Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Good;
Pretty good, nice to have some levity after the intensity of the past few eps. I love the Buffybot, she's so sweet and innocent and happy all the time. Spike's idea of Angel which the Buffybot voices makes me laugh out loud every time. Buffy and Giles in the desert is also good.

The Bad;
Rather than chase after Spike, Glory just stands there and lets the Scoobies get away?

Best line;
Glory (of Spike); What the hell is that and why is it's hair that colour?

Jeez!;
Torturing Spike isn't nice

Kinky dinky;
Spike and the Buffybot 'lots of different ways'. Love her standing up when Xander knocks on the crypt door gag, you wonder was that SMG or her stand in? Note that even when the Buffybot is Spike's ideal woman he still wants her to beat him up before they have sex? The Key has to be pure? Does that mean if Dawn has sex with Kevin or RJ or whoever that means she'd be safe? Glory's negligee is also quite something. The Slayer forges 'strength from pain' according to the primitive which might explain Faith and Buffy's hints at S&M.

Captain Subtext;
Note when Spike has sex with the Buffybot he has her wear Buffy's black leather jacket, just like Angel's. The whole of the Buffybot's dialogue seems to be a satire on the Spikette's fawning over the peroxide one. Xanders description of Spike is rather vivid as Buffy observes and he also feels sorry for Spike having lost his sex toy. Buffy refers to her robot double as 'skirt girl'. Spike refers to Glory as whorish. Spike gets his first real kiss from Buffy.

Scoobies to the ER;
Spike gets the bejesus beaten out of him but I doubt the ER would do him any good.

Apocalypses; 5,

Scoobies in bondage:
Buffy: 8
Giles: 4
Cordy: 5
Will: 3
Jenny: 1
Angel: 4
Oz: 1
Faith: 3
Joyce: 1
Wes: 1
Xander; 1
Dawn; 1

Scoobies knocked out: Xander
Buffy: 16
Giles: 10
Cordy: 6
Xander: 9
Will: 5
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 3
Wes: 1
Anya;1

Kills: Xander and Anya are considered competent enough to patrol alone, Anya nails her first vamp
Buffy: 95 vamps, 32 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 5 vamps, 1 demon
Cordy: 3 vamps, a demon
Will: 6 vamps
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 5 vamps, 2 zombies, a demon, a demon
Anya: 1 vamp and a demon
Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons
Buffybot; 1 vamp
Spike; 1 demon and 2 vamps in Buffy service.

Scoobies go evil:
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 3

Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 6
Giles: 3
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 3

Recurring characters killed: 10
Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh, Forrest, McNamara, Joyce

Sunnydale deaths;
89;

Total number of scoobies: 6
Giles, Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Tara,

Xander demon magnet: 5(6?)
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?

Scoobies shot: Anya wonders if they should have guns?
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4
Riley; 1

Notches on Scooby bedpost:
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 3 confirmed; Angel, Parker,Riley, 1 possible, Dracula(?)
Angel: 1;Buffy
Joyce: 1;Giles, 2 possible, Ted and Dracula(?)
Oz: 3; Groupie, Willow & Verucca
Faith:2 ;Xander, Riley
Xander: 2; Faith, Anya
Willow: 2;Oz and Tara
Riley; 3; Buffy, Sandy and unnamed vampwhore

Questions and observations;
Very long teaser, important to recap what's gone before. Buffy feels guilty about how she's treated Dawn. Ben and Glory seem to be merging more and more. Boy is that the FATTEST puma you've ever seen? Tara comments that Will has surpassed her in magical terms. The beginning of Dawn's kelptomania. Note that just like April the Buffybot begins to break her programme, not staying in the crypt like she was supposed to. Hellmouth energy or is Warren not as clever/cleverer than he thinks? Or subconsciously WANTS his girl to be independent as Katrina was? Love the way Glory says 'Precious?', very LOTR, Xander also refers to hobbits. It seems Glory and her minions like TV, demons once again overcome by humanity. I read once that Bob Barker was a karate expert (he beats up Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore "The price is wrong, bitch!")
Marks out of 10; 8/10

Amazing episode! This episode has it all- humour, drama, action. This is a great episode to show someone who's never watched Buffy. It's light hearted for most of it but towards the end gets serious. Top performances from everyone especially Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffybot! Anya is hilarous as always and I loved her and Willows reactions to Buffybots questions. Glory was also great and we finally get to see how evil she really is. Her minions also make me laugh, especially Jinx. The vision scenes were also good and added mystery with the crypic warning "Death is your gift". All in all a top episode!

'Intervention' is just another awesome, awesome episode from Season 5 and probably one of the funniest of the whole show with many, many LOL moments, besides being Spuffy paradise! I don't think I've ever laughed this much while watching an episode of Buffy and this one ranks pretty high on my favorite episodes list.



Sarah Michelle Gellar was outstanding as the Buffybot, showing that she is both great as a comedic actress as she is as a dramatic actress. James Marsters was also great and so was Clare Kramer, perfect as Glory, my favorite villain in the verse. The episode also had more serious parts with Buffy meeting the First Slayer once again and discovering that death is her gift and being grateful to Spike at the end in a very heart-warming scene. The other thing I liked about 'Intervention' is the contrast between this episode and the previous, much darker episodes and how it allowed everyone to show their funny side.



