Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- Rupert Giles: We need to save Buffy from Hansel and Gretel.
- Cordelia Chase: Now, let's be clear. The brain damage happened before I hit you.
- Rupert Giles: There is a fringe theory held by a few folklorists that some regional stories have actual, um, very literal antecedents.
- Buffy Summers: And in some language that's English?
- Oz: Fairy tales are real.
- Buffy Summers: Hans and Gre... Hansel and Gretel?
- Xander Harris: Wait. Hansel and Gretel? Bread crumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?
- Rupert Giles: Of course... Well, it makes sense now.
- Buffy Summers: Yeah, it's all falling into place. Of course, that place is nowhere near this place.
- Rupert Giles: Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and-and, uh, persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not by-Not by destroying men, but by watching men destroy each other. Now, they feed us our darkest fear and turn peaceful communities into vigilantes.
- Buffy Summers: Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.
- Rupert Giles: And then she and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob. It's happened all throughout history. Happened in Salem, not surprisingly.
- Rupert Giles: They're confiscating my books.
- Buffy Summers: Giles, we need those books.
- Rupert Giles: Believe me, I've tried to tell that to the nice man with the big gun.