Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 3 Episode 12 Helpless
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00:00Right in the heart.
00:18Satisfied?
00:21I'm not sure that's the word.
00:26Okay.
00:26I didn't mean satisfied, like...
00:31No, I wasn't trying to...
00:33Because you're not having satisfaction in the personal sense.
00:38Of course.
00:41I should go.
00:42Giles is...
00:43I was waiting for you.
00:45I know.
00:47Thanks for the workout.
00:51Am I going to see you this weekend?
00:54You probably have plans.
00:56Right.
00:57Birthday.
00:59Um...
01:00Actually, I do have a thing.
01:03Oh, a thing.
01:05Date.
01:06Nice attempt at casual.
01:10Actually, I do have a date.
01:13Older man.
01:14Very handsome.
01:16Likes it when I call him Daddy.
01:18Your father.
01:20It is your father, right?
01:23He's taking me to the ice show.
01:26It should be big fun.
01:28I could use a little fun.
01:33This one?
01:36Amethyst.
01:37Used for?
01:38Rathmits.
01:39Rathmits?
01:42Charm bags, money spells, and for cleansing one's aura.
01:47Okay, so how do you know if one's aura is dirty?
01:50Somebody come by with a finger and right-wash me on it?
01:54Raffi, I'm aware of your distaste at studying vibratory stones.
01:58But since it is part of your training, I would appreciate your glib-free attention.
02:04Sorry.
02:06It's just with Faith on one of her unannounced walkabout, I feel like somebody should be patrolling.
02:11Now, Faith is not interested in proper training, so I must rely on you to keep up with yours.
02:15I hate being the good one.
02:17And as for patrolling, well, you'll be there soon enough.
02:22Am I so anxious?
02:24I guess I just have some energy to burn.
02:31Well, in due time.
02:33But for the present, if it's not entirely beyond your capabilities, try to concentrate.
02:47Oh, that was really funny-looking.
02:55Can you do it again?
02:56I'll kill you for that.
02:58For that?
02:58What were you trying to kill me for before?
03:05Okay, so here's the deal.
03:06Let me know if I'm not doing this right.
03:36Let me know if I'm not doing this right.
04:06Let me know if I'm not doing this right.
04:36Let me know if I'm not doing this right.
05:06Good evening in the day.
05:24Child, something's wrong.
05:27Wrong?
05:32Ah.
05:34Perhaps you shouldn't...
05:36I don't do that anymore.
05:39On top of that, I got a bad case of the Dizzy's last night
05:42and almost let a vamp stake me.
05:44With my own stake.
05:49I'm way off my game.
05:52My game's left the country.
05:54It's in Cuernavaca.
05:56Childs, what's going on here?
05:58Perhaps you've got a bad flu bug or something.
06:03No.
06:04No, I'm not sick.
06:05I can't get sick.
06:07My dad's coming to take me to the ice show.
06:10We do it every year for my birthday.
06:13If I cancel, it's going to break his heart.
06:16Well, just take it easy for 48 hours.
06:19You know, forego patrolling until he beat himself again.
06:24No.
06:25No, I just need to spend a little more time training.
06:28I'm gone.
06:28I'm gone.
06:35An ice show.
06:37A show performed on ice.
06:39And how old are we again?
06:41I went to Snoopy on ice when I was little.
06:44My dad took me backstage and I got so scared I threw up on Woodstock.
06:50Look, I know you guys think it's just a big, dumb, girly thing, but it's not.
06:54And a lot of those skaters are Olympic medal winners.
06:57And every year my dad buys me cotton candy and one of those souvenir programs that has all
07:01the pictures and, okay, it's a big, dumb, girly thing, but I love it.
07:07It's not so girly.
07:08Ice is cool.
07:10It's water.
07:11But it's not.
07:13I think it's sweet you and your dad have a tradition.
07:17Especially now that he's not around so much.
07:20You can snate on the caramel corn, though, if you go backstage.
07:24We're still talking party, right?
07:26I mean, some of us still love to relish celebrating in the birth of the buff.
07:30I don't know.
07:32I think it might be time to put a moratorium on parties in my honor.
07:35They tend to go badly.
07:37Monsters crash, people die.
