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Season 6, Episode 13
Written by Steven S. DeKnight
Directed by James A. Contner
Original Airdate: 4 February 2002
"We're not going to have to do that at the
wedding, are we? 'Cause there's this last thread of dignity I've been
desperately clinging to."
Willow
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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After a wild round of sex on the bottom floor of
Spike's crypt, Buffy and Spike carry on a real conversation about
decorating and Buffy's feelings for Spike. She admits to liking him
occasionally, but when he questions her trust and displays a pair of
handcuffs, Buffy assures him she will never trust him. The super
villains put the finishing touches on a new gadget, a cerebral dampener.
The evil tool will allow the three to turn any woman of their choice
into their willing sex slave.
Buffy takes a break at her job to talk in private with Tara. While
secretly rubbing at her handcuff burned wrists, Buffy admits that Spike
is able to hit her, but not other humans. Suspicious that she returned
to life "wrong" because of the spell, Buffy asks that Tara research the
spell and find out just what is "wrong" with her. Warren browses a bar
for attractive women while Andrew and Jonathan are able to watch through
a camera in Warren's tie and direct him to various women they would like
to have as slaves. Irritated by the suggestions, Warren removes the
earpiece and microphone and approaches someone familiar: his
ex-girlfriend, Katrina.
Katrina wants nothing to do with Warren, but he persuades her with the
use of the Cerebral Dampener and suddenly, Katrina refers to her ex as
"Master." Buffy returns home after a long, hard, dirty day at work to
find her friends preparing for the wedding by teaching Dawn to waltz.
Buffy's upset to find out that Dawn is spending the night at Janice's
and decides to go to the Bronze with her friends instead of staying
home. The super villains enjoy champagne served by Katrina in a maid's
outfit and admire Warren's selection of women. Warren takes Katrina away
for private time and while kissing, Warren asks Katrina to say things to
him. Several minutes into their private time, and before Katrina does
much more than kissing, the spell wears off.
Katrina lets loose on Warren and his buddies, attacking them and
accusing them of rape. As she tries to escape, Warren hits Katrina with
the champagne bottle and she falls to the stairs and the super villains
are all shocked to find that Katrina is dead. Warren leads a plan to get
rid of the body, but Andrew and Jonathan are not eager to cover up the
accidental murder. Buffy and Willow talk about Willow's recovery while
watching Xander and Anya dance wildly together. While Willow joins them
in dancing, Buffy goes upstairs to watch, feeling as if she doesn't
belong. Spike finds her there and raises the issue of her friends'
reactions to her involvement with him. Hidden mostly by shadows, Spike
initiates sex and tells Buffy to watch her friends on the dance floor
below as he reminds her she belongs in the shadows - in his world.
Willow and Xander make their way to the Magic Box and encounter Tara
who's on her way out of the shop with a book. The former lovers talk
about the magic book Tara holds and Willow's success with staying away
from magic. That night, Buffy patrols, but finds herself drawn to
Spike's crypt. He senses her arrival, but as he opens the door, he finds
that she's already bolted.
As she returns to patrolling, Buffy hears a woman screaming and follows
the sound. She finds herself in a twisted scenario where her
surroundings shift between the attack of several demons, the crying
woman and Spike finding Buffy in the woods. In the end, Buffy strikes
out at something and instead of hitting a demon or Spike, she hits the
woman whom we recognize as Katrina. The body falls down a hill and Buffy
finds it there, dead and assumes she's to blame. Hidden in the shadows,
a very alive Katrina watches on.
Spike escorts Buffy away from the scene and back to her house. Inside
the van, Warren is pleased with the success of their efforts as the
Katrina double returns to the van and shifts back into Jonathan's body.
Buffy dreams that Spike joins her in her bed and then of sex at the
crypt with Spike bound by handcuffs. The figure of Spike shifts to
Katrina and the scenery becomes the woods. Another shift shows Buffy
lowering a stake to Spike's chest and then Katrina's eyes open as a
stake is shoved into her chest.
Shaken by her dream, Buffy wakes and dresses before going to Dawn's
room. She confesses her love to her sister and Buffy admits that an
accident happened and she has to go to the police. Dawn's scared and is
upset by the idea of losing her sister. Spike catches Buffy outside of
the police station and tries to stand in the way of her turning herself
into the police. He casually admits that he took care of the body, but
two cops passing by reveal that the body was found washed up by the
river.
Despite the fact that Spike was unable to cover up the accident, he's
still determined to stop her from admitting guilt and tries to goad her
into letting her emotions out on him. She starts to beat on him and for
the most part, he just takes it. She explains that she is not and never
will be his girl as she really tears into him. He makes a comment about
hurting loved ones and wounded by that comment, she leaves him to enter
the police station. Inside, while waiting to confess, Buffy overhears an
officer identify the body as Katrina's and she remembers Warren's
ex-girlfriend.
The Scooby Gang research and find that the demons Buffy encountered in
the woods caused the time shifting and that Katrina was probably dead
before Buffy even encountered her. Buffy knows Warren is connected to
the incident and wants the super villains found and dealt with. Warren
and Andrew are pleased with the general success of their murderous
actions, while Jonathan is less than thrilled about it. The only
disappointment is that Buffy didn't actually take the fall for Warren's
mistake.
After researching the spell, Tara is able to inform Buffy that the spell
didn't bring Buffy back wrong at all. She was changed ever so slightly
on a molecular level, which apparently was just enough to keep Spike's
chip from going off. Buffy's shocked and confesses to Tara that more
than just an exchange of punches has been going on between her and
Spike, but Tara is supportive, regardless of Buffy's motivation. Needing
an excuse for her involvement with Spike, Buffy desperately pleads for
something to be wrong with her. She breaks down crying with Tara
comforting her, unable to accept that she alone is responsible for what
she does with Spike.
TRIVIA
CONTINUITY
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Amelinda Embry returns as Warren's
ex-girlfriend Katrina. She first played the character in
I Was Made to Love You, and appears
again in Villains.
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Jonathan uses his magic bone and his
shape-shifting spell, both of which he first used in
Life
Serial.
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Dawn goes to stay in Janice's house
again, but Buffy believes that she's lying again, which she did in
All the Way.
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After seeing Dawn and Xander dancing,
Buffy asks if they're singing and dancing again, a reference to
Once More, With Feeling.
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Willow has gone thirty-two days without
magic. She last used magic in Wrecked, and Amy forces it upon her in
Doublemeat
Palace.
GOOFS
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When Warren is talking at the beginning of
the episode about the cerebral dampener, there is a piece of hair
hanging down on his forehead. In the next shot the hair has gone,
without Warren moving.
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Why is Katrina in Sunnydale? She doesn't
live there, and was only there before as she was staying with Warren for
Spring Break.
Bargaining
(Part 1) |
Bargaining (Part 2) |
Afterlife |
Flooded |
Life
Serial
All the
Way | Once More, With Feeling |
Tabula Rasa |
Smashed |
Wrecked |
Gone
Doublemeat
Palace |
Dead Things |
Older and Far Away |
As You Were |
Hell's Bells |
Normal Again
Entropy |
Seeing Red |
Villains |
Two to Go |
Grave
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