Emma Caulfield |
Anya |
James Marsters |
Spike |
Sarah Michelle Gellar |
Buffy Anne Summers |
Nicholas Brendon |
Alexander 'Xander' Harris |
Alyson Hannigan |
Willow Rosenberg |
Michelle Trachtenberg |
Dawn Summers |
Lalaine |
Chloe |
Guest Star |
Josh Braaten |
Torg |
Guest Star |
Amanda Fuller |
Eve |
Guest Star |
Camden Toy |
Ubervamp |
Recurring Role |
Anthony Stewart Head |
Rupert Giles |
Recurring Role |
Felicia Day |
Vi |
Recurring Role |
Buffy says "Here endeth the lesson" when she has defeated the Turok-han, exactly what the Master says in season 1, and what Spike said in "Fool for love" and what Buffy said to Dawn in "Lessons".
When the Turok-Han is trying to break down the door to Buffy's house, the camera flashes to the hallway. Well if you look you can see a rope or a string tied to the door.
The First is non-corporeal yet we can often hear it making noise when it walks (for example when it walks around in the caves with Spike, it's shuffling feet make noise in the dirt).
When Anya and Giles are talking to Torg in the alley, when the camera is on Giles and Anya is in the frame, you can see that the movements of her mouth don't match what she is saying, and sometimes her mouth moves when she doesn't say anything. This can only be seen in the widescreen version, as the show was framed to air in 4:3, so this error was never meant to be seen.
The first time we see Xander, Buffy and Willow in the kitchen, and we don't hear their thoughts only Buffy turns toward Xander. Later when we can hear what they're thinking, and we see it from another angle, both Buffy and Willow turn towards Xander.
So Eve-First was in the house for at least two days (Eve-First says it's been a "couple of nights") and yet she managed to totally avoid touching anything or anyone that entire time. This seems kinda unlikely - how did she eat or unroll her sleeping bag?
When the Turok-Han was choking Buffy and she pulls the arrow out from his neck to stab him in the eye, you can see as she pulls back, that the arrow is still in her hand and that the Turok-Han had a copy of it and put in 'his eye'. This all happens fast too.
When the Turok-Han enters the house Buffy is jacketless. Then she and the others run real fast. When they're outside fighting the surrounding Harbringers, Buffy is now wearing a fully-buttoned jacket.
Turok-Han can not be dust by a stake, so why did Molly bring a stake with her at the end? She even said earlier on this episode, "You staked that thing and it didn't die."
Willow: I felt it just surging through me, every fiber of my being. Pure, undiluted evil. I could taste it.
Kennedy: How does evil taste?
Willow: A little chalky.
Buffy: Did you ever see the movie Misery?
Andrew: Six times! But the book was scarier because instead of smashing his foot with a sledge hammer, Kathy Bates chops it off with a... (pause) I'll be good!
Torg: You broke my heart Anyanka!
Anya: Oh don't be so dramatic Torg! You don't even have a heart.
Andrew: Two men enter... One man leaves.
Dawn: Buffy said if you talked enough I'm allowed to kill you.
Andrew: (nervous) Not even.
Dawn: Even.
Anya: I'll have sex with you, again.
Torg: Ugh, please you're human. The way you look now, I wouldn't touch you for all the kittens in Korea.
Anya: You're rejecting my offers of sexual bribery, what am I a leper in this town. I can't even give it away.
Buffy: I don't know what's coming next. But I do know it's gonna be just like this -- hard, painful. But in the end, it's gonna be us. If we all do our parts, believe it, we'll be the ones left standing. Here endeth the lesson.
Trog: I remember. You wore pink.
Anya: Those were entrails.
Buffy: Looks good, doesn't it? They're trapped in here. Terrified, meat for the beast, and there's nothing they can do but wait. That's all they've been doing for days, waiting to be picked off, having nightmares about monsters that can't be killed. But I don't believe in that. I always find a way. I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show 'em why.
Beljoxa's Eye: The Eye sees not the future - only the truth of the now and before.
Anya: We've all got that. It's called "memory."
