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"Buffy vs. Dracula"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Buffy5x01.jpg
Buffy stakes Dracula again after he comes back from dust

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 1
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5ABB01
Original air date
September 26, 2000
Guest actors

Rudolf Martin as Dracula
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
E.J. Gage as Mover #1
Scott Berman as Mover #2
Marita Schaub as Vampire Girl #1
Leslee Jean Matta as Vampire Girl #2
Jennifer Slimko as Vampire Girl #3

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"Buffy vs. Dracula" is the fifth season premiere of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy faces the infamous Count Dracula, who has come to Sunnydale to make her one of his concubines. In the process, he turns Xander into a Renfield of sorts, and Giles becomes enthralled with the three sisters, much like Jonathan Harker in the novel. However, after a brief spell during which Buffy is mesmerized by the Count, she regains her usual composure and defeats him.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Continuity
3 Arc significance
4 Production
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Unable to sleep, Buffy goes out to patrol the cemetery and after staking a vampire, she returns to bed with Riley. The next day, Buffy and Riley play around at the beach, until Willow magically ignites the barbecue, and a sudden storm forces them all to seek shelter from the rain.
Elsewhere, two men deliver a large crate to a residence, but when they drop it, a clawed hand breaks through the wood and attacks one of the men.
Giles has Willow start scanning books into a computer so that they can be resources for the gang to use. He then tells her that he's going back to England because it seems he's no longer needed by Buffy or the Scoobies.
While patrolling, Buffy is confronted by a vampire who condenses from mist: he introduces himself as Count Dracula. When she tries to stake the legendary vampire, he disappears. Xander and Willow arrive to see Dracula before he turns into a bat and flies away. The women discuss how amazing Dracula is, and Riley and Xander both express their jealousy towards the infamous Dark Prince. Willow makes a lame attempt to attract attention to Giles and his usefulness, but the gang seems oblivious.
As Xander is walking home alone, he encounters Dracula. Using his mysterious charms, the vampire persuades Xander to be his aide and lure the Slayer to him. Riley asks Spike about Dracula, but the former commando is warned that Dracula is too dangerous for him to take on alone. Buffy awakens to find Dracula in her bedroom. She is helpless against his powers and unable to stop him from biting her. When she wakes the next morning, she hides the puncture marks in her neck with a scarf.
Later, the gang discusses their plan of attack. Buffy seems distracted and after hearing about the truths of Dracula, she leaves abruptly. Riley follows her and forces her to take off the scarf to show the puncture marks on her neck. Everyone is shocked to see that she has been under the control of Dracula. Since Xander is under Dracula's power, he has a strange hunger for spiders and attempts to defend the powerful vampire to his friends. Xander volunteers to have Buffy stay safely at his place, Willow and Tara use magic to protect the Summers's home, and Giles and Riley go after Dracula.
Anya complains about not going after Dracula herself, until Xander locks her in the closet. Xander takes the willing Slayer to his "Master" in hopes of getting immortality in return. After being left alone with Dracula, Buffy tries to take control and stake him, but he is easily able to make her put the stake down. Riley and Giles discover Dracula's castle, remarking how they've never noticed it before, and enter carefully. Dracula talks to Buffy of all the things he will do for her while she struggles to regain control of herself.
Xander tries to stop Riley from going after Dracula, but Riley knocks him out with one punch. Giles finds himself victim to the Three Sisters who effectively keep him distracted. Dracula offers his blood to Buffy, and she hesitantly takes a drink. A flash of memories allows Buffy to break his control over her. Riley rescues Giles from the sister vampires, and they go to save Buffy. Buffy and Dracula fight in a vicious battle, and finally Buffy stakes him. After they leave, Dracula comes back from the dust. Buffy is there and stakes him again, knowing he would come back. Dracula attempts to re-form again but is reminded by Buffy that she is "standing right here". He slips away in his mist-form.
Buffy talks to Giles, telling him that she wants to be the Slayer again, to learn about her duties and her future. She asks Giles to be her Watcher again, and Giles is pleased. Buffy comes home and announces to her mom that she's going out with Riley. As she enters her room, she finds a girl there going through her stuff. Joyce tells Buffy that she should take her sister with her if she goes out, to which both girls immediately complain, "Mom!"
Continuity[edit]
Riley has a visible scar on his chest from where he cut out a chip in "Primeval".
Before biting Buffy, Dracula notices on her neck the scar of Angel's bite ("Graduation Day, Part 2").
Dracula calls Buffy a killer, her power being rooted in darkness. The truth of this is revealed in "Get It Done" (season 7), in which Buffy learns how the First Slayer was created and the source of her power.
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy's sister Dawn is introduced. Her arrival was foreshadowed in cryptic dream scenes in both the Season Three finale "Graduation Day Part 2" and the Season Four episode "This Year's Girl", in which a still-comatose Faith says, "Little sis coming, I know." Buffy replies, "So much to do before she gets here" (the first appearance of Dawn is in Buffy's room). In the season four finale, "Restless", Tara warns Buffy to "be back before Dawn." Dawn's arrival by creating an alternate reality occurs during the events of this episode, as Buffy's mother remarks that her house gets very quiet without Buffy present when Buffy announces she has to leave to go on patrol, indicating Dawn does not yet exist until the end of episode.
Production[edit]
The vampire who was going to show Buffy a darker side of herself was originally envisioned as "just another vampire who rode a horse and was all cool", says writer Marti Noxon. "I kept saying, 'Like Dracula'" - until Joss Whedon said, "Why not Dracula? He's public domain."[1]
Noxon says the scene in which Dracula implies that Buffy would "make an amazing vampire" thematically resonates with the questions of identity with which Buffy struggles throughout Season 5.[1]
When questioning Dracula's identity, Buffy mentions having encountered "pimply and overweight" vampires who named themselves after Anne Rice's vampire character Lestat de Lioncourt. This is the first indication that some vampires appreciate Rice's perspective on vampirism; in contrast, "School Hard" and "Darla" depicted some vampires as having contempt for Rice's concepts.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Interview with Marti Noxon", BBC, retrieved 2007-09-14
External links[edit]
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Real Me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Real Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Buffy5x02.jpg
A strange man tells Dawn she does not belong

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 2
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
David Fury
Production code
5ABB02
Original air date
October 3, 2000
Guest actors

Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Bob Morrisey as Crazy Guy #1
Brian Turk as Mort
Chaney Kley as Brad Connick
Faith S. Abrahams as Peaches
Tom Lenk as Cyrus

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"Real Me" is the second episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Cultural References
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy trains and works on her strength with the help of Giles and some crystals. She practices a handstand on a block of wood, but falls when her sister, Dawn, knocks over the crystals. In the morning, Dawn continues annoying Buffy by emptying the milk carton. Joyce asks Buffy to take Dawn shopping for school supplies, but Riley reminds her they had already made plans. Buffy has to cancel so she can go work with Giles.
Giles drives the sisters on their errands, having trouble with the automatic transmission in his new BMW convertible. They spot Willow and Tara heading for the magic shop, and Buffy tells Willow that she's dropping Drama in favor of more slayer training. At the shop, the gang finds the owner dead, killed by vampires. Buffy sends Dawn outside where she encounters a deranged man. He seems to recognize her, saying, "You don't belong here." She is upset until Tara comes to keep her company.
The gang realizes that a pack of vampires raided the shop for books on how to defeat the Slayer, under Harmony's leadership. Giles admires the shop and its potential for a future business.
That night, Dawn is happy to have Xander as her babysitter, until she discovers Anya is coming too. Harmony arrives to challenge Buffy but is disappointed when she's not there. Xander taunts Harmony and her minions from the safety of the house until Dawn mistakenly invites the vampire inside. After Harmony puts up a fight, Xander kicks her out of the house. Harmony later encounters Spike in the graveyard, and the two talk about Harmony's plans to kill the Slayer. While unpacking in their new place, Tara and Willow discuss how Dawn is having a hard time as the outsider of the Scooby Gang. Tara reveals that she has similar feelings as an outsider.
On patrol, Buffy is fuming about the lecture she received from her mother about allowing Dawn to see a dead body. Riley tries to talk some sense into her, pointing out she and Dawn resent each other for similar reasons. When they return home, Xander tells Buffy about Harmony and - after the Slayer stops laughing - she gets angry that Dawn invited Harmony inside. Buffy complains to Riley and Xander about the trouble Dawn causes and how she can't always be there to protect her; Dawn listens from the hall and runs outside in tears. Before Anya can bring Dawn back inside, Harmony's vampire minions capture Dawn and attack Anya causing her to be hospitalized. Buffy then runs out to find her sister leaving Xander and Riley to take care of Anya.
Harmony explains to her minions that Dawn is bait, meaning they can't eat her. Harmony complains to Dawn about her problems until her mutinous minions attempt to kill them both. Buffy - who had threatened Spike until he revealed Harmony's location - arrives and easily kills most of the minions as Harmony escapes. The Slayer frees her sister and when they get home, they agree not to tell their mother. The next day, Buffy and Giles talk about his decision to take over the magic shop, while Dawn writes in her journal that Buffy still thinks she's a nobody, but she's going to be in for a surprise.
Production details[edit]
When casting the role of "Dawn", Sarah Michelle Gellar suggested they take a look at Michelle Trachtenberg. Dawn was originally conceived to be 12 years old,[1] but after casting Trachtenberg, the writers raised the character's age to 14. However, the first few scripts were still written in the voice of a 12-year-old. Before being cast, Trachtenberg, a fan of the show, had written a letter to Joss Whedon that suggested how she could become a character on Buffy.
Writing[edit]
Writer David Fury says he was "given a lot of freedom to develop Dawn" as her background was completely unknown. He set up her relationships with other characters, such as Willow's status as Dawn's "Favorite Aunt", and provided additional backstory that - although not necessarily appearing in the finished script - "infused her character in future episodes."[2]
Cultural References[edit]
When Buffy complains about having to take Dawn shopping, she notes that you can't buy school supplies at the Magic Box. Dawn adds that she's "not going to Hogwarts".
Willow and Tara discuss ways to help make Dawn feel more accepted in the gang, Willow jokingly suggests that all of them should wear matching rings to show that are were members, a direct reference to the Legion of Super-heroes, where all its members wear the same Legion flight ring. In later episodes Willow uses powers that are the same as that of some members of the Legion, lightning from Lightning Lad, magnetism manipulation from Cosmic Boy, a force field, from Brainiac 5, to fend off Glory and the Byzantium soldiers and the last episode of Season 5 where Willow uses telepathy, same as Saturn Girl, to contact Spike.
Buffy makes a joke to Giles about the life span of a magic shop owner, "having the same life expectancy as a Spinal Tap drummer."
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Giles decides to buy the Magic Box, which will be a frequent setting in seasons 5–6.
Dawn is introduced and shown to have a crush on Xander, which is eventually requited in Season 8.
The first example is shown of someone "outside reality" (i.e., crazy) seeing Dawn as not human, but as a ball of energy (the Key). The crazy man says, "I know you: Curds and whey," a phrase from the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet, to which Faith (in a dream) had alluded in "Graduation Day, Part Two".
Tom Lenk guest stars in this episode as Cyrus, one of Harmony's minions. This actor plays recurring character Andrew Wells in the sixth and seventh seasons.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Writer David Fury's commentary for the episode on the season 5 DVD.
2.Jump up ^ David Fury: Developing the character of Dawn, retrieved 2007-07-18
External links[edit]
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The Replacement
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"The Replacement"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Two Xanders, played by twin brothers Nicholas Brendon (left) and Kelly Donovan (right)

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 3
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
5ABB03
Original air date
October 10, 2000
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Michael Bailey Smith as Toth
Kelly Donovan as Xander Double
Cathy Cohen as Building Manager
David Reivers as Foreman
Fritz Greve as Construction Worker

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"The Replacement" is the third episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 Cultural References
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Xander and Anya watch a movie with Buffy and Riley while listening to the background noise of Xander's drunken parents fighting and yelling upstairs. The next day, the gang looks at a prospective apartment for Xander. He doesn't think he can afford it and this upsets Anya. Giles receives a visit from a demon searching for the Slayer. He later identifies the demon as Toth, only survivor of the Tothric Clan.
The gang checks out the city dump in search of the demon and find Spike collecting. The demon hits Xander with light from a rod and knocks him to the ground. He gets to his feet and walks off with the rest of the gang, but then we see that there is another Xander still lying in a pile of trash. The next morning, one Xander awakens at the city dump and then discovers his double upon returning to his house. Spike has put together a Buffy doll from mannequin parts which he uses to practice beating up on.
One of the Xanders is very ambitious and gets a promotion at work, signs a lease for the apartment, and sets up a date with Anya. The unconfident Xander watches as all this happens and finally confronts his double. After the two Xanders see each other, the confident Xander talks to Buffy and she makes this a matter of Slayer business. Soaked by the rain, weak Xander goes to Willow and tries to explain that this double is taking over his life. He tells Willow that the double is doing a better job of living his life but then suddenly realizes that his double is going after Anya and that is one thing he won't allow.
Anya and the Xander double discuss their future and Anya expresses her fears about not living forever. Giles discovers that the rod Toth used split Xander into two real Xanders, one with weak qualities and the other with strong qualities. He intended to use the rod to split Buffy into two beings. In addition, as the two beings are real and technically one being, the death of one will kill them both. The weak Xander crashes the date between strong Xander and Anya. Both think that the other is a demon and the weak Xander pulls out a handgun he got from Anya's apartment.
Buffy tells the doubles the truth about their situation and tries to convince them not to kill each other. Toth appears at the apartment then Buffy and Riley fight and kill him. They eventually begin to get along, and their actions become so similar to each other that Giles says Xander is a "bad influence" on himself. Giles and Willow research and come up with a way to reunite the two Xanders but Anya expresses disappointment over this as she wants both to stick around for a 'sandwich' maneuver, much to the disturbance of the others. Willow ends the spell on the Xanders and makes them one again. While moving Xander into his new apartment, Xander and Riley talk. Riley confesses that despite how much he loves Buffy, he realizes that she doesn't feel the same.
Continuity[edit]
"Weak" Xander brushes off Willow's attempts to calm him down by asking how she would deal with having an evil twin. Willow responds by referencing "Doppelgangland", saying "I handled it fine."
Arc significance[edit]
While the viewpoint generally follows the "weak" Xander, the episode (like "The Zeppo") establishes that Xander is neither completely helpless nor useless. While it is first believed that "strong" Xander is using mind control to obtain the promotion and the new apartment, in fact these things were earned by Xander already.
When he goes to Willow for help, Xander is distressed about his double taking over his life. It is only towards the end of his speech, he realises that the double will try to take Anya from him. Willow points out that he has only just thought about her despite him saying that he needs her. This alludes to the fact that Xander may not be as involved in the relationship as Anya is, which foreshadows events in season 6.
Riley reveals to Xander that he knows Buffy doesn't love him back, which serves as the first solid indication of trouble in their relationship and a prelude to their break-up in the coming episodes.
When Buffy and Dawn argue, Joyce grabs her head and refers to her "two teenage girls in the house" headache, all the while looking visibly distressed. While it is implied that she is being sarcastic, this exchange is a prelude to the brain tumor she will develop, beginning in the next episode.
Cultural References[edit]
When Anya asks what to do if the spell breaking doesn't work, both Xanders respond simultaneously "Kill us both, Spock!", a reference to the line "... you must shoot both of us!" by Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode Whom Gods Destroy, in which Spock has to decide who is Kirk and who is the shape shifter.
Xander responds to Anya's question about presents, "Not unless you want my collection of Babylon 5 commemorative plates. Which you cannot have."
External links[edit]
"The Replacement" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Replacement" at TV.com
"The Replacement" at BuffyGuide.com


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Out of My Mind (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Out of My Mind"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Spike awakens after having a dream of Buffy

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 4
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
5ABB04
Original air date
October 17, 2000
Guest actors

Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Bailey Chase as Graham Miller
Charlie Weber as Ben
Time Winters as Dr. Overheiser
Dierdre Holder as Hospital Doctor

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"Out of My Mind" is the fourth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
At the cemetery, Buffy stalks her vampire prey, killing several new vampires with a little unwanted help from both Riley and Spike. Riley demonstrates quite a bit of enthusiasm and new strength while fighting, while Buffy simply orders Spike to stay out of her way. As Buffy and Riley leave, Spike swears to taste Buffy's blood, but as he walks off, he falls into an open grave. Buffy and Willow debate over a topic from class and discuss Buffy's busy schedule.
Buffy arrives at The Magic Box to train and is pleasantly surprised to see that the backroom has been transformed into an amazing training room. Harmony seeks Spike and his help because she is frightened that Buffy is out to destroy her. The two conspire to kill the Slayer. Joyce is chatting while making breakfast for Dawn, and in the midst of a sentence suddenly asks, "Who are you?" before collapsing onto the floor.[1]
At the hospital, an intern informs Buffy and Riley that Joyce will be fine, but that doctors aren't sure what caused her to collapse. Dawn is playing with a stethoscope and when she listens to Riley's heart, she finds that it is racing much faster than normal. After listening to Riley's heart, a doctor recommends that he stay in the hospital, as tachycardia puts him at high risk of a heart attack, but Riley disregards their concerns. Buffy tries to think of a way to help Riley and finally resolves to go to Riley's place and contact the Initiative via the bugs in his room.
Still part of the government, Graham tries to force Riley to see a doctor, but Riley is stronger than Graham and the other agents and gets away. After speaking with Graham later that day, Buffy takes it upon herself to get Riley to a doctor before he dies. Buffy gives Spike information about the doctor that can help Riley hoping that the vampire could help find Riley and bring him there. Instead, Spike and Harmony kidnap the doctor in order to force him to remove Spike's chip.
Buffy finds Riley in the Initiative caves, punching into rock because he can't feel any pain. He tells her that he's afraid he won't be enough for her once he lets the doctors operate on him. After convincing Riley to get medical attention, Buffy brings him to the hospital and finds Dr. Overheiser gone. Just after Overheiser finishes sewing up Spike's skull, Buffy arrives with Riley and a fight ensues. As he tries to bite the Slayer, Spike finds that the doctor only pretended to remove the chip from his head. When Riley suffers a heart attack and collapses while fighting Harmony, Buffy and the doctor immediately turn their attention to him. With the humans distracted, an enraged Spike escapes with Harmony, ranting about his disgust with Buffy and his weariness with how she is seemingly the source of everything wrong with his life.
The doctor is able to operate successfully on Riley. Later, Graham talks with Riley and tells him he no longer has a purpose in Sunnydale. Without the Initiative, he's nothing.
Afterwards, Buffy goes to Spike's crypt with the intention of staking him; however, when she confronts him, he angrily tells her to kill him. Spike angrily berates Buffy as the source of his torment, and yells that he would rather die and be free of her: however, Buffy cannot bring herself to do it and the pair kiss. Suddenly Spike wakes up beside a still sleeping Harmony; he's merely suffered a nightmare, but Spike is mortified at the thought he has feelings for Buffy.
Cultural references[edit]
When Buffy discovers the training room, she says, "You're like my fairy godmother and Santa Claus and Q all wrapped up into one... Q from Bond, not Star Trek."
Spike says, "Oh Pacey, you blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?" This is a reference to the US television show Dawson's Creek, in which the character Pacey was in an on again/off again relationship with Joey. Spike has previously shown an interest in another soap opera, Passions, when held by the Scooby Gang in Giles' apartment, as well as when Giles painfully admitted to having watched Passions with Spike out of boredom. This also foreshadows his own frustrations with his coming love for Buffy.
Buffy refers to the U.S. government as Big Brother.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Spike discovers his love for Buffy, much to his horror. Spike's feelings for Buffy will continue and develop until the end of the series.
This episode is the first to hint at Willow's preference for using magic when not strictly necessary and Tara's unease with Willow's power and attitude. This will continue to be developed until the end of the series.
Joyce has her second outward sign of a head problem (she was troubled by a headache in the previous episode, which she attributed merely to Buffy and Dawn fighting), which produces another instance of someone with distorted perception being able to tell that Dawn was not originally human.
This is the first time Riley verbally conveys to Buffy he feels he's not enough for her. Other times this is visible include his confrontation with Angel in The Yoko Factor, his reaction to Buffy's attraction to Dracula in Buffy vs. Dracula and his subsequent visits to a vampire brothel in Shadow and Into the Woods.
Dawn empties a box of cereal so that she can find the cereal box prize. Joyce says, "You want the cereal prize, but you don't want the cereal. You are growing up." This signifies that Dawn is increasingly becoming more human.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Kirshner, Rebecca Rand (October 2000). "Buffy Episode #82: "Out of My Mind" Transcript". BuffyWorld. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
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No Place Like Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"No Place Like Home"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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During her trance, Dawn's flickering image in a photograph makes Buffy believe she is the cause of their mother's health problems

