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"Lessons"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Lessons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).jpg
Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 1
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
7ABB01
Original air date
September 24, 2002
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Alex Breckenridge as Kit Holburn
D. B. Woodside as Principal Wood
Kali Rocha as Halfrek
Mark Metcalf as The First/The Master
Juliet Landau as The First/Drusilla
Harry Groener as The First/Mayor Richard Wilkins
George Hertzberg as The First/Adam
Clare Kramer as The First/Glory
Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears
David Zepeda as Carlos Trejo

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 "Beneath You"

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"Lessons" is the first episode of the seventh season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dawn finds vengeful spirits in the new Sunnydale High while Giles is rehabilitating Willow in England.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast 2.1 Starring
2.2 Special Guest Starring
2.3 Guest Starring
3 Production
4 Trivia
5 Pop culture allusions
6 Arc significance
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
Istanbul: A dark-haired girl runs through an arched hallway, looking over her shoulder and panting. She's being chased by two people in hooded cloaks. After trying various escape routes, she is trapped in a dead-end. She sees a drain pipe and tries to use it to scale the building. The people chasing her grab her foot, but she manages to escape their grip and easily climbs up to the roof. There, another hooded figure is waiting and pushes her off the building. She screams, but she lands on the ground alive, on her back. Two hooded figures hold her down, yet she fights back. A third figure raises an arched, shiny, silver dagger and stabs her.
Buffy is in Sunnydale training her sister how to fight vampires. She instructs Dawn that fighting and slaying are about power. They discuss the fact that Sunnydale High has just reopened; Dawn will be attending for the first time.
Meanwhile, Willow is studying with Giles in Westbury, England. She studies magic and meditation with a coven of Wiccans that Giles knows. She is learning control, but feels frightened and distraught because she "killed people".[1]
Xander is working construction at Sunnydale High School. He notes that the principal's office is right over the Hellmouth. Buffy follows Dawn into the school where she meets Principal Robin Wood. She goes into a bathroom, where she finds a mysterious talisman. Upon seeing the talisman, she sees a dead girl who threatens her. She says Buffy was unable to protect her, and that she will not be able to protect Dawn either.
Anya is still in the vengeance business, and is drinking coffee with her fellow vengeance demon Halfrek. "Hallie" tells Anya that the other demons are noticing a lack of quality in her work. She adds, "Something's rising. Something older than the old ones, and everybody's tail is twitching. This is a bad time to be a good guy."[1]
Buffy tries to warn Dawn, but winds up only embarrassing her in front of her whole class. Dawn then sees a similar dead student. She hurries to the bathroom where she meets Kit Holbum, who has also been seeing things. They are about to leave the bathroom when the floor caves in and they wind up in the high school basement.
Back in England, Willow has a terrible vision of "the Earth's teeth"—the Hellmouth. She tells Giles, who has taught her that everything is connected, that not everything that is connected to the earth is good.
Dawn and Kit run into another student in the basement, Carlos Trejo, who says he saw a dead janitor. They are soon confronted by the three dead people. The dead people tell them that everyone dies in Sunnydale, and they will be no different. Dawn calls Buffy on her new cell phone. Buffy descends into the basement to help Dawn, only to run into the three dead people herself. After a brief conversation (the dead girl, for example, says that she "was ripped to death by a werewolf"), Buffy realizes that the three dead people are trying to prevent her from going through a certain door. Buffy makes it to the door on her second try. She opens the door, but instead of finding Dawn and the other two students, Buffy finds a deranged Spike.
Once Buffy and Spike are alone in this part of the basement, Buffy having locked the dead people out on the other side of the door, she realizes that not only is Spike in a poor mental state, he is in terrible physical condition as well. She asks him about a series of cuts on his chest, and he replies that he tried to "cut it out". Before their conversation can continue, Dawn calls Buffy again. In spite of Spike's mad rambling, he is able to tell Buffy that the dead students are not zombies or 'ghosts', but "manifest spirits controlled by a talisman, raised to seek vengeance."[1] Buffy tells Dawn to find a weapon because the spirits are corporeal, and then leaves Spike's presence once she realizes that he is in no shape to help her.
Buffy then calls Xander and tells him to find and destroy the talisman. Buffy follows Dawn's screams to another room in the basement, where she finds Dawn has made a weapon from a purse filled with bricks. Dawn throws the weapon to Buffy, who then fights the spirits off as Xander wrestles with one in the bathroom after finding the talisman. Xander breaks the talisman and the spirits disappear.
Back in the school proper, Buffy sends Dawn, Kit, and Carlos off to class with some words of advice. ("School is intense, but you'll do all right as long as you're careful. And you might want to think about sticking together." However, Kit and Carlos do not appear in later episodes.) Principal Wood is impressed that Buffy is able to convince Kit and Carlos, the only two students with school records as long as Buffy's, to socialize and to go to class. He offers her a job working as a counselor at the school, and she gladly accepts.
Spike huddles in the school basement and tells an apparition of Warren Mears that he has prepared a speech to give Buffy, but she will not understand what he has to say. As Warren paces around Spike, he morphs successively into Glory, Adam, Mayor Wilkins, Drusilla and the Master - the previous villians of the series in reverse order. They all speak to Spike about a plan "to go back to the beginning," and finally, the Master morphs into Buffy, telling Spike that "it's not about right, not about wrong... it's about power."
Cast[edit]
Starring[edit]
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers/The First Evil
Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
James Marsters as Spike
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Special Guest Starring[edit]
Anthony Head as Rupert Giles
Guest Starring[edit]
DB Woodside as Robin Wood
Alex Breckenridge as Kit Holburn
Kali Rocha as Halfrek
Mark Metcalf as The First/The Master
Juliet Landau as The First/Drusilla
Harry Groener as The First/Richard Wilkins
George Hertzberg as The First/Adam
Clare Kramer as The First/Glory
Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears
David Zepeda as Carlos Trejo
Production[edit]
The scenes set in Westbury were actually shot at Anthony Head's house in Somerset, England. He owns the horse seen in the episode, and it is named "Otto".[2]
Kali Rocha filmed all of her scenes for this season in one day, including those in "Selfless".
Trivia[edit]
Willow says that her helpers in the coven look at her as though "I'm gonna turn them all into bangers and mash, or something." Bangers and mash is a traditional English dish, consisting of sausages (bangers) and mashed potatoes.[3]
As Buffy, Dawn and her friends are exiting the basement, Buffy comments that the school seems 'a bit smaller,' which is the same comment Willow and Xander make as they walk through the charred remains in season 4.
Halfrek says, "Do I have to mention Mrs. Czolgosz?"[3] A writer at the BuffyGuide.com site says, "Czolgosz...assasinated President William McKinley at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in September 1901. In 1900, Czolgosz, then 23, married Emma Wisemki, a 17-year-old German immigrant whom he had apparently gotten pregnant... Stephen Sondheim, of whom Joss Whedon is a big fan, wrote about this event in "The Ballad of Czolgosz" in his musical Assassins.[3]
Spike's in the basement of the newly refurbished Sunnydale High, The First appears before him as a host of former villains: Warren, Glory, Adam, the Mayor, Drusilla and Buffy's first big bad, the Master, and since it's able to appear as those who have died, its last manifestation is as Buffy herself.
This is the only time that Spike and the Master appear together, though the Master is only a manifestation of the First, and Spike and the Master never actually met onscreen. Spike and Mayor Wilkins have not met onscreen, either.
In season 6's DVD extras, the cast appeared on Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Panel Discussion. Here Michelle Trachtenberg said that she'd been begging Whedon to let her character wear black, seeing as she'd never been allowed to in order to keep her looking youthful and innocent. Dawn is seen wearing almost all black here on her first day of school.
Pop culture allusions[edit]
Willow says to Giles that "you go all Dumbledore on me."
Dawn says, "Check out double-O Xander," referring to James Bond, code name 007.
When Xander teasingly asks Buffy how you "make" cereal, she says, "I saw it on The Food Channel."
As Dawn leaves Buffy in the High School, she references The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man": "I know: You never know what's coming. The stake is not the power. To Serve Man is a cookbook. I love you. Go away."[1][4]
Dawn tells her teacher and class, "I'm very into Britney Spears' early work."
Principal Wood says, "Curiouser and curiouser." This is a reference to the 1865 Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Chapter Two begins with Alice exclaiming, "Curiouser and curiouser!"[3][5]
Arc significance[edit]
The First comments, in the guise of Buffy, that everything is about 'Power' (which is the theme of season seven[6]). This is a conclusion that Buffy herself comes to twice: once while facing Glory and then again in the series finale.
The First makes its first appearance since season 3, where it was seen tormenting the first vampire with a soul, Angel.
The First was able to come back to attempt the annihilation of the Slayer line through Buffy's resurrection, which was carried out at the beginning of the 6th season by Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Whedon, Joss (September 24, 2002). "Buffy Episode #123: "Lessons" Transcript". BuffyWorld. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Head, Anthony (2002). "Interviews: Anthony Stewart Head: Horse power". BBC. 
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Lessons". BuffyGuide. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
4.Jump up ^ Ostow, Micol; Brezenoff, Steven (2003). The Quotable Buffy. New York: Simon Pulse. p. 112. ISBN 0743410173.
5.Jump up ^ Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0.
6.Jump up ^ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 DVD. Writer/Director Commentary for Lessons. 20th Century Fox. 2002-2003.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Lessons
"Lessons" at the Internet Movie Database
"Lessons" at TV.com


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Beneath You
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"Beneath You"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Spike lays himself on a cross letting it burn him after Buffy realizes he got his soul back

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 2
Directed by
Nick Marck
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
7ABB02
Original air date
October 1, 2002
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Kaarina Aufranc as Nancy
D.B. Woodside as Principal Wood
Tess Hall as Punk Girl
Benita Krista Nall as Young Woman
Jack Sundmacher as Ronnie

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"Beneath You" is the second episode of the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Trivia
4 Continuity
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Frankfurt, Germany: A young woman races frantically down deserted corridors above a bustling nightclub. Hooded figures similar to the robed men from the previous episode follow her. She dashes through an exterior door, scales down the building, and, believing herself safe, leaves the building at the street level. Robed pursuers appear and push her back through the door. One of the robed figures pulls a long curved dagger. She blocks his swing, but misses the next. The assassins re-sheath their daggers and depart. The young woman opens her deadened eyes and says in a deep, inhuman voice, "From beneath you, it devours."
Dawn awakens Buffy from the nightmare in which she witnessed the German woman's murder and Buffy questions the meaning of her dream. Elsewhere in Sunnydale, something large tears through the ground. Spike sneaks around in the school basement he calls home, seemingly headed for a rat while he speaks aloud. Everything around him begins to shake and he falls to the ground, screaming. Xander drives Buffy and Dawn to school and they talk about high school and Xander's relationship problems.
Principal Wood introduces Buffy to her new job and cubicle where she'll be working. Buffy sneaks down to the basement in search of Spike, but doesn't find him. In England, Willow struggles with the need to return to Sunnydale where she'll be forced to face her friends and the trouble she caused. A taxi awaits her as Giles listens to her verbalize her fears and he convinces her that even if her friends don't want her back, her presence on the Hellmouth will be important. Back in Sunnydale, a woman walks her small dog along the sidewalk, but while her back is turned, something sucks the dog through the pavement and into the ground. She runs away and right into Xander, who takes her to the safety of Buffy's house.
The remaining Scooby Gang console the woman, Nancy, and promise to deal with this unusual creature. Much to everyone's surprise, a cleaned up version of Spike joins them in the living room and offers his assistance in the battle. Spike wants to talk with Buffy, but Dawn and Xander are not happy to see him or with the fact that Buffy didn't inform them that she saw Spike earlier. Buffy goes to talk with Spike privately and he offers to help deal with this underground monster. Buffy eventually agrees to let him help, then explains the game plan to the rest of the group. As Spike leaves with Buffy for patrol, Dawn leaves him with a parting threat that if he ever again harms or touches Buffy, Dawn will set him on fire the next time he goes to sleep. Spike is somewhat unnerved by this which is surprising since Spike is usually not easily frightened.
While examining the scene where the dog was eaten, Spike explains that the manifest spirits from the school were the cause of his temporary insanity. Buffy is uncomfortable around him and he doesn't bother apologizing for what he did, just admits to changing. Meanwhile, Xander takes Nancy home and she asks if they can go out sometime. The ground rumbles and a giant worm chases them down a hallway and emerges from the ground with a roar. Once the worm goes away and the two are safe, Nancy starts to talk about her abusive ex-boyfriend and Xander quickly concludes that she made a wish to a vengeance demon.
Buffy and the gang confront Anya at the Bronze and get her to admit to making Nancy's ex-boyfriend Ronnie into a Sluggoth monster. Nancy learns that Buffy and Spike, Spike and Anya, and Anya and Xander had been involved. She asks if anyone there hadn't slept together. Spike and Xander look at each other, knowingly. Anya suddenly realizes that Spike has a soul, but Spike tries to stop her from spilling the news to the rest of the group. He starts to attack Anya and she turns on him, using her vengeance demon strength. Buffy steps in and beats up on Spike while he hits back with a verbal assault of what he did instead of his fists. The fight sends Nancy on the run alone, but her wormy ex-boyfriend is hot on her trail. Meanwhile, Xander tries to convince Anya to reverse the curse on Ronnie, but it's not something she can do easily.
Buffy arrives in time to rescue Nancy from certain death and before Buffy can begin to battle with the giant worm, Spike intervenes. After a few hits with a metal pole, he goes to stab the worm only to have it turn back into Ronnie's human form before Spike makes contact. Both guys scream in pain as Spike stabs Ronnie in the shoulder. Spike starts to freak out and act crazy again while Buffy calls the paramedics to help Ronnie. Anya and Xander arrive on the scene and Anya knows she will pay a steep price for reversing the spell.
Buffy chases after Spike and finds him in a church. He's confused and speaks metaphors of what he really is to Buffy. He concludes that she's there to use him like she did before, but Buffy is quick to correct him. He unbuckles his belt telling her that it's time to service the girl. He grabs her throat; she throws him across the room. He tries to explain what he did, to get the missing piece that would allow him to become what she wanted, and that Angel should have warned him of the consequences. Buffy then understands that he got his soul back and is shocked by the revelation. Spike continues to speak of all the voices that are in his head, those of the people he tortured and killed as a vampire, and also that of coming evil beneath. Buffy asks him why he got his soul back, and Spike replies that it was for her forgiveness. Spike turns to a large cross at the front of the church and drapes himself onto it, letting it burn him. Tears flow down Buffy's cheeks as she looks on, as Spike asks "Can we rest now, Buffy?"
Cultural references[edit]
The lyrics of the techno music that plays in the opening sequence are sung by Birgit Strunz of the German darkwave band Stillste Stund. They are Von der Tiefe verschlingt es, a rough translation of From the depth it devours.
The pink-haired girl running in the opening scene bears a resemblance to the scarlet-haired heroine of the German film Run Lola Run. Not only that, but the techno track played in this scene closely resembles the main track played throughout "Run Lola Run"
The wormlike monster seen in this episode is widely similar to those seen in Tremors.
Trivia[edit]
Spike can be seen chasing a rat to eat. This mimics Angel's past, as when he was imbued with a soul he also chased down rats to eat.
Continuity[edit]
Buffy asks Principal Wood if she can impose detention, echoing Willow's question when asked to take over Jenny Calendar's class ("Passion").
Principal Wood says that the students will "eat you alive" and Buffy asks him if he's heard of what happened to Principal Flutie, who was eaten alive by four hyena-possessed students students in the Season 1 episode 'The Pack'
Buffy learns Spike has a soul which will play a major part in the show's series finale.
The phrase "From beneath you, it devours" is heard for the first time. It will recur throughout Season 7.
Buffy dreams about the Potential being killed, and mentions that there are more like her out there. This is the first hint anyone in Sunnydale has about the larger mission of the First against the Potentials.
Anya's friction with the rest of the demon world is made known to the rest of the group.
Giles urges Willow to end her training with the coven in England and return to Sunnydale.
Principal Wood mentions that he is vegetarian and therefore has never eaten at the Doublemeat Palace, though (secretly) the hamburgers there contain almost no meat.
The episode title could be a reference to "Fool for Love" when Cecily in Spike's past and Buffy in present time says that he is "beneath them".
"Since when did you become the champion of the people?", Buffy asks Spike, which foreshadows his death in the last episode of the series, when he uses the amulet and dies a hero.
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Same Time, Same Place
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"Same Time, Same Place"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Xander, Dawn and Buffy appear in the same place as Willow is at the same time due to Willow's unintentional spell

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 3
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
7ABB03
Original air date
October 8, 2002
Guest actors

Camden Toy as Gnarl
Anthony S. Johnson as Father
Matt Koruba as Teen Boy
Nicholette Dixon as Sister
Marshe Daniel as Brother

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"Same Time, Same Place" is the third episode of the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Casting
3 Trivia
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
At the airport, Buffy, Dawn, and Xander wait for Willow to get off her plane and talk about how uncomfortable they feel about the situation. The plane clears, but the three don't see Willow. The scene repeats as Willow gets off the plane, but she doesn't see her friends waiting for her. A young man spray paints a wall of a construction site as a demon taunts him from the shadows and then attacks the frightened man.
Willow lets herself into the Summers house, which appears to be vacant of her friends. Going up to what used to be her room, but now has been claimed by Buffy, Willow remembers the last time she was in the room. A door closes and Willow goes to investigate, but still her friends are nowhere to be seen. Alone, Willow curls up on the couch. Buffy, Xander, and Dawn return home and after talking about how Willow did leave England, but she had opportunities to divert to a location other than Sunnydale. They hear a noise upstairs and check it out, but find nothing. In the living room, the three talk about the reason for Willow's disappearance.
The next morning, Willow walks over to the magic shop and finds Anya cleaning up the magic shop. Anya is very cold to her and Willow feels guilty about everything. They talk a bit and Anya fills Willow in on everyone's activities since she's been gone. Willow checks out Xander's construction site and instead of Xander, she finds a skinned body. At the same time, Xander and Buffy are looking at the body and the familiar sight makes them wonder if Willow is back after all. Unbeknownst to them, a disgusted Willow climbs a ladder to exit the site.
Willow walks the halls of Sunnydale High and proceeds down to the basement where she finds Spike acting insanely. He talks to Willow about the dead body, but also carries on a conversation with something else in the room Willow can't see. Buffy and Xander maneuver through the basement and find Spike seemingly talking to himself. Buffy and Xander try to get information from him, but Spike is simultaneously conversing with Willow, so his words make little sense. Spike suspects they can't see each other and that Willow's responsible for it. Buffy and Xander interpret some of Spike's comments to mean that he knows about Willow and they suspect she might have something to do with Spike's unstable condition.
Willow goes to Anya at her apartment for help in finding the demon that skinned the man at the construction site. Anya helps Willow cast a spell to locate demons all over Sunnydale. After the spell is complete, Willow asks Anya to teleport to one particular location to a cave just outside of the town. But Anya reveals that she can't for non-vengeance business as a result of her recently undoing a spell. Instead, Willow takes the long way and walks there herself. At the Summers house, Dawn immediately begins searching on the computer for demons that skin people. Although Buffy thinks it's a waste of time, Dawn soon finds a demon that meets their specifications named Gnarl. The demon paralyzes its victims with its nails, and then eats strips of skin from the body and drinks the blood.
Realizing they need to search for a trail of blood, Buffy decides to recruit Spike to smell the way. He leads them to a cave where the demon can be found. Willow is already there investigating the cave and Gnarl spots her. The rest of the gang enters the cave as well, but they don't see Willow. The demon scratches Dawn's stomach and paralyzes her. Buffy and Xander take Dawn out of the cave and cover up the entrance, unintentionally trapping Willow with Gnarl. Stuck in the cave, Willow listens to the demon taunt her from the shadows. He slices her abdomen with a nail and, thus paralyzed, Willow is helpless against him as he sucks at the wound and starts to slice away slivers of her skin to eat.
Buffy and Xander carry a completely paralyzed Dawn into the living room while Buffy researches Gnarl and the way to save Dawn. Anya is called to stay with Dawn while they prepare to return to the cave to kill the demon and save Dawn. Anya talks about seeing Willow and reveals that Willow may be at the cave, whilst she moves a paralysed Dawn into funny poses. Panicked that Willow is trapped in the cave, Buffy grabs Anya to join them at the cave. Once Anya reveals that she knows about Gnarl, Buffy insists she come along. Gnarl continues to eat Willow's skin as he tells her that her friends have abandoned her and she's all alone for him to eat. Buffy arrives and attacks Gnarl while Anya tends to a badly injured Willow who still can't see her friends. While Buffy fights Gnarl, Anya informs Willow that her friends didn't leave her alone.
Buffy pokes the demon in the eyes with her thumbs, successfully killing it and ending the paralysis of both Willow and Dawn. Buffy and Xander look where they think Willow is while Anya runs for help, and slowly the spell making them invisible to each other wears off. Willow is relieved to see her friends and glad that they didn't abandon her.
In the morning, Willow meditates and uses magic from the earth to re-grow the skin she lost. Buffy stops by and talks with Willow. Willow reveals that her fear of seeing her friends and their judgment of her led to the invisibility problem from which they all were suffering. Buffy confesses that she briefly suspected Willow of the grotesque killing, but Willow doesn't blame her for that. Willow struggles to start meditating again, but she's still weak. Buffy offers her Slayer strength to her friend and joins in the meditation.
Production details[edit]
Casting[edit]
Camden Toy, the actor who portrayed the flesh-eating demon Gnarl, had previously portrayed one of the 'Gentlemen' in the season four episode, "Hush". He also had a recurring role of the "Ubervamp" Turok-Han, as well as playing the Nosferatu-like character "The Prince of Lies" in the Angel episode "Why We Fight".
Trivia[edit]
When Willow asks Anya to help her do a demon locator spell, Anya asks her, "This isn't gonna get all sexy, is it?" The question alludes to the use of magic in seasons four to six (in scenes involving Willow and her now-deceased girlfriend, Tara Maclay) to represent lesbian sex. One of the candles used carries the Chinese character for love.
The demon "Gnarl" is said, by Dawn, to be a parasite because he eats the flesh of his victims until they die. This is actually incorrect; parasites do not kill their victims. Gnarl is a parasitoid. He eventually kills his "host" or victim.
Dawn mentions to Buffy, "and I can wear heels more often." The comment could be a reference to Michelle Trachtenberg's desire to wear heels instead of sneakers in season seven, which she mentioned to Joss Whedon during an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences panel discussion with cast and crew.
This is the only episode of the series not to feature any guest stars billed at the start of the episode.
When Spike says, "What's a word that means 'glowing'...gotta rhyme," it is an allusion to the episode "Fool for Love" in which Spike, in a flashback as a human, was trying to think of a word that rhymes with "gleaming" for a poem he was writing on the night he was turned into a vampire. And when he needed a word to rhyme with "bulge in it" and the word he ends up using is "effulgent" which means "Shining brilliantly, resplendent." He is teased by the party guests and the object of his affection, Cecily (who is in actuality vengeance demon Halfrek,) for the use of this word. Spike recites this poem at a dive bar in the final episode, "Not Fade Away," of the spin-off series "Angel."
When Spike is talking to the separated scoobies in the basement, he says "Button, button, who's got the button?", which is an exact quotation of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Continuity[edit]
Xander waits for Willow at the airport with a welcome back sign written in yellow crayon. This is a callback to the time in "Grave" when Xander mentioned to Dark Willow that she cried in kindergarten after breaking a yellow crayon.
Anya is seen cleaning up the debris from the Magic Box following the events of "Grave".
Willow and Anya are seen performing another spell together like they did in the season three episode "Doppelgangland".
During the spell the area that represents the Highschool, on the map, starts to burn up due to the vast number of dots. This is an early indication of The First's army of Turok-Hans within the Hellmouth.
On the map of Sunnydale, the location of the Demon is labeled Wilkins Grove, after Mayor Wilkins
Arc significance[edit]
Willow returns to Sunnydale.
Anya's falling out with the demon community continues (she can no longer idly teleport).
This is the first instance of Dawn fully participating in a "Scooby-hunt", taking the role of a backup/replacement for Giles in researching.
External links[edit]
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"Help"
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Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 4
Directed by
Rick Rosenthal
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
7ABB04
Original air date
October 15, 2002
Guest actors

