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| 77. Primeval Original Air Date: May 16, 2000 Written by: David Fury Directed by: James A. Contner Guest Cast: Emma Caulfield (Anya) Amber Benson (Tara) Marc Blucas (Riley Finn) Leonard Roberts (Forrest) Bailey Chase (Graham) George Hertzberg (Adam) Conor O'Farrell (Col. McNamara) Lindsay Crouse (Dr. Walsh) Jack Stehlin (Dr. Angleman) (Continued from #076 - The Yoko Factor) Buffy searches for Riley in the ruins of Sunnydale High School. Instead, he is in Adam's lair. He is unable to break Adam's hold over him. Adam tells him that Dr. Walsh, whom Adam still refers to as "Mother", implanted a chip in Riley. In his left breast, wrapped around a nerve, the chip gives Adam the ability to control Riley's body, if not his mind. Riley resents Adam's constant references to him as "brother" and promises to resist in any way possible. Adam plans to remake Riley into something beyond human. Adam lectures Riley on the combat characteristics of the human and demon species. Adam intends to use Dr. Walsh's work, patching together human and demon anatomy, to rebuild everyone into Adam's vision of perfection. Adam's monologue is interrupted by Spike. Spike wants the Initiative chip removed from his head, since he has driven Buffy's from her friends. Adam will not remove Spike's chip until Spike delivers the Slayer to him at the Initiative. The plan calls for having Buffy around when the attack on the Initiative begins to increase the carnage, as she rallies the humans and racks up a demon body count, at least for as long as she lasts. When Adam questions him, Spike realizes that the fake computer information that was intended as bait to lure Buffy into the Initiative, will not reach her if she and Willow are not talking to each other. After being rebuked by Adam, Spike is sent away to fix the problem. Willow and Tara arrive at Giles' to find him, suffering from a hangover, still in his bathrobe. Willow has come to retrieve the laptop, as well as, the computer disks, which were faked by Spike. Willow needs to continue trying to decode their information. Due to his hangover or perhaps due to their argument yesterday or, maybe even, due to some discomfort with the fact that Willow and Tara are in a relationship, Giles is rather cold and discourages them from staying. Sitting on the floor, alone in the dorm room she shares with Willow, Buffy is lost in thought. She picks up an old picture of her with Willow and Xander, smiling together. Then, she picks up the phone, but sets it down without calling. She, finally, picks up a long-handled battle-ax. Anya arrives at Xander's basement apartment to nag him about going to the Unemployment Office, but he is too depressed. She doesn't understand why he is letting the things that his friends said during their argument get him down. She and Xander believe that his friends consider him a loser with no goals for the future. Worse, he wonders how true that assessment is. Anya gets into bed with the nude Xander and cuddles with him. Then, she tells him that she loves him and his friends' opinions don't matter. He doesn't say anything about her declaration of love, but he does agree with her about Buffy and Willow, although he sounds unsure. Wandering the many caves in the vicinity of Sunnydale, Buffy stumbles across Adam's hidden computer room. At the same time, Adam is showing Riley a secret underground section of the Initiative, that Adam has turned into a laboratory. Riley is surprised to see a resurrected Dr. Walsh and Dr. Angleman. Their faces are disfigured and they walk with stiff, zombie-like motions. They have clear plastic tubes running from one part of their body to another carrying red fluid, presumably blood. They have been adapted and made to serve Adam's will. Riley is further horrified to see, rising from a morgue table, a mixture of demon, circuitry and man that he recognizes as his dead friend, Forrest. Buffy finds Spike inside a branch of the caves and he feigns surprise when she tells him that they are in Adam's territory. Spike reminds her about the computer disks and leaves. At Tara's, Willow is working on decrypting the disks, when suddenly the information begins to reveal itself. Willow cannot understand, why a coded file would be designed to decode all by itself, but she doesn't want to seem ungrateful. Just then, Buffy calls. Riley is sitting in a special lab chair, as he tries to talk to Dr. Walsh. Forrest tells Riley that she no longer has higher brain functions, but Forrest has been made more like Adam. Forrest appears to like the change; he looks forward to fighting Buffy with his new body. He also looks forward to Riley's conversion, so they can work together again. Buffy meets Giles, Willow and Xander on the campus grounds. Anya and Tara refused to attend the meeting. When Buffy presses, her friends realize that Spike was the one who planted the doubts in all of their minds. They unenthusiastically agree to put their argument aside to prevent Spike's plan from working. Though still uncomfortable with each other, Buffy continues to put the pieces together. She tells them, that she spotted Spike near Adam's cave and she believes he is working for Adam. When Buffy tells them that Spike mentioned the computer disks, Willow tells them of the information that revealed itself to her. The disks tell of a final phase, where Adam creates a race of man/cyber-demon Frankenstein monsters in a secret Initiative lab. Buffy realizes that the large numbers of demons that the Initiative has been capturing recently are also a part of the plan. Somehow Adam will free the demons and they will already be inside the Initiative. A huge battle will ensue and in the aftermath, Adam will resurrect the dead or use their parts to build his perfect army. A plan so evil, that Xander almost misses the Mayor. They discuss how to warn the Initiative. Buffy