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Season 5, Episode 5
Written by Douglas Petrie
Directed by David Solomon
Original Airdate: 23 October 2000
Giles "It appears to be paranormal in
origin."
Buffy "How can you tell?"
Giles "Well, it's so shiny."
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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James Wellington as
Nightwatchman
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Paul Hayes as
Older Nightwatchman
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Staci Lawrence as
Customer
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John Sarkisian as
Old Monk
SYNOPSIS
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Months ago, several monks rushed to perform a
ritual while a powerful force of some sort threatened their lives. In
the present, Buffy stakes a vampire outside an abandoned building, and
then gets caught by the night watchman who thinks she's a teen looking
for a rave. Buffy makes breakfast for her mom, who is still suffering
from headaches that the doctors can't explain. Giles's big opening is
less than successful at first, but eventually, the magic shop gets to be
so popular that he can't handle it all on his own.
Buffy presents an orb to Giles that she found while patrolling the night
before, but Giles can't explain it right away. While picking up a
prescription for her mother, Buffy encounters the night watchman again
as he's being strapped down to a gurney. He's less than stable, but he
manages to warn Buffy that she will be attacked through her family. A
monk works on a blue print in an empty building before The Beast smashes
through a large steel door, revealing itself to be a supernatural blond
female.
The Beast tries to torture information about the Key out of the monk,
but he won't tell her anything. She starts to speak crazily until she
puts her fingers to the head of a security guard and seems to suck the
life-force from him. Buffy assumes that the danger she was warned about
is what is causing her mother's headaches. Anya recommends to Buffy that
she perform a spell to see any spells that may be affecting her family.
Buffy doesn't want Riley to feel unwanted, so she offers to let him help
her with the spell. He realizes what she's doing, then they talk and
agree to take care of each other.
Buffy performs the ritual in her bedroom then walks around her house to
look for anything unusual. Nothing appears weird about her mother, but
Buffy sees Dawn's image flashing in and out of pictures around the
house. Buffy confronts Dawn about it, and she concludes that Dawn isn't
her sister. Buffy threatens Dawn, but Buffy's supposed little sister is
truly confused and doesn't understand Buffy's sudden change in attitude.
Giles calls to tell Buffy about the orb, the Dagon Sphere, and its
purpose of protection from an unnamed evil. Buffy returns to the
abandoned building in hopes of finding more information. Buffy
encounters Spike lurking outside her home and he makes some lame excuses
for his being there. Buffy comes up against the Beast and finds herself
unable to fight against the Beast's incredible strength. After taking
quite a beating, Buffy is able to escape with the monk. The Beast throws
a fit and causes the room around her to collapse on her. Giles offers
Anya a job at the magic shop when he realizes that the job is too much
for just one.
In his last moments of life, the monk warns Buffy that she must protect
the key. He tells her that a collection of energy was put into a human
form, Dawn's form. They sent her to Slayer to be protected from those
looking for it. Before he dies, he tells her that her memories of Dawn
were constructed, and that Dawn is an innocent human who not only needs
the Slayer's protection, she needs her sister's. Buffy apologizes to
Dawn, and the two girls are able to relate on at least one subject -
their concern for their mother.
TRIVIA
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Clare Kramer makes her first appearance as the
memorable Big Bad, Glory, in this episode. Kramer is good friends with
Eliza Dushku, and has worked with her on Bring It On as well as
an episode of
Tru Calling.
CONTINUITY
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After a strenuous first day in the Magic
Box, Giles asks if someone will 'please, rip that bloody bell of it's
hinges.' Buffy finally does this in Life
Serial.
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Buffy once again has trouble with French,
something she's been having trouble with since
School Hard.
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Glory says that she's going to 'sit down
on this tuffet...' which is fitting since she's looking for Dawn, who's
been referred to as 'Little Miss Muffet or 'Curds and Whey' on two
separate occasions, in Graduation Day
(Part 2) and Real Me
specifically.
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Spike's crush on Buffy becomes more
apparent as he hangs outside her house and also says that she has stupid
hair.
GOOFS
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When Buffy meets Glory for the first time,
she is thrown against a stone wall. In the shot where she falls from the
stone wall, it clearly moves, proving it's not real.
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The first picture that Buffy sees while in
her trance that tells her something's amiss with Dawn appears only in
that scene. It's the lowest picture on the wall next to the staircase.
Later in the episode, a different picture (without any of the family
members) is in its place. This same picture appears in the following
episode.
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When the Scoobies are in the Magic Box
talking about what's hurting Buffy's mother, Xander and Buffy are
sitting side by side with Willow standing behind Buffy. The shot changes
and Willow sits down next to Buffy...where did Xander go?
Buffy Vs.
Dracula | Real Me |
The Replacement |
Out of My Mind |
No Place Like
Home
Family |
Fool for Love |
Shadow | Listening to Fear |
Into the Woods | Triangle
Checkpoint
| Blood Ties |
Crush | I Was Made to Love You |
The Body |
Forever
Intervention
| Tough Love |
Spiral | The Weight of the World |
The Gift
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