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 5
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
5ABB05
Original air date
October 24, 2000
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Ravil Isyanov as Monk
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
James Wellington as Night Watchman
Paul Hayes as Older Night Watchman
Staci Lawrence as Customer
John Sarkisian as Old Monk

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"No Place Like Home" is the fifth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Ratings
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Two months ago, several monks, speaking Czech, rushed to perform a ritual while a powerful force of some sort threatened their lives. In the present, Buffy stakes a vampire outside an abandoned building, and then gets caught by the night watchman, who thinks she's a teen looking for a rave. As she turns to leave, he tells her not to forget her glow-ball, an effulgent orb which Buffy doesn't recognize but takes to investigate.
Buffy makes breakfast for her mom, who is still suffering from headaches that the doctors can't explain. Dawn takes credit for the breakfast, telling Joyce that Buffy only helped. Joyce and Dawn bond (Joyce calling Dawn "my little pumpkin belly"), which leaves Buffy feeling like an outsider.
Giles' big opening at The Magic Box is less than successful at first, but eventually, the magic shop gets to be so popular that he can't handle it all on his own. Buffy presents the orb to Giles, but Giles can't explain it right away, though he recognizes it as paranormal in origin because "it's so shiny."
While picking up a prescription for her mother at the hospital, Buffy encounters the night watchman again as he's being strapped down to a gurney. He's less than stable, but he manages to warn Buffy that she will be attacked through her family.
A monk works on a blueprint in an empty building just as The Beast smashes through a large steel door, revealing itself to be a supernatural blond female. The Beast ties him up and tortures him for information about "the Key," but he won't tell her anything. She starts to speak crazily until she puts her fingers to the head of a security guard and seems to suck the life force from him.
Buffy assumes that the danger she was warned about is what is causing her mother's headaches. Anya recommends to Buffy that she perform a spell to reveal any spells that may be affecting her family. Buffy doesn't want Riley to feel unwanted, so she offers to let him help her with the spell. He realizes what she's doing, then they talk and agree to take care of each other.
Buffy performs the ritual in her bedroom then walks around her house to look for anything unusual. Nothing appears weird about her mother, but Buffy sees Dawn's image flashing in and out of pictures around the house. When she enters Dawn's room, Buffy sees Dawn's possessions, bed, desk, and decorations also fading in and out, as well as Dawn herself. Buffy confronts Dawn about it, and she concludes that Dawn isn't her sister. Buffy physically assaults and threatens Dawn, telling her to stay away from their mother, but Buffy's supposed little sister appears truly confused and doesn't understand Buffy's sudden change in attitude.
Giles calls to tell Buffy about the orb, a Dagon Sphere, and its purpose of protection from an unnamed evil. Buffy returns to the abandoned building in hopes of finding more information. Buffy encounters Spike lurking outside her home and demands to know what he was doing there. Spike gives a rather poor and unsatisfying explanation ("Out for a walk... bitch"), though Buffy nonetheless decides to let him off with a warning, to which Spike gets frustrated and launches a bizarre rant against her before departing, leaving Buffy puzzled. Looking down, Buffy notes a small pile of Spike's discarded cigarette butts; he must have been loitering there for several hours. Shaking her head, she proceeds to return to the warehouse as Dawn watches the whole exchange from the window.
Buffy comes up against the Beast, who quickly proves to be too strong for Buffy to handle. After taking quite a beating, Buffy is able to escape with the monk. The Beast throws a tantrum, causing the room to collapse on her, which delays her pursuit. Back at The Magic Box, Giles offers Anya a job when he realizes that the job is too much for just one, and that she enjoys handling the money.
In his last moments of life, the monk warns Buffy that she must protect the key. He tells her that the key is a collection of energy put into a human form, Dawn's form. They sent her to the Slayer to be protected from those looking for it. Before he dies, he tells her that her memories of Dawn were constructed, and that Dawn is now an innocent human who not only needs the protection of the Slayer, but also the love of a sister. When Buffy returns home, she apologizes to Dawn, and the two girls are able to relate on at least one subject - their concern for their mother.
Cultural references[edit]
While Buffy prepares breakfast for Joyce, Dawn says, "Who died and made you the Iron Chef?"[1]
Buffy orders Joyce, "I want you to relax all day, keep your feet up, plenty of Oprah."
Ratings[edit]
The original run of "No Place Like Home" attracted 6.4 million viewers, the highest rated episode of the season.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode begins the main story arc of the season, revealing the truth about Dawn and introducing Glory as "That Which Cannot Be Named" and "The Abomination."[2]
Ben appears for the second time.
Anya is hired at the Magic Box by Giles, a job she will keep until the end of season 6.
This is the first time Spike sees Buffy after his realisation that he loves her. It is also the first of two occasions when she calls him 'William'. The second and last is during season 6, when she ends their sexual relationship.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Petrie, Doug (October 2000). "Buffy Episode #83: "No Place Like Home" Transcript". BuffyWorld. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy matters: the art of Buffy the vampire slayer
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"Family"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Willow and Tara use their powers to levitate off the dance floor

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 6
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Featured music
"I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Melanie Doane
Production code
5ABB06
Original air date
November 7, 2000
Guest actors

Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Amy Adams as Cousin Beth
Steve Rankin as Mr. Maclay
Ezra Buzzington as Bartender
Peggy Goss as Crazy Person
Torry Pendergrass as Demon
Megan Gray as Sandy
Kevin Rankin as Donny Maclay
Brian Tee as Intern

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"Family" is the sixth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and is the only episode of the series to feature the character of Tara Maclay as the central figure of the narrative. This episode is also one of early acting works of multiple Academy Awards nominee Amy Adams.


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2 Continuity
3 References
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Plot synopsis[edit]
The episode begins on the same night that previous episode ended. In Willow's dorm room, she and Tara enjoying each other's company: Tara tells Willow a story about a kitten, and then joins her in bed for a snuggle.
The same night, Buffy tells Giles the information that she discovered at the factory: that Dawn is the key, and that Glory is hell-bent on finding her. They decide to protect Dawn without telling others about it. Meanwhile, Glory easily frees herself from the collapsed factory rubble.
At the hospital, Ben enters the locker room. A moment later, Glory is there and captures a Lei-Ach demon, who tells her that Buffy is the Slayer. Glory sends it and its friends to kill her.
Buffy decides to leave on-campus accommodation and move back to the Summers house to be closer to her ailing mother. The gang assists with packing boxes, and Willow reminds everyone about Tara's upcoming 20th birthday. Later at the magic shop, Buffy and Xander struggle to come up with ideas for presents for Tara, coming to the realisation that they don't really know her very well. They similarly struggle to find information on Glory, since Buffy's best description that she is "kind of like Cordelia" proves too vague to be of use.
A young man comes into the Magic Box and disparages magic. He reveals himself as Tara's big brother, Donny, who has come to town with Tara's father and her cousin Beth for Tara's birthday. While Tara is clearly not thrilled at their presence, she agrees to have dinner with her family that evening.
Tara returns to her room to find her father there. He expresses disappointment that she has not quit magic and berates her for being out of reach for months. He reminds her (and reveals to the audience) that all women in the family show their demon selves after their 20th birthday, which is why her family has come for her. After he leaves, Willow returns and wants to repeat the demon location spell that Tara had secretly sabotaged previously. Tara fakes fatigue, so Willow returns to the magic shop. Tara secretly follows her and, from hiding, casts a spell to prevent her friends from seeing demonic manifestations of evil.
Meanwhile, Riley is drinking alone in Willy's old demon bar after another argument with Buffy about her isolationism. Sandy hits on him, but he recognizes her as a vampire.
In his crypt, Harmony tells Spike that the Lei-Ach demons have been summoned to kill Buffy. Spike, who had earlier been fantasizing about fighting Buffy while having sex with Harmony, leaves to help, although he tells Harmony that he is going to watch and enjoy her death.
Beth finds Tara, and derides her for being "selfish", leaving her father and brother to "do for themselves". Beth realizes that Tara has cast a spell on her friends, then leaves to find Tara's father to inform him what his daughter has done.
Three Lei-Ach demons arrive to attack Buffy, but because of Tara's spell they are invisible to the gang. They search for the Slayer and attack everyone in their path. Giles hides Dawn under a desk. Only Buffy manages to put up a decent fight. Spike arrives and fights one of the Lei-Achs, although being demon himself his entire scuffle is unseen by Buffy. Tara arrives, realizes her spell has gone awry, and breaks it. The demons can again be seen, and are quickly beaten.
Tara's family arrives. Her father explains that, because of demonic heritage, all of the women in their family turn evil when they become adults. Willow is visibly hurt that Tara has hidden this from her, and Tara tries to re-affirm her love for Willow. When Tara's family insists on taking her away against her wishes, all her friends make it clear they will fight to defend her, declaring that while the Maclays may be her blood kin, her friends are her real family.
Anya then asks Beth and Tara's father what kind of demon Tara is. Their refusal to give a straight answer arouses Spike's suspicion, so he punches Tara in the nose, activating Spike's chip and proving that Tara is, in fact, human. Spike concludes that the legend of the Maclay women assuming their demonic heritages upon adulthood is just an old family myth maintained by the Maclay males to keep their women frightened and subordinate to them. Bolstered by the knowledge that she is fully human, Tara declares she will stay with her new family, and confidently tells her relatives to leave, which they do after a slight hesitation.
Riley arrives at the birthday party and kisses Buffy. Tara opens cheesy witch-related birthday presents from the gang, and everybody mingles. Tara and Willow embrace on the dance floor and begin to levitate.
Continuity[edit]
Sandy, the vampire Riley was talking to in Willy's Place, was the girl Vampire Willow bit in Season Three's "Doppelgangland".[1]
It becomes clear why Tara botched the attempted "detection spell" in Season Four.[1]
Spike's crush for Buffy intensifies.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c BBC episode guide
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Fool for Love (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Fool for Love"
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Spike in New York, circa 1977, after killing his second Slayer

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 7
Directed by
Nick Marck
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
5ABB07
Original air date
November 14, 2000
Guest actors

David Boreanaz as Angelus
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Julie Benz as Darla
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Kali Rocha as Cecily Addams
Edward Fletcher as Male Partygoer
Katharine Leonard as Female Partygoer
Matthew Lang as 2nd Male Partygoer
Chris Daniels as Stabbing Vampire
Kenneth Feinberg as Chaos Demon
Steve Heinze as Vampire #1
Ming Liu as Chinese Slayer
April Wheedon-Washington as Nikki Wood

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"Fool for Love" is episode 7 of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is a companion to the Angel episode "Darla", which first aired later the same night on The WB network; both episodes include multiple flashbacks to the history of Spike and Darla, shown from their respective viewpoints.
After a common vampire nearly kills her with her own stake, Buffy turns to Spike to learn how other Slayers met their end so as not to make further mistakes.


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2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity violation
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy receives a serious stab wound while fighting a run-of-the-mill vampire at the cemetery; she is saved only by the unexpected arrival of Riley. Despite his encouragement that she is not losing her edge, Buffy wants to research ways to avoid making more mistakes. She and Giles start looking in the Watcher diaries for information about past Slayers' deaths, but Giles tells her there won't be much in them because the Watchers usually also died or found it too painful to recount the incidents. Buffy then remembers they have another witness to Slayers' final battles: Spike.
Buffy drags Spike from his crypt, takes him to the Bronze and pays him to tell her about his battles with the two Slayers that he killed. He starts out by describing how he was turned in 1880 London, revealing (to the audience, if not entirely to Buffy) that he was the meek poet William, ridiculed by his peers and rejected by the love of his life Cecily, who declared him "beneath her," before Drusilla sired him and took him with her to travel Europe with her sire Angelus (Angel sans soul) and his sire/paramour Darla. Spike further describes how, mere months later, he became far more assertive, already using his new name "Spike," speaking in a more forceful, working class accent, and preying upon innocents not for sustenance but for fun, calling too much attention to the group as far as Angelus was concerned. Angelus preferred meticulous, artistic kills, and Spike's love of brawls and riots required them to flee London. Spike mocked Angelus' attitude, and the older vampire lost control, almost staking him, but Spike only laughed at having provoked Angelus to such an extent. Infuriated, Angelus remarked that maybe one day an angry crowd would teach Spike the folly of his excesses, adding "That...or the Slayer," a comment which instantly intrigued Spike. In the present, Spike reveals that, upon learning of the Slayer, he became obsessed with her; unlike other vampires, who feared the Slayer, Spike actively sought her out, craving the challenge she would provide.
Meanwhile, Riley, Xander, Willow and Anya take over Buffy's patrol. Riley is very methodical, but the rest of the Scoobies are rather lax about the process. They do discover a nest of vampires, including the one that injured Buffy. They make plans to destroy it the next day when the vampires won't be active.
Back at the Bronze, Spike tells of killing the Chinese Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, defeating her after a long and brutal fight, describing her as "all business" and getting nostalgic about how Drusilla was excited afterward, calling the event "the best night of my life" (much to Buffy's disgust). Spike also points out that while the Slayer can kill thousands of demons and vampires, all it takes to kill her is for one of them to get lucky.
Riley, rather than waiting for daylight, goes back to the vampire lair at night, stakes the vampire who wounded Buffy and then firebombs the crypt, killing the others.
Spike's reminiscences continue as he discusses his second Slayer kill (Nikki Wood), whom he describes as more improvisational like Buffy, and whom he killed on a New York City subway about 1977. After he finishes, he reveals that he won by exploiting the Slayers' curiosity about – and wish for – death, further claiming that every Slayer has a death wish, including Buffy herself. Buffy rejects his conclusion and becomes angry and disgusted when Spike comes on to her, challenging her to prove him wrong. Knocking him to the ground, Buffy, echoing Cecily, contemptuously informs Spike that he is "beneath her" before walking away. Spike's feelings of sadness and humiliation, which cause him to briefly succumb to tears, are quickly overtaken by anger and frustration. He arms himself with a double-barreled shotgun at his crypt, determined to kill Buffy for this insult.
When she gets home, her mother reveals that she needs to go into the hospital for some more tests, and that her condition may be serious. Unable to bear this information, Buffy retreats to the back porch in tears. At that moment, Spike approaches with his shotgun, but Buffy's distraught state changes his mind and he attempts to comfort her instead. He takes a seat next to her and gently pats her on the back, an action that Buffy does not rebuff, though her shock is clear.
Continuity[edit]
It is learned that Spike has been in love with Buffy since they teamed up to save the world in "Becoming, Part Two", but he only realises his feelings for her in "Out of My Mind".
The poem snatched from William's hands and read out loud (to public ridicule) is a portion of the same poem that Spike later reads (in its complete form) at the open-mic event in the series finale of Angel "Not Fade Away."
According to the comic Spike: Old Times, Cecily was already Halfrek, a vengeance demon (and longtime friend of Anya), at the time of her meeting with William, and subsequently massacred the room of people who had laughed at his poetic efforts. Actress Kali Rocha played both Cecily and later Halfrek.
As a vampire, William adopted the name Spike; Giles believed that both the nickname and his former title as "William the Bloody" derived from his practice of torturing people with railroad spikes. This episode reveals the true origin of these nicknames: one listener to William's poem in the flashback comments that he would rather have a railroad spike driven through his head than listen to any of William's poetry, and notes that William is referred to as "William the Bloody" because of his "bloody" awful poetry. Regardless of the comical origins of his name, it is implied that Spike may have literally acted upon the violent allusions as revenge once he became a vampire.
It is revealed that Spike got the scar over his left eye (which actor James Marsters actually got when he was mugged in New York) in the sword-fight with the Chinese slayer. As the weapon was mystical, the wound never healed. He took his signature leather coat from Nikki Wood after killing her in New York.
It is revealed in the Angel episode "Darla" that Angel had already regained his soul when Spike killed the Chinese slayer.
The scene in South America is in reference to the Season 3 Episode "Lovers Walk." When Spike is drunkenly confiding in Willow, he mentions he caught Drusilla making out with a Chaos Demon. The Chaos Demon, matching Spike's description in "Lovers Walk", is in the middle of the argument between Spike and Drusilla.
This is the only episode of either Buffy or Angel in which Angel / Angelus appears in flashbacks but not in any present day scenes.
Along with "Becoming, Part One", "Darla" and "The Girl in Question", this is one of only four Buffyverse episodes in which all four members of the Whirlwind (Angel, Spike, Darla and Drusilla) appear.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Angel: This episode consists largely of flashbacks from Spike's viewpoint. Some of the same events recounted are seen from Darla's viewpoint in "Darla", first aired later the same night.
This marks the first reappearance of Angelus in Buffy since "Amends" and his final appearance on the series overall.
The actress playing Cecily, Kali Rocha, will return in several future episodes as the vengeance demon Halfrek.
This is the first time that Spike shows real affection and caring towards Buffy on the series; a foreshadowing of his joining the "good" side later on.
The second Slayer Spike kills, Nikki Wood, has a son named Robin, who later appears as Sunnydale High's new principal in the seventh season. In "Lies My Parents Told Me", Robin is seen as a child witness to an earlier fight between Spike and his mother, as well as trying to get his revenge on Spike in the present day for his mother's death.
Spike tells Buffy that every slayer has a death wish and that she has it too, that she craves it. This foreshadows her choice to sacrifice her own life at the end of the season.
This episode marks the final appearance of Darla (Julie Benz) on the series.
Continuity violation[edit]
This episode shows Drusilla siring Spike, apparently contradicting the third episode of season two, "School Hard", in which Spike calls Angel his sire. Joss Whedon later verified that any vampire in a line can be referred to as a sire. The Master sired Darla, who sired Angel, who sired Drusilla, who sired Spike – forming a "familial" line. In "Destiny," Spike clarifies that, although it was Drusilla who made him a vampire, it was under Angel's tutelage that he became a monster, making him Spike's "sire" in the capacity of a mentor role (he refers to Angel as his 'Yoda'- a Star Wars character who generally served as more of an advisory/mentor role as well).
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Shadow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Shadow"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Joyce about to receive her CAT scan

