Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Good;
Everything with Amy and the Geeks at the museum/with Spike. Especially love Amy and Bufy catching up and Buffy jumping up and down to see over the crowd at the museum, reminding you for all her superpowers she's still a tiny little woman.

The Bad;
If the diamond is so valuable surely even in Sunnydale they'd have more security than some guy called Rusty?

Best line;
Buffy; "How have you been?"
Amy; "Rat. You?"
Buffy; "Dead"

Women good/men bad;
The 2 jerks who dance with Amy at the Bronze

Jeez!;
Don't mind the sex but dislike Spike hitting Buffy before they have sex, fine with a little slap and tickle/hairpulling roleplay but punching and kicking, it's all a little too brutal. It certainly brings the house down.

Kinky dinky;
Joss is right he does write pure porn. Naked Amy. Warren comments that 'size is everything'. Buffy says she thinks about Giles when she's kissing Spike. Must have done the Guffers' hearts good until she catches herself on. As Spike comments he may be into dark sexuality but he is a vamp, he should be treading on the darkside. Interesting point in the commentary that Joss made sure that Buffy kissed Spike first rather than him forcing the kiss on her and her succumbing after a little resistance gothic romance/rape fantasy style.

Captain Subtext;
Spike comments that he's the only one 'here for you' in regard to Buffy which is very true. Amy wanted to go to the Prom with Larry, unaware he was gay. Tara and Dawn on the sofa, awwww! (lovely pic of that on the Buffy 2009 calender) Anyone else think that the girl Amy selects for Willow at the Bronze looks the spitting image of Cordelia? (Her stand-in/stunt double?) Maybe Amy picked up on something they never could admit to each other? Warren is concerned that when Spike asks him to examine his 'chip' it's British slang for something else.

Apocalypses; 6

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; 3

Scoobies knocked out:
Buffy: 17
Giles: 12
Cordy: 6
Xander: 11
Will: 6
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 3
Wes: 1
Anya;3
Dawn; 2

Kills: none but Buffy beats up 2 muggers
Buffy: 103 vamps, 41 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 8 vamps, 2 demon, 1 human, 1 god.
Cordy: 3 vamps, a demon
Will: 6 vamps + 1 demon +1 fawn.
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 6 vamps, 2 zombies, 1 a demon,
Anya: 1 vamp and 1 a demon
Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons
Spike; 8 vamps and 2 demon
Buffybot; 2 vamps
Tara; 1 demon
Dawn; 1 vamp

Scoobies go evil:
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 4
Anya; 1
Dawn; 1

Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 7
Giles: 4
Cordy: 1
Will: 3
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 4
Tara; 1
Dawn;1
Spike; 1

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

Sunnydale deaths;
93

Total number of scoobies: no more Tara or Giles so 5
Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Spike,

Xander demon magnet: 5(6?) Amy remarks on Xander's yen for demons so presumably she was always aware of the events of seasons 1-3
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?

Scoobies shot:
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4
Riley; 1

Notches on Scooby bedpost: Buffy and Spike and how!
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 4 confirmed; Angel, Parker, Riley, Spike. 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
Spike; 1 Buffy

Spike; good or bad?
Spike thinks he should be able to feast in muggers. He says he's at the museum out of compassion for the guard but he's surely lying, just an excuse to meet Buffy. Once he thinks his chip is not working he goes out to slaughter the first pretty girl he can find but seems to need to psych himself up to do so.

