BUFFY: And they took all of Giles' books away.

JOYCE: He'll get most of them back. MOO just wants to weed out the offensive material. Everything else will be returned to Mr. Giles soon.

BUFFY: If we're gonna solve this, we need those books now.

JOYCE: Sweetie, those books have no place in a public school library. Especially now. Any student can waltz in there and get all sorts of ideas. Do you understand how that terrifies me?

BUFFY: Mom, I hate that these people scared you so much. And I-I know that you're just trying to help, but you have to let me handle this. It's what I do.

JOYCE: But is it really? I mean, you patrol, you slay... Evil pops up, you undo it. A-a-and that's great! But is Sunnydale getting any better? Are they running out of vampires?

BUFFY: I don't think that you run out of...

JOYCE: It's not your fault. You don't have a plan. You just react to things. I-i-it's bound to be kind of fruitless.

BUFFY: Okay, maybe I don't have a plan. Lord knows I don't have lapel buttons...

JOYCE: (exasperated) Buffy.

BUFFY: ...and maybe next time that the world is getting sucked into Hell, I won't be able to stop it because the Anti-Hell-Sucking Book isn't on the approved reading list!

JOYCE: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to put down...

BUFFY: Yeah, well, you did. It doesn't matter. I have to go. I have to go on one of my pointless patrols and react to some vampires. If that's alright with MOO. (heads for the door) And nice acronym, Mom. (leaves)

• Slayerhood

written by: Jane Espenson & Thania St. John; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/45gingerbread.html