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Season 7, Episode 11
Written by David Fury
Directed by Michael Grossman
Original Airdate: 7 January 2003
"Keep the chatter down! Or speak up so I can
hear you."
Andrew
REGULAR CAST
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
GUEST STARRING
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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A young woman gets off a bus at a bus station at
night and heads to a payphone to find the number for Buffy Summers.
Before she can find the number, one of the Bringers appears behind her
with a knife. She backs away to escape the cloaked figure and others
like him until she hits a wall, but before the Bringers can attack,
Buffy arrives and rescues the young Potential Slayer. Once Buffy
disposes of the Bringers, Buffy welcomes the frightened woman, Rona, to
Sunnydale. At the Summers house, Willow struggles to sleep on the floor
of her room while Kennedy talks constantly from her spot on the bed.
Kennedy talks about the luxurious life she had when she was younger,
prompts Willow to do some magic and repeatedly attempts to get Willow to
join her on the bed, making Willow uncomfortable.
Downstairs, Molly tells several new Slayers-in-Training about the
recently killed Annabelle. Xander suggests they be quiet and sleep, but
a still-bound and very bored Andrew suggests they speak louder. Buffy
arrives with Rona and the gang is updated on the recent activities and
findings. The gang lacks answers to most of their current problems like
destroying the Turok-Han and rescuing Spike from the First Evil. The
Slayers in Training are worried and lacking confidence. Giles suggests
they seek answers from an oracle-like creature known as Beljoxa's Eye.
Down in the cave where he's kept prisoner, Spike is approached by one of
the Bringers, but for once, he fights back and breaks free of the bonds
that hold him to a wall. He runs through the underground tunnels and
finds Buffy waiting for him, but quickly is pulled away from his dream
and into reality where the First Evil, looking like Buffy, is waiting
for him.
Giles and Anya go together to meet with a demon, named Torg, about
Beljoxa's Eye. After some careful persuasion, Torg opens up a
dimensional portal for the humans to pass through. On the other side,
they find themselves in a dark, windy dimension and soon come
face-to-face with a caged mass of eyes, the Beljoxa's Eye. Willow gets a
call from a member of the Coven in England. Andrew is freed from his
bonds and threatened with "misery" if he doesn't behave himself. Willow
informs Buffy about another potential Slayer in town and Buffy rushes
off with Xander to pick the girl up before the Bringers do. As they
leave, Dawn questions the usefulness of these potential slayers. The
Slayers in Training work out in the basement of Buffy's house and thanks
to some depressing comments from Eve, they talk about the seemingly
insurmountable challenge they are facing and being called as a Slayer.
Buffy and Xander knock at the room where the latest potential slayer is
staying. When no one answers, Buffy kicks the door in and they find a
dead blond girl lying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, they find
that the girl is Eve and she's been dead for days. Back at the house,
Andrew talks to Dawn about his usefulness and continues to ramble, even
after Dawn informs him that gave her permission to kill him. Buffy and
Xander return to the house and proceed towards the basement where they
tell "Eve" to get away from the others. The First in Eve's form finally
reveals itself and with some thanks for all the information over the
past few days and threatening comments about the future, then
disappears. In the other dimension, Giles and Anya speak with the
Beljoxa's Eye, which tells them that the First Evil cannot be destroyed
and that it exists now because of a disruption in the Slayer's line,
which was in fact, caused by the Slayer.
Buffy takes down the Turok-Han. The gang, all worried after the
frightening invasion by the First, talk about what they are going to do.
Buffy tries to keep the potential Slayers calm, but they continue to
worry about whether they are prepared to handle anything that lies
before them. Buffy and Willow exchange glances and then both leave the
dining room, followed by a confused Xander while the others continue to
panic. Back in the cave, the First approaches the Turok-Han as Eve and
sends him out to kill everyone except "her." A crowd of Bringers forms
outside Buffy's house that night, but do nothing but keep the Slayers
from leaving. Buffy disperses weapons to the gang as they all wait for
the expected attack of the Turok-Han. Willow practices some simple magic
to see if the First would go after her again. Kennedy interrupts and is
intrigued by Willow's skills and her past struggles with it. Willow
warns her that the evil magic she's been exposed to in the past is not
something Kennedy wants to see.