Dawn in peril; 7

Dawn the bashful virgin; 5

Questions and observations;
Buffy always wanted a pony. Maybe CC let her ride hers? The mugging scene is funny, nice to have some lightness as the writer comments. Spike can punch Buffy, a huge plotline right there. Spike mocks the geeks but isn't he the guy who referred to KITT and Yoda even in season 2? The Geeks have a glitterball in their lair, the same one that Andrew's brother used to train his hellhounds? Dawn refers to a talking cat on TV, Sabrina;TTW?
So, Buffy and Spike? My personal opinion on this is not that Buffy loves Spike but that she needs someone, anyone after her ordeal of being ripped out of heaven (to quote Justine on Angel 'better to feel something than feel nothing"). Unfortunately neither Willow or Xander is available, Angel has his curse, Riley's unreachable, Giles is out of picture and Dawn is out of the question unless you're into some pretty damn extreme Summers/slash (which in fairness a LOT of people are to judge by the plethora of Buffy/Charmed fanfiction in that fetish genre) so Spike fits the bill. That's not to say she doesn't develop feelings for him later but even Spike here comments that he's the only one 'here for her'.
Marks out of 10; 7/10, one for the Spuffers and no mistake, unfortunately I'm not one

Smashed-After breaking up with Tara, Willow successfully de-rats Amy and the two witches begin hanging out and having fun with magic, drawing Willow further into her growing addiction. Meanwhile, Spike notices that his chip doesn't kick in when he hits Buffy, leading him to believe that she may not be entirely human anymore.

Up to this point, Season 6 has been a pretty dark season, but with this episode, these not only get even darker, but depressing. Season 6 was the season that took the characters' to some really shocking places, that we thought we'd never see and it starts here. First off, the tension between Buffy and Spike has been building up a lot all season. Buffy has kissed Spike twice at this point and you can't really blame the guy for being so persistent with confronting Buffy about them. He's right, Buffy has been a tease and her typical shtick about Spike just obsessing over nothing just doesn't work anymore. The she goes as far as calling Spike "an evil disgusting thing" which beyond cruel at this point. Spike may not be the nicest guy, but he's proved more than once that he's more than just an "evil disgusting thing". He was the one protecting her sister all summer while she was dead, not to mention protecting Dawn's secret from Glory from before. I think Spike has more than proven himself to Buffy and the others of how loyal he can be despite having no soul. That has to stand for something right? I'm not surprised that once Spike realized he could hurt Buffy with no pain from the chip, he went off to attack the first helpless girl he saw. Which kinda contracts the scene that took place before. Spike suddenly gives in to his desire to feed despite knowing the woman he's supposedly in love with wouldn't approve. Sure, he's still soulless, sure he was upset about Buffy rejecting him again, etc. But after seeing such a noble Spike so far this season, why make him out to be a monster again in that one scene. Just lessens the episode for me.

Of course, it does lead to a hilarious couple of scenes between Spike and the Trio, one is where Spike threatens the break one of the Trio's priceless Star Wars action figure and the other is when Spike desperately calls out for Warren after being extremely annoyed by Andrew and Jonathan's Dr. Who rants. We soon learn from Warren that Spike's chip is fine and that the problem is Buffy. Following a hilarious phone call between them, Spike confronts Buffy about his new ability to hurt her, leading to probably the most disturbing fight scene I've ever seen on this series or anywhere else. There are so many conclusions to make out of this fight: is Buffy suddenly turned on by the fact that Spike can hurt him? If you think about it, Spike can't really have sex with a human cause of the chip and now that Buffy knows he can very well do what he pleases with her, it seems to full some kind of sexually charged reaction from her. What makes the fight even more eerie is Buffy and Spike are getting off on hurting each other. What seems like an tiresome fight leads to a graphic sex scene between the two. I honestly give Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Masters props for making that scene so surreal and compelling. The looks on their faces are haunting between Spike's utter disbelief to Buffy given into her desire and making one of the most painful mistakes of her life. The combination of that, the stunning music that overshadows the actual noise in the scene and the house falling apart around them.....chills. It's really cringe-worthy and I honestly don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

