The Slayer hunts vampires, Buffy is a slayer, don't tell anyone.

The Harvest


Giles: This world is older than any of you know. Contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise. For untold aeons, demons walked the Earth. They made it their home, their... their Hell. But in time they lost their purchase on this reality. The way was made for mortal animals, for man. All that remains of the old ones are vestiges, certain magics, certain creatures...
Buffy: And vampires.
Xander: Okay, this is where I have a problem. See, because we're talking about vampires. We're having a talk with vampires in it.
Willow: Isn't that what we saw last night?
Buffy: No. No, those weren't vampires, those were just guys in thundering need of a facial. Or maybe they had rabies. It could have been rabies. And that guy turning to dust? Just a trick of light. That's exactly what I said the first time I saw a vampire. Well, after I was done with the screaming part.
Willow: Oh, I, I need to sit down.
Buffy: You are sitting down.
Willow: Oh. Good for me.

Luke: An offering, Master.
Darla: He's a good one! His blood is pure!
Master: You've tasted it. I'm your... faithful dog. You bring me scraps.

Master: I have waited. For three score years I have waited. While you come and go I am stuck here, here in this house of... worship! My ascension is almost at hand. Pray that when it comes... I'm in a better mood.

Giles: For as long as there have been vampires, there's been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One.
Buffy: He loves doing this part.
Giles: All right. The Slayer hunts vampires, Buffy is a Slayer, don't tell anyone. Well, I think that's all the vampire information you need.

Willow: Uh, this may be the dumb question, but shouldn't we call the police?

Giles: You have no idea where they took Jesse?
Buffy: I looked around, but soon's they got clear of the graveyard, they could have just, voom!
Xander: They can fly?
Buffy: They can drive.
Xander: Oh.

Master: If she is a Slayer, and this boy lives, she'll try to save him.
Luke: I thought you nothing more than a meal, boy. Congratulations. You've just been upgraded. To bait.

Giles: So, all the city plans are just, uh, open to the public?
Willow: Um, well, in a way. I sort of stumbled onto them when I accidentally decrypted the city council's security system.
Xander: Someone's been naughty.

Xander: So, what's the plan? We saddle up, right?
Buffy: There's no 'we,' okay? I'm the Slayer, and you're not.
Xander: I knew you'd throw that back in my face.

Giles: Well, then help me. I've been researching this Harvest affair. It seems to be some sort of preordained massacre. Rivers of blood, Hell on Earth, quite charmless. I'm a bit fuzzy, however, on the details. It may be that you can wrest some information from that dread machine. (At the others' stares) That was a bit, um, British, wasn't it?

Xander: And I, in the meantime, will help by standing around like an idiot.
Willow: Not like an idiot, just... standing.

Xander: This is just too much. I mean, yesterday my life's like, "Uh oh, pop quiz." Today it's "rain of toads."

Buffy: I've got a friend down there. Or at least a potential friend. Do you know what it's like to have a friend? ... That wasn't supposed to be a stumper.

Buffy: Xander, what are you doing here?!
Xander: Something stupid. I followed you.
Buffy: Well, you...
Xander: I couldn't just sit at home and do nothing.
Buffy: I understand. Now, go away!
Xander: No!
Buffy: Xander, you're gonna have to.
Xander: Look, Jesse's my bud, okay? If I can help him out, that's what I gotta do. Besides, it's this or chem class.

Xander: So, what else?
Buffy: What else what?
Xander: For vampire slayage.
Buffy: Oh, fire, beheading, sunlight, holy water, the usual.
Xander: You've done some beheading in your time?
Buffy: Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife... You're not loving this story.
Xander: No, actually, I find it oddly comforting.

Cordelia to Willow: Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist? Do I horn in on your private discussions? No. Why? Because you're boring.

Jesse: They knew you were gonna come. They said that I... I was the bait.
Xander: Oh, great, now you tell us.

Jesse, now a vampire: I feel good, Xander! I feel strong! I'm connected, man, to everything! I, I can hear the worms in the earth!
Xander: That's a plus.
Jesse: I know what the Master wants. I'll serve his purpose. That means you die. And I feed.
Buffy: Xander, the cross!
Xander: Jesse, man. We're buds, don't you remember?
Jesse: You're like a shadow to me now.
Xander: Then get outta my face.

Xander: I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good.
Buffy: So, Giles! Got anything that can make this day any worse?
Giles: How about the end of the world?
Buffy: Knew I could count on you.

Giles: Yes. The Spanish who first settled here called it "Boca del Infierno." Roughly translated, "Hellmouth." It's a sort of, um, portal between this reality and the next. This vampire hopes to open it.
Buffy: Bring the demons back.
Xander: End of the world.
Willow: But he blew it! Or, I mean, there was an earthquake that swallowed half the town, and him, too.
Giles: You see, opening dimensional portals is a tricky business. Odds are he got himself stuck, rather like a cork in a bottle.
Xander: And this harvest thing is to get him out.

Buffy: Mom, I promise, it is not gonna be like before. But I have to go.
Buffy's Mom: No.
Buffy: Mom?!
Buffy's Mom: The tapes all say I should get used to saying it. No.
Buffy: This is really, really important.
Buffy's Mom: I know. If you don't go out it'll be the end of the world. Everything is life or death when you're a sixteen-year-old girl.

Cordelia: Senior boys are the only way to go. Guys from our grade, forget about it, they're children. Y'know? Like Jesse. Did you see him last night, following me around like a little puppy dog. You just wanna put him to sleep. But senior boys, hmm, they have mystery. They have... What's the word I'm searching for? Cars! I just am not the type to settle. Y'know? It's like when I go shopping. I have to have the most expensive thing. Not because it's expensive, but because it costs more.

Luke: Ladies and Gentlemen! There is no cause for alarm. Actually, there is cause for alarm. It just won't do any good.

Buffy, finding Luke about to feed on Cordelia: Oh, I'm sorry, were you in the middle of something?

Xander: Jesse! I know there's still a part of you in there.
Jesse: Okay... Let's deal with this. Jesse was an excruciating loser who couldn't get a date with anyone in the sighted community! Look at me. I'm a new man!

Willow: Did we win?
Buffy: Well, we averted the apocalypse. I give us points for that.

Giles: We've prevented the Master from freeing himself and opening the mouth of Hell. That's not to say he's going to stop trying. I'd say the fun is just beginning.
Willow: More vampires?
Giles: Not just vampires. The next threat we face may be something quite different.
Buffy: I can hardly wait!
Giles: We're at the center of a mystical convergence here. We may, in fact, stand between the Earth and its total destruction.
Buffy: Well, I gotta look on the bright side. Maybe I can still get kicked out of school!
Xander: Oh, yeah, that's a plan. 'Cause lots of schools aren't on Hellmouths.
Willow: Maybe you could blow something up. They're really strict about that.
Buffy: I was thinking of a more subtle approach, y'know, like excessive not studying.
Giles, to himself: The Earth is doomed!


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