The Turok-Han charges at the house and breaks the front door down.
Willow puts up a barrier that keeps the vampire at bay, but it's almost
too much for Willow and Buffy instructs everyone to run out the back.
The gang encounters Bringers in the backyard, but they are destroyed and
the gang runs off as the Turok-Han finally breaks through Willow's
magical barrier. Meanwhile, Anya and Giles return to their usual
dimension and Giles explains that the disturbance in the Slayer line was
Buffy's revival from death. Anya realizes that if they had never brought
Buffy back to life, the First wouldn't be doing this to them now. The
gang runs down the street together and then Buffy tells them to break
up. Willow and Xander lead the potential slayers, Dawn and Andrew to a
safe location while Buffy turns and attacks the Turok-Han. After a brief
struggle, Buffy runs and tries to get the vampire to follow her.
Xander leads the way through a construction site, which the potential
Slayers find to be an extremely exposed and unsafe location for them
hiding at. The Turok-Han appears, proving that it decided to go after
the easier potential Slayers instead of Buffy. Kennedy prepares to
attack the vampire, but then bright lights flood site and Buffy appears
as the potential Slayers move back to watch from a distance. Buffy tells
the Ubervampire that he's going to help her set an example for the other
girls and begins a fight. A vicious battle ensues, but the Ubervampire
again proves to be stronger. As Dawn watches, she realizes aloud that
Willow and Buffy planned everything as a teaching tool. A quick
flashback to the panic-filled discussion at the house earlier shows that
at the moment that Buffy, Willow and Xander left the others, it's
revealed that the three were communicating telepathically about a plan
to destroy the Ubervampire and boost morale of the others at the same
time.
The potential slayers begin to worry as Buffy ends up on the losing end
of the fight, but Willow tells them to wait. Just in time, Buffy turns
things around and strikes the Ubervampire with a few harmful blows.
Buffy finally grabs a wire to wrap around the vampire's neck and pulls
until she beheads the creature, turning it to dust. The Turok-Han
dusted, the bruised and blood splattered Buffy ends her lesson and leads
the newly confident Slayers-in-Training back home. In the cave, Spike
tries to tell off the First in Buffy's form as she stands before him
with a knife in hand. Buffy cuts away his bonds and Spike wraps his arm
around her, realizing it's not the First, it's the real Buffy and she
helps him out of the cave.
TRIVIA
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The telepathic voice of Buffy in this
episode was not the voice of Sarah Michelle Gellar in the original
airing. She was unavailable to record her voice for the U.S. version,
but it was her voice when this episode aired in the UK and Australia.
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When the time came for FOX to release
this episode on video in the UK, this episode was accidentally left off
the season set. Luckily, it was placed on the subsequent box set
instead.
CONTINUITY
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Beljoxa's Eye informs Giles and Anya that
the First has simply taken advantage of the Slayer line and the
disruption that has been caused not only by Buffy's death in
The Gift, but also her resurrection
from Bargaining (Part 1).
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Xander says that a new public library
will be open in May 2003. He'll be lucky...
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Willow uses a magical energy barrier to
keep the Ubervampire out of the house. She used one on the Knights of
Byzantium in Spiral.
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Buffy asks if the Turok-Han can be killed
by germs. Oz had the same idea against the Mayor in
Graduation Day (Part 2).
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Buffy says "Welcome to the Hellmouth" to
Rona, which is a reference to the title of the series' first episode.
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It seems the Coven who helped Willow
after the events of season six are tracking the Potentials down.
GOOFS
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When the Ubervampire enters the house,
Buffy isn't wearing a jacket. Then she and the others run outside, where
she's suddenly wearing a fully buttoned jacket.
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When the Ubervampire chokes Buffy and she
pulls the arrow from his neck to stab him in the eye, you can see that
the arrow is still in her hand and the Ubervampire had a copy of it and
put in his eye.
Lessons |
Beneath You |
Same Time, Same Place |
Help |
Selfless
Him |
Conversations With Dead People |
Sleeper |
Never Leave Me |
Bring on the Night |
Showtime
Potential |
The Killer in Me |
First Date |
Get It Done |
Storyteller |
Lies My Parents Told Me
Dirty Girls |
Empty Places |
Touched |
End of Days |
Chosen
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