Season 7, Episode 19
Written by Drew Z. Greenberg
Directed by James A. Contner
Original Airdate: 29 April 2003
"Yeah, you'd think these people had never seen an
apocalypse before."
Buffy
REGULAR CAST
SPECIAL GUEST STARS
GUEST STARRING
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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People and cars crowd the streets as everyone in
town rushes to escape the Hellmouth. Buffy spots Clem in his car on the
way out of town and the two chat. Clem accidentally expresses his doubts
that anyone can avert this particular apocalypse and suggests Buffy
leave town this time. A police officer gives Giles and Willow some
paperwork on Caleb after Willow uses some mind control to convince the
officer that they're with Interpol and investigating a criminal. As
Willow and Giles leave, some other cops present the officer with
information on a fugitive on the loose in Sunnydale. At the hospital,
Buffy relays information to Xander from the doctor's about his recovery
and his expected return home that night, while Willow sits with him.
Buffy takes the folder from the police and leaves to continue with
Slayer work, despite the fact that Willow and Xander were somewhat
expecting Buffy to stay.
Xander jokes with Willow about his injury and the "pirate" resemblance,
but Willow's sense of humour doesn't last and she starts to cry. While
Andrew draws pictures on a large sketch pad, Anya lectures the
Potentials about killing the Ubervampires and how difficult that will be
for them, but the girls have their minds focused on the danger posed by
Caleb. Kennedy and Amanda sneak up to the kitchen and talk with Faith
about the lack of progress they're making with Caleb. Buffy returns home
with the police reports and divides it amongst Faith, Dawn and the other
girls for research. Dawn prods Buffy for information about Xander's
condition, but Buffy has a hard time thinking about it, let alone
talking about it. Kennedy mentions how Caleb was able to easily
overpower Buffy, which lays a ton of guilt on Buffy, even though Kennedy
didn't intend for it to. Buffy takes the reminder badly and heads out to
the school to pick up the rest of her belongings, sending the Potentials
downstairs to be with the others and instructing Faith to lead the
research effort.
The school has pretty much been emptied and Buffy makes her way into
Robin's office. As she looks at a picture frame left behind, Caleb
emerges from the shadows and criticizes her tears. He brings up Xander
and Buffy threatens to kill him if he goes near her friend again, but
Caleb takes her threat as an invitation for more. He assures Buffy that
she's got an important role in this future and they start to fight, but
Caleb grabs Buffy by the throat and sends her flying through a glass
window to land unconscious across the hall. At the house, Dawn relays
her research discoveries to Giles about several pictures while Andrew
moans about Faith eating the last Hot Pocket. Giles takes a closer look
at the pictures of a church and spots Caleb's mark on the wall in one of
the pictures. Spike is sent for and given the job of investigating the
place in one of the pictures that is suspected of belonging to Caleb. To
get Andrew out of the house, Giles sends him along with Spike, despite
the protests.
To keep the Potentials busy while they wait for Spike and Buffy to
return, Faith takes the girls to the Bronze for some dancing and
partying fun. Buffy returns to find the girls gone, but Giles still
there. He updates her on the latest and she doesn't take kindly to the
fact that Spike was sent to investigate Caleb's potential home. She
thinks Spike's the only one she's able to depend on, that the others are
untrustworthy and then leaves to retrieve the Potentials and Faith from
the Bronze. Caleb returns to the vineyard and reports to the First about
his encounter with Buffy and boasts about the success he had in leading
Buffy right into another well-planned trap. At the Bronze, Faith takes
an alcoholic beverage away from Amanda then returns to the dance floor
where a group of police officers find her. Bypassing the questions of
Dawn and the Potentials, Faith goes outside with the officers, where the
men make it clear they intend to deal with her on their own rather than
send her back to jail.
The men attack her with fists and battering sticks, while Faith tries to
hold her own against them. One officer guards the door of the Bronze and
keeps everyone inside while Faith is beaten up outside. The girls stand
up for themselves and disarm the officer, then proceed outside to help
Faith fend off the cops. Buffy arrives at the end of the fight and
without waiting for an explanation, sends all the Potentials home, then
turns to yell at Faith. Buffy argues with Faith about the decision to
let the girls go to the Bronze, drink and fight and the possible harm
that could have come to the girls. Faith turns the table on Buffy by
reminding her that Buffy led them into a dangerous situation and they
didn't all come out fine, which gets Faith punched. Meanwhile, Andrew
rides on the back of Spike's motorcycle while they talk about the
greatness of onion blossoms, a conversation Spike wants no one else to
know ever happened.
Faith sits on the porch and smokes as Robin arrives for the Scooby Gang
meeting. They talk about Faith's newly acquired bruises and the issues
they both have. Spike leads the way into the church with Andrew and
they're attacked by a man bearing Caleb's burn mark on his face. Back at
the house, Xander is guided inside and welcomed by his friends and the
Potentials. Buffy talks to the whole group about what she's found out
and announces that they need to go back to the cellar at the vineyard.
Spike interrogates the man, a preacher, and Spike persuades him to help
them. The preacher shows Spike and Andrew about a secret room inside the
church with words on the wall, words that angered Caleb once he read
them. Spike translates the words from the original Latin as they
reference something that is only for "her" to hold.
Buffy continues to argue her point and the reasoning that Caleb is
protecting something crucial at the vineyard, but no one agrees with
her. Faith and Giles express their logical opposition and the potentials
jump in with attacks of Buffy's decisions. Willow questions Buffy's
judgment and Anya informs Buffy how her "Slayer" powers don't earn her
the right to be the sole leader, it just makes her more fortunate than
the rest of them in battle. Buffy stresses that she's the one in charge
who has to make the decisions regardless of their opinions on the
situation. Everyone else disagrees and the idea is raised that Faith is
a Slayer too and maybe they should vote on who the leader is. Faith
rejects the idea of taking over command, but questions whether Buffy
could actually handle someone else taking the lead. Even Xander
expresses his displeasure with Buffy's point of view. Buffy refuses to
go along with the others and so Dawn stands up and regretfully asks
Buffy to leave since she's unable to accept the overwhelming vote of
everyone else. Emotionally wounded by the rejection, Buffy leaves in
tears. Faith follows Buffy outside and tries to let Buffy know this
wasn't her idea. Buffy simply lets Faith know that it's her
responsibility now and asks Faith to take care of them all.
TRIVIA
CONTINUITY
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Giles remembers that Andrew has a pan
flute to summon demons, which we saw in
Life Serial.
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The football helmet that Andrew wears is
the same one that Dawn wore in
Bargaining (Part 2). The motorcycle is also from that episode, as he
stole it from one of the Hellions invading Sunnydale.
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Faith tells Kennedy that she like to wind
Anya up by reminding her that Faith slept with Xander first in
The Zeppo.
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The onion flower that Spike has a passion
for in Triangle and
Crush is mentioned here by Andrew.
GOOFS
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Kennedy and Amanda's scars and cuts move
around on their faces in different scenes.
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Giles shows Spike the photo of the
mission. Spike then leaves straight away, without being told where the
mission was.
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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