Overall, this is a great episode and I wish that the Buffybot had stick around for a bit longer.

Buffy and Giles leave for a vision quest in the desert as they try to find a way to fight Glory. Meanwhile, Spike decides to have a little fun with his BuffyBot, but the gang mistakes it for the real Buffy and think that she has gone crazy. Also happening, Glory's minions mistake the BuffyBot for the Slayer and notice its devotion to Spike, which causes them to suspect that he is the Key.



I liked this episode, kinda. I was predicting that the First Slayer was going to appear from early on in the episode. I kinda like the idea of it. However, the desert storyline was also boring. This episode was kinda funny though. Willow: Gay (1999-Present). LMAO! I liked when Tara said Buffy was nuts for sleeping with Spike. Hehe, and I love how it foreshadowed the season finale with the whole "Love will lead you to your gift" thing. Cool episode. :)

Intervention was a perfect episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this episode we learned more about Buffy, and her role as the Slayer. While her and Giles were out on a quest for answers, Spike is on the look for his new girl when Zander and Anya run into him and find some thing very disturbing. I really enjoyed watching the dual roles of Buffy, and there was plenty of humor among the action and drama. It is always nice to see more of Glory, whose minions are on a quest to find out who the key is. They mistake Spike for the key, which in turn lead the gang to a intervention for Buffy, and ultimately a raid to get Spike back. There were many different elements that made this episode such a pleasure to watch!!!!!

buffy needed an intervention after her mom's death w/ giles to guide her. meanwhile, spike made an order from warren - a buffybot for his obssession. i'd say this is a fun episode after 'the body' which is my least favorite. i'm quite sure it's good in its own way but it's so slow. and glory is a strong match for buffy as this season's villain w/o dawn's character necessarily to be buffy's sister but then again it's the only way that buffy would protect the key. anyway, buffy is having a vision quest w/ the first slayer as previously seen when she had that dream in restless and that foreshadowing about her death w/c the first slayer just confirmed that death is her gift. spike is having a hell of a good time w/ his buffybot when he was taken by glory's minions thinking he was the key. in the end, spike didn't give in to glory's and didn't tell who the key is and buffy was grateful for this that she kissed him and by telling him the robot isn't real but what he did for her and dawn is what's real.

This has got to be the funniest episode of season 5! Spike asks Warren to create a Buffy robot completly devoted to him. Great acting especially when the two Buffy'######:

"Hey! You look just like me! We're very pretty!"

Hilarious the way the Buffybot loves Spike:

"You're right. Spike is evil. But you should see him naked! I mean really!"

The real Buffy shows great emotion as she thinks about what Spike could have been doing with her double. Fantastic ending when Buffy realises that Spike didn't tell Glory that Dawn was the Key and she is really grateful and pleased with Spike.

Intervention-Buffy and Giles leave for the desert on a vision quest in an attempt to find a way to fight Glory. While they are gone, Spike decides to have a little fun with his BuffyBot but the gang mistakes it for the real Buffy and think that she has gone crazy. Meanwhile, Glory's minions also mistake the BuffyBot for the Slayer and, noticing its devotion to Spike, begin to suspect that he is the Key.



A light-fluffy episode that sees Spike getting what his been dreaming about all season: Buffy! or aleast, the sexy robot version of her anyway. Sarah Michelle Gellar is good at playing the brainless, ditzy Buffybot, especially when asking Anya about her money and constantly telling Willow that she's gay lol. Also, Spike getting captured by Glory brought some entertaining scenes like her torturing him and him making a comment about her "loop sided a$$". But the storyline is only seems like comic relief when compared to the serious material.



Buffy's vision quest was very intriguing and I like how the First slayer was brought back to be Buffy's spiritual guide. The development of death being Buffy's gift is shocking yet interesting to see how it plays out for the rest of the season. I like the group fight toward the end, as we got to see Xander kick some a$$, too for once. But the final scene is really what's touching as Buffy pretends to be the Buffybot to find out of Spike told Glory the truth about Dawn, and when Spike reveals that he would protect the secret with his life, Buffy actually kisses him. It's a moving development as Buffy trusts Spike for the first time and their relationship some waht builds from this point. But despite all that, "Intervention" feels jumbled together and both plots feel weird intertwined in one episode, making it mediocre.

spike gets a buffy bot to make up for some things buffy wont do. it is just hilarious the things she says. like when she goes around with willow telling her your recently gay that was pretty funny. and the way spike programed her to not like angel. when both buffys meet its really funny. also the whole guyles thing was classic. this episode did have a point though. it showed no matter what spike would not betray buffy. buffy also learns that death is her gift, which will play out later. this episode was a nice lighter episode, and it worked really well.