Azura Skye as Cassie Newton
Zachery Ty Bryan as Peter Nichols
Glenn Morshower as Mr. Newton
Rick Gonzalez as Tomas
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
D.B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
J Barton as Mike Helgenburg
Daniel Dehring as Red Robed #1
AJ Wedding as Red Robed #2
Marcie Lynn Ross as Dead Woman

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"Help" is the fourth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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

Plot[edit]
Once the lights are turned out at a funeral home, Buffy, Xander and Dawn climb out of caskets. They chat about Buffy's nervousness about her new job and the struggle she may face while trying to balance her Slayer job with her duties as a school counselor. In one of the caskets, the three find a deceased woman that they suspect of being a vampire, and rightfully so, as the woman comes to life and is promptly staked. At the high school the next day, Buffy talks with various students who all have their own problems ranging from trouble with bullies and violence to boredom. Willow and Xander walk together and talk about Buffy's struggles and Willow's worries about her role in dealing with the impending Hellmouth danger. With Xander's support, Willow walks towards Tara's grave.
Buffy talks with more students, including her own sister, but one girl Cassie Newton stuns Buffy when she confesses that she's going to die next Friday and that there will be lots of coins. As she leaves for class, Cassie compliments Buffy's shirt and warns her against spilling something on it. Buffy reports Cassie to Principal Wood, but he's not as helpful as she'd like. After spilling coffee onto her white shirt, Buffy is apprehensive and sends Dawn to befriend Cassie. Dawn catches up with Cassie and they talk about Cassie's friend Mike who has continuously asked Cassie to an upcoming dance and been rejected every time.
Willow investigates Cassie on the computer, and finds Cassie's website filled with sad, morbid poetry. Though Buffy is convinced that Cassie has a precognitive ability, Xander and Willow however, both skeptical despite their experience with the paranormal. Dawn returns home from school and thinks the reason for Cassie's problem is Mike, but Buffy and the others don't pay much attention. Willow finds a website on Cassie's father that shows his troubled past with the law and alcohol. Buffy and Xander visit Cassie's father and confront him with their suspicion that he may get drunk and hurt his daughter. Mr. Newton confidently denies the accusation after he goes on about how his ex-wife only allows him to spend one weekend a month with his daughter. Buffy then finds out that Mr. Newton's weekend with Cassie was the previous one, therefore not only does he not have the chance to hurt Cassie but if Cassie's prediction is true then he will not see her again before her death. Satisfied that Mr. Newton is not involved, Buffy and Xander leave and bump into Cassie. She had been waiting for them outside of her father's house, and although she appreciates Buffy's efforts to find the cause, she knows there's nothing Buffy can do. Xander asks her if she's planning to kill herself, but Cassie denies it. She talks about all the things she wishes she could do and makes it clear that she doesn't want to die; it's just what is going to happen on Friday.
Meanwhile, a group of guys in red cloaks walk around a circle and burn pictures of Cassie on a tray in the middle. Still motivated to help Cassie, Buffy reads poetry from Cassie's site and continues to investigate with the rest of the gang despite their skepticism, and Dawn become closed with Cassie and Mike. Buffy goes to the school basement and asks a still insane Spike if he knows anything about Cassie. He doesn't. As Buffy turns to leave, Spike asks her to stay, but she tells him that her presence seems to worsen his condition and leaves.
Upstairs, Principal Wood and another administrator search through student lockers for anything suspicious. Buffy catches Mike in the halls and stops him to see if he may have intentions of hurting Cassie because she rejected him. He makes it clear he doesn't mind and is thinking about asking Dawn instead. Coins fall from one of the lockers, drawing Buffy's attention. Buffy takes one of the coins and the number of the locker where they came from and talks to the student the locker belongs to. The student confesses that some of his friends want to hurt Cassie.
Dawn and Cassie walk away from the school as Cassie reveals how she knows Buffy sent Dawn to befriend Cassie. However, Cassie then states that it doesn't matter as the two are now clearly real friends. Just then a student named Peter approaches, and Cassie, knowing she won't see Dawn again, tells Dawn that nothing that is about to happen is her fault. Peter asks Dawn about the dance but not to ask her to go with him. When an irritated Dawn turns back toward Cassie, she is gone. At the school that night, the cloaked group gathers again around a circle of coins and one of the boys reveals to be Peter. He checks with the others to make sure the school is secure and that no one can get in or out. Then, he pulls a bound, blindfolded and gagged Cassie out to the circle and holds a meat cleaver to her neck. She is to be sacrificed to a demon that will provide the boys with "infinite riches".
As Peter starts the ritual, Buffy reveals herself as one of the cloaked people. She doesn't think the ritual was a success but a large demon appears behind her, proving her wrong. Buffy fights the demon and Spike shows up with a flaming torch to help, having temporarily regained his sanity. Buffy uses the torch to burn the demon while Spike cuts Cassie free from her bonds. After he rips her gag off, Cassie says to him, "Someday she'll tell you." Desperately, Peter drags himself toward the fried demon, demanding his money. The burned demon leans up and bites Peter on the shoulder once before exploding into dust.
Buffy and Cassie walk away together, leaving Peter on his own. A crossbow booby trap set by one of the cloaked boys nearly kills Cassie but Buffy stops the bolt. Buffy tells Cassie that one person can make a difference, to which Cassie responds, "And you will," before gasping and falling to the ground, dead. The next day, the Scooby Gang gathers at Revello Drive and solemnly talks about how Cassie died because of a congenital heart defect. She was always going to die, no matter what happened, and Cassie knew that Buffy would be at her side when her prediction came true. Buffy feels that she has failed, but a devastated Dawn corrects her, saying Buffy didn't fail since she tried to save Cassie; it was because of her that Dawn and Cassie were friends. The gang are now convinced as Buffy of Cassie's unique gift, all sadly realize that even though they may be able to avert outcomes, but unable to alter fate. Buffy returns to work, knowing that while she will always try her best, sometimes she just can't help people.
Cultural references[edit]
Cassie is seen reading the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five, whose main character knows in advance when he is going to die.
The wiggling tattoo made light of early in the episode is likely a reference to "Petunia" of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, of which Michelle Trachtenberg was a cast member.
When Buffy says that heavy metal music is the key to "raising lame demons", she means to refer to Blue Öyster Cult instead of "Blue Clam Cult".
Cassie is often short for "Cassandra". In Greek mythology, Cassandra was doomed to foresee the future, but never to be believed.
When Willow is talking about the kind of things teenagers do on the internet she refers to posting love poems and creating Doogie Howser fan fiction. The star of Doogie Howser is Neil Patrick Harris who would later star alongside Alyson Hannigan in How I Met Your Mother, and alongside future potential slayer Felicia Day in Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Willow's question to Buffy, "Have you Googled her yet?", is the earliest use of Google as a verb on American television.[1]
Continuity[edit]
The First Evil uses the form of Cassie in the episode "Conversations with Dead People".
Willow once more shows her Jewish heritage, putting stones over Tara's grave instead of flowers.
When Buffy said that she usually do not get a warning beforehand when someone is about die during a conversation with Principal Wood, Buffy nearly make reference to the episode "Prophecy Girl," when she discovered a prophecy that she would die at the hands of The Master.
Arc significance[edit]
All of Cassie's predictions that don't come to pass in this episode do so later in the season.
Amanda is seen for the first time in this episode talking to Buffy after beating up a student. She will eventually be revealed as a Potential Slayer.
When Cassie tells Spike, "Someday she'll tell you", it alludes to the finale when Buffy says to Spike that she loves him.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Arthur, Charles (2012). Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet. Kogan Page Publishers. p. 48. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
External links[edit]
"Help" at the Internet Movie Database
"Help" at TV.com


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Selfless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Selfless"
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Anya is impaled by Buffy's sword

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 5
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Drew Goddard
Production code
7ABB05
Original air date
October 22, 2002
Guest actors

Abraham Benrubi as Olaf the Troll
Andy Umberger as D'Hoffryn
Kali Rocha as Halfrek
Joyce Guy as Professor Hawkins
Jennifer Shon as Rachel
Taylor Sutherland as Villager #1
Marybeth Scherr as Villager #2
Alessandro Mastrobuono as Villager #3
Daniel Spanton as Viking #1
John Timmons as Viking #2

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"Selfless" is the fifth episode of the seventh and final season of television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Flashbacks
2 Production details 2.1 Music
2.2 Fullscreen vs. widescreen
3 Trivia
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Anya finally gets back into her old vengeance demon ways by helping a girl get revenge on an entire fraternity by having a spider demon tear their hearts out. Willow, returning to college, discovers this and she, Buffy and Xander fear the worst of Anya.
While Buffy is determined to kill Anya, Xander cannot believe she could do such a thing, as he is still in love with her. Anya, meanwhile, is feeling deep remorse about the event - even though Halfrek tries to convince her that what she did was a work of art.
Buffy and Xander track Anya back to the Frat house, where the two women fight. Buffy stabs Anya, seemingly killing her, but Anya's demon side prevents her from dying. Xander begs Buffy to stop, and Anya realizes that she does not want to be a demon anymore. Willow has called forth Anya's boss D'Hoffryn, using the amulet he gave her while trying to recruit her as Anya's replacement. When he interrupts the fight between her and Buffy, Anya begs him to reverse the spell she did - even though she knows the cost of reversing such a spell is the life and soul of a vengeance demon.
Anya is ready to die, even if Xander does not want her to, but D'Hoffryn instead summons Halfrek and kills her. He wants Anya to feel the pain and suffer for leaving him. A distraught Anya leaves, Xander attempting to follow her. She is now alone.
Flashbacks[edit]
c. 880, when Anya's lover Olaf comes home and she suspects him of infidelity
880, when Anya first became a demon, after turning her lover Olaf into a troll
1905, when Anya and Halfrek were involved in the onset of the Russian Revolution of 1905
2001, a few months before Anya and Xander's failed wedding, during part of "Once More, With Feeling"
Production details[edit]
Music[edit]
In a flashback to the musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", two new songs are heard, both written by Joss Whedon.
"Mrs." - sung by Anya (Emma Caulfield). It was arranged and produced by Douglas Romayne, with orchestrations by Wataru Hokoyama. In the song, Xander has fallen asleep and Anya muses over how good her life will be once she becomes Mrs. Xander Harris. One of the lyrics briefly references marital doubt similar to the number the two sing in the original episode, "I'll Never Tell": "He's my Xander and he's awfully swell, it makes financial sense as well, although he can be... I'll never tell."
Mustard/Parking ticket song - sung by Marti Noxon & David Fury. A brief off-screen number sung by David Fury and Marti Noxon. In the original episode, they played respectively a man ecstatic that the dry cleaner had gotten mustard out of his shirt, and a woman complaining about a parking ticket. Here, in a flashback set the night before their numbers, the aftermath of Noxon's character spilling mustard on Fury's character is heard.
Fullscreen vs. widescreen[edit]
In the audio commentary for the episode, writer Drew Goddard mentioned whether or not the "Mrs." scene should have been shown in widescreen for American audiences since it was a flashback to "Once More, with Feeling", the only episode of Buffy shown in widescreen in the US. Director David Solomon thought it would have been too confusing to switch between full-frame and widescreen, so it was not done.
Trivia[edit]
All of Kali Rocha's (Halfrek) shots in her death scene were green-screened, because of time constraints.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was only available for three days of shooting on this episode because of her wedding to Freddie Prinze, Jr.
On the DVD around the 13:30 mark, a villager chasing Olaf in the flashback yells out, "You asshole!" while chasing the troll out of town.
For the benefit of the viewers and ease of scene production, Aud and D'Hoffryn speak to each other in American English. However, from a historical perspective, American English would not exist for almost another thousand years. English at that time (Old English) would be incomprehensible to modern English speakers.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, writer Drew Goddard claims that the Sjornjost scenes were written in Swedish but he intended for the lines to be dubbed badly in English. Thus, Emma Caulfield and Abraham Benrubi were told that they did not need to memorize the Swedish that carefully because it would not be heard. Both actors memorized all of the alleged Swedish words phonetically, and the show creators were so pleased with their performances that they decided to subtitle the scenes rather than dub them.
Goddard also says that he chose the name Aud for Anya's original human name because while researching Viking names he found a Viking king named Olaf who had a wife named Aud, known for her sense of humor and her ability to manage money. The description of Aud fit Anya so well that he had to use the name.
Drew Goddard considered a flashback to "Hush" rather than to "Once More, With Feeling", but decided that it would be difficult to show Anya defining herself through Xander without dialogue.
During Anya's song there are numerous pieces of trivia. Before she begins to sing the viewer can hear people singing outside about spilling mustard on their clothes, and worrying it will never come out. Also, she talks to Xander about the 'coconuts, and asks him if it was weird - in 'Once More With Feeling' at the beginning all the Scoobies are talking together and you can hear Xander and Anya mentioning the coconuts. In "Once More With Feeling" a group of ecstatic people sing happily about mustard being removed from a man's clothes just outside the Magic Box. Also, Anya says in her song that she is good at math, most probably a nod towards her love of money, yet in her first appearance after losing her powers she complains that she is stuck in Sunnydale High and "flunking math!" An allusion to her duet with Xander "I'll Never Tell" is also included, in the line "Although he can be — I'll never tell."
The 1905 Russian Revolution scene at the dinner table required extras, among which 3 female at least 5'6 in height with 22-inch waists to be shrank even further with the use of corsets to play 3 Russian princesses. 1 day before shooting the scene, the extra agency in charge still only had booked 2 female extras for the parts. They ended up hiring Sophie LaPorte, of "Battlestar Galactica" fame, who had been with the extra agency for a short time over a decade prior, whose measurements hadn't changed, and who agreed to sign on because filming was to take place only a half mile from her home. She can be seen in a yellow gown at the dinner table with other members of Russian Nobility as well as in the next scene, where out of the 3 princesses, she volunteered to play dead at the dinner table, and thereby not to breathe for the tight corset would have revealed it. She was so close to the man on fire who bursts into the dining room that she could see the brightness from the flames with her eyes closed.
Continuity[edit]
Anya's history with Olaf the troll (who appeared in "Triangle" and mentioned their history briefly) is fleshed out in this episode.
In Anya's flashback sequence, before she starts singing her song, Xander mutters "I just want a happy ending". In the musical episode, "Once More, With Feeling" (season 6, episode 7), Xander claims to have summoned Sweet, a demon who makes people dance until they burn. His excuse for summoning Sweet was that "I just wanted to make sure we were gonna work out. Get a happy ending."
In Sjornjost 880, Aud happily raises rabbits, while from season 4 until the end of the series Anya demonstrates fear and hate toward rabbits. This implies that Anya's hostility toward rabbits might be a subconscious association of them with the simple, happy life she enjoyed with Olaf before his infidelity, the action which set her life as a vengeance demon into motion.
During the battle, Anya asks Buffy "Are there any of your friends you haven't tried to kill?" This is most likely a reference to "Normal Again," in which, under the influence of a hallucination, Buffy sets a demon lose to kill Xander, Willow, Dawn, and Tara. Buffy has also battled Willow ("Two to Go"), Angel ("Becoming") and Spike (often), and mistakenly attacked Cordelia ("Welcome to the Hellmouth"), Oz ("What's My Line, Part 1"), Riley ("The Initiative"), and Giles ("A New Man").
When Anya rouses herself after Buffy stabs her through the chest, she says that Buffy should know better, that a sword through the chest doesn't kill vengeance demons. She is referencing "Older and Far Away" in which Halfrek, a fellow vengeance demon, is stabbed through the chest and calls it a "flesh wound." She also remarks, "I forgot how much swords to the chest hurt," implying that she had been stabbed before; but she was surprised when Halfrek survived it.
D'Hoffryn reminds Anya, Xander and Buffy that, despite his wit, levity, and occasional sensitivity, he is still an evil being. When Anya tells D'Hoffryn that he should have killed her instead of Halfrek, he says that he wouldn't worry about that and tells her to be patient, foreshadowing her death at the end of the season.
D'Hoffryn comments to Willow about her vengeance against Warren in "Villains."
When Halfrek is congratulating a remorseful Anya in the interior of her new apartment, the camera passes a round glass jar in a box of leftover "Magic Box" supplies. It closely resembles the "Mu-Ping" Jar that will temporarily house Angel's soul during the fourth season of the spinoff series Angel.
During Anya's song, she sings the name she invented in "Checkpoint", Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. She later sings that it was a stupid name she made up.
D'Hoffryn tells Xander that he sees with the "eyeballs of love." In the episode "Dirty Girls," Caleb tells Xander that he sees everything before putting his thumb in Xander's eye.
Arc significance[edit]
The Xander and Anya problem is reversed in Buffy and Spike, which would be fully explored in further episodes.
Willow finally discovers that Xander never told Buffy of her plans to restore Angel's soul (season 2), when Buffy quotes the message that Xander had instead invented.
Through the flashbacks, it is established that Anya's odd behavior throughout the series is not because she is an ex-demon, but that she has been an outcast all her life. Fittingly, her original human name Aud is pronounced "odd."
External links[edit]
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Him (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Him"
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Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 6
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Drew Z. Greenberg
Production code
7ABB06
Original air date
November 5, 2002
Guest actors

Thad Luckinbill as RJ Brooks
Brandon Keener as Lance Brooks
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Yan England as O'Donnell
Angela Sarafyan as Lori
David Ghilardi as Teacher
Riki Lindhome as Cheryl

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"Him" is the sixth episode of the seventh and final season of television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Plot synopsis[edit]
Xander introduces Spike to his new living environment: Xander's apartment. Buffy tries to convince a reluctant Xander that Spike needs their help and a place better than the basement to live. Spike's just about as reluctant as Xander, but Buffy thinks this plan is the right thing for him. Buffy and Dawn talk privately about Buffy's feelings for Spike and why she's helping him in light of the pain he's caused her. Dawn starts to rant about love and relationships and Buffy leaves so she can return to work. An attractive jock on the football field then catches Dawn's attention and she falls off the bleachers while distracted by him.
Buffy fights with and kills a demon at Anya's apartment that was sent by D'Hoffryn. Anya thanks her for the help, but doesn't want it to seem like she needs help. Buffy explains that the gang need Anya's help and she wants to protect her friends, Anya included. At the high school, Dawn prepares to confront her dream guy, named R.J., and once she finds him, she tries to start up a conversation with him. He's with another player, O'Donnell, and two cheerleaders talking about cheerleader tryouts and most of Dawn's awkward comments don't quite fit with the crowd. Later, Dawn tries out for the cheerleading team wearing Buffy's old cheerleading uniform, but she falls and makes a fool out of herself. At home that night, Dawn locks herself in the bathroom and cuts up the cheerleading uniform while Buffy tries to get her to come out.
Buffy tries to offer help and support, but considering Buffy's track record with guys, Dawn isn't interested. The next day at school, Dawn overhears O'Donnell inform R.J. that he won't be starting quarterback for the game and she confronts O'Donnell. She yells at him at first, but then in a moment of anger, she shoves him and he falls down a flight of stairs. Dawn has a meeting with Principal Wood and Buffy about the incident and informs them that the jock just tripped and fell down the stairs. Buffy realizes though that Dawn may have been motivated by her love for R.J. and actually pushed O'Donnell down the stairs.
R.J. catches up with Dawn after her meeting and they talk then R.J. invites her out on a date. At the Bronze, the gang sit around and talk about Spike's progress at Xander's place as they spot R.J. dancing with a "slutty-looking" girl. They're all beyond shocked when they see that the girl is Dawn. Buffy confronts her sister and lays down the law about Dawn's clothes and behavior, but Dawn puts up quite a fight for her right to do whatever she wants. Unable to get past Buffy to return to the dance floor, Dawn leaves and encounters one of the cheerleader girls in the alley. They begin to fight over R.J. and have to be broken up by Buffy.
Buffy watches as Principal Wood lectures R.J. about not doing his own homework and then Buffy catches him for another lecture. She gets on his case about the way he's treating girls, but quickly, something comes over Buffy and she starts to swoon over him like a love-sick school girl. Buffy catches Dawn as she returns home that night and tells her about her meeting with R.J. Buffy offers encouragement to her sister by explaining that she has a chance with R.J. and that he really likes her.
At school the next day, Buffy pulls R.J. out of class and takes him to an empty room. While Dawn walks the halls peeking into rooms in search of R.J., Buffy adoringly listens to R.J. talk about football and his troubles at school and then starts kissing him just as Dawn peeks into the room. Dawn runs outside in tears and into Xander. He tries to comfort her, but realizes that Buffy would possibly be more help and goes to find her. He's surprised to find her on top of R.J. and promptly takes her home for a much needed intervention with the others. At the Summers house that night, Buffy and Dawn fight about their love with R.J., while Xander, Willow and Anya try to keep the peace until they can reverse the love spell obviously affecting the sisters.
Willow searches for information on R.J. and instead finds information on R.J.'s older brother, Lance, who Xander remembers from high school. Xander and Spike go to find R.J.'s brother and despite his popular status at high school, he isn't quite his attractive, popular self anymore. After some chatting, the guys realize that R.J.'s jacket has been handed down through the family. R.J. shows up at Buffy's house looking for her, but Willow and Anya tell him to leave. As R.J. walks away, Willow and Anya start to look at him lovingly and then argue about which of them he loves more. Buffy and Dawn jump into the fight and soon Dawn is hurt and depressed that her friends and sister are taking her guy away while the other three plot to win R.J. Buffy goes to kill the Principal (who had disciplined R.J.), Willow works on a spell to make R.J. a woman, Anya takes off to rob banks, and Dawn lays herself across railroad tracks.
Xander stops Willow from completing her spell and then brings her along to stop Buffy from killing Principal Wood with her old rocket launcher. Spike tackles Buffy before she can kill the principal, and although she puts up a fight, he gets the weapon away from her. Using Willow's locator spell, they find Dawn on the railroad tracks just as a train is headed for her. Buffy jumps in and rescues her sister just before the train hits. Scared at the thought of losing her sister, Buffy shows that the spell wasn't that strong and admits her willingness to give up R.J. if it means that much to Dawn. Finally, Xander and Spike jump R.J. on the street and steal his coat, then burn it in the fireplace at the Summer's home. All the girls feel terrible about the way they acted and the things they almost did while Xander remembers of an incident he had himself with a love spell in "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Willow questions what Anya did to prove her love to R.J., Anya dodges the subject with a quick lie and turns off the radio as a news report is heard about a wanted bank robber on the loose.
Cultural references[edit]
When R.J. and Dawn are talking in the hall after Principal Wood calls her to his office to discuss O'Donnell's fall down the stairs, R.J. says, "That sucks, facing the whole inquisition thing." Dawn replies, "Yeah, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition." This is a reference to Monty Python's famous Spanish Inquisition sketch, in which characters who express annoyance at being questioned on various unrelated subjects are accosted by the Pythons in red cardinal cassocks who shout, "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
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"Conversations with Dead People"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy stakes Holden after he reveals Spike is his sire.