Buffy: Hello? It's ok. We're friendly... and we have eyes!
Rona: (about Andrew) Um, why is that guy tied to a chair?
Xander: The question you'll soon be asking is "why isn't he gagged?"
Andrew: I'm so alone.
Dawn: Then maybe you shouldn't have killed your only friend.
Xander: Maybe we can save the maybes for a more dayish part of the day, girls. Potential Slayers can function without sleep. Me, I'm no good without my usual 90 minutes.
Andrew: I'm with him, keep the chatter down! (pauses) Or speak up so I can hear you better. I'm bored. Episode I bored.
Buffy: Hey! Try picking on someone my own size.
LaLaine "Chloe" is the final Disney Channel Star to come play a potential. She starred as "Miranda" on Lizzie McGuire. The other stars were: Iyari "Kennedy", Clara "Molly", and Courtnee as "Annabelle".
The telepathic voice of Buffy is not Sarah Michelle Geller's, but in the Australian airing of this episode, the telepathic voice of Buffy was done by SMG. SMG may have been unavailable to record the voice before the original airing of the episode.
The outfit The First/Buffy is wearing when Spike tries to escape is very similar, or identical to the outfit Buffy wore in "After Life", where she tells Spike she was in heaven, and no one else can know.
The black outfit that The First/Buffy appears to Spike in is the same black outfit Buffy wore in "Never Leave Me" when Buffy says she believes in him. The First/Buffy says "He still thinks I believe in him."
Back to the beginning reference: as Buffy is walking back to her house with Rona in the teaser, she says, "Welcome to the Hellmouth," which is the titles of the first episode.
Andrew: Where would the Justice League be if they hadn't put their differences aside to stop the Imperium and his evil, shape-shifting horde?
This is a reference to the 2001 cartoon Justice League and it's premier episode "Secret Origins".
Beljoxa's Eye: The Eye sees not the future - only the truth of the now and before.
In inter-testamental apocalyptic literature being covered with eyes is a way of symbolising omniscience.
As in Revelation 4:7&8 - The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within...
Likewise, the Beljoxa's Eye is omniscient and covered with eyes.
Buffy: Germs?
Buffy's suggestion of defeating the Turok-Han with germs is a double reference.
Firstly, it was one of the ways the gang threw out to defeat Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins III in the season 3 finale, as the mayor had a deathly fear of germs and disease.
It could also be a possible reference to the classic H.G. Wells science fiction novel and 1953 film War of the Worlds, where the invading aliens were seemingly indestructible, yet ultimately were killed by common Earth germs and illnesses.
Buffy: Wh-what is Botox's eye?
The chemical name for Botox is botulinum toxin and it's a medication that prevents the transfer of the electrical impulse from the nerve ending to the muscle. The desired result after a Botox treatment is fewer wrinkles.
Andrew: Wanna play Kevin Bacon?
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon states that all actors can be connected to Kevin Bacon via co-stars in six movies (or TV shows, if they are a regular and not a guest). For example, stretching the rules to say Tom Lenk is a "Buffy" regular, one can say: Tom Lenk -> Alyson Hannigan (BtVS)-> Tara Reid (American Pie) -> John Turturro (The Big Lebowski) -> Danny Aiello (Do The Right Thing) -> Charlize Theron (2 Days in the Valley) -> Kevin Bacon (Trapped).
Buffy: Welcome to Thunderdome.
Andrew: Two men enter, one man leaves.
The "Thunderdome" was a caged fighting match to the death featured in the Mel Gibson movie, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The tagline for the movie was "Two men enter. One man leaves".
Andrew: License to kill, huh?
Andrew again expresses his appreciation for Timothy Dalton's portrayal of James Bond 007, going off on a tangent about 1989's License to Kill after Dawn says Buffy has given her permission to kill him if he talks too much. Andrew first showed his Dalton preference in Season 6's "Life Serial."
Andrew: I'm bored. Episode I bored.
Andrew is most likely referring to George Lucas's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Presumably he (like many others) didn't like the movie.
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