Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Welcome to the Hellmouth (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Rupert Giles : The point is, a Slayer should be able to see them anyway, without looking, without thinking. Well, can you tell me if there's a vampire in this building?

  Buffy Summers : Maybe.

  Rupert Giles : You should know. Even through this mass and this... din, you should be able to sense them. Well, try. Reach out with your mind. You have to hone your senses, focus until the energy washes over you, till you-you feel every particle of-of...

  Buffy Summers : There's one.

  Rupert Giles : W-Where?

  Buffy Summers : Right there, talking to that girl.

  Rupert Giles : You don't know...

  Buffy Summers : Oh, please! Look at his jacket. He's got the sleeves rolled up. And the shirt? Deal with that outfit for a moment.

  Rupert Giles : It's dated?

  Buffy Summers : It's carbon dated. Trust me, only someone living underground for ten years would think *that* was still the look.

• Buffy Summers : Hey, I know. Why don't *you* kill 'em?

  Rupert Giles : I'm a Watcher, I-I haven't the skill.

  Buffy Summers : Oh, come on. A stake through the heart, a little sunlight. It's like falling off a log.

  Rupert Giles : A-A Slayer slays, a-a Watcher...

  Buffy Summers : Watches?

  Rupert Giles : Yes. No! He... He trains her. He-He-He prepares her...

  Buffy Summers : Prepares me for what? For getting kicked out of school? For losing all of my friends? For having to spend all of my time fighting for my life and never getting to tell anyone because I might endanger them? Go ahead... Prepare me.

• Rupert Giles : Into each generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a chosen one, one born with the...

  Rupert Giles , Buffy Summers : ...strength and skill to hunt the vampires...

  Buffy Summers : ...to stop the spread of their evil blah, blah, blah. I've heard it, okay?

• Rupert Giles : Dig a bit in the history of this place, and you'll find a-a-a steady stream of fairly odd occurrences. I believe this whole area is the center of mystical energy, that things gravitate towards it that-that you might not find elsewhere.

  Buffy Summers : Like vampires.

  Rupert Giles : Like zombies, werewolves, incubi, succubi. Everything you've ever dreaded was under your bed but told yourself couldn't be by the light of day. They're all real.

  Buffy Summers : What, you, like, sent away for the Time/Life series?

  Rupert Giles : Oh, w-well, yes.

  Buffy Summers : D'ya get the free phone?

  Rupert Giles : Um, the calendar.

• Rupert Giles : The vampire is not dead?

  Buffy Summers : No, but my social life is on the critical list.

• Buffy Summers : So, you like to party with the students? Isn't that kind of skanky?

  Rupert Giles : [witheringly]  Uh, right. This is me having fun. Watching clown hair prance about is hardly my idea of a party. I'd much rather be at home with a cup of Bovril and a good book.

  Buffy Summers : You need a personality, stat!