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 7
Directed by
Nick Marck
Written by
Jane Espenson
Drew Goddard
 (but see writing credits)
Featured music
"Blue" by Angie Hart
Production code
7ABB07
Original air date
November 12, 2002
Guest actors

Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears
Jonathan M. Woodward as Holden Webster
Azura Skye as The First/Cassie Newton
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Stacey Scowley as Young Woman

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"Conversations with Dead People" is the seventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is the only episode other than "Once More, with Feeling" and "Two to Go" where the title appears on screen.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Performances
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Music
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
3.2 References to previous episodes
3.3 Continuity discrepancies
4 Cultural references
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Several separate encounters take place around Sunnydale on one night, which is told in real time. Uniquely among Buffy episodes, none of the main characters interact with one another. According to the episode's staff writers, the primary emotion to be felt during this episode is "being alone."
On patrol, Buffy discovers that her latest vampire foe is an old high school classmate named Holden Webster. Upon recognizing her, "Webs" stops their fight and takes on a friendly demeanor – seeming pleasantly surprised to have run into her and asking how she has been. Because she doesn't immediately remember him, Webs begins to jog her memory about the half dozen times they interacted with each other. Buffy finally recalls him, and the two begin to reminisce. The vampire, a psychology major in life, proceeds to psychoanalyze Buffy, and she opens up to him about her innermost conflicts and problems while at the same time fighting. She slays him in the end, but not before he identifies Spike as the vampire who (recently) sired him.
Back at Revello Drive, Dawn prepares for a night alone at home. An unnaturally loud banging sets her nerves on edge. She talks with her friend Kit on the phone, asking, "See? Do you hear that?" when the banging begins again. Eventually, Dawn comes to believe that her mother is trying to contact her, and the malevolent force is working to prevent her. Dawn manages to exorcise the malevolent force and Joyce appears to warn her that when the time comes, Buffy won't choose her.
In a story entirely devoid of dialogue, Spike picks up a woman at a bar, walks her home, and feeds on her, leaving her dead on her own doorstep.
Jonathan and Andrew return from Mexico to dig up an artifact hidden near the Hellmouth. Andrew is secretly in contact with what appears to be the ghost of Warren, while Jonathan is having a personal revelation that he misses high school and still cares for his old friends. After they dig up the artifact, Andrew, on Warren's instructions, insults and kills Jonathan, causing his blood to spill all over a 'door' in the dirt.
In the library, Willow is visited by the ghost of Cassie, a girl Buffy once helped, who claims to have been sent by the dead Tara. The ghost relays Tara's message that Willow will end up killing everyone if she ever uses magic again, and recommends suicide as a solution. This tips Willow off that she has not been talking to Cassie, and she demands to know who the being really is. The being reveals itself as The First and threatens Willow and all her friends before vanishing.
Performances[edit]
This is the only episode of the entire series in which Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris) does not appear. Emma Caulfield (Anya Jenkins) also does not appear. James Marsters appears but does not have any dialogue.
Jonathan M. Woodward, who plays Holden Webster, has also appeared in two other Joss Whedon series: as Knox in the final two seasons of Angel, and as Tracey in the Firefly episode "The Message." All three of these characters are initially friendly (or at least helpful), but eventually die at the hands of the heroes.
With this episode, Kristine Sutherland becomes the only actress to appear as a guest star in all seven seasons.
Stacey Scowley who appears as the young woman Spike kills would go on to appear as Cindy Perrin in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Under a severe time and production crunch, it became necessary to have four writers writing this episode. This, as well as actor scheduling conflicts, inspired the structure of the episode where characters are isolated from each other because all four writers wrote independently of each other.
The writing of this episode is credited to Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard. However, according to the commentary by Espenson and Goddard on the DVD, this episode actually had four distinct writers: Espenson wrote the Dawn scenes, Goddard wrote the Geek Trio scenes, Joss Whedon wrote the Buffy-Holden scenes, and Marti Noxon wrote the Willow-Cassie scenes.[1] Since Whedon and Noxon were the executive producers of the show, they would often forgo formal credit for their contributions to various scripts.
Amber Benson was initially going to appear as Tara, taunting Willow instead of Cassie, but Benson chose not to because, among other reasons, she "didn't want Tara to be bad".[2][3] In the commentary for this episode on the DVD, the writers claim that Amber Benson simply wasn't available.
Other story lines considered were for Eric Balfour, who played Jesse McNally in the pilot episode, "Welcome to the Hellmouth", to have conversed with Xander;[3] and, according to Drew Goddard on the "Selfless" DVD commentary, for Kali Rocha (Halfrek) to return and haunt Anya, but she was unavailable.
Espenson claims to have given her first production note that made it to air: the monster appearing to strangle Joyce is actually the Gnarl costume from "Same Time, Same Place" shot from the back and spray-painted black.
On the DVD commentary for the show, Jane Espenson revealed that the image of Joyce is The First. In the original draft of the script, Dawn was going to try to raise her mother. When Joyce appeared, she was to say, "They said I couldn't bring someone back." To which The First/Joyce would reply: "Maybe I'm the First."
Music[edit]
The song "Blue" performed by Angie Hart plays over the cold open of the episode, and is reprised at the end of the episode. The song was written for the episode by Hart and series creator Joss Whedon.
The song "Never Never" by Scout plays when Dawn is messing around with Buffy’s weapons at about 5 minutes into the episode.
Continuity[edit]
Dawn accidentally gets pizza sauce on one of Buffy's blouses in this episode, shrugging and saying, "She'll think it's blood." In "First Date", Anya scrubs at the stain and remarks that it may be pizza sauce rather than blood.
The music Dawn is listening to while home alone is the same Buffy was listening to while washing dishes in season 5, before breaking down and crying over their mother's sickness.
Holden mentions that some of Buffy's classmates thought she was some sort of religious fanatic, presumably because she frequently carried vampire-repelling crosses, and others thought she was involved with an older man, which she indeed was, the over two-centuries-old Angel.
Holden also reveals that Scott Hope, whom Buffy briefly dated in season 3, told everyone at the time that she was gay. According to Holden, Scott said this about every girl he broke up with, and that a year ago (i.e. season 6 of the show) Scott himself came out. The actor who portrayed Scott, Fab Filippo, happened to be on the Showtime series Queer As Folk when Conversations with Dead People aired.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode shows this season's "Big Bad", The First Evil, which has the ability to take the form of anyone who had died. Previously displayed in "Amends" (where it appeared to Angel as three of his victims) and "Lessons" (where it appeared to Spike as a villain from each of the past seasons, and finally as Buffy).
Holden informs Buffy that Spike sired him, giving Buffy doubts about Spike's newfound goodness.
Jonathan, a recurring character since the second season of Buffy, is killed.
The phrase "From beneath you it devours", repeated several times in this season, is quoted by Jonathan in Spanish – Desde abajo te devora – and mistranslated by Andrew as, "It eats you, starting with your bottom."
References to previous episodes[edit]
Dawn's "Mom? ...Mommy?" when trying to reach Joyce echoes Buffy's pleas to her mother's corpse in "The Body".
Cassie, supposedly speaking for Tara, reminds Willow that she is "strong like an Amazon", referencing a conversation that Willow and Tara have in "The Body", when they discuss being strong for Dawn. She also reminds Willow of the time when Tara sang to her on the bridge ("Under Your Spell") in "Once More, with Feeling".
Holden Webster pronounces "nemeses" correctly and Buffy replies "Is that how you say that?" In "Gone" (season 6), both Warren and Buffy have trouble with the word.
Buffy, while talking to Holden Webster, says "That's insane troll logic!", echoing Xander's line in "Triangle".
Continuity discrepancies[edit]
The First appears as Warren Mears, who is killed in Season 6. It is revealed in the canonical comic storyline The Long Way Home that Warren is saved from death by Amy Madison. On the letters page of Buffy Season Eight #6, Whedon responds to the question of how The First could have impersonated Warren if he'd never died, by saying, "He was legally dead for like a second. Amy didn't tell him 'cause she didn't want to upset him. I forgot, okay?!"
Cultural references[edit]
Warren and Andrew quote lines by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda from the Star Wars films. Warren also called Jonathan "Short Round", a reference to Indiana Jones's sidekick in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and at another point Andrew says "Think, McFly," in reference to the film Back to the Future.
Reception[edit]
This episode was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[4]
The Futon Critic named it the 42nd best episode of 2002, saying it was "Heartbreaking and deliciously evil at the same time—that's Buffy at its best for sure."[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ DVD commentary for "Conversations with Dead People", at 0:22, 1:33, and 13:38.
2.Jump up ^ "BBC - Cult - Buffy - Amber Benson - Staying away". BBC 2. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "Buffy Episode Guide - Conversations with Dead People". BBC Cult. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
4.Jump up ^ "2003 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
5.Jump up ^ Brian Ford Sullivan (January 6, 2003). "The 50 Best Episodes of 2002 - #50-41". The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
External links[edit]
"Conversations with Dead People" at the Internet Movie Database
"Conversations with Dead People" at TV.com


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"Sleeper"
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The First Evil, appearing in the form of Spike, hums a tune that triggers Spike to kill.

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 8
Directed by
Alan J. Levi
Written by
David Fury
Jane Espenson
Production code
7ABB08
Original air date
November 19, 2002
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Robinne Lee as Charlotte
Rob Nagle as Robson
Aimee Mann as herself
Lisa Jay as Linda
Kevin Daniels as Bouncer
Stacey Scowley as Young Woman
Lindy Christopher as Nora

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"Sleeper" is the eighth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Performances
2 Production details 2.1 Music
3 Quotes and trivia 3.1 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
In the opening, Spike is seen digging a grave and buries the woman he has just killed while he hums a tune. Meanwhile Buffy struggles with the possibility that Spike may have begun killing innocent people and "siring" them as vampires. The Scooby Gang tries to make sense of the strange apparitions of the dead they have been contacted by and wonder whether any or all of the information they gave them was true.
Meanwhile, in London, a man and woman are attacked by cloaked men and Giles receives some troubling information.
At the Bronze, after staking a vampire who claims Spike made her, Spike calls Buffy's cell phone from a pay phone and tells her that he is remembering the bad things he has done recently and asks for her help. She agrees to meet with him at a set location. As Spike tries to leave, the duplicate of Spike shows up and tells the real Spike that calling Buffy was not part of the plan, but they'll have to improvise.
Spike leads Buffy into a dark basement and tries to show her what he remembers about killing the girls. The fake Spike is there as well, but Buffy can't see him. While the real Spike tries to show Buffy where he buried the bodies, the fake Spike starts to sing the hypnotizing tune. This causes Spike to vamp out and attack Buffy, cutting her arm with a piece of broken glass. As the two battle the bodies of those Spike recently killed rise from the ground beneath them as newly turned vampires. Buffy struggles with the fledglings while the real Spike gets a pep talk from his morphing version about tasting Buffy's blood. As two vampires hold Buffy still, Spike leans down and tastes Buffy's blood from the cut on her arm. It reawakens all of his memories of killing and he falls to the ground, horrified.
Buffy finishes off dusting the rest of the vampires and turns her attention to Spike. Tearfully Spike offers to be staked. He is confused, scared and hurting because of the lives he has taken. Buffy realizes something isn't right with Spike and something has been messing with his head. Buffy takes Spike back to her house and tells the gang about Spike and how she needs to keep Spike close if she intends to get answers they need.
Giles charges into the room in London and finds the dead girl and the nearly dead man that was with her. The man, Robson, warns Giles that something has started and that they need to be gathered. As Giles says he understands, one of the robed figures appears behind him and swings an axe at his head as the episode ends.
Performances[edit]
Aimee Mann appears as herself and the lead singer of the band playing at the Bronze when Spike walks in. She performs two of her songs, then is seen walking down a flight of stairs with her band as Spike is walking to a pay phone, and complaining about playing in vampire towns. She is the only musical guest on Buffy to have any speaking lines.
Production details[edit]
Music[edit]
Aimee Mann - "This is How it Goes" - The first of two songs to be performed by Mann at the Bronze as Spike is asking various people if they have seen a girl.
Aimee Mann - "Pavlov's Bell" - The second song performed by Mann at the Bronze when Spike meets a vampire that claims to be sired by him, and a fight breaks out between the two until she is staked with a piece of bamboo, though bamboo should not kill a vampire as it is classified as a grass, not a type of wood.
Quotes and trivia[edit]
The title of the episode refers to a sleeper agent, or spies that blend into their surroundings and don't do any missions until their superiors call on them, returning to their innocuous "sleeping" state after the mission is completed. This is explained in the following episode by Xander.
The song that The First uses to trigger Spike's killing sprees is the English folk song "Early One Morning".
The title of the song "Pavlov's Bell" performed by Aimee Mann refers to the classical conditioning experiments performed by early 20th Century physiologist Ivan Pavlov. Spike's conditioning is a complex, fictitious form of conditioning which Xander says is "left over from every army movie I've ever seen". The Manchurian Candidate (1962) could be seen as an example.
Aimee Mann is the only musical guest on Buffy to have any speaking lines.
This is the final episode of the series not to guest star Tom Lenk.
Cultural references[edit]
Xander references CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The scene where Buffy searches for Spike in the crowded square is similar to the scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. James Stewart's character follows Kim Novak's character who also appears to be in a trance (under the spell of a dead woman Carlotta Valdez.) The music of the scene is dramatic and very similar to that used for the scene in Vertigo. The First appears to Spike as Buffy while in Vertigo, Kim Novak is impersonating the wife of Jimmy Stewart's friend who hired him to follow her. In Buffy, Spike is directed to kill others while in Vertigo, the intent is to convince Stewart that the wife is being directed to kill herself.
Continuity[edit]
This episode begins immediately after the end of the previous episode.
In one scene, the bouncer refers to Spike as "a Billy Idol wannabe," and Buffy starts to say that Billy Idol actually stole the look from him (implying Spike had told her this in conversation at some point). In Season Five's Fool for Love, Spike's resemblance to Billy Idol was depicted (though not acknowledged in dialogue) during his flashback fight with the Slayer Nikki Wood in 1977, at which time Spike's attire and hair mimicked Idol almost perfectly, several years before Idol's fame.
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy realizes that something is controlling Spike and takes him to her house. It would not be revealed as The First until the next episode.
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"Never Leave Me"
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The First Evil uses Spike's blood to open the seal to unleash the Turok-Han

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 9
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Drew Goddard
Production code
7ABB09
Original air date
November 26, 2002
Guest actors

Danny Strong as The First/Jonathan Levinson
Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Cynthia Lamontagne as Lydia
Oliver Muirhead as Phillip
Kris Iyer as Nigel
Harris Yulin as Quentin Travers
D.B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Donald Bishop as Butcher
Camden Toy as Übervamp
Bobby Brewer as Hoffman
Roberto Santos as Grimes

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"Never Leave Me" is the ninth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which the Scooby Gang begins to realize the magnitude of their peril.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Casting
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Xander works to repair the living room window while Dawn, Willow and Anya help clean up and discuss the potential danger that is Spike. Wearing a trench coat like Spike's, Andrew is coached by Warren to continue playing his part in the game. Warren explains that because he can't take corporeal form, Andrew is a crucial player and then he morphs into Jonathan to continue the encouragement. Andrew stresses that he can't kill anymore, but Jonathan doesn't consider that to be a problem. Buffy tries to offer comforting words to Spike while she ties him down to a chair. He instructs her to tie the rope tighter so he can't get free.
Principal Wood lectures two students about damaging school property and ultimately threatens the students into repairing their mistake. Dawn drops by his office and informs him that Buffy is sick and unable to attend work. Buffy calls Quentin Travers and asks about Giles, but he's just as clueless as she is. He's with a group of Watchers and informs them that they need to find Giles quickly. Buffy checks on Spike, who's struggling to control his blood lust after tasting so much human blood. He vamps and snaps at her, but remains tied to the chair. Buffy and Willow talk about Spike outside the room and Willow volunteers to get him some animal blood to help ease his cravings.
Warren coaches Andrew on killing a pig, but Andrew fails miserably and resorts to going to the butcher shop to get the blood they need. At the butcher shop, Andrew orders an array of meats and pig's blood, but as he's leaving, he literally runs into Willow and spills his purchases on the ground. Andrew runs from her, but she catches up with him and uses his assumption that she's evil to frighten him. She takes him back to the house with her, pointing out his suspicious behavior and purchase of animal blood to the rest of the group. Xander and Anya interrogate Andrew while he's tied to a chair, but he doesn't have any answers they want to hear. Anya snaps and slaps Andrew before Xander pulls her out of the room.
Upstairs, Buffy feeds Spike some of the animal blood as Anya and Xander meet in the bathroom to rave about their 'good cop, bad cop' performance with Andrew. Buffy joins them and although none of them have information yet, they're sure they'll get some soon. Back in the bedroom, Spike is calmed and talks to Buffy about how little he remembers about his killing. She asks about how he got his soul and he tells her about the demon trials.
Xander returns to Andrew and changes tactic to politeness. He unties Andrew and offers him water while using Anya's ability to hurt men as a threat. Anya comes charging in and attacks Andrew, intending to beat his knowledge out of him. Buffy leaves Spike momentarily to investigate Andrew's cries for help, but leaves as soon as Anya and Xander assure her they have things under control. When she leaves, the morphing version of Spike appears and starts to talk to the real Spike. Buffy hears Spike singing through the door to her room and when she goes back inside, she finds him acting differently. He asks for blood, but as soon as she turns away, he breaks free from his chair and knocks her down. While Andrew leans against a wall and starts to talk to Anya about what he knows in the next room over, Spike punches through the wall, grabs Andrew, and viciously bites him.
Buffy pulls Spike off of Andrew and knocks Spike out with a powerful kick. Buffy talks to the gang about Spike's strange behavior and based on Buffy's information, Xander concludes that Spike is being manipulated by a posthypnotic trigger, in military style. Buffy instructs the gang to begin researching so they can figure out what they're dealing with.
At the high school, Principal Wood leaves his office, but detours through the basement where he finds Jonathan's dead body on top of the symbol.
Buffy goes down to the basement to clean up Spike's wounds while he lies chained up to a brick wall. He wakes up and doesn't understand why he has no memory of his actions. Buffy tells him of Xander's trigger theory. Spike orders Buffy to kill him because she and the Scoobies are not prepared to handle the "real" Spike. She denies his request and Spike responds with a theory of his own, that Buffy likes men who hurt her and that's why she's never been able to kill him. She tells him no, that his theory no longer describes her; and that she is not going to kill him because something is controlling him, and because she believes that he can be a good man.
Suddenly, the windows and doors break all over the house as robed figures attack the Scooby Gang. In a deserted location, Principal Wood buries Jonathan's body. The gang fights a vicious battle with the robed figures attacking them. Dawn handles herself pretty well with a couple of them while Buffy chases one upstairs and protects Andrew from being killed. Most of the robed figures are disabled or killed, but they didn't come for Buffy and the gang; they came for Spike. Down in the basement, Buffy and Xander find that Spike's chains are empty and he's nowhere to be seen. Buffy recognizes the faces of the robed figures as harbingers representing The First (first encountered in "Amends") and realizes that's who they're dealing with. The ghosts haunting them, the games being played on them and the impending danger that will come from beneath are all connected to the First Evil.
Watchers report to Quentin about the numerous attacks on the Council around the world. Quentin confirms that the First Evil is responsible and orders the Watchers to prepare for their greatest challenge. Seconds later, the Watcher's Council headquarters explodes. In the Sunnydale basement, Spike is strapped to circular contraption and the robed figures cut designs into Spike's skin. The First talks to Spike and blames him for this happening to him. The First morphs into Buffy and she talks as she watches the Bringers raise the contraption and Spike up to the ceiling and turn Spike face-first over the seal. Spike's blood falls onto the seal and opens it. As the First explains, an older kind of vampire called a Turok-Han emerges.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Willow's enormous powers, even if she is not fully in control of them, forced the writers to figure out a way to keep her from being part of every fight. Here, she is immediately knocked unconscious when the Bringers attack. The same plot device is used in "Get It Done".
Casting[edit]
Camden Toy also appears in the Season Four episode "Hush" as one of the "Gentlemen", in the Season Seven episode "Same Time, Same Place" as Gnarl, and in the Season Five Angel episode "Why We Fight" as "The Prince of Lies".
Cultural references[edit]
The episode's title, "Never Leave Me", is a line from the song "Early One Morning", the trigger used by the First against Spike.
When Andrew is at the butcher shop, the butcher says "This is a butcher shop, Neo, we don't sell toothpaste," a reference to The Matrix and Andrew's new "look".
As Andrew jumps to kill the piglet, he shouts "That'll do, Pig", a famous line from the movie Babe. He also directly references the sequel, Babe: Pig in the City, claiming it was "underrated".
Andrew and the First in the guise of Warren use several Star Wars references.
Anya references The Roy Rogers Show when asking if a trigger mentioned by Xander in the context of brainwashing is the horse.
Travers' words are quoted from a September 9, 1941 speech by Winston Churchill, who in turn was paraphrasing the final two lines of the William Ernest Henley poem "Invictus".
Spike's line "saw a man about a girl" is a reference to Good Will Hunting.
Xander says that in the movies a sleeper agent "completes his task and either blows his head off or steals a submarine", possibly references to The Manchurian Candidate and the 1971 aborted-pilot Madame Sin respectively.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
The headquarters of the Watchers' Council is destroyed, killing many of the Watchers including Nigel, Lydia and Quentin Travers.
The Scoobies can finally place a name to the many faces of the season's Big Bad.
Spike, the strongest fighter after Buffy, is kidnapped, which will force Buffy to take unpopular risks to save him.
This is the first time that Willow and Andrew have seen each other since she tried to kill him in Grave.
External links[edit]
"Never Leave Me" at the Internet Movie Database
"Never Leave Me" at TV.com


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Bring on the Night (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Bring on the Night"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy lies beaten and bloody after a battle with the Turok-Han

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 10
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
Marti Noxon
Doug Petrie
Production code
7ABB10
Original air date
December 17, 2002
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Clara Bryant as Molly
Courtnee Draper as Annabelle
Juliet Landau as The First/Drusilla
D.B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Camden Toy as Ubervamp
Chris Wiley as Roger

