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| 74. Where the Wild Things Are Original Air Date: April 25, 2000 Written by: Tracey Forbes Directed by: David Solomon Guest Cast: Emma Caulfield (Anya) Marc Blucas (Riley Finn) Amber Benson (Tara) Bailey Chase (Graham) Leonard Roberts (Forrest) Casey McCarthy (Julie) Kathryn Jooster (Genevive Holt) Neil Daly (Mason) Once again a fight, in the cemetery, is in progress as we join Buffy. This time she and Riley are tackling a single vampire. Buffy prepares a crossbow bolt for the vamp, but stops to admire Riley's form, as he struggles to subdue the monster. Riley holds the vamp in position and Buffy aims, but a demon knocks Riley aside, just as Buffy fires. Buffy and Riley engage both creatures. After a brief struggle, Buffy manages to kill the demon with a stake and Riley stakes the vampire. In the aftermath, Buffy tells Riley how strange it is for a demon and a vampire to cooperate; vampires usually hate demons. As they talk, they are obviously flushed from the battle and affected by their physical attraction. Buffy decides that Giles must be told about the monster cooperation right away. Riley agrees. Riley carries her into his room, while repeatedly kissing her. Buffy decides that tomorrow will be soon enough to tell Giles about the monster cooperation. Riley agrees and they fall into bed together. Riley awakens in his darkened dorm room, with Buffy at his side. He quietly dons his pants and goes outside. His room is at the top of the stairs, above a large lounge space and the front doors of the dormitory. The halls are silent. He goes into a nearby bathroom, which appears old for a college dorm. The bathroom is decorated in plain black and white tile. An old porcelain bathtub sits along one wall. Riley hears a noise and suspensefully approaches the tub's shower curtain. He quickly jerks it aside, but finds only a leaky faucet. Xander adds ice cream truck driver to the growing list of jobs he has pursued. Xander is again enduring a probing conversation about couple stuff with Anya, as he brings the truck to a stop. She doesn't want to attend a party at the Initiative dorm because, as an ex-demon, they give her the creeps. Xander thinks she won't be noticed at all and, of course, she takes the remark personal. As Xander arranges stock in the back, Anya says that because they failed to have sex every night that week that they must be on their way to breaking up. She can't understand what the problem could be. When his manhood is questioned, Xander loudly affirms his ability to make hot love right here and now, just before he notices the small crowd of children and parents gathered outside the sales window of the truck. The next day, Giles is confused by Buffy's report. Buffy, Riley, Willow and Tara are meeting with him in a student lounge. He notes that demons stick to their own kind and view vampires as inferiors. Riley suggests that Adam, the Initiative's Frankenstein monster is forging an alliance between the underworld species. Riley's and Buffy's hands are constantly playing together as Giles suggests some patrolling tips for Buffy. Riley reminds them that the Initiative teams will be on alert as well. He also mentions the party, the timing of which surprises Giles, until Riley tells him that they need it for morale. Giles begs off of Riley's invitation because he has a gathering to attend at the Expresso Pump coffeehouse, which he doesn't explain further. Riley makes an excuse for him and Buffy to leave. When Willow begins to explain to Giles that they are going to make out, Giles testily reminds her that he still remembers his college years. That night, a shivering Forrest and Graham descend from an upper stairway to the landing just outside Riley's room, where they can hear the couple making love. Inside the room, they are rolling together in bed. Riley reaches into a drawer in the nightstand and removes a condom from a large supply. As Forrest and Graham reach the ground floor they find another student, Mason, has already built a fire in the fireplace, which he says is an hour old, but hasn't warmed up the room yet. Graham jokes about the heat being generated by Buffy and Riley. Mason sits in front of the fireplace and we see scenes of the amorous couple's risingpassion and the fire. Suddenly, flames leap from the fireplace and ignite Mason's arm and legs. Forrest reacts quickly, grabbing a fraternity banner from the wall and using it to smother the flames as Mason screams. As Forrest tells Graham to go for help, the fireplace has returned to normal. Anya walks alone, in the dark, down the alley towards the Bronze. Suddenly, a figure leaps from the shadows and she jumps in fear, before she realizes that