Buffy wants Dawn to get back into a routine whilst avoiding getting back into hers. She dusted no vamps in the last episode, whilst in The Body and in this ep, she only fights to protect Dawn. Death has become distasteful to her since her mother died: she is no longer the huntress from the beginning of the season; she hasn’t even patrolled. She expresses her feelings by relating them to her perennial battle to balance her Buffyness and her Slayerness as she worries that being around death, even if it is supernatural, is making her losing her humanity; once again she blames herself for Riley leaving and Joyce dying. At the funeral, she was hollow and withdrawn, now she thinks she is permanently that way. She believes that she cannot express love well enough: “Weird love is better than no love”, she says and we immediately cut to Spike and his crying walking sleeping talking plot device blow-up Buffy. Spike’s programming of the BuffyBot is interesting: maybe he didn’t have access to much women’s clothing but he makes the Bot wear chaste clothes whilst acting slutty. Moreover, he wants her to be attracted to his badness – he wants to be loved by Buffy for what he is without turning back into William. Perhaps this is because Cecily (and people in general) were not attracted to him when he was human. It’s a traditional tale of a nice boy believing bad boys get more action. He enjoys fighting with the Bot just as much as f*cking with her. Plus he still believes that Buffy is – or should be – attracted to his dark side. Why else, in his mind, is she (and the Bot) unable to stake him? The other thing to note is that he doesn’t care about the rest of the gang (Giles: “Spike didn’t even bother to programme my name correctly!”)



This episode is a bit of fun after the sadness of the last two and it also starts the beginning of the end as Glory, worrying that Ben is becoming stronger than her, hots up her search for her key. As Buffy is away on her VisionQuest it seems the gang are in danger, but, as ever, the minions get things wrong and kidnap Spike. With the creation of the BuffyBot, Spike has sunk to his sleaziest ebb, but here we see what he is capable of: selfless and self-sacrificing love, as refuses to reveal the name of the key despite Glory’s torturing him. He even tries to persuade Glory that the host of the Price is Right is the key. As he tells “Buffybot” later, “If anything happens to Dawn, it’d kill her” – his love is not just about shagging. At the end of S4 he easily betrayed Buffy, and the gang, to Adam, but now he protects her, and Dawn. It’s not just the chip that has changed his behaviour. We also see him kiss Buffybot’s neck when she wants him to bite her – he is capable of tenderness as well as violence. He is also still capable of cunning cleverness – he has always been able to play on people’s insecurities and his taunting of Glory helps him escape as she punches him out of his chains.



In the meantime the Xander/Anya slaying tagteam has discovered “Buffy” and Spike in flagrante in the graveyard and come to the conclusion that the Buffster is crazy with grief, which is ironic given that this theory more or less comes true in Season 6. It takes them a long time to fail to realise that Buffy isn’t herself. Buffy has been worried about losing her humanity and now her friends can’t tell her apart from a robot. They try an intervention: “There’s no blame, only love,” before discovering that the robot is real. The gang intervenes in Glory’s torture of Spike (taking out the minions pretty easily considering only two of them managed to kidnap Spike). The gang is softening towards the vamp: Willow tries to understand Buffy having sex with him and even Xander feels sorry for him at the end of the episode. Only Tara retains her moral judgement, although when the Buffy and Spike relationship does come true, she is more forgiving.



Meanwhile, the First Slayer intervenes with Buffy. The Jesus analogy starts here as we see her go into the desert with no food or water to seek guidance. The catwalk to the Restless dream place doesn’t seem useful to her but we discover that a) she is full of love b) love is pain and c) love will bring her to her gift. Thus her attachments to friends and family (in this case Dawn) - the thing that makes her different from other slayers - will bring her to her gift to the world, to save it once again. She is not losing her humanity, it is that, not her inner Slayer that will rescue everyone once more.



At the end we see her capable of forgiveness as she and Spike share their first kiss – a quick peck a thousand times better for him than sex bouts with the robot. She tells him “I won’t forget it” - and she sticks to her word.

Glory hasn't really seemed like much of a threat since she appeared. She knows where the Slayer lives, she knows who she needs to threaten to get her answers, but its only now that she actually DOES something about it.



Buffy has been feeling adrift since Riley's departure and her mother's death. Giles feels that she could benefit from a ritual to get in touch with a guiding spirit. The problem is that Buffy feels like she may be becoming too hard on the inside... that being the Slayer is damaging her emotionally.



While she's gone, Spike is targeted by Glory's minions as being the Key because they spot the Buffybot going to great lengths to protect him. They're not the only ones seeing how close Spike has gotten to the 'Slayer', though because Xander and Anya get an eyeful of the 'Bot straddling Spike in a cemetery. Xander decides this calls for an Intervention. And Willow's gotta agree when she converses with 'Buffy' only to find her acting extra weird (in a very humorous sequence).



When the real Buffy comes back from her sojourn in the desert though, she baffled about why her friends would thinks she's sleeping with Spike! It's another really funny bit and Sarah does a wonderful job of interacting as Buffy and the Buffybot with each other.



The Buffybot has come to her 'freinds' though, because Spike has been abducted by Glory and he knows Dawn is exactly what she is looking for. Buffy decides she has to kill Spike to protect Dawn, but when they break into Glory's apartment building they find a seriously hurt Spike trying to make a get away. It's a great sequence that has some very funny lines between Glory, Spike and her minions. Especially the part of "bringing the beaten body of Bob Barker".



But even though they rescue Spike, they still need to know if he cracked about Dawn. Buffy chooses to impersonate the robot in order to find out and it leads to an extremely sweet scene where Buffy finally acknowledges that Spike has grown and no one can deny that he has really feelings for both of the Summers sisters (and by extension, Joyce as well).



