Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- [Standing before the gang as they prepare to leave to fight Glory]
- Buffy Summers: Remember, the ritual starts, we all die. And I'll kill anyone who comes near Dawn.
- [turns and leaves the room]
- Spike: Well, not exactly the St. Crispin's Day speech, was it?
- Rupert Giles: "We few, we happy few..."
- Spike: ...we band of buggered.
- Rupert Giles: Can you move?
- Ben: Need a... a minute. She could've killed me.
- Rupert Giles: No, she couldn't. Never. And sooner or later, Glory will reemerge and make Buffy pay for that mercy. And the world with her. Buffy even knows that, and still she couldn't take human life... She's a hero, you see... She's not like us.
- Ben: Us?
- [as the group ponders how to stop Glory]
- Anya: Okay. But I'm still not hearing enough ideas. She's a God. Let's think outside the box.
- Spike: Why don't you go think outside the bleeding box.
- Rupert Giles: Yes, Anya, apart from your incredibly uninfectious enthusiasm, have you anything else to contribute?
- Anya: The Dagon Sphere!
- Rupert Giles: Sorry?
- Anya: When Buffy first met Glory she found that magical, glowy sphere that was meant to repel Glory. We've got it in the basement. It might drive her away or hurt her. Oh! And Olaf the Troll God's enchanted hammer. You wanna fight a god, use the weapon of a god.
- Spike: Uh, nah, that thing's too heavy to...
- [Buffy easily picks up the hammer]
- Spike: Yeah, good.
- Buffy Summers: I like this. Thanks.
- Anya: Here to help. Wanna live.
- Buffy Summers: This is how many apocalypses for us now?
- Rupert Giles: Oh, uh, well... six at least... Feels like a hundred.
- Buffy Summers: I've always stopped them... always won.
- Rupert Giles: Yes.
- Buffy Summers: I sacrificed Angel to save the world. I loved him so much. But I knew... I was right. I don't have that anymore. I don't understand. I don't know how to live in this world, if these are the choices... if everything just gets stripped away. I don't see the point. I just wish that... I just wish my mom was here.
- [pause]
- Buffy Summers: The spirit guide told me, that death is my gift. I guess that means a Slayer really is just a killer, after all.
- Rupert Giles: I think you're wrong about that.
- Buffy Summers: It doesn't matter. If Dawn dies, I'm done with it. I'm quitting.
- Buffy Summers: Will, you're up.
- Rupert Giles: Need anything?
- Willow Rosenberg: Could use a little courage.
- [Spike holds out a flask for her]
- Willow Rosenberg: The real kind... But thanks.