thinks that Riley is in seclusion dealing with the death of Forrest. Even with his help, they doubt if anyone at the Initiative will listen to them. Xander raises the question of why Adam has, apparently, given this information to them and Buffy figures that she is supposed to be in on the final battle, to add to the kill ratio. Adam apparently has no fear of the Slayer. Adam tells Riley and Spike that he can sense that Buffy is coming, and Spike figures that Adam must be part fortune-telling demon. Spike again pushes to have his chip removed, but Adam wants Buffy in his clutches first. At Giles', the four friends discuss how to stop Adam. Since he is nearly indestructible , his only weakness is his power source, a small nuclear device in his torso, near the spine. Willow suggests magic and Giles thinks of a paralyzing spell, which might hold Adam long enough for them to remove his power cell. There is also a spell that can banish the nuclear cell, once it is removed. Unfortunately, Giles' magic abilities are not powerful enough to make the spells work and Willow cannot read the ancient Summarian texts. Even so, it requires the spell-caster to be too close to the target. Xander laments the fact that they don't have a Frankenstein monster of their own, with Giles knowledge, Willow's magic and Buffy fighting ability. With that, Giles gets an idea. Sometime later, our fantastic four begin their break-in at the Initiative. Buffy and Willow climb side-by-side down the secret elevator shaft using ropes and harnesses. As they descend, Buffy suddenly apologizes to Willow for the bad feelings between them all. Willow is philosophical about time separating people, but Buffy will not hear of it. She is determined that she will not let anything split them up. She's admits to being distracted lately, but Willow reminds her that she was often distracted because she was saving the world. Buffy insists that she let her relationship with Riley pull her too far from her friends. Willow takes the blame for keeping her relationship with Tara from her friends, especially Buffy, but she was scared, presumably by her new feelings and her friends' possible reaction. Buffy assures Willow that she need never be afraid of telling her friend anything. They both profess their love for each other and as they hug, their ropes slip and they quickly reach the bottom of the shaft. Standing on top of the elevator car, they hug and soon Xander lands between them. They both embrace him and begin telling him how much they love him. Xander takes this as a very bad sign, indicating they are not going to survive this mission. When they assure him that they are just making up for lost time, he grins and yells to Giles to hurry so he won't miss the group hug. As they prepare to force open some elevator doors, Buffy gives them some last minute tips. When they open the doors they are faced with a team of men with blaster rifles. Adam and Spike watch on a video monitor as soldiers march Buffy through the Initiative complex. Spike again presses to have his chip removed, but Adam is still unhappy - Buffy is not alone. Giving up on pleasing Adam, Spike tries to flee but he is grabbed around the throat by the Forrest monster. In a cruel irony, Adam tells Forrest to remove Spike's chip... and his head. Helpless, Spike presses his lit cigarette into Forrest's left eye. As Forrest screams, Spike manages to escape. Adam stops Forrest from pursuing Spike. Adam is satisfied that things are going well enough, and that nothing can stop him. Colonel McNamara is inspecting Buffy's bizarre collection of magical items and taking the oportunity to lecture them about the seriousness of their trespass. Buffy tries to warn him about Adam's plan to release the demons, but he doesn't believe that it's possible. He also doesn't believe in the existence of a secret laboratory. When Giles asks how they intend to stop Adam, McNamara expresses confidence in a plan to overwhelm Adam with taser blaster rifle fire, from as many weapons as they can bring to bear. Buffy dismisses the plan, since she has seen Adam absorb blaster fire . She tries to convince the Colonel that their whole approach is wrong and that the Slayer was intended to fight unnatural evil - she's a primeval force to counter the primeval forces of evil. As McNamara brags of the Initiative's ability to maintain control, the lights suddenly go out and emergency lighting comes on. All the external doors are locked and they cannot gain control of the system. Adam sits at a control panel and watches on video monitors as two people enter the containment area, then he releases the monsters. Monitoring the situation, Col. McNamara leaves two men to guard the four demonbusters as he leads the rest to the armory. As soon as he leaves, Buffy attacks and subdues the guards. Willow tries to use a control panel to locate Adam, while the others watch a monitor showing a full-scale battle raging throughout the complex. Amid explosions and machine gun fire, humans and demons are dying wholesale as each fights individually for survival. In the middle of the melee, Spike does the only thing he can - fight and kill demons as fast as possible. Willow finds electrical lines and ventilation shafts that appear to run to a dead-end, which indicates a hidden room, next to Room 314, Adam's birthplace. With Buffy leading the way, the team fights their way through the complex to 314. Inside, they find a secret access panel. Her friends are going to stay in 314 to complete a magic ritual. Before Buffy enters, Xander voices concern that she will be all alone inside. With a small smile, she assures him that she won't be alone. Willow closes the panel behind Buffy and rolls a heavy cart in front of it, as Giles and Xander barricade the door to Room 314. Inside the secret lab, Buffy rushes to Riley's side, but he is unable to speak or stand. Adam joins them