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 8
Directed by
Dan Attias
Written by
David Fury
Production code
5ABB08
Original air date
November 21, 2000
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Kevin Weisman as Dreg
William Forward as Dr. Isaacs
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Megan Gray as Sandy

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"Shadow" is the eighth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Joyce gets a CAT scan at the hospital while Buffy and Dawn wait impatiently for news. Dawn asks Buffy why it is called a "CAT Scan" (do they test it on cats, or does the machine look like a cat?). Back at The Magic Box, Giles and Tara admire the new phone book advertisement for the magic shop while Anya is disappointed that she is not personally mentioned. Xander complains about Riley destroying the vampire crypt alone in the previous episode, and then the entire gang continues their search for information regarding the Beast. Giles agrees that it was reckless on Riley's part, while Anya expresses relief that the task was already completed, because she really hadn't wanted to start her day off with a slaughter (which, she notes, "just goes to show how much I've grown!").
In Glory's luxurious headquarters, a demon named Dreg offers a spell to Glory, groveling before her as she tries on elegant shoes, debating on whether they make her ankles look bony. Dreg promises that this spell will allow Glory to find the Key. She just needs some supplies, and she finds the advertisement for The Magic Box in the new phone book.
Riley finds the front door to Buffy's house open, a blanket on the steps, and Spike in Buffy's room, sniffing her clothes. Spike declares that Buffy wouldn't care that he was in her room, and that the clothes-sniffing was just normal predator activity. Riley responds, "Yeah, what's a little sweater-sniffing between sworn enemies?" And drags him out and down the stairs, but not before Spike grabs a pair of Buffy's underwear. Spike taunts Riley with his knowledge about Buffy's mother going to the hospital (which Buffy had failed to mention to Riley), as well as the time he and Buffy had spent together the previous evening eating, drinking, and talking. Spike insinuates Riley cannot keep Buffy satisfied, and Riley tells him to stay away from Buffy and throws him out into the sunlight, with his blanket. Riley shows up at the hospital to comfort Buffy, who seems relieved to see him. She directs him to sit with Dawn in the waiting room while she talks to their mother. Joyce confesses to Buffy that the doctors have found a "shadow" in her CAT scan, and they need to do an initial operation to evaluate her condition, and to discover whether surgery is an option.
At the Magic Box, the Scoobies continue to search for information that might indicate the origins, purpose, or weaknesses of Glory. Tara suggests that maybe the Beast is something that is too old for the books, which Giles believes may explain the presence of the Dagon Sphere, which is to ward against that "which cannot be named." They discuss the possibility that Glory may predate language itself, when she herself shows up there and buys several items for a spell. The gang is, of course, oblivious to her true identity, and she leaves the store without incident. Back at the hospital, the doctor tells Buffy her mother has a brain tumor and presents her with her mother's options. Ben, an intern, gets the doctor away from Buffy, giving her a break from the doctor's constant questions.
Riley takes Dawn to the park, where he tries to comfort her about her mother. Dawn tries to make Riley feel good by positively comparing him to Buffy's former boyfriend Angel, but unintentionally makes him feel worse: she relates that she thinks Riley is good for Buffy because Buffy was always in tears over her tumultuous relationship with Angel, but that she never cries over Riley - she never "gets that worked up" over him. The impact of this revelation is evident in his face - this is yet another way that he can see that Buffy has kept him at an emotional distance and that she feels no intensity in their relationship.
Back at the Magic Shop, Buffy talks with the gang about the possibility of helping her mother through the use of magics. However, while Willow expresses willingness to help if she can, Tara and Giles both insist that the magical and the medical are not meant to mix, and that any attempts they made to help Joyce would likely only make things worse. They encourage her to put her faith in the doctors. Anya sorts through receipts and realizes that Glory had been to the shop, and Giles had sold her items that allows her to perform an ancient transmogrification spell. Buffy takes off in search of Glory, despite the concerns of Giles and her friends that Glory will merely overpower her again.
At the Sunnydale Zoo, Glory steals a cobra and performs the spell with Dreg. Buffy arrives to stop her, temporarily interrupting the spell, but instead gets beaten up badly again. The cobra is transformed into a giant cobra monster with arms, and Glory sends the demon on a mission to locate the Key.
Riley arrives at the magic shop in search of Buffy, but Xander confronts him about destroying the vampire crypt. The gang tells Riley that Buffy went after Glory, and he demands to know why they would let her do something so dangerous. Giles reminds Riley that "let" is not an issue when Buffy sets her mind to something. Xander tells Riley that Buffy is so upset about the situation with her mom that she needs something tangible to fight, and then asks Riley what his excuse is for his own reckless actions. Buffy calls Giles from the hospital and tells him to take care of Dawn while she stays with her mother. She stays with her mother as the doctor tells her more bad news about Joyce's condition - she has a brain tumor, and they don't know yet if it is operable or not. Riley returns to Willy's bar to drink away his worries and again encounters the vampire Sandy. He allows her to bite him in the alley, but stakes her.
The cobra demon arrives at the magic shop and goes after Dawn. Dawn screams in fear and the cobra retreats. Realising that the cobra knows Dawn is the Key and is returning to inform Glory, Giles and Buffy go after the demon. Buffy catches up with it in a field near Glory's apartment and kills it, then lets out her pent-up frustration from her time at the hospital by continuing to beat up the lifeless cobra. Glory watches from a window, frustrated that her snake monster has failed to return in a timely manner. Joyce tells Dawn the truth about her health. Riley is there to comfort Buffy (wearing a turtleneck to hide his bite marks) but she refuses to accept comfort from him - she insists that she needs to stay strong for her family, refusing to cry. Joyce calls for Buffy and she turns and walks away, oblivious to his attempt to caress her face. Riley is left standing alone in the hallway, becoming increasingly frustrated with Buffy's inability or unwillingness to develop an emotional closeness with him, and to let herself be vulnerable around him.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
When asked his opinion on the computer-generated snake used in this episode, writer David Fury says he was originally envisioning it as something "amorphous, bug-like, something non-human looking"; it was Marti Noxon who came up with the idea of using a reptile. From that idea, Noxon proposed that Buffy find it hiding in a reptile house.[1]
Continuity[edit]
This episode sees the death of Sandy - the girl whom "Evil Willow" turned into a vampire in season three's "Doppelgangland".
When discussing the demon Glory can now summon, Xander exclaims "Just once I'd like a bunny worshiping cult." To which Anya replies "That's great! Thanks for giving me those nightmares!" This is another example of Anya's irrational fear of bunnies.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces the tumor that leads to Joyce's surgery, complications of which lead to her death in "The Body".
Riley's "obsession" with giving his blood to vampires would ultimately lead up to his departure from the main cast two episodes later in "Into the Woods".
Glory's position as this season's Big Bad is further cemented. The episode also reveals her immense age, older than written word itself, and the fact that she is in fact nameless, with "Glory" being one of her many titles.
This episode cements Tara's usefulness to the "Scooby Gang." After a while with no real contribution to any of the strategems and plans (she even describes herself and Dawn as "non-Scoobies" in "Real Me"), she makes a breakthrough by suggesting the futility of researching Glory, since she pre-dates the written word.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ David Fury: Shadow, retrieved 2007-07-18
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Listening to Fear
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"Listening to Fear"
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Joyce's point of view of her daughters and their friends as she is wheeled off to surgery

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 9
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
5ABB09
Original air date
November 28, 2000
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Charlie Weber as Ben
Nick Chinlund as Major Ellis
Kevin Weisman as Dreg
Randy Thompson as Dr. Kriegel
Paul Hayes as Older Night Watchman
Keith Allen as Skinny Mental Patient
Erin Leigh Price as Vampire Chick
April Adams as Nurse Lambkin
Barbara C. Adside as Creature
Debbie Lee Carrington as Creature 2

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"Listening to Fear" is the ninth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The Summers women are at the hospital when the doctor informs Joyce she'll have surgery in two days. The rest of the gang does their best to patrol and rid Sunnydale of a few more un-dead residents, emphatic that they will not bother Buffy while she is dealing with her mom's health. Meanwhile, Riley allows another female vampire to feed from him; he does not stake this one. The next day, Willow brings gifts to Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn in hopes of cheering them up. She brings Joyce a beer helmet, Dawn a book on the history of spells, and Buffy a history book and a yo-yo. With the brain tumor, Joyce has unusual outbursts, and the girls decide to let Joyce rest. On the way out, a mental patient sees Dawn and insists that there is nothing inside her.
Willow and Tara camp out on the roof of a building and watch the stars. Willow points out constellations to Tara, who points out several that she has made up. They cuddle and invent new star constellations when they see a large object streaking through the sky and crashing down in Sunnydale. They investigate the crash site and decide to contact the other Scoobies. The crazy man that spoke to Dawn, who has been released from the hospital, is walking through the forest when a creature attacks him and kills him.
At the hospital, the creature climbs along the ceiling, undetected. Buffy and Joyce talk the doctor into letting a highly agitated Joyce go home until her operation much to the non-recommendation of the doctor who enlightens Buffy that she will probably not get much sleep taking care of her mother. Buffy informs him that she isn't much of a sleeper anyway.
The gang finds the location of the crash and a hollowed-out shell, which was apparently used as a vehicle by a creature from space. They spread out the search and find the dead body of the mental patient. The Scooby Gang leaves to do research, and Riley stays behind to investigate the scene. He calls Graham for military reinforcements, and advises the soldiers how to deal with the situation when they arrive. They decide to try to track the creature from its residues of trace radiation.
At the hospital, a mental patient is attacked by the demon. Buffy's mom continues to act strangely and say things she doesn't mean to say. Dawn is hurt when Joyce calls her a "thing", but Buffy comforts her and tells her to ignore the things that people say when they are crazy. She tries to explain that when people are crazy, they think that nothing except themselves are real.
Through research, the gang finds that the creature is a Queller demon, and that it is periodically summoned to rid the world of plagues of crazy people. At the Summers' home, Buffy and Dawn put their mother, whose mental clarity continues to deteriorate, to bed. Dawn listens from her bedroom as Joyce babbles loudly. At first, she appears to be talking to the ceiling; however, it is soon revealed that she is talking to the Queller demon, which is watching her from the ceiling. Dawn tries to ignore the babble, and Buffy, who is downstairs washing dishes, turns on loud music and begins to sob. In Joyce's room, the demon falls from the ceiling and spits a thick layer of slime onto Joyce's face. Dawn hears the commotion and runs to check on her mother. When she sees the demon attacking her mother, she comes to the rescue, knocking it onto the floor with a coat rack. It flees from the room, and Dawn slams all the doors and screams for Buffy. Buffy runs upstairs to check on her mother and sister. They tell her about the demon, and she chases it downstairs where she finds Spike coming out of her basement. He asks her if she heard a noise, and she notices that he has been stealing pictures of her, but the demon attacks before she has a chance to berate him. Together, they fight off the demon, and Buffy ultimately kills it with a butcher knife while wrestling with it on the floor. Spike walks over and offers his hand to help her up. He pulls her to her feet, and their hands remain connected as Riley bursts through the door with the soldiers. Spike informed Riley that he had missed quite a show, making sure that Riley understood that Spike had been there to help.
Back at the hospital, Ben gets into his car to find that Dreg, Glory's demon minion, is waiting in the backseat. It is revealed that Ben is the one who summoned the Queller, in order to reduce the growing number of crazy people left from Glory's "brain sucking". Meanwhile Joyce, because of her brief experience as an insane person, has realized the truth about Dawn, which Buffy confirms for her. Joyce insists that Dawn is nevertheless her daughter and urges Buffy to take care of Dawn in case anything goes wrong during the operation. While her daughters and the rest of the Scooby Gang watch on, Joyce is wheeled off to surgery.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
More instances of someone "outside reality" noting that Dawn is, in reality, not a "true person", including Joyce (whose semblance of sanity has been hit hard due to her brain tumor).
As a result of the above, Joyce is let in on the secret of Dawn's true nature as the Key.
Joyce goes into the surgery for the tumor. Her death will ultimately be caused by a complication from this surgery.
It is revealed in this episode that Ben knows about Glory and has some sort of connection to her.
Another instance in which Spike displays his growing affection for Buffy.
External links[edit]
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Into the Woods (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Into the Woods"
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Riley leaves Sunnydale thinking Buffy didn't try to stop him. Marc Blucas' final appearance as a series regular.

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 10
Directed by
Marti Noxon
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5ABB10
Original air date
December 19, 2000
Guest actors

Bailey Chase as Graham Miller
Nick Chinlund as Major Ellis
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Randy Thompson as Dr. Kriegel
Rainy Jo Stout as Junkie Vampire Girl
Emmanuel Xuereb as Whip
Adam G. as Tough Vamp

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"Into the Woods" is the tenth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spike leads Buffy to see that Riley goes to a vampiric brothel, where humans pay vampires to suck their blood. When she confronts Riley about it, he decides to take the military up on an offer to join a demon-hunting unit, and leaves Buffy and Sunnydale.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Dedication
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
At the hospital, the Scooby Gang awaits news from the doctor about Joyce's surgery, and they are all relieved when the surgery is a success. Dawn spends the night with Xander and Anya so that Buffy and Riley can have some private time. With the house to themselves, Buffy and Riley spend a romantic evening together. In the middle of the night, Riley sneaks out of the house. Spike, having been on his nightly vigil, secretly follows Riley to an old building.
Buffy spends the day with her mother in the hospital discussing Joyce's wig options and Buffy's relationship with Riley. Spike wakes Buffy from sleep that night to show her what Riley has been doing. Buffy is shocked to find him in the arms of a female vampire, being fed upon. Graham has persuaded his commanding officer to seek Riley's help in destroying demons for the military. They offer Riley a position in the military's new anti-demon organization, assuring him that their group is nothing like the Initiative and they exist only to destroy demons, not study them.
Buffy and the gang go after the nest of vampires only to find the building empty. Buffy sets the building on fire, leaving her friends in the dark about what's truly bothering her. Riley is furious that Spike allowed Buffy to see the truth and after throwing the vampire around a bit, he stakes him. Fortunately for Spike, the stake is plastic and Riley's actions were only a warning. Spike maintains that Riley has no future with Buffy, and the two rivals eventually share a drink, discussing how they both love her, but she doesn't seem to return the feeling for either of them. Spike tells Riley that he is generally jealous of his position of intimacy with Buffy, although sometimes he wonders if Riley's situation is worse, being so close to Buffy while not actually having her. However, he ultimately declares that Riley has the better deal. Riley asks Spike if he really thinks he has a shot with Buffy. Spike responds in the negative, but says that a fellow's got to try - he's got to do what he can.
Buffy releases her aggressions on a punching bag in the training room until Riley shows up determined to talk to her. He tells her he started his late-night vamp activities because he wanted to know what Buffy felt when she was bitten by Dracula. Riley tells her that the vampires needed him and Buffy didn't. After Buffy tells him that she's given him everything she has, Riley says he doesn't believe her and tells her about the offer to return to the military, and that he is going to leave unless she can convince him not to.
The vampires from the nest surround a distraught Buffy as she's leaving the shop. She stakes all eight of them in record time, including the vampire who had been seen drinking from Riley. Xander witnesses the slaying and confronts Buffy, telling her he thinks that Riley has given her everything, and risked everything for her, and accuses her of treating Riley as a rebound guy and of expecting him to be 'convenient' after Angel's departure from Sunnydale. She points out that Xander himself treats Anya as a mere convenience, but Xander pursues his point, telling her that her relationship with Riley is the kind that comes around once in a lifetime, and that she has to decide if she's really willing to lose him for good. Buffy takes off, but although she runs as fast as she can, is unable to get to the airport in time to stop Riley from leaving. The helicopter flies away with Buffy on the landing pad, calling after Riley. He stares in the other direction, leaving without knowing that she had tried to reach him.
After his talk with Buffy, Xander realizes that he needs to tell Anya how much he loves her and he does. Still shocked, Buffy returns home while Riley leaves Sunnydale, not looking back.
Production details[edit]
This was the first Buffy episode directed by executive producer Marti Noxon. Of the experience, she says "It was thrilling and it was terrifying. I thought I was going to bolt the whole time."[1]
Writing[edit]
When asked why they chose to have Riley leave Sunnydale, Joss Whedon says he tried to give Buffy a healthy relationship, but "people didn't want it. They did some great work together. But at the same time, when they were happy, it made people crazy."[2] Marti Noxon adds, "Sunnydale romance just rarely goes well. Buffy with a boyfriend is not as interesting as Buffy in some kind of romantic strife. Riley, by his nature, was such a good and constant character that we were at risk of things getting a little dull."[3]
Dedication[edit]
This episode is dedicated to D.C. Gustafson, a member of the series' art department, who died on November 4, 2000. He was a close friend of Sarah Michelle Gellar.[4]
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks both the end of Buffy and Riley's relationship and Riley's last appearance as a series regular. He reappears in the Season Six episode "As You Were" and again in the Season Eight comic "Time of Your Life" as a minion of Twilight.
Last appearance of Graham Miller (Bailey Chase).
Xander and Anya's relationship is cemented as something more than just a high school romance.
This episode depicts a vampire variation of a crack house, in which humans allow vampires to partially feed upon them in exchange for the "high" the experience provides humans; Sunnydale's seamier side would receive more attention in the form of magic drug dealer Rack and his operations in Season Six. An even more extreme version is seen in Los Angeles in "Release", where humans get "high" on drugs and then allow vampires to partially feed upon them, heightening the effect for both humans and vampires.
The banner Giles hangs above the counter of the Magic Box reads: "Don't Forget Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa & Gurnenthar's Ascendance Are Coming!"
Every boy that has loved Buffy and has known about her slayer heritage has asked Buffy to hit them, the first was Angel in season 2 after he turned in "Innocence", the second was Spike when Buffy wanted information about the two slayers he killed previously in the season 5 episode "Fool for Love" and the third was in this episode when Riley tells Buffy the vampires needed him. It has been said to Buffy before but only in Spike's dream in "Out of My Mind" and "Family", though in "Family" Spike is only imagining fighting Buffy whilst having sex with Harmony and words gets mixed up by Harmony saying "I'm coming right now" and Buffy in the dream saying "I'm coming right now."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Marti Noxon Online Chat: A change of direction, retrieved 2007-07-18
2.Jump up ^ Miller, Laura (May 20, 2003), The man behind the Slayer, retrieved 2007-07-17
3.Jump up ^ Marti Noxon Online Chat: A change of direction, retrieved 2007-07-18
4.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348976/
External links[edit]
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"Into the Woods" at BuffyGuide.com


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Triangle (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Triangle"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 11
Directed by
Christopher Hibler
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
5ABB11
Original air date
January 9, 2001
Guest actors

Abraham Benrubi as Olaf the Troll
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Ranjani Brow as Young Nun

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"Triangle" is the eleventh episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Giles visits England, leaving Anya in charge of the Magic Box. Willow accidentally unleashes a troll, who used to be Anya's boyfriend. Eventually, Anya and Willow manage to send him to the land of trolls, not before he wreaks havoc at the Bronze. Throughout the episode, Anya and Willow fight over Xander.