07:40But 18 is a big one, Buffy.
07:42I mean, you can vote now.
07:44You can be drafted.
07:47You can vote not to be drafted.
07:50I think I'll choose to celebrate this one with quiet reflection.
07:54Where is it written that quiet reflection can't be combined with cake and funny hats?
07:58Ready?
07:58Ready?
08:10Buffy?
08:12Present.
08:14Oh, present.
08:15uh they're not they're from your father his uh quarterly projections are unraveling and he
08:24can't afford to take off right now he promises to make it up to you it's all right there in the
08:30letter if you want i could ask somebody to cover for me at the gallery i mean if you want me to
08:40take you no no it's not necessary i was just thinking it might be nice to have a quiet birthday
09:10how much longer houbson five maybe six hours sir
09:30won't you finish you and blair can get some rest but sleep in shifts
09:38getting very close
09:49slayer's preparation is nearly complete
09:54you know it's not just cartoon characters they do pieces from operas and ballets
10:04brian boitano doing carmen is a life changer oh he doesn't actually play carmen but a lot of
10:15sophisticated people go yes i think we should start with the grinding crystal again it's usually
10:24something that families do together i look very carefully for the tiny floor at its core
10:32if someone were free they'd take their daughters or their student or their slayer
10:39yes but buffy i think we should concentrate now i look for the floor at its center
10:48yes but buffy
11:10buffy
12:16Oh, I'm sorry. Did I zone out on you?
12:23I'm just, I'm nursing that flu bug.
12:26I expect to take care of that.
12:28Unless we should, um...
12:30Call it a night.
12:32Yeah, that's a good idea.
12:34Yeah. Thanks.
12:43Good night.
12:44So how's it going with Amy the rat?
12:58Good. She loves her new exercise wheel.
13:01She runs around her nose, wiggles you like...
13:03I meant, how's it going, changing her back into a human being?
13:07Oh, I'm still working on it.
13:09But I just got her the cutest little bell.
13:12You don't do that to me.
13:14I waited for you at the bronze all night.
13:17And the big deal is...
13:18You made me look like some kind of dork in front of my posse.
13:23First of all, posse, passe.
13:27Second of all, anyone with a teaspoon of brains knows not to take my flirting seriously.
13:33Especially with my extenuating circumstances.
13:36Oh, what circumstances?
13:39Rebound.
13:39Look it up.
13:40Hey, I'm not through here.
13:43Oh, I beg to differ.
13:49What is wrong with you?
13:51How?
13:52How did she start it?
13:56Are you okay?
14:06Okay.
14:08I just got swatted down by some no-neck.
14:10And rescued by Cordelia.
14:12What in the hell is happening?
14:14I'm sure it'll sort itself out.
14:16Look, you're not getting the big picture here.
14:18I have no strength.
14:21I have no coordination.
14:25I throw knives like...
14:27A girl?
14:30Like I'm not the slayer.
14:34Look, Muffy, I assure you.
14:37Um, given time, we'll get to the bottom of what I was causing this, um, anomaly.
14:45Promise me.
14:46Yes.
14:47I'll give you my word.
14:53You're having doubts.
14:56Crucimentum is not easy for slayer or watcher.
15:00But it's been done this way for a dozen centuries.
15:05Whenever the slayer turns 18, it's a time-honored rite of passage.
15:10It's an archaic exercise in cruelty.
15:13To lock her in this tomb.
15:20Weakened, defenseless.
15:24To unleash that on her.
15:25If any one of the consuls still had actual contact with the slayer, they would see.
15:37But I'm the one in the thick of it.
15:39Which is why you're not qualified to make this decision.
15:42You're too close.
15:43That's not true.
15:44The slayer is not just physical prowess.
15:47You must have cunning, imagination, a confidence derived from self-reliance.
15:56Now, believe me, once this is all over, your Puffy will be stronger for it.
16:01Or should we dare for it?
16:03Rupert, if this girl is everything you say, then you've nothing to worry about.
16:23Oh, sir, if you can spare me for a short spell, I'll need to make a run to the hardware store.
16:35I just need some...
16:36Take care of it.
16:40Come on, come on.
17:10Come on, come on.
17:20Kramik, your pills.
