Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

First Date (2003)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

Quotes 

• Willow Rosenberg : No, it's a text message. Oh, it's from Xander. It's one of our signals.

  Amanda : Signals?

  Willow Rosenberg : Yeah, the system we set up a while back. Like codes. Uh, this one's either, "I just got lucky. Don't call me for a while," or "My date's a demon who's trying to kill me."

  Kennedy : You don't remember which?

  Willow Rosenberg : It was a long time ago.

  Dawn Summers : Well, if we play the percentages...

  Rupert Giles : Something's eating Xander's head.

  Anya : Say, that's gratifying.

• Rupert Giles : Those are flash cards. I-I made them to facilitate her training. Chao-Ahn never had a Watcher. With the-the language problem...

  Willow Rosenberg : You showed her these?

  Rupert Giles : I wanted her to understand the seriousness of her situation.

  Dawn Summers : Holy crap!

  [Dawn holds up drawing of a woman ripped in half] 

  Rupert Giles : Perhaps I'll rethink the approach.

• [first lines] 

  Rupert Giles : [flashback]  I understand. I'll take care of...

  [Giles stops the ax, takes it away and cuts the Bringers head off] 

  Rupert Giles : It was, uh, extraordinary good luck, of course, and-and, uh, and training, years of training. Well, uh, Chao-Ahn, keep up. You're new here, Chao-Ahn, so take note. Remember about training. But I-I honestly feel the largest part of it was instinct, instinct and-and reflexes. There's a sort of wary watchfulness I've developed over the years. It's like another sense...

  [Giles gets tackled to the ground] 

  Buffy Summers : Spike!