Maggie Walsh quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professor Walsh

It's only our methods that differ; we use the latest in scientific technology and state of the art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.

Buffy

Er, its more effective then it sounds-

Maggie Walsh

Oh, I'm - quite sure of that. As I'm just as sure that we can learn much from each other. I'm working on getting you clearance into the Initiative, I think you'll find the results of our operation most impressive. Agent Finn here alone has killed and captured... How many is it?

Riley

Seventeen : eleven vampires, six demons.

Buffy

Oh... wow. I mean, that's... seventeen.

Maggie Walsh

What about you?

Buffy

Me?

Maggie Walsh

How many Hostiles would you say you've slain?

Buffy

[uncomfortably searches for the right words]

Maggie Walsh

So, the Slayer!

Buffy

Yeah. That's me.

Maggie Walsh

We thought you were a myth.

Buffy

Well, you were myth-taken

Maggie Walsh

So, she walks in and the rules just suddenly break.

Riley

Um, pretty much.

Maggie Walsh

Be careful with her. She reacts on instinct. There's no discipline there. Her loyalties are uncertain.

Riley

You won't be disappointed in her. She's good at what she does, and she is the truest soul I've ever known.

Maggie Walsh

Oh, no. [laughing] Oh, no. Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.

Riley

I'm just saying she'll work out. You'll be proud of her.

Maggie Walsh

You want to know what I think? I think you're probably right.

Maggie Walsh

It took the patrol team 42 minutes to track you and you neutralized them in 28 seconds.

Buffy

I was just lucky.

Maggie Walsh

I see. Well...still. Very impressive.

Buffy

I was just being modest with the whole 'lucky' thing. You got that, right?

Riley

Regret to report Hostile 17 still at large. I've left Beta Team to comb the area but the tracer's--

Maggie Walsh

[interrupting, with faked sorrow] Riley, something's happened. I-I don't know what to say. It-It's about Buffy.

Riley

Buffy?

Maggie Walsh

Two of our hostiles broke free and escaped into the tunnels. She went after them on her own. She's dead, Riley.

Riley

[utterly shocked] What?

Maggie Walsh

I did everything I could to stop her. I told her to wait for a back-up team. She kept insisting she didn't need any team, she could handle it by herself. I-I'm so, so sorry.

Riley

[now into shellshock] I don't understand.

Maggie Walsh

I know what she meant to you.

Riley

How could this happen?

Maggie Walsh

She was a very, very special girl. I didn't understand at first, (sighs) but she had something. I don't know, maybe, maybe I could've stopped her. [Behind Walsh, the com-cam image on the monitors starts to move. Buffy appears in its picture] It's hard not to blame myself.

Buffy

[speaking through the monitor] Professor Walsh? That simple little recon you sent me on... wasn't a raccoon. [Walsh slowly faces the monitors] Turns out it was me trapped in the sewers with a faulty weapon and two of your pet demons. If you think that's enough to kill me, you really don't know what a Slayer is. Trust me when I say you're gonna find out.

Maggie Walsh

Riley. Agent Finn, I order you to stop! Agent Finn! Riley!