Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- Rupert Giles: Buffy, when I said you could slay vampires and have a social life, I didn't mean at the same time.
- Rupert Giles: All right. I'll just jump into my time machine, go back to the 12th century and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
- Buffy Summers: Okay, at this point, you're abusing sarcasm.
- Rupert Giles: Buffy, maintaining a normal social life as a Slayer... i-i-is problematic at best.
- Buffy Summers: This is the '90s, the 1990s, in point of fact, and I can do both. Clark Kent has a job. I just want to go on a date.
- Rupert Giles: Well, I suppose it was a fairly slim lead.
- Buffy Summers: Thank you, thank you, thank you. And, look, I won't go far, okay? If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
- Buffy Summers: We don't even know if this is anything.
- Rupert Giles: Well, no, we don't.
- Buffy Summers: And I haven't had a day off for a while.
- Rupert Giles: True.
- Buffy Summers: And a cranky Slayer is a careless Slayer.
- Rupert Giles: If your identity as a Slayer is revealed, it could put you and all those around you in grave danger.
- Buffy Summers: Well, in that case, I won't wear my button that says "I'm a Slayer. Ask Me How."
- Rupert Giles: I was 10-years-old when my father told me I was destined to be a Watcher. He was one and his, uh, mother before him, and I-I was to be next.
- Buffy Summers: Were you thrilled beyond all measure?
- Rupert Giles: No. I had very definite plans about my future. I was going to be a fighter pilot... or possibly a grocer, well, uh, my father gave me a very tiresome speech about, uh, responsibility and sacrifice.
- Buffy Summers: What happened?
- Rupert Giles: Uh, two more of the brethren came in here. They came after me. But I was more than a match for them.
- Buffy Summers: Meaning?
- Rupert Giles: I hid.
- Rupert Giles: What do you want?
- Owen Thurman: A book.
- Rupert Giles: Oh.
- Buffy Summers: [to Giles] See, this is a school, and we have students, and they check out books, and then they learn things.
- Rupert Giles: I was beginning to suspect that was a myth.
- Rupert Giles: That symbol on the ring... I believe it's the rune for fidelity, but, uh, it doesn't connect with any of the sects that I've studied.
- Buffy Summers: What about this? On the inside, it's a sun and three stars. Haven't we seen that somewhere?
- Rupert Giles: Let me see... No, I-I-I don't think this, um, represents any...
- Buffy Summers: Wait, it's right here. Sun and three stars. Yecch. Check these guys out. Told you it looked familiar.
- Rupert Giles: Oh, the Order of Aurelius. Yes, you're right.
- Buffy Summers: Ooh, two points for the Slayer, while the Watcher has yet to score.
- Rupert Giles: Buffy, this is no ordinary vampire, but we have to stop him before he reaches the Master.
- Rupert Giles: But... cute guy! Teenager! Post-pubescent fantasies!
- Rupert Giles: [boring nighttime stakeout] Well, you know what they say. Ninety percent of the Slaying game is - is waiting.
- Buffy Summers: You couldn't have told me that ninety percent ago?
- Rupert Giles: Another date? Don't you ever do anything else?
- Buffy Summers: This is the first date. There's never been a date, okay? This is my maiden voyage!