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| 93. I Was Made To Love You Original Air Date: February 20, 2001 Written by: Jane Espenson Directed by: James A. Contner Guest Cast: Shonda Farr (April) Adam Busch (Warren) Amelinda Embry (Katrina) Clare Kramer (Glory) Charlie Webber (Ben) Troy T. Blendell (Jinx) Buffy is driven to distraction by finding out that Spike is attracted to her as she pounds a punching dummy and Giles strives to come up with the right answers to her ranting. She pounds furiously on the padding, until Giles asks her to calm down and Xander reminds her that he is wearing the huge padded suit that she is beating on. Instantly sorry, Buffy quickly removes Xander's helmet and tries to comfort him despite his obvious discomfort. Giles goes for ice, as Buffy wonders why men she beats on are attracted to her. Xander tries to convince her that she is not the problem, but Buffy's confidence is obviously shaken by her recent love troubles. Xander sincerely tells her that she has too much to offer to not be discovered by the right man someday. She hugs him and he regrets that through the padding he can hardly feel it. Then he suggests that love just doesn't thrive on top of a dimensional gateway to evil, like the Hellmouth. In downtown Sunnydale, a car lets out a pretty brunette woman. She is grateful for the ride and the man cautions her against walking alone in this part of town. When he asks her what she is looking for, she responds that she's looking for true love. Joyce is showing off her newest evening dress as her daughters tease her. Both of them are unhappy when they contemplate their mother's intentions towards her date, Brian. Their mother is nervous as a schoolgirl, as she contemplates her first date in a long time. When Joyce asks for her opinion, Buffy humorously suggests that she's the last person to give advice to the lovelorn. Joyce tries to reassure her and Dawn reminds Buffy that she might meet someone at the party she's attending tonight. In the meantime, they have more time to obsess over Mom's dress. Anya and Tara walk along the campus together as they discuss their comfort level with computers. Anya thinks that at 1100 years old, she's made quite an adjustment to accept computers. Tara is depressed by the bad spelling online and Anya is excited and apparently successful at online investing. They are approached by the mysterious brunette girl who asks them the whereabouts of Warren. Her manner is rather stiff and abrupt as the young woman questions everyone in her path. Anya and Tara continue with Anya bragging about designing an ad for the Magic Box on the computer, one that features her face prominently. Buffy and Xander dance at the party as Anya brags to Willow and Tara about how nice she is for letting her boyfriend dance with Buffy. Buffy wanders to where Ben can't help but notice her and then acts surprised when he does. He tries a lame joke, which Buffy over-laughs to. They seem to be typical young people getting to know each other. Anya marvels at the workmanship that goes into weaving the Chex in Chex Mix until Xander tries to explain snack food manufacturing. He is interrupted by the arrival of the mysterious brunette. One other young man notices the girl and runs from the room. Anya tells Xander that she and Tara saw the woman earlier and, in her awkward way of speaking, Anya explains that the woman has an awkward way of speaking. The running man, Warren, collects his date and leaves the party. The young woman approaches everyone even the dancers on the floor asking for Warren. Willow and Tara join Xander and Anya to discuss the strange woman. When Xander suggests that the woman is too pretty to be alone, Willow quickly agrees which causes a brief scene between her and a jealous Tara. Spike arrives and tells Buffy that he has no intention of leaving town or even her vicinity. If she wants to be rid of him, she will have to get physical. Her venomous reply convinces him to move away for now. Ben appears and unenthusiastically offers to thrash Spike, but Buffy declines his offer. Ben shyly offers his phone number. Buffy gushes that she just ended a relationship badly and Ben suggests that he's willing to take the risk, so Buffy promises to call for a coffee together. Spike wanders away from watching the two and tries to interest the mysterious brunette, April, into something that he whispers in her ear. She is so offended that she picks Spike off the ground and throws him several feet through the front window of the dorm house. Shocked Spike listens as the young woman explains that Warren is her boyfriend and what Spike suggested would be improper with anyone but Warren. Spike retreats into the night. Buffy stops the young woman and compliments her on throwing Spike, but suggests that things may have gone too far. April throws Buffy across the room. April apologizes for hurting Buffy, wishes her well with her relationship and leaves. Buffy nurses her arm as she meets with Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara to discuss April. All immediately agree that they are dealing with a robot looking for Warren, perhaps her inventor. Willow will find a list of Warrens in Sunnydale to investigate, but due to the late hour they agree to start tomorrow. Buffy relieves a grateful Giles from babysitting Dawn. He has a number of objections, but admits that Dawn's teen music, junk food diet and talk of boys has exceeded his limits. Buffy tells him about the robot slam-dunking Spike and offers to discuss it further, but Joyce arrives home bubbling from her date and Giles beats a quick retreat. Buffy teases her mother about not getting a goodnight kiss on the porch but Joyce drives her away with teasing about having a wild night of sex. It's 3:30 A.M. as April works her way down the street, knocking on door after door, looking for Warren. The team is gathered around the round table at Giles' magic shop discussing April. Xander compliments April's specs and they tease each other for a bit, until Willow finds information on her laptop for Warren Mears. He's an old classmate that moved to a nearby Technical College and whose parents still live in Sunnydale. Buffy decides to investigate but Giles recommends caution. He wonders if April was built for some evil purpose, but everyone agrees that she's a sex toy. When Xander tries to wax poetically about having a sex slave, the women quickly stare him down. Buffy has no regard for someone so sleazy, but Willow suggests that loneliness can drive people to desperate lengths. Tara is sympathetic as she considers the sadness of never having someone to share things with. The conversation makes Buffy