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Season 2, Episode 9
Written by Marti Noxon and Howard Gordon
Directed by David Solomon
Original Airdate: 17 November 1997
"You know, I'm a little rusty when it comes to
killing humans. It could take a while."
Angel
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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Buffy's fate as the Slayer is set in stone. As
career week arrives, Buffy becomes bummed that she can't be anything but
the Slayer. Spike is working on a cure for Drusilla. He gets a
transcriber to decode a book stolen from Giles. Spike is working with
the transcriber and Drusilla wants his attention. He blows up at her and
she starts to pout. He apologizes and then kisses her very romantically.
She forgives him and he goes back to work on the book.
When they find that the book is in code, and the transcriber can't crack
it, Drusilla looks to her tarot cards for an answer. When they find out
that the book needs a key, Spike and Drusilla dance together. When
making her rounds at the cemetery, Buffy finds the transcriber, named
Dalton, and another vampire stealing something from a mausoleum. She
kills the vampire, but Dalton gets away, and returns to Spike. When she
arrives home, Buffy finds Angel there, and he warns her of grave danger,
as usual. They chat for a bit, and Buffy reveals her childhood obsession
with Dorothy Hamill.
Giles begins to worry about what happened at the cemetery. Dalton has
stolen a cross which is the key to the code. Spike decides that if
Drusilla is to survive he must get rid of Buffy. He calls for the Order
of Taraka - a group of bounty hunters of the most deadly kind. They will
keep coming until Buffy is dead. Giles and Buffy go back to the
mausoleum and Giles finds the name "duLac" on the wall. He puts the
pieces together to find that Spike is using the book and the cross to
restore Drusilla to full health. Giles then goes back to the library to
try to find out what the book says. Meanwhile, the assassins are coming.
Pretending to be normal citizens they position themselves to kill Buffy,
but all in their own individual ways.
Buffy gets out of helping with book deciphering to go and skate with
Angel. Then one of the assassins shows up and attempts to kill Buffy.
Angel gets there just in time to try and save her. Then Buffy cuts his
throat with her skate. Then Angel looks at the assassin's ring and
freaks out. He tells Buffy to run and hide, which is something Buffy has
never done. Then he acts shy because he doesn't want Buffy to see him as
a vampire. But she says she didn't even notice. They kiss and are
unaware of another girl watching them. She sees Buffy kissing Angel and
prepares to kill them both. Back at the library Giles, Xander and Willow
can't find Buffy. Giles begins to panic because he knows what is in
store for Buffy and Angel. He sends Xander after her and asks him to go
with Cordelia since she has a car.
Angel goes for help. He goes to a bar where vampires hang out. The
bartender, Willy, is his source of help. He asks him who sent the
assassins and Willy refuses to answer. Angel smashes his head against
the bar and threatens to kill him. Meanwhile, Buffy gets really scared
due to the multiple warnings of death. She goes to Angel's place and
falls asleep in his bed. In his bar, Willy is saved from Angel by the
girl who observed him with Buffy earlier, and she confronts Angel. She
corners him and then locks him in a caged area where he can't get out.
The sun will burn him alive in this trapped space within a few hours.
As Buffy lies in Angel's apartment, she is awoken by Angel's attacker,
who matches her every blow with ease. As Buffy stops the fight,
desperate for answers, the girl informs her of her identity. She is
Kendra... the vampire Slayer...
TRIVIA
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Actress Bianca Lawson originally auditioned
for and won the role of Cordelia. She turned down the role for a part
she had been committed to already in the show Goode Behaviour.
When asked about the situation she had this to say: "Well, there's a
period in a season where you audition for all the pilots, and you never
know...so you kind of audition for everything. At the time I had done a
lot for Sister, Sister and the writers of that told me they were
going to write a new show and put me in it. A couple of years later they
did, they wrote a part for me in this new show and named the character
Bianca. I just felt a kind of loyalty to those writers. And who knew
that Buffy was going to become the phenomenon that it did?" Her
accent on the show is not her real accent and the actress herself hated
it: "I really hated that accent! I got the part, and I didn't originally
have an accent. Then, literally the night before, they said, "What about
a Jamaican accent?" So it's one of those things where, y'know, I just
had to put it on tape, but I didn't have a chance to get comfortable
with it. And the thing is, certain things - if you say it properly [in
Jamaican patois], people don't really fully understand it, so they would
change things. They'd say, "Well, say it like this" and it's like,
"Would that be accurate in that accent though?" "It doesn't matter
because no-one's going to understand you!" So different people were
giving their interpretations of it. I was like "But everyone's going to
think that I'm doing it wrong!" So personally, I wasn't happy with the
accent!"
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Willy the snitch appears for the first time
in this episode. He appears four more times throughout the next two
seasons.
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This is the first instance where the Slayer
mythology is hinted at. If one Slayer dies, the next is called, and that
is how Kendra is the Slayer. If Buffy dies again, then the Slayer line
shouldn't be affected. The line now runs through Kendra. This problem
ends in the final episode when every girl in the world with the
potential to be a Slayer is made one by Willow's spell.
CONTINUITY
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Dalton, Spike and Drusilla's henchman who
steals the duLac cross, returns again in
Surprise.
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Kendra Young arrives in Sunnydale. She was
called to be the Vampire Slayer after Buffy's brief death in
Prophecy Girl.
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Willow mentions to Giles that she has frog
fear (which is odd because she has a stuffed frog in her bedroom in
Inca Mummy Girl), and Buffy later
uses it as a distraction technique in
Killed by Death.
GOOFS
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When Buffy and Kendra fight, Kendra throws
Buffy into a table and the table breaks. But in the next shot, the
pieces are gone.
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Why does Dalton need to wear glasses? I
thought that vampires had excellent sight. Perhaps it's a fashion
statement.
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When the assassin gets off the bus the
steps are a different colour in the first shot than in the second.
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When Buffy climbs in her window to find
Angel in her bedroom, her shade is up. In the next shot the shade is
down.
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Angel's reflection is briefly seen in a
picture frame in Buffy's room.
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How did Kendra know where Angel lived?
When She Was
Bad |
Some Assembly Required |
School Hard |
Inca Mummy Girl |
Reptile Boy
Halloween |
Lie to Me |
The Dark Age |
What's My Line? (Part 1) |
What's My Line? (Part 2) |
Ted
Bad Eggs |
Surprise |
Innocence |
Phases |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
Passion
Killed by
Death |
I Only Have Eyes for You |
Go Fish |
Becoming (Part 1) |
Becoming (Part 2)
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