( The story goes that it was initiated by a certain Jenny Geddes who threw a stool in St Giles Cathedral ).

Ethan warns Giles that the Initiative is throwing the worlds out of balance, which goes " way beyond chaos ", into " one hell of a fight.

All proceeds from the sale of Giles ' recently published autobiography goes directly towards the funding of the foundation.

He goes to the university and comes across Giles, who starts revealing the reason for the dream, but suddenly switches to speaking in French.

Willow goes to Giles for help.

Considering their conversation of the previous day, she does not believe that he would leave the book behind, and goes to Giles for advice.

The next morning, Buffy goes to Giles ' flat to describe the previous night's monster.

Buffy goes to Giles to show him the toenails and is ambushed by Xander, Oz, and Giles.

Giles believes that Buffy is possessed by the demon from the encounter in the woods and goes to gather supplies for a spell to end the possession.

When Buffy goes to visit Giles, she's surprised to find him embracing the Halloween spirit.

Meanwhile, Anya goes to Giles for help.

Buffy informs Giles of the two werewolves being spotted on campus and later goes to Oz, but he says he doesn't remember anything about what happened when he got out.

Buffy goes to Willow, who has a book Giles needs for researching the symbol.

She asks Angel to see to it that the blood gets to the hospital and goes to check on Giles.

When Buffy goes to Giles ' house to see what happened, he opens the door looking dishevelled and appears to have been drinking.

Gladman goes on to write that Stow, a young merchant, who, in his anxiety to " stem the torrent of vice and ungodliness, turned his attention to the young ," and established a school on Sabbath evenings in the Saltmarket, " the very St. Giles of Glasgow ," in 1816.

Giles goes over basic knowledge about the First Evil, explaining that it can only take on the appearance of the dead, but it's incapable of solid form.

Worried, Buffy goes to Giles ' place and finds her mom on the couch.

Giles goes to find Quentin at the Sunnydale Arms building, but instead finds Kralik missing and Hobson dead.

Buffy goes to Giles after she finds that her hand is itching where she was cut and that, because she came in contact with the blood of one of the demons, she may be infected with an aspect of the demon.

She talks to Giles about it, and he goes right to work researching it while Buffy decides to put her new ability to work.

In " Something Blue ", a spell by Willow goes awry, blinding Giles, making Xander a literal demon magnet, and causing Buffy and Spike to fall in love and get engaged.

" Willow convinces Buffy to ask Giles about Kathy being a demon, and then calls Giles to warn him about the strange behavior.

Also, in keeping with the show's themes of redemption and moral ambiguity, Willow, Angel, Spike, Faith, Giles, Anya, and Andrew have at some point in their lives descended into darkness.

This caused a rift between Angel and Buffy, and Angel decided to search for a way to resurrect Giles with the help of Faith.

After the Watcher's death, Faith accompanied Angel to both aid him in his quest to resurrect Giles and to make sure that he does not become evil again.

Giles briefly serves as Watcher for Kendra's replacement Slayer, Faith Lehane.

In the story " Safe ," Giles and Faith hear of a " Slayer Sanctuary " in a town called Hanselstadt from a young Slayer named Courtney.

Giles finds Faith already in combat with the demon, which feeds on beings who feel regret and fear.

During their skirmish, the demon devours Duncan and Giles saves Courtney while Faith kills the demon.

The stalemate ended, Giles and Faith rally the reluctant townspeople against the coming vampires, telling them if they want to live, they'll have to fight.

After Harmony Kendall's reality show establishes a new pro-vampire, anti-Slayer world order, Faith and Giles are in hiding in the Führerbunker in the " Retreat " storyline.

Afterwards, it is revealed that Giles has left to Faith his entire estate in his will ( with the exception of the ' Vampyr ' book from the first episode of the series, which he leaves to Buffy ), and Faith assures Buffy this doesn't mean Giles cared about her less but rather felt Faith needed it more.

In a 2011 interview, Whedon stated that his decision to kill off Giles could not be discussed in detail " because ripples from that event " will also be a large part of both Buffy Season Nine and Angel and Faith.

When Twilight's forces eventually attack, Andrew is captured along with Giles and Faith.

Co-executive producer Doug Petrie, who wrote Wesley's first episode " Bad Girls ", explains, " The way Faith is a reflection of Buffy, Wesley takes up a lot of the space that Giles traditionally occupies.

After many months of fighting alongside Buffy and being under the authority of Buffy's Watcher, Giles, Faith becomes estranged from Buffy and aligns herself with the Mayor, who both employs her as an assassin and becomes a father figure to her while preparing to become a powerful demon that will destroy the town.

Faith tells Buffy's Watcher Giles ( Anthony Head ) that it was Buffy who killed the Deputy Mayor ; he does not believe her and she is taken into custody to be dealt with by the Watchers ' Council.

Unlike Giles ' mentoring of Buffy, in which he encourages her to make her own decisions despite what she is ordered to do by the similarly patriarchal Watcher's Council, Faith complies with everything the Mayor wants, creating " unquestioning service of the power structure for the sake of approval, comfort, and support of the father ".

In the canonical comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Giles informs Faith that he is, for all intents and purposes, the Watcher's Council.

Their duties have expanded to monitoring Slayers as well ; Giles offers Faith Lehane a new identity in exchange for her undertaking the mission to kill Genevieve Savidge, a sociopathic Slayer.