But even though they have Spike back and Dawn's secret is still safe they still have to worry about how to fight a flippin' god.

I really loved this episode. It was just what we needed after Joyce's death. Buffy and Giles going to the desert to look for the answers that Buffy was looking for was pretty interesting. I loved how Buffy was making fun of Giles when he was starting the ritual thing.



Spike and the Buffybot were so freaking funny! I loved them. And it was so sad and funny that the gang couldn't tell Buffy apart from the Buffybot. The Buffybot was so not Buffy it said things that Buffy would never say.



I loved Xander's reaction to Buffy straddling Spike. He and Anya were so great after they saw that. I loved how they went and told Willow and Tara and before they said anything Tara was trying to say how they should be understanding and then she was like "She's insane!"



I totally adored the scene where Xander, Anya, and Willow we ready for an intervention and they got the real and real confused Buffy, instead of the Spike straddling robot. And it was enjoyable to see how pissed off Buffy was that her friends couldn't tell her apart from a robot.



Glory tormenting Spike was kind of expected, and Spike not giving her anything was also expected, because he really did care about Buffy in his own twisted way. Spike lying and saying that Bob Barker was the key was so funny and what was funnier was that Glory's minions believed him.



I totally loved this episode it totally lightened up the darkened mood that the last couple episodes brought on.

I laughed so much during this episode I still can not believe they actually thought the Buffy bot was actually Buffy. the one thing I don't like about this episode is Spike especially that Buffy kisses him in the end. although I did like spikes reference to Bob barker and the price is right. Clair Kramer was also very funny in this episode i lover her mi ions. she remi ds me of Harmony when she is going through her clothes. Seeing spike being tortured wass a plus and it was painful to look at him afterwords. It was also funny to see buffy bot say Guyels instead of Giles.

"I Was Made to Love You," the OTHER robot episode, seemed almost insultingly placed between Dawn's breakdown and Joyce's death. "Intervention" is better, so much better, in fact, that it makes the earlier episode completely obsolete. Warren is creepier here, the themes are more relevant and less sledgehammer-obvious, and a deft script incorporates the Buffybot wackiness with major developments in all of Season Five's major running storylines -- Glory's quest for the key, Buffy's education as to the true meaning of Slayerness, and Spike's "crush."



Jane Espenson does a typically good job of getting all of this wildly different material into one somewhat coherent story, but the seams still show. The scenes with Buffy and Giles and the spirit of the First Slayer in the desert sit oddly against the Buffybot's interactions with Spike and the Scoobies. The sudden shift at the end, where Glory kidnaps and brutally tortures Spike, is too abrupt for the brain to accept. (Spike totally had it coming, though, see "Angel" Season One's "In the Dark.")



At this point in Season Five, though, an episode that's about 60% funny and relevant and only 40% tiresome plot development is a welcome change. Glory actually does something for the first time in what seems like months, ripping Spike open and kicking him across a room. Buffy's acknowledgement of Spike's sacrifice for her and Dawn at the end is seemingly the first evidence that Buffy thinks Spike can possibly change for the better. The vision of the First Slayer in the desert is just one of many Season Five "revelations" that isn't anywhere near as thought-provoking as the writers seem to think it is, a la "Glory's a god!" or "Glory is Ben!" That said, Giles' pained expression as he shakes his gourd and hops in and out of the little twig circle is one of the season's most memorable moments.



Mostly, though, the vision quest sequence is an excuse to get Buffy out of the way for mistaken identity comedy involving the unforgettable Buffybot. Sarah Michelle Gellar is just a little bit more talented than Shonda Farr (who played April in "I Was Made...") and she's nothing short of brilliant here, bouncily asking after Anya's money ("Fine! Thank you for asking!") and informing Willow she's "recently gay." I love how Willow and Xander, ever the loyal sidekicks, try and rationalize "Buffy"'s behavior while Tara is the one to point out she's obviously lost it. The highlight is regular Buffy's return, with Xander going a little overboard in describing Spike's more attractive qualities ("I am NOT having sex with Spike! But I am starting to think that you might be") and the Buffybot taking everything in stride ("You look just like me! We're very pretty").



Unfortunately, plot concerns end the comedy right there, as the group has to run off to battle the annoying minions in Glory's foyer. (If Buffy has suspected the location of Glory's hideout since "Shadow," why hasn't anyone checked it out before now?) Sadly, this is Season Five's last hurrah, as the rest of the episodes utterly abandon the human comedy for the unbearably elongated conclusion of the Glory storyline. Why couldn't Giles have choked Ben right here? Then we could have had "Restless" times four to end the season. A man can dream. (Of cheese.)

This is the third or fourth episode with a robot, but in this case the robot is Buffy and who would mind having more Buffy? Not I. The Buffybot is a goofy idea, but genuinely displays Spike's serious issues regarding his perverted love for Buffy. The scenes with the Buffybot and Spike are funny, typical male fantasy stuff. These comedic scenes are well balanced with Buffy's vision quest in the desert. There is the typical puzzeling wisdoms that Buffy must unravel and I can only assume that the knowledge she gains about love and death in the desert will be important for the season finale.