it's just Spike. She scolds him for scaring her, which brightens his spirits some. He tries to rob her, but she won't cooperate. This is his newest scam - his victims don't know that he can't hurt them without causing himself intense pain, because of a computer chip the Initiative implanted in his brain, before he escaped their custody. Anya comments on Spike's lack of friends and Spike teases her about being without Xander. At the party, Buffy and Riley stare across the room at each other as they huddle with their separate groups of friends. Forrest and Graham are talking about Mason, who, luckily, received only minor injuries. Xander is telling Buffy, Willow and Tara about his embarrassing episode in the ice cream truck. When Willow notices that Buffy is totally distracted by Riley, she tells of spilling something purple on Buffy's new peasant top, which she borrowed without telling Buffy. At first Buffy just lets the news go by with an agreeable "Uh-uh", but after a few seconds she snaps out of her funk to ask about what she just heard. Tara saves Willow by bringing the subject back to Xander and Anya. Xander is glad that Anya no longer has her Vengence Demon powers. At the Bronze, Anya is crying in her beer to Spike because she no longer has her Vengence Demon powers. Spike reminisces about the feeling he used to get from killing. He also laments his own lost love. Anya can empathize. She thinks every relationship is doomed to failure. Spike suggests that they form a pact to each kill their ex-lovers. Anya admits that she can't kill Xander, but that shouldn't stop Spike from killing Drusilla. Spike decides to put it off until later. At the party, a male student is trying to impress a young woman with high-concept sounding pontifications on English Language studies. He casually leans on the wall and in a few moments a shudder runs through him. He is distracted by the sensation from touching the wall. He is obviously feeling pleasure approaching the orgasmic. Xander saunters up to a young woman and begins his usual self-depreciating humor. The curly redheaded woman, Julie, finds him amusing. Buffy calls Riley away, using a lame excuse, and they almost run up the stairs to Riley's room, leaving his friends to kid about his inability to fool anyone. The student, who discovered the pleasure-giving spot on the wall, calls to a friend passing by and convinces him to hold his hand on the spot. As the friend begins to react to the experience the other students gather around and laugh. Willow and Tara are sitting on some steps talking about horses. Willow is obviously unnerved by horses, due to an incident during a birthday pony ride when she was four-years-old, she says. Tara thinks they should go riding together and she assures Willow that she will be safe. Willow tentatively agrees, if Tara promises to protect her. She places her hand on Tara's knee and Tara recoils from her touch and accuses her of being "disgusting". In a moment, Tara seems calm again and, embarrassed, she retreats to the bathroom. Spike and Anya arrive at the party and Spike is horrified to learn that the party is hosted by the Initiative. He can't believe that Anya bought him to this party, because he is in danger of being captured again. Xander sees them and he can't believe that Anya brought Spike to this party, because he thinks she's dating Spike out of spite. When Spike begins to help Anya torment Xander, Xander begins to loudly call Spike by the name the Initiative soldiers know him, Hostile 17. They are all surprised when no one seems to notice or care. Spike decides he isn't in so much danger and goes in search of some liquor. Xander tries to explain to Anya that all couples fight, but she sees the fight as the precursor to the break-up and the vengeance, but she assures him that she doesn't intend to hurt him. In an increasingly loud voice, they begin to put distance between each other, while still shouting out hurtful words, over the heads of the partying crowd. Xander walks off and discovers a small circle of people sitting on the floor playing spin-the-bottle, including Julie. With her eyes, she invites him to join the circle. Spike has parked himself in a chair next to the keg and seems unconcerned with a student who thinks that he looks familiar. Xander wins the game when the bottle stops on the redheaded Julie. Showing great nervousness, Xander stalls at first and finally gives her a smooch on the check. She grabs him, pushes him back against a couch, she then mounts him and kisses him passionately. When he finally manages to push her off of him, she apologizes and runs from the room, in tears. Xander follows her and sees the students playing with the pleasure spot on the wall. He