self-conscious. A short time later, Buffy calls the phone number Ben gave her. At the other end of the phone, Glory has just finished an apparently painful transformation into Ben. He answers and accepts an invitation to coffee tomorrow night with Buffy. After he hangs up he realizes he's wearing one of Glory's red dresses. At Warren's house he is hurriedly packing as his girlfriend, Katrina, questions him about the sudden decision that they should leave town. He is pulling her out of the house when they meet Buffy at the front door. When Warren tries to dismiss Katrina and orders her to be silent while he talks to Buffy, his girlfriend storms out of the house. At the Magic Box, Dawn wonders if this robot is related to Ted who dated Joyce for a while before being destroyed by Buffy. In keeping with her lifetime of implanted memories, Dawn recalls the events, even though she wasn't there. Xander opens the door so the gang can leave, but Spike wearing a blanket in the bright sun and beating off the flames, rushes into the shop. Giles tells him to leave and Willow tells him that they are looking for a way to keep him out of the shop even though it is open to the public. Xander thinks it's more fun just to throw him out and Anya suggests the window. Even Dawn is angry with him. Spike tries to convince them that Buffy didn't tell the whole truth about what happened between them. Giles, removing his glasses, pushes Spike against a bookcase and puts on a threatening look that he rarely shows, but he reserves for people harassing Buffy. With deadly seriousness, Giles tells Spike that they are not his friends and they will not be used by him to get close to Buffy. He throws Spike his blanket and suggests that Spike get past this phase. Spike draws breath for a reply but looking at Giles stern visage convinces him to leave without protest. Meanwhile, April continues to ask methodically about town for news of Warren. Warren is explaining to Buffy all the usual symptoms of an adolescent unable to relate to women, that caused him to build April, but Buffy is not warming up to him. Buffy is skeptical when Warren tries to explain that he built her to be the perfect woman. But Warren must admit that having a woman, who would never say no, didn't turn out to be as attractive as he initially thought. Instead, Warren found himself drawn to Katrina, who is a fellow engineering student that is unpredictable and argumentative. Buffy is shocked to find out that Warren's solution to the problem was to walk out on April without warning and hope that her power would run down before she decided to find him. He is surprised that somehow April has lasted this long. Katrina anger is apparent as she walks quickly through a playground. A wide-eyed April stops her to ask about Warren. Katrina informs her that, no matter how many women are interested in Warren, he is Katrina's boyfriend. Katrina tries to walk away, but April grabs her and wants an explanation. As Katrina tries to get away, April squeezes harder, until something pops. Spike is angrily throwing the remnants of his Buffy shrine into a box. Buffy and Warren search for April. Buffy is upset to find that Warren thought to build a woman that felt pain if she didn't respond to his call. They find April still on the playground, holding an unconscious Katrina off the ground by her neck. April explains that she only wants Warren to be happy. Under Warren's instruction, April hands Katrina to Buffy who quickly finds that Katrina is still alive. Warren tries to convince April to go back to his dorm room and wait for him, obviously hoping her power will run out. Buffy presses him to tell April the truth. As Warren tries to explain, April searches her programming for a response to this unexpected input. He finally manages to say that he doesn't love her. April's threatening response causes Warren to accuse Buffy of stealing his heart. April throws Buffy several feet and then breaks the board of a see-saw to use as a weapon. Buffy manages to take the board and put a hole in April's stomach surface, but the battle is difficult against the metal opponent. Katrina regains consciousness and is horrified to find her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend is a do-it-yourself kit. She runs away from him and Warren chases after her. April gets the advantage over Buffy and holds her by the throat, but her dwindling power makes her incapable of fighting on. April is suddenly weak, helpless and scared. Buffy and April sit on the swings together. April tells Buffy that she isn't designed to cry because good girlfriends don't blackmail their boyfriends by crying. She has examined her situation but she can't make out any logic out of it. She was design to love Warren and without him she is purposeless. She continues to slip away as her vision fades. Buffy obviously begins to feel badly for the deceived, misguided young woman. She assures a worried, nearly blind April that if Warren returns she will make sure that he finds her. April wonders if Warren is testing her ability to obey and she decides that she will wait for him no matter how long it takes. Buffy begins to comfort April by telling her positive things that Warren said about how much she loved him and how proud he was of her. April smiles as Buffy's words convince her that Warren will soon return and make things right. April begins to repeat a series of cliches about staying optimistic. Her voice slows and stops as she fades away and Buffy sits for a while beside her dead friend. Xander is explaining to Buffy how to set a window in its frame as he repairs the dorm house. She doesn't follow him, but compliments his newfound competence at carpentry. Buffy is still wistful about April's plight. She sees it as a metaphor for people desperate to be in a relationship no matter what the cost. She calls Ben's number and records a message on the answering machine canceling their coffee date. Glory hears the message and refuses to believe the obvious until her worshipper, Jinx, points out that Ben must be pursuing The Slayer. Glory seems disappointed that Buffy turned "them" down. Warren is at home on the phone still apologizing to Katrina, but she hangs up. Warren is startled to find Spike lurking behind him. Spike tells Warren that he wants a girl robot built and he hands over his box of Buffy pictures as a blueprint. Buffy arrives home to find flowers from Brian sitting at the door. She calls out but there is no answer. Then she sees, lying half-on and half-off the couch, her mother lying motionless with unblinking eyes. Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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