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2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
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Plot synopsis[edit]
Xander and Anya lie in bed together and talk about Buffy's bad luck with men. They wonder if Buffy might be the problem. At a convent, Buffy protects a young nun from a vampire then asks questions about the life of a nun.
Buffy trains while talking to Giles about his plans to ask the Watchers' Council for help with Glory. While Giles prepares for a trip to England, he leaves the shop in the hands of Anya and Willow, whose constant bickering worries Giles and places Xander and Tara in uncomfortable positions.
Dawn notices that Buffy has removed all the pictures of Riley from her room. Buffy and Dawn talk about how Buffy is recuperating after Riley's departure. Dawn tries to be supportive, and Buffy appreciates her efforts and discusses her emotions openly with her sister. Dawn expresses sadness that Riley left so suddenly, and Buffy admits that everyone except Buffy had seen it come on gradually. Dawn seems surprised, and Buffy mentions her hope that Riley might return one day for another try, so that Buffy would be able to say all the things that she hadn't been able to say before.
Box of chocolates in hand, Spike uses his Buffy mannequin to rehearse a conversation he plans to have with Buffy. He wants to explain his motivations for showing her Riley's extracurricular vampire activities, but his temper gets in the way. He begins to argue with the mannequin and ends by beating the mannequin with the box of chocolates and shouting, only to set it back up and start over.
Back at the Magic Shop, Anya protests Willow's use of the shop products for magic spells, calling it stealing. Willow tries to tempt Anya by offering to show her some magic tricks, but Anya decides that Willow is using peer pressure and refuses to participate. Willow and Anya's argument escalates, and since Xander and Tara don't want to be in the middle of the arguments, they both leave.
Willow starts a spell, but Anya interrupts with questions and the two begin arguing again. Accidentally, the spell calls forth a giant troll. The store and much of Sunnydale is seriously damaged as the troll puts his large war hammer and great strength to good use.
On the university campus, Buffy and Tara talk about their new semester classes and then about the events at the magic shop. Buffy overreacts when Tara mentions possible trouble between Anya and Xander because of Willow and Anya's constant fighting. Buffy cries and buries her head in Tara's shoulder, declaring that Anya and Xander have a "miraculous love".
Anya drives a car for the first time wildly through the streets while Willow, in the passenger seat, searches for a spell to stop the troll, who proceeds to wreak havoc in Sunnydale, bashing trash cans, swinging his hammer, and declaring to the people running in the opposite direction: "You do well to flee, townspeople. I will pillage your lands and dwellings. I will burn your crops, and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters, mark my words" before smelling "ale" and heading toward the Bronze.
Xander mopes at the Bronze and runs into Spike. As Xander seethes hostility at his presence, Spike fishes for information on Buffy, to no avail. The two eventually begin to play pool and talk about women trouble. Back at the Magic Shop, Buffy and Tara fear the worst as they view the destruction left by the troll, and take off to try to track it. The troll arrives at the Bronze, declaring his desire to drink ale and eat babies. Xander suggests that Spike fight the troll, but Spike is "paralyzed by not caring very much." The troll asks Spike and Xander where to find babies to eat. Spike suggests the troll try the hospital, and Xander ineffectually attempts to talk sense into the troll, suggesting that he sit down in one of the more sturdy chairs to have a calm talk. However, the troll is unsatisfied with their suggestions of stags, strong grog, and onion blossoms. While the troll drinks beer straight from a keg, the whole gang gathers at the Bronze. When Buffy arrives, Spike cautiously greets her, but she ignores him and he steps back, disappointed.
The troll, Olaf, reveals that he used to date Anya and (after his unfaithful dalliance with a wench) she turned him into a troll, earning her the job of a Vengeance demon. Buffy attacks Olaf and Spike jumps in a moment later to back her up (triumphantly copping a feel in the process). Buffy and Spike are unsuccessful, and Olaf uses his hammer to knock down the second floor of the Bronze and injure many innocent people. As Buffy takes stock of the damage, she notices Spike comforting a bleeding victim. In an accusatory manner Buffy asks Spike what he is doing. He protests that he is only helping, and that would not dream of sampling any blood ("not a taste for Spike, not a lick"), because he knows she wouldn't like it, but she refuses to give him credit for his intentions ("You want credit for not feeding on bleeding disaster victims?"), declaring him to be disgusting. Spike is disappointed and says "What's it take?" after Buffy leaves. Buffy sends Willow and Anya back to the Magic Shop to find a spell that would actually be effective against Olaf.
At the shop, Willow and Anya finally address the root of their issues: their fear of each other's potential to hurt Xander and pull him away from the other. Anya makes it clear that she has no intention of hurting Xander in any way, and Willow assures Anya that she has no intention of poisoning his mind against Anya, or luring him away with her lips: "Hello, gay now!" Olaf storms into the shop and intends to hurt the girls, but Xander arrives before two of the most important women in his life are seriously wounded. The troll beats Xander up badly then tells Xander to choose whether Anya or Willow will die. Xander refuses to choose, proving his loyalty to both girls.
Buffy arrives and fights with the troll while Willow works on a spell and Anya distracts Olaf with insults. When Olaf says that Anya and Xander won't last, Buffy gets incredibly angry and beats the troll into unconsciousness. The troll is sent off into an alternate universe (probably the land of trolls, but possibly the world without shrimp). Giles talks to Buffy about the damage to the shop. Joyce joins them and they discuss the non-existent information about Glory and the Key that Giles received from the Council. Dawn overhears part of this discussion and is very concerned.
Unlike most episodes, in which everything magical is fictional, during the fight which takes place in The Magic Box, in the background is a rack filled entirely with copies of the real-world Neo-Pagan magazine Green Egg, published by the Church of All Worlds.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This is the first appearance of Olaf the troll, who later appears (in human form) in a flashback in the Season 7 episode "Selfless".
Olaf's hammer will prove to be a crucial weapon against Glory in the season finale.
During Willow and Anya's argument while looking for a reversal spell, they both allude to future plot paths involving Anya returning to demon form, and Willow turning evil. In both instances it involves Xander, as Anya turns evil again because of Xander, and Willow returns from being evil due to Xander.
Willow foreshadows Amy becoming evil, mentioning that she thinks she made Amy smart and that she's "planning something."
Olaf accurately predicts that Xander and Anya will not last as a couple.
This is the first time Spike mentions his love of blooming onions. This is later mentioned in Season 7 when Spike is on a motorbike with Andrew.
As of this episode, Marc Blucas is no longer credited as a series regular, he does however return for one episode in the season 6 episode, As You Were.
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Checkpoint (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Checkpoint"
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In the Summers house, Glory asks Buffy where the Key is, unaware that Dawn (standing behind her) is the Key.

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 12
Directed by
Nick Marck
Written by
Doug Petrie
Jane Espenson
Production code
5ABB12
Original air date
January 23, 2001
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Cynthia Lamontagne as Lydia
Oliver Muirhead as Phillip
Kris Iyer as Nigel
Kevin Weisman as Dreg
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Harris Yulin as Quentin Travers
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Wesley Mask as Professor Roberts
Justin Gorence as Orlando
Peter Husmann as Mailman
Jack Thomas as Council Member #4
John O'Leary as Council Member #5

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"Checkpoint" is the twelfth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The Scooby Gang gathers at Buffy's house to discuss the Council's plans to come to Sunnydale, which Buffy is very upset about. She recalls that her two previous experiences with the Council put her life in serious danger, and wishes that they would just give her the information she needs without making the trip to Sunnydale.
Glory is at her place, panting and in obvious pain. Dreg and another demon rush into the room, bringing a hysterical mailman. They carry her to the crying man and help her put her fingers to his temples to drain away his sanity. She gets up, refreshed, and the disoriented mailman wanders away. The other demon warns her that she has even less time now to use the key, but Glory isn't worried. She explains that if Buffy is the only obstacle between her and the key, that she won't need much time at all.
Quentin Travers and a large team of watchers arrive at the Magic Box. They disrupt business, sending paying customers home and criticize Giles's selection of merchandise. They announce that the Magic Box will be closed for the duration of the Council's stay in Sunnydale. Giles is frustrated and takes an antagonistic position, and then learns that the Council plans on conducting an extensive review of Buffy (her methods, skills, and abilities). Quentin announces that they have information on Glory, but won't reveal it until Buffy's skills have been comprehensively tested and she proves she can handle the information.
In Buffy's history class, the teacher is discussing how Rasputin was considered nearly impossible to kill. Buffy challenges the professor to look at history from another angle, but unfortunately, he turns out to be a bully who shoots her ideas down with scathing criticism and sarcasm, embarrassing her in front of the class. That night, Buffy complains about class to a vampire she's fighting until she is thrown off balance. Spike suddenly appears, flying over a tombstone to tackle and stake the vampire. He expects gratitude, but Buffy accuses him of getting in her way. The two then verbally attack each other.
Jinx confronts Ben at the hospital and relays a message from Glory, who wants Ben's assistance in gathering useful information about the Slayer. Ben responds by beating up the demon. Quentin informs Buffy and Giles that she must pass the review or he will shut down the shop and deport Giles. Buffy and Giles realize that they must cooperate with the Council, which is powerful enough to carry out all its threats. Buffy worries that she may fail, placing everyone in even greater danger.
Council members interview the rest of the Scooby Gang, including Spike, for information about the Slayer. Lydia interviews Spike, and she reveals she wrote her thesis on him. With the exception of Spike (who declares her to be "slipping" because she "can't keep a man"), they all try not to incriminate Buffy in any way, and each tries to justify his usefulness to her (without making it sound like Buffy actually needs help). In the training room, Buffy is blindfolded and her fighting skills are tested against one of the council members, but she does not pass the test.
Upon returning home, Buffy finds Glory in her living room. During this confrontation, Glory openly threatens to kill all of Buffy's friends and family and force Buffy to watch her do so. Visibly disturbed by this, Buffy takes Dawn and Joyce to Spike for protection. Although Spike initially protests the sudden increase of "manly responsibilities", he agrees to look after them; after a moment's awkwardness, Joyce and Spike discover their shared addiction to a common soap opera and sit down to watch it together.
On her way to the shop to meet with the council for a comprehensive review of her plans and strategies, several well-armed men wearing medieval fighting gear attack Buffy. Buffy takes them out and discovers from the last conscious one that they are the Knights of Byzantium and are in town to destroy the Key. They consider her their enemy because she protects the Key. Buffy returns to the shop and informs Mr. Travers that she is not going to deal with the review anymore. She now knows that she holds power against both Glory and the Council because they both need something from her; Glory needs to know where the Key is, and the Council needs her to make their jobs meaningful. She delivers an authoritative speech justifying the participation of each of her friends, and demands that Giles be reinstated as her Watcher (receiving retroactive pay from the month of his dismissal). She finally instructs the Council to give her the information that she needs.
Quentin reluctantly agrees to her terms. He then informs Buffy that Glory isn't a demon. She's a god.
Continuity[edit]
In this episode, Anya invents the name "Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins" to give to the Council delegation. She will sing this full name in "Selfless".
Lydia notes that Giles is keeping a statue in the store and that "its removal from Burma is a criminal offense" and that it has the power "to melt human eyeballs". Giles had previously used a similar statue of a fertility god to attack Toth in "The Replacement".
The scene where Buffy is unfairly humiliated in front of her history class by a bullying professor is rather similar to a scene in the earlier episode "The Freshman," where a like-minded bullying professor of the Pop Culture class unfairly treated Buffy in a similar fashion in front of the class before ejecting her.
Arc significance[edit]
Beside demonstrating Buffy's distinct detachment from the Council's power structure, this episode sees Giles reinstated at full (retroactive) pay into the Council as her Watcher, as well as revealing the truth of this season's Big Bad: Glory isn't any ordinary demon, she's a Hellgod.
This is the first time Giles is officially Buffy's Watcher since season 3's "Helpless". Additionally, the last time Quentin Travers appeared was near Buffy's eighteenth birthday; this episode is very close to Buffy's twentieth.
This episode introduces the Knights of Byzantium, one of three powers connected to the Key.
Buffy claims that the Watchers Council is useless against the forces of evil without her. Several references both before and after this episode, not least to previous activities of Giles himself, refute this.
External links[edit]
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Blood Ties (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Blood Ties"
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Buffy assures Dawn that they are true sisters, with the same blood.

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 13
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
5ABB13
Original air date
February 6, 2001
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Justin Gorence as Orlando
Michael Emanuel as Burly Guard
Joe Ochman as Janitor
Paul Bates as Crazie #1
Carl J. Johnson as Crazie #2
Candice Nicole as Young Buffy
Elyssa D. Vito as Young Dawn

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"Blood Ties" is episode 13 of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The gang discusses plans for Buffy's birthday and dealing with Glory. Giles reveals that Glory is the god of a demon dimension and in order to stay in human form, she needs to suck energy from humans, leaving them insane. The gang starts asking questions about the Key, and Buffy and Giles finally decide to tell them the truth about Dawn. Several of the Knights of Byzantium chant around a fire before they are interrupted by Jinx. Glory arrives and destroys all of the knights but one whom she later tortures for information.
At the magic shop, Dawn feels awkward because of the way everyone is treating her and notices when Giles hides a book in a hidden counter drawer. Buffy opens presents from her friends and everyone gets quiet when she receives a framed picture of herself and Dawn (from a vacation which is, like most of Dawn's life, a false memory) from her sister. Dawn finally gets upset and confronts everyone about their strange behavior around her, then storms to her room. After sneaking out of the house, Dawn runs into Spike, who was keeping his nightly watch outside Buffy's house. After a brief conversation, Dawn tells Spike that she is on her way to the Magic Shop to steal a book. Spike notes the myriad dangers of roaming around alone at night, and then he accepts Dawn's offer to let him tag along. With Spike's assistance, Dawn breaks into the shop and finds the Book that she had seen Giles hide earlier. By candlelight, Dawn and Spike read about the truth of Dawn and the Key. Oddly, Spike treats this revelation with total equanimity; Dawn's reaction, of course, is far more vivid.
Dawn returns to the house, bleeding from a self-inflicted knife wound, tearfully questioning what she is. Joyce and Buffy try to talk to Dawn, but everything has changed for her and she's scared, so she demands that they leave her alone. Buffy initially blames Spike for letting Dawn find out the truth the way she did. He turns the tables on her and blames her for not telling Dawn the truth in the first place. He also notes that Dawn was going with or without him, and that he only went along to protect her from harm, thinking that she would be safer with "Big Bad" looking over her shoulder. Buffy reflects on what he says. Jinx threatens Ben at the hospital, but Ben reveals that Glory can't hurt him, no matter what he does.
After overhearing Buffy and Joyce talking, Dawn rampages through her room, burns her diaries and runs away. The smoke alarm alerts Buffy and her mom to Dawn's little fire and departure. The whole gang gathers at the shop then split up to search for Dawn. Xander is a little bit excited that a form of energy like Dawn could have a crush on him. Spike does what he can to comfort Buffy and tells her that they will find her sister before it's too late, and Buffy admits that Spike had been right about Dawn; Buffy should have been honest with her in the first place. Dawn passes through the park, reliving past memories only to be reminded of their falseness, then ends up at the hospital.
She searches for answers in the Psych ward, trying to persuade the mental patients to tell them what they see when they look at her, then runs into Ben. She confesses to Ben that she's the Key and he freaks out trying to make her leave before Glory can find her, but it's too late. Ben suddenly changes into Glory, but Glory remembers nothing about Ben's conversation with Dawn and the young girl pretends to know nothing. Dawn asks questions about the Key and Glory reveals that the Key is very old then realizes Dawn knows nothing and is wasting her time. Dawn doesn't seem to remember exactly how Glory got into the room.
Buffy shows up to stop Glory from draining the energy from Dawn. With some help from the rest of the gang, Buffy gets in a few good hits and takes a few as well before Willow and Tara perform a spell to teleport Glory somewhere else. Glory ends up high in the sky and falls straight to earth. Buffy shows Dawn that no matter what, they are sisters that are bound by blood.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
The 12th, 13th or 14th episode of each season is traditionally when Buffy celebrates her birthday; her birthday takes place in episode 13 of Season Two ("Surprise"), episode 12 of Season Three ("Helpless"), episode 12 of Season Four ("A New Man") and episode 14 of Season Six ("Older and Far Away"). Buffy's birthday is not shown celebrated in Season One (it presumably occurred before the beginning of the half-long season) or in Season Seven.
The rest of the Scooby Gang, as well as Dawn herself, learn that Dawn is the Key.
Buffy stresses to Dawn that their blood is the same, that they share "Summers blood." This becomes crucial in the season finale.
Dawn is revealed to have arrived six months ago, according to Buffy. It is very probable that Dawn arrived in the moment that Buffy entered her room, at the end of "Buffy vs. Dracula" asking her what she was doing there.
Although a link between Ben and Glory had been referenced previously (in "Listening to Fear" Ben told Dreg that he had summoned the Queller Demon to clean up Glory's mess, like he had done his whole life), this is the first time it is shown that Ben and Glory share a body, although neither retains memories of the other's activities.
Dawn (after a brief interval) does not remember witnessing Ben change into Glory; this memory glitch, courtesy of Glory, will be a recurring phenomenon throughout this season, affecting everyone who witnesses the shift (except Spike).
This episode marks the beginning of the bond between Dawn and Spike.
After performing the teleportation spell Willow collapses and suffers extreme headaches. This is one of the first signs of Willow using magic that is outside her control. This isn't incredibly important to Season 5, but it continues the escalation of a problem that will become more dramatic for Willow in Season 6.
Spike and Buffy's future relationship is foreshadowed when Spike steps in to help in the final fight and Glory refers to him as Buffy's boyfriend
This episode foreshadows Dawn's eventual kleptomania which will be focused on more in the next season.
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"Crush"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 14
Directed by
Dan Attias
Written by
David Fury
Production code
5ABB14
Original air date
February 13, 2001
Guest actors

Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Charlie Weber as Ben
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Frederick Dawson as Porter
Greg Wayne as Student
Joseph DiGiandomenico as Matt
Walt Borchert as Jeff
Asher Glaser as Boy In Bronze
Jennifer Bergman as Girl In Bronze
Nell Shanahan as Waitress

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"Crush" is the 14th episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dawn has a crush on Spike, who reveals his crush on Buffy when he takes her on a stakeout date. When his advances are turned down, Spike kidnaps Buffy and Drusilla, who has returned to Sunnydale. He tries to force an admission of love from Buffy. Harmony appears as well and breaks up with Spike.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The Bronze re-opens under new management, and Buffy watches as her friends dance. Spike shows up and tries to carry on a conversation with an uninterested Buffy, only to be forced away by Xander. Willow reveals that she is suffering from headaches and nosebleeds as a result of her teleportation spell. Buffy spots Ben and offers her thanks to him for looking after Dawn. A train pulls into Sunnydale, but the porter goes on board to find all the passengers dead before he too is attacked.
Buffy returns home, and Giles suggests that Dawn be treated normally. Harmony tries to get Spike sexually aroused and suggests a game where she pretends to be Buffy. Buffy reads about the train murders, but concludes that it's a vampire and not Glory. Buffy searches for Dawn and finds her with Spike, listening to one of his scary stories. Dawn reveals her crush on Spike but really shocks her sister when she says that Spike has a crush on Buffy.
Buffy and Xander investigate the train, and Buffy confesses the possibility of Spike loving her, though Xander doesn't take it seriously and is even amused by this. A blindfolded doll in the overhead compartment of the train, hidden from Buffy and Xander, is revealed to the audience. The doll resembles those in Drusilla's doll collection, first seen in School Hard.
Buffy finds her mother and sister talking in the kitchen with Spike; Joyce subsequently explains that Spike arrived to apologize for the situation with Dawn. Spike tells Buffy that he believes he knows where the vamps from the train are.
Staking out in front of a warehouse, Buffy is unnerved by some of Spike's behavior, such as offering her bourbon, asking her what kind of music she likes, and the fact that he is doing this for free. Buffy and Spike attack the vampires, but they immediately run off at the sight of the Slayer. Buffy realizes that the warehouse is a vampire nest, and thus they couldn't have been involved in the train massacre. When Spike goes so far as to unwittingly hold the door open for her, Buffy finally demands to know why he is acting like this, demanding to know if everything that just happened was just Spike's version of a date. At first, Spike loudly and amusedly denies it, but then asks, in a hopeful manner, "Do you want it to be?" Buffy is disgusted. Despite Spike's pleas and confessions, Buffy refuses to listen to him and denies that there is something between them, insisting that Spike is still a dangerous villain and, being soulless, is incapable of such emotion. Having completely and brutally rejected Spike, Buffy departs the warehouse in horror and disgust. Despondently returning to his crypt, Spike is greeted by his longtime love, Drusilla.
Drusilla tells him of the events in Los Angeles and tries to convince him to return with her. She's already aware of the chip in his head and tries to convince him he can be evil, even with the chip. Harmony arrives and yells at Drusilla for hurting Spike. Spike throws Harmony out of the way, announcing that not only is Drusilla back - he's back. Joyce and Willow talk to Buffy about the problem with Spike and tell her she has to make it clear to Spike that there is nothing between them. Buffy agrees, but tells Willow to do "something" for her while she is out.
Spike and Drusilla dance at the Bronze before Dru spots a couple on the catwalk for them to feed on. She snaps the neck of the girl, offering her to Spike before taking the guy for herself. Spike hesitates, but soon vamps and bites. Buffy discovers the extension of Spike's lair underground and a shrine dedicated to herself. As she returns to the surface, Buffy finds Spike and Drusilla waiting for her. Spike watches Drusilla shock Buffy with a cattle prod. After the Slayer collapses, Drusilla turns to Spike, only to be shocked herself as he seizes the cattle prod and uses it on her.
Buffy awakens to find herself chained up in the underground space below Spike's crypt, Drusilla tied to a pole across from her. Spike poetically describes his 120-year romance with Drusilla—prompting an appreciative sigh from her—but also professes his love for Buffy and offers to kill Drusilla to convince Buffy of his love. He threatens that if Buffy does not return his love, he'll untie Drusilla and let her kill Buffy. Spike asks for only a small sign that Buffy could love him. Buffy rejects Spike again, and he goes into a rage about women being so difficult. Harmony arrives and shoots Spike with a crossbow bolt. While Harmony and Spike fight, Drusilla breaks free and goes after Buffy while the Slayer is still chained up. Spike grabs Drusilla, and unchains Buffy. Realizing that the Spike she once loved is gone forever, Drusilla leaves Sunnydale heartbroken.
Harmony leaves Spike, telling him it's completely over between the two of them. The minute she leaves, Buffy physically attacks Spike and storms off. Spike follows her and desperately attempts to get her to talk to him, but Buffy makes it very clear that he is no longer a part of her life, and he is to stay away from her and her family and friends from now on. Undaunted, Spike tries to follow her into her house, only to find that she has had his invitation revoked. As he recovers from the surprise, Buffy merely glares at him with disdain and closes the door in his face.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
David Fury, asked to do an episode that took the Buffy/Spike relationship to the next level, decided that it was time for the audience to discover that Spike was in love with Buffy. He says, "...and it then progressed into Buffy finding out, which was something we were saving for later. It turned out to be a good play because we were able to take them to interesting places throughout the rest of the season." According to Fury, the resurrection of Spike and Drusilla's relationship "was really significant in terms of what love means to Spike."[1]
Cultural references[edit]
While waiting in front of the vampire lair, Spike sings the chorus of "I Wanna Be Sedated".
Xander refers to Spike as "Evil Dead".
Willow and Tara discuss The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Tara coming to the conclusion that "you know it's not going to be a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy", a reference to several relationships throughout the series. Tara also says Quasimodo had no moral compass and was selfishly motivated by love for a woman who couldn't love him back, a clear reference to Spike's demonic nature and unrequited love for Buffy.
Continuity[edit]
In Spike's lair, he tells Buffy that he loves her. Drusilla begins to laugh and then says "I knew. I knew before you did that you loved the Slayer." Which was shown in the episode "Fool for Love" as Spike recounts how he killed the two slayers to Buffy.
After Buffy finds out how Spike feels she asks "Are you out of your mind?" calling back to the episode "Out of My Mind" when Spike first becomes conscious of his feelings for her.
This episode marks the final "in person" appearance of Drusilla in the Buffyverse as all her future appearances are either in the forms of illusions or flashbacks.
This episode marks the final appearance of Harmony on the series; however, she will later appear as a recurring character and finally a regular cast member in the Angel series, becoming Angel's secretary at Wolfram & Hart.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Angel: Drusilla's arrival in Sunnydale follows the events of "Redefinition". Harmony is next seen in "Disharmony".
Spike's feelings toward Buffy become known to Buffy and the Scoobies at large.
Spike's dis-invitation lasts only a few episodes: Buffy re-invites him at the end of the season. She never removes the invitation for him again, not even following his attempted rape.
Buffy says she wants Spike "out of [her] life" in this episode, and uses the same line later in "Wrecked". Both times the rejection is very short; this time it lasts almost four episodes, before (at the end of "Intervention") Buffy learns that Spike is capable of great personal sacrifice on her behalf. Soon after she seeks out his help protecting Dawn ("Spiral").
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ BBC Interview with David Fury, retrieved 2007-07-20
External links[edit]
"Crush" at the Internet Movie Database
"Crush" at TV.com
"Crush" at BuffyGuide.com


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I Was Made to Love You
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Not to be confused with I Was Made for Lovin' You.

"I Was Made to Love You"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 15
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
5ABB15
Original air date
February 20, 2001
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Shonda Farr as April the Robot
Adam Busch as Warren Mears
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Amelinda Embry as Katrina Silber
Paul Darrigo as Driver
Gil Christner as Resident
Kelly Felix as Teenager
Paul Walia as Friend

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"I Was Made to Love You" is the 15th episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy rants about her problems with Spike to Giles while pounding away at Xander who is wearing a padded bodysuit. Xander consoles the Slayer about her love life, blaming the Hellmouth for her not being able to find a decent guy. A young woman (April) arrives in Sunnydale by car, searching for her true love. Joyce nervously prepares for a date with a man named Brian with the help of her daughters.
Anya and Tara discuss the Internet and Anya's knowledge of online stock trading and websites. April approaches them, asking if they know where Warren is but when the girls can't help her, April moves on to another person and asks the same question. Buffy and Xander dance at a university party while Anya, Tara and Willow look on. After dancing, Buffy locates Ben at the party and casually catches his attention. They chat briefly but awkwardly, and Buffy asks Ben to dance.
Anya admires the Chex Mix with Xander when April arrives at the party, still searching for Warren. Warren just so happens to be at the party and escapes with his date before April discovers him. April questions the people at the party, offering that Warren is her boyfriend and he lost her. Tara shows brief jealousy when Willow, eyeing April, remarks, "Yeah a pretty girl like that won't stay lonely for long!" Spike approaches Buffy while she's waiting, but she tells him off before Ben returns. Ben offers Buffy his number for a possible coffee date and isn't scared off when Buffy warns him of her bad history.
After seeing Buffy with Ben, Spike is inspired to hit on April, but his suggestive comments only anger her and lead her to throw the vampire through a window. Despite her amusement at Spike's pain, Buffy gets similar treatment when April throws her aside and leaves. They realize that April is a robot that needs stopping before she actually harms someone. Buffy returns home, and Giles suggests he not watch Dawn alone anymore because he can't take much more exposure to the habits of a young teenager. Joyce returns from her date in an extremely good mood, shocking her daughter with the joke that she left her bra in Brian's car.
April goes door to door searching for Warren's residence. Willow finds Warren Mears on her computer and the house where he could be living. The gang talks about Warren and how he made April to fill a void in his life. Buffy finally gets up the nerve to call Ben, but the phone rings at Glory's place. She morphs into Ben to answer the phone, and a date is made for coffee.
Warren rushes to get packed and move away with his current girlfriend, Katrina, but she doesn't understand why. Buffy shows up at Warren's in search of answers relating to April, while Katrina finally walks out, upset about being kept in the dark. Warren reveals to Buffy that he made April to love him, but she became boring after a while and he left her, letting her batteries run down.
Meanwhile, the Scoobies are discussing the situation at the Magic Box when they receive a visit from Spike. He is forcibly removed.
Katrina encounters April at a park, and April uses force to make Katrina admit that Warren is her boyfriend. Warren finally tells April that he can't love her, then April turns on Buffy, and the two fight. Buffy damages April's electrical work, and she is finally stopped. After talking with April in her final moments, Buffy realizes that she doesn't need a man in her life, also admitting that, despite Xander's belief that April was a "crazed robot", Buffy knows she was just trying to do everything she knew how to do to make the one she loved happy, but fails to draw the subtle parallel between April and Spike. Buffy leaves a message for Ben on his answering machine, canceling the date, but Glory listens to the message, not Ben.
Spike confronts Warren about making a robot for him, one based completely on Buffy. Warren refuses, but Spike won't take no for an answer. Buffy calls out to her mother, then finds her lying on the living room couch. Worried by her mother's awkward appearance, Buffy calls out to her, but Joyce doesn't move and doesn't answer.
Continuity[edit]
When Buffy tells Warren her name and asks him "Do you know who I am?", what she is really asking is if Warren realizes she is the "odd" Sunnydale High student who protected other students from the dangers they almost never admitted exist in the town. Warren answers in the affirmative; the episode clarifies that he spent his senior year at Sunnydale High, meaning that, although this is his first actual appearance, he was "behind the scenes" as a member of the Sunnydale student body throughout Season Three. Warren's status as a Sunnydale alumnus is also referred to in Season Six, where it is revealed that he attended the school play that was attacked by Monkey Demons sent by Andrew Wells (an incident that was itself never actually depicted).
Arc significance[edit]
Warren returned as a major villain in Season Six and the canonical Season Eight comics.
This is the first episode in which Oz is referenced since the Season 4 finale "Restless." It is also the last episode he is referenced until the Season 7 episode "Potential."
Katrina is introduced in this episode. She will play a minor role in the Season Six episode "Dead Things" by disrupting the Trio's unity.
When Spike visits the Magic Box, Tara is the only Scooby to speak civilly to him. Tara's sympathy for Spike will be highlighted in Season Six, beginning with "Dead Things."
Spike places an order with Warren, who will produce the Buffybot.
Technology in Buffyverse has been shown to be advanced enough to produce such an advanced robot as April (see "Ted"). When the gang discusses April, Dawn mentions that she "always thought" Ted might come back, reminding viewers that although Dawn did not appear in any episode prior to Season Five, she nonetheless remembers them.
Buffy and Dawn's mother Joyce dies after several episodes depicting her illness.
External links[edit]
"I Was Made to Love You" at the Internet Movie Database
"I Was Made to Love You" at TV.com
"I Was Made to Love You" at BuffyGuide.com


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The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"The Body"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
A woman cries as she kneels over her mother, who is lying dead on a sofa.
Buffy frantically tries to awaken her mother as she finds her lifeless on the couch. This begins a 3-minute length scene with no cuts, and no score, which is a distinct style of this episode.

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 16
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
5ABB16
Original air date
February 27, 2001
Running time
44 minutes
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Randy Thompson as Dr. Kriegel

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"The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and originally aired on the WB network in the United States on February 27, 2001. In the series, Buffy Summers is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and endowed with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported in her struggles by a close circle of friends and family, nicknamed the Scooby Gang. In "The Body", Buffy is powerless as she comes upon her lifeless mother, who has died of a brain aneurysm.
Although Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in very gruesome and fantastic ways, in this episode they are bewildered by the natural death of Joyce Summers, the divorced mother of Buffy and her sister Dawn and occasionally a mother figure to their friends. They struggle to comprehend what the loss means to each of them and to the group. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the Slayer without parental support and comfort.
The episode was stripped of all music—a regular staple of the Buffy series—and disorienting effects were included to convey the sense of displacement and loss associated with the death of a close family member. For its frank depiction of grief and coping with a very realistic death when the show usually used monsters or demons as figurative symbols, "The Body" has been described by multiple critics as one of the best television episodes ever broadcast.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Plot
3 Production and writing
4 Themes 4.1 Grief
4.2 Reality
5 Reception
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 Further reading
9 External links

Background[edit]
Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is assisted from season one by her close friends, who collectively refer to themselves as the Scooby Gang: Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), whose primary strength is his devotion to Buffy, and Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), who begins dabbling in witchcraft and grows progressively more powerful. They are mentored by Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), Buffy's "Watcher", and joined by Xander's girlfriend Anya Jenkins (Emma Caulfield), who was a vengeance demon until her powers were taken away. Anya is often at a loss to know how to communicate with humans, and her speech is frequently abrupt. In the fourth season, Willow became romantically involved with Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), also a witch.[2]
Each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (often simplified as Buffy) presents an overall theme episodes tie into. Roz Kaveney identifies family and belonging as the overall theme of the fifth season. Buffy's mother Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) begins experiencing headaches at the beginning of the season, once collapsing and requiring hospitalization. She subsequently has a brain tumor removed. She has been recovering well. In the previous episode, she receives flowers from a male suitor, which Buffy finds at the end of that episode. The fifth season also introduces Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg), Buffy's 14-year-old sister. Each season has a primary antagonist called the Big Bad; in the fifth season this takes the form of a powerful goddess named Glory.[2]
Plot[edit]
Buffy arrives home and sees the flowers sent from Joyce's suitor. She calls out to her mother and hears no answer. Buffy sees Joyce lying lifeless on the sofa, staring at the ceiling.
The credits appear over a flashback to a Christmas dinner where all the Scoobies are present, having a typical lighthearted conversation as Joyce and Buffy discuss a pie that drops on the floor. The scene snaps back to Buffy in the living room, shaking Joyce and screaming at her. She calls for an ambulance and attempts CPR, to no avail. Buffy calls Giles. The paramedics arrive and work on Joyce and she revives, the paramedics declare it a miracle in the ambulance, and Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn rejoice in the hospital. The scene snaps back to the living room where the paramedics continue to work on Joyce until they stop and tell Buffy that Joyce is dead. They leave, and Buffy goes into the hall and vomits. Giles arrives and Buffy tells him not to move the body, shocking herself by using that word.
At school, Dawn is crying in the bathroom upset that a girl called her a freak. In art class she talks with a boy as they sketch, and the two share a moment of understanding about being troubled. Buffy arrives and pulls Dawn out of class into the hall. Through the windows of the art room, the class watches Buffy tell her that Joyce has had an accident. The rest of the conversation is muffled. Dawn collapses in the hall, sobbing.
In Willow's dormitory room, Tara tries to help Willow find a shirt to wear. Xander and Anya arrive and double-park. Willow panics, rejecting shirt after shirt, not knowing how to appear for Buffy and Dawn. She asks why her clothes are stupid and she is childish, weeping until Tara kisses and calms her. Anya asks Xander what she is supposed to do; he cannot answer. Willow changes her shirt again and Xander expresses his desire to find Glory and exact justice, then complains about Joyce's negligent doctors. Anya asks if they will see the body, then if the body will be cut open, and Willow responds angrily. Anya tearfully says she does not understand how to behave, or why Joyce cannot go back into her own body, complaining that it is all "stupid and mortal", and no one will tell her why things are happening. Xander puts his fist through the wall, making him bleed but feel oddly better. As the group leaves to visit Buffy at the hospital, Xander gets a parking ticket.
In the waiting room outside the morgue, the doctor tells Buffy that Joyce died of an aneurysm suddenly and painlessly. Left alone with Buffy, Tara tells her that her own mother died when she was 17 and she went through something similar. Dawn goes alone to the morgue to see Joyce's body. While she is there, one of the bodies, now a vampire, gets up. After noticing Dawn has not come back, Buffy goes to look for her and finds her in the morgue, being attacked by the vampire. As Buffy fights and kills the vampire, the sheet falls from Joyce's face. Looking at her mother, Dawn asks where she went, as she reaches out to touch her cheek.
Production and writing[edit]



