GILES: Buffy! Excellent!

BUFFY: (guilty about being caught about to snag Angel info) Nothing! Hi!

GILES: Yes, I-I just wanted to talk to you about tomorrow night. As it should be, uh, calm, you might work on some new battle techniques.

BUFFY: You're beginning to scare me, Giles. You need to have some fun. (waves Willow in) You know, there's this place you can go, right, and you sit in the dark, and there are these moving pictures, right, and the pictures tell a story.

GILES: Yes, yes, ha, ha, very droll. I'll have you know that I have very, uh, many relaxing hobbies.

BUFFY: Such as?

GILES: Well, um... I enjoy cross-referencing.

BUFFY: Do you stuff your own shirts, or do you send them out? (distracting Giles from Willow) So! How come Halloween is such a big yawner? I mean, do the demons just hate how commercial it's become?

GILES: Um, it's interesting, ac... Not, I suspect, to you. What is it you're after?

BUFFY: Of course, it's of interest to me! I'm the Slayer. I need to know these things. You can't keep me in the dark any longer. (still trying to keep Giles from seeing Willow) Look at me when I talk to you!

GILES: I really don't have time for these games.

BUFFY: Ms. Calendar said you were a babe.

GILES: She said what?

BUFFY: (meekly) Well, she said that you were a... h-hunk of burning... something or other. So, whadaya think of that?

GILES: Uh, I... I don't, um, uh... A burning hunk of what?

BUFFY: Look. You know how disgusting it is for me to even contemplate you grownups having smoochies, but I think you should go for it.

GILES: Buffy, I appreciate your interest, but...

(Willow emerges).

BUFFY: But I've overstepped my bounds. It's none of my business, you know. What was I thinking? My God! Shame, shame. I gotta go. (exits)

GILES: A babe? I can live with that.

• Buffy & Giles
• Giles & Jenny

written by: Carl Ellsworth; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/18halloween.html