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"Bring on the Night" is the tenth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Plot synopsis[edit]
The gang research The First, but don't have much luck finding anything. Dawn grows impatient with Andrew's state of unconsciousness, but keeps researching at Buffy's request. Buffy asks for a book and her mother hands it to her. Joyce warns her that she needs to rest if she intends to defeat this evil, but Buffy knows the vision isn't real and then Xander wakes her up from her dream. The Ubervamp drags Spike further into a cave where the First has taken on Drusilla's form to watch Spike get tortured.
At the Summers house, Dawn and Anya secretly try to force Andrew to wake and he does as Buffy walks in the room. They begin to interrogate him again about the First, but he takes some prompting before he's willing to help them. Andrew leads the gang to the school basement where the seal is still exposed on the ground, but no Spike or First Evil to be seen. Although they don't know what the seal did or does, the gang grab shovels and cover it with dirt again. On the way out, Buffy and Dawn run into Principal Wood, also carrying a shovel. Buffy and Dawn try to explain Buffy's surprising recovery from being sick and their own possession of a shovel while the principal explains himself and asks Buffy to return to work soon.
At the house, Willow begins a spell to find the First, but it doesn't go the way she planned. Explosive bolts send Anya and Buffy flying while Willow is briefly possessed by the First Evil. Xander smashes a bowl used in the spell which breaks the effects and sends Willow crashing. She's fearful of the magic and hurting people and begs Buffy not to let her hurt anyone with magic. Buffy starts to leave to find the First herself, but is surprised to find Giles standing outside her front door. With him are three young girls – Kennedy, Molly and Annabelle – who are potential slayers that he's trying to protect.
Giles informs the whole gang about the First's plans to destroy all slayers-in-training, their watchers and eventually the two active Slayers, Buffy and Faith. He breaks the news that the Council has been completely destroyed along with most of their records, except for the few books and references on the First he stole while there was still time. Giles goes over basic knowledge about the First Evil, explaining that it can only take on the appearance of the dead, but it's incapable of solid form. He informs Buffy that unfortunately, she's the only one strong enough to actually stand a chance of winning against the First. One of the Potentials, Kennedy, objects to the situation and wonders why they're hiding out on the Hellmouth of all places with only one person responsible for all their lives.
In the cave, the Ubervamp tortures Spike by dunking his head under water while "Drusilla" lectures Spike about following the rules. Kennedy helps Willow make the sleeping arrangements around the house and ultimately, Kennedy ends up staying in Willow's room. The girls convene in the kitchen and start eating cookies after Dawn burns the meal she was trying to cook. Buffy and Giles walk and talk together as they search for an entrance to the cave Buffy remembers from the first time she encountered the First and its minions, the Bringers. Buffy unintentionally finds it as she falls through some old planks covering the ground. As she searches the caves, she's viciously attacked by the Ubervamp. She stakes the demon, but it doesn't kill him and he proceeds to beat her up badly. Buffy narrowly manages to escape the cave by climbing out and the vampire is kept at bay by the rising sun.
Giles and Buffy return to the house to find the three potential slayers hanging out in the kitchen. Giles tells them all about the vampire Buffy fought, a Turok-Han. He explains that it's part of a separate race of vampires that is far superior to and feared by the everyday vampires Buffy is used to. At work, Buffy researches "evil" on the Internet as Principal Woods stops to check on her. Again, in the cave, Spike is smacked around by the Ubervamp while Drusilla dances about and tries to convince Spike to decide to be on their side of the game. Spike doesn't fall for the mind tricks and earns himself more of a beating from the Ubervamp.
Buffy reviews her wounds as her mother pays her another visit. Joyce talks to Buffy about evil and its constant presence in everyone and about the pressure Buffy's feeling to deal with this evil. She wakes up to find that she's still at work and had been in the middle of a meeting with a student. The student walks off and Principal Wood watches on from his office as a very tired Buffy tries to deal with the stress. Later that evening, the gang prepares for sundown and the potential danger it brings to them. The potential Slayers get weapons while Andrew tries unsuccessfully to convince Buffy and Xander to untie him. As Buffy watches for the sun to set, Giles reminds her that she's the one being depended on and then Molly interrupts, informing them that Annabelle ran off.
The could-be Slayer runs through the streets of Sunnydale until she's captured by the Ubervamp and quickly killed. Buffy shows up in time to find the dead body and the Ubervamp, but before Buffy has a chance to fight, the Ubervamp attacks her and Buffy gets hurt, running off in search of better fighting grounds and a useful weapon. Again, the vampire has the upper hand, viciously beating Buffy, but Buffy drops a bundle of heavy steel beams on the creature, smashing it to the ground. Practically unaffected, the Ubervamp rises from the mountain of beams and goes after Buffy again. He throws her around some more, finally tossing her through a stone wall where she's buried under rubble and steel on the other side.
The First in Drusilla's form gets angry with Spike as he continues to refuse to cooperate. Because of Buffy's faith in him, he feels strong enough to refuse. A terribly wounded Buffy sits alone at home as she listens to Giles and Willow talk in another room. They worry about Buffy's condition and their ability to fight this thing that seems so much bigger than them all. Buffy finally comes downstairs and gives an inspirational speech about this huge challenge before them that is bigger than any evil they've ever faced. She tells the group that she's more scared than ever, but she's not about to back down now. There's a new plan: they're declaring war on this evil instead of waiting for it to make a move.
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"Showtime"
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Buffy shows the potential slayers she's able to kill a Turok-Han

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 11
Directed by
Michael Grossman
Written by
David Fury
Production code
7ABB11
Original air date
January 7, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Clara Bryant as Molly
Indigo as Rona
Amanda Fuller as The First/Eve
Camden Toy as Ubervamp
Lalaine as Chloe
Felicia Day as Vi

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"Showtime" is the eleventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Arc significance
2.3 Cultural references
3 Cited texts
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
A young woman gets off a bus at a bus station at night and heads to a payphone to find the number for Buffy Summers. Before she can find the number, one of the Bringers appears behind her with a knife. She backs away to escape the cloaked figure and others like him until she hits a wall, but before the Bringers can attack, Buffy arrives and rescues the young Potential Slayer. Once Buffy disposes of the Bringers, Buffy welcomes the frightened woman, Rona, to Sunnydale. At the Summers house, Willow struggles to sleep on the floor of her room while Kennedy talks constantly from her spot on the bed. Kennedy talks about the luxurious life she had when she was younger, prompts Willow to do some magic and repeatedly attempts to get Willow to join her on the bed, making Willow uncomfortable.
Downstairs, Molly tells several new Slayers-in-Training about the recently killed Anabelle. Xander suggests they be quiet and sleep, but a still-bound and very bored Andrew suggests they speak louder. Buffy arrives with Rona and the gang is updated on the recent activities and findings. The gang lacks answers to most of their current problems like destroying the Turok-Han and rescuing Spike from the First Evil. The Slayers in Training are worried and lacking confidence. Giles suggests they seek answers from an oracle-like creature known as Beljoxa's Eye. Down in the cave where he's kept prisoner, Spike is approached by one of the Bringers, but for once, he fights back and breaks free of the bonds that hold him to a wall. He runs through the underground tunnels and finds Buffy waiting for him, but quickly is pulled away from his dream and into reality where the First Evil, looking like Buffy, is waiting for him.
Giles and Anya go together to meet with a demon, named Torg, about Beljoxa's Eye. After some careful persuasion, Torg opens up a dimensional portal for the both of them to pass through. On the other side, they find themselves in a dark, windy dimension and soon come face-to-face with a caged mass of eyes, the Beljoxa's Eye. Willow gets a call from a member of the Coven in England. Andrew is freed from his bonds and Buffy attempts to scare him by asking if he's ever seen Misery, which Andrew starts comparing with the book before he realises the implied threat. Willow informs Buffy about another potential Slayer in town and Buffy rushes off with Xander to pick the girl up before the Bringers do. As they leave, Dawn questions the usefulness of these potential slayers. The Slayers in Training work out in the basement of Buffy's house and thanks to some depressing comments from Eve, they talk about the seemingly insurmountable challenge they are facing and being called as a Slayer.
Buffy and Xander knock at the room where the latest potential slayer is staying. When no one answers, Buffy kicks the door in and they find a dead blond girl lying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, they find that the girl is Eve and she's been dead for days. Back at the house, Andrew talks to Dawn about his usefulness and continues to ramble, even after Dawn informs him that Buffy gave her permission to kill him. Buffy and Xander return to the house and proceed towards the basement where they tell "Eve" to get away from the others. The First in Eve's form finally reveals itself and with some thanks for all the information over the past few days and threatening comments about the future, then disappears. In the other dimension, Giles and Anya speak with the Beljoxa's Eye, which tells them that the First Evil cannot be destroyed and that it exists now because of a disruption in the Slayer's line, which was in fact, caused by the Slayer.
The gang, all worried after the frightening invasion by the First, talk about what they are going to do. Buffy tries to keep the potential Slayers calm, but they continue to worry about whether they are prepared to handle anything that lies before them. Buffy and Willow exchange glances and then both leave the dining room, followed by a confused Xander while the others continue to panic. Back in the cave, the First approaches the Turok-Han as Eve and sends him out to kill everyone except "her." A crowd of Bringers forms outside Buffy's house that night, but do nothing but keep the Slayers from leaving. Buffy disperses weapons to the gang as they all wait for the expected attack of the Turok-Han. Willow practices some simple magic to see if the First would go after her again. Kennedy interrupts and is intrigued by Willow's skills and her past struggles with it. Willow warns her that the evil magic she's been exposed to in the past is not something Kennedy wants to see.
The Turok-Han charges at the house and breaks the front door down. Willow puts up a barrier that keeps the vampire at bay, but it's almost too much for Willow and Buffy instructs everyone to run out the back. The gang encounters Bringers in the backyard, but they are destroyed and the gang runs off as the Turok-Han finally breaks through Willow's magical barrier. Meanwhile, Anya and Giles return to their usual dimension and Giles explains that the disturbance in the Slayer line was Buffy's revival from death. Anya realizes that if they had never brought Buffy back to life, the First wouldn't be doing this to them now. The gang runs down the street together and then Buffy tells them to break up. Willow and Xander lead the potential slayers, as well as Dawn and Andrew to a safe location while Buffy turns and attacks the Turok-Han. After a brief struggle, Buffy runs and tries to get the vampire to follow her.
Xander leads the way through a construction site, which the potential Slayers find to be an extremely exposed and unsafe location for them hiding at. The Turok-Han appears, proving that it decided to go after the easier potential Slayers instead of Buffy. Kennedy prepares to attack the vampire, but then bright lights flood the site and Buffy appears as the potential Slayers move back to watch from a distance. Buffy tells the ubervamp that he's going to help her set an example for the other girls and begins a fight. A vicious battle ensues, but the ubervamp again proves to be stronger. As Dawn watches, she realizes aloud that Willow and Buffy planned everything as a teaching tool. A quick flashback to the panic-filled discussion at the house earlier shows that at the moment that Buffy, Willow and Xander left the others, it's revealed that the three were communicating telepathically about a plan to destroy the ubervamp and boost morale of the others at the same time.
The potential slayers begin to worry as Buffy ends up on the losing end of the fight, but Willow tells them to wait. Just in time, Buffy turns things around and strikes the ubervamp with a few harmful blows. Buffy finally grabs a wire to wrap around the vampire's neck and pulls until she beheads the creature, turning it to dust. The Turok-Han dusted, the bruised and blood splattered Buffy ends her lesson and leads the newly confident Slayers-in-Training back home. In the cave, Spike tries to tell off the First in Buffy's form as she stands before him with a knife in hand. Buffy cuts away his bonds and Spike wraps his arm around her, realizing it's not the First but the real Buffy, and she helps him out of the cave.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
In keeping with this season's theme of going "back to the beginning", in the shot right before the opening credits Buffy greets Rona by saying "Welcome to the Hellmouth", which is the same as the title of the first episode of the series.
Arc significance[edit]
The Turok-Han is killed by Buffy.
Spike is rescued from the First's cave, though he has not overcome the behavioral trigger.
Xander is shown sleeping on the couch at Buffy's house, completing the Scooby Gang's migration to Buffy's house.
It is revealed exactly why the First has decided to mount an attack on the slayer line. It is explained by the Beljoxa's Eye that The First exploited a weakness in the Slayer line that was created when Buffy died at the end of season 5, and was subsequently resurrected.
Kennedy is intrigued by Willow's use of magic. She will continue to try to coax her into using her powers more throughout the series. Willow tells her that the dark magic in her is something Kennedy doesn't want to see. This will come to light in the episode "Get It Done", which will strain their relationship.
The barrier Willow uses to stop the Turok-Han from entering Buffy's house is the same barrier she used in Season 5's episode 'Spiral'.
Cultural references[edit]
Andrew claims Dawn is Licence to Kill, and then goes on to discuss Timothy Dalton's era as James Bond.
Andrew states that he is "Bored. Episode One bored", referring to the fan disappointment as regards the film.
Andrew asks Dawn if she wants "to play Kevin Bacon", a reference to the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Before the final fight with the Turok-Han, Buffy says "Welcome to Thunderdome." and Andrew continues "Two men enter, one man leaves", a reference to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
After defeating the Turok-Han, Buffy says "Here endeth the lesson." She is directly referencing Spike from the episode "Fool for Love" in season 5. In that episode, Spike taught Buffy how he killed two slayers. At the very end of his teachings he stated "Here endeth the lesson." In the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, "Here endeth the lesson" is announced at the conclusion of each reading of biblical passages during the Order for Daily Morning Prayer. The English poetry-writing Spike would be well acquainted with Anglican canonical forms. The Master also says this in the episode Never Kill a Boy on the First Date after he reads about The Anointed One and throwing a vampire into a coffin.
Cited texts[edit]
The Book of Common Prayer. 1928.
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Dawn is hit with the aura that locates potential slayers

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 12
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
7ABB12
Original air date
January 21, 2003
Guest actors

Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Clara Bryant as Molly
Indigo as Rona
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
James C. Leary as Clem
Felicia Day as Vi
Derek Anthony as Imposing Demon

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"Potential" is the twelfth episode of seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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

Plot synopsis[edit]
Two Potential Slayers, Rona and Vi, walk alone in the cemetery until Spike knocks Rona out of the way, grabs Vi and leans in for the kill. Buffy and the other Slayers watch and learn from this example and Buffy lectures the girls on how to deal with vampire attacks. Buffy has Spike attack her to continue, but she easily gets the upper hand and pins Spike to the ground, reawakening some of his wounds and some feelings for both of them. In the Summers basement, the Potentials argue about petty things until Buffy gets their attention focused again with a strict reminder about the seriousness of death. They believe the First is taking a brief break from them, but it will come back stronger and better than before. While Dawn watches silently from the stairs, Buffy tries to give the girls another pep talk.
At work, Buffy talks with Xander on the phone until a student, Amanda, comes in for counseling. The girl asks about liking a boy who picks on her and seeks Buffy's advice, but Buffy gets a bit distracted with her own similar situation with Spike and rambles about how she's not going to let that problem happen again. Buffy returns home to bickering amongst the Potential Slayers and news from Willow that another Potential Slayer has been found, already in Sunnydale. The Potentials examine weapons and Dawn tries to fit into the group's conversation, but it's a struggle. Spike arrives and then leaves with Buffy and the other girls for some training. Andrew pouts because he's not invited and although silent, Dawn feels left out as well.
Willow prepares the ingredients for a spell that will locate the Potential Slayer and surround her with a glowing aura. The spell is performed at the fireplace, but at first it doesn't succeed, just creates a horrible smell. Dawn tries to open a door to air out the room, but the light follows her, knocking her into the door and surrounding her. Dawn starts to freak out at the news that she's the latest Potential Slayer. She's worried that her becoming a slayer would mean her sister would have to die first. Dawn doesn't want to tell Buffy what's going on and goes upstairs to think alone while the rest of the gang debate the pros and cons of the situation and telling Buffy. Dawn overhears the conversation and feeling the weight of their concerns and her potential fate of death, she sneaks out the window.
Buffy and Spike take the girls to a demon bar to explain the art of getting information out of the demonic patrons there. They run into Clem and after a brief happy exchange with him, Buffy secretly asks him to scare the overly confident Potentials. His face expands into a mass of snakelike limbs and such, making the girls scream and Spike laugh. While walking alone outside, Dawn runs into Amanda who has a scratch on her head and claims to have been attacked by a vampire. The girl explains that she managed to get away and lock the vampire in one of the classrooms. Having heard rumors about Buffy, Amanda was going to ask for her help, but Dawn volunteers to take care of the problem.
Dawn and Amanda break back into the school, but when they reach the classroom, they find the door unlocked and don't see the vampire hiding wedged against the ceiling. The vampire falls as the girls try to leave and it chases them out into the halls until they reach locked doors. Trapped, Dawn turns to a fire extinguisher and when she can't get it to work, she knocks the vampire around with it instead then bolts with Amanda. Buffy and Spike show the girls a crypt and teach them about the living quarters of vampires. While investigating the area, the girls find a dead body, but Buffy shows them that it's a vampire.
At the school, Dawn and Amanda hide in a classroom and push a set of drawers against the door while Dawn prepares for a plan of escape. Buffy tosses the vampire around while lecturing the girls about successful fighting and keeping a straight head during battle. Meanwhile, Dawn puts Buffy's lessons to use and acts resourcefully until the vampire pins her to the ground and goes in for the bite. The Bringers then suddenly break in through the windows and grab Amanda instead of Dawn. After beating up the vampire a bit, Buffy drops her stake and along with Spike, she leaves the girls trapped alone with the vampire. Back at the house, Willow, Xander and Anya find that Dawn has bolted and Willow rushes to do a spell to find her before it's too late.
Dawn uses the room's chemistry supplies to set the Bringers on fire and escape with Amanda. She realizes that Amanda is the true Potential Slayer and willingly hands over the right and her weapon to Amanda. The frightened teen has a hard time grasping these strange realities Dawn explains, but she doesn't have much time to think about it. Xander arrives at the school with Buffy and Spike as the Bringers attack full force. Amanda keeps the Bringers at bay and stakes the vampire that attacked her earlier while Buffy and Spike finish off the Bringers. As Amanda rambles to Buffy about the strangeness she's dealing with, Dawn reveals that Amanda was standing outside the front door when she was hit by the aura cloud from Willow's spell.
Amanda and the other Potential Slayers talk and bond about their successes with fighting the forces of darkness while Dawn secretly watches from the other room. Buffy checks in with Dawn, but she doesn't pick up on Dawn's real problem. While Buffy takes the other girls down to the basement for training, Xander catches on to Dawn's disappointment about not being a Potential. Xander confides in her how hard it is for him to be the powerless member of the gang and he relates to Dawn's pain. He reminds her that she doesn't need to be special with powers, she's "extraordinary" just the way she is. In return, Dawn suggests that he does have a power, his ability to notice what's really going on with the people he loves, despite the barriers.
Production details[edit]
The role of Amanda (who first appeared in "Help") was originally intended as a one-episode part, but was brought back as a recurring character (beginning with this episode) due to Sarah Hagan's connection to episode writer Rebecca Rand Kirshner, who wrote for Hagan's previous series Freaks and Geeks.
Cultural references[edit]
Clem's face gag in the demon bar is essentially a CGI version of the one in Beetlejuice.
Andrew makes references to Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta, and Goku when trying to express his desired role in the group, and also asks Dawn if she wants to "play Dragon Ball Z". James Marsters, who plays Spike, portrayed Piccolo in "Dragonball Evolution" and is an open fan of the anime.
Buffy mistakenly calls the Turok-Han "Chaka Khan".
Continuity[edit]
The twelfth episode of the season is generally the episode in which Buffy has her birthday. Apart from the first season, which was a mid-season replacement and probably began just after Buffy's sixteenth birthday, this is the only season where Buffy's birthday is not only un-celebrated but also unacknowledged. In the birthday episode of the previous season, "Older and Far Away", Spike suggested Buffy should not celebrate her birthday anymore.
Amanda's comment that most students think Buffy is a high-functioning schizophrenic relates back to the episode "Normal Again," in which Buffy is diagnosed with schizophrenia in the mental hospital reality
Buffy comments in her short speech after breaking up the giggling potentials' chatter that one of them could become the next slayer if she dies. This is incorrect as her first death at the end of season 1 called Kendra, technically ending her time as the slayer in the line (the fact that she was revived and still lives as a slayer is an anomaly). When Kendra dies by the hand of Drusilla, that called Faith. It would not be Buffy's death but Faith's that would call a new slayer. If the comment was true, a new slayer should have been called when Buffy dies at the end of season 5.[original research?] Joss Whedon has said himself in an interview that the "trigger" so to speak had been passed to Kendra then Faith.[verification needed] However, because of the mystical resurrection Buffy was prey to in the season six premiere, it is believed that this reassociated her with the slayer line, and would now make her death call a new slayer.
When Dawn is thought to be a Potential, Willow says that it would make sense because she shares blood with Buffy, then Anya goes on to say that she "never really got that", referencing the fan confusion over the subject.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the beginning of the Potentials' formal training under Buffy and Spike.
This episode also marks the first time that Andrew sits in on a Scooby meeting, the first step in his integration into the Scooby Gang.
External links[edit]
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"Potential" at the Internet Movie Database
"Potential" at TV.com


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The Killer in Me
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"The Killer in Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Warren taking over Willow's body relives the moment where Tara was shot by pointing the gun at Kennedy

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 13
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Drew Z. Greenberg
Production code
7ABB13
Original air date
February 4, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Adam Busch as Warren Mears
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison
Megalyn Echikunwoke as Vaughne
Rif Hutton as Initiative General
Terence Bernie Hines as Shop Keeper
Anna Maria Maccarrone as Waitress

