Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999)

Harry Groener: Mayor Richard Wilkins

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• Mayor Richard Wilkins : [last words]  Well, gosh.

• Mayor Richard Wilkins : It's been a long road getting here, for you, for Sunnydale. There has been achievement, joy, good times... and there has been grief... There's been loss... Some people who should be here today... aren't... But we are. Journey's end. And what is a journey? Is it just distance traveled? Time spent? No. It's what happens on the way. It's the things that shape you. At the end of the journey, you're not the same. Today is about change. Graduation doesn't just mean your circumstances change. It means you do. You ascend... to a higher level... Nothing will ever be the same. Nothing...

  [eclipse starts] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : And so, as we look back on...

  [winces in pain] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : On the events that have brought us to this day...

  [more pain] 

  Buffy Summers : [whispers to herself]  Come on.

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : We... We must all...

  [yells and groans] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : It has begun... my destiny... It's a little sooner than I expected. I had this whole section on civic pride... but I guess we'll just skip to the big finish.

• [mayor is smothering Buffy at the hospital when Angel stops him] 

  Angel : Don't do that!

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : [angry]  I will. I'll do worse. Murderous little fiend! Did you see what she did to my Faith?

  Angel : Hadn't made plans to weep over that one.

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : Well, I'd get set for some weeping if I were you. I'd get set for a *world* of pain! Misery loves company, young man, and I'm looking to share that with you and your whore!

  [Angel pushes the mayor, who flies back against a window, who gets back up and regains his composure] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : [laughing]  Well... Looks like somebody's been eating his spinach.

  [to hospital staff] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : No, it's okay, folks. It's all right. The show's not *over*, but there will be a short intermission.

  [to Angel] 

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : Don't want to miss the second act. All kinds of excitement.

  Angel : [as the mayor leaves]  I'll be there.

• [first lines] 

  Vamp Lackey : There's nobody here, sir.

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : No... No, she'd take the fight outside... My Faith doesn't like to be cooped up... We have to find them. Put everyone on it. Do it now.

  Vamp Lackey : But, sir, the Ascension...

  Mayor Richard Wilkins : *Find them*!