17:24Open your mouth.
17:40That's enough.
17:53Close it up.
17:54A curse on slayers.
18:06Oh, no.
18:07Wait.
18:08It's lawyers.
18:11You know, maybe we're on the wrong track with the whole spell curse and whammy thing.
18:15Maybe what we should be looking for is something like, um, slayer kryptonite.
18:22Faulty metaphor.
18:23Kryptonite kills.
18:25You're assuming I met the green kryptonite.
18:27I was referring, of course, to the red kryptonite which drains Superman of his powers.
18:32Wrong.
18:33The gold kryptonite is the power sucker.
18:36The red kryptonite mutates Superman into some sort of weird...
18:38Guys?
18:39Reality?
18:40Reality?
18:44Buffy.
18:45I know you are definitely, without a doubt, gonna get your powers back.
18:52Thanks, Will.
18:54But what if you don't?
18:56Okay.
18:57If I don't get my powers back, and I don't, I'll deal.
19:10And there's a whole lot of good sides to it.
19:13Actually, this could open up so many...
19:18Did you find anything?
19:20Uh, no.
19:21Not yet.
19:27It's your shift.
19:44It's your shift.
19:57Yes.
19:58Yes.
19:59Yes.
20:00Yes.
20:22It's coming!
20:27Pills!
20:32Pills!
20:48Take them.
20:50Pills!
20:51They're right in front of you.
20:53Where?
20:55Here.
20:56I can't see... can't... can't... reach it.
21:08Open your eyes!
21:17Shh!
21:19Everything's okay now.
21:26Thank you. It's beautiful.
21:34You really like it?
21:36Of course I do.
21:39It's sweet and thoughtful and...
21:45full of neat words to learn and say, like...
21:49wilt and henceforth.
21:51Then why'd you seem more excited last year when you got a severed arm in a box?
21:57I'm sorry.
21:58It's just suddenly there's this chance that my calling's a wrong number, and...
22:03it's just...
22:20There's chance that my calling's a wrong number, and it's just freaking me out a little.
22:28That's understandable.
22:30Angel, what if I have lost my power?
22:33Look, you've lived a long time without it. You can do it again.
22:37I guess.
22:40But what if I can't?
22:43I've seen too much.
22:45I know what goes bump in the night.
22:48Not being able to fight it.
22:51What if I just hide under my bed all scared and helpless?
22:56Or what if I just become pathetic?
22:59Hanging out at the old Slayer's home, talking people's ears off about my glory days.
23:04Showing them, Mr. Pointy, the stake I had bronzed.
23:07Buffy, you can never be helpless or boring, not even if you tried.
23:14Don't be so sure.
23:18Before I was the Slayer, I was...
23:25Well, I don't want to say shallow, but...
23:30Let's say a certain person who will remain nameless, we'll just call her Spordelia.
23:35Looked like a classical philosopher next to me.
23:38Angel, if I'm not the Slayer, what do I do?
23:46What do I have to offer?
23:50Why would you like me?
23:54I saw you before you became the Slayer.
23:57What?
24:01I watched you.
24:04And I saw you called.
24:07And it was a bright afternoon out in front of your school.
24:13You walked down the steps.
24:14And, uh, and I loved you.
24:22Why?
24:25Because I could see your heart.
24:27You held it before you for everyone to see.
24:37And I worried that it would be bruised or torn.
24:41And more than anything in my life, I wanted to keep it safe.
24:45To warm it with my own.
24:58That's beautiful.
25:04Partaking literally incredibly gross.
25:08I was just thinking that, too.
25:10I was afraid I drained you too much.
25:38I do that sometimes.
25:40Never have a tune you can't get out of your head?
25:48Keeps playing over and over and over.
25:53Drives me nuts.
26:03Ah, thank you.
26:08Oh, man.
26:10It's much better.
26:26It's a game, you know.
26:29We're not going to play by their rules, but that doesn't mean we're not going to play.
26:33Why don't you call your friend in here.
26:39We'll, uh, discuss it over dinner.
26:40Quentin?
26:49Quentin?
26:54Quentin?
27:24Hello?
27:34Bensley?
27:36Up!
27:54Bensley?
28:24Bensley?
