Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Enemies (1999)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• 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.