WILLOW: Did you find anything?

XANDER: The most meticulous banking and phone records you've ever seen. And, um, this.

(He hands her a picture of a young Giles in a leather jacket playing an electric bass.)

WILLOW: (giggles) That's Giles?

(Cut to Giles' apartment)

GILES: I was twenty-one, studying history at Oxford. And, of course, the occult by night. I hated it. The tedious grind of study, the... overwhelming pressure of my destiny. I dropped out, I went to London... I fell in with the worst crowd that would have me. We practiced magicks. Small stuff for pleasure or gain. And Ethan and I discovered something... bigger.

BUFFY: Eyghon.

GILES: Yes. One of us would, um... go into a deep sleep, and the others would, uh, summon him. It was an extraordinary high! God, we were fools.

BUFFY: You couldn't control it.

GILES: One of us, Randall, he lost control. Eyghon took him whole. We tried to exorcise the demon from Randall, but it killed him. No. We killed him. We thought we were free of the demon after that. But now he's back. And one by one, he will kill us all.

BUFFY: Three down, two to go? Then it's going after Ethan. I better beat it there.

GILES: *We'd* better.

BUFFY: *I'd* better. Giles, you're barely mobile, and speed is of a serious essence here.

GILES: I don't know how to stop it without killing Jenny.

BUFFY: I've got the guys working on it. I'll, um, try to contain it until we figure something.

GILES: Buffy? I'm sorry.

BUFFY: I know.

• Buffy & Giles
• Giles role as Watcher
• Rupert 'the Ripper' Giles

written by: Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/20darkage.html