My experience with death is that apart from a lot of people hugging at funerals, it seldom brings people together. It actually tears them apart. And I had always learned from TV that death made everybody stronger and better and learn about themselves. And my experience was that an important piece had been taken out of the puzzle ... and there is no glorious payoff.
Joss Whedon, 2008[3]
From the start of writing the Buffy series, Joss Whedon asserted that it would never have a "very special episode" as in contemporary series Beverly Hills, 90210, The Wonder Years, or Party of Five, where the core cast of characters addresses a single issue (AIDS, drug abuse, or alcoholism, for example) and resolve all the problems at the end.[4] Whedon was not interested in finding a life-affirming lesson for "The Body". Rather, he wanted to capture the isolation and boredom involved in the minutes and hours after finding a loved one has died,[3] what he termed "the black ashes in your mouth numbness of death". He did not intend to resolve any religious or existential questions about the end of life, but wanted to examine the process in which a person becomes a mere body.[5] Whedon's mother, a teacher, also died of a cerebral aneurysm,[1] and he drew on his own experiences, and those of friends and other writers, in constructing the episode. He tried to achieve an "unlovely physicality" in "The Body" to portray the upsetting minutiae involved in attempting to understand what is incomprehensible. Small details became significant: to protect her dignity Buffy pulls the hem of Joyce's skirt down after it rode up when she attempted CPR; the camera focuses on a breeze through wind chimes while Buffy vomits; to emphasize Buffy's isolation, the scene has no exterior establishing shots of the house.[3]
The opening sequence of "The Body" was also the closing scene of the previous episode, "I Was Made to Love You"; this is the only episode in the series that was first aired without a "Previously on Buffy" lead-in.[6] The Christmas dinner scene was used both to contrast the stark reality of the rest of the episode, and to avoid having the credits appear over the beginning scenes where Buffy is trying to revive her mother.[3]
The episode is presented in four acts, each beginning in total silence and with a close-up shot of Joyce's pale, staring face. Shooting the first act was difficult for Gellar (Buffy). Whedon shot the scene where she finds her mother as one long take, showing her move through the house and calling the paramedics, about seven times. The rest of the scenes in the act were shot in sequence. At the end, Giles arrives and also attempts to revive Joyce, but Buffy blurts, "We're not supposed to move the body!" Both Gellar and Trachtenberg (Dawn) were raised by single women, and Gellar later spoke about the experience of acting something that was very real and close to her, stating, "you try to separate it as best you can and at the same time it adds that extra layer".[7] As soon as the scene was finished with Gellar "at a fever pitch", they restarted it where she comes in the door happily, which Whedon regretted for the emotional range Gellar was required to endure.[3]
Kristine Sutherland (Joyce) was informed during the third season that her character would be killed off, which she accepted because she intended to spend time in Europe. She is absent from most of the fourth season because she was traveling.[8] She reported that the atmosphere on the set of "The Body" was strange and tense because she had been a regular character through the series and she was suddenly playing a corpse. She found the part difficult to play, not only for the stillness, but getting into the make-up, and lying on the morgue table with other bodies.[9]
The most difficult scene for Whedon to film was Willow panicking in her dormitory room. Her obsession about what to wear to visit Buffy was inspired by Whedon's own experiences when he was at a loss for what tie to wear for a friend's funeral.[1] He praised Alyson Hannigan's acting, saying that she was able to be consistently emotional in every take and make him and the crew cry every time. Whedon acknowledged his difficulty speaking on the DVD commentary while watching Hannigan in the scene.[3]
Whedon's rejection of the "very special episode" format impelled him to address the physicality of Willow and Tara's relationship within "The Body". Before this episode, they had held hands and danced on screen, but they had not kissed. A genre of television specials dealing with female homosexuality developed as the "lesbian kiss episode" in the 1990s, where a female character kissed another female but no relationship is further explored. Whedon set out to acknowledge Willow's and Tara's affection without making it the primary focus of the show. For attempting this, he received resistance from the airing network, the WB. Whedon informed them that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable".[1] According to Whedon, the conversation about the kiss was approached by the network executives, who were concerned with the number of gay relationships on the network. Whedon countered that the kiss was "true to character" and said he would quit the show if the network forbade it. It was the only time during the series he threatened to do so.[7]
When Willow and Tara first met in the fourth season, the writers did not intend the relationship to be romantic but the actors had such chemistry that, two episodes later, Whedon and the writing team took Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson aside to inform them where it would go.[10] For the rest of the season, the sexual relationship between Willow and Tara was represented metaphorically by witchcraft, and none of the WB executives realized it. In the end, Whedon praised the way the WB handled the display of affection in "The Body", saying "They raised an eyebrow, but they've been great. I give the WB props when it came to the [characters' first] kiss. What I want to show is real affection, and 'The Body' turned out to be the perfect place to put it in. To the network's credit, they not only aired it, but they did not advertise it. I thought that was pretty classy."[11] Stephen Tropiano in Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV writes that this approach was "truly groundbreaking"; no long speech, no huge discovery: "Like Willow, we're made to feel as if her love for Tara is the most natural thing in the world". Tropiano calls it "A simple kiss. A quiet, simple moment. Two lovers kissing. Just like lovers do."[12]
Audiences reacted more emotionally than Whedon expected to Emma Caulfield's performance. Anya's blunt innocence was similar to a plot twist, as viewers did not expect the depth of sensitivity that she portrayed in her monologue, which Whedon considers "the heart of the experience" and critic Noel Murray reiterates as the "whole point of the episode in bolded, capital letters".[13] Xander's punching the wall and hurting his hand served to give the four in this scene something to concentrate on, to redirect their helplessness, which was another facet of the physicality of dealing with the crisis. Whedon used another long tracking shot from Joyce's face in the morgue following the doctor down the hall to speak with Buffy and the Scoobies to cement the reality of their being so close in proximity, as opposed to cutting shots to give the possibility that it was part of another set located somewhere else.[3] The vampire that attacks Dawn in the morgue was a touch many viewers took to be out of place for the episode. This scene contrasts the more fantasy-related deaths common in the series with Joyce's realistic death.[14] Furthermore, similar to Xander's parking ticket and the sounds of life outside Buffy's house, in Sunnydale vampires are a normal experience, and it was intended to show that life for Buffy continues.[15]
Themes[edit]
Grief[edit]



But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I knew her, and then she's—there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead ... anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And ... and Xander's crying and not talking, and ... and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn, or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why!
Anya, "The Body"[6]
In Nikki Stafford's analysis, the reactions of Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Willow, Anya, and Tara represent stages of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' five stages of grief in different parts.[16] Joss Whedon stated on the DVD commentary how surprised he was at the response from viewers who wrote to say that the episode allowed them to accept the death of a close family member, even if they had not acknowledged it for months or years.[3] Joyce's death was the first by natural causes in the series.[5]
In The Psychology of Joss Whedon, two academic psychologists identify the source of Buffy's strength as her mother, paired with Giles' mentorship.[17] Joyce did not know all along that Buffy was a Slayer and had difficulty accepting what her daughter was called to do. She was nonetheless always attentive and available when Buffy's confidence was shaken, and both Joyce's and Giles' devotion to her "gave her the self-assurance to wield her power to its full potential".[17] Joyce served as a parent figure to all of Buffy's friends, whose home lives were often unstable or unloving, thus making her death more poignant to all of them. Willow mentions her parents several times throughout the series, but her father is never seen. Her mother is portrayed only once in "Gingerbread", at first as an academic so preoccupied with her career that she is unable to communicate with Willow, and then—with Joyce—under the spell of a demon and in the throes of moral panic, attempting to burn her own daughter at the stake for being involved in witchcraft.[18] Xander's parents are described by him and those who have been to his house as alcoholic and verbally abusive. Even Anya, severely wanting in social graces, has lost someone she admires and trusts. Giles also grieves for the loss of a friend and—in one episode when the adults fall under a spell making them retreat into an adolescent state—a lover.[19] Lorna Jowett in Sex and the Slayer writes that Joyce represents stability and normality. For the Scoobies, her death destroys the illusion that normal life is trouble-free; it is just as challenging as encountering supernatural forces.[20]
Finding her mother's body, Buffy at first denies what she sees, to the point of imagining alternate realities. Whedon stated that these mini dream sequences were like documentaries; people who find their loved ones dead are desperate to imagine a different, better outcome, and they create fantasies that cause much more pain when they are forced to return to the harshness of reality.[9] Later in the hospital, Buffy imagines what she might have been able to do to save Joyce, although the doctor tells her there was nothing to be done. Willow and Xander express anger and helplessness. Anya, new to mortality and human connections, is childlike in her innocence and questions. Xander's anger and Anya's confusion allow them to be mothered somewhat by Willow, who needs to take care of someone. Dawn is deeply in denial, unable to understand that the woman she thought she had known all her life was gone. Tara, who has gone through the ordeal before, represents the acceptance phase, soothing and helping the others to work through what they are experiencing. Buffy toward the end also begins to see acceptance when she tells Dawn that the body in the morgue is not their mother; Joyce is gone.[16]
The episode also emphasizes another theme of the season: Buffy's response to forces that she cannot fight. Throughout the season she encounters the much more powerful goddess Glory, but Joyce's death leaves her feeling the most helpless. In Joyce's death there is no evil force to combat; she simply dies, and Buffy, with all her power, is ill-equipped to grasp the enormity of her situation.[9][21] In her shock, Buffy retreats to a childlike state of confusion, calling to her mother when she does not answer: "Mom? ... Mom? ... Mommy?" Emma Caulfield was also given the direction for her voice to rise to a childlike pitch at the end of her speech to give the same effect. According to Buffy scholar Rhonda Wilcox, the themes of maturation and facing adult responsibilities begin with the departure of Buffy's boyfriend Riley Finn six episodes before, and crystallize in the preceding episode in which Buffy realizes she does not need a boyfriend to be fulfilled. At the end of that episode she is confronted with Joyce's death, which is fully explored in "The Body". Facing responsibilities became the major theme of the sixth season.[22] One critic writes, "Drastic as it was, killing off Joyce was the logical way to bring Buffy and Dawn closer together, sever Buffy's last ties to girlhood and emphasize Buffy's inability to accept the limits of her power, a recurring theme this season."[23]
Reality[edit]
Whedon uses several disorienting effects to heighten the reality of the situations in the episode to the point that they seem surreal. The long opening shot of Buffy coming home and finding Joyce was filmed with one hand-held camera in constant movement as she walks through the house to the phone and back to her mother again. The buttons on Buffy's phone are abnormally large, an effect that Whedon added because he experienced it when his mother died. Buffy is so bewildered by the paramedic telling her that Joyce is dead that she can only focus on his mouth in an attempt to understand what he is saying. The camera uses her perspective and only the bottom part of the paramedic's face is in view. Instead of a normal "over-the-shoulder" view, Buffy is shot at the same height as the paramedic's shoulder, barely squeezed into the frame as if to portray her, according to Whedon, as trapped by reality.[3][24] Kristine Sutherland stated that the script was "amazing", specifically at capturing the detachment: "It's not something you can process. I mean mortality is just not part of your vocabulary when you're that age."[9]
In the hospital, as Buffy listens to the doctor confirm how Joyce died, the doctor says something, but the words "I have to lie to you to make you feel better" are spoken discordantly, as though, according to cinema scholar Katy Stevens, Buffy "constructs what she believes to be an unmentionable truth—her culpability in her mother's death".[25] In the same scene, Dawn is shot with a hand-held camera that drifts, giving her a slightly unreal moment as she struggles to believe, unlike what Buffy already knows, that her mother's body is down the hall on a steel table.[3] The scene with Buffy and Tara sitting in the waiting room was noted by Rhonda Wilcox for its reality in showing Gellar as ragged and distinctly unglamorous, particularly because she had been presented in a specific way to attract male viewers and was a spokeswoman for Maybelline while Buffy aired. Buffy sits with circles under her eyes, unflattering hair, and slumped posture next to Tara.


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 Small details in sounds are made significant in this scene as Buffy, after being told that her mother is dead, vomits on the floor and stands at her back door where life in her neighborhood carries on.
Foremost of the disorienting effects, to critics and scholars, is Whedon's use of sound and silence. While Buffy performs CPR, she cracks one of Joyce's ribs with a startling snap. After Buffy vomits on the floor, she stands in the back doorway listening to life carrying on: children playing, someone practicing a trumpet, and birds singing. Long pauses between dialogue create gaps that turn awkward as the characters try to think of what to say, made especially notable in a series famous for its rapid banter.[26] The transition between the Christmas dinner scene and the living room scene is abrupt, and the sound of Buffy and Joyce shouting because they dropped a pie on the floor carries over into the silence of Joyce's lifeless face and Buffy standing alone in the living room. This effect is also used when shifting between Buffy's alternate version of her mother being "good as new" in the hospital and the paramedics trying to revive her. In the car on the way to Willow's dormitory, Anya is shot by a camera mounted on the front bumper, separated from the audience by the windshield. Xander, driving, faces the other way; neither of them speak and only the sound of the car can be heard.[27] Joyce Millman at Salon.com writes of the sound issues, "The effect was almost Bergmanesque in its starkness. The spooky stillness and the long, spacey pauses in conversation as characters struggled to articulate their feelings exaggerated the sense of time elongating and standing still."[23]
Katy Stevens notes that the dialogue in "The Body" was recorded with microphones very close to the actors, making variations in their voices—cracks, rises, and whispers—more prominent to the audience, to close the distance between the actors and the viewer. Conversely, the scene in which Dawn is told of Joyce's death was shot through a large classroom window, muffling Dawn's emotional reaction, to isolate Buffy and Dawn from the class and the audience. Several moments of silence follow this scene.[25] Whedon shot the conversation up close several times, filming over-the-shoulder and reaction shots, but eventually went with a more distanced point of view.[3] Michelle Trachtenberg later said of this effect, "obviously you know in the end result there was no sound and I thought that was actually one of the most brilliant ideas [he's] ever had because it allows everyone to sort of attach their own emotional plug into whatever might have happened in your life. I think it allowed the audience to really connect with Dawn for the first time."[7]
Presenting the episode without music was Whedon's way of denying the audience any comfort, forcing them to discern their own meanings from the characters' actions and words.[9] As two musicologists write about this absence, "Without music's acoustic balm, all our empathetic attention is on the characters and their state of bewilderment ... Music would provide a conceptualization and a catharsis ... but a catharsis at this point would in some measure trivialize the loss."[28] Television critic Gareth McLean writes that this decision is "a move that makes it more courageous than, for instance, ER. There were no soaring strings or plaintive piano to trigger an emotional response. Instead the soundtrack took in the ambient noises of wind chimes, doors squeaking, footsteps on carpets. Conversations were stilted and awkward, but the spaces in between always mattered."[29]
Reception[edit]