hears the sound of crying from a closet and tries the door, but it's locked. Inside, Julie is using a knife to hack at her beautiful curly red hair, while repeating over and over, that she is bad. Willow knocks on the door of the bathroom outside Riley's room and calls for Tara. When she gets no answer she goes inside, but doesn't see Tara. She hears a noise behind the shower curtain and approaches it. Pulling back the curtain she sees a boy with his arms crossed, submerged in the tub. The young man is thrashing about but can't seem to rise out of the water. She reaches to save him and the young man disappears, leaving only the bathwater. Willow turns from the tub and behind her stands the same young man, apparently very dead from drowning. She screams. Inside Riley's room, the couple pauses for a moment in their passion. Riley wonders if he just heard Willow's scream; Buffy doesn't seem to think that its important even if he did. They resume their coupling. Xander returns to the spin-the-bottle group trying to find a friend of Julie's, who can talk to her. Willow finds Xander and uses verbal shorthand to tell him about her ghostly experience. Xander is flabbergasted to learn of yet another haunted house on campus, wondering why people continue to attend parties there given past experience. Tara joins them and tells them that she is getting a bad feeling from the house; she suggests they leave. Just then, the bottle in the game begins to spin faster and faster, until it shatters into pieces. Several of the students cover their injured eyes. Buffy's friends run up the stairs to get her, but vines sprout from the doorframe to Riley's room. Inside, the couple ignores the shouts of their friends as they continue their lovemaking. The noises from outside the room begin to fade. Tara walks back to the second floor landing and looks downstairs just as the entire house starts to shake. The people gathered downstairs begin to run about and flee. Spike is entertained by this new activity, until leather straps appear and as if alive, they bind him to his chair and cover his mouth. Amid the running partygoers, Forrest manages to find Graham, but he is mesmerized, reciting a cryptic religious verse. Since they are standing by the secret elevator to the Initiative complex, Forrest activates it and pulls Graham inside. When the shaking stops, Anya finds herself alone in a room at the end of a hallway. A young screaming woman comes running down the hall, straight at her. The woman passes through Anya and vanishes a few steps on the other side of her. The house begins to shake again and Anya finds Xander, Willow and Tara. They head for the exit. Spike breaks the straps holding him and runs to escape, as well. Before leaving the house, Xander looks back and sees a hysterical Julie, with all her hair cut off, pleading for help. He returns and helps her out of the dorm. The Initiative base is a flurry of activity, but the shaking has not affected them. Graham now seems normal and he joins Forrest as they prepare to deal with the situation as best they can. Outside the dormitory, despite Anya's reluctance, the group begins to consider how to get back inside to warn Buffy and Riley. When Xander asks for volunteers, to everyone's surprise, Spike speaks up. He begins by listing the reasons why he shouldn't help them and that is as far as he gets in his explanation of why he wants to help. He suddenly decides that not helping is a better choice, so he leaves. Anya again tries to convince Xander to leave, but he is determined to reach his friends. Before he can cross the threshold of the door, he is thrown back into the air, landing hard on the cement walkway leading up to the building. He decides to find Giles at the Expresso Pump and enlist his help. Arriving at the Expresso Pump, they are stunned to find Giles sitting on a stool in the corner, surrounded by a rapt audience as he sings and plays The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" on an acoustic guitar. Xander compares this revelation to finding out the earth rotates backwards . Giles seems disconcerted when he notices them watching, but it doesn't affect his performance. Giles' vocals remind Willow that she once had a serious crush on their mentor. She and the other women find his performance pleasant and slightly sexual, much to Xander's horror. Back at the dorm, Buffy and Riley continue. For a few seconds they stop and when Buffy tells him that they must keep going, her voice echoes unnaturally. They resume. Back at Giles' house they tell him that the couple is probably still at it. Willow tries to explain that unusual happenings of a sexual nature were taking place all over during the party, but she declines to