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"The Killer in Me" is the 13th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Writing
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 Continuity issue
6 References
7 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Giles prepares to take all of the Potentials – except Kennedy, who's sick with the flu – on a trip to the desert to meet the First Slayer. Buffy goes to check on Spike, who's chained in the basement. They chat about the girls being gone and Spike's decision to stay chained up until they know the First Evil is through with him. Suddenly, Spike begins to writhe in pain as his chip fires without provocation.
Buffy talks with Willow in the kitchen about Spike's chip and what little they actually know about it. Willow then goes upstairs to bring Kennedy some tea. When Willow walks into the room, she finds that Kennedy is not actually sick, and is instead dressed for a "mission" which she says requires Willow's assistance. The mission turns out to be drinks at The Bronze. Back in the basement, Buffy checks on Spike again and they talk about the potential causes of the chip's glitches. Buffy realizes that she is going to have to contact the people who implanted the chip in the first place: the Initiative. Buffy tries, but fails, to reach Riley Finn on the telephone; Spike's chip continues to fire at random intervals.
Willow and Kennedy finish their drinks and then return to Revello Drive. Back in their room, Kennedy gives Willow an end-of-date kiss, with a surprising effect: Willow takes on the appearance of Warren Mears. Panicking, Willow rushes downstairs; on seeing her, the others recoil, partly because they know that the First Evil has appeared to Andrew as Warren. Buffy hits "Warren", showing that "he" cannot be the First (who is incorporeal). When Willow threatens to tell some embarrassing old stories about Xander, the gang provisionally accept her claim.
Willow goes off to try to break the spell; Kennedy tags along. Spike's chip fires again. Buffy and Spike go to the Initiative's abandoned base to look for the painkilling drugs that were used on Spike during his captivity there three years before, when the chip was implanted, and for documentation on the chip.
Robson, a Watcher, telephones Buffy's house from England and reports that Giles may have been killed by a Bringer (as seen in the ending of "Sleeper"). The Scoobies become alarmed when none of them can remember seeing Giles touch anything since his return; no one has hugged him, nor seen him carry anything, and he is not driving the car to the desert. Xander, Anya, Dawn, and Andrew all go to the desert to find Giles and, in the case of danger, stop him from hurting the Potentials.
Willow and Kennedy go to meet with the Wiccan group at the University of California-Sunnydale, which now includes an apologetic and repentant Amy. Amy and Willow work together to break the glamour, but the spell brings forth another surprise: a burst of Warren from inside of Willow. Willow tries to run away as she realizes she's not just looking like Warren, she's becoming him. Kennedy tries to follow, but Willow puts up a magical barrier to keep her away. Buffy and Spike wander through the remains of the Initiative, finding many dead soldiers and demons ("Primeval").
Inside the Initiative, Buffy and Spike are attacked by a demon. During the fray, Buffy is wounded by the demon and when Spike tries to help, his chip fires and renders him ineffectual. The demon grabs Spike and drags him off into the darkness. Kennedy returns to the lecture hall to find Amy packing up supplies; the rest of the group is gone. Amy comments on Kennedy's concern for Willow, and draws Kennedy's suspicion when she mentions that Kennedy is a Potential, a fact that neither Kennedy or Willow had mentioned.
Willow, increasingly dominated by the Warren persona, goes to buy a gun, of the same model that killed Tara and wounded Buffy ("Seeing Red"). Out in the desert, Giles is tackled to the ground by Xander and the others. They are all pleased to find that he has a solid form and thus is not the First Evil – nor dead.
Back at the abandoned Initiative facility, Buffy battles with and finally kills the demon that attacked her and Spike. As she crouches down by Spike to see if he is okay, lights turn on, revealing a group of soldiers. Their leader explains that Riley received Buffy's message, and they are there to help Spike. An examination confirms that Spike's chip is killing him. It is up to Buffy to decide whether to repair the chip or remove it.
Kennedy confronts Amy, accusing her of causing the "Warren" problem. Amy reveals that she put a hex on Willow, whose effect is determined by the victim's subconscious. She did it because Willow murdered a man and remained beloved – crowning Amy's envy of Willow's relatively easy successes in magic. Amy then teleports Kennedy to the backyard of Buffy's house, where Willow/Warren starts to reenact his attack on Buffy that resulted in Tara's death, saying, "You killed her, you bitch!" Kennedy talks Willow down, and Willow tearfully explains that when Kennedy kissed her she let go of Tara's memory for a moment, making her truly dead. Kennedy tells Willow that it is just magic and that she finally understands. Kennedy kisses Willow again and the spell ends. The two go into the house together.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
Each scene with Willow/Warren was filmed twice - once with Alyson Hannigan playing Willow and again with Adam Busch as Warren. Which actor performed the scene first depended upon how "Willow" Warren was supposed to be. That is, when Willow first changes into Warren she acts more or less like Willow; in these early scenes Hannigan would act first so that Busch could somewhat mimic her performance. In later scenes when Warren's personality is more prominent Busch would act first. Because of this decision to use both actors, filming the Willow scenes took much longer than usual.
In an interview with the BBC, Elizabeth Anne Allen says, "everything had to be so exact." She explains that if Alyson or Adam "gestured or moved their head differently from the other person, they had to do the take over again. So that one scene took us a day and a half to shoot."[1] Anthony Stewart Head was not allowed to touch anything while onscreen for several episodes prior to this one, in order to set up the suspicion that Giles might actually be the First. According to the DVD commentary for this episode, this was apparently quite a pain for all involved. When asked why he set up this misdirection, Joss Whedon says it was "to make people wonder. Just to have a little fun in the sense of pulling a mystery... an exercise, something to spice things up." Whedon wanted to play off the "creepy" idea that "we don't know where the bad guy is, we don't know where he's coming from. Our trusted mentor could be the bad guy."[2] In the DVD commentary, director David Solomon notes that Iyari Limon had to do a lot of kissing in this episode. He says she joked that her lips hurt after having to do long kisses with both Alyson Hannigan and Adam Busch.
Cultural references[edit]
When Kennedy is teleported into Buffy's backyard she says to herself "that was a hell of a thing," a reference to Galaxy Quest, mimicking Tony Shalhoub's understated attitude to being teleported for the first time.
When Buffy and Spike are discussing a solution to Spike's chip's malfunctions, Spike says "Who you gonna call?" This is an allusion to Ghostbusters.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
What Willow says when she first enters Buffy's backyard with the gun is similar to, though not exactly what Warren says before he shoots Buffy in "Seeing Red". Willow says, "You think you could just do that to me? That I'd let you get away with it?" while Warren says, "You think you could just do that to me? You think I'd let you get away with that?"
The largely unseen vision quest is implied to be the same as Buffy underwent in "Intervention."
In this episode the issue of Willow grieving for Tara is directly addressed. It also helps progress the Kennedy/Willow relationship by featuring their first kiss.
This episode marks the final appearance of the Initiative, and the removal of Spike's chip.
This is the last episode where Tara is mentioned.
This episode marks the eighth and final appearance of Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy.
Later, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight's "The Long Way Home, Part 4", it is revealed that Amy and Warren (who had survived through Amy) concocted this revenge plan together.
Continuity issue[edit]
In the penultimate episode of Season 4, the government overseers rule that the former Initiative base would be filled with cement to hide evidence of its existence, but in this episode Buffy and Spike find they had not done so.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Interview with Elizabeth Anne Allen, BBC, retrieved 07//17/2007
2.Jump up ^ P., Ken (June 23, 2003), An Interview with Joss Whedon, retrieved 07//18/2007
External links[edit]
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"The Killer in Me" at TV.com


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First Date (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"First Date"
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Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 14
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
7ABB14
Original air date
February 11, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Ashanti as Lissa
Danny Strong as The First/Jonathan Levinson
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
K. D. Aubert as The First/Nikki Wood
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood

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"First Date" is the fourteenth episode of seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy discusses the removal of Spike's chip with Giles; Giles doesn't believe that it was the right thing to do, while Buffy is convinced that it was. It's also revealed how Giles survived the Bringer attack: when the Bringer approached, Giles heard his shoes squeak (though he claims to the Potentials that it was instinct) and overpowered and killed him.
At work, Buffy tries to hunt for clues as to whether Principal Wood is good or evil in his office. When she is about to open a cabinet, Principal Wood finds her in his office and asks her out to dinner. After Buffy leaves, Wood opens the case, displaying a large collection of blade weapons, into which he places a bloody dagger. Back at the house, Buffy expresses mixed feelings about the date, and is unsure over whether she is interested in him. Willow suggests that it would be good for Buffy to "move on." Xander enters and reveals that he too has a date that evening, with a young woman he met at a hardware store. Upstairs, Buffy is getting dressed for dinner when Spike appears in the hallway, and tells Buffy that he feels fine about her having a date with another man, although Buffy tells him he doesn't have to be noble.
On Buffy's date, she and Wood are jumped by a group of vampires. Buffy slays most of them, and thinks that Wood has set her up until she sees him take out two of the vampires. At the restaurant, Wood reveals that he is a "freelance" demon hunter, and tells her about his mother — that she was the previous Vampire Slayer and was killed when he was four years old, after which he was raised by her Watcher. Buffy is struck by the idea that it is possible for a Slayer to have children. Meanwhile, Xander's date appears to be going well until he learns that she is a demon who has, like other demons, been motivated to work for the First.
Throughout the episode, the First again appears to Andrew in the guise of Jonathan, and attempts to get him to kill the potential Slayers staying in the house, using the gun that Willow brought to the house in "The Killer in Me", while she was possessed by Warren. There is a mislead in which the viewers are led to believe that Andrew is successfully persuaded by The First Evil to kill the girls. However, it is revealed that Andrew is committed to helping Buffy and her friends, telling the First "I'm good now." In the second scene with Andrew and the First, Andrew is wearing a wire that Willow has set up and the others are listening to his conversation with the First through Willow's headphones. Andrew shows the First the gun and asks it questions about its intents and potential weaknesses. The First discovers that Andrew is wired and is not pleased, but not before telling Andrew that it isn't time to use Spike again for the First's purposes. The First appears to Willow, Dawn, Amanda and Kennedy in the guise of a horribly maimed Jonathan, threatening them before disappearing.
Immediately after the First leaves, Willow receives a text message with a help code from Xander. Spike offers to go fetch Buffy. He finds her at the restaurant with Wood in a slightly romantic moment, and they all rush out to rescue Xander, driving in Wood's car, the three of them awkwardly together with Spike in the backseat. When they get to the seal beneath the school, they fight and kill the demon woman and find Xander not too badly hurt. They prevent the seal from opening again, but during the course of the fight, Wood finds out that Spike is a vampire and that Buffy cares about him very much, making him uneasy.
Back at the house, Spike tells Buffy that as the First is not ready to use him yet, he will leave town. Buffy tells Spike not to leave because she isn't ready for him not to be there. In the final scene of the episode, the First shows itself to Wood in the guise of his dead mother (she is the Slayer seen previously during the 1977 flashback in "Fool for Love") and, though it does not say so explicitly, leads him to conclude that it was Spike who murdered her.
Cultural references[edit]
After Principal Wood asks Buffy out on a date, she jokingly admits that she would have otherwise been "watching a reality show about a Millionaire." This is in reference to the 2003 reality series Joe Millionaire.
Continuity[edit]
In the opening scene, in the graveyard, a gravestone bears the name Snyder on it. This may be a reference to Principal Snyder, who was killed by Mayor Wilkins in Season 3.
Prior to Buffy's date with Principal Wood, Anya attempts to remove a stain from the shirt Buffy wishes to wear. She remarks on it being a blood stain but on being unable to remove it suggests it could be pizza. This is a reference to the episode "Conversations with Dead People" in which Dawn makes a pizza stain on one of Buffy's shirts and dismisses it thinking Buffy will assume it's blood.
Although we're introduced to Principal Wood's mother as a slayer in a flashback from "Fool For Love", when the Principal sees his mother in the final scene of "First Date" she is played by actress K.D. Aubert, but in "Fool For Love" the slayer who Spike kills on the subway is played by actress April Weeden-Washington. The change of actresses was probably due to Weeden-Washington's unavailability. Principal Wood does explain to Buffy that his memory of his mother is "fuzzy" since he was only a young boy when she died.
When Principal Wood and Buffy are walking to a restaurant, the short scene in which a vampire suddenly appears before them is taken and re-used from the beginning of the season five episode The Gift, when a young man is running away from someone and becomes cornered, and sees a vampire emerge.
Arc significance[edit]
Willow tells Buffy that her date with Principal Wood will help her to "move on", to which Buffy asks: "Why does everybody in this house think that I'm still in love with Spike?" Willow means that it will help Buffy move on from her "super-self-reliance". Buffy's comment suggests that she was, in fact, in love with Spike, despite her numerous protests throughout season six and seven.
Buffy learns of Principal Wood's past and that his mother was a Slayer, though she doesn't know which one. She also discovers that Wood knows she is a Slayer, and that is why he hired her as a counselor.
Buffy is struck by the idea that a Slayer can have children, a mark of a "normal life". The negotiation between the Slayer's duties and the desire for a normal life has been a constant motivation for Buffy from the beginning through the end of the series.
The First informs Wood that Spike killed his mother.
It is revealed that Spike had his chip taken out in the previous episode, much to the disdain of Giles, whose feelings on the subject will become critical within the next few episodes.
Buffy says to Spike, "I'm not ready for you not to be here yet", showing her attachment to him.
It's also shown how Giles survived the Bringer attack.
External links[edit]
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"Get It Done"
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The Shadow Men give Buffy a vision of what's to come

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 15
Directed by
Doug Petrie
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
7ABB15
Original air date
February 18, 2003
Guest actors

Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Clara Bryant as Molly
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Indigo as Rona
Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
Lalaine as Chloe
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Camden Toy as Ubervamp
Felicia Day as Vi
Sharon Ferguson as the First Slayer
Geoffrey Kasule as Shadow Man #1
Karara Muhoro as Shadow Man #2
Daniel Wilson as Shadow Man #3

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"Get It Done" is the 15th episode of seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The First Slayer tells Buffy in a dream that "It is not enough."
Anya and Spike are walking when a demon appears, sent by D'Hoffryn to kill Anya.
Principal Wood tells Buffy to go home and concentrate on her "real" job, killing monsters and getting ready to battle the First. Buffy takes him to the house and introduces him to the rest of the crew, including Spike. The tension between Spike and Wood is tangible. Wood gives Buffy a bag that he got from his mother and should have been passed on to Buffy anyway.
Chloe commits suicide after the First talks to her all night. Buffy delivers a strong lecture, angering many of the others. She then calls an emergency and opens the slayer's bag. Inside is a set of shadow figures that trigger a portal. Against the advice of her friends, Buffy jumps in, sending back an enormous demon that beats everybody up and flees. After Spike recovers, he gets his leather coat out of a trunk, kills the demon, and drags it back to Buffy's house.
On the other side of the portal, Buffy is back in the desert where she once met the First Slayer. There, three African shamans speaking Swahili, tell her she is the last slayer to guard the Hellmouth and try to infuse her with additional essence of the demon that give all the slayers their strength. Buffy refuses the power, telling the men that they were wrong to have created the slayer line in the first place. As a parting gift, one of them touches Buffy's head and gives her a vision (though the viewer does not immediately see what it is).
After struggling with the incantation, Willow manages to reopen the portal by sucking energy from Anya and Kennedy. Spike throws the dead demon in, and Buffy returns. Later, she tells Willow about the vision and admits that the First Slayer was right that what they have is not enough. Willow asks Buffy what she saw, and the vision is shown to the viewer: Inside the Hellmouth, the First has an army made up of thousands of Turok-Han vampires.
Cultural references[edit]
Andrew warns Buffy that Principal Wood will see "the big board", quoting General "Buck" Turgidson's warning to the President, as the Soviet ambassador is about to be admitted into the Pentagon situation room, in Dr. Strangelove (1964).
Continuity[edit]
This episode features the last appearance of the First Slayer in the series.
A similar exchange portal is used to carry Buffy to Fray's future in "Time of Your Life" in Season Eight.
Buffy's response to Wood regarding the Hellmouth "blowing around May" is referencing the fact that the apocalypses usually occur as the season finales, which tend to air in May.
Spike tells Robin Wood that his soul makes him "unique, more or less" – referring obliquely to Angel.
In season 5, episode 1 "Buffy vs Dracula", Dracula tells Buffy that there is darkness in her power. It is finally revealed in this episode what that really means and what that darkness is.
Arc significance[edit]
The Shadow Men tell Buffy that she is the last guardian of the Hellmouth, and show her what the First is preparing on the other side of the seal.
Spike puts back on his leather coat, last seen in the Season Six episode "Seeing Red", and with it regains his love for a good fight. Unfortunately, the coat proves to Wood that Spike in fact is the vampire who killed his mother, setting the stage for their battle.
Kennedy finally realizes that Willow is serious when she says that her magic is not trivial or fun. This will briefly strain their relationship, but by the end of the series, Kennedy will have gained a deep respect for her girlfriend. This issue was first brought to life in the episode "Showtime."
Willow performs a major feat of magic successfully, although she did revert to Dark Willow before Xander pulled her from the spell.
This episode marks the beginning of Buffy's estrangement from the rest of the Scooby Gang.
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Before shutting off the camera, Andrew reveals he thinks he won't make it through the final battle nor should he.

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 16
Directed by
Marita Grabiak
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
7ABB16
Original air date
February 25, 2003
Guest actors

Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Indigo as Rona
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Alan Loayza as Stressed Out Boy
Corin Amber Norton as Crying Girl
Sujata Day as Shy Girl
T.W. Leshner as Feral Teen

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"Storyteller" is the sixteenth episode of seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Storyteller refers to Andrew Wells, who has become a pseudo-member of the Scooby Gang after being a villain in the previous season, and has been held hostage at Buffy's home since early in the season.
Plot synopsis[edit]
Andrew, taking refuge in the bathroom, describes his own version of "Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyres" to a video camera (imagining that he is situated in an old library with a roaring fire, dressed in a smoking jacket and holding a pipe). His dramatic narrative of her exploits is cut short when Anya knocks on the bathroom door. He tries to explain his actions, and Anya is unsatisfied (reminding him of Buffy's irritated reaction the previous night, when he had followed her on patrol). He explains his desire to make a record of the events leading up to the apocalypse, in case humans survive, so that they will know what Buffy and her allies did.
Later, Andrew talks to the video camera and uses his big white board to illustrate and explain the array of evil forces in Sunnydale. He interviews various members of the household, blithely re-imagining current and past incidents in an idealized and incorrect way.
Buffy arrives at the school to find two boys fighting, a shy girl turning invisible because nobody notices her, and various other disturbances. Buffy finds Robin, who has just been injured by a thrown rock. As she bandages his head, they discuss the bizarre (yet familiar) chaos dominating the school. She explains her suspicions that the activation of the Seal of Danzalthar is behind the morning's chaos. They investigate the newly-uncovered seal in the school basement. As Robin gets close to the seal, he is infused with evil. In a demonic voice, he berates Buffy for her involvement with Spike. Buffy pulls Robin away, freeing him; he recalls nothing.
At the Summers' home, Andrew continues his interviews. He causes Xander and Anya to re-examine their feelings for each other. Spike uses reshoots to seem more threatening. Wood and Buffy arrive and inform Andrew he is going to help close the Seal; it is now is surrounded by five possessed students and glowing with light. A magically forced memory allows Andrew to locate the magically charged knife the First wanted him to use to sacrifice Jonathan.
Buffy tells Andrew that she believes that he can help her quiet the seal. They leave for the school, accompanied by Spike and Robin. They arrive to find that the school is being destroyed by ongoing student riots. Andrew tries to film their walk through the halls, but they are attacked by several strong students. Buffy and Andrew make their way to the basement while Spike and Robin guard the stairway entrance. As they walk, Andrew revisits his memories of killing Jonathan, relating several different versions of the story as if each are true. They enter the basement room carefully and find five students standing around the seal, their eyes freshly cut and sealed (like the Bringers). In the Summers' basement, Xander and Anya revel in the aftermath of having sex again before talking about moving on with their lives (a conversation that fades into an awkward silence).
At the school, Spike and Robin are attacked by more students. Spike inadvertently confirms his role in the murder of Robin's mother, and Robin makes a failed attempt to stake Spike; in the chaos of the fight, his actions go unnoticed. Buffy battles the new Bringers while Andrew records the scene with his camera. Once she has killed the Bringers, Buffy pulls out the knife and advances on Andrew, revealing that they must spill his blood to quiet the Seal, since he was the one who initially activated it. Buffy describes the bitter prospects for their future, and chastises his constant attempts to avoid taking responsibility for his actions. Andrew, frightened to tears, admits how willingly he had murdered Jonathan, and how he is sorry. He tells Buffy that he deserves whatever happens to him. Buffy leans Andrew over the Seal so that his tears fall on its surface. The Seal closes and becomes quiet. Buffy reveals to Andrew that tears, not blood, were necessary to close the seal; she has no plans to kill him. The students around the school are released, and the violence stops.
Later, a sad Andrew talks to the camera in the bathroom again, confessing that he probably will die, and that he deserves to. Without another word, he shuts the camera off.
Production details[edit]
The monster of the Mutant Enemy Productions logo, instead of saying his famous "Grr, argh!", sings "We are as gooooooods!!!"
In the DVD commentary for "Conversations with Dead People", Danny Strong (Jonathan) revealed that the interstitial scenes of Andrew visualizing himself, Jonathan and Warren "as Gods" were the final scenes he shot for the series.
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"Lies My Parents Told Me"
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William, who will later become the vampire Spike, reads his poetry to his mother

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 17
Directed by
David Fury
Written by
David Fury
Drew Goddard
Production code
7ABB17
Original air date
March 25, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Indigo as Rona
Caroline Lagerfelt as Anne
K. D. Aubert as Nikki Wood
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Damani Roberts as Young Robin
Ira Steck as New Vamp

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"Lies My Parents Told Me" is the 17th episode in the seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was originally intended to air on March 18, 2003, a day before the Angel episode "Orpheus", but was postponed due to the eruption of the Iraq War. The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy.


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

Plot synopsis[edit]
New York, 1977: Spike is fighting Nikki Wood, a Slayer whom he kills, seen in the fifth season episode "Fool for Love", in a park at night in pouring rain while her son watches from his hiding place behind a bench. Spike has the opportunity to kill her but the kid distracts him and he lets her go with the promise that they'll meet again. "Love the coat," he adds with a smile, before he leaves. When he's gone, a clearly troubled Nikki finds her son and calms his fears by telling him, "The mission is what matters."
The scene switches to an alley in present-day Sunnydale. Buffy, Principal Robin Wood, and Spike are fighting a bunch of vampires. Buffy and Spike manage to kill their quarry, but a vampire has knocked Wood to the ground, and is about to kill him. Spike saves Wood by killing the vampire from behind, then helps him up. Wood thanks him, but the camera zooms in on the stake he's holding. Wood crushes the spike in his fist, causing his hand to bleed.
Previously, the First Evil had programmed Spike with a post-hypnotic suggestion in his mind that allows it to turn Spike violent using an old song, "Early One Morning", as a trigger. This way the First was able to command him to kill again. Buffy wants to find out how to turn it off so that she can fully trust Spike against the First, but Giles opposes Buffy. In his opinion, Spike is dangerous and must be contained or disposed of.
At the same time, the Scoobies go to the basement of Buffy's house, where Willow makes a spell with the Prokaryote stone, a magical artifact that penetrates Spike's mind and makes him more conscious of how the trigger works. During this process information about Spike's human past is revealed, including how he turned his sick mother into a vampire only to be rejected by her newly vampiric self. The song that his mother used to sing makes him relive the whole episode and switch into his evil, soulless self. He unwittingly hurts Dawn in the process and scares them all, except Buffy. Meanwhile, Willow receives a phone call from a girl named Fred and quickly leaves for Los Angeles. She apologizes to Buffy for her quick departure, but promises to be back as soon as she can.
After the previous incident, Wood privately convinces Giles that Spike must die. Giles learns that Wood is the son of Nikki, now dead, and that Spike murdered her. The two plan for Giles to distract Buffy while Wood takes care of Spike.
Giles takes Buffy on patrol and begins asking her indirect questions and making obscure references to her role against the First. In the meantime, Wood takes Spike to his hideout with the promise to protect him, but upon arrival Wood reveals to Spike that he knows Spike murdered his mother and that he's going to kill the monster inside him. Spike says he has no remorse over killing Wood's mother, and that it was "all part of the game". Wood then plays the song "Early One Morning", which triggers Spike's violent, monstrous self and the two fight. As the fight progresses, Spike continues to relive the events that transpired between him and his mother, due to the Prokaryote Stone. Wood takes advantage of Spike's flashbacks, and using weapons, knocks Spike around until he cannot stand and he then attempts to stake him. Spike regains control of his own mind, having faced his own anger and regret on turning his mother into a vampire and then being forced to kill her. Spike defeats Wood and demonstrates that the song has no more power over him, and tells Wood that the difference between his mother and Spike's mother, is that Spike's mother actually loved him back.
While Giles and Buffy are talking in the cemetery, they become involved in a fight with another vampire. Buffy realizes that Giles has been trying to distract her while Wood kills Spike. She kills the vampire, leaves Giles and rushes to Wood's place. Buffy finds Spike at Wood's place, with Wood badly beaten, but alive. Spike tells her that he spared Wood because of what he did to his mother, but if he tries anything again, he'll kill him. Buffy goes inside and tells Wood that she needs Spike alive, and that she has no time for personal vendettas. She promises him that if he tries anything like this again, she'll let Spike kill him. As she walks away, she says she has a mission to win this war - "The mission is what matters" - echoing Robin's mother's words when he was a child.
Once at home, Buffy tells Giles that his and Wood's plan failed, and shuts the door on him, saying "I think you've taught me everything I need to know."
Production details[edit]
In the episode commentary David Fury notes that a major reason Caroline Lagerfelt was cast as Anne was due to her notable physical resemblance to Sarah Michelle Gellar. Also the name Anne was used because it is Buffy's middle name, although the name is never mentioned onscreen during the episode.
Cultural References[edit]
Buffy references Pink's song Get The Party Started when discussing Spike's trigger with Principal Wood and Giles.
Buffy refers to the Russian-born, US-based actor Yul Brynner
Continuity[edit]
This marks the final time Juliet Landau plays "Drusilla" on the series. She appeared in seasons 2, 5, and 7.
In the DVD commentary, it is said that during the teaser, before Spike kills a vampire, he twirls the shovel he's using. He twirls it exactly like he did in the season 5 episode, "Fool For Love." This action is a direct homage to that episode.
In arguing against Buffy's preferential treatment of Spike, Anya says, "[Spike] could slaughter a hundred frat boys," referencing the episode "Selfless" in which Buffy tries to kill Anya after she summons a demon to kill several frat boys.
In the cemetery, Giles and Buffy discuss Buffy's refusal to consider allowing Dawn to die to save the world in the season 5 finale, "The Gift". Buffy states that she would now allow Dawn to die if necessary, which is a major deviation from Buffy's previous devotion to Dawn.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Angel: During this episode Willow receives a telephone call from Winifred Burkle, causing her to go to Los Angeles in "Orpheus".
The title, "Lies My Parents Told Me", also refers to the lies that Giles tells to arrange for Robin Wood to kill Spike.
It is revealed that the fight between Spike and Nikki Wood depicted in "Fool for Love" was not their first meeting.
Spike's trigger is "deactivated" due to the events in this episode.
This episode gives insight into what Spike was seeing every time he was triggered by the First.
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Dirty Girls
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"Dirty Girls"
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Faith returns to Sunnydale to help Buffy in the fight against The First Evil and Caleb

