GILES: So Angel has decided to step up his harassment of you?

CORDELIA: By sneaking in her room and leaving stuff at night? Why doesn't he just slit her throat or strangle her while she's sleeping or cut her heart out? What? I'm trying to help.

GILES: Yes. Uh, uh, look, it's-it's classic battle strategy to throw one's opponent off his game. He-he-he's just trying to provoke you. Uh, to taunt you, to, to goad you into, uh, some mishap of some sort.

XANDER: The (sing-song) nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah approach to battle?

GILES: Yes, Xander, once more you've managed to boil a complex thought down to its simplest possible form.

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written by: Ty King; . Full transcript at:
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