Irony?

[Mathew]

I watched "the Initiative" on tape tonight, and I caught another one.
Listen to this:

Willow: Ok, say that I help, and you start a conversation. It goes
great. You like Buffy, she likes you. You spend time together, feelings
grow deeper, and one day, without even realizing it, you find you're in
love. Time stops, And it feels like the whole world's made for you two,
and you two alone, until the day one of you leaves and rips the
still-beating heart from the other, who's now a broken, hollow, mockery
of the human condition.

Riley : Yep, that's the plan.

...and that's how it happened.