Buffy and Tara in “Dead Things”

Buffy

Are you sure?

Tara

I've double-checked everything. There's nothing wrong with you.

Buffy

Then why can Spike hurt me?

Tara

Well, I-I said that there was nothing wrong with you, but you are different. Shifting you out of, fr-from where you were, funneling your essence back into your body, it altered you on a basic, molecular level, probably just enough to confuse the sensors or whatever in Spike's chip, but it's all just surfacey, physical stuff. It would have anymore effect than a bad sunburn.

Buffy

I didn't come back wrong?

Tara

No, you're the same Buffy, with a deep, tropical cellular tan.

Buffy

You must've missed something. Will you check again?

Tara

Buffy, I-I promise. There's nothing wrong with you.

Buffy

There has to be. This just can't be me. It isn't me. [starting to cry] Why do I feel like this? Why do I let Spike do those things to me?

Tara

You mean hit you?

Tara

[awkwardly] Oh. Oh, huh... really.

Buffy

He's everything I hate. He's everything that, I'm supposed to be against, but the only time that I ever feel anything is when... Don't tell anyone, please.

Tara

I won't.

Buffy

[crying] Oh, the way they would look at me... I just couldn't...

Tara

I won't tell anyone. I wouldn't do that.

Buffy

Why can't I stop? Why do I keep letting him in?

Tara

Do you love him? I-It's okay if you do. He's done a lot of good, and, and he does love you. A-and, Buffy, it's okay if you don't. You're going through a really hard time, and you're...

Buffy

What? Using him? What's okay about that?

Tara

It's not that simple.

Buffy

It is. It's wrong. I'm wrong. Tell me that I'm wrong, please. [starts sobbing] Please don't forgive me. Please! God, please don't. [sobbing] Please don't forgive me! Please don't!