This episode has perhaps the best line in any Buffy episode. When Spike is getting beaten to a pulp by Glory he puts her down so hard, so cleverly and with such verocity that Spike earns the hearts of every Buffy lover. WOW. What a great scene. It is matched only by the final scene witht he Buffybot, ehem, and Spike.



What's the line. . ."The Slayer is going to kick your skanky, lopsided-ass back to whatever place would take a cheap, whorish, ex-demon, fashion victim like you."

Intervention



This was a nice episode. I didn't like the Spike/Buffybot thing too much though. but I loved the Buffy finding out that death is her gift beautiful scenes in the desert and the last scene was pretty though (even if I dislike Spuffy)



cut to Buffy in the kitchen. Giles is really helping them out. then Giles asks Buffy to come in training again but she wants to quit for a while. she says that she is becoming a stone. it's hard to say the word love and Riley left her because of that and she isn't sure if her mom knew that she loved her. Giles says that there is a quest. then comes Dawn and she wants Buffy to go and she will stay with the gang. Buffy says she loves Dawn. cut to Spike and Warren. Warren made him a Buffybot and he likes it.

the credits start



cut to Glory with her minions. they love her and she's in pain because she is sharing her body with an enemy. and she needs them to get her the key. the new person in Buffy's life. cut to Buffy and Giles going to the desert. Giles does a spell for Buffy (very funny), cut to Buffybot fighting Spike. they are really attracted and they seduce each other. cut to Giles saying something and Buffy following a big cat. it starts to get dark and she sits on a stone. she knows that place.



cut to the gang together. Dawn steals something while the minions watch. cut to Spike and Buffybot continuing their sex plays. but Spike knows that she isn't the same. cut to Willow being watched by minions. cut back to Spike and Buffybot in bed. but she wakes up and goes to kill vampires. cut to Anya and Xander walking into her. she is acting all weird and then comes Spike and he acts as if she is the real slayer. some vampires attack and they kill them and Xander and Anya leave. then they hear Buffybot and Spike having sex and the minions see it too.



cut to Willow and Tara watching tv. Anya and Xander arrive and they tell the gang about what happened and they think Buffy has gone nuts. Xander says that he is going back to talk to them. cut to Xander going to Spike and saying that he will stake him if he hurts Buffy. then come the minions and they knock Xander out and grab Spike, they think that he is the key and take him with them. cut to Buffy when the first slayer comes, it tells Buffy that she is full of love and has to let it out and that love will bring her to hr gift.



cut to Buffybot coming over to Willow. Willow asks about Spike and she says it's true. then she acts very weird. Xander comes and tells them that the minions took Spike and he knows about Dawn so they need to find him. cut to Buffy talking to the first slayer. she tells Buffy that death is her gift. but Buffy says that death is not a gift but the first slayer says it is and disappears. cut to Glory and the minions take Spike to her. Glory says that he can't be a key because he's a vampire and impure but they say that he was precious to the slayer so Glory tries to dig in him.



cut to the gang coming in Buffy's home. the Buffybot goes upstairs and then Buffy comes in and they talk to her and are worried that she is having sex with Spike. she says she isn't and becomes mad. then comes the Buffybot and Buffy says that she is a robot and they couldn't see that. they think that Spike build her to have sex and they are grossed. they need to find Spike and Buffy wants to kill him. cut to them outside close and they are gonna split.



cut to Glory and Spike, Spike is gonna tell who the key is. but he lies to her and she gets all upset. he says that he won't tell her anything and that Buffy will kick her ass and he makes Glory very angry and she kicks him away hitting him free. he runs to escape in an elevator. cut to the minions after him but Buffy and the rest come in to fight them. one hits the Buffybot and damages her. Buffy beats them. they go back to Glory and she is upset and hurts them.



cut to the gang talking about Spike, maybe he told Glory about Dawn. Buffy needs to know. Xander feels a little bad for the guy. cut to Spike, Buffybot comes and asks why he let Glory hurt him. and she will tell her but Spike says that she can never know because he doesn't want to have the real Buffy hurt. Then the Buffybot kisses him and he realise that it's the real Buffy. she says that the robot was gross but what he did for her and Dawn was real. and she won't forget that.



black out



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Best episode quotes:



Buffy: Giles, you don't have to help. You cooked.

Giles: Oh, come on. I like to help. Helping you two out makes me feel useful.

Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage on Saturday? You could feel indispensible.

Buffy: Dawn, if there are any plates in your room, let's have them before they get furry and we have to name them.



Giles: I was thinking that we might ... return to our training schedule.

Buffy: I don't know. I was, um, thinking about ... maybe ... taking a break or something. Just ease off for a while. Not get into full slay mode.

Giles: But you were doing so well.

Buffy: A-and you were great, helping me with everything. I'm just ... starting to feel ... uneasy about stuff.

Giles: Stuff?

Buffy: Training. Slaying. All of it. It's just ... I mean ... I can beat up the demons until the cows come home. And then I can beat up the cows ... but I'm not sure I like what it's doing to me.

Giles: But you've mastered so much. I mean, your strength and resilience alone-

Buffy: Yeah. Strength, resilience ... those are all words for hardness. I'm starting to feel like ... being the Slayer is turning me into stone.

Giles: Turning you into stone? Buffy-

Buffy: Just ... think about it. I was never there for Riley, not like I was for Angel. I was terrible to Dawn.

