Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Gingerbread (1999)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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• Rupert Giles : We need to save Buffy from Hansel and Gretel.

  Cordelia Chase : Now, let's be clear. The brain damage happened before I hit you.

• Rupert Giles : There is a fringe theory held by a few folklorists that some regional stories have actual, um, very literal antecedents.

  Buffy Summers : And in some language that's English?

  Oz : Fairy tales are real.

  Buffy Summers : Hans and Gre... Hansel and Gretel?

  Xander Harris : Wait. Hansel and Gretel? Bread crumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?

  Rupert Giles : Of course... Well, it makes sense now.

  Buffy Summers : Yeah, it's all falling into place. Of course, that place is nowhere near this place.

  Rupert Giles : Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and-and, uh, persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not by-Not by destroying men, but by watching men destroy each other. Now, they feed us our darkest fear and turn peaceful communities into vigilantes.

  Buffy Summers : Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.

  Rupert Giles : And then she and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob. It's happened all throughout history. Happened in Salem, not surprisingly.

• Rupert Giles : They're confiscating my books.

  Buffy Summers : Giles, we need those books.

  Rupert Giles : Believe me, I've tried to tell that to the nice man with the big gun.