In other news, Amy's not a rat anymore! It's good to have her back and you got to love the first few scenes of her being human. From her horrifying scream to finding out how long she's been rat to her casual chatting up with Buffy, it's all pretty solid stuff. It's obvious the writers brought Amy back to continue to push Willow over the edge with her magic addiction. I did love the Bronze scenes, especially when they teach a couple of jerks at thing or two by locking them in a cage, to dance half naked in ahumiliatingfashion. Even then, I don't feel bad for Willow in terms of her break-up with Tara. Her heavy magic use is still unhealthy and during the scenes between Dawn and Tara, she seems to be doing fine without her. It's a nice bonding moment between the two but it's shame Dawn gets Tara's hopes up when she lies about Willow doing less magic. It's just Dawn trying to bring them back together and wanting Tara back in her life. The Trio, besides their scenes with Spike, are once again just given some annoying material, though I did like Warren's "freeze ray" codes. The whole mystery with the frozen guard goes no where, in fact, it takes up the next two episodes too. Though, you got to love Buffy's no so sudden defensive with Xander and Anya. All in All, "Smashed" is pretty good episode that sees some of the characters descending even more to dark places. As for the following episode "Wrecked", no so much....

This was an awful episode of Buffy. Willow was completely out of control you would have thought that after loosing Tara the way she did she would have at least made an attempt to use a little bit less magic. The only good parts were of Tara and Dawn in this one I loved the two of them after the movie they saw and Tara was cute telling Dawn to eat something green after that milkshake. I loved how Dawn suckered Tara into staying with her until someone got home. The relationship between them here was so adorable.



Willow finally bringing Amy back was interesting. Amy's character was always something interesting that could be played around with and I like how the writers brought her back as a kind of Tara replacement for Willow.



Buffy and Spike was completely disturbing. It was obvious that Spike was gonna follow her around about their kisses but the end was just too awful for words. They didn't need to beat the crap out of each other and have sex like that because the two of them doing it controlled most of the season after that and it was not good.



I loved when Buffy found the muggers. That was classic I loved that she had bad guys that weren't vampires or demons it was amusing. I did like Spike trying to jump in and then realizing that the muggers were human and him and Buffy arguing there was decent. I loved how Spike reacted to Buffy telling him she was thinking about Giles. It was great to see Spike say something about that relationship.



I liked how Anya pointed out that the recent crimes in Sunnydale were kinda lame. That was something that needed to be firmly established sooner but Anya was perfect in saying that.



I loved the Trio and Spike. I found it humorous that Spike was gonna behead the "Boba Fett" doll.



This was a terrible episode of Buffy but the few comical moments saved it from being a complete waste.

Smashed was a perfect episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sixth Season. This episode really exploited some of the characters emotions and we saw them doing things they normally wouldn't have. It was interesting to see how both Buffy and Willow were dealing with their respective issues. I thought that the story of this episode was very interesting and a great way to tie every thing together. I think the ending was the most shocking part of all, though not totally unexpected. I look forward to watching what happens in the next episode. There are a lot of possibilities this season!!!!!

Willow de-rats Amy, who believes it's weeks after the events in "Gingerbread", so Willow tells her the events of the 3rd season finale. The Nerd Trio break into a museum to steal a diamond and then use their freeze ray on the old security guard. Spike tries to confront Buffy about their kisses, which ends up with them hitting each other. Spike thinks his chip has stopped working, so tries to attack an innocent, but the chip prevents him. He goes to the nerd trio to see whats up and it turns out the chips fine. Spike goes to Buffy and fights her, revealing to her that his chip doesn't work on her, meaning Buffys not all human. Their fight moves to a mansion, where they start kissing, then have sex.