Giles: At a time like this-

Buffy: No.

Giles: You're bound to feel emotionally numb.

Buffy: Before that. Riley left because I was shut down. He's gone. And now my mom is gone ... and I loved her more than anything ... and ... I don't know if she knew.

Giles: Oh, she knew. Always.

Buffy: I don't know. To slay, to kill ... i-it means being hard on the inside. Maybe being the perfect Slayer means being too hard to love at all. I already feel like I can hardly say the words.

Giles: Buffy...

Buffy: Giles ... I love you. Love ... love, love, love, love, Giles, it feels strange.

Giles: Well, I shouldn't wonder. How serious are you about this?

Buffy: Ten. I'm serious to the amount of ten.

Giles: There is something ... in the Watchers' diaries ... a quest.

Buffy: A quest? Like finding a grail or something?

Giles: Not a grail. Maybe answers. It would take a day, perhaps two.

Buffy: I'm not leaving Dawn. Not with Glory looking for her.

Dawn: Sure you can. What's the deal?

Giles: Some Slayers before Buffy found it helpful in ... regaining their focus, learning more about their role. There's a sacred place in the desert. It's, it's not far.

Buffy: But I can't go. I'm not leaving you, Dawn.

Dawn: If you have to go learn ... I mean, if it'll help you out ... I think you should do it. I can hang with the gang. I'll be okay.

Buffy: I love you, Dawn. You know that, right?

Dawn: Yeah. I love you too.

Buffy: I love you ... really love you.

Dawn: Gettin' weird.

Buffy: Sorry. But it's important that I tell you. Weird love's better than no love.



Buffy: What's in the trunk?

Giles: Supplies.

Buffy: Supplies? I was wondering about that. Like food, water, maybe a compass?

Giles: How about a book, a gourd, and a bunch of twigs.

Buffy: I don't think I'll be that hungry.



Buffybot: Oh...

Spike: Is that your best, Slayer?

Buffybot: No.

Spike: Why not?

Buffybot: I, I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body.

Spike: Maybe I should repay you for your gentleness. Maybe I should let you go.

Buffybot: No! No, Spike. Never let me go.

Spike: You know you should be afraid of me. I'm bad.

Buffybot: You are. You're very, very bad.

Spike: Are you gonna do it that way?

Buffybot: No. This way.

Spike: You can't do it.

Buffybot: I could never do it. I'm helpless against you, you fiend.



Buffybot: You're evil.

Spike: And that excites you?

Buffybot: It excites me, it terrifies me ... I try so hard to resist you and I can't.

Spike: Yeah?

Buffybot: Darn your sinister attraction.

Spike: Are you afraid of me?

Buffybot: Yes.

Spike: You know I can't lie to you.

Buffybot: I think you can. I think you can if I let you, and I want to let you. I want you to bite me and devour me until there's no more.

Spike: Like this?

Buffybot: Oh, Spike, devour me!



Buffybot: Anya! How is your money?

Anya: Fine. Thank you for asking.

Buffybot: Isn't it a beautiful night for killing evil things?

Xander: I guess.

Anya: You're back very early.

Xander: Yeah, how was the whole vision-quest experience?

Buffybot: I don't understand that question. But thank you for asking. You're my friend, and a carpenter.



Willow: What's goin' on?

Xander: Buffy's gone insane.

Willow: What? What'd she do?

Xander: Brace yourself. You're not gonna believe it.

Tara: Everyone, before we jump all over her, people do strange things when someone they love dies. When I lost my mother, I-I did some pretty dumb stuff, like lying to my family and staying out all night.

Anya: Buffy's boinking Spike.

Willow: Oh ... well, Ta-Tara's right. Grief can be powerful, and we shouldn't judge-

Tara: What are you, kidding? She's nuts!

Willow: Well, it's not healthy, we're all agreeing there.

Tara: What can we do?

Anya: Sometimes in the movies when they go crazy they slap 'em.

Xander: I'm gonna go find her and talk to her. If she's losing it, we gotta help her before she gets herself hurt.

Tara: You aren't really gonna slap her, are you?

Xander: No, but if I have to see her straddle Spike again, I will definitely knock myself unconscious.



Xander: Spike, Buffy has lost of friends, and we love her very much, and we'll do whatever it takes to protect her. Now if that means killing you, then, well, that's just a bonus.



Buffy: I know you. You're the first Slayer.

First Slayer: This is a form. I am the guide.

Buffy: I have a few questions ... about being the Slayer. What about ... love? Not just boyfriend love.

First Slayer: You think you're losing your ability to love.

Buffy: I-I didn't say that. Yeah.

First Slayer: You're afraid that being the Slayer means losing your humanity.

Buffy: Does it?

First Slayer: You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it.

Buffy: I'm full of love? I'm not losing it?

First Slayer: Only if you reject it. Love is pain, and the Slayer forges strength from pain. Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature. Love will bring you to your gift.

Buffy: What?



Willow: Did Xander find you? He-he was looking for you. He hasn't come back. Anya sat up waiting.

Buffybot: I don't know where Xander is. I haven't seen him. And when I came out of the tunnel, Spike was gone. I need to find him.

Willow: Um ... Buffy, this thing with Spike, i-i-it isn't true, is it? You didn't, you know, sleep with Spike?

