Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Helpless (1999)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Quentin Travers : I've recommended to the Council, and they've agreed that you be relieved of your duties as Watcher immediately. You're fired.

  Rupert Giles : On what grounds?

  Quentin Travers : Your affection for your charge has rendered you incapable of clear and impartial judgement. You have a father's love for the child... and that is useless to the cause.

• [Buffy has learned that Giles has robbed her of her powers for a Council test] 

  Rupert Giles : You have to listen to me. Because I've told you this, the test is invalidated. You will be safe now, I promise you. Now, whatever I have to do to deal with Kralik... and to win back your trust...

  Buffy Summers : You stuck a needle in me. You poisoned me.

  Cordelia Chase : [enters]  What's going on? Oh, God. Is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow, but if the world's ending, I'm not gonna bother.

  Rupert Giles : [as Buffy starts to leave]  You can't walk home alone, Buffy. It isn't safe.

  Buffy Summers : I don't know you.

  Cordelia Chase : [to Giles]  Did something take her memory?

  [to Buffy] 

  Cordelia Chase : He's Giles. Gi-els. He hangs out here a lot.

  Buffy Summers : Cordelia, could you please drive me home?

  Cordelia Chase : Of course.

  [to Giles] 

  Cordelia Chase : But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.

• Rupert Giles : This one?

  Buffy Summers : Amethyst.

  Rupert Giles : Used for?

  Buffy Summers : Breath mints?

  Rupert Giles : Charm bags, money spells... and for cleansing one's aura.

  Buffy Summers : Okay, so how do you know if one's aura's dirty? Somebody come by with a finger and write "Wash Me" on it?