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| 65. Something Blue Original Air Date: November 30, 1999 Written by: Tracey Forbes Directed by: Nick Marck Guest Cast: Marc Blucas (Riley Finn) Emma Caulfield (Anya) Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy) Andy Umberger (D'Hoffyrn) Willow walks through Oz's room, obviously still melancholy, as she breathes in the smell from one of his shirts. On a lighter note, Buffy comes upon Riley Finn, in the student lounge, as he is helping the Lesbian Alliance hang a banner. When she kids him, he admits to being a lesbian. He reminds her that they talked about having a picnic and now he has some concrete plans. Buffy seems confused and Riley confesses that he may have only practiced inviting her to a picnic. He practices before talking to her because he has not yet figured her out. She is pleased when he refers to her as beautiful... but he also thinks she's mysterious. So he starts over, suggesting the idea of a picnic. That night, Willow and Buffy patrol. Buffy is trying to explain her feelings about Riley. She just returned from a visit to Angel, so she has re-visited the source of a lot of romantic pain. She likes Riley, but something is missing. Willow suggests that Riley is too promising a prospect and Buffy quickly agrees. She is torn because she is not sure that a nice, stable relationship would be satisfying without an element of danger or disaster. She feels that conflict is a source of passion. As if to demonstrate, a vampire jumps from the bushes and Buffy slays him, in about two seconds, without breaking her stride. Buffy is trying to get information about the unknown commandos from Spike as he sits chained in Giles' bathtub. Unfortunately, he is not able to tell her much. She begins to feed him blood using a cup and straw. When he suggests that she must have shared such moments with Angel, she loses her patience with him. She refuses to feed him until he can give her some real information. He is afraid that once he tells all he knows they will kill him. Giles' assures him that they are not in the business of killing defenseless creatures. They must be sure however that he is harmless. Buffy accuses Spike of enjoying a soft life, but he tells her that he would rather things were different. She playfully offers her neck to him. Giles tires of their antics and leaves, as Spike implores him to stop Buffy's teasing. In the living room, Willow suggests using a truth spell on Spike. She leaves to get the supplies and will return in the morning. Giles returns to the bathroom. When he suggests that Willow is feeling better about Oz's leaving, Buffy agrees. Spike scoffs at them, it's obvious to him that Willow is much more fragile than they think. Willow returns to Oz's room, but it's been emptied of his belongings. She looks around as if in shock. In her room, in tears, she tells Buffy that Oz asked his friend, Devon to ship his things to him. To her it means that he isn't coming back, and that thought tears at her. The next day, Willow fails to show up at Giles. Spike is trying to get free, because he claims that Giles is keeping him from watching the soap opera, Passions. Giles leaves a phone message for Willow. Buffy and Riley sit in the grass, picnicking and talking about driving. He is surprised to learn that she is not interested in cars, because he sometimes takes long drives to relax. As he shares his feelings about the free feeling he gets from driving, Buffy wonders if that's the only thing on his mind. Willow wanders near-by, but senses that she is intruding. She is so down, Riley insists that she joins them, but there is no joy in Willowville. At the Bronze, Buffy tells Xander and Anya about the situation. Xander is surprised that Willow hasn't heard from Oz and Anya wishes she were still a Vengeance Demon so she could punish Oz, horribly. On the dance floor, Willow is frantically dancing until she sees her friends. When she drops her beer, they realize she is sloshed. Buffy reminds her how bad beer can be. Xander tries to help, but Willow rudely tells him that he has no idea how bad she feels. Buffy pulls her away and tries to council patience, but Willow wants to be rid of her sorrow now. Late that night, while Buffy sleeps, Willow goes to her chest of magic icons. In a large dormitory shower, across the hall from their room, she sits in a circle of dark candles, chanting a spell. She calls upon the elements to turn her passion into power to make her wish come true. Fingers of electricity fill the circle and the candles' flames flare up two feet in height. The next day, she is still trying to wish her heart to be whole. Nothing seems to work; she cannot even straighten a Q-tip magically. Giles arrives to check on her. He is concerned since she didn't keep her promise to do the truth spell. She tells him about the failure of her spell last night and he cautions against spell casting, as he usually does. He tells her that she is too hurt, too conflicted now to be playing with such forces. She becomes angry at all the efforts to help her; she thinks its just lip service, because her grief is inconvenient to everyone. As her anger rises, she accuses him of being blind to her situation. Fingers of electricity flash in the irises of her eyes and Giles begins to have trouble with his vision. As he leaves he bumps into a student in the hallway. Back at his house, he attempts to perform the truth spell on Spike, but he has trouble reading the pages of the book. When going for his handkerchief to wipe his glasses, he does not see the key to Spikes' chains fall from his pocket... but Spike does. He cannot even see Spike undoing his chains. Spike knocks him aside and escapes into the night. While sitting on her bed, Willow pets Amy, a young witch trapped in the body of a rat, whom Willow has been trying to cure for some time. Willow is complaining to Buffy about Giles' visit. Buffy assures her that he is only concerned for her safety. As she cleans Amy's cage, Willow remembers some of her failures as a witch and credits Amy with having real abilities. Amy was able to change from a girl - unseen to them, Amy is magically restored to her normal body - into a rat - still unseen, Amy is magically changed back into a rat. Giles phones and Buffy prepares to go looking for Spike. Willow still tries to get Buffy to stay with her. Responding to duty, Buffy reluctantly goes. Willow opines that finding Spike is no big deal and will probably take about two seconds. Another flash in Willow's eyes and instantly Spike and Buffy find themselves standing together on the campus grounds, but neither realizes how strange that is. Spike notices they are near where he escaped the mysterious underground complex, but he cannot find the hatch he came out of. Thinking he is stalling Buffy grabs him. He