Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Buffy Summers : I haven't processed everything yet. My brain isn't really functioning on the higher levels... It's pretty much, "fire bad, tree pretty."

  Rupert Giles : Understandable. Well, when it's working again, congratulate it on a, a good campaign. You did very well.

  Buffy Summers : Thank you. I will.

  Rupert Giles : I, uh, I ferreted this out of the wreckage. Now, it may not interest you, but, uh...

  [reaches into his jacket and pulls out a high school diploma] 

  Rupert Giles : I'd say you earned it.

  [takes a deep breath and looks around at the remains of the school] 

  Rupert Giles : There's a certain, um... dramatic irony attached to all this... a synchronicity that borders on-on predestination, one might say.

  Buffy Summers : Fire bad, tree pretty.

  Rupert Giles : Oh, yes. Sorry. I'll... I'll go and tend to Wesley. See if he's still, um, whimpering.

• Xander Harris : Here's your coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.

  Rupert Giles : Thank you.

  [takes a sip] 

  Rupert Giles : Horrible.

  [takes another sip] 

  Xander Harris : Aren't you supposed to be drinking tea, anyway?

  Rupert Giles : Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

  Xander Harris : Okay, but you're destroying a perfectly good cultural stereotype here.

• Buffy Summers : That's the basic plan. So, am I crazy?

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, "crazy" is such a strong word.

  Rupert Giles : Let's not rule it out, though.

• Rupert Giles : Buffy's quit the Council... She'll not be working with Wesley from now on.

  Cordelia Chase : But he's her Watcher.

  Rupert Giles : Buffy no longer needs a Watcher. She'll not be working with Wesley from now on.

  Cordelia Chase : But he is her Watcher.

  Xander Harris : Buffy no longer needs a Watcher.

  Cordelia Chase : Well, does he have to leave the country? I mean, you got fired, and you still hang around like a big loser. Why can't he?

  Xander Harris : Cordelia! We're trying to stop a massacre here. Wanna give us a hand?

  Cordelia Chase : Sure... This is just *such* a Buffy thing to do. She's always thinking of herself.