Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: And you say this demon wanted cash. That's very unusual.
- Rupert Giles: Demons after money. What ever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
- Buffy Summers: Well, I know this. It's down by the bus station. Not the nicest part of town.
- Rupert Giles: Again, see? No standards. I mean, any self-respecting demon should be living in a pit of filth or a nice crypt.
- Xander Harris: What's this Ascension mean?
- Rupert Giles: I'm not sure.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: No, not really a common term in demonology.
- Willow Rosenberg: Ooh, ooh! The-The Merenshtadt text! Uh, I think in the section on genocide, they mention Ascension.
- Buffy Summers: Well, we have a winner.
- Xander Harris: And more importantly, two losers.
- Rupert Giles: Um... Ah, yes. Yes, here we are. There's a reference here to the journal of Desmond Kane, pastor of a town called Sharpsville.
- [reading]
- Rupert Giles: "May 26, 1723. Tomorrow is the Ascension. God help us all." It was the last anyone heard.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Of Kane?
- Rupert Giles: Of Sharpsville.
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: Find anything?
- Rupert Giles: Six-course banquet of nothing with a scoop of sod all as a palate cleanser.
- Buffy Summers: What should we do?
- Rupert Giles: Buffy, I think you should try to retrieve the Books of Ascension. Check out the mayor's office. But be damn careful. Do not confront the mayor. We don't know a thing about him.
- Buffy Summers: I'll go home and stock up on weapons. Slip into something a little more break-and-enterish.