force, master?
- Oz: No, left speaker's crackin' a little bit.
- [pulls out a knife]
- Xander Harris: And you feel stabbing it's the proper solution?
- Buffy Summers: Wil, give me something.
- Willow Rosenberg: Okay, uh, um, the icon's called the-the Mark of Gachnar. I-I-I think this is a-a summoning spell for something called...
- Xander Harris: Gachnar?
- Willow Rosenberg: Well, yes. Somehow, the-the beginning of the-the spell must have been triggered. Um, Gachnar's trying to manifest itself, to-to come into being.
- Buffy Summers: How?
- Willow Rosenberg: It-it feeds on fear.
- Buffy Summers: Our fears are manifesting. We're feeding it. We-We need to stop.