Season Six of Buffy is not a strong season. It's my least favorite full season of the show. Season One could possibly constitute my least favorite but that's just the start of the interesting premise. Season Six is dark and some of the middle episodes aren't quite as thought out as in previous seasons. But Smashed is a great episode. It's a culmination of everything great with Buffy and Spike. The tension between them has been growing since way back in Season Two but it finally comes to a head. The end of the episode is quite something, even for Buffy standards. We learn that Spike can hit Buffy without feeling pain. He tries to take advantage of his new found freedom but finds out it only applies to Buffy. Their fight is so intense it brings the house down, culminating with something no one, and I mean NO ONE, expected to happen.

season 6 is my favorite, from the musical once more with feeling to the silent hush. the episodes are always surprising. i'd say this is my 3rd favorite episode from the series. some might find this very controversial but love it or hate it, this episode is good. willow's magic is beginning to get out of control maybe an indication on how the season would end. spike discovered that his chip is having glitch as well. the sex scene maybe rough, arousing even but they've shown an episode already from previous seasons like the 'i in team' and 'where the wild things are' which have the same theme so...

We saw in the last episode how Willow failed to deal with her twin troubles of Tara knowing Willow had brain-wiped her and Buffy revealing that she had been torn from heaven by doing another disastrous spell, so it's pretty obvious that this ep isn't going to feature a recalcitrant witch promising to stay clean. Indeed, Willow refuses to see that she has a problem, talking to Amy-rat about people "leaving you for no good reason", and telling the gang that "little things started taking over; things that didn't matter, but we saw them differently." She manages to get dressed without magic but she hacks into the police reports with it and quickly changes Amy back into a human in order to have "another magically inclined friend around." Junkies like junkies, it's true. Poor Amy, no-one has paid her any attention for 2 years (I thought Ms Kitty Fantastico had eaten her) and now she's suddenly back, unaware of the school blowing up, the giant snake mayor and Willow and Larry's turn to the pink side (I'm sure he came out before Gingerbread, but there you go; her hair has grown during her rodent years as well). She used to be a sweet girl, but living as a rat for three years and then being suddenly forced to re-adjust turns her head. The similarities to Buffy's situation are made clear in the following exhange:



Buffy: "How've you been?" Amy: "Rat; you?" Buffy: "Dead". Both of them are finding it hard to adjust, both were brought back by Willow for somewhat selfish reasons, both of them come back "different" and the two go a bit crazy. Just as Willow hasn't dealt with Tara leaving, Buffy is not adjusting to life without Giles very well. And just as we know Willow will carry on with her descent into dark magicks, we recognise the inevitability of Buffy and Spike's tryst. She is in denial about her feelings for Spike just as Willow is in denial about her reliance on magic. However, Spike's attitude doesn't help his cause. He tries to match the Slayer in meanness; as she tells him that he is "not a man, you're a thing, an evil, disgusting thing", he 'reminds' her: "It's only a matter of time before you realise that I'm the only one here for you. You've got no-one else". To Buffy, because he is a soulless vampire, she can treat him how she likes, but Spike doesn't do himself any favours by living up to un-dead stereotype. He claims that "a man can change", but as soon as he thinks he can once again hurt humans, he corners the closest woman in the nearest dark alleyway. Yes, he's talking himself into biting her ("I'm dangerous, I'm evil, I'm a killer"), but I believe that he would have gone through with it if the chip hadn't kicked in. Like Willow, he doesn't want to give up his addiction because he believes that without it, he is nothing. William and high-school Willow were pretty similar. He is prepared to give up evil for Buffy but when she rejects him, he is quick to turn to it again. Similarly, when he realises that it's only Buffy whom he can hurt, he enjoys hurting her physically and emotionally. He taunts her cruelly: "You came back wrong….a little less human than you were." Spike has always known how to get to people and here he plays on Buffy's threefold fears. Her worse nightmare was to become a vampire demon, she has been scared of losing her humanity, and since she came back from the dead, she has not felt right. It's in a mixture of violence and vulnerability that Buffy gives in to Spike. But it's no surrender – she is the sexual aggressor as she kisses him furiously and initiates the f**k. As the house collapses around them, mirroring Buffy's collapsing world, we see the similarities between them; neither of them fit in. Spike "can't be a human, can't be a vampire", Buffy feels that she too can't be human, but is terrified of not being one. She feels like a demon but wants to be a human, Spike feels like a human, but wants to remain a demon. He may think this sex 'n' violence is his dream come true, but he fails to realise that Buffy doesn't see anything wrong with treating him badly because she doesn't believe he is real. It isn't just Willow whom Anya is referring to when she says that responsible people find being wild very seductive.



