WILLOW: Let's get scannin'. I want to see this puppy go.

(Giles puts a pile of old books on her outstretched arms.)

GILES: Start with those.

WILLOW: (scowls) Start? Where is finish?

GILES: Willow, it's essential that we begin archiving the library. I mean, most of these texts have no duplicates.

WILLOW: But ... now? Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?

GILES: (surprised) Well, you don't have to, Willow, I mean, you're, you're welcome to leave if, uh...

WILLOW: No. It's fine. It's just, you've been Mr. Project all summer. You know? Labeling the amulets and indexing your diaries. I draw the line at making giant rubber band balls. That's when you'll just have to get a life.

GILES: (clears throat) That's what I'm trying to do, actually, is, um, get a life.

WILLOW: It might go better if you left the house.

GILES: Willow, um... you mustn't repeat what I'm about to say. Especially not to Buffy.

WILLOW: Uh-oh.

GILES: You promise?

WILLOW: Oh, god. Well, I guess. Now that I know there's something to know, I can't *not* know, just because I'm afraid somebody'll know I know, you know?

GILES: Did that mean yes?

WILLOW: Yeah.

GILES: We're doing all this because I, I want you and the others to have everything you need at your fingertips. You see, I'm, I'm going back to England.

WILLOW: You're ... what? But you can't! You're ... Buffy's Watcher! I mean, in a fired way, but...

• Giles & Willow
• Giles role as Watcher

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by joan the english chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Full transcript at:
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