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| 59. The Harsh Light of Day Original Air Date: October 19, 1999 Written by: Jane Espenson Directed by: James A. Contner Guest Cast: Adam Kaufman (Parker Abrams) Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall) Emma Caulfield (Anya) Jason Hall (Devon) A night at the Bronze for Buffy and Willow, with Oz's band, Dingoes Ate My Baby , on stage. Buffy is checking out Parker Abrams, but after spending so much time together, they are separate tonight. After Oz joins them, Buffy admits her lust for Parker. Suddenly Parker is there offering to walk her to her dorm. At evening's end, Willow helps Oz and the lead singer, Devon, load their van. Harmony, a high school acquaintance, recognizes Willow. They talk outside alone, when Harmony suddenly vamps and attacks Willow. Oz returns in time to save Willow and Harmony runs away after threatening them with her boyfriend's wrath. As they walk and talk Parker notices the bite scar Angel left on Buffy's neck . She dismisses it as a puppy bite. Buffy and Parker draw closer as they talk. At Giles' house, Xander is helping organize the book collection, when ex-demon Anya arrives and pulls him away. She wants to know about their relationship, the existence of which is a complete surprise to Xander. They did go to the prom together, but she fled Sunnydale, fearful of the Mayor's Ascension. Anya asked Xander to leave with her then and now she confesses an obsession with Xander, including dreaming about him naked. She matter-of-factly tells him what she expects as a dating schedule and he insists that such things should be spontaneous. Buffy and Parker are arriving at her door. Before they can kiss, Oz and Willow interrupt. They make excuses to Parker and go into the room to tend to Willow's wound. As they speculate about Harmony's threatened boyfriend, Harmony approaches a man jackhammering in a tunnel. She greets him lovingly and he removes his protective headgear to reveal.... Spike. Underneath the campus, Spike and another vamp, Brian, are going over plans for the digging project underway in the tunnels when Harmony interrupts. She wants to know when Spike is going to kill Willow. Spike tells her that secrecy demands a low profile and dismisses her. She begins to whine for a fresh victim, the one chained to the wall tastes stale. Finally, he agrees to take her out tonight. Buffy and Parker wander arm-in-arm through the confusion and noise of a college party. Suddenly, they come face-to-face with Spike and Harmony hauling around a pale, barely-conscious college man. Spike and Buffy kid each other about their dates until Spike and Harmony drop their victim and rabbit. Chasing them outside, Buffy draws her stake and prowls around some bushes. A noise gives Spike away and they trade a few punches. When Buffy asks about Drusilla, Harmony volunteers that she ran off with a fungus demon and that Spike obsesses over it. Spike wants to disengage from the fight. Harmony chimes in that Buffy will be sorry when they have the Gem of Amara. Spike, in a rage, pulls her away and Buffy lets them leave. Anya arrives as Xander is hanging a small disco ball in his basement apartment. Anya wants to talk, but as Xander turns to get them a juice drink, Anya drops her dress. When Xander turns around he is, needless to say, stunned. Buffy phones Giles to report Spike's interest in the Gem of Amara. Giles thought the Gem a myth, its great power and history are only vaguely mentioned in texts. Buffy says good-bye, feigning sleepiness. Harmony is in bed, reading magazines and asking Spike about which celebrities are secretly vampires. Harmony continues to pester Spike, but once she has his interest, she seduces him with a combination of invitation and insolence. We find Xander as we left him, standing in stunned silence as Anya, standing nude before him, finishes explaining in analytical and precise terms how she plans to have sex with him, in order to get over him. Xander, slowly recovering the power of speech, surprisingly, suggests that they don't know each other well enough. But a little insistence from Anya and he acquiesces, noting her approach is preferable over Faith's. Meanwhile, Buffy re-joins Parker at the party and makes more excuses. They dance, talk and kiss in that special cinematic way that has people falling madly in love after a few minutes. The scene shifts to Parker's room as Buffy helps him out of his clothes and she misses a call from a worried Giles. Moonlight shines on their bodies as they kiss. The next morning, Buffy awakes to find Parker gone and tries to find her clothes. Parker quickly arrives with coffee and although he claims that they can't be together today, he agrees to call her later. Xander and Anya are dressing in awkward silence. She says that she is over him, and then flashes anger when Xander seems to accept it. She leaves a confused Xander trying to figure out what she wanted him to say. Spike awakes as Harmony is writing about