Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Never Kill a Boy on the First Date (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Rupert Giles : Buffy, when I said you could slay vampires and have a social life, I didn't mean at the same time.

• Rupert Giles : All right. I'll just jump into my time machine, go back to the 12th century and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.

  Buffy Summers : Okay, at this point, you're abusing sarcasm.

• Rupert Giles : Buffy, maintaining a normal social life as a Slayer... i-i-is problematic at best.

  Buffy Summers : This is the '90s, the 1990s, in point of fact, and I can do both. Clark Kent has a job. I just want to go on a date.

  Rupert Giles : Well, I suppose it was a fairly slim lead.

  Buffy Summers : Thank you, thank you, thank you. And, look, I won't go far, okay? If the apocalypse comes, beep me.

• Buffy Summers : We don't even know if this is anything.

  Rupert Giles : Well, no, we don't.

  Buffy Summers : And I haven't had a day off for a while.

  Rupert Giles : True.

  Buffy Summers : And a cranky Slayer is a careless Slayer.

• Rupert Giles : If your identity as a Slayer is revealed, it could put you and all those around you in grave danger.

  Buffy Summers : Well, in that case, I won't wear my button that says "I'm a Slayer. Ask Me How."

• Buffy Summers : What happened?

  Rupert Giles : Uh, two more of the brethren came in here. They came after me. But I was more than a match for them.

  Buffy Summers : Meaning?

  Rupert Giles : I hid.

• Rupert Giles : I was 10-years-old when my father told me I was destined to be a Watcher. He was one and his, uh, mother before him, and I-I was to be next.

  Buffy Summers : Were you thrilled beyond all measure?

  Rupert Giles : No. I had very definite plans about my future. I was going to be a fighter pilot... or possibly a grocer, well, uh, my father gave me a very tiresome speech about, uh, responsibility and sacrifice.

• Rupert Giles : What do you want?

  Owen Thurman : A book.

  Rupert Giles : Oh.

  Buffy Summers : [to Giles]  See, this is a school, and we have students, and they check out books, and then they learn things.

  Rupert Giles : I was beginning to suspect that was a myth.

• Rupert Giles : That symbol on the ring... I believe it's the rune for fidelity, but, uh, it doesn't connect with any of the sects that I've studied.

  Buffy Summers : What about this? On the inside, it's a sun and three stars. Haven't we seen that somewhere?

  Rupert Giles : Let me see... No, I-I-I don't think this, um, represents any...

  Buffy Summers : Wait, it's right here. Sun and three stars. Yecch. Check these guys out. Told you it looked familiar.

  Rupert Giles : Oh, the Order of Aurelius. Yes, you're right.

  Buffy Summers : Ooh, two points for the Slayer, while the Watcher has yet to score.

• Rupert Giles : Buffy, this is no ordinary vampire, but we have to stop him before he reaches the Master.

  Rupert Giles : But... cute guy! Teenager! Post-pubescent fantasies!

• Rupert Giles : [boring nighttime stakeout]  Well, you know what they say. Ninety percent of the Slaying game is - is waiting.

  Buffy Summers : You couldn't have told me that ninety minutes ago?

• Rupert Giles : Another date? Don't you ever do anything else?

  Buffy Summers : This is the first date. There's never been a date, okay? This is my maiden voyage!