Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Inca Mummy Girl (1997)

Ara Celi: Ampata Gutierrez, The Inca Mummy Girl

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Quotes 

• [Ampata comes downstairs] 

  Ampata : Hello, Xander.

  [Xander says incoherent babble] 

  Buffy Summers : I can translate American salivating boy-talk. He says you're beautiful.

  [Xander babbles to Buffy] 

  Buffy Summers : You're welcome.

• Xander Harris : Your English is very bueno.

  Ampata : I listen much.

  Xander Harris : Well, that works out well because I talk much.

• Xander Harris : Okay. I have something to tell you. And it's kind of a secret and it's, um, a little bit scary. I like you... a lot. And I want you to go with me the dance.

  Ampata : [laughs]  Why was that so scary?

  Xander Harris : Well, because you never know if a girl's gonna say yes, or if... she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

  Ampata : Hmm. Then you are very courageous.

• Xander Harris : There you are. Why'd you run away?

  Ampata : Because... I do not deserve you.

  Xander Harris : What... you think that *you* don't deserve *me*?

  [laughs] 

  Xander Harris : Man, I love you!

  [She begins to weep] 

  Xander Harris : Are those tears of joy? Pain? Revulsion?

  Ampata : I am very happy. And very sad.

  Xander Harris : Then talk to me. Let me know what's wrong.

  Ampata : I can't!

  [She hugs him and cries into his shoulder] 

  Xander Harris : Hey, I know why you can't tell me. It's a secret, right? And if you told me, you'd have to kill me.

  [Ampata hugs him again, crying even harder] 

  Xander Harris : Oh! That was a... bad joke. And the delivery was off, too. I'm sorry.

• Willow Rosenberg : So, Ampata... you're a girl.

  Ampata : Yes. For many years now.

• Ampata : You are strange.

  Xander Harris : Girls always tell me that... right before they run away.