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Season 5, Episode 14
Written by David Fury
Directed by Daniel Attias
Original Airdate: 12 February 2001
"What part of me punching you in the face did
you not understand?"
Buffy
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Frederick Dawson as Porter
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Greg Wayne as Student
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Joseph Digiandomenico as Matt
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Walter Borchert as Jeff
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Asher Glaser as Boy in Bronze
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Jennifer Bergman as Girl in Bronze
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Nell Shanahan as Waitress
SYNOPSIS
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The Bronze re-opens under new management, and
Buffy watches on as her friends dance. Spike shows up and tries to carry
on a conversation with Buffy, but she's not the slightest bit
interested. Willow reveals that she is suffering from headaches and
nosebleeds as a result of her teleportation spell. Buffy spots Ben and
offers her thanks to him for looking after Dawn. A train pulls into
Sunnydale, but the porter goes on board to find all the passengers dead
before he too is attacked.
Buffy returns home and Giles suggests that Dawn be treated normally.
Harmony tries to get Spike in the mood and suggests a game where she
pretends to be Buffy. Buffy reads about the train murders, but concludes
that it's vampires and not Glory. Dawn arrives at Spike's crypt to talk
with him. Buffy searches for Dawn and finds her with Spike, listening to
one of his scary stories. Dawn reveals her crush on Spike, but really
shocks her sister when she tells of Spike's crush on Buffy.
Buffy and Xander investigate the train and Buffy confesses the
possibility of Spike loving her. Buffy finds her mother and sister
talking in the kitchen with Spike. He takes her to a warehouse where he
believes the vampires from the train are. Buffy confronts Spike about
his feelings, but when he confesses his love, she rejects him brutally.
Returning to the crypt, Spike is shocked to find his sire and long-time
love, Drusilla.
Drusilla tells him of the events in Los Angeles and tries to convince
him to return with her. She's already aware of the chip in his head and
tries to convince him he can be evil, even with the chip. Harmony
arrives and yells at Drusilla for hurting Spike. He then throws her out
of the way, announcing that he's back. Joyce and Willow talk to Buffy
about the problem with Spike and tell her she has to make it clear to
Spike that there is nothing.
Spike and Drusilla dance at the Bronze before Drusilla spots a couple on
the catwalk for them to feed on. She snaps the neck of the girl,
offering her to Spike before taking the guy for herself. Spike
hesitates, but soon transforms and bites. Buffy discovers the extension
of Spike's lair underground and a shrine dedicated to herself. As she
returns to the surface, Buffy finds Spike and Drusilla waiting for her.
Drusilla shocks Buffy with a cattle prod, but then Spike takes the prod
and uses it on Drusilla.
Buffy awakens to find herself chained up in the underground space below
Spike's crypt, Drusilla tied to a pole across from her. Spike professes
his love and offers to kill Drusilla to convince Buffy of his love.
Buffy rejects Spike again and he goes into a rage about women being so
difficult. Harmony arrives and shoots Spike with a crossbow bolt. While
Harmony and Spike fight, Drusilla breaks free and goes after Buffy while
the Slayer is still chained up. Spike saves Buffy and Drusilla leaves,
disappointed that Spike can't be helped by anyone.
Harmony leaves Spike, telling him it's completely over between the two
of them. Buffy walks home with Spike following her, but Buffy tells him
to stay away from her. He tries to follow her into her house, but an
invisible barrier prevents his entry and Buffy shuts the door.
TRIVIA
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This is the final time we see Mercedes
McNab as Harmony on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She turns up in
Angel after this episode, and eventually becomes a series regular.
This is also the last time Drusilla is seen in the present day, though
we see Juliet Landau again in flashbacks and as The First in season
seven.
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On the soundtrack album called 'Radio
Sunnydale', released in 2003, soundtrack producer John C. King calls
this episode, "Crush, Kill, Destroy".
CROSSOVER
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Drusilla has come straight from Angel's
Redefinition, and she relays the events of that episode, and the
ones before it, to Spike. After this episode, Harmony appears in Los
Angeles in Angel's
Disharmony. Spike also mentions the time he was in Los Angeles in
In
the Dark, and returns to LA in
Conviction.
CONTINUITY
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Willow is still having headaches after
the teleport trick she used on Glory in the previous episode. Spike also
refers to the fact that he helped.
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The Bronze gets a new look and a
re-opening after it's almost destruction via Olaf in
Triangle.
Spike once again discusses the onion-flower.
GOOFS
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Why didn't Buffy kill Drusilla at the end
of this episode? This is only a few episodes after Buffy's "my job
description's pretty clear" speech and yet she lets a dangerous vampire,
who she knows has killed at least six people and just attacked her, go
free. This is also not the first time she has let Drusilla go. She also
lets Harmony leave as well.
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After Drusilla breaks her victim's neck in
the Bronze, we see the victim swallow just before she bites him.
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When Dawn goes to Spike's crypt and he
comes out from underground, he has a cigarette behind his ear. When
Spike talks to Dawn the cigarette disappears.
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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