GILES: This can't be happening. This can't be...

BUFFY: What's the word?

GILES: Oh, uh, I've got back issues of the, uh, papers, um, to try to do some research.

BUFFY: Did you find anything?

GILES: I don't know.

BUFFY: You don't know if you didn't find anything.

GILES: I'm having a problem.

BUFFY: What is it?

GILES: I-I can't read!

BUFFY: What do you mean? You can read, like, three languages.

GILES: Five, actually, on a normal day. Th-the words here don't make any s-sense. I-it's gibberish!

BUFFY: (looks at the paper) That's him.

GILES: Who?

BUFFY: The kid I've been seeing around school. (reads) 'Twelve-year-old Billy Palmer was found beaten and unconscious after his kiddie league game Saturday. Doctors describe his condition as critical.' When was this published? (looks at the date) Last week. It says he's in a coma in intensive care. This is the boy from the hospital!

GILES: The first victim? Uh... You, you've seen him around the school?

BUFFY: Yeah, first when the spiders got Wendell, and, and then when I didn't know a thing on the history test. I thought it was weird seeing this kid around, but I forgot about it.

GILES: Uh, the boy's been in a coma for a week. How can this be possible?

BUFFY: What, am I knowledge girl now? Explanations are your terrain.

GILES: Uh, well, um, there's astral projection, uh, the theory that while one sleeps one has another body, a-an astral body, which can travel through time and space.

BUFFY: Billy's in a coma. That's like sleep, right?

GILES: In a manner of speaking, a-a-although one doesn't always awake from a coma.

BUFFY: Could I be seeing Billy's asteroid body?

GILES: Astral body, and I-I don't know. As usual, one doesn't have an inordinate amount of information to work with.

BUFFY: Lucky nineteen.

• Giles role as Watcher

written by: David Greenwalt; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/10nightmares.html