Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

The Puppet Show (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Principal Snyder : Kids today need discipline. It's an unpopular word these days: discipline. I know Principal Flutie would have said, "Kids need understanding. Kids are human beings." That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.

  Rupert Giles : I-I think perhaps it was a little more complex than, um...

• [Cordelia's droning on and on. Giles starts staring at her hair] 

  Cordelia Chase : What?

  Rupert Giles : Oh, I-I'm sorry. Um, your hair, uh...

  Cordelia Chase : [concerned]  There's something wrong with my hair?

  [she touches her hair for a second] 

  Cordelia Chase : Oh my God.

  [she runs off] 

  Rupert Giles : Xander was right. It worked like a charm.

• [Giles is in charge of the school talent show] 

  Buffy Summers : Giles, into every generation is born one who must run the annual talentless show. You cannot escape your destiny.

  Rupert Giles : If you had any shred of decency, you would have participated or at least, um... helped.

  Buffy Summers : Nah! I think I'll take on your traditional role... and watch.

  Xander Harris : And mock.

  Willow Rosenberg : And laugh.

• Buffy Summers : The school talent show. However did you finagle such a primo assignment?

  Rupert Giles : Our new Führer, Mr. Snyder.

  Willow Rosenberg : I think they call them principals now.

• Rupert Giles : Cordelia, there, uh, th-there's, uh-uh, an adage, uh, that, um, if you're feeling nervous, then, uh, you should imagine the entire audience are in their underwear.

  Cordelia Chase : Eww! Even Mrs. Franklin? Ugh.

  Rupert Giles : Perhaps not.

• Rupert Giles : Every seven years, these demons *need* human organs, a-a brain and a heart, to maintain their humanity. Otherwise, they-they-they revert back to their original form, which is, uh, slightly less appealing.

• Rupert Giles : A demon is a creature of evil, pure and very simple. A person driven to kill is, is, um... It's more complex.

  Willow Rosenberg : The creep factor is also heightened. It could be anyone. It could be me.

  [everyone looks at her] 

  Willow Rosenberg : It's not, though.

• Rupert Giles : It was... Emily.

  Willow Rosenberg : Emily. Dancer Emily?

  [Giles nods] 

  Xander Harris : Oh, man. I hate this school!

  Rupert Giles : It must have happened just after... dress rehearsal. There was a cross-county meet at Melville. She never showed up for it.

  Buffy Summers : Vampire?

  Rupert Giles : I think not.

  Buffy Summers : Giles, say what happened.

  Rupert Giles : Her heart was removed.

  Willow Rosenberg : Yikes!

  Buffy Summers : Does that mean anything to you? Besides *eww*?

  Rupert Giles : [sighs]  There is demons which feeds off human hearts, but...

  [shrugs] 

  Buffy Summers : [as a knife goes into evidence bag]  But demons have claws and teeth.

  Xander Harris : They got no use for a big ol' knife.

  Rupert Giles : Which more than likely makes our murderer...

  Buffy Summers : Human.

  Xander Harris : Did I mention that I hate this school?

  Willow Rosenberg : So, Emily was killed by a regular human person?

  Rupert Giles : The evidence certainly points thatr way.

  Buffy Summers : No. Wait. I'm not buying it, guys. Remember the Hellmouth? Mystical activity is totally right here. This to me says: demon.

  Rupert Giles : I'd like to think you're right. A demon is a creature of... evil - pure and very simple. A person driven to kill is - is, uh, it's more complex.

  Willow Rosenberg : The creep factor is also heightened. It could be anyone. It could be me.

  [the guys look at her funny] 

  Willow Rosenberg : It's not, though.

  Rupert Giles : Demon or no, we have some investigation to do. I suggest we start with your talent show compatriots.