- Principal Snyder: Kids today need discipline. It's an unpopular word these days: discipline. I know Principal Flutie would have said, "Kids need understanding. Kids are human beings." That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.
- Rupert Giles: I-I think perhaps it was a little more complex than, um...
- Principal Snyder: There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed, and also smoking.
- [Cordelia's droning on and on. Giles starts staring at her hair]
- Cordelia Chase: What?
- Rupert Giles: Oh, I-I'm sorry. Um, your hair, uh...
- Cordelia Chase: [concerned] There's something wrong with my hair?
- [she touches her hair for a second]
- Cordelia Chase: Oh my God.
- [she runs off]
- Rupert Giles: Xander was right. It worked like a charm.
- Cordelia Chase: [after another murder] All I can think is, "It could have been me."
- Xander Harris: We can dream.
- [Giles is in charge of the school talent show]
- Buffy Summers: Giles, into every generation is born one who must run the annual talentless show. You cannot escape your destiny.
- Rupert Giles: If you had any shred of decency, you would have participated or at least, um... helped.
- Buffy Summers: Nah! I think I'll take on your traditional role... and watch.
- Xander Harris: And mock.
- Willow Rosenberg: And laugh.
- Buffy Summers: The school talent show. However did you finagle such a primo assignment?
- Rupert Giles: Our new Führer, Mr. Snyder.
- Willow Rosenberg: I think they call them principals now.
- Rupert Giles: Cordelia, there, uh, th-there's, uh-uh, an adage, uh, that, um, if you're feeling nervous, then, uh, you should imagine the entire audience are in their underwear.
- Cordelia Chase: Eww! Even Mrs. Franklin? Ugh.
- Rupert Giles: Perhaps not.
- Sid: This is what I do. I hunt demons. Yeah. You wouldn't know it to look at me. Let's just say there was me, there was a really mean demon, there was a curse, and the next thing I know, I'm not me anymore. I'm sitting on some guy's knee with his hand up my shirt.
- Principal Snyder: My predecessor, Mr. Flutie, may have gone in for all that touchy-feely relating nonsense... but he was eaten. You're in my world now, and Sunnydale has touched and felt... for the last time.
- Willow Rosenberg: I think dummies are cute. You don't?
- Buffy Summers: Uuuhhh. They give me the wig, ever since I was little.
- Willow Rosenberg: What happened?
- Buffy Summers: I saw a dummy, it gave me the wig. There really wasn't a story there.
- Rupert Giles: Every seven years, these demons *need* human organs, a-a brain and a heart, to maintain their humanity. Otherwise, they-they-they revert back to their original form, which is, uh, slightly less appealing.
- Rupert Giles: A demon is a creature of evil, pure and very simple. A person driven to kill is, is, um... It's more complex.
- Willow Rosenberg: The creep factor is also heightened. It could be anyone. It could be me.
- [everyone looks at her]
- Willow Rosenberg: It's not, though.
- Willow Rosenberg: [reading] "On rare occasions, inanimate objects of human quality, such as dolls and mannequins, already mystically possessed of consciousness, have acted upon their desire to become human by harvesting organs."
- Buffy Summers: Okay. Everyone look at me like I'm in a bunny suit 'cause that's how stupid I feel saying this.
- Buffy Summers: Okay, Morgan, we get the joke. Horny dummy. Ha, ha. It's very funny, but you might want to consider getting some new shtick unless you want your prop ending up as a Duraflame log.
- Rupert Giles: It was... Emily.
- Willow Rosenberg: Emily. Dancer Emily?
- [Giles nods]
- Xander Harris: Oh, man. I hate this school!
- Rupert Giles: It must have happened just after... dress rehearsal. There was a cross-county meet at Melville. She never showed up for it.
- Buffy Summers: Vampire?
- Rupert Giles: I think not.
- Buffy Summers: Giles, say what happened.
- Rupert Giles: Her heart was removed.
- Willow Rosenberg: Yikes!
- Buffy Summers: Does that mean anything to you? Besides *eww*?
- Rupert Giles: [sighs] There is demons which feeds off human hearts, but...
- [shrugs]
- Buffy Summers: [as a knife goes into evidence bag] But demons have claws and teeth.
- Xander Harris: They got no use for a big ol' knife.
- Rupert Giles: Which more than likely makes our murderer...
- Buffy Summers: Human.
- Xander Harris: Did I mention that I hate this school?
- Willow Rosenberg: So, Emily was killed by a regular human person?
- Rupert Giles: The evidence certainly points thatr way.
- Buffy Summers: No. Wait. I'm not buying it, guys. Remember the Hellmouth? Mystical activity is totally right here. This to me says: demon.
- Rupert Giles: I'd like to think you're right. A demon is a creature of... evil - pure and very simple. A person driven to kill is - is, uh, it's more complex.
- Willow Rosenberg: The creep factor is also heightened. It could be anyone. It could be me.
- [the guys look at her funny]
- Willow Rosenberg: It's not, though.
- Rupert Giles: Demon or no, we have some investigation to do. I suggest we start with your talent show compatriots.
- Buffy Summers: [re their punishment, obligatory performances in talent show] What am I gonna do? Slay vampires on stage?
- Willow Rosenberg: [brightly] Maybe in a funny way.
- Xander Harris: Willow, you can do stuff. Uh, the piano.
- Buffy Summers: You play?
- Willow Rosenberg: A little.
- Buffy Summers: That's cool. You could accompany us and we could attempt to sing.
- Willow Rosenberg: [tremulous] Oh. In front of other people? Then... No, I don't play.
- [shakes her head]
- Xander Harris: Whatever happened to corporal punishment?
- Cordelia Chase: [as Sid stares at Buffy] Looks like someone digs you. That's adorable. You and the dummy can tour on the freak show.