JENNY: Okay, so this Master guy tried to open the Hellmouth. But he got stuck in it, and now all the signs are reading that he's gonna get out, which opens the Hellmouth, which brings the demons, which ends the world.

GILES: Yes. That about sums it up, yes.

JENNY: The part that gets me, though, is where Buffy is the Vampire Slayer. She's so little.

GILES: You know how to get in touch with this, uh, brother Luca chap?

JENNY: Hmm. As far as I can tell, no one can. He's disappeared. Did send out one last global though. A short one.

GILES: What did it say?

JENNY: Isaiah 11:6, which I dutifully looked up.

GILES: 'The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf, the lion and the fatling together, and the little child to lead them.'

JENNY: That's kinda warm and fuzzy for a message of doom.

GILES: Well, that depends where he's leading them to. Aurelius wrote of the Anointed One, 'The Slayer will not know him, and he will lead her into Hell.'

JENNY: So Luca thinks the Anointed is a kid.

GILES: If the vampire that Buffy killed was in fact not the Anointed, then it may well be.

JENNY: Well, then we need to warn her.

GILES: I don't intend involving her at all.

JENNY: What do you mean?

GILES: Buffy's not gonna face the Master. I am.

BUFFY: No, you're not. So, I'm looking for a kid, huh? And he'll lead me to the Master?

GILES: Buffy, I'm not gonna send you out there to die. Now, you were right. I-I've waded around in these old books for so long, I've forgotten what the real world is like. I-it's time I found out.

BUFFY: You're still not going up against the Master.

GILES: I've made up my mind.

BUFFY: So have I.

GILES: I made up my mine first! I'm older and wiser than you, and just... just do what you're told for once! Alright?

BUFFY: That's not how it goes. I'm the Slayer.

GILES: I don't care what the books say. I defy prophecy, and I am going. There's nothing you can say will change my mind.

BUFFY: I know.

(She pretends to turn to go, but then throws a hard punch to his face, knocking him out.)

BUFFY: When he wakes up tell him... I don't know. Think of something cool, tell him I said it.

JENNY: You fight the Master, and you'll die.

BUFFY: Maybe. Maybe I'll take him with me.

• Buffy vs the Master
• Slayerhood

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/12prophecy.html