Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

I Only Have Eyes for You (1998)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Rupert Giles : To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's-it's... it's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

  Buffy Summers : No. James destroyed the one person he loved the most in a moment of blind passion. And that's not something you forgive, no matter why he did what he did. And no matter if he knows now that it was wrong and selfish and stupid. It is just something he's gonna have to live with.

  Xander Harris : He can't live with it, Buff... He's dead.

  [Buffy leaves the room] 

  Cordelia Chase : Okay. Over-identify much?

• Rupert Giles : Yes, well, I, uh... I appreciate your thoughts on the matter. I, In fact, I... well, I encourage you to-to always, er... challenge me when you feel it's appropriate. You should never be cowed by authority... Except, of course, in this instance, when I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong.

• Xander Harris : I'll have you know I was just accosted by some kind of, um... locker monster.

  Rupert Giles : Loch Ness Monster?

  Buffy Summers : *Locker* monster, is what he said.

• Rupert Giles : Ooh! Sounds like paranormal phenomena.

  Willow Rosenberg : A ghost? Cool!

  Xander Harris : Oh, no, no. No. No cool. This was no wimpy chain-rattler. This was, "I'm dead as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore."

  Rupert Giles : Well, despite the Xander-speak, that's a fairly accurate definition of a poltergeist.

  Xander Harris : I defined something...? Accurately...? Guess I'm done with the book learning.

  Buffy Summers : So we have some bad boo on our hands?

  Rupert Giles : Yes.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, why is it here? Does it just wanna scare people?

  Rupert Giles : Unfortunately, he doesn't know exactly what he wants. That's-That's the trouble. See, uh, many times the spirit is plagued by all manner worldly troubles. Being dead, it has no way to-to-to make its peace. So it-it-it lashes out, growing ever more confused, ever more angry.

  Buffy Summers : So it's a normal teenager... Only dead.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, what can we do? Is there any way to stop it?

  Rupert Giles : Well, the only tried and true way is to work out what unresolved issues keep it here and-and-and-and, um... resolve them.

  Buffy Summers : Fabulous! Now we're Dr. Laura for the deceased.

  Rupert Giles : Only if we can find out who the spirit is... or was.