give any specifics, including failing to mention the influence that seemed to come over Tara when Willow touched her. In a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, Willow finds that during the fifties, the Lowell House was the Lowell Home for Children, a home for troubled teens. They are unable to find any more details except a description of Genevieve Holt, the Director of the Home, who is described as a Saint. Giles, Anya and Xander visit an elderly Ms. Holt. She doesn't remember any unusual events and nothing bad happened to any of the children while she was in charge. As she recalls the good old days, she mentions how dirty the children could get and the group quickly realizes that she isn't talking about dirt and mud. She claims that the children would do wrong things, even if she couldn't catch them and that it was necessary for her to head off these desires so the children could be sure of getting into heaven. For example, she used to remove the hair of girls that appeared to be vain about their looks. She performed baptisms in the tub, holding the children underwater longer if she suspected they were impure. Giles finally lashes out at the woman for creating traumas among the children and drawing evil energy to the house. She dismisses their criticism, since they are obviously sinners. Leaving the woman's home, Giles' comes to the conclusion that the trauma's visited on the children and their repressed sexuality has drawn a whole collection of poltergeists to the house. He speculates that the sexual energy being given off by Buffy and Riley are manifesting the spirits. The haunting won't end until the couple stops their lovemaking or they die from exhaustion. At the dorm, the couple again briefly pauses, but Buffy pleads for more and they continue. At Tara's room, Willow and Giles joins her around a small table with lighted candles, while Xander and Anya draw weapons. They hope to use a spell to buy time for Xander and Anya to enter the house and save Buffy and Riley. Xander hands Anya a heavy battle-ax and selects a machete for himself, before they leave. Tara gives the incantation and they find themselves surrounded by the spirits of dead children. At the dorm house, the door suddenly swings open and Xander and Anya enter. The stairway to Riley's room is encased in vines and Xander begins to use his machete. At Tara's room, the three spellcasters try to say soothing words to the spirits, encouraging them to stop their attacks and move on. Xander and Anya reach the door to Riley's room and as he tries the knob a harsh wind blows there and in Tara's room. The children look to the ceiling in unison, as Tara pleads over the rushing wind for calm, but a powerful gust throws the table across the room and the children disappear, signaling that they have returned to the frat house. Xander is knocked down by the strong wind and he slides along the floor through the door to the bathroom, which slams behind him. Anya rushes to the door, but she is thrown back over the railing behind her and lands half-on, half-off a couch on the floor below. Xander struggles to escape the water-filled bathtub, while the children watch impassively. Anya slowly picks herself up off the floor and painfully climbs the stairs. As she grips the banister, a thick vine sprouts under her left hand and drives a spear completely through her hand. She pulls her hand free as she cries out in pain. She eventually reaches Xander and pulls him from the tub. When they emerge from the bathroom, the vines around Riley's room appear thicker than before. They slowly try to find a way through the vines. They are attacked by the branches a couple of times and Xander suffers a long scratch on his face. They finally manage to reach the door and together they force it open. Buffy and Riley are caught by surprise and she scolds Xander for his rudeness. All evidence of the spirits and the vines has disappeared. Xander and Anya wearily turn and walk away. The next day, at the college cafeteria, Willow, Xander and Anya try to explain to Buffy and Riley the horror that they witnessed the night before. But Buffy still finds it hard to believe the Giles was singing. Willow again mentions that she found it somewhat sexy and Xander offers to pay her to stop saying that. Despite their innocence, Buffy feels guilty about the fact that her and Riley's lovemaking caused the danger last night. When she tries to explain that they had no control over themselves, Willow suggests that it must have been horrible. Buffy and Riley make a lame attempt to agree that making love together for hours was just horrible Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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