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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People

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Buffy squares off, physically and mentally, against former classmate Holden Webster, who has just risen as a vampire. Back at the Summers house, Dawn is terrorized by an unseen force, while Willow is visited in the library by the ghost of Cassie Newton, who says she's been sent by Tara. Add a recap »

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Writers:: Drew Goddard Jane Espenson

Director:: Nick Marck

Stars:: Emma Caulfield (Anya); Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn Summers); Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg); Nicholas Brendon (Alexander 'Xander' Harris); Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Anne Summers); James Marsters (Spike)

Recurring Role:: Adam Busch (Warren); Tom Lenk (Andrew); Danny Strong (Jonathan); Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers)

Guest Star:: Jonathan M. Woodward (Holden "Webs" Webster); Azura Skye (Cassie Newton); Stacey Scowley (Young Woman)

When Dawn unplugs the television set, the camera goes from her back to her front several times; but on the frontal view, Dawn is holding the plug upwards, when the camera is behind her she is holding it to the floor... edit »
When Jonathan and Andrew are talking on the walkie-talkies (as "Echo 1" and "Echo 2"), a flashlight is obviously shining on Jonathan, yet Andrew never even remotely points his flashlight toward Jonathan. edit »
Cassie's reference to Once More With Feeling is incorrect. She says when you sang to each other at the bridge, however only Tara sings. edit »

This episode won a Hugo Award for Dramatic Presentation: Short Form. edit »
In one version of the script, when Dawn actually thinks she brought her mother back from the dead, there is the line:
Dawn: They told me I couldn't bring someone back.
Joyce: I guess I'm the first.
Which obviously is a hint that it was The First talking to Dawn. edit »
According to the season 7 commentary, the demon that was attacking Joyce was actually the Gnarl costume (from Same Time, Same Place) painted black. edit »
Azura Skye was only supposed to play the character, Cassie Newton, in a single episode (Help), but she reprised the role in Conversations With Dead People because Amber Benson declined to return as The First masquerading as Tara. The script was rewritten so that The First appears as Cassie instead. edit »
Holden is the second schoolmate of Buffy's to be named after a car make. The first was Ford, in the episode Lie To Me. edit »

Holden: Oh, so I'm a vampire. How weird is that?
Buffy: Sorry.
Holden: No, no. Feels great. Strong. Like I'm connected to a powerful all-consuming evil that's gonna suck the world into a fiery oblivion. How 'bout you? edit »
Dawn: (singing) Anchovies, Anchovies you're so delicious! I love you more than all the other fishes! edit »
Andrew: You keep leaving me. I hate it when you leave me. One time you died, and I ended up a Mexican. edit »
Andrew: We're outlaws with hearts of gold. edit »
Buffy: Yeah, what I really need is emotional therapy from the evil dead. edit »

Jonathan: Empress Josephine.
Empress Josephine, born Yeyette Tascher, became the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. edit »
Holden: I let you crib off my Vaclav Havel essay at that time.
Vaclav Havel was president of Czech Republic in 1990-2003. Czech Republic is small country in middle Europe. Vaclav Havel is also writer of many theather plays. edit »
Andrew: Think McFly...
The highly popular time-travel trilogy Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly. The antagonist of the movies, Biff Tannen (or sometimes one of his relations), only calls Marty or his father George by their last name... as in "Think McFly..." or "Hello McFly" followed by knocking on their skull. Obviously Andrew is berating Jonathan like Biff does to Marty and George.

Also, the opening scene of someone setting up an electric guitar is very similar to the scene at the beginning of the movie where Marty is trying out the Doc's new speakers, and the date of this episode, 12th November, is the date in 1955, marty goes back to the future. edit »
Warren: If Short Round pulls off his end of the bargain...
Short Round was Indiana Jones' vertically challenged partner in Temple of Doom. He was played by Jonathan Ke Quan. edit »
Evil Entity: GET OUT!

This is a reference to the classic horror film The Amityville Horror in which a house is possessed by evil spirits which order the occupants to leave. edit »

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Conversations with Dead People
The Bottom Line: "Revealing"
Buffy, Dawn, Willow, and Andrew all have encounters with The First - four separate story lines intertwined in four acts. ...Continue »
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The Bottom Line: "Another great installment"
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The Bottom Line: "Series classic"
"Yeah...what I really need is emotional therapy from the evil dead." ...Continue »
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Conversations with Dead People
The Bottom Line: "A very special episode"
Buffy reveals her feelings to a vampire, Willow is visited by a ghost with a chilling message, Dawn confronts a hidden demon to try and make contact with her mother, Jonathon and Andrew return and Spike meets a new lady. ...Continue »
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The Bottom Line: "Series classic"
A Highlight of Season 7 ...Continue »
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