28:27Bensley?
28:30Bensley?
28:37Bensley?
28:41Oh, my God.
29:11Hey, sweet girl.
29:13How much for a lap dance for me and my buddy?
29:29Walk me home, Angel.
29:30No, I'm fine.
29:32I take care of myself.
29:38Hummers.
29:40Big turn off.
29:42I like guys that can remember the lyrics.
29:46You know, I wish I could, but my mind just isn't what it used to be.
29:51Let me go.
29:53You didn't say please.
29:55Help me!
29:57Somebody, please!
29:59Help me!
30:02Somebody!
30:03Help me!
30:06Somebody, please help me!
30:08Help me!
30:28Stop! Please, I need help!
30:39Please, stop!
30:58When I hit him, it felt like my arm was broken. It hurt so much.
31:16I can't be just a person. I can't be helpless like that.
31:23Giles, please, we have to figure out what's happening to me.
31:28It's an organic compound of muscle relaxants and adrenal suppressors.
31:49The effect is temporary. You'll be yourself again in a few days.
31:58You?
32:04It's a test, Buffy.
32:06It's given to the Slayer once she...
32:12...if she reaches her 18th birthday.
32:16The Slayer is disabled and then entrapped with a vampire foe whom she must defeat in order to pass the test.
32:29The vampire you would have faced has escaped.
32:39His name is Zachary Krelick.
32:43As a mortal, he murdered and tortured more than a dozen women before he was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane.
32:56When the event...
32:59You bastard.
33:01All this time you saw what it was doing to me.
33:05All this time and you didn't say a word.
33:08I wanted to.
33:10Liar.
33:11In matters of tradition and protocol, I must answer to the council.
33:16My role in this was very specific.
33:21I was to administer the injections and to direct you to the old boarding house on Prescott Lane.
33:28I can't.
33:29I can't hear this.
33:31Buffy, please.
33:37Who are you?
33:40How could you do this to me?
33:43I am deeply sorry, Buffy, and you have to understand...
33:47If you touch me, I'll kill you.
33:49You have to listen to me.
33:54Because I've told you this, the test is invalidated.
33:59You will be safe now, I promise you.
34:02Whatever I have to do to deal with Krelick...
34:06And to win back your trust...
34:08You stuck a needle in me.
34:10You poisoned me.
34:16What's going on?
34:20Oh, God, is the world ending?
34:22I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow.
34:25But if the world's ending, I'm not going to bother.
34:32You can't walk home alone, Buffy. It isn't safe.
34:39I don't know you.
34:44Did something take her memory?
34:46He's Giles.
34:47Giles.
34:50Giles.
34:52He hangs out here a lot.
34:56Cordelia, could you please drive me home?
35:00Of course.
35:04But if the world doesn't end...
35:06I'm gonna need a note.
35:17I don't know.
35:31The world's traffic.
35:32I don't know.
35:34I don't know.
35:36Father?
35:37Mother.
36:07Mother.
36:37May I call you Mother?
36:57My own mother was a person with no self-respect of her own, so she tried to take mine.
37:07Ten years old, she had the scissors.
37:11You wouldn't believe we'd stick with those.
37:17But she's dead to me now.
37:18Mostly because I killed and ate her, but also because I know I won't be alone much longer.
37:31Mother, I'll have your daughter.
37:35I won't kill her.
37:36I'll just make her like me.
37:39Different.
37:40She'll go to sleep.
37:44And when she wakes up, your face will be the first thing she eats.
37:51I have a problem with mothers.
37:57I'm aware of that.
37:58I won't kill you.
38:00I won't kill you.
38:03I'll still keep her.
38:06I won't kill you.
40:18You're impressively out of control, don't you think?
40:25Change is nothing.
40:28Well, they'll allow me.
40:30I told Buffy everything.
40:32That is in direct opposition to the Council's orders.
40:38Yes.
40:40Interestingly, I don't give a rat's ass about the Council's orders.
40:43There will be no test.
40:44The test has already begun.
40:47Your slayer entered the field of play about ten minutes ago.
40:52Why?
40:53I don't know.
40:54I'll return there just as she enters.
40:58And Giles, we've no business...
40:59It is not business.