Buffy is reasonably impervious to Willow's issues; it is Anya and Xander who notice Willow's overuse of magic, suggesting that they need to keep an eye on her. Unlike Willow, Xander has had his rebellious adolescence, he is now the most adult of the Scoobs. Buffy feels she has enough to worry about – indeed, she wants Willow to be the one supporting her, as she tries to tell her about having kissed Spike. Amy interrupts, a symbol of how Willow's magic will come between she and her best friend. Willow and Amy's spells go way overboard at the Bronze as they create: cages for chauvinistic boys to dance in, flying punters, men with pig heads or tomato costumes, sheep, a small man growing tall and a big man shrinking, and changing the college-radio band to a chick-rock group. They even play snooker with magic, although Willow draws the line at making an attractive lady interested in her. In fact it may be Willow's lonely sitting at the bar that draws her to indulge in the light-hearted spells, but, like pot-heads on the look out for harder stuff they soon get bored, they want something bigger, badder, blacker.



Meanwhile, Dawn is playing the child in a different way as weekend-dad Tara ("my moving out had nothing to do with you, I will always love you") is manipulated into staying with Dawn so that she can attempt to get Tara and Willow back together. Their separation must seem to Dawn to be like Joyce and Hank or Buffy and Riley splitting up all over again – Dawn, like Buffy, has abandonment issues.



Buffy without Giles can't figure out who is behind the jewel heist, freeze-ray, bank robbery or magic-lint. Buffy assuming the human muggers were vampires in the first scene should have given her a big hint, but this is a pretty good plot device for delaying the discovery of the trio. Who are back and nerdier than ever – Andrew Mission Impossible-ing into the museum, despite the other two walking in unnoticed. The three are unconcerned about the security guard whose nervous and circulatory systems they freeze; by the end of the episode we don't know if he has regained consciousness. Just as Buffy doesn't see the consequences of her Spike kissage and Willow's lack of responsibility about magic, the trio aren't interested in collateral damage. They are more concerned about Spike's threat to decapitate Boba Fett (the Spike of the Star Wars-verse?) than any human being. All of these issues will come back to haunt them.

This epiode was agreat episode and was an episode leading to many events to the rest of the season. First there was another stage of of attack by the three nerds which made the episode exciting still for a show that has got millions of viewers I think they could have a better source of evil on the show and the idea of three nerds and evil wanna bees is hilarious yet is not up to the standard of Buffy the vampire slayer. Willow has turned Amy back into human which was waited for 3 years and added excitement to the episode.

One of the best things about the episode was Spike's and Buffy's sex scene which was really steamy and was conducted and directed in a very tasteful and vioent way which is the style of the show. The episode nded with on question: what is next for Buffy and Spike? It was a well written episode and I have to say that the fight that buffy and spike had before they slept together had a strong dialogue . An eventful episode but I expected more evil for a show that is based about defeating evil so I would give this episode a B.

I really loved this episode! Especially the scene between Buffy and Amy, it was just soo funny.

"How've you been?"

"Rat. You?"

"Dead."

=D



But here comes my highlight of this episode: Buffy and Spike! So, Buffy came back "wrong" and Spike can hurt her again, that's gonna be interesting. And then... they did it! It was really a matter of time. Spike has really been there for Dawn and he's comforted Buffy since she's been back. I find it only natural that Buffy is attracted to him, but he shouldn't be making such a fuss about it - he might not have a soul and he's not Angel, but he's cared for ever and she should just let it happen!

the season begins with this episode. willow and her friend amy do spells in the bronze and do all kind of stuff.



meanwhile spike sees that his chip is working but he can hurt buffy so there is something wrong with her. the last scene when they fight and destroy a big house while having sex was very good. i was shocked when i saw that for the first time. and still am.

