Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 3
“Earshot” · Season 3
In this episode: Buffy Summers (6), Xander Harris (2), Rupert Giles (1), Angel (1), Oz (1), Joyce Summers (1), Jonathan Levinson (1)
[after Buffy begins to hear people's thoughts]
And Buffy, be careful with this gift. A lot of things that seem strong and good and powerful, they can be painful.
Like, say... immortality?
Exactly. I'm dying to get rid of that.
Funny.
[deadpan] I'm a funny guy.
[voice over] I am my thoughts. If they exist in her, Buffy contains everything that is me and she becomes me. I cease to exist. [out loud] Hmm.
[voice over] What am I gonna do? I think about sex all the time! Sex! Help! Four times five is 30. Five times six is 32. Naked girls. Naked women! And naked Buffy! Oh, stop me!
God, Xander! Is that all you think about?
Actually... bye. [bolts from the library]
You had sex with Giles? You had sex with Giles?!
It was the candy! We were teenagers!
On the hood of a police car?!
[goes to leave, glances back] I'll be downstairs. [exits] You feel better!
Twice!?
[Buffy finds Jonathan in the clock tower with a rifle.]
Go away!
Never gonna happen.
You think I won't use this?
I don't know, Jonathan. I just –
Stop doing that!
Doing what?
Stop saying my name like we're friends! We're not friends! You all think I'm an idiot! A short idiot!
I don't. I don't think about you much at all. Nobody here really does. Bugs you, doesn't it? You have all this pain and all these feelings, and nobody's really paying attention?
You think I just want attention?
No. I think you're up in the clock tower with a high-powered rifle because you wanna blend in. Believe it or not, Jonathan, I understand about the pain.
Jonathan [bitterly]: Oh, right! Because the burden of being beautiful and athletic, that's a crippler!
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it's not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they're too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It's not. It's deafening... You know, I could've taken that by now.
I know.
[holds out hand] I'd rather do it this way. [gently takes the rifle from Jonathan as he hands it to her]
[Buffy and Giles are walking toward the high school.]
Well, it's nice to be able to help someone in a non-slaying capacity. Except he's starting to get that look, you know, like he's gonna ask me to prom.
Well, it would probably be good for his self-esteem, if you...
Oh, come on! What am I, Saint Buffy? He's, like, three feet tall!
I'm glad to see you've recovered from your psychic encounter more or less intact. Feel up to some training?
Sure. We can work out after school. You know, if you're not too busy having sex with my mother!
[Giles walks right into a tree.]
[After Buffy and Xander discover that a lunch lady has been putting rat poison in the students' food]
Rat poison! Rat poison! Drop your spoons. Step away from the spoons.
Okay, let's calm down.
Vermin. You're all vermin. You come in here, and you eat... and you eat... filth.
I don't see this being settled with logic.
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