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Season 5, Episode 9
Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by David Solomon
Original Airdate: 27 November 2000
"Because it's a killer snot monster from outer
space... I did not say that."
Giles
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Paul Hayes as
Older Nightwatchman
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Keith Allan as
Skinny Mental Patient
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Erin Leigh Price as
Vampire Chick
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April Adams as
Nurse Lampkin
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Barbara C. Adside as
Creature #1
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Debbie Lee Carrington as
Creature #2
SYNOPSIS
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The Summers women are at the hospital when the
doctor informs Joyce she'll have surgery in two days. The rest of the
gang does their best to patrol and rid Sunnydale of a few more un-dead
residents. Meanwhile, Riley allows a female vampire to feed from him.
The next day, Willow brings gifts to Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn. With the
brain tumour, Joyce has unusual outbursts. On the way out, a mental
patient points out that there is nothing inside Dawn.
Willow and Tara camp out on the roof of a building and watch the stars.
A large object crashes down in Sunnydale. The crazy man, who has been
released from the hospital, is walking through the forest when a
creature attacks him. At the hospital, the creature climbs along the
ceiling, undetected. Buffy and Joyce talk the doctor into letting Joyce
go home until her operation.
The gang finds the location of the crash and the dead body of the
released hospital patient. While everyone else goes to find help, Riley
calls Graham. He later advises the military officers who answer the call
on how to deal with the situation. At the hospital, one patient is
attacked by the demon. Buffy's mother continues to act strangely and
says things she doesn't mean to say. Dawn is hurt when Joyce calls her a
"thing," but Buffy comforts her and tells her to ignore those outbursts.
The gang finds out that a Quellor demon has been summoned to kill crazy
people. Joyce lays in her bed, talking to the ceiling until we see that
she is actually talking to the Quellor demon. In the kitchen, Buffy
washes dishes until she suddenly breaks down into tears. The demon spits
its slime onto Joyce and Dawn comes to the rescue. Although Buffy is
crying, she eventually hears Dawn's scream and goes after the demon.
Buffy finds Spike stealing pictures from her basement, but can't yell at
him as the demon attacks again.
Ben gets into his car at the hospital and Dreg is waiting in the
backseat. Ben reveals that he summoned the Quellor, to clean up Glory's
mess. Joyce asks Buffy about Dawn and Buffy tells her the truth. Joyce
asks Buffy to take care of Dawn in case anything happens in the surgery.
While her daughters and the rest of the Scooby Gang watch on, Joyce is
wheeled off to surgery.
CONTINUITY
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Joyce discovers that Dawn is not her
daughter in this episode, but agrees to love like so.
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Willow complains that she doesn't want to
find the bodies anymore. She tripped over the Magick Shop owner in
Real Me.
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The man attacked by the Quellor in the
hospital was the night-watchman that Glory brain-sucked in
No Place Like
Home.
GOOFS
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All the mental patients are restrained yet
there is a snack machine in their room.
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Willow mentions the Tunguska meteor
explosion in Russia, and says the year was 1917. It was actually in
1908.
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When Dawn is talking about Jell-O, we see a
shot of Joyce reacting to this. To her left we see Dawn, but he lips
aren't moving in time to what we hear her saying.
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When Giles, Willow, and Xander are
discussing meteors and moons, we see that Willow and Xander are seated.
Giles is standing in front of them, but there is a guy walking behind
Giles while he's talking. It's not Xander as he's still seated, so who
is it?
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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