Quentin Travers is a member of the Watchers' Council (possibly its head, based on his actions and authority) who appears in Seasons Three, Five and Seven, and is played by Harris Yulin. In his first appearance, "Helpless", he insists that Buffy undergo a ruthless rite of passage on her eighteenth birthday known as the Cruciamentum. The test consists of depriving Buffy of her Slayer powers and forcing her to fight a vampire using cunning alone. Giles' reluctance to comply with the test and his paternal relationship with the Slayer leads Quentin to fire him as Buffy's official Watcher. Angered at having been subjected to the Council's rite of passage without her consent, Buffy informs Travers that if he appears in Sunnydale again she will kill him.