Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- Rupert Giles: Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?
- Willow Rosenberg: Maybe because they met her?... Did I say that?
- Rupert Giles: But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of-of fiends and devils and-and-and ghouls to engage.
- [everyone looks at him]
- Rupert Giles: Well, pardon me for finding the glass half full.
- [first lines]
- Rupert Giles: This is madness. What can you have been thinking. You are the Slayer. Lives depend upon you. I make...
- [hands in hair]
- Rupert Giles: allowances for you youth, but I expect a certain amount of responsibility, instead of which you enslave yourself to this-this... cult?
- Buffy: [in cheerleader outfit with pom poms] You don't like the color?
- Rupert Giles: I -
- [sighs]
- Rupert Giles: Do you ignore everything I say? Is that - Is that the rule?
- Buffy: No, I believe that's your trick. I told you, I'm trying out for the cheerleading squad.
- Rupert Giles: You have a sacred birthright, Buffy. You were chosen to destroy vampires, not to... wave pompoms at people.
- [Buffy just gazes at him]
- Rupert Giles: And as The Watcher, I forbid it.
- [turns around, goes on his way]
- Buffy: And you'll be stopping me *how?*
- [purses lips]
- Rupert Giles: Well, I... I... By appealing to your common sense, if such a creature exists.
- Buffy: I will still have time to fight the forces of evil, okay? I just wanna have a life. I wanna do something normal. Something safe.
- Rupert Giles: I assume, the, uh... All the spells were reversed. It was my first casting, so, uh... I may have got it wrong.
- Buffy: You saved my life. You were a god!