Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Pangs (1999)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Buffy Summers : We don't say "Indian."

  Rupert Giles : Oh-oh, right! Yes, yes. Um, always behind on the terms. Still trying not to refer to you lot as "bloody colonials."

• [Spike asks Buffy to invite him into Giles house to get out of the sunlight] 

  Spike : Come on, I'm-I'm parboiling out here.

  [Giles hands Buffy a stake] 

  Buffy Summers : Want me to help make it quicker?

  Spike : [pitifully]  Invite me in.

  Buffy Summers : No.

  Rupert Giles : Fairly unlikely.

  [Spike tries running in and is knocked back] 

  Spike : Oh, damn it! Look, I'm safe. I can't bite anyone. Willow, tell 'em what I did.

  Willow Rosenberg : You-You said you were gonna kill me, then Buffy.

  Spike : Yes, bad, but let's skip that part and get to the part where I couldn't bite you.

  Willow Rosenberg : It's true... He had trouble performing.

• Rupert Giles : So, what do you think?

  Angel : [about Buffy]  She sounds good... Kind of intense about this Thanksgiving thing.

  Rupert Giles : I think perhaps she's a little lonely, but I meant about the murder.

  Angel : Whatever killed the woman in the museum, that's probably the danger.

  Rupert Giles : Yeah, well, this danger... Your-Your friend has some ominous vision about Buffy. It's all terribly vague. I mean, there are other things happening on this campus.

  Angel : Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I gotta try something. I can't just keep watching.

  Rupert Giles : You know, I'm glad that you're watching out for her, but I feel I should remind you that she's not helpless and it's not your job to keep her safe.

  Angel : It's not yours anymore, either... Are you going to walk away?

• Willow Rosenberg : You mean...

  [whispers] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Angel? I saw him too.

  Rupert Giles : That's not terribly stealthy of him.

  Willow Rosenberg : I think he's lost his edge.

• [Buffy answers door to find Anya and a sick Xander] 

  Xander Harris : Happy Thanksgiving.

  Willow Rosenberg : Xander!

  Rupert Giles : You look like death.

  Willow Rosenberg : Are you okay?

  Buffy Summers : You didn't bring rolls?

• Buffy Summers : Sarcasm accomplishes nothing, Giles.

  Rupert Giles : It's sort of an end in itself.

• Xander Harris : I hate this guy.

  Buffy Summers : He's just doing what was done to him.

  Xander Harris : I didn't give him syphilis!

  Rupert Giles : No, but you freed his spirit, and after a century of unrest he saw you as one of his oppressors.

  Xander Harris : What, so he rises up and infects the first guy he sees? That's no fair.

  Buffy Summers : Like you've never woken up cranky.

• Rupert Giles : Well, that's good, but this is why I think we should all keep a level head in this.

  Willow Rosenberg : And I happen to think mine is the level head and yours is the one things would roll off of.

• Buffy Summers : I still need to pick up a few things, so I'll check in. And keep your hands off the food.

  Rupert Giles : Oh, I'll try and restrain myself from eating uncooked potatoes and cranberries.

• Buffy Summers : Okay. You know what? We need to boil those and put them through the ricer.

  Rupert Giles : Well, uh, I don't think I have a ricer.

  Buffy Summers : You don't have a ricer? What do you mean? How could someone not have a ricer?

  Rupert Giles : Well, do you have one at home?

  Buffy Summers : I don't know. What's a ricer?

  Rupert Giles : We'll mash them with forks, much like the Pilgrims must have.

• [about Angel watching over Buffy in secret] 

  Rupert Giles : It's not fair. You know that's what she'd say. You can see her, but she can't see you?

  Angel : Believe me, I'm not getting the good half of this deal. To be on the outside looking in at what I can't... Well, I'd forgotten how bad it feels.

• Spike : You know what happens to vampires who don't get to feed?

  Rupert Giles : I always wondered that.

  Buffy Summers : Giles, plates.

  Spike : Living skeletons, mate. Like famine pictures from those dusty countries... only not half as funny.

  Buffy Summers : You can have gravy. That has blood in it, right?

  Spike : Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.

  Buffy Summers : Do I have to gag you?

• [Willow bought frozen peas instead of fresh ones] 

  Willow Rosenberg : They're gonna be mushy.

  Rupert Giles : They won't be mushy.

  Buffy Summers : I like mushy peas.

  Buffy Summers : You're the reason we had to have Pilgrims in the first place.

• Rupert Giles : Buffy, Xander is in real danger. Are you sure the solution is pie?

  Buffy Summers : Over bickering and confusion, I'll take pie.

  Rupert Giles : We will find a solution.

  Buffy Summers : And we will have a nice dinner, okay? Both. End of story. I'm going to have Thanksgiving, and it is going to be perfect.

• Willow Rosenberg : [about Hus]  Are you sure we shouldn't be helping him?

  Rupert Giles : No, I think perhaps we won't help the angry spirit with his rape and pillage and murder.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, okay, no, but we should be helping him redress his wrongs. Bring the atrocities to light.

  Rupert Giles : Well, if the history books are full of them, I'd say they already are.

  Willow Rosenberg : Giving his land back.

  Rupert Giles : It's not exactly ours to give.

  Willow Rosenberg : You know, I don't think you wanna help. I-I think you just wanna slay the demon, then go, la la la

  Rupert Giles : And I think your sympathy for his plight has blinded you to certain urgent facts. We have to stop this thing.

  Willow Rosenberg : Okay, Unfeeling Guy.

• Buffy Summers : Pretty darn scary. It was more like a riot than a Ralph's. I thought I was going to have to use Slayer moves on this one woman who was *completely* hoarding the pumpkin pie filling.

  Rupert Giles : And at some point you are going to tell me about the murder?

• Anya : Uh, how much butter goes in with these?

  Buffy Summers : About half a stick and a quarter cup of brandy.

  [to Giles] 

  Buffy Summers : You do have brandy, don't you?

  Rupert Giles : [distracted]  What? Oh-Oh. Uh, uh, yes. Um, on the, uh, bookcase.

  Spike : I wouldn't say no to a brandy.

  Buffy Summers : [to Giles]  What's wrong?

  Rupert Giles : The victims. Apart from Xander, Hus has targeted authority figures. Father Gabriel, the curator of the cultural center. Who else fits this pattern?

  Spike : Just a small brandy.