Any sneerer of Buffy in particular or genre work should simply be sat down in front of a television and told to shut up for three-quarters of an hour while they are shown "The Body"; their awestruck silence afterwards may be taken as recantation or apology.
Ian Shuttleworth, 2004[30]
Critics praised the episode, and have continued to count it as one of the finest episodes of television ever broadcast. David Bianculli in the New York Daily News commends the acting abilities of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michelle Trachtenberg, Alyson Hannigan, and Amber Benson. "The Body", according to Bianculli is "Emmy-worthy ... It also will haunt you—but not in the normal way associated with this still-evolving, still-achieving series."[31] Television critic Alesia Redding and editor Joe Vince of the South Bend Tribune write, "I was riveted by this show ... This isn't just one of the best Buffy episodes of all time. It's one of the best episodes of TV of all time." Redding adds, "If you watch this incredible episode and don't recognize it as great TV, you're hopeless ... A 'fantasy' show delivers the most stark and realistic take on death I've ever seen, deftly depicting how a loved one who dies suddenly becomes 'the body'." [32]
Gareth McLean in The Guardian rejects the notion that Buffy is similar to other "schmaltzy American teen show(s)" like Dawson's Creek: "This episode was a brave, honest and wrenching portrayal of death and loss. The way this was handled by Joss Whedon ... was ingenious. Time slowed down and the feeling of numbness was palpable as Buffy and her gang tried to come to terms with Joyce's death." McLean especially appreciated the small details of Buffy protecting Joyce's dignity and the confusion shown by the characters. He concludes, "Joyce may be dead but long live Buffy the Vampire Slayer."[29] Joe Gross in the Austin American-Statesman calls the episode "devastatingly calm" and states that "the entire cast and crew should have received some sort of Emmy for 'The Body'".[33]
At Salon.com, Joyce Millman writes, "there hasn't been a finer hour of drama on TV this year than ... 'The Body' ... You have to hand it to the writers; Joyce's demise came as a complete surprise. In that instant, Buffy's childhood officially ends. Even if Buffy gets stiffed in every other Emmy category this year, 'The Body' should convince the nominating committee that Gellar is for real ... I can't remember the last time I saw a more wrenching portrayal of the shock of loss."[23] Andrew Gilstrap at PopMatters declares it "possibly the finest hour of television I've seen, bar none ... It is an incredibly moving episode, one that finally admits that you don't walk away from death unscathed. It also shows that, for all the group's slaying experience, they really weren't prepared for death when it stole a loved one."
Kira Schlechter in The Patriot-News declares "The Body" "one of the finest episodes of any series ever", stating that the silence and novel cinematography are "remarkable and the writing is brilliant". Buffy and Dawn's conversation at her school, Schlechter says, is "positively wrenching".[34] When the series ended in 2003, Amy Antangelo in the Boston Herald and Siona LaFrance of the New Orleans Times-Picayune both rated the best Buffy episodes giving "The Body" equal billing at the top with "Hush" and "Once More, with Feeling",[35] LaFrance designating the episode an "instant classic".[36] Jonathan Last in The Weekly Standard lists "The Body" eighth out of the ten best Buffy episodes, writing that it is "the series' most difficult episode because it's real—and not real in the way ER or The Practice or Law & Order, all hyper-versions of reality, are real. At some point, most of us will experience a day like Buffy has in 'The Body' and we sense that the writers have gotten nearly every detail of that day—right down to the absence of a musical score—right."[37] In the A.V. Club, Noel Murray also finds small details compelling, such as the camera's focus on the paper towel Buffy uses to cover the vomit on the carpet. He does, however, write that some of the shots "come off a little gimmicky, but the ones that work are so effective that it seems petty to complain that Whedon overdoes it at times. (Besides, different moments are likely to move different people.)"[13]
In addition to praising Gellar's often under-appreciated acting, Buffy scholar Ian Shuttleworth comments on the cast and the nuanced numbness and confusion of the characters, paired with the moments of silence in the episode: "It is simply one of the finest pieces of television drama, and the single finest depiction of bereavement in any medium, that I have ever seen."[30] Nikki Stafford, author of Bite Me! The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, calls "The Body" "an absolute masterpiece", explaining that it is "hands down the single most terrifying, heart-breaking, painful, and amazing hour of television I have ever seen". She praises the entire cast equally, but highlights Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, and Emma Caulfield. Stafford also praised Kristine Sutherland—as did Whedon—for having to lie motionless with her eyes open for hours upon hours over eight days of filming.[3][16]
When the episode was originally broadcast in the United States on the WB network on February 27, 2001, it received a Nielsen rating of 3.5 and a share of 5, meaning that it was watched by more than 3.5 million viewers. The episode placed fifth in its timeslot, and 82nd among broadcast television for the week of February 26 – March 4, 2001. It was the most watched program on the WB that night, and the second most watched program that week, trailing 7th Heaven.[38] This was a slight increase from a 3.4 rating and 87th position achieved by the previous episode.[39] The episode was released on DVD on October 28, 2002 in Region 2, and December 9, 2003 in Region 1.[40][41] Although the episode received positive reviews, it was not nominated for any Emmy awards. Rhonda Wilcox attributes this to the Emmys being a "bastion of conservative popular taste", automatically rejecting television shows in the fantasy/science fiction genres.[42] The script was nominated for a Nebula Award, given for excellence in science fiction/fantasy writing.[43]
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17.^ Jump up to: a b Davidson, p. 69.
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31.Jump up ^ Bianculli, David (February 27, 2001). "Super Yet Natural: Tonight's 'Buffy' is a gem of realism", New York Daily News (New York), p. 87.
32.Jump up ^ Redding, Alesia (May 25, 2003). "Slayed to rest ; A few tweaks might have let 'Buffy' go into TV history with a little more bite", South Bend Tribune (Schurz Communications).
33.Jump up ^ Gross, Joe (May 18, 2003). "Bye-bye, Buffy: Smart, defiant and utterly original, the show that comes to an end Tuesday had real bite. And you thought it was just about slaying vampires.", Austin American-Statesman (Cox Enterprises), p. K1.
34.Jump up ^ Schlechter, Kira (May 20, 2003). " 'Buffy' fans share thoughts; Buffy saved the world ... a lot", The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA; Advance Publications), p. F03.
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37.Jump up ^ Last, Jonathan (May 20, 2003). "Where Do We Go from Here? A farewell to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and a look back at the show's ten best episodes", The Weekly Standard (Washington, DC; Clarity Media Group).
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Bibliography[edit]
Attinello, Paul; Halfyard, Janet; Knights, Vanessa (eds.) (2010). Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7546-6042-2
Davidson, Joy (ed.) (2007). The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, Benbella Books. ISBN 978-1-933771-25-0
Jowett, Lorna (2005). Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6758-1
Kaveney, Roz (ed.) (2004). Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel, Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ISBN 1-4175-2192-9
Ruditis, Paul (2004). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 3, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-689-86984-3
Stafford, Nikki (2007). Bite Me! The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-807-6
Stevenson, Gregory (2004). Televised Morality; The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hamilton Books. ISBN 0-7618-2833-8
Tropiano, Stephen (2002). Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Applause Theater and Cinema Books. ISBN 1-55783-557-8
Wilcox, Rhonda (2005). Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1-84511-029-3
Further reading[edit]
Pateman, Matthew (2006). The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, McFarland and Company. ISBN 0-7864-2249-1
External links[edit]
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"Forever"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy and Dawn at their mother's funeral

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 17
Directed by
Marti Noxon
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5ABB17
Original air date
April 17, 2001
Guest actors

David Boreanaz as Angel
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Joel Grey as Doc
Todd Duffey as Murk
Andrea Gall as Customer
Alan Henry Brown as Funeral Director
Darius Dudley as Minister
Anne Talbot as Lady With Baby
Noor Shic as Lady With Rosary

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"Forever" is the 17th episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Scooby Gang attends Joyce's funeral, and Angel visits to pay his respects. The day after the funeral, Dawn attempts to bring her mother back to life. Also, Glory learns that the Key is in human form.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production details
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy selects a casket for her mother with Giles and Dawn. Dawn expresses her concern that their mother would not have appreciated Buffy's choice. Later, the gang gathers for dinner at the Summers residence and discusses plans for the funeral, excluding Dawn from any decision making.
Spike, while bringing a bouquet of flowers to the Summers home, runs into Willow and Xander. A brief spat occurs when Xander misinterprets this as Spike taking advantage of the situation to get closer to Buffy, while Spike insists that he was attempting to pay his respects to Joyce, as she was the only one of Buffy's "lot" that ever treated him decently. When it becomes clear that Xander won't be convinced otherwise, an irritated Spike throws the bouquet down and storms off, and it is only after he departs that Willow and Xander discover that he hadn't included a card with the flowers and recognize the sincerity of the gesture.
The next day, a group of people gather at a cemetery for Joyce's funeral. Dawn leaves with Tara and Willow while Buffy remains at the grave. Hours later, after the sun has set, Angel appears beside her. Inconsolable regarding the loss of her mother, Dawn reveals to Tara and Willow her intent to perform a resurrection spell. After making love, Anya tells Xander how special it is to be able to create life, and how sex has become much more meaningful. Tara tries to convince Dawn that magic can't be used to alter the natural order of things, such as life and death, and tells her that Wiccans took an oath disallowing resurrection. In the graveyard, Angel does his best to comfort Buffy when she worries how she will continue without Joyce's strength, and if there was any chance she could have saved her mother. Angel offers to stay in town for as long as she needs him, and Buffy asks him to stay with her forever. The two kiss sweetly but pull away, knowing nothing more can happen. Buffy expresses her gratitude, and he stays with her until the sun rises. Ben encounters Jinx, saying that he will not help Glory and he is tired of her games, but accidentally makes a comment that leads Jinx to conclude that the Key is human. Not wanting Glory to learn this fact, Ben stabs the minion with his own knife.
The next morning, Dawn is sulking over Willow and Tara's refusal to help her. As she leaves, Willow magically pulls a book out from the bookshelf to make it noticeable. Alone, Dawn retrieves the book, identifying the section about resurrection spells. Later, at the Magic Box, Dawn sneaks up to the loft after Giles tells her that's where he keeps his most dangerous books. She slips several items into her backpack. While collecting dirt from Joyce's grave that night, Dawn is caught by Spike, who recognizes her actions, but shocks her by offering to help.
Meanwhile, Giles is seen drinking at home, reminiscing while listening to old records. Spike, claiming to dislike seeing Summers women "take it so hard on the chin," makes Dawn promise not to tell Buffy of his involvement in her plans. Glory fumes about Ben after Jynx returns to her wounded, but quickly cheers up when he informs her that the Key is human. In the home of a man named Doc, Dawn and Spike receive an incantation, but learn that they need a Ghora demon's egg and a picture of Joyce. Doc advises Dawn that the results might not be what she wants and that if she wishes to undo the spell, she must tear up the image. Spike takes Dawn to a Ghora demon nest, where he plays interference with the three-headed demon while Dawn gets an egg, which she drops in her haste. During their second attempt, Spike is bitten by the Ghora, but kills it in turn.
Tara realizes that A History of Witchcraft is missing from their shelf and after concluding that Dawn took it, she and Willow (who is sheepishly feigning surprise) decide to call Buffy. Buffy hears about Dawn's spell just as she is finishing it upstairs in her room. When Buffy confronts her, the two girls get into a vicious argument about their different ways of dealing with their mother's death. Dawn accuses Buffy of being so busy arranging everything that she doesn't care that their mother is dead, earning herself a slap across the face from her sister. Buffy immediately regrets her action and admits that she's keeping busy so she doesn't have to deal with the situation, because when she stops then her mother is really gone. During their argument, a figure emerges from Joyce's grave and walks toward the house. A shadow passes by the front window followed by a knocking on the door, and Buffy, hoping it's Joyce, rushes to answer the door. Dawn immediately realizes the inherent dangers of the spell and rips up the photo, and when Buffy answers the door all she finds is an empty step. This is too much for Buffy and she starts to cry, finally facing the reality of her mother's death. A sobbing Dawn hugs her, and they collapse to the floor united in grief.
Production details[edit]
Writer and director Marti Noxon says, "To me, the idea of wanting to defy death is just an inherent, almost mythological, iconic notion. It’s something we can relate to...a universal longing." She says the idea for this episode arose from the idea that Dawn would be in the bargaining stage of mourning, and "if you were in Sunnydale and someone you loved died, you would absolutely call on the forces of darkness to resurrect them."[1]
The magical-resurrection plot thread of this story bears a strong resemblance to the 1902 short story The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs.
Cultural references[edit]
While searching for an incantation to give to Dawn and Spike, Doc hums a few bars from "Peter and the Wolf".
The ending, where a knock on the door, then the opening to nothing is reminiscient of the ending to "The Monkey's Paw."
The three headed Gorah demon is a reference to King Ghidorah a three headed Japanese Kaiju.
Continuity[edit]
Willow magically pulls out the book that deals on Resurrection for Dawn, which shows Willow is willing to alter life to ease one's pain. This is crucial in Season 6.
Angel next appears in the last two episodes of season 7.
This episode marks the first sign of Dawn's kleptomania.
Arc significance[edit]
Dawn is shown thinking of and performing a Resurrection Spell. Tara shows her fear and stern belief that it is wrong to mess with the natural selection of life, but Willow is shown to be a little more lenient. This foreshadows Willow's ever increasing use of magic wrongly and the resurrecting of Buffy she does in the Season 6 opener.
Ben also reveals to Glory's minions that the key is a human being. In previous episodes Glory didn't know whether the key was a human or an inanimate object and so this leads her closer to revealing Dawn's identity.
The record Giles is shown listening to (Cream's Disraeli Gears, specifically "Tales of Brave Ulysses") is the same record he played for Joyce in "Band Candy".
This is the first appearance of the character Doc, who later featured in the season finale The Gift, where his interference prevents Spike from rescuing Dawn, and so leads directly to Buffy's death.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Interview with Marti Noxon", BBC, retrieved 2007-09-14
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Intervention (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Intervention"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy examines the BuffyBot believing they don't look alike

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 18
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
5ABB18
Original air date
April 24, 2001
Guest actors

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffybot
Clare Kramer as Glory
Adam Busch as Warren Mears
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Sharon Ferguson as Primitive
Todd Duffey as Murk
Kelly Donovan as Xander Double

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"Intervention" is the eighteenth episode in the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
At the Summers's home after dinner, Buffy confesses to Giles that she's worried about her ability to love. Giles suggests he and Buffy go to a sacred location in the desert so that she can undergo a vision quest. When they arrive, Giles performs a ritual to create Buffy's guide. A mountain lion appears and directs Buffy into an open desert that reminds her of her dream from "Restless."
Glory orders her minions to watch the Slayer and see who is new and special in her life, as that person is likely to be the Key. That night, one of the minions watches the group through a window at Xander's apartment; Dawn secretly takes Anya's earrings from a table.
Spike receives his Buffybot from Warren, commissioned in "I Was Made to Love You". Spike and his Buffybot pretend to fight, which inevitably leads to sex. While Spike is sleeping it off, the Buffybot heads out to patrol for vampires. She runs into Xander and Anya in a graveyard and successfully masquerades as Buffy. Later, Xander and Anya oversee Spike and the Buffybot having sex in the cemetery, and shocked, Xander goes to confront them. However, Glory's minions assume Spike is the Key, and knock Xander unconscious and take Spike. Glory is upset when she sees Spike, as she knows a vampire cannot be the Key. Nevertheless, she decides to torture him in hopes that he knows where the Key is.
Buffy wakes to find her guide, in the form of the First Slayer, on the opposite side of a large fire. The guide advises Buffy that love is at the center of all Slayers and that love will bring Buffy to her gift. When Buffy asks "What gift?", the guide tells her death is her gift.
Worried about Spike, the Buffybot leaves Xander unconscious at the crypt and goes to Xander's apartment for help. Willow sternly talks to the Buffybot (whom she mistakes for Buffy) about her sexual relationship with Spike, until Xander comes home and fills everyone in about Spike being taken by Glory's minions. Realizing Glory has a captive who knows that Dawn is the Key, Willow, Xander, and the Buffybot head to the Summers' residence for weapons so they can either rescue Spike before he can reveal Dawn's secret, or do what must be done to keep him from talking. When the Buffybot goes upstairs to change, the real Buffy enters, which clears up all the confusion and leaves the gang disgusted at the thought of why Spike had Warren build the Buffybot. The real Buffy tells the gang to grab their weapons, she knows where to start looking for Spike and Glory, and is ready to kill him. Meanwhile, Glory is brutally torturing Spike, who refuses to tell her the Key's location and subjects Glory to a symphony of verbal abuse. Spike manages to escape through the elevator. When the elevator lands at the lobby, Spike collapses in relief when he sees Buffy and Xander rush in. They are soon joined by Giles and the Buffybot, who gets injured in the fight. Two of Glory's minions run away, and confess to Glory that the Slayer and her friends rescued Spike. The Hell-God is not pleased and responds violently, causing the two of them to scream out in pain.
At the Magic Box, Willow examines the Buffybot, and determines that she'd easily be able to fix it, but sheepishly says she won't when she sees the look on Buffy's face. Xander, though disgusted by the purpose of the Buffybot, expresses a sort of sympathy for Spike, having seen the extent of his injuries when he (Xander) and Giles brought him back to his crypt, during which they were unable to discover whether or not Spike sold Dawn out. While Spike, beaten and bloody, rests, Buffy enters the crypt pretending to be the Buffybot. When Spike explains Glory wanted to know who the Key was, Buffy, mimicking the Buffybot's directness, offers to tell her, but Spike, upset, warns her that no one must know. Spike says if anything happened to Dawn, it would destroy the real Buffy, and he would rather die than let that happen. Touched, Buffy kisses him. Spike pulls back as he realizes it is actually Buffy; though disgusted by the robot, Buffy says she'll never forget what he did for her and Dawn, and departs, leaving a speechless Spike staring after her.
Production details[edit]
Writer Jane Espenson explains the Buffybot was introduced out of "the necessity of story", as it was "interesting to see what Spike would do with this bot... to see how those personalities affect each other." Providing Sarah Michelle Gellar with the chance for comic relief during a period of particular grimness for her character was a "bonus... an extra scoop of ice-cream," says Espenson.[1]
In the fight scenes in "Intervention", Xander was played by Nicholas Brendon's identical twin, Kelly Donovan, because Nicholas suffered from pneumonia at the time.[2]
Cultural references[edit]
The Price Is Right – Spike mockingly tells Glory that Bob Barker is the key.
The Lord of the Rings – Xander describes Glory's minions as hobbits with leprosy. Plus, Glory refers to Spike as 'precious' while challenging him to a game of riddles.
Buffy asks if the quest is for finding a grail.
Giles's ritual for the vision quest resembles the Hokey-Pokey.
Dawn is seen reading Twist magazine.
Continuity[edit]
In the season four finale, "Restless", which also had a psychological bent, the First Slayer made an appearance but did not speak except for the words "No... friends...just...the kill." Here she speaks fluently because she is actually a spirit guide in the form of the First Slayer there to tell Buffy things about being a Slayer, and three episodes later this conversation with the spirit guide will lead Buffy to believe that she is just a killer, as the First Slayer was.
Xander says of Buffy and the Buffybot, "They're both Buffy". This is a reference to "The Replacement", also written by Jane Espenson who said on multiple occasions she enjoys adding references to episodes she wrote.
Spike's dislike of Angel manifests itself in Buffybot's programmed opinion of Angel. "Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up and he's bloody stupid."
Buffy remembers the desert from her dream in "Restless". She will send the potential slayers to the same desert in "The Killer in Me".
Arc significance[edit]
The Buffybot, introduced in this episode, plays a crucial role in "The Gift," "Bargaining,"
Dawn is shown to steal Anya's earrings; her increasing kleptomania is eventually discovered in "Older and Far Away".
Buffy loses her anger towards Spike and welcomes him back into the fold.
In this episode, Buffy finds out that "death is [her] gift", which leads to her decision to die to save the world in "The Gift".
This episode, like "Something Blue", foreshadows the romance between Buffy and Spike.
Warren leaves town after delivering the Buffybot to Spike. This is his last appearance until Season Six's "Flooded".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Episode Guide: Intervention", BBC, retrieved 2007-09-15
2.Jump up ^ "Biography for Kelly Donovan", IMDB.com, retrieved 2007-09-15
External links[edit]
"Intervention" at the Internet Movie Database
"Intervention" at TV.com
"Intervention" at BuffyGuide.com


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Glory "feeds" on Tara's mind, rendering her mentally unstable

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 19
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
5ABB19
Original air date
May 1, 2001
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
Anne Betancourt as Principal Stevens
Leland Crooke as Professor Lillian
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Todd Duffey as Murk
Alan Heitz as Slook

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"Tough Love" is the 19th episode of season 5 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy withdraws from school in order to better look after Dawn, who has been skipping school and shirking her responsibilities since her mother's death. Buffy assumes a new role as head of household. Willow and Tara quarrel, and while they are separated Glory "feeds" on Tara's mind, rendering her mentally unstable. In a vengeful rage, Willow storms after Glory, unsuccessfully trying to defeat her.