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 18
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Drew Goddard
Production code
7ABB18
Original air date
April 15, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Nathan Fillion as Caleb
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Indigo as Rona
Clara Bryant as Molly
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Mary Wilcher as Shannon
Dania Ramirez as Caridad
Rachel Bilson as Colleen
Carrie Southworth as Betty
Christie Abbott as Helpless Girl

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"Dirty Girls" is the 18th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Casting
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
A young Potential, Shannon, is chased through the woods by Bringers. She accepts the assistance of a stranger wearing a priest's collar and driving a truck and is horrified to discover that she has fallen into a trap. The man, who introduces himself as Caleb, terrifies her and burns his mark into her neck. He gives her a message for the Slayer (which the viewer does not hear at this time), stabs her in the stomach, and forces her out of the car. Minutes later, Faith and Willow find the girl on their way back to Sunnydale after re-ensouling Angel in Los Angeles and take her to the hospital.
At his apartment, Xander's erotic dream about the teenage Potentials is cut short when the girls wake him up to fix the toilet.
At the hospital, Faith asks Willow why the Scooby Gang failed to warn her about the threat of the Bringers. Faith subsequently encounters Spike chasing a young woman and mistakenly believes Spike is evil again. The young woman, now in her vampire form, attacks Faith, who (borrowing a stake from Buffy) quickly slays her.
Back at the house, Faith encounters a cold reception from both Dawn and Giles, and Spike explains that the tension is not all because of her. Meanwhile, the First Evil reveals Buffy's form to Caleb who is residing in the basement of a winery.
The next day, Andrew tries to bring the interested Potentials up to speed on Faith's history. While they are quick to point out that Faith had killed a volcanologist, not a Vulcan, they watch Faith exercise in the back yard with fascination over this other Slayer.
At Sunnydale High School, Robin calls Buffy into his office where he fires her from her school job, emphasizing the need for her to focus on the mission.
In the Summers' home, Faith sneaks down into the basement to smoke a cigarette and have a moment away from the "wanna-bes" who, in her opinion, have way too much energy and are needy for more stories from her about her life. Spike sees her and also asks for a cigarette. She and Spike talk, and bond over their respective periods of being dangerous. Faith reveals they met once before years ago when Faith was in Buffy's body, and Spike reveals that he and Buffy had been more than just friends at one point. Buffy, having been fired by Principal Wood so she can focus more on the mission at hand, comes down and seems a bit unnerved at seeing the two of them so cozy. Dawn calls down that Willow has reported from the hospital: Shannon is awake. Buffy goes to the hospital, where Shannon tells Buffy of Caleb's message: he has something of Buffy's.
Later at the house, Buffy tries to motivate the terrified Potentials to accompany her when she attacks Caleb (who, meanwhile, is re-enacting scenes of his past murders with the First Evil). Buffy alone is confident in her plan; Giles, Spike, her friends, and the Potentials all question her decision. Buffy and Faith, on a recon mission, follow a Bringer through the woods. They discuss Faith's intentions and her recent experiences with Angel before locating Caleb's stronghold in an old winery.
At the Summers' home, Xander directs the Potentials on the methods of attacking in battle. When Rona criticizes Buffy's intentions, Xander strongly defends his friend. Leaving Willow and Giles to stay behind to protect the more inexperienced girls, Buffy leads Spike, Faith, Xander, and the more experienced Potentials (including Kennedy, Molly, Rona, Chao-Ahn, Amanda, Diane, and several others) to the vineyard; they divide into two groups: an assault team and a back-up team. After an initial clash with the Bringers, Caleb appears. He has super-strength: he quickly knocks aside Buffy and Spike, and breaks Rona's arm. Xander and Faith arrive with the back-up team, but Faith is soon knocked unconscious. Caleb kills Diane and Molly, and Buffy orders a retreat after managing to knock Caleb down. Xander starts to yell that everyone needs to get out, but is then attacked himself by Caleb. Caleb says "So, you're the one who sees everything? Let's see what we can do about that." He stabs his thumb into Xander's eye as Xander screams. Spike tackles Caleb, giving them enough time to get Xander and leave the vineyard.
Alone and distraught, Buffy leaves the injured girls and walks through the empty streets as Caleb tells the First, in Buffy's form, that their victory is imminent.
Casting[edit]
Nathan Fillion played Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's short-lived space western Firefly. He is also not the only hero of Firefly to play a villain in the Buffyverse. Gina Torres, who played Zoe Washburne on Firefly, also portrayed the villain Jasmine on Angel; also on Angel, Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne Cobb, portrayed Marcus Hamilton.
Rachel Bilson (who that same year joined the cast of The O.C.) plays Colleen, one of the Potential Slayers who seduces Xander in his dream at the beginning of the episode.
Cultural references[edit]
Misunderstanding the word vulcanologist, Andrew believes that Faith murdered a Vulcan.
In the montage when Andrew narrates the deeds of Faith, there is a scene with her fighting a Vulcan resembling Mr. Spock, who at one point tries to incapacitate her with a Vulcan nerve pinch. In the DVD commentary, it is said that when Buffy's producers asked Star Trek's people permission to do it, they gladly accepted, telling them to "do what they want".
Xander's comment about Matthew Broderick killing a "big dumb lizard that was not the real Godzilla" refers to the American made film Godzilla, and how the title creature looks different from the classic Godzilla.
Caleb refers to The Bringers as "The Ray Charles Brigade"
Faith mentions that the last film she saw while in jail was Glitter, a very bad film starring Mariah Carey.
When they first refer to the vineyard as "an evil vineyard", Spike immediately responds "Yeah, like Falcon Crest", which was a 1980s soap opera based around a family living at the fictional Falcon Crest vineyard. This is a reference to Spike's love of soap operas, as primarily depicted in Seasons Four and Five.
Continuity[edit]
In the DVD commentary, Nicholas Brendon says that he should always wear an eye patch, even if it's clear that Willow could mend Xander's eye, in case another TV series/movie would be made.
Also in the commentary, it is revealed that one possible outcome in this episode would have been the death of Xander (at Caleb's hands) only to return as a voice for the First.
According to the DVD commentary for this episode, the scene between Faith and Spike was meant to lay groundwork for a possible spin-off featuring Faith and Spike. The scenes were written by Marti Noxon with the idea of "showing these two people off," according to Drew Goddard.
While Buffy, Spike and Faith are fighting in the graveyard, Faith asks "May I?', before taking a stake from Buffy, a nod to the first time Buffy and Faith met in the season three episode Faith, Hope and Trick, when Faith asks the same thing before taking Buffy's stake to dust the vampire she is fighting.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Angel: Willow took Faith with her from Los Angeles in "Orpheus".
Caleb, the main agent of the First, arrives in Sunnydale. Also, it is revealed that he is the one that blew up the Watcher's Council in London.
Faith returns to Sunnydale, this time on the side of good.
This episode really sparks the seriousness of what the Potentials have to face in the upcoming and unavoidable battle against the First Evil. This episode also drastically begins the mistrust of Buffy as a leader by the Potentials and even the Scoobies as a result of the outcome of the battle against Caleb at the vineyard.
This episode reunites Faith and Spike, who had met once previously (while Faith was in Buffy's body).
The Potential Molly is killed in this episode, making Kennedy the only remaining Potential from the original three that Giles brought.
Caleb will prove to be telling the truth about having something of Buffy's in two episodes when the Scythe is revealed.
Xander loses his left eye.
This is the first episode where Faith and Dawn actually meet, as Faith had not appeared in the series since season 4's episode "Who Are You?" and Dawn was introduced in season 5. The characters, however, behave as though they know one another, with Faith commenting that Dawn is "all woman-sized" now. This reinforces the power of the monastic Order of Dagon's ability to reshape reality; even persons outside Sunnydale who were not even peripherally involved in the events of Season 5 have had their memories and awareness shifted to include Dawn as if she had always existed, rather than strictly those in Sunnydale or in contact with the Slayer at the time.
Faith takes Buffy's stake to kill a vampire in the beginning which she also did back in her first meet with Buffy in Faith, Hope and Trick.
Spike demonstrates his aversity to being compared to Angel, setting up his crossover to "Angel" after "Buffy" ends
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"Empty Places"
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Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 19
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Drew Z. Greenberg
Production code
7ABB19
Original air date
April 29, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Nathan Fillion as Caleb
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Indigo as Rona
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Dorian Missick as Police Officer
Larry Clarke as The Monk
Mary Wilcher as Shannon
James C. Leary as Clem
Justin Shilton as Munroe
Nathan Brooks Burgess as Duncan
David Grammar as Crazy Citizen

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"Empty Places" is the 19th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 Trivia
4 Music
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The citizens of Sunnydale flee en masse and Sunnydale becomes a ghost town. Willow uses magic to get information from the police on Caleb, and Spike and Andrew leave to pursue a lead. They discover an engraving on a plaque that states that the power they are searching for is to be wielded by "her" alone. At the deserted school Buffy is confronted by Caleb, who beats her unconscious. After a brief period of unconsciousness, Buffy returns home to discover that Faith has taken Dawn and the Potentials to the Bronze for a night of relaxation. After they run into trouble with the police - during which the police threaten to kill or injure Faith and briefly hold the Potentials hostage at the Bronze - Buffy confronts the group and demands that they make better choices, and reveals her plans for another attack. At this point (before Spike and Andrew return) the Potentials, as well as Dawn, Willow, Xander, Anya, and Giles, tell Buffy that they no longer trust her leadership. At Dawn's request, Buffy leaves the house and Faith reluctantly becomes the new leader.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the final appearance of the character Clem, who leaves Sunnydale with the other residents.
This episode marks the final appearance of The Bronze, which has been a recurring element of the show since the very first episode.
Buffy is ejected from the house and Faith is put in charge of the Potentials.
Faith refers to the events of "The Zeppo" in which she and Xander had sex.
Trivia[edit]
When in the hospital after losing an eye, Xander says, "Oh, you know the best part is? No one will ever make me watch Jaws 3D again." The director of the episode, James Contner, was also a cinematographer on Jaws 3D.
The officer who says to Faith "You'll have to come with us, Miss. Outstanding warrant," was played by the same actor as the villain Billy Blim in the Angel episode "Billy".
The football helmet that Andrew wears while riding behind Spike on Spike's motorcycle is the same helmet that Dawn wore in "Bargaining, Part Two".
Music[edit]
Nerf Herder appeared as the musical guest in this episode as the last band to play at The Bronze. Their special connection to the series was further acknowledged by a bit of dialogue:
Kennedy: What kind of band plays during an apocalypse?Dawn: I think this band might actually be one of the signs.
External links[edit]
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Touched (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Touched"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Spike confesses his true feelings for Buffy telling her how much he admires her and believes she's the one

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 20
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Production code
7ABB20
Original air date
May 6, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Nathan Fillion as Caleb
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Harry Groener as The First/Mayor Richard Wilkins
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Felicia Day as Vi
Dania Ramirez as Caridad
Lisa Ann Cabasa as Injured Girl
Lance E. Nichols as Middle-Aged Man

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"Touched" is the 20th episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Arc Significance
3 Continuity
4 Notes
5 External links

Plot[edit]
After being ejected from her home when the Scooby Gang loses faith in her leadership, a depressed Buffy is comforted by Spike. Faith accepts her role as the newly elected leader of the Potentials. The Scoobies capture a Bringer and magically interrogate him; eyeless and tongueless, he speaks through Andrew, who tells them that Bringers are busy forging weapons for the coming apocalypse and do not see Buffy's army as a threat. Faith is approached by The First (in the form of Richard Wilkins), as he leads her to believe that Buffy only sees her as a killer and will take the first chance she gets to kill her.
That evening, sexual tension is broken for four couples. Buffy and Spike take refuge in an abandoned house, and Buffy confesses her self-doubt and inability to let anyone become close to her. Spike tries to rally her spirits by describing that he's seen all of her, the good and the bad, but he still stands by her. He tells her, "you're a hell of a woman," which is the same thing Riley said to Buffy during "As You Were" in Season 6. Buffy asks Spike to spend the night. Initially misunderstanding her meaning, he moves toward a large chair; but Buffy has found a new kind of trust and intimacy with Spike, enough so that she requests he spend the night holding her. Faith and Wood engage in a one night stand. In the first lesbian sex scene ever on network TV, Willow and Kennedy make love for the first time.[1] Xander and Anya rekindle their sexual relationship for the first time since "Storyteller".
Faith and the Potentials launch a preemptive strike on the First's armory, which turns out to be a trap. Buffy regains her will to fight and brawls with Caleb, evading nearly all of his offensive moves; in the end, she dives into a floor panel in the winery and finds a powerful battle axe that appears to have been hidden there. The episode ends with Kennedy finding a box, which Faith opens and reveals that it's a bomb ready to detonate with only 8 seconds left. Faith yells for everyone to get down and the screen goes black.
Arc Significance[edit]
Buffy finds an ancient scythe, proving her prediction that Caleb was guarding something at the vineyard in "Empty Places". This scythe will be pivotal in playing an important role for the potential Slayers in "Chosen".
Continuity[edit]
Spike tells Buffy "you're a hell of a woman", which is what Riley says to her in "As You Were" (season 6, episode 15)
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Buffy to Show First Lesbian Sex Scene on Network TV
External links[edit]
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End of Days (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"End of Days"
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Caleb merges with The First Evil

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 21
Directed by
Marita Grabiak
Written by
Jane Espenson
Doug Petrie
Production code
7ABB21
Original air date
May 13, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith
Nathan Fillion as Caleb
David Boreanaz as Angel
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Christine Healy as The Guardian
Felicia Day as Vi
Dania Ramirez as Caridad
Lisa Ann Cabasa as Injured Girl

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"End of Days" is the 21st episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details
3 Cultural references
4 Continuity
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Starting moments after the previous episode ended, "End of Days" begins as Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) effortlessly pulls the scythe from the stone. The First tells Caleb (Nathan Fillion) to let Buffy go, so that she could attempt to save the Potentials from the trap Faith (Eliza Dushku) led them into.
Meanwhile, in the sewers, those that survived the bomb blast are dragging the wounded to the surface when they are ambushed by three Turok-Han vampires. Buffy arrives in time to kill the vampires with her new weapon.
Back at Buffy's house, the Scoobies and Potentials immediately pledge their loyalty to Buffy again, while Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) search the Internet for references to the battleaxe - finding a connection to Ancient Egypt. Faith and Buffy bond over their shared loneliness as Slayers, and reflect how they are the only ones in the group who truly understand what it feels like to be a Slayer, foreshadowing the finale of the series. Buffy admits to Spike (James Marsters) how special the night they shared was and that it gave her the strength to find new courage. Spike tells Buffy that it was the best night of his life.
At Buffy's insistence, a reluctant Xander (Nicholas Brendon) renders Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) unconscious with chloroform and drives off with her, away from Sunnydale for safety. When Dawn wakes up, she gives him a shock with a stun gun and then drives them back.
Following the Egyptian lead, Buffy takes the axe to a small pyramid outside the gates of the same cemetery that she has patrolled for the past six years. Inside, a woman (Christine Healy) who claims she is part of a secret female order that has watched the Watchers since ancient times, called Guardians, tells her that the axe is a powerful weapon forged for the final battle. Suddenly, Caleb shows up from behind the woman, kills her, and almost has Buffy bested when Angel (David Boreanaz) steps in to save her. However, Buffy insists on fighting Caleb alone, and slices him across the stomach, apparently killing him.
Buffy gives Angel a welcome kiss. Unknown to them, Spike is watching them from the shadows with the First, in the guise of Buffy, by his side. "That bitch", it tells him.
Production details[edit]
This is the first time that Angel and Buffy have seen each other since their off-screen interlude after her return from death, between Buffy episodes "Flooded" and "Life Serial", and Angel episodes "Carpe Noctem" and "Fredless". They were last on screen together in "Forever".
Marti Noxon was originally due to write this episode. However, she was already working on a pilot for the Fox television network, Still Life and was unavailable to do so. As a result, Espenson and Petrie, the next two writers with the most seniority on the show, co-wrote this episode. The concept of the Scythe was previously and originally created for Joss Whedon's comic series, Fray.
Since the Region 1 DVDs do not contain the "Previously on..." segments, the scene of the girls being blasted right before Buffy grabs the Scythe is not included. The other region DVDs contain this scene.
Cultural references[edit]
When Spike returns to the house to find Buffy has found the scythe, he says "...fulfilled your mission, found the Holy Grail. Or the Holy Hand Grenade or whatever the Hell that is." This is a reference to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Continuity[edit]
Dawn mentions a mishap with a crossbow that happened previously with the kitten once owned by Tara and Willow explaining its disappearance between seasons 5 and 6. Anya says that there was another apocalypse which led her to flee, a reference to the end of Season 3.
External links[edit]
"End of Days" at the Internet Movie Database
"End of Days" at TV.com


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Chosen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Chosen"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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The final image of the series.

Episode no.
Season 7
 Episode 22
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
7ABB22
Original air date
May 20, 2003
Guest actors

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith LeHane
Nathan Fillion as Caleb
David Boreanaz as Angel
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Indigo as Rona
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Felicia Day as Vi
Mary Wilcher as Shannon
Demetra Raven as Girl at Bat
Katie Gray as Indian Girl
Lisa Ann Cabasa as Injured Girl
Ally Matsumura as Japanese Girl
Kelly Wheeler as School Girl
Jenna Edwards as Trailer Girl
Julia Ling as Potential with Power #2