Buffybot: No. I had sex with Spike. I'm sorry if it bothers you. You're my best friend.

Willow: I-I am. And I, I always will be, no matter what you do. I, I'm just trying to figure out why this happened, and I, I think with ... your mom and everything ... everyone was being all sympathetic, and, and making you feel weak. A-and Spike wasn't like that. So, just this one time, you just ... did something kinda ... crazy.

Buffybot: It wasn't one time. It was lots of times. And lots of different ways. I could make sketches.

Willow: No! Buffy, there is something seriously wrong here! I ... Okay, yeah, you've been with a vampire before, but Angel had a soul.

Buffybot: Angel's lame. His hair grows straight up, and he's bloody stupid.

Willow: Okay ... look, I just wanna help you. Let me help you.

Buffybot: You're my best friend.

Willow: Yeah. Again, I ... really am, but...

Buffybot: You're recently gay.



Buffy: I-I'm sorry, I, I'm just a little confused. I'm full of love, which is nice, and ... love will lead me to my gift?

First Slayer: Yes.

Buffy: I'm getting a gift? Or, or do you mean that, that I have a gift to give to someone else?

First Slayer: Death is your gift.

Buffy: Death ...

First Slayer: Is your gift.

Bufy: Okay, no. Death is not a gift. My mother just died. I know this. If I have to kill demons because it makes the world a better place, then I kill demons, but it's not a gift to anybody.

First Slayer: Your question has been answered.



Glory: What the hell is that, and why is his hair that color?

Murk: Stunning one, we believe he is...

Murk & Jinx: The key!

Glory: Really? That's fantabulous! And impossible. He can't be the key, because, see, the key ... has to be pure. This is a vampire. Lesson number one, vampires equal impure.

Spike: Yeah, damn right I'm impure. I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow. Let me go.

Glory: You can't even brain-suck a vampire. He's completely useless.

Spike: So, I'm just gonna let myself out.

Jinx: But, your holiness, we observed the Slayer. She protected this one above all others. She treated him as precious.

Glory: Really? Precious-ss-ss? Let's take a peek at you, precious.

Spike: Sod off.

Glory: Oh... He doesn't look very fancy to me.

Spike: Hey, watch the lip!

Glory: But if the Slayer protects him, maybe appearances are deceiving. Maybe there's something on the inside. Shhh. What do you know, precious? What can I dig out of you?



Buffybot: This is my house.

Xander: If we're gonna stop Spike from blabbing about Dawn, we're gonna need these.

Anya: Ooh, the big guns. Saddling up. Shouldn't we have guns?

Buffybot: Those are my weapons. Give me something big and sharp.

Willow: Um, Buffy, where do we go? Where should we look for Glory?

Buffybot: She's a god. She wants the key.

Xander: Yeah, so we should look...

Buffybot: I don't know. Why are you all looking at me?

Xander: Okay, Buff, it's okay, you're right, you shouldn't have to know everything.

Buffybot: We need to rescue Spike.

Willow: Um ... Buffy, I, I think you have more weapons upstairs. Why don't you go get those?

Anya: And maybe change your clothes, you know, something more ... fighty.

Buffybot: I can do that. I'll be right back.

Xander: Okay, this has gone way too far. She thinks we're going to rescue Spike.

Willow: What are we gonna do?

Xander: Find him, keep him from talking, whatever it takes.

Anya: What do we do with Glory?

Willow: Whatever we do, we're gonna need Buffy's help.

Xander: Then we're gonna have to talk to her.

Willow: Intervention time again?

Xander: Yeah, 'cause what we need right now is a sane Buffy.

Buffy: Whoa. Group hang time?

Willow: Tha-that was quick.

Buffy: Didn't seem like it to me. Death is my gift. Pff.

Xander: Buffy, we need to talk.

Buffy: What's wrong? Is Dawn okay?

Willow: Dawn's fine.

Xander: Buffy, we care about you, and we're worried about you. The way you're acting, the things you're doing-

Anya: It's wrong.

Willow: Wait. This shouldn't be about blame.

Buffy: Blame? There's blame now?

Willow: No, there's only love. And ... some fear.

Anya: Which is kind of thrown by the you having sex with Spike.

Buffy: The ... who whating how with huh?

Anya: Okay, that's denial. That usually comes before anger.

Buffy: I am not having sex with Spike!

Anya: Anger.

Xander: No one is judging you. It's understandable. Spike is strong and mysterious and sort of compact but well-muscled.

Buffy: I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.

Xander: Buffy, I saw you. Anya too. We saw you and Spike ... with the straddling.

Buffybot: Spike's mine. Who's straddling Spike?

Buffy: Oh my god.

Xander: And so say all of us.

Buffybot: Say, look at you. You look just like me! We're very pretty.

Willow: Two of them!

Xander: Hey, I know this! They're both Buffy!

Buffy: No, she's a robot. She acts just like that girlfriend-bot that Warren guy made. You guys couldn't tell me apart from a robot?

Buffybot: Oh, I don't think I'm a robot.

Anya: She's very well done.

Xander: Spike must have had her built so he could program her t-

Buffy: Oh god.

Willow: Yikes. Imagine the things-

Buffy: No! No, no imagining. Any of you.

