Quentin Travers

Quentin Travers
Name	Quentin Travers
Status	Deceased
Classif.	Human
Affiliation	Watchers Council
Appearances
Debut	Helpless
Last seen	Never Leave Me
Portrayed by	Harris Yulin

“The Council fights evil. The Slayer is the instrument with which we fight. The Council remains. The Slayers... change. It's been that way from the beginning.”

―Quentin Travers

Quentin Travers was a senior Watcher and later one of the last Directors of the Watchers' Council.

History

Quentin was one of the highest ranking members of the Watchers' Council. Though he was largely well-intentioned and aligned to the side of good, he was rarely compassionate and often ruthless.

Quentin first appeared in the Season Three episode "Helpless". On Buffy's eighteenth birthday, he insisted that Buffy partake in the Cruciamentum, a ruthless rite of passage that involves stripping the Slayer of her powers in order to test her intelligence and practical capabilities. The situation eventually went awry when Zachary Kralik, the vampire that Buffy was meant to fight, escaped and kidnapped Buffy's mother. Giles subsequently interfered and helped her, and in an ensuing argument, Quentin dismissed Giles from the Council for having a father's love for the Slayer, and left, largely indifferent to, and even slightly amused by, Buffy's anger.

He reappeared in "Checkpoint", in which he agreed to give Buffy information on Glory, but not until she underwent another series of rigorous trials, threatening to have the Magic Box closed down and Giles deported if she didn't comply. After a confrontation with the Knights of Byzantium, Buffy realized that the Watchers' Council needed the Slayer to validate their existence more than she actually needed their help, so she laid down the law, ordering Quentin to reinstate Giles as her official Watcher and be paid retroactively since the day he was fired, to allow her friends to continue to fight alongside her, and to give her the information on Glory. Quentin reluctantly agreed and left.

His final appearance was in "Never Leave Me", in which he, much like most of the other Watchers, was killed in a bomb blast orchestrated by Caleb, the second-in-command of the First Evil. Ironically, Giles would later develop some of Quentin's more ruthless traits, conspiring with Robin Wood to kill Spike in order to keep Buffy focused on the war with the First, a plan that ultimately failed.

Appearances

Season 3

• Helpless Template:1st

Season 5

• Checkpoint

Season 7

• Never Leave Me

Other Appearances

• Viva Las Buffy!
• Slayer, Interrupted

Non-Canonical Appearances

• BTVS: Giles

See also

• Travers family