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"Chosen" is the series finale of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the 22nd episode of season 7 and the 144th episode of the series. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and originally aired on UPN on May 20, 2003. The Buffy story would not be continued beyond this point until "The Long Way Home", a comic book, in 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Acting 2.1 Starring
2.2 Special guest star
2.3 Guest starring
2.4 Co-starring
3 Production details 3.1 Writing
3.2 Cultural references
4 Reception and reviews
5 Continuity 5.1 Arc significance
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
A bloody Caleb rises and Buffy finally kills him with the scythe by slicing him in two from the crotch up. Angel appears, bringing an amulet intended to be worn by someone ensouled, yet more than human. He tells her he will fight alongside her, but she turns him down, asking him to instead organize a second front in case she loses to The First. They discuss Spike, his soul, and Buffy's feelings for him, with Angel clearly unsettled and jealous. When Angel asks whether he has a place in her future, Buffy explains that she still needs to grow up; there might be a future for them, but it will be a long time coming, if ever. Angel walks into the shadows (as in his very first appearance), saying with a smile, "I ain't getting any older."
Back at the house, Dawn angrily kicks Buffy in the shin for having Xander try to take her away from Sunnydale in the previous episode. Spike is in the basement, working out his anger on a punching bag with a crude drawing of Angel's face on it. He asks for the amulet, whose exchange he had witnessed from the shadows, and she explains that it is very powerful and meant only for a champion. She then hands it to him. Buffy tells Spike coyly that Faith is still sleeping in her room. Spike says he doesn't want Buffy downstairs with him, because he still has his pride and she has "Angel Breath". When Buffy starts to walk upstairs, he says that the whole pride thing was just a smoke-screen and he has none when it comes to her so she can stay.
Late at night, as Buffy and Spike are sleeping in each other's arms, the First appears to taunt Buffy in the form of Caleb. His words give Buffy a plan; when Spike wakes up, Buffy tells him that she now knows that they will win.
The next morning, Buffy unveils her plan to the potentials off-camera. Afterward, Willow expresses to Kennedy her concerns about using magic again. She says this is the most powerful magic she will have attempted and asks Kennedy to kill her if it turns bad. Faith and Principal Wood also have a discussion while preparing the school for the battle. Wood demonstrates that he understands her defensiveness over getting emotionally involved with men and asks her to give him a chance after the battle. During the night, Buffy goes to the basement, where she apparently spends her last night with Spike.
The next morning, everyone arrives at Sunnydale High in a yellow school bus. The Slayers and the Potentials head to the seal in the basement while Kennedy helps Willow set up her spell in Principal Wood's office. After trying to give a farewell speech, Andrew is dragged off by Anya. Dawn leaves to set up her post with Xander, determined to see her sister again. Principal Wood leaves to wait at his post for Giles. The core four share a moment talking about going to the mall after saving the world which causes Giles to say "the earth is definitely doomed," echoing the end of the second episode of the first season of Buffy. Xander and Willow walk down the hallway with Buffy before each one peels off, leaving Buffy walking alone to the seal. The Potentials, Faith and Spike are waiting, and the potentials/slayers cut their hands to open the seal with their blood. They climb down the hole in the ground and come face to face with the army of Turok-Han. The Ubervamps spot Buffy, Faith and the Potentials, and attack. "Come on, Will," Buffy pleads.
Willow sits in the school principal's office directly above the Seal, the scythe before her. While chanting a spell, she places her hands on the scythe, and both she and the weapon light up in an ethereal glow and her hair turns white, the opposite of Dark Willow. A flashback to Buffy's final speech to the Potentials reveals that Willow is channeling the essence of the scythe in order to activate Potentials all over the world. Defying the tradition of only one slayer per generation, Willow's spell will raise an army strong enough to do battle with The First. As Willow performs the actual magic, Kennedy tells Willow that she is a goddess. "And you're a Slayer," Willow replies. Kennedy takes the scythe to Buffy, who is deep in the fight with Faith and Spike against the army of the Turok-Han, numbering in the thousands.
As she pauses to give orders, Buffy is stabbed through her abdomen from behind by a Turok-Han and falls to the ground. She passes the scythe to Faith and asks her to hold the line. As she lies on the ground, she sees several Slayers fall, including Amanda. In the halls of the school, a few Turok-Han make it to the surface and attack the group guarding the entrances. A small group of Bringers also appear and attack. During the battle, Anya is bisected by a Bringer. Andrew fights until he is overwhelmed. Principal Wood is stabbed by a Bringer who is then killed by Giles. Xander and Dawn take on some Turok-Han who are disintegrated by sunlight when Dawn throws open a skylight window, but more follow. In the Hellmouth, the First then appears to Buffy as a mortally wounded Buffy herself, saying "What more do you want?". Ordering The First to "get out of my face!" Buffy arises with renewed determination and knocks several Turok-Han off the ledge. Other Slayers are reinvigorated as well. Just then, Spike's amulet consumes him in blue light and blasts a hole upward into the sky. The sunlight is channeled through his soul to the amulet and in powerful rays that begin dusting the ubervamps. The ground begins to shake and rocks tumble. The few surviving Slayers start to flee. Buffy tells Spike to do so as well, but he insists on finishing it. They share a quiet moment as the world crumbles around them. With tears in her eyes, Buffy tells Spike she loves him (fulfilling a prediction by Cassie in "Help"); Spike replies, "No you don't. But thanks for saying it." He orders her to leave as he has to stay and finish the job. As Buffy flees, Spike laughs, "I wanna see how it ends." Spike burns to dust as the Hellmouth collapses.
On the way out of the school, the Slayers find Andrew crouched in a corner. Xander yells for Anya, whose body lies nearby, unseen. Dawn pulls him out. The survivors board a school bus and flee. Buffy runs across rooftops to catch up, and leaps onto the top of the bus. The entire town of Sunnydale collapses into the Hellmouth cavern, leaving a large crater.
The ground stops shaking. Andrew comforts Xander by telling him that Anya died saving him; Xander smiles, "That's my girl: always doing the stupid thing." While a few of the new Slayers tend to the wounded, the other survivors look back at the crater's rim.
Dawn ponders, "What are we going to do now?" Buffy slowly begins to smile, knowing that she is no longer alone in the world and that the burden of being the one chosen Slayer is no longer on her shoulders.
Acting[edit]
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head and David Boreanaz are the only actors to have appeared in the first and final episodes of the series, with all of them except Boreanaz appearing in the 100th episode as well.
According to Joss Whedon's commentary, David Boreanaz was only available for 7 hours to film his scenes.
The lead actors from all four of Joss Whedon's television shows appear in this episode. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy, David Boreanaz as Angel, Nathan Fillion as Caleb/Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly and Eliza Dushku as Faith/Echo on Dollhouse.
Starring[edit]
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers/The First
Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
James Marsters as Spike
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Special guest star[edit]
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Nathan Fillion as Caleb/The First
David Boreanaz as Angel
Guest starring[edit]
Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Sarah Hagan as Amanda
Indigo as Rona
D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
Felicia Day as Vi
Co-starring[edit]
Mary Wilcher as Shannon
Demetra Raven as Girl at Bat
Katie Gray as Indian Girl
Lisa Ann Cabasa as Injured Girl
Ally Matsumura as Japanese Girl
Kelly Wheeler as School Girl
Jenna Edwards as Trailer Girl
Julia Ling as Potential with Power #2
Production details[edit]
Originally the series finale was planned as a two-hour event. Unfortunately UPN only ordered 22 episodes instead of the required 23. This was why stories were so rushed at the end according to Gellar.[1]
Writing[edit]
Season Seven explores the fundamental separation between the Slayer and other people, which the series finale turns upside down.[2] As J. Lichtenberg points out in her essay on heroism in the Buffyverse, Buffy is a hero because she makes her own rules. "Finally an adult, Buffy rejects the fate laid out for her by the Council of Watchers and a couple of old men millennia ago," Lichtenberg writes. "She finally achieves her goal of normality - not by changing her own nature, but by making others like her."[3]
In a BBC interview before this episode aired, writer/director Joss Whedon said, "If nobody cries... then I've definitely failed. It's really emotional - you're supposed to laugh, cry and gasp with excitement - as well as take away a beautiful feminist message."[4] He acknowledges that the magic unleashed from the scythe in this episode is "somewhat convenient," but as a writer, it was more important for him to get to the show's message of empowerment by showing what Willow's magic and Buffy's status as the Slayer means to each of them.[5] He also admits that the Turok-Han vampires are far easier to kill in this episode than in previous episodes (in which Anya noted their tough chest bones make staking them extremely difficult) because "Again, I was more interested in the showing the empowerment than I was in the continuity."[5]
Whedon knew he "wanted to kill somebody, and [...] wanted to do it brutally and suddenly and never really pay it off. [He] wanted a death that was a real middle-of-the-battle death — the opposite of the Spike death, [which was] perfect, noble."[6] Emma Caulfield stated at the beginning of Season 7 that this would be her last season on Buffy, even if the show was renewed for another season,[7] and so Caulfield was fine with having Anya be the character who was killed.[8]
The scene in which Giles, Buffy, Xander, and Willow are together in the hallway before they eventually split off into their separate parties mirrors a scene in "The Harvest", in which Buffy, Xander, and Willow ignore Giles completely and walk off talking to each other leaving Giles to remark to himself, "the earth is doomed." In this episode, the same thing occurs when Buffy, Xander, and Willow ignore Giles completely and walk off talking to each other and Giles is left standing there alone where he comments that "The earth is definitely doomed."
In the DVD commentary, Joss Whedon says that he wanted Angel to exit the show exactly like he entered, backing out into the darkness behind him.
Cultural references[edit]
Dungeons & Dragons: Giles, Andrew, Amanda, and Xander play the popular role-playing game the night before the final battle.
Trogdor the Burninator: During the D&D game, Andrew refers to the character Trogdor from Homestar Runner.
Dawson's Creek: When Angel returns to help Buffy and shows jealousy towards Spike, Buffy gets annoyed and says, "Are you just going to come here and go all Dawson on me every time I have a boyfriend?" implying that Angel's emotions echo that of Dawson Leery, the love-lorn and sensitive title character of the show, which also aired on the WB.
Alice Cooper: Before Spike dies, he says "I think it's fair to say, school's out for bloody summer," a reference to the Alice Cooper song "School's Out".
Reception and reviews[edit]
"Chosen" attracted 4.9 million viewers on its original run.[9] SFX, a British sci-fi magazine, listed "Chosen" the 8th best episode of Buffy (number one was "Hush").
The episode was nominated for both a 2003 Emmy Award in the Category of Special Visual Effects for a Series, and for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[10]
In the UK, "Chosen" had become the highest rated Buffy episode ever to air on Sky One, reaching 1.32 million viewers.
The Futon Critic named it the 50th best episode of 2003, saying "the final Buffy from Joss Whedon's pen was a reason to celebrate in 2003: back was the snappy dialogue we've come to expect from the show over the years. In essence the show came to life just as its run drew to a close. Not a bad way to go out."[11]
In May 2013, Entertainment Weekly named "Chosen" as number nine on their list of 20 Best TV Series Finales Ever.[12] L.A. Times also named the episode number 13 as their most memorable TV series finales.[13]
Continuity[edit]
When Spike says Angel wears lifts, it's reference to his own character who wore lifts in Season two when filming with Angel to minimize the height difference.
Arc significance[edit]
Crossover with Angel: Angel comes to Sunnydale to give Buffy some information obtained in "Home" from Lilah Morgan's ghost.
Sunnydale is destroyed, and the Hellmouth there closed. The "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign is knocked down for a third time in the series, and again because of Spike's actions (he crashed a car into it when he arrived in "School Hard" and again in "Lovers Walk").
The First is foiled in its plans, although it remains an omnipresent threat.
Anya is killed in battle by a Bringer. Whedon joked about having her killed in the fifth season finale, which was originally intended for series finale. She later returns as a ghost in the canonical comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten.[14]
All potential Slayers in the world are now actual Slayers, with the attendant physical strength, instincts, and visions. This is explored further in the Angel episode "Damage" and Season Eight.
Amanda is the only named Potential to die in the final battle. Kennedy, Rona, and Vi go on to have roles in Season Eight. Chao-Ahn and Shannon are both alive at the end of the episode as well, although neither one has made any appearances since then.
Although Spike dies, he returns nineteen days later in the Angel episode "Conviction" as a ghost.
Irritated by the jealousy between Angel and Spike, Buffy says "I should let you two just wrestle it out." This comes to pass in "Destiny".
Cordelia Chase (played by Charisma Carpenter) was the only regular character of the first season not to appear in the series finale.
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
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Buffy the Vampire Slayeris an American television series created by Joss Whedon, which premiered on March 10, 1997. It concluded on May 20, 2003, after seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode.
The first five seasons aired on The WB, and in 2001, it transferred to the UPNfor its final two seasons.[1]In the United Kingdom, the entire series aired on Sky1and BBC Two, and on TV3in Ireland. The story line is continued in comic book form in Season 8and Season 9.
All seven seasons of the series are available on individual DVD box sets for Regions 1, 2 and 4. Two complete series collections(The Chosen Collectionand The Complete DVD Collection) have been released separately for these regions.


Contents [hide]
1Series overview
2Episode list2.1Season 1 (1997)
2.2Season 2 (1997–98)
2.3Season 3 (1998–99)
2.4Season 4 (1999–2000)
2.5Season 5 (2000–01)
2.6Season 6 (2001–02)
2.7Season 7 (2002–03)
3See also
4References
5External links

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Network
DVD release date

Season premiere
Season finale
Region 1
Region 2
Region 4
 1 12 March 10, 1997 June 2, 1997 The WB January 15, 2002[2] November 27, 2000[3] November 20, 2000
 2 22 September 15, 1997 May 19, 1998 June 11, 2002[4] May 21, 2001[3] June 15, 2001
 3 22 September 29, 1998 July 13, 1999 January 7, 2003[5] October 29, 2001[3] November 22, 2001
 4 22 October 5, 1999 May 23, 2000 June 10, 2003[6] May 13, 2002[3] May 20, 2002
 5 22 September 26, 2000 May 22, 2001 December 9, 2003[7] October 28, 2002[3] November 29, 2002
 6 22 October 2, 2001 May 21, 2002 UPN May 25, 2004[8] May 12, 2003[3] April 20, 2003
 7 22 September 24, 2002 May 20, 2003 November 16, 2004[9] April 5, 2004[3] May 15, 2004
Episode list[edit]
Season 1 (1997)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 1)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

0
0 Unaired pilot Joss Whedon Joss Whedon N/A 4V79
N/A

1
1 "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (Part 1) Charles Martin Smith Joss Whedon March 10, 1997 4V01 3.3[10]
2
2 "The Harvest" (Part 2) John T. Kretchmer Joss Whedon March 10, 1997 4V02 3.3[10]
3
3 "Witch" Stephen Cragg Dana Reston March 17, 1997 4V03 3.1[11]
4
4 "Teacher's Pet" Bruce Seth Green David Greenwalt March 24, 1997 4V04 1.9[11]
5
5 "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" David Semel Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali March 31, 1997 4V05 2.7[11]
6
6 "The Pack" Bruce Seth Green Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer April 7, 1997 4V06 2.3[11]
7
7 "Angel" Scott Brazil David Greenwalt April 14, 1997 4V07 2.2[11]
8
8 "I, Robot... You, Jane" Stephen Posey Ashley Gable& Thomas A. Swyden April 28, 1997 4V08 2.2[11]
9
9 "The Puppet Show" Ellen S. Pressman Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali May 5, 1997 4V09 1.8[11]
10
10 "Nightmares" Bruce Seth Green Story by: Joss Whedon
Teleplay by: David Greenwalt May 12, 1997 4V10 2.4[11]
11
11 "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" Reza Badiyi Story by: Joss Whedon
Teleplay by: Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden May 19, 1997 4V11 2.3[11]
12
12 "Prophecy Girl" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon June 2, 1997 4V12 2.7[11]
Season 2 (1997–98)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

13
1 "When She Was Bad" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon September 15, 1997 5V01 2.8[12]
14
2 "Some Assembly Required" Bruce Seth Green Ty King September 22, 1997 5V02 3.1[12]
15
3 "School Hard" John T. Kretchmer Story by: Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt
Teleplay by: David Greenwalt September 29, 1997 5V03 3.3[12]
16
4 "Inca Mummy Girl" Ellen S. Pressman Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer October 6, 1997 5V04 3.1[12]
17
5 "Reptile Boy" David Greenwalt David Greenwalt October 13, 1997 5V05 3.4[12]
18
6 "Halloween" Bruce Seth Green Carl Ellsworth October 27, 1997 5V06 3.6[12]
19
7 "Lie to Me" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 3, 1997 5V07 3.3[12]
20
8 "The Dark Age" Bruce Seth Green Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel November 10, 1997 5V08 3.6[12]
21
9 "What's My Line (Part 1)" David Solomon Howard Gordon& Marti Noxon November 17, 1997 5V09 3.4[12]
22
10 "What's My Line (Part 2)" David Semel Marti Noxon November 24, 1997 5V10 3.4[12]
23
11 "Ted" Bruce Seth Green David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon December 8, 1997 5V11 3.8[12]
24
12 "Bad Eggs" David Greenwalt Marti Noxon January 12, 1998 5V12 4.0[12]
25
13 "Surprise" (Part 1) Michael Lange Marti Noxon January 19, 1998 5V13 4.3[12]
26
14 "Innocence" (Part 2) Joss Whedon Joss Whedon January 20, 1998 5V14 5.1[12]
27
15 "Phases" Bruce Seth Green Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali January 27, 1998 5V15 4.8[12]
28
16 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" James A. Contner Marti Noxon February 10, 1998 5V16 4.4[12]
29
17 "Passion" Michael Gershman Ty King February 24, 1998 5V17 4.2[12]
30
18 "Killed by Death" Deran Sarafian Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali March 3, 1998 5V18 4.0[12]
31
19 "I Only Have Eyes for You" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon April 28, 1998 5V19 3.5[12]
32
20 "Go Fish" David Semel David Fury& Elin Hampton May 5, 1998 5V20 3.5[12]
33
21 "Becoming (Part 1)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 12, 1998 5V21 3.7[12]
34
22 "Becoming (Part 2)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 19, 1998 5V22 4.1[12]
Season 3 (1998–99)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 3)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

35
1 "Anne" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon September 29, 1998 3ABB01 4.7[13]
36
2 "Dead Man's Party" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon October 6, 1998 3ABB02 4.3[13]
37
3 "Faith, Hope & Trick" James A. Contner David Greenwalt October 13, 1998 3ABB03 3.9[13]
38
4 "Beauty and the Beasts" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon October 20, 1998 3ABB04 4.3[13]
39
5 "Homecoming" David Greenwalt David Greenwalt November 3, 1998 3ABB05 4.3[13]
40
6 "Band Candy" Michael Lange Jane Espenson November 10, 1998 3ABB06 4.1[13]
41
7 "Revelations" James A. Contner Douglas Petrie November 17, 1998 3ABB07 4.4[13]
42
8 "Lovers Walk" David Semel Dan Vebber November 24, 1998 3ABB08 3.7[13]
43
9 "The Wish" David Greenwalt Marti Noxon December 8, 1998 3ABB09 4.2[13]
44
10 "Amends" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon December 15, 1998 3ABB10 4.3[13]
45
11 "Gingerbread" James Whitmore, Jr. Story by: Thania St. John& Jane Espenson
Teleplay by: Jane Espenson January 12, 1999 3ABB11 4.2[13]
46
12 "Helpless" James A. Contner David Fury January 19, 1999 3ABB12 4.6[13]
47
13 "The Zeppo" James Whitmore, Jr. Dan Vebber January 26, 1999 3ABB13 4.1[13]
48
14 "Bad Girls" Michael Lange Douglas Petrie February 9, 1999 3ABB14 4.2[13]
49
15 "Consequences" Michael Gershman Marti Noxon February 16, 1999 3ABB15 4.1[13]
50
16 "Doppelgangland" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 23, 1999 3ABB16 4.4[13]
51
17 "Enemies" David Grossman Douglas Petrie March 16, 1999 3ABB17 4.1[13]
52
18 "Earshot" Regis Kimble Jane Espenson September 21, 1999 3ABB18 3.6[14]
53
19 "Choices" James A. Contner David Fury May 4, 1999 3ABB19 3.6[13]
54
20 "The Prom" David Solomon Marti Noxon May 11, 1999 3ABB20 3.8[13]
55
21 "Graduation Day (Part 1)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 18, 1999 3ABB21 3.6[13]
56
22 "Graduation Day (Part 2)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon July 13, 1999 3ABB22 4.4[14]
Season 4 (1999–2000)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 4)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

57
1 "The Freshman" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon October 5, 1999 4ABB01 4.4[15]
58
2 "Living Conditions" David Grossman Marti Noxon October 12, 1999 4ABB02 3.8[15]
59
3 "The Harsh Light of Day" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 19, 1999 4ABB03 3.4[15]
60
4 "Fear, Itself" Tucker Gates David Fury October 26, 1999 4ABB04 4.1[15]
61
5 "Beer Bad" David Solomon Tracey Forbes November 2, 1999 4ABB05 3.5[15]
62
6 "Wild at Heart" David Grossman Marti Noxon November 9, 1999 4ABB06 4.1[15]
63
7 "The Initiative" James A. Contner Douglas Petrie November 16, 1999 4ABB07 3.5[15]
64
8 "Pangs" Michael Lange Jane Espenson November 23, 1999 4ABB08 4.2[15]
65
9 "Something Blue" Nick Marck Tracey Forbes November 30, 1999 4ABB09 3.7[15]
66
10 "Hush" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon December 14, 1999 4ABB10 4.1[15]
67
11 "Doomed" James A. Contner Marti Noxon & David Fury & Jane Espenson January 18, 2000 4ABB11 3.5[15]
68
12 "A New Man" Michael Gershman Jane Espenson January 25, 2000 4ABB12 3.9[15]
69
13 "The I in Team" James A. Contner David Fury February 8, 2000 4ABB13 3.5[15]
70
14 "Goodbye Iowa" David Solomon Marti Noxon February 15, 2000 4ABB14 3.1[15]
71
15 "This Year's Girl" (Part 1) Michael Gershman Douglas Petrie February 22, 2000 4ABB15 3.8[15]
72
16 "Who Are You" (Part 2) Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 29, 2000 4ABB16 3.5[15]
73
17 "Superstar" David Grossman Jane Espenson April 4, 2000 4ABB17 2.8[15]
74
18 "Where the Wild Things Are" David Solomon Tracey Forbes April 25, 2000 4ABB18 2.7[15]
75
19 "New Moon Rising" James A. Contner Marti Noxon May 2, 2000 4ABB19 2.9[15]
76
20 "The Yoko Factor" (Part 1) David Grossman Douglas Petrie May 9, 2000 4ABB20 3.0[15]
77
21 "Primeval" (Part 2) James A. Contner David Fury May 16, 2000 4ABB21 3.4[15]
78
22 "Restless" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 23, 2000 4ABB22 3.2[15]
Season 5 (2000–01)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 5)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

79
1 "Buffy vs. Dracula" David Solomon Marti Noxon September 26, 2000 5ABB01 5.8[16]
80
2 "Real Me" David Grossman David Fury October 3, 2000 5ABB02 6.2[17]
81
3 "The Replacement" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 10, 2000 5ABB03 5.3[18]
82
4 "Out of My Mind" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner October 17, 2000 5ABB04 5.1[19]
83
5 "No Place Like Home" David Solomon Douglas Petrie October 24, 2000 5ABB05 6.4[20]
84
6 "Family" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 7, 2000 5ABB06 6.2[21]
85
7 "Fool for Love" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie November 14, 2000 5ABB07 5.7[22]
86
8 "Shadow" Dan Attias David Fury November 21, 2000 5ABB08 4.8[23]
87
9 "Listening to Fear" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner November 28, 2000 5ABB09 5.5[24]
88
10 "Into the Woods" Marti Noxon Marti Noxon December 19, 2000 5ABB10 4.9[25]
89
11 "Triangle" Christopher Hibler Jane Espenson January 9, 2001 5ABB11 4.8[26]
90
12 "Checkpoint" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie & Jane Espenson January 23, 2001 5ABB12 5.0[27]
91
13 "Blood Ties" Michael Gershman Steven S. DeKnight February 6, 2001 5ABB13 4.9[28]
92
14 "Crush" Dan Attias David Fury February 13, 2001 5ABB14 4.9[29]
93
15 "I Was Made to Love You" James A. Contner Jane Espenson February 20, 2001 5ABB15 5.1[30]
94
16 "The Body" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 27, 2001 5ABB16 6.0[31]
95
17 "Forever" Marti Noxon Marti Noxon April 17, 2001 5ABB17 4.3[32]
96
18 "Intervention" Michael Gershman Jane Espenson April 24, 2001 5ABB18 4.7[33]
97
19 "Tough Love" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner May 1, 2001 5ABB19 4.6[34]
98
20 "Spiral" James A. Contner Steven S. DeKnight May 8, 2001 5ABB20 5.1[35]
99
21 "The Weight of the World" David Solomon Douglas Petrie May 15, 2001 5ABB21 4.8[36]
100
22 "The Gift" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 22, 2001 5ABB22 5.2[37]
Season 6 (2001–02)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 6)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

101
1 "Bargaining (Part 1)" David Grossman Marti Noxon October 2, 2001 6ABB01 7.7[38]
102
2 "Bargaining (Part 2)" David Grossman David Fury October 2, 2001 6ABB02 7.7[38]
103
3 "After Life" David Solomon Jane Espenson October 9, 2001 6ABB03 5.6[39]
104
4 "Flooded" Douglas Petrie Jane Espenson & Douglas Petrie October 16, 2001 6ABB04 6.0[40]
105
5 "Life Serial" Nick Marck David Fury & Jane Espenson October 23, 2001 6ABB05 5.7[41]
106
6 "All the Way" David Solomon Steven S. DeKnight October 30, 2001 6ABB06 5.2[42]
107
7 "Once More, with Feeling" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 6, 2001 6ABB07 5.4[43]
108
8 "Tabula Rasa" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner November 13, 2001 6ABB08 5.4[44]
109
9 "Smashed" Turi Meyer Drew Z. Greenberg November 20, 2001 6ABB09 5.4[45]
110
10 "Wrecked" David Solomon Marti Noxon November 27, 2001 6ABB10 5.6[46]
111
11 "Gone" David Fury David Fury January 8, 2002 6ABB11 5.2[47]
112
12 "Doublemeat Palace" Nick Marck Jane Espenson January 29, 2002 6ABB12 5.6[48]
113
13 "Dead Things" James A. Contner Steven S. DeKnight February 5, 2002 6ABB13 5.2[49]
114
14 "Older and Far Away" Michael Gershman Drew Z. Greenberg February 12, 2002 6ABB14 5.0[50]
115
15 "As You Were" Douglas Petrie Douglas Petrie February 26, 2002 6ABB15 4.7[51]
116
16 "Hell's Bells" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner March 5, 2002 6ABB16 5.6[52]
117
17 "Normal Again" Rick Rosenthal Diego Gutierrez March 12, 2002 6ABB17 5.0[53]
118
18 "Entropy" James A. Contner Drew Z. Greenberg April 30, 2002 6ABB18 4.5[54]
119
19 "Seeing Red" Michael Gershman Steven S. DeKnight May 7, 2002 6ABB19 4.1[55]
120
20 "Villains" David Solomon Marti Noxon May 14, 2002 6ABB20 5.0[56]
121
21 "Two to Go" (Part 1) Bill L. Norton Douglas Petrie May 21, 2002 6ABB21 5.3[57]
122
22 "Grave" (Part 2) James A. Contner David Fury May 21, 2002 6ABB22 5.3[57]
Season 7 (2002–03)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 7)

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

123
1 "Lessons" David Solomon Joss Whedon September 24, 2002 7ABB01 5.0[58]
124
2 "Beneath You" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie October 1, 2002 7ABB02 5.0[59]
125
3 "Same Time, Same Place" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 8, 2002 7ABB03 4.9[60]
126
4 "Help" Rick Rosenthal Rebecca Rand Kirshner October 15, 2002 7ABB04 5.0[61]
127
5 "Selfless" David Solomon Drew Goddard October 22, 2002 7ABB05 5.0[62]
128
6 "Him" Michael Gershman Drew Z. Greenberg November 5, 2002 7ABB06 4.6[63]
129
7 "Conversations with Dead People" Nick Marck Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard November 12, 2002 7ABB07 4.8[64]
130
8 "Sleeper" Alan J. Levi David Fury& Jane Espenson November 19, 2002 7ABB08 5.0[65]
131
9 "Never Leave Me" David Solomon Drew Goddard November 26, 2002 7ABB09 4.8[66]
132
10 "Bring on the Night" David Grossman Marti Noxon& Douglas Petrie December 17, 2002 7ABB10 4.8[67]
133
11 "Showtime" Michael Grossman David Fury January 7, 2003 7ABB11 4.1[68]
134
12 "Potential" James A. Contner Rebecca Rand Kirshner January 21, 2003 7ABB12 3.6[69]
135
13 "The Killer in Me" David Solomon Drew Z. Greenberg February 4, 2003 7ABB13 3.5[70]
136
14 "First Date" David Grossman Jane Espenson February 11, 2003 7ABB14 4.2[71]
137
15 "Get It Done" Douglas Petrie Douglas Petrie February 18, 2003 7ABB15 3.4[72]
138
16 "Storyteller" Marita Grabiak Jane Espenson February 25, 2003 7ABB16 3.6[73]
139
17 "Lies My Parents Told Me" David Fury David Fury & Drew Goddard March 25, 2003 7ABB17 3.4[74]
140
18 "Dirty Girls" Michael Gershman Drew Goddard April 15, 2003 7ABB18 3.3[75]
141
19 "Empty Places" James A. Contner Drew Z. Greenberg April 29, 2003 7ABB19 3.6[76]
142
20 "Touched" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner May 6, 2003 7ABB20 4.0[77]
143
21 "End of Days" Marita Grabiak Douglas Petrie & Jane Espenson May 13, 2003 7ABB21 4.1[78]
144
22 "Chosen" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 20, 2003 7ABB22 4.9[79]
See also[edit]
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer(film)
##Buffy the Vampire SlayerDVDs
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
##List of Angelepisodes
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29.Jump up ^"February 13, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
30.Jump up ^"February 20, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
31.Jump up ^"February 27, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
32.Jump up ^"April 17, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
33.Jump up ^"April 24, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
34.Jump up ^"May 1, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
35.Jump up ^"May 8, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
36.Jump up ^"May 15, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
37.Jump up ^"May 22, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
38.^ Jump up to: abKurtz, Frank (October 11, 2001). "Top Ten Genre Broadcast TV Ratings (Oct. 1-7)". Mania.com. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
39.Jump up ^"October 9, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
40.Jump up ^"October 16, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
41.Jump up ^"October 23, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
42.Jump up ^"October 30, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
43.Jump up ^"November 6, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
44.Jump up ^"November 13, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
45.Jump up ^"November 20 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
46.Jump up ^"November 27, 2001". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
47.Jump up ^"January 8, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
48.Jump up ^"January 29, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
49.Jump up ^"February 5, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
50.Jump up ^"February 12, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
51.Jump up ^"February 26, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
52.Jump up ^"March 5, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
53.Jump up ^"March 12, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
54.Jump up ^"April 30, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
55.Jump up ^"May 7, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
56.Jump up ^"May 14, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
57.^ Jump up to: ab"May 21, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
58.Jump up ^"September 24, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
59.Jump up ^"October 1, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
60.Jump up ^"October 8, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
61.Jump up ^"October 15, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
62.Jump up ^"October 22, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
63.Jump up ^"November 5, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
64.Jump up ^"November 12, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
65.Jump up ^"November 19, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
66.Jump up ^"November 26, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
67.Jump up ^"December 17, 2002". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
68.Jump up ^"January 7, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
69.Jump up ^"January 21, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
70.Jump up ^"February 4, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
71.Jump up ^"February 11, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
72.Jump up ^"February 18, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
73.Jump up ^"February 25, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
74.Jump up ^"March 25, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
75.Jump up ^"April 15, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
76.Jump up ^"April 29, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
77.Jump up ^"May 6, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
78.Jump up ^"May 13, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
79.Jump up ^"May 20, 2003". TV Tango. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
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Nikki Wood
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
First appearance
"Fool for Love"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Portrayed by
K. D. Aubert, April Weeden-Washington
Information

Affiliation
Watchers' Council
Classification
Slayer
Notable powers
Supernatural strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes
Rapid healing
 Enhanced intuition
Prophetic dreams
Nikki Wood is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed originally by April Weeden-Washington and later by K.D. Aubert.