Xander: Already got the visual.

Buffybot: People. Friends of mine. You're forgetting the most important thing. Glory has Spike and she's going to harm him.

Buffy: Glory has Spike?

Xander: We were gonna bring that up.

Anya: We were getting weapons.

Buffy: Grab 'em. We're going now. I have to kill him.

Willow: We don't even know where to look.

Buffy: I know where to start.



Giles: Quite extraordinary really.

Buffybot: Thank you. But I really think we should be listening to the other Buffy, Guyles. She's very smart and she's gonna help us save Spike.

Giles: Guyles? Spike didn't even bother to program my name properly.

Buffy: Listen, skirt girl, we are not going to save him. We're going to kill him. He knows who the key is, and there's no way he's not telling Glory.

Buffybot: You're right. He's evil. But you should see him naked. I mean really.

Buffy: Okay, guys, split up and spread out. Check the priciest-looking places first. Xander, you come with me. Willow, Anya, stick together, and Guy-les ... Giles- you can watch ... it.



Glory: Is that better? Do you think you can try to talk again now? Good. Because I'm tired of these games! "I need time, I need a drink," you're a very needy little bloodsucker, and it's not very attractive. So start talkin'.

Spike: Yeah. Okay. The key. Here's the thing... It's that guy... on TV ... what's his name?

Glory: On the television?

Spike: That show ... the prize show ... where they guess what stuff cost?

Murk: The Price Is Right?

Jinx: Oh, Bob Barker!

Murk: We will bring you Bob Barker! We will bring you the limp and beaten body of Bob Bark-

Glory: It is not Bob Barker, scabby morons! The key is new to this world ... and Bob Barker is as old as grit. The vampire ... is lying to me.

Spike: Yeah ... but it was fun. And guess what, bitch. I'm not telling you jack. You're never gonna get your sodding key, 'cause you might be strong, but in our world, you're an idiot.

Glory: I am a god.

Spike: The god of what, bad home perms?

Glory: Shut up! I command you, shut up!

Spike: Yeah, okay, sorry, but I just had no idea that gods were such prancing lightweights. Mark my words, the Slayer ... is going to kick your skanky, lopsided ass back to whatever place would take a cheap, whorish, fashion victim ex-god like you.



Buffy: What'd you guys do with Spike? And please let the story have a dusty ending.

Xander: We dumped him back in his crypt.

Giles: Tried to find out if he'd ... told her anything, but he was too badly beaten to make much sense.

Anya: Well, even if he told her, he'd just lie to us about it anyway, right?

Buffy: Yeah, you can count on it. But I have to know. Now. If he did give us up, Dawn and I need to get out of town. I mean, she could be on her way right now.

Giles: But, uh, not to worry, you know, I'm sure we'll all be perfectly safe.

Dawn: We're safe, right. And, uh, Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with.

Tara: I-it sounded convincing when I thought it.

Willow: Hey! I-I think I found somethin'.

Anya: Uch! Looks very complicated in there. Personally, I'd rather look at guts.

Willow: I found where she's broken. Some of these wires got fried extra crispy. It's an easy fix. I mean ... not that I would.

Xander: God, I feel ... kind of bad for the guy. Gets all whupped and his best toy gets taken away.

Buffy: Xander. Please don't be suggesting what I'd have to kill you for suggesting.

Xander: No, no, travesty, completely on board, it's just ... the guy was so thrashed.



Buffy: Spike! You're covered in sexy wounds.

Spike: Yeah. I feel real sexy. Where you been?

Buffy: I fell down and got confused. Willow fixed me. She's gay.

Spike: Will fixed you? I thought they'd melt you into scrap.

Buffy: They were confused too. Do you wanna ravage me now?

Spike: Give us a minute. Got some bones need mending.

Buffy: Why did you let that Glory hurt you?

Spike: She wanted to know who the key was.

Buffy: Oh, well, I can tell her, and then you'll-

Spike: No! You can't ever. Glory never finds out.

Buffy: Why?

Spike: 'Cause Buffy ... the other, not so pleasant Buffy ... anything happened to Dawn, it'd destroy her. I couldn't live, her bein' in that much pain. Let Glory kill me first. Nearly bloody did.

[she kisses him]

Spike: And my robot?

Buffy: The robot is gone. The robot was gross and obscene.

Spike: It wasn't supposed to-

Buffy: Don't. That ... thing, it ... it wasn't even real. What you did, for me, and Dawn ... that was real. I won't forget it.



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Story: 9

Acting: 9

Writing: 10

Picture: 10

Gripping: 8

My Rank: 9

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Total: 9.1

The plot here is pretty simple: Warren's Buffybot is finished, and ready for Spike to have his fun with. Meanwhile, Buffy learns that "Death is her gift". In the midst of all this fun, Glory's minions kidnap Spike, thinking that he may be the key.



"Intervention" is one of my favorite Buffy episodes (actually, it may just be my all-time fav). An important episode that hints at a future plot point, and the scenes with Spike & the perky Buffybot are absolutely hilarious. Not only that, but Spike redeems himself (in the eyes of the gang) by not telling Glory who the key is, and gets his "Just Rewards" at the end.



Overall, a fantastic, entertaining episode. A fine example of why I watch this show