their love, on his back, with lipstick. Irritated, Spike returns to work on the tunnel. Buffy returns to her room to find Willow and Giles already working on the next disaster. She offers a lame excuse for being out all night, but finally asserts her privacy, which Giles prefers she keep private. Giles has discovered that the Gem of Amara may be buried in an underground crypt somewhere in Sunnydale. He and Willow will try to find the Gem, while Buffy will try to find Spike. Before Willow leaves, she volunteers to call Xander and Oz, but she really wants a few moments alone to question Buffy about her night. Buffy confirms Willow's suspicions. Buffy is both happy and nervous about her new relationship. Spike and his crew are close to reaching the Gem and he dictates that no one will be allowed outside until the job is done. Harmony protests and Spike pushes her around a bit. On campus, Buffy is showing Harmony's yearbook picture around and checking her answering machine for Parker's call. The only message she gets is Willow asking if Parker has called. Buffy becomes more depressed as the day wears on without his call. Spike has managed to break into the crypt storing the Gem. It is a large treasure vault. As he looks for the Gem he is surprised by Harmony's entrance. She wants to go picking among the treasure's and Spike gives her leave. He has found a green-jeweled necklace around a skeleton's neck that he thinks is the Gem of Amara, which he dons. Harmony continues with her constant chatter. Testing his new power, Spike attempts to grab a cross, but it burns him still. Harmony continues to nag about the places Spike has promised to take her. Between his burn and her voice, Spike is driven to a rage. He snaps off a chair leg and drives the wood into her heart. When he withdraws the stake, her wound quickly heals itself, with no effect on her. He finds that she has donned a ring from the pile of treasure - the Gem of Amara. She is not burned when a cross is pressed to her head. She cannot be harmed! No vampire wearing the Gem can be harmed. He demands the ring and she surrenders it. He leaves her crying, so he can test the Gem further... on the Slayer. Oz is drooling over Giles' record collection, when Xander finds a TV set hidden under a pile of books. To prove that it works and Giles is a shallow TV watcher, he turns it on. Seeing a report of a sinkhole near the campus, they quickly figure out that Spike's digging caused the hole and they spring into action. Xander is assigned to find Buffy and meet them at the site of the crypt. It's another sunny day as Buffy is walking on campus. She sees Parker talking to another coed. As she approaches she hears him saying things to the coed, very similar to the things he said to her, that made her special. The coed leaves. When asked, Parker tells her he did not call because it's only been a couple of days . Buffy asks Parker to meet her later. He tells her he is busy. Buffy asks if something is wrong and Parker tells her that he had fun, but she misunderstood if she thinks sex implies some commitment between them. Confused, Buffy actually apologizes for the misunderstanding, before Parker leaves. To add injury to insult, she is ambushed by Spike. Buffy fights Spike but quickly realizes that he has the Gem of Amara, since a stake to the heart doesn't stop him (not to mention the sunlight). Willow, Oz and Giles find Harmony crying in the crypt and she lashes out at them, vamp-style. Xander doesn't find Buffy at her room, but Anya finds him there. She wants to talk about having sex earlier, but in the emergency, Xander brushes her aside. In the crypt, Harmony is surrounded. She tells them that Spike has the ring, but when they try to question her further, she escapes. Spike and Buffy continue fighting, with Spike feeling no effects from their prolonged battle. Xander makes a futile effort to help Buffy, but Spike knocks him aside. Spike taunts Buffy, using what he overheard of her conversation with Parker. Spike says Parker probably found her gullible and easy, but not worth a relationship - just like Angel did. With renewed anger, Buffy presses her assault and succeeds in prying the ring from Spike's finger. Fleeing the sun, Spike leaps into an open tunnel access hatch. Later, at Giles' house Buffy, Xander, Willow, Oz and Giles try to decide what to do with the Gem. Instead of destroying it, Buffy is firm, the Gem will be sent to Angel. Oz volunteers to give it to him, during a 'Dingoes' gig in LA. As Buffy and Willow walk the campus, Willow attempts to persuade Buffy that the only thing wrong with her and Parker is Parker. Buffy still wants to hold onto the hope that somehow, everything can be made right. Buffy tells Willow to go ahead, so that she can walk alone. Around a small stand of trees, three troubled young women, walk in the dark, not even seeing each other - Harmony, Anya and Buffy. Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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