Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Checkpoint (2001)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Buffy Summers : You're Watchers... Without a Slayer, you're pretty much just watchin' Masterpiece Theater... You can't stop Glory. You can't do anything with the information you have except maybe publish it in the "Everyone Thinks We're Insane-Os Home Journal." So here's how it's gonna work. You're gonna tell me everything you know. Then you're gonna go away. You'll contact me if and when you have any further information about Glory. The magic shop will remain open. Mr. Giles will stay here as my official Watcher, reinstated at full salary...

  Rupert Giles : [fake cough]  Retroactive.

  Buffy Summers : ...to be paid retroactively from the month he was fired. I will continue my work with the help of my friends...

  Lydia : I-I-I... don't want a sword thrown at me, but-but, civilians, I- we're talking about children.

  Buffy Summers : We're talking about two very powerful witches and a thousand-year-old ex-demon.

  Anya : Willow's a demon?

• Quentin Travers : You used to respect us, Giles. You used to be one of us.

  Rupert Giles : You used to pay me. If you recall, firing me was not my idea.

• Buffy Summers : They're gonna expect me to... to be like a Slayer and-and know stuff, but I'm just me, and-and I don't know anything and they're gonna to go away and they're not gonna tell me how to fight Glory and I'm not gonna be able to protect Dawn.

  Rupert Giles : Buffy, calm down. The scandal here is not anything you've done wrong. It's the way *they're* behaving, holding what they know hostage, with a gun pointed at my bleeding green card, no less.

  [sighs] 

  Rupert Giles : It's humiliating.

  Buffy Summers : Also smart... They picked the perfect thing... I can't lose you.

• Quentin Travers : We'll skip the more obvious questions.

  Buffy : There isn't gonna be a review.

  Quentin Travers : Sorry?

  Buffy : No review. No interrogation. No questions you *know* I can't answer, no hoops, no jumps...

  [Nigel starts to say something] 

  Buffy : ...and no interruptions... See...

  [sighs] 

  Buffy : I've had a lot of people talking at me the last few days. Everyone just *lining* up to tell me how unimportant I am... And I've finally figured out why... Power. I have it. They don't... This bothers them... Glory... came to my home today.

  Rupert Giles : Buffy, are you all...

  Buffy : Just to talk. She told me I'm a bug. I'm a flea. She could squash me in a second. Only she didn't... She came into my home, and we talked. We had what, in her warped brain, probably passes for a civilized conversation. Why? Because she needs something from me, because I have power over her.

• Lydia : There are some very potent elements here: focusing crystals, runic artifacts, an Amulet of Cauldys. Also this statue. Its removal from Burma is a criminal offense, and when triggered, has the power to melt human eyeballs.

  Rupert Giles : In that case, I severely under-priced it.

• Rupert Giles : I should have set you loose on them. That's what I should have done.

  Buffy Summers : Giles, that Travers guy is like, 60. I can't hit him...

  [eagerly] 

  Buffy Summers : Can I?