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Season 4, Episode 14
Written by Marti Noxon
Directed by David Solomon
Original Airdate: 14 February 2000
Buffy "Maggie tried to kill me."
Anya "It didn't work, but they're all upset anyway."
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Amy Powell as
Reporter
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Andy Marshall as
Scientist #1
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Paul Leighton as
Rough Looking Demon
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Karen Charnell as
Shady Lady
SYNOPSIS
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Buffy fills the gang in on everything that's gone
on since she started to work with the Initiative, and they question
whether Riley was involved in the death mission Maggie sent Buffy on.
Adam escapes through a vent and out into the real world. Buffy arms the
group with weapons and makes plans to find somewhere to hide out. They
agree upon Xander's basement. Riley shows up at Giles's place asking
Buffy for information, and recognizes Spike as Hostile 17. He gets upset
about Buffy keeping the vampire hidden, but Spike manages to get away.
Riley doesn't want to accept what the rest of them are saying about
Professor Walsh and the Initiative.
Adam approaches a young boy playing in the park and questions what the
boy is. Doctor Angleman slips in a pool of blood as he enters room 314
and finds Professor Walsh dead. Giles is grumpy when he wakes up in
Xander's basement and the rest of the girls are watching cartoons. They
talk about tough relationships, then turn the TV on to see a news story
about a young boy who has been killed and mutilated. Riley talks with
Forrest about what happened with Buffy. Forrest expresses his distaste
for Buffy and then Graham arrives and informs them that Professor Walsh
is dead.
When Riley and Forrest go to see Walsh's body, Forrest accuses Buffy of
staking Maggie. Going against Dr. Angleman's orders, Riley instructs the
other commandos to go out and search for the Polgara demon. Forrest and
Graham enter a crypt and almost find Spike, but he's hiding. While Buffy
tries to apologize to Riley at the scene of the crime, Riley informs her
that Walsh is dead and asks if Buffy is happy about that. Willow goes to
Tara's dorm room where Willow asks Tara if she'll help her do a spell to
call on the Goddess Thespia.
Buffy searches for information at Willy's but Riley also shows up, very
angry. He's acting very weird, and shaking as he questions Buffy's
intentions and even pulls a gun on a supposedly innocent woman. Buffy
consoles Riley as she sees that he's sick and only getting sicker. He's
shaking and sweating and scratching his hand so badly that it bleeds.
Buffy tries to get him to rest and get better. Buffy asks for Xander to
go undercover with her, but Anya doesn't want Xander going anywhere with
Buffy.
Willow and Tara start to perform their spell but when Tara is supposed
to blow dust over a square, she throws it under a bed instead, causing
the spell to not work. Dressed as a scientist, Buffy gets herself and
Xander - who is dressed in fatigues - into the Initiative. Riley wakes
up and when Willow tries to stop him from going after Buffy, he pushes
her to the ground and runs. Doctor Angleman talks to another scientist
about their commandos being given drugs in their meals and the lack of
those drugs are causing Riley's health deterioration.
Spike goes into Willy's bar but is met by an unfriendly demon. He is
badly beaten up by the demons for associating with the Slayer. They
threaten that if he's seen around again, they'll kill him. Inside the
Initiative, Buffy follows after and grabs Doctor Angleman, demanding
information. Riley arrives to help Buffy, but he doesn't want to accept
the fact Professor Walsh was bad. Buffy wants to get answers about 314
and she gets an answer when Adam drops a dead body to the floor and
reveals his presence. Adam is searching for answers about the world, and
has returned to the Initiative so he can get answers about himself and
who he is.
He has a disk drive in his chest and when he inserts a disk labelled
"Adam" he offers information that reveals that he's part human, demon
and machine. He explains that even though Riley had a real mother,
Maggie was also his mother as she shaped and built him into a human
machine so he could work for the Initiative. Adam kills Dr. Angleman and
injures Riley before escaping again. The other commandos enter and take
Riley away. The next day, Buffy talks to Willow about how Adam is out
there and very dangerous. At the hospital, Riley lays in bed holding a
scarf Buffy gave him earlier. Even though Buffy can't see him, he has
part of her to hold on to.
TRIVIA
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The shot with Adam and the little boy is an
homage to Boris Karloff's 1931 movie Frankenstein. When Frankenstein's
monster escapes, he walks through a forest and comes upon a little girl,
Maria, who is throwing flowers into a pond. The monster joins her in the
activity but soon runs out of flowers. At a loss for something to throw
into the water, he looks at Maria and moves toward her. In all American
prints of the movie, the scene ends here. But as originally filmed, the
action continues to show the monster grabbing Maria, hurling her into
the lake, then departing in confusion when Maria fails to float as the
flowers did. This bit was deleted because Karloff - objecting to the
director's interpretation of the scene - felt that the monster should
have gently put Maria into the lake. This scene is restored in the video
cassette reissue.
CONTINUITY
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Giles' tattoo of the Mark of Eyghon can be
seen briefly. The Mark was explained in season two's
The Dark Age.
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Anya refers to
Halloween again when she says “It’s
not like he was in the ‘Nam. He was G.I. Joe for one night.”
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Angleman is skewered and killed by Adam,
exactly as Maggie Walsh was in the previous episode. And just like
Maggie's his corpse is reanimated to service Adam's machinations in
Primeval.
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Willy is back. He owns the demon bar in
town and was introduced in season two's
What's My Line? (Part 1). Although the bar is seen again in later
episodes, Willy never reappears.
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The plot thickens between Tara and Willow.
Tara sabotages the spell she and Willow do to find a demon. We find out
why in Family. The two get closer:
"I've been thinking about that last spell we did all day."
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Channel 14, last seen reporting on the cave
in caused by Spike in
The Harsh Light of Day, report on Adam's
killing of the little boy.
GOOFS
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When Buffy describes what took place in the
sewers, she says that the gate slammed down, and then she tried to use
the gun. She actually used the gun first.
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The same shot of Giles looking concerned is
used twice.
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Spike's hole in his t-shirt from where he
was shot with the tracer has disappeared.
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Riley points at Forrest with his left hand
as he says, "You better not be saying what I think you're saying." In
the next shot, Riley is pointing with his right hand.
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The Polgara demon was captured the night
before this episode starts. However, the second day into the episode,
Riley says that "the Polgara demon we captured last week" must have
killed Walsh.
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Buffy takes the bandana out of her hair and
wraps it around Riley's hand. A few moments later, she's wearing it
again.
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Adam puts a second disk in his drive
without having taken out the first.
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Angleman does not have a tear in his lab
coat from his skewering, nor is he bleeding though there was blood on
Adam's skewer.
The Freshman |
Living Conditions |
The Harsh Light of Day |
Fear, Itself |
Beer Bad
Wild at Heart |
The Initiative |
Pangs |
Something Blue |
Hush |
Doomed
A New Man |
The I in Team | Goodbye Iowa |
This Year's Girl |
Who Are You |
Superstar
Where the Wild
Things Are |
New Moon Rising |
The Yoko Factor |
Primeval |
Restless
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