Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

I, Robot... You, Jane (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Jenny Calendar : Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?

  Rupert Giles : The smell.

  Jenny Calendar : Computers don't smell, Rupert.

  Rupert Giles : Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences... long forgotten. Books smell... musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, uh, smelly.

  Jenny Calendar : Well, you really are an old-fashioned boy, aren't you?

  Rupert Giles : Well, I-I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear.

  Jenny Calendar : That's not where I dangle it.

• Buffy Summers : Besides, I can just tell something's wrong. My spider sense is tingling.

  Rupert Giles : Your... spider sense?

  Buffy Summers : Pop culture reference. Sorry.

• Rupert Giles : I'm-I'm just gonna stay and clean up a little. I'll-I'll, uh, I'll be back in the Middle Ages.

  Jenny Calendar : Did you ever leave?

• Jenny Calendar : Hi. I got your message. What's so urgent?

  Rupert Giles : Um, thank you for coming. Uh, I need your help. But before that, um, I need you to believe something that, um, you may not want to. Uh, there's, uh, something's got into the, um... in-in-inside, um...

  [sighs] 

  Rupert Giles : There's a demon in the Internet.

  Jenny Calendar : I know.

• Rupert Giles : Things involving the computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now if it were a nice ogre or some such, I'd be much more in my element.

• Rupert Giles : [leaving while distracted]  Well, it's been so nice talking to you.

  Jenny Calendar : We were fighting.

  Rupert Giles : Must do it again sometime. Bye now.

• Rupert Giles : Hoping and betting, that's what we've got.

  Jenny Calendar : You want to throw in praying, be my guest.

• Rupert Giles : [carrying heavy tome]  Does this look familiar to either of you?

  Buffy Summers : Yeah, sure. Looks like a book.

  Xander Harris : I knew that one.

  Rupert Giles : In the Dark Ages, the souls of demons were sometimes trapped in certain volumes. They remained locked within the book, harmless. Unless the pages were read aloud. Unless I'm mistaken, this is Moloch, the Corruptor. A very deadly and seductive demon. He draws people to him with promises of love, power and knowledge. He preys on impressionable minds.

  Xander Harris : Like Dave's?

  Rupert Giles : Dave and who knows how many others.

  Buffy Summers : And Moloch is inside that book?

  Rupert Giles : Not anymore.

  [the pages are blank] 

  Xander Harris : You released Moloch?

  Buffy Summers : [with sarcasm:]  Way to go!

  Rupert Giles : I didn't read it. That dreadful Calendar woman found it, and - and it all went blank.

  Buffy Summers : Okay, so a powerful demon with horns is walking around Sunnydale, and nobody's noticed?

  Xander Harris : If it's so big and strong, why bother with Dave? I mean, why didn't he just attack Buffy himself?

  Rupert Giles : I don't know. And I don't know who'd have read that book, it wasn't even in English.