GILES: I was ten years old when my father told me I was destined to be a Watcher. He was one, and his, uh, mother before him, and I was to be next.

BUFFY: Were you thrilled beyond all measure?

GILES: No, I had very definite plans about my future. I was going to be a fighter pilot. Or possibly a grocer. Well, uh... My father gave me a very tiresome speech about, uh, responsibility and sacrifice.

BUFFY: Sacrifice, huh?

GILES: (looks toward Owen) Seems like a nice lad.

BUFFY: Yeah. But he wants to be danger man. You, Xander, Willow, you guys... you guys know the score, you're careful. Two days in my world and Owen really *would* get himself killed. Or I'd get him killed. Or someone else.

GILES: I, I went to the funeral home of my own free will.

BUFFY: And I should've been there.

GILES: Buffy...

BUFFY: I blew it!

GILES: I have volumes of lore, of prophecies, of predictions. But I don't have an instruction manual. We feel our way as we go along. And, I must say, as a Slayer, you're, you're doing... pretty well.

BUFFY: Well. At least I did stop that prophecy thing from coming true.

GILES: You did! Handily. No more Anointed One. And I would imagine the Master, wherever he is, is having a fairly bad day himself.

• Buffy & Giles
• Giles role as Watcher
• Slayerhood

written by: Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/05never.html