She came very close to suggesting that they should let them all go, and track them down later when they could get a ‘proper’ fight.

Hee! Very Buffy.

And I could completely see Tara's mum running around up there, horseback riding and muffin-cooking. What a charming image. (Paired with an appropriately somber Buffy.)

N' the last line of number three was the best. I always wondered, when they walked out of there, how Giles was planning on explaining that..

Very nice!