Adam quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Adam

[After killing Professor Walsh, his first act of life] Mommy.

Adam

I've been thinking about the world. I wanted to see it, learn it. I saw the inside of that boy, and it was beautiful, but it didn't tell me about the world. It just made me feel. So now... I want to learn about me. Why I feel. What I am. [drops down from his platform] So I came home. [inserts a disk into the drive in his chest] I'm a kinematically redundant, biomechanical demonoid, designed by Maggie Walsh. She called me Adam, and I called her mother.

Adam, Maggie would want you to stand down.

Adam

Yes... but I seem to have a design flaw.

Adam

You fear death. Being immortal, you fear it more than those to whom it comes naturally. Vampires are a paradox.

Okay, we're a paradox. That's cool.

Adam

Demon in a human body. You walk in both worlds and belong to neither. I can relate.

I wish you'd get rid of that body. The smell's making me hungry.

Adam

You wouldn't want it. It had a blood disease. He didn't know it, but it would've been dead within the year. Human sense so little of what they carry inside.

Huh. All right. Well, you're the evil messiah guy, so... Oh, hey, there's something new in town. Yeah, attacked a girl, 'caused a little fuss. Oh, he was there. [chuckles] Jonathan.

Adam

Jonathan. Tell me, who is he?

[chuckles] You're joking, right? Jonathan is... Jonathan! Look!

Adam

These are lies. None of this is real. The world has been changed. It's intriguing, but it's wrong.

Feels okay to me.

Adam

You're under his spell, just like the others. I seem to be the only one who's not.

Really? Well, what makes you so special?

Adam

I'm aware. I know every molecule of myself, and everything around me. No one, no human, no demon, has ever been as awake and alive as I am. You're all just shadows.

Oh... So, what do-what do you do now? Hey, you could kill Jonathan. Well, or, you could try. The guy's, like, a dynamo of action.

Adam

I don't need to do anything. These magics are unstable, corrosive. They will inevitably lead to chaos. And I am interested in chaos.

Spike

[happily] Now that was fun!

Adam

You were successful?

Spike

[scoffs] Easier than I'd thought it'd be, too.

Adam

You're sure?

Spike

[scoffs] Feel it in my bones. I call it...the Yoko Factor. [off Adam's look] Don't tell me you've never heard of The Beatles?

Adam

I have. [stands] I like Helter Skelter

Spike

What a surprise. The point is, they were once a real powerful group. It's not a stretch to say they ruled the world. And when they broke up everyone blamed Yoko, but the fact is the group split itself apart, she just happened to be there. You know how it is with kids. They go off to college, they grow apart. Way of the world.

Adam

Two Slayers?

Spike

That's right.

Adam

And you killed them both?

Spike

Yeah. I killed the hell out of 'em.

Adam

Yet you fear this one?

Spike

Hey, watch it, mate! I don't fear anything. I just know my enemies.

Adam

Do you? Then why haven't you killed this Slayer yet?

Spike

Because...! Stinking rotten luck is why. On top of that, now I got this buggering chip up my head.

Adam

Yes. Your behavior modification circuitry. I know what you feel.

Spike

[scoffing] Not likely.

Adam

You feel smothered. Trapped like an animal. Pure in its ferocity, unable to actualize the urges within. Clinging to one truth, like a flame struggling to burn within an enclosed glass: that a beast this powerful cannot be contained. Inevitably, it will break free and savage the land again. I will make you whole again, make you savage.

Spike

[is speechless with awe for a moment] Wow... I mean, yeah. I get why the demons all fall in line with you. You're like Tony Robbins! If he was a big scary, Frankenstein-looking... You're exactly like Tony Robbins.

Spike

[On getting Buffy to go where Adam wants her to] Right. The Initiative. But getting her there, that's what the bleeding discs are for, innit? I mean, the little witch gives her the info, and pop! All sends her back down the rabbit hole.

Adam

The witch?

Spike

Ah, Willow. So high, perky, good with maths. Natural choice.

Adam

Her friend.

Spike

Right.

Adam

One of the friends from which you so efficiently separated her.

Spike

Damn right I did! You should have seen 'em, they won't be talking to each other for a long, long- [pointed stare from Adam] -hang on, I think I might have detected a small flaw.

Adam

So you failed.

Spike

Well, hey, you're supposed to be so smart, but you let me plan this thing! [Adam glares] Well, let's not quibble about who failed who, the important thing is making sure the Slayer is where we want-

Adam

Go.

Spike

Gone. [Walks to the door] So, um, we'll do this chip thing when I get back?