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Season 4, Episode 21
Written by David Fury
Directed by James A. Contner
Original Airdate: 15 May 2000
"Spike's working for Adam?! After all we've done —
Nah, I can't even act surprised."
Xander
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Bob Fimiani as
Mr. Ward
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Jordi Vilasuso as
Dixon
SYNOPSIS
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Buffy tries to find Riley at the burned down
Sunnydale High, but Riley is actually at Adam's cave. Professor Walsh
implanted a chip into Riley's chest that Adam has just activated. As
Adam gives Riley a heart-to-heart about their lives and Professor
Walsh's plans, Spike shows up, wanting the chip taken out now. Spike
brags about separating the Scooby Gang from Buffy but realizes a
problem. Willow and Tara show up at Giles's place in search of Willow's
laptop and find him enjoying the effects of his drinking the night
before. Buffy regrets her fight with her friends, but realizes she has
to find Riley and stop Adam.
Anya finds Xander naked in bed, moping over his fight with his friends.
She curls up in bed with him and tells him how much she cares for him.
Battle-axe in hand, Buffy goes hunting for Adam in his cave, but finds
his workstation abandoned. Adam brings Riley into a secret area of the
Initiative. Very dead, but still moving versions of Professor Walsh and
Dr. Angleman are working on a body. The body sits up, revealing itself
to be Forrest, now partly demon and machine. Buffy runs into Spike in
the caves and he pretends to know nothing about Adam's plan or work in
the caves.
While working on decrypting the disks, Willow discovers that the disks
decrypt on their own at a certain time. She finds information that Adam
wanted them to know, specifically his plans for a superior race. Forrest
tells Riley about Adam's plan to make him a demon hybrid as well. Buffy
arranges for a meeting on campus with her Scooby Gang, and lets them
know that Spike was the reason why they were all fighting. Adam has been
getting the demons on the inside of the Initiative so that they will
fight with the soldiers and he'll have plenty of body parts for his new
race.
Xander suggests that Buffy's strength, Giles's language skills, and
Willow's Wicca powers combined will be the only thing to defeat Adam.
They break into the Lowell house, and smash the mirror doors that lead
to the Initiative. Repelling down the elevator shaft, Buffy apologizes
to Willow and the two make up as friends again. The gang reunites as
good friends but are caught by Initiative soldiers before they can get
inside the facility.
Buffy and friends are brought before Colonel McNamara and Buffy makes it
very clear that he doesn't know anything about Adam and the forces he's
dealing with. He refuses to acknowledge any mistakes. Power is shut down
in the Initiative, and then Adam opens the doors to all the Hostiles.
War has broken out between the Initiative soldiers and the demons. They
find Adam's secret lab, but they have to fight their way to room 314 to
get there.
While Buffy sneaks into Adam's lab, the gang is left in room 314 to
perform a ritual to help the Slayer defeat Adam. Riley doesn't do
anything while Adam orders Forrest to kill Buffy. While Buffy fights
with Forrest, Riley cuts into his chest with a broken piece of glass.
The pain overwhelming, Riley rips the chip from his chest. Buffy kills
Walsh and Angleman, then Riley fights with Forrest while Buffy goes
after Adam.
Buffy and Adam fight, and he reveals his newly upgraded arm, that is now
a sophisticated weapon, part machine-gun, part rocket launcher. The
ritual begins as Buffy causes an electrical explosion, and she rises,
her eyes glowing yellow. Adam fires at Buffy, but she blocks the
bullets, and turns a rocket into doves. Cornering Adam against a wall,
she reaches into his chest and pulls out his uranium power core, killing
him. A demon barges into room 314, but Spike kills it before it can hurt
the group. Later, higher authorities discuss the Initiative operation,
and decide to have it destroyed. They suggest that all records be
destroyed, and the building burned and filled with concrete.
TRIVIA
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Jeff Pruitt (Buffy's stunt coordinator) and
his wife Sophia Crawford (Buffy's stunt double) left the show at
the end of this season. This was apparently due to 'creative
differences' with the production team. Jeff later went online to the
Buffy forums to air his views on the show and it's star.
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In his commentary for the season four DVD, episode
director James Contner said that Lindsay Crouse had a lot of difficulty
with seeing thought the clouded contact lenses she had to wear. She was
essentially blind and had to be guided by crew shouting directions to
her. The reason her behind is so big is that it's holding a machine to
pump the blood through the tubes around her neck. This was also her
final appearance on the show.
CROSSOVER
CONTINUITY
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Professor Walsh, Doctor Angleman and
Forrest are all seen reanimated by Adam to serve his bidding. They died
in
The I in Team, Goodbye Iowa and The Yoko
Factor respectively. They all die again here and this episode is their
final appearance.
GOOFS
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When Anya comes to visit Xander, his
blanket repositions itself several times.
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When Buffy pulls Adam's uranium core out,
she holds it horizontally. In the next cut, she's holding it vertically,
and then horizontally again.
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How could Riley pull out the chip so
easily, especially if it was lodged behind his heart?
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During the first fight sequence, right
after Xander questions finding a "quiet place" to perform the spell, we
see a soldier flipped over a railing by a demon. He lands on a giant,
metallic-plastic-covered cushion that rises around him like a big
pillow.
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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