punches her face and he feels a sharp pain in his head. She punches his face and he feels a sharp pain in his nose. Giles is in the bathroom, taking eye drops, as Buffy brings a bound Spike in through the front door. Willow is at Xander's complaining to him about Buffy abandoning her to chase Spike. Sarcastically she suggests that Buffy should just marry Spike. Her eyes flash and Giles enters the living room to find Spike on bended knees, proposing to Buffy. She gleefully agrees and they kiss. She flashes a ring at Giles and tells him he won't believe what has just happened. He obviously doesn't. Willow is of the opinion that all relationships are doomed to failure. Xander tries to disagree, but she lists his attempts at finding love, only to find he is involved with an ex monster. With a casual phrase and with flashing eyes, she dooms Xander to become a demon magnet. Giles tries to phone Willow for help, while he strains to see Buffy and Spike cuddling in an easy chair. After he hangs up, in a touching moment, Buffy asks Giles to stand-in for her father at the wedding ceremony, because Giles is an important part of her "real family". For an instant his joy overwhelms him, until the madness of the situation reasserts itself. She reminds him that no one approved of her relationship with Angel at first, which causes a brief argument with a jealous Spike. They quickly make up, but their joy is interrupted when Giles admits that he is now totally blind. Buffy rushes to comfort him and Spike instantly starts looking for a reversal spell. When Giles expresses surprise at Spike's concern, Spike tells him that Giles is now practically his father-in-law. As Buffy and Spike kiss again, Giles gropes his way to the liquor cabinet. On her way back from the magic shop with supplies, Buffy stops to admire a wedding dress in a shop window when Riley sees her. After she tells him that she really likes him and wants to always be his friend, she tells him she is getting married. She rambles on about her betrothed, as if everyone knows whom she is talking about, but Riley cannot comprehend what has happened. He finally retreats in total confusion. Xander and Anya are kissing on his bed when the first demon busts through the door. As they both struggle with the monster, Anya tells Xander that this demon must be drowned. They manage to hold the demon's head in a sink full of water, as it smokes, until another demon breaks a basement window and tries to reach them. Xander and Anya flee. Since the magic shop didn't have all the things they needed, Giles is forced to listen as Buffy and Spike make wedding plans. They play with blonde bride and groom figurines for the top of their wedding cake; kiss constantly and try to decide if the wedding invitation should list Spike or his formal name, William the Bloody. Suddenly, Xander and Anya run through the door and barricade it. They are horrified to learn about the condition of Giles and Buffy. Xander remembers that it was Willow that said Buffy should marry Spike and that she also said he was a demon magnet. Giles remembers that she said he couldn't see anything and she also said she had done the wish-fulfillment spell. Buffy agrees with their theory, but she still doesn't realize that she has been affected. Willow returns to their dorm room and is grabbed around the head, by a bald demon with horns and a beard, similar to a goat's. Fingers of electricity dance around her head. Buffy and the others, sans Giles, approach Willow and Buffy's room. All they find is a large, charred spot in the floor. Anya recognizes it as the work of D'Hoffyrn, the being that turned her into a demon 1,120 years ago. He has used a portal to take Willow. In darkness, Willow is surrounded by several demons. D'Hoffyrn tells her that they heard her pain across the dimensions. As they walk through a graveyard Anya explains that she was doing simple spells of vengeance on men, when D'Hoffyrn offered to give her power as a demon. Another demon approaches them - this one has larger horizontal horns, similar to a bull. Buffy battles the demon and as soon as he is knocked down, two different demons come at them and chase them into a crypt. Anya kneels and draws a circle in the dust and begins a spell to contact D'Hoffyrn, as the others try to prevent the demons from getting through the door. In the dark dimension, D'Hoffyrn is explaining to Willow that the pain she has visited on her friends qualifies her to join them, but she doesn't know what he is talking about. Anya is having trouble remembering her spell and is forced to start over. The others are having trouble keeping all the demons out. The door gives and two demons rush in. Buffy, Xander and Anya are forced to fight for their lives, as Spike holds the door to prevent the third demon getting in. D'Hoffyrn shows Willow an image of her desperate friends and she is horrified. He wants to make her a Vengeance Demon, but she refuses him - she must help her friends. Quite casually, he gives her a talisman in case she changes her mind and with a wave of his hand she disappears in a small, black whirlwind. Buffy deals with her demon, just as Spike is knocked back from the door by the bull-horned demon. She rushes to the door and manages to secure it, before seeing to her fiance. Buffy and Spike kiss in the middle of the floor, oblivious to the plight of Xander and Anya. With lightning-like flashes, Willow appears and begins a spell to reverse the damage she has done. After another series of flashes, the demons disappear. Buffy and Spike are disgusted by what they have done and are doing. Back at Giles', Willow is finished making another batch of cookies to assuage her guilt for what she has done to them. Giles's only complaint is that Willow should have given him perfect vision, instead of restoring him to his original eyesight. Willow tells Buffy that she still suffers from the loss of Oz, even more than she feels guilty, but now she is resigned to dealing with both over time. When Buffy refuses the tied Spike's request for a cookie, he gets revenge by revealing that she wanted "Wind Beneath My Wings" for their first wedding dance. She claims that was because of the spell. Willow apologizes again and Buffy tries to explain that her memories of Spike and her are horrible. Buffy now sees the benefit of a nice, stable boyfriend.... Then, suddenly, she remembers that she told Riley she was engaged. The next day, she covers by telling Riley that she was just kidding. She claims Riley looked scared because she was looking at wedding dresses, so she couldn't resist teasing him. Since he doesn't know her well yet, he accepts her explanation, but he leaves no doubt that he wants to learn much more about her. Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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