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2 Trivia
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Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy notifies her poetry professor that she is dropping out of college so that she may take care of Dawn. Ben is fired from his job at the hospital, as Glory has been monopolizing the human form they share and he has not shown up for work in two weeks. Glory takes a bath while she demands that her blindfolded minions tell her everything they know about the Key. Dawn and Buffy are called into Dawn's principal's office where Buffy is informed that Dawn has been skipping school. At the magic shop, Anya expresses new found patriotism and how money ties into that.
Buffy seeks Giles's advice about being Dawn's mother figure then takes her sister home, attempting an authoritative role with Dawn. Glory's minions provide her with enough information to conclude who the Key is and Glory leads the way to gather it. Meanwhile, Tara and Willow discuss their relationship and Willow's powers as a witch, but the discussion ends up angering Willow when Tara expresses first her concern about Willow's "frightening" power. Tara also reveals her fear that Willow may not be satisfied with dating a woman and go back to dating men.
Buffy talks with Dawn about how Dawn's situation needs to improve in school or Buffy could possibly lose guardianship of Dawn. Depressed over her first major fight with Willow, Tara goes to a cultural fair, but finds herself sitting next to Glory on a park bench. Giles finds one of Glory's minions at the shop and questions him about Glory's plans. Willow goes after Tara who is in Glory's grasp, but can't get to Tara before it's too late. Glory discovers that Tara isn't the Key, and offers to let her go if she reveals the key's identity. Protecting Dawn, Tara refuses, and Glory drains Tara's mind of sanity.
At the hospital, doctors look after Tara while Willow plans her vengeance against the evil god, Glory. Buffy arranges for Dawn to be kept safe by Spike in some underground caves while she takes care of the issues involving Tara. Blaming herself for all of the harm that Glory has caused the people of Sunnydale, particularly Tara and Spike, Dawn tearfully expresses a belief that she is evil and a "lightning rod for pain," while Spike comforts her and tries to convince her otherwise. Buffy thinks she's talked Willow out of any attempts to go after Glory, but Spike and Dawn later convince her that one can't be talked out of something like that. Willow rages, going to the magic shop to gather dangerous magic supplies in preparation for her attack on Glory.
At Glory's place, Willow makes an unexpected, but grand appearance, casting spells wildly, all in attempts to attack and destroy Glory. Although she causes Glory some pain (something no one else, not even Buffy, was able to do) the goddess is far more powerful than the witch, and Willow is almost seriously wounded. Luckily, Buffy shows up in time to stop her from getting hurt. Buffy and Glory battle ferociously, until one of Willow's force fields allows Willow and Buffy to escape. The next day, Willow, Tara, Buffy, and Dawn sit down to eat. Willow spoon-feeds applesauce to Tara, who is still unstable after Glory's attack, while discussing the responsibilities she has to understake in order to take care of Tara. When all seems peaceful, Glory makes a surprise appearance, tearing out an entire wall. Tara, distressed, describes Dawn as having "pure" energy, revealing that Dawn is the key.
Trivia[edit]
Xander is shown reading an X-Men comic book. The issue, X-Men #109.
When firing Ben, his boss makes a reference to the Twinkie defense.
This episode marks the last appearance of Glory's affectionate minion Jinx.
Continuity[edit]
Willow references the Initiative from Season 4 by mentioning having taken Psych 101, albeit from "an evil government scientist who was skewered by her Frankenstein-like creation before the final."
Arc significance[edit]
Tara and Willow have their most serious fight yet in this episode, related to Tara's unease at Willow's magic use, effectively setting up some of the next season's chief conflicts.
Glory drains Tara's mind, putting her into a psychotic state for the rest of the season. Tara's insanity and Willow's pledge to get her back plays a central role in the season's finale.
Buffy's growing trust of and lessening animosity towards Spike is evident when she arranges for him to protect Dawn after Glory attacks Tara.
This episode is most notable for Willow's first blatantly violent, "dark" use of magic for personal reasons, complete with "Dark Willow's" trademark black eyes. Willow goes after Glory not because it's the "right" thing to do, but for revenge. This foreshadows her turn to evil in Season Six, when she again abuses magic for vengeance for Tara, with more destructive results.
Willow lies to her friends, leading them to believe she won't go after Glory on her own, marking the first time Willow has felt the need to lie to her friends about her magic use, which will be a recurring theme in Season Six.
Buffy withdraws from UC Sunnydale in this episode, so that she might better be able to take care of her sister (which includes both raising her and protecting her from Glory).
Buffy struggles with being Dawn's authority figure (her mother, in a sense), and essentially depends upon Giles to encourage and indeed force her to act, a theme which will lead to Giles' eventual departure in Season Six.
Glory learns that Dawn is "The Key".
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After Dawn is captured by Glory, Buffy falls to the ground and goes into a catatonic state

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 20
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Steven S. DeKnight
Production code
5ABB20
Original air date
May 8, 2001
Guest actors

Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Wade Williams as General Gregor
Karim Prince as Dante
Justin Gorence as Orlando
Lily Knight as Gronx
Jack Donner as Cleric
Bob Morrisey as Crazy Guy #1
Paul Bates as Crazy Guy #2
Carl J. Johnson as Crazy Guy #3
Mary Sheldon as Nurse

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"Spiral" is the 20th episode of season 5 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Plot synopsis[edit]
With Glory now possessing knowledge that Dawn is the Key, Buffy and Dawn run for their lives, escaping thanks to Willow's magic and a large semi-truck slamming into Glory out on the street after which she transforms into Ben, ending the chase. The gang gathers in Xander's apartment to discuss possible plans of action, where Buffy surprises everyone by declaring that they will never be able to defeat Glory and the only way to stay alive is to leave Sunnydale, to which the gang reluctantly agrees. Spike solves their transportation problem by providing a sun-protected Winnebago, and Buffy allows him to accompany them. Though Giles and Xander are anything but pleased by this, Buffy informs them that she and Spike are the only ones who stand a chance at protecting Dawn in the event that Glory catches up to them, and makes it clear that the topic is not open for discussion.
Ben talks to one of Glory's minions, who reveals that he is just a human body encasing Glory's god form and that upon her full rejuvenation, he will die; Ben, knowing this, states that he will do anything in his power to keep his life, even destroying the Key. The Knights of Byzantium retrieve their crazy member from the hospital, who babbles that the Key is the Slayer's sister; their General orders the Knights to assemble for battle. Giles, driving the RV, talks with a motion-sick Xander about Buffy's state of mind. Depressed and worried about their future plans, Buffy is comforted by Dawn until the Knights attack. A sword through the roof nearly kills Buffy, but Spike stops it with his bare hands. While Buffy battles the Knights from the top of the RV, one knight impales Giles with a thrown spear, causing the RV to crash onto its side.
The Scoobies rush to an abandoned gas station, where Buffy fends off the attacking Knights until Willow erects a barrier spell. Meanwhile at the hospital, all those left crazy by Glory repeatedly mutter, "It's time."
Spike suggests to Xander that they run, but Buffy refuses to let anyone die. Buffy captures the General, who reveals Glory's plan to use Dawn's blood to open a portal and return to the dimension from which she was banished. Buffy is initially incredulous that Glory's plan is to simply return home, however the General explains that opening the portal will dissolve the boundaries between dimensions and destroy the universe. He also says that Glory shares her body with that of a mortal man, whose identity has never been discovered. In this lies Glory's only weakness; if the man is killed then Glory will also be destroyed. Buffy promises Dawn that she'll protect her.
Realizing that Giles is seriously injured, Buffy arranges a deal with the Knights to allow Ben to safely pass; he stabilizes Giles, and then is left alone with the General, who suspects Ben is an outsider and tempts him with the idea of killing Dawn. Ben realizes that Glory is about to take over his body, but before he can get outside the forcefield, Glory comes forth. She kills the General, fights off the Scooby Gang to take Dawn, and bursts through the forcefield. By the time Willow releases the field, Glory has disposed of all the Knights and disappeared with Dawn. Knowing they have to move fast, everyone heads for Ben's car to chase after Glory. Having lost Dawn to Glory after going through so much to protect her, Buffy suffers an emotional breakdown and collapses.
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"The Weight of the World"
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In her mind, Buffy explains to Willow that this was the moment when she gave up hope of defeating Glory and thereby "killed" her sister.

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 21
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
5ABB21
Original air date
May 15, 2001
Guest actors

Joel Grey as Doc
Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Dean Butler as Hank Summers
Lily Knight as Grodi
Bob Morrisey as Crazy Guy #1
Todd Duffey as Murk
Alexandra Lee as Young Buffy
Paul Bates as Crazy Guy #2
Carl J. Johnson as Crazy Guy #3
Matthew Lang as High Priest Minion

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"The Weight of the World" is the 21st episode of season 5 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In the episode, Willow tries to reach the Slayer, who has been rendered catatonic by Dawn's abduction. Meanwhile, the boundaries separating Ben and Glory begin to dissolve, and Glory is forced to deal with human emotion.


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Plot synopsis[edit]
Glory prepares for the ritual to open the portal, talking to her minions and Dawn, who is tied up and gagged on a chair. Spike reports that he can't see Glory anywhere, but the gang has a new problem as Buffy has been reduced to a state of catatonia. Spike tries to violently shake Buffy back to normal, which only leads to a fight with Xander, and Willow forces them apart with magic. Willow takes command and quickly formulates a plan with both Buffy and Giles incapacitated: the Scoobies are to return to Sunnydale, with Xander taking Giles to the hospital, Anya looking after Tara, and Spike tracking down Glory while Willow helps Buffy. After mentioning that Ben and Glory share a body, Spike realizes that Glory's magic makes the humans forget that bit of information every time it's revealed to them.
Glory first attempts to comfort a frightened Dawn, but starts to lose her cool as she realizes she's feeling guilty. With Anya looking after Tara, Willow performs a spell to enter the mind of the Slayer, where she finds herself talking to Buffy as a child. Willow witnesses Buffy's memory of baby Dawn being brought home by their parents Joyce and Hank.
At the hospital where Giles was getting care, Xander fills him in on Willow's plans. Spike reports that Glory has left her apartment. Dawn reveals to Glory that she remembers the transformation from Ben; this really worries Glory, as it implies Ben is closer to the surface than before. She asks to have Ben taken out of her body, but it is the punishment she must face for her crime. In Buffy's mind, Willow watches Buffy (now adult) shelve a book at the magic shop, followed by Buffy's memory of the First Slayer telling her that "death is [her] gift." At her house, Buffy calmly acknowledges that death is her gift, before going to Dawn's room and smothering the young girl with a pillow, much to Willow's horror.
Glory becomes Ben, who flees with Dawn. In Buffy's mind, the remembered scenes repeat endlessly.
Spike and Xander visit Doc for information on Glory but, noticing his shifty attempts to hide a small carved box, quickly find that he's playing for the other team. With his super speed and long tongue, Doc has the guys at a disadvantage. He throws the box into the fireplace and attacks. Spike is able to recover the box while Xander stabs the reptilian creature with a sword. Thinking that the creature is dead, the two leave with the box, but after they've gone, Doc's eyes open.
In Buffy's mind, before Buffy can go to kill Dawn again, Willow stops her and asks why.
A good distance away from Glory's hideout, Dawn breaks away from Ben and knocks him out with a chain; but this only allows Glory to re-emerge. Ben and Glory battle for control of the body until Glory strikes up a deal: if Ben cooperates in sacrificing Dawn, Glory will grant him immortality and an independent existence from her. Out of self-preservation, Ben agrees, and hands Dawn over to Glory's minions.
Willow asks Buffy what is the significance of the seemingly mundane scene of placing a book on a shelf. Buffy explains that was the exact moment when, in her heart, she gave up hope of defeating Glory. Buffy blames herself because she thinks that she is the reason Glory has Dawn and Dawn will soon die. Willow tells her that it's not over yet and she can still do something to stop it.
Buffy then returns to reality, crying and collapsing into Willow's arms. As they return to the magic shop, Xander tells Buffy that Ben and Glory are one and the same. After reviewing the information Spike stole from Doc, Giles reveals that a bloodletting ceremony will occur to open the portal, and once it begins there is only one way to stop it: Dawn must be killed.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy finally decides to confront Glory and save Dawn, leading to the events of season finale "The Gift". The episode also showcases for the first time the impact certain events have had on Buffy's life and her perspective.
It is revealed that the barrier between Ben and Glory is breaking down, allowing the Scoobies to retain the knowledge that the two share a body.
This is the first time that Buffy's "death wish" is seen. What Buffy tells Willow in her dream about realizing that Glory will win is highly reminiscent of what Spike has previously told Buffy about all slayers having a death wish.
Glory refers to Tara as a 'Nummy Treat' much like Spike did sarcastically about Xander in the previous season.
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"The Gift"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy sacrifices herself to save the world by jumping into the portal

Episode no.
Season 5
 Episode 22
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
5ABB22
Original air date
May 22, 2001
Guest actors

Clare Kramer as Glory
Charlie Weber as Ben
Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
Joel Grey as Doc
Todd Duffey as Murk
Craig Zimmerman as Minion #1
Josh Jacobson as Teen
Tom Kiesche as Vampire

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"The Gift" is the fifth season finale, and the 100th episode, of the fantasy-horror television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). It was the last episode to air on The WB Television Network and was labeled as the "series finale", though the show was immediately picked up by rival network UPN for an additional two seasons.
The premise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that an adolescent girl, Buffy Summers, is chosen by mystical forces and given superhuman powers to kill vampires, demons, and other evil creatures in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported by a close circle of family and friends, nicknamed the Scooby Gang. In "The Gift", Buffy refuses to accept that her sister Dawn's death is the only way to defeat the hell-god Glory and prepares to do battle. In the end, she discovers the meaning of her "gift".


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Themes
3 Continuity
4 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
The Scooby Gang considers plans to foil Glory, but can only suggest killing Buffy's sister Dawn before Glory uses her in the ritual, which Buffy refuses to consider. Anya suggests using the Dagon Sphere, which repels and confuses Glory, and the hammer of Olaf the troll. They hope to delay Glory until her deadline for completing the ritual has passed, preventing an apocalypse and making Dawn useless to her.
As Buffy trains with Giles, she reveals to him that the First Slayer told her, on her vision quest, that death was her gift, an idea she rejects. Buffy also notes that while she survived killing Angel despite loving him, losing Dawn will destroy her. Xander proposes to Anya.
Buffy and Spike gather weapons. She asks him to protect Dawn. Spike tells Buffy he knows she'll never love him, but is grateful that she treats him like a man rather than a monster. Glory's minions build a tower for the ritual to open the gates between dimensions.
Buffy and her allies confront Glory just as the ritual is to begin. Willow launches a magic attack, confusing and dazing Glory, while restoring Tara's sanity. Glory attacks Buffy, managing to destroy the Dagon sphere, thereby revealing she is actually fighting Buffy's robot double. Buffy attacks Glory with Olaf's Hammer, and Xander uses a crane to hit her with a wrecking ball. Buffy beats Glory until she reverts to Ben, but spares her, telling her to leave Sunnydale or die. However, the ritual set in motion continues, threatening apocalyptic destruction.
With the others' attention diverted, Giles kills Ben to prevent Glory's re-emergence. Glory's minions prevent Spike rescuing Dawn. Buffy reaches the top and frees the captive Dawn just as the portal between dimensions opens. Dawn is willing to sacrifice herself to seal the portal, but Buffy, realizing the true meaning of the First Slayer's revelation, in "Intervention," stops her. Buffy throws herself into the portal, which closes because of her sacrifice after it kills her. She is buried with an epitaph closing "She saved the world a lot."
Themes[edit]
In an essay on the ownership of evil, Erma Petrova argues that Giles murdering Ben is comparable to Willow murdering Warren - both victims are human, and their deaths are necessary to prevent further suffering. Although the moral ambiguity of killing Ben is discussed earlier in the episode, as well as Ben's innocence ("I know he's an innocent, but...not like 'Dawn' innocent"), Giles is never shown to have feelings of guilt afterwards; he did what needed to be done. Contrast this with Willow's guilt over murdering Warren in a spirit of revenge, a theme that persists until the end of the series. Petrova feels the difference for Giles is that killing Ben is his only option - the police wouldn't understand the danger, Buffy is morally unable to take a human life, and leaving him alive presents too great a risk. Willow, however, had other options available and yet chose to murder Warren anyway.[1]
Giles recognizes that Buffy, as a hero, lives by a more demanding moral code than most people. Her unique role and abilities confer special responsibilities, including moral rules by which Giles is not bound.[2] When Ben marvels, "She could have killed me", Giles disagrees: "No she couldn’t. Never... She’s a hero, you see. She’s not like us." However, in an essay on the ethics in this episode, C. W. Marshall claims that Giles actually exhibits heroism, as his murder of Ben serves a greater good and protects those he loves.[3]
Continuity[edit]


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When Xander states, "Smart chicks are so hot," Willow asks, "You couldn't have figured that out in 10th grade?", a reminder of her long-time infatuation with Xander in high school.
Xander proposes to his love, Anya.
In the episode "Once More With Feeling" Dawn repeats what Buffy had said to her before she died: "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."
Rupert Giles thinks the Scoobies are dealing with their sixth apocalypse, and that "it feels like a hundred." This is Buffy's hundredth episode. Previous demonic attempts to destroy Earth include: "The Harvest"
"Prophecy Girl"
"Becoming, Part Two"
"The Zeppo"
"Doomed"

Arc significance[edit]


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Buffy's death becomes her second on-screen death.
Spike is invited back into Buffy's home after being banned in "Crush". His invite is not taken away even after his attack on Buffy in season six.
Spike's statement to Buffy on the staircase that she will never love him mirrors his last words to her in "Chosen".
Crossover with Angel: in "I Will Remember You", the Oracles told Angel that Buffy would die.
Crossover with Angel: In the final scene of "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb", Willow goes to Los Angeles to tell Angel and his crew that Buffy is dead.
The Key ceases to be significant; as Dawn says in the next episode, "I'm not the Key. Or if I am, I don't open anything anymore." In "Storyteller", Andrew Wells says, "Dawn used to be a key. I don't really know what that means."
Glory is defeated and dies, ending her reign as the "Big Bad" of season five. However, her death would allow the First Evil to take her form, in the seventh season premiere episode "Lessons."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Petrova, Erma (March 2003), "'You cannot run from your darkness.' / 'Who says I'm running?': Buffy and the Ownership of Evil", Refractory 2
2.Jump up ^ Kawal, Jason (2003). "Should We Do What Buffy Would Do?". In James B. South (ed.). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court Publishing. p. 157.
3.Jump up ^ Marshall, C. W. (August 9, 2003), "Aeneas the Vampire Slayer: A Roman Model for Why Giles Kills Ben", Slayage 9
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Gift
"The Gift" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Gift" at TV.com


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