41:01It is not business.
41:29I don't know.
41:34I don't know.
41:36I don't know.
41:39I've done it.
41:39Oh.
41:40Oh.
41:40Oh.
41:41Oh.
41:42Oh.
41:49Oh.
41:49Oh.
41:52Oh.
41:52Let's go.
42:22Hide and seek.
42:36Hide and seek.
42:52Why did you come to the dark of the woods?
43:02To bring all these sweets to grandmother's house.
43:05Oh, no, no.
43:22Just a little lower, right?
43:24Oh, yes.
43:25Yes.
43:26Oh, thank you very much.
43:56Oh, thank you very much.
44:26Oh, thank you.
44:56Oh, thank you very much.
45:26straight from the path
45:37you will lose your way
45:38I won't take it all
45:42I won't take it all
45:44I won't take it all
46:14I won't take it all
46:25Murphy, we have to go
46:28Where are they?
46:34Where are they?
46:44You don't seem to understand your place in all of this
47:10Do you have any idea?
47:14Oh my
47:16What have you
47:18My pills?
47:20My pills?
47:21No
47:23If I was at full slayer power, I'd be punting right about now
47:38Buffy, thank God you're okay
47:54Oh there, man
47:56I can't get these
48:01They're too tight
48:02Can't you just
48:03Not right now
48:05Maybe there's some clippers around
48:09Hold me
48:10Congratulations, your powers
48:33Exhibited extraordinary courage and clear-headedness in battle
48:40The council is very pleased
48:43Do I get a gold star?
48:47I understand that you're upset
48:49You understand nothing
48:51You set that monster loose and he came after my mother
48:56You think the test was unfair
48:58I think you better leave town before I get my strength back
49:03We're not in the business of fair, Miss Summers
49:08We're fighting a war
49:09You're waging a war she's fighting
49:12If there is a difference
49:13Mr. Giles, if you don't mind
49:15The test is done, we're finished
49:17Not quite
49:18She passed
49:20You didn't
49:21The slayer is not the only one who must perform in this situation
49:27I've recommended to the council
49:30And they've agreed
49:31That you be relieved of your duties as watcher immediately
49:34You're fired
49:36On what grounds?
49:42Your affection for your charge
49:44Has rendered you incapable of clear and impartial judgment
49:47You have a father's love for the child
49:51And that is useless to the cause
49:55It would be best if you had no further contact with the slave
50:01I'm not going anywhere
50:04No, well, I didn't expect you would adhere to that
50:07However, if you interfere with the new watcher
50:10Or countermand his authority in any way
50:13It would be dealt with
50:15Are we clear?
50:18Are we very clear?
50:23Congratulations again
50:24Bite me
50:29Yes
50:32Well
50:33Colorful girl
50:45Dok
50:47To the
50:50You
50:52He
50:54Eye
50:55Of
50:56Toy
50:57To the
50:59The
51:04The
51:05The
51:13I can't believe Giles was fired.
51:40How could Giles get fired?
51:42So how did you manage to kill Kralik?
51:45Oh, she was very clever.
51:49You go ahead and tell it, dear. You tell it better.
51:52Now, when you say fired, do you mean fired?
51:56You're not cruising past that concept any time soon, are you?
52:00Well, it's just... I mean, he's been fired.
52:03He's unemployed. He's between jobs.
52:07Giles isn't going anywhere, Will. He's still librarian.
52:11Okay, but I'm writing an angry letter.
52:14You know, nothing's really gonna change.
52:16The important thing is that I kept up my special birthday tradition
52:20of gut-wrenching misery and horror.
52:23Bright side to everything?
52:26I just feel better when I get my strength back.
52:30Give you a hand with that, little lady?
52:36You're loving this far too much.
52:39Admit it. Sometimes you just need a big, strong man.
52:43Oh, Will. Give me a hand with that.
52:56Didn't hurt you real hard.
52:59You've got a bisexual touristLP album there.
53:00Just....
53:01Don't.
53:02Not.
53:04Riding asset.
53:05You're just helping them go out.
53:06Those!
53:09Don't want to ask me if you don't have a kiss of the monster.
53:11We have a baby.
53:13Grr. Arrgh.