Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

The Harvest (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• [last lines] 

  Rupert Giles : We're at the center of a mystical convergence here. We may, in fact, stand between the Earth and its total destruction.

  Buffy Summers : Well, I got to look on the bright side. Maybe I can still get kicked out of school.

  Xander Harris : Oh, yeah. That's a plan, 'cause lots of schools aren't on Hellmouths.

  Willow Rosenberg : Maybe you could blow something up. They're really strict about that.

  Buffy Summers : I was thinking of a more subtle approach, you know, like excessive not studying.

  Rupert Giles : The Earth is doomed.

• Rupert Giles : You have no idea where they took Jesse?

  Buffy Summers : I looked around, but soon as they got clear of the graveyard, they could have just, voom.

  Xander Harris : They can fly?

  Buffy Summers : They can drive.

• Buffy Summers : So, Giles, got anything that can make this day any worse?

  Rupert Giles : How about the end of the world?

  Buffy Summers : Knew I could count on you.

• Rupert Giles : For as long as there have been vampires, there's been the Slayer, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One.

  Buffy Summers : He loves doing this part.

• Rupert Giles : This world is older than any of you know. Contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise. For untold eons, demons walked the Earth. They made it their home, their, uh... their hell. But in time, they lost their purchase on this reality, and the way was made for mortal animals, for-for man. All that remains of the old ones are vestiges, certain magicks, certain creatures.

  Buffy Summers : And vampires.

  Xander Harris : Okay, this is where I have a problem. See, because we're talking about vampires. We're having a *talk* with vampires in it.

  Willow Rosenberg : Isn't that what we saw last night?

• Rupert Giles : So, all the city plans are just open to the public?

  Willow Rosenberg : Um, well, in-in a way. I sort of stumbled onto them when I accidentally decrypted the city council's security system.

• Rupert Giles : I've been researching this Harvest affair. It seems to be some sort of preordained massacre, rivers of blood, hell on Earth. Quite charmless. I'm a bit fuzzy, however, on the details. It may be that you can wrest some information from that dread machine.

  [Everyone looks at him, confused] 

  Rupert Giles : That was a bit, um... British, wasn't it?

• Rupert Giles : I take it it's over.

  Willow Rosenberg : Did we win?

  Buffy Summers : Well, we averted the Apocalypse. I'd give us points for that.

• Rupert Giles : I think you're being a bit hard on yourself.

  Buffy Summers : You're the one that told me I wasn't prepared enough. *Understatement.* I thought I was on top of everything, and then that monster Luke came out of nowhere--

  [cuts off as she flashes back to Luke grabbing her] 

  Xander Harris : What?

  Buffy Summers : He didn't come out of nowhere. He came from behind me. I was facing the entrance, he came from behind me, and he didn't follow me out. The access to the tunnels is in the mausoleum. The girl must have doubled back with Jesse after I got out.

• Xander Harris : We've got to get in there before Jesse does something stupider than usual.

  Rupert Giles : You listen to me. Jesse is dead. You have to remember that. When you see him, you're not looking at your friend. You're looking at the thing that killed him.