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Casting
3 Appearances
4 References

Biography[edit]
Nikki Wood grew up in a poor area of New York. After her parents were killed in a mugging about 1966, she lived with her grandmother. She eventually dropped out of school when she became pregnant with Robin Wood, and got a job as a waitress to help pay the rent.[1]
She was called as the Slayer early in 1973. Her Watcher, Bernard Crowley, found her and told her of her role on February 10, 1973, the same night that her grandmother was killed by a vampire.[2]
She had a Chinese-American boyfriend named Li, a policeman who was killed while investigating smugglers – who were importing a demon. Li may or may not be Robin's father, though it is implied Nikki does not know who Robin's father is (as she does not "take names when blowing off steam").
For most of her tenure as the Slayer, Nikki and Robin lived rent-free in a small apartment behind the projection room of The Gem movie theatre on 42nd street, because she had rescued the owner's nephew from vampires.
In 1977 she was killed by Spike, who had already killed a Chinese Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion. (Spike took a black leather duster from Nikki's body, and it became his trademark.) Crowley then retired from the Watchers' Council and raised Robin.
Casting[edit]
Nikki's first appearance, in "Fool for Love", was a fight scene with no dialogue; she was portrayed by stuntwoman April Weeden-Washington. When the character was brought back in "First Date", the casting directors preferred a younger actress, who could seem more like a vulnerable teenage mother, and hired K.D. Aubert.
Nikki thus joined Buffy Summers and the First Evil as characters in the Buffyverse that have been portrayed by more than one actor (not counting stunt doubles).
Appearances[edit]
Canon appears in bold
Fool for Love (flashbacks)
First Date (impersonated by the First Evil)
Get It Done (mentioned)
Lies My Parents Told Me (flashbacks)
Damage (mentioned)
"It's All About the Mission", a prose short story in Tales of the Slayer Volume IV
Nikki Goes Down!, a graphic short story in Tales of the Slayers
Blackout, novel
Queen of the Slayers: Nikki and other Slayer ghosts protect Xander on the Ghost Roads
Auld Lang Syne graphic novel, issues 2–3
References[edit]
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2.Jump up ^ Blackout, chapter 3


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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series created by Joss Whedon, which premiered on March 10, 1997. It concluded on May 20, 2003, after seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode.
The first five seasons aired on The WB, and in 2001, it transferred to the UPN for its final two seasons.[1] In the United Kingdom, the entire series aired on Sky1 and BBC Two, and on TV3 in Ireland. The story line is continued in comic book form in Season 8 and Season 9.
All seven seasons of the series are available on individual DVD box sets for Regions 1, 2 and 4. Two complete series collections (The Chosen Collection and The Complete DVD Collection) have been released separately for these regions.


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview
2 Episode list 2.1 Season 1 (1997)
2.2 Season 2 (1997–98)
2.3 Season 3 (1998–99)
2.4 Season 4 (1999–2000)
2.5 Season 5 (2000–01)
2.6 Season 6 (2001–02)
2.7 Season 7 (2002–03)
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Network
DVD release date

Season premiere
Season finale
Region 1
Region 2
Region 4
 1 12 March 10, 1997 June 2, 1997 The WB January 15, 2002[2] November 27, 2000[3] November 20, 2000
 2 22 September 15, 1997 May 19, 1998 June 11, 2002[4] May 21, 2001[3] June 15, 2001
 3 22 September 29, 1998 July 13, 1999 January 7, 2003[5] October 29, 2001[3] November 22, 2001
 4 22 October 5, 1999 May 23, 2000 June 10, 2003[6] May 13, 2002[3] May 20, 2002
 5 22 September 26, 2000 May 22, 2001 December 9, 2003[7] October 28, 2002[3] November 29, 2002
 6 22 October 2, 2001 May 21, 2002 UPN May 25, 2004[8] May 12, 2003[3] April 20, 2003
 7 22 September 24, 2002 May 20, 2003 November 16, 2004[9] April 5, 2004[3] May 15, 2004
Episode list[edit]
Season 1 (1997)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 1)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

0
0 Unaired pilot Joss Whedon Joss Whedon N/A 4V79
N/A

1
1 "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (Part 1) Charles Martin Smith Joss Whedon March 10, 1997 4V01 3.3[10]
2
2 "The Harvest" (Part 2) John T. Kretchmer Joss Whedon March 10, 1997 4V02 3.3[10]
3
3 "Witch" Stephen Cragg Dana Reston March 17, 1997 4V03 3.1[11]
4
4 "Teacher's Pet" Bruce Seth Green David Greenwalt March 24, 1997 4V04 1.9[11]
5
5 "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" David Semel Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali March 31, 1997 4V05 2.7[11]
6
6 "The Pack" Bruce Seth Green Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer April 7, 1997 4V06 2.3[11]
7
7 "Angel" Scott Brazil David Greenwalt April 14, 1997 4V07 2.2[11]
8
8 "I, Robot... You, Jane" Stephen Posey Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden April 28, 1997 4V08 2.2[11]
9
9 "The Puppet Show" Ellen S. Pressman Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali May 5, 1997 4V09 1.8[11]
10
10 "Nightmares" Bruce Seth Green Story by: Joss Whedon
Teleplay by: David Greenwalt May 12, 1997 4V10 2.4[11]
11
11 "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" Reza Badiyi Story by: Joss Whedon
Teleplay by: Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden May 19, 1997 4V11 2.3[11]
12
12 "Prophecy Girl" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon June 2, 1997 4V12 2.7[11]
Season 2 (1997–98)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

13
1 "When She Was Bad" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon September 15, 1997 5V01 2.8[12]
14
2 "Some Assembly Required" Bruce Seth Green Ty King September 22, 1997 5V02 3.1[12]
15
3 "School Hard" John T. Kretchmer Story by: Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt
Teleplay by: David Greenwalt September 29, 1997 5V03 3.3[12]
16
4 "Inca Mummy Girl" Ellen S. Pressman Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer October 6, 1997 5V04 3.1[12]
17
5 "Reptile Boy" David Greenwalt David Greenwalt October 13, 1997 5V05 3.4[12]
18
6 "Halloween" Bruce Seth Green Carl Ellsworth October 27, 1997 5V06 3.6[12]
19
7 "Lie to Me" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 3, 1997 5V07 3.3[12]
20
8 "The Dark Age" Bruce Seth Green Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel November 10, 1997 5V08 3.6[12]
21
9 "What's My Line (Part 1)" David Solomon Howard Gordon & Marti Noxon November 17, 1997 5V09 3.4[12]
22
10 "What's My Line (Part 2)" David Semel Marti Noxon November 24, 1997 5V10 3.4[12]
23
11 "Ted" Bruce Seth Green David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon December 8, 1997 5V11 3.8[12]
24
12 "Bad Eggs" David Greenwalt Marti Noxon January 12, 1998 5V12 4.0[12]
25
13 "Surprise" (Part 1) Michael Lange Marti Noxon January 19, 1998 5V13 4.3[12]
26
14 "Innocence" (Part 2) Joss Whedon Joss Whedon January 20, 1998 5V14 5.1[12]
27
15 "Phases" Bruce Seth Green Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali January 27, 1998 5V15 4.8[12]
28
16 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" James A. Contner Marti Noxon February 10, 1998 5V16 4.4[12]
29
17 "Passion" Michael Gershman Ty King February 24, 1998 5V17 4.2[12]
30
18 "Killed by Death" Deran Sarafian Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali March 3, 1998 5V18 4.0[12]
31
19 "I Only Have Eyes for You" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon April 28, 1998 5V19 3.5[12]
32
20 "Go Fish" David Semel David Fury & Elin Hampton May 5, 1998 5V20 3.5[12]
33
21 "Becoming (Part 1)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 12, 1998 5V21 3.7[12]
34
22 "Becoming (Part 2)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 19, 1998 5V22 4.1[12]
Season 3 (1998–99)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 3)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

35
1 "Anne" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon September 29, 1998 3ABB01 4.7[13]
36
2 "Dead Man's Party" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon October 6, 1998 3ABB02 4.3[13]
37
3 "Faith, Hope & Trick" James A. Contner David Greenwalt October 13, 1998 3ABB03 3.9[13]
38
4 "Beauty and the Beasts" James Whitmore, Jr. Marti Noxon October 20, 1998 3ABB04 4.3[13]
39
5 "Homecoming" David Greenwalt David Greenwalt November 3, 1998 3ABB05 4.3[13]
40
6 "Band Candy" Michael Lange Jane Espenson November 10, 1998 3ABB06 4.1[13]
41
7 "Revelations" James A. Contner Douglas Petrie November 17, 1998 3ABB07 4.4[13]
42
8 "Lovers Walk" David Semel Dan Vebber November 24, 1998 3ABB08 3.7[13]
43
9 "The Wish" David Greenwalt Marti Noxon December 8, 1998 3ABB09 4.2[13]
44
10 "Amends" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon December 15, 1998 3ABB10 4.3[13]
45
11 "Gingerbread" James Whitmore, Jr. Story by: Thania St. John & Jane Espenson
Teleplay by: Jane Espenson January 12, 1999 3ABB11 4.2[13]
46
12 "Helpless" James A. Contner David Fury January 19, 1999 3ABB12 4.6[13]
47
13 "The Zeppo" James Whitmore, Jr. Dan Vebber January 26, 1999 3ABB13 4.1[13]
48
14 "Bad Girls" Michael Lange Douglas Petrie February 9, 1999 3ABB14 4.2[13]
49
15 "Consequences" Michael Gershman Marti Noxon February 16, 1999 3ABB15 4.1[13]
50
16 "Doppelgangland" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 23, 1999 3ABB16 4.4[13]
51
17 "Enemies" David Grossman Douglas Petrie March 16, 1999 3ABB17 4.1[13]
52
18 "Earshot" Regis Kimble Jane Espenson September 21, 1999 3ABB18 3.6[14]
53
19 "Choices" James A. Contner David Fury May 4, 1999 3ABB19 3.6[13]
54
20 "The Prom" David Solomon Marti Noxon May 11, 1999 3ABB20 3.8[13]
55
21 "Graduation Day (Part 1)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 18, 1999 3ABB21 3.6[13]
56
22 "Graduation Day (Part 2)" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon July 13, 1999 3ABB22 4.4[14]
Season 4 (1999–2000)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 4)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

57
1 "The Freshman" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon October 5, 1999 4ABB01 4.4[15]
58
2 "Living Conditions" David Grossman Marti Noxon October 12, 1999 4ABB02 3.8[15]
59
3 "The Harsh Light of Day" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 19, 1999 4ABB03 3.4[15]
60
4 "Fear, Itself" Tucker Gates David Fury October 26, 1999 4ABB04 4.1[15]
61
5 "Beer Bad" David Solomon Tracey Forbes November 2, 1999 4ABB05 3.5[15]
62
6 "Wild at Heart" David Grossman Marti Noxon November 9, 1999 4ABB06 4.1[15]
63
7 "The Initiative" James A. Contner Douglas Petrie November 16, 1999 4ABB07 3.5[15]
64
8 "Pangs" Michael Lange Jane Espenson November 23, 1999 4ABB08 4.2[15]
65
9 "Something Blue" Nick Marck Tracey Forbes November 30, 1999 4ABB09 3.7[15]
66
10 "Hush" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon December 14, 1999 4ABB10 4.1[15]
67
11 "Doomed" James A. Contner Marti Noxon & David Fury & Jane Espenson January 18, 2000 4ABB11 3.5[15]
68
12 "A New Man" Michael Gershman Jane Espenson January 25, 2000 4ABB12 3.9[15]
69
13 "The I in Team" James A. Contner David Fury February 8, 2000 4ABB13 3.5[15]
70
14 "Goodbye Iowa" David Solomon Marti Noxon February 15, 2000 4ABB14 3.1[15]
71
15 "This Year's Girl" (Part 1) Michael Gershman Douglas Petrie February 22, 2000 4ABB15 3.8[15]
72
16 "Who Are You" (Part 2) Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 29, 2000 4ABB16 3.5[15]
73
17 "Superstar" David Grossman Jane Espenson April 4, 2000 4ABB17 2.8[15]
74
18 "Where the Wild Things Are" David Solomon Tracey Forbes April 25, 2000 4ABB18 2.7[15]
75
19 "New Moon Rising" James A. Contner Marti Noxon May 2, 2000 4ABB19 2.9[15]
76
20 "The Yoko Factor" (Part 1) David Grossman Douglas Petrie May 9, 2000 4ABB20 3.0[15]
77
21 "Primeval" (Part 2) James A. Contner David Fury May 16, 2000 4ABB21 3.4[15]
78
22 "Restless" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 23, 2000 4ABB22 3.2[15]
Season 5 (2000–01)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 5)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

79
1 "Buffy vs. Dracula" David Solomon Marti Noxon September 26, 2000 5ABB01 5.8[16]
80
2 "Real Me" David Grossman David Fury October 3, 2000 5ABB02 6.2[17]
81
3 "The Replacement" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 10, 2000 5ABB03 5.3[18]
82
4 "Out of My Mind" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner October 17, 2000 5ABB04 5.1[19]
83
5 "No Place Like Home" David Solomon Douglas Petrie October 24, 2000 5ABB05 6.4[20]
84
6 "Family" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 7, 2000 5ABB06 6.2[21]
85
7 "Fool for Love" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie November 14, 2000 5ABB07 5.7[22]
86
8 "Shadow" Dan Attias David Fury November 21, 2000 5ABB08 4.8[23]
87
9 "Listening to Fear" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner November 28, 2000 5ABB09 5.5[24]
88
10 "Into the Woods" Marti Noxon Marti Noxon December 19, 2000 5ABB10 4.9[25]
89
11 "Triangle" Christopher Hibler Jane Espenson January 9, 2001 5ABB11 4.8[26]
90
12 "Checkpoint" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie & Jane Espenson January 23, 2001 5ABB12 5.0[27]
91
13 "Blood Ties" Michael Gershman Steven S. DeKnight February 6, 2001 5ABB13 4.9[28]
92
14 "Crush" Dan Attias David Fury February 13, 2001 5ABB14 4.9[29]
93
15 "I Was Made to Love You" James A. Contner Jane Espenson February 20, 2001 5ABB15 5.1[30]
94
16 "The Body" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon February 27, 2001 5ABB16 6.0[31]
95
17 "Forever" Marti Noxon Marti Noxon April 17, 2001 5ABB17 4.3[32]
96
18 "Intervention" Michael Gershman Jane Espenson April 24, 2001 5ABB18 4.7[33]
97
19 "Tough Love" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner May 1, 2001 5ABB19 4.6[34]
98
20 "Spiral" James A. Contner Steven S. DeKnight May 8, 2001 5ABB20 5.1[35]
99
21 "The Weight of the World" David Solomon Douglas Petrie May 15, 2001 5ABB21 4.8[36]
100
22 "The Gift" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 22, 2001 5ABB22 5.2[37]
Season 6 (2001–02)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 6)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

101
1 "Bargaining (Part 1)" David Grossman Marti Noxon October 2, 2001 6ABB01 7.7[38]
102
2 "Bargaining (Part 2)" David Grossman David Fury October 2, 2001 6ABB02 7.7[38]
103
3 "After Life" David Solomon Jane Espenson October 9, 2001 6ABB03 5.6[39]
104
4 "Flooded" Douglas Petrie Jane Espenson & Douglas Petrie October 16, 2001 6ABB04 6.0[40]
105
5 "Life Serial" Nick Marck David Fury & Jane Espenson October 23, 2001 6ABB05 5.7[41]
106
6 "All the Way" David Solomon Steven S. DeKnight October 30, 2001 6ABB06 5.2[42]
107
7 "Once More, with Feeling" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon November 6, 2001 6ABB07 5.4[43]
108
8 "Tabula Rasa" David Grossman Rebecca Rand Kirshner November 13, 2001 6ABB08 5.4[44]
109
9 "Smashed" Turi Meyer Drew Z. Greenberg November 20, 2001 6ABB09 5.4[45]
110
10 "Wrecked" David Solomon Marti Noxon November 27, 2001 6ABB10 5.6[46]
111
11 "Gone" David Fury David Fury January 8, 2002 6ABB11 5.2[47]
112
12 "Doublemeat Palace" Nick Marck Jane Espenson January 29, 2002 6ABB12 5.6[48]
113
13 "Dead Things" James A. Contner Steven S. DeKnight February 5, 2002 6ABB13 5.2[49]
114
14 "Older and Far Away" Michael Gershman Drew Z. Greenberg February 12, 2002 6ABB14 5.0[50]
115
15 "As You Were" Douglas Petrie Douglas Petrie February 26, 2002 6ABB15 4.7[51]
116
16 "Hell's Bells" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner March 5, 2002 6ABB16 5.6[52]
117
17 "Normal Again" Rick Rosenthal Diego Gutierrez March 12, 2002 6ABB17 5.0[53]
118
18 "Entropy" James A. Contner Drew Z. Greenberg April 30, 2002 6ABB18 4.5[54]
119
19 "Seeing Red" Michael Gershman Steven S. DeKnight May 7, 2002 6ABB19 4.1[55]
120
20 "Villains" David Solomon Marti Noxon May 14, 2002 6ABB20 5.0[56]
121
21 "Two to Go" (Part 1) Bill L. Norton Douglas Petrie May 21, 2002 6ABB21 5.3[57]
122
22 "Grave" (Part 2) James A. Contner David Fury May 21, 2002 6ABB22 5.3[57]
Season 7 (2002–03)[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 7)

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code
U.S. viewers
 (millions)

123
1 "Lessons" David Solomon Joss Whedon September 24, 2002 7ABB01 5.0[58]
124
2 "Beneath You" Nick Marck Douglas Petrie October 1, 2002 7ABB02 5.0[59]
125
3 "Same Time, Same Place" James A. Contner Jane Espenson October 8, 2002 7ABB03 4.9[60]
126
4 "Help" Rick Rosenthal Rebecca Rand Kirshner October 15, 2002 7ABB04 5.0[61]
127
5 "Selfless" David Solomon Drew Goddard October 22, 2002 7ABB05 5.0[62]
128
6 "Him" Michael Gershman Drew Z. Greenberg November 5, 2002 7ABB06 4.6[63]
129
7 "Conversations with Dead People" Nick Marck Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard November 12, 2002 7ABB07 4.8[64]
130
8 "Sleeper" Alan J. Levi David Fury & Jane Espenson November 19, 2002 7ABB08 5.0[65]
131
9 "Never Leave Me" David Solomon Drew Goddard November 26, 2002 7ABB09 4.8[66]
132
10 "Bring on the Night" David Grossman Marti Noxon & Douglas Petrie December 17, 2002 7ABB10 4.8[67]
133
11 "Showtime" Michael Grossman David Fury January 7, 2003 7ABB11 4.1[68]
134
12 "Potential" James A. Contner Rebecca Rand Kirshner January 21, 2003 7ABB12 3.6[69]
135
13 "The Killer in Me" David Solomon Drew Z. Greenberg February 4, 2003 7ABB13 3.5[70]
136
14 "First Date" David Grossman Jane Espenson February 11, 2003 7ABB14 4.2[71]
137
15 "Get It Done" Douglas Petrie Douglas Petrie February 18, 2003 7ABB15 3.4[72]
138
16 "Storyteller" Marita Grabiak Jane Espenson February 25, 2003 7ABB16 3.6[73]
139
17 "Lies My Parents Told Me" David Fury David Fury & Drew Goddard March 25, 2003 7ABB17 3.4[74]
140
18 "Dirty Girls" Michael Gershman Drew Goddard April 15, 2003 7ABB18 3.3[75]
141
19 "Empty Places" James A. Contner Drew Z. Greenberg April 29, 2003 7ABB19 3.6[76]
142
20 "Touched" David Solomon Rebecca Rand Kirshner May 6, 2003 7ABB20 4.0[77]
143
21 "End of Days" Marita Grabiak Douglas Petrie & Jane Espenson May 13, 2003 7ABB21 4.1[78]
144
22 "Chosen" Joss Whedon Joss Whedon May 20, 2003 7ABB22 4.9[79]
See also[edit]
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
##List of Angel episodes
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External links[edit]
##List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes at the Internet Movie Database
##List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes at TV.com
##List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes at BuffyGuide.com
##Buffy the Vampire Slayer at epguides.com


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