and instructs Forrest to kill Buffy. As Adam leaves, Forrest holds Buffy from behind and the zombie Prof. Walsh comes towards her with a buzzing surgical saw. A high kick knocks Walsh back and Buffy is able to break Forrest's grip on her. As they struggle, broken glass lands within Riley's reach. In room 314, Giles, Xander and Willow sit on the floor in a circle with lit candles. Willow is reading an incantation. Buffy is having a difficult time fighting Forrest, as Riley reaches the sharp glass shards and begins to cut deep into his left breast. Willow hands out Tarot cards that represent the role that each person plays in the spell; spirit to Willow, heart to Xander, mind to Giles and, one for Buffy, the hand. Riley, in agony, uses his hand to reach into the open wound in his chest. As Forrest raises Buffy over his head, preparing to smash her down, she grabs some overhead electrical wires, which break and arc. As the spell nears completion and Willow talks of the others inhabiting the vessel of the hand, they appear to spin around the circle. Forrest manages to throw Buffy onto a dissection table and Walsh and Angleman try to bind her to the table. Riley finally manages to yank the offending chip from his body. Attacking from behind, Riley pulls the tubes from the dead doctors and they collapse. As Buffy kicks Forrest and gains a moment of freedom, she tells Riley that she needs to find Adam. He tells her to go and prepares to fight the monster that was once his friend. Above the roar of the battle, McNamara shouts orders to a group of soldiers, as they try to find a defensible position. Buffy confronts Adam in an Initiative control room and quickly begins the fight. He is more powerful, but she won't quit. When he extends the long bony skewer from his left wrist, Buffy snaps it over her knee. Buffy watches in shocked surprise as Adam morphs his right arm into a modern gattling gun and begins to spray the room with bullets. She barely manages to duck behind an equipment panel. Willow and friends have completed their spell and something seems to fly from Room 314 to where Buffy is hiding. Adam's gun-arm now fires a cannon shot and the equipment panel explodes. From behind the smoking ruin, Buffy rises with yellow glowing eyes. Adam thinks that she will fall soon, but she tells him that "we" won't. Her voice is now a chorus and she begins a spell in a strange language. Adam raises his arm and fires his machine gun again, but before the bullets reach Buffy, they disappear in ripples, like pebbles falling onto the surface of a lake. Adam is intrigued by this new development. In room 314, Buffy's friends sit entranced, as the monsters from the battle are close to breaking in. Riley continues his desperate battle against Forrest. Riley is thrown into some large gas canisters and he uses one as a weapon against Forrest, opening a hissing leak in the metal bottle. Forrest knocks him down and picks up the cylinder to hit Riley. Instead, Riley runs as Forrest raises the container high over his head, near the sparking electrical wires. Too late, the reconstructed Forrest realizes that the gas is flammable. As Riley dives for cover, a huge explosion rips Forrest into a collection of parts. Adam fires another cannon shell at Buffy, but this time with a wave of her hand, she slows the projectile in mid-flight and transforms the bomb into three white doves. Undaunted, Adam raises his weapon again, but with another wave, Buffy forces it to transform back into his normal arm. He moves towards her, but despite swinging wildly, he is unable to connect. She moves with incredible speed to avoid his blows, while every kick and punch she delivers drives Adam back. In a moment's pause, when she has Adam by his neck, confused, he asks her how she is able to do this, but she assures him he will never understand. She forces him against the wall. Now her eyes glow red, as she drives her hand deep between two stitched parts of his stomach. He grabs her arm and struggles, but eventually she pulls a metal device that glows green, his power source, from his body and Adam falls. Riley arrives and tries to talk to Buffy, but she is total concentration as she levitates the device from her hand and it disappears in a flash of white light. A few seconds later, she collapses, but Riley catches her. In Room 314, Giles, Willow and Xander are drained from the spell. Suddenly, a demon, with long fur, breaks into the room. Before it can reach them, Spike jumps the demon from behind and breaks its neck. He tries to get credit for helping them, but they realize that he was just changing to the winning side again, or at least the side that least wanted him dead. Buffy and Riley emerge from the access panel and they have a quick reunion. Buffy refuses to take credit for defeating Adam, reminding them that it was a team effort. She rallies Willow and Xander to get the exits open and Riley to gather the surviving Initiative personnel so, together, they can escape. During a briefing by a bunch of suits in a dark room, a white-haired man is explaining that the Initiative was an attempt to fight inhuman threats, but also to use what they learned for military research. While we watch the death of Col. McNamara by demon, constant explosions and death, and the Buffy Brigade leading people out of the war zone through the elevator shaft, the suit says that the project has been declared a failure; it has only proven that demonic forces cannot be controlled. It's also noted that the untrained civilians saved more lives than the specialized military unit. Everyone connected with the project will be reassigned, the complex will be filled in and they will watch the civilians to make sure that they don't reveal the secret of the Initiative. It will be as if it never happened. Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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