Smashed



This episode is much better than it has the credit of. it's really great. specially Buffy. it's also pretty funny cause of Anya and the geeks. but the best is the Tara/Willow/Amy thing. it's all just great and well written for all the characters. great season really.



cut to Buffy saving two people and she fights two others but they turn out to be persons. then Spike attacks one and they run away and Spike is hurt. Spike wants to kiss Buffy but she doesn't and says twice and the last time and walks away and he says that he will realise one day that he's the only one there for her. cut to Willow going to her room and grabbing Amy. she wishes she could turn her back and does a reveal spell and then reads it and then the rat turns into the Amy again and screams.



the credits start



cut to the trio stealing something. then a guard sees them and tries to stop them but they say they are lost and then they use a freeze thing and freeze him. Jonathan's hand is frozen too and then they leave. cut to Willow going to Amy. she's very freaked out and says it feels like she has been a rat for weeks. she wants to go to the prom and be asked by Larry. but Willow tells her that Larry's gay, dead and high school is over. then Amy asks how long she has been in the cage.



cut to Buffy going to tell Willow but then she sees Amy there. Amy is still pretty freaked out and wants cookies and she goes downstairs and then Buffy doesn't say anything cause there is no way she's gonna tip that. cut to Buffy going downstairs and Amy tells Buffy that is weird all the things that have changed. and about a man getting froze and Buffy looks at the TV. cut to Buffy going to the place. he wants more than just a kiss fro Buffy and she says she was thinking about Giles cause she was depressed when he left and the kiss was comfort. and then he grabs her and she hits him and he hits her back and realises that he has no pain but acts like it and then she hits him again and she says he's disgusting and walks away. he remains smiling.



cut to Spike going after a woman and he tries to bite her but he suddenly has pain again and the woman runs away. cut to Tara and Dawn hanging out. they're drinking a milkshake and Tara says that she still loves Dawn. and also Willow but some things got in the way. Dawn tells Tara that Willow is doing better and Tara says that's great. cut to the magic shop. Anya can't fid a book cause Giles took it. then Willow grabs a computer and she reads about the diamond. then Anya says about Tara and they all know that she left Willow and now everyone is afraid to say something except Anya. Willow says it's better and she has to be fast cause she doesn't wanna leave Amy too long alone.



cut to Spike going to the geeks and he grabs a dumb figure and he says if Warren doesn't look at his chip he will ruin it and they love it so they are gonna help Spike with his chip. cut to Willow going home and Amy is waiting. she doesn't wanna go to her dad yet and Amy wants to let him forget about the past years. Amy wants to go out and Willow thinks that would be fun and they go out. cut to Spike with the geeks and Warren says that there is nothing wrong with the chip. Spike is sort of happy and lets them alone and when he goes outside he says that there is nothing wrong with him, something wrong with Buffy.



cut to Tara and Dawn coming home. and Dawn wants Tara to stay and she says only cause she doesn't want Dawn to be alone and she'll wait until someone comes home. cut to the bronze. then some guys go over Amy and Willow but Amy likes the guys and makes a girl fall for Willow but Willow doesn't want her and then Amy goes dance with the guys leaving Willow alone. cut to Willow being very bored and Amy joins her but the guys wnat more from Amy and they piss Will and Amy off and they make the guys dance almost naked.



cut to the magic shop and they can't find anything. then they talk about Willow and they're all concerned and have to watch out for her. then Spike calls and he wants Buffy to come but she doesn't and just hangs up. she tells the guys that he wanted to hunt with her but she told him she would not. cut to the guys leaving the shop.



Buffy goes to an alley where Spike is waiting and annoys her. she tells him to get out of her way and hits him but then he suddenly hits her back and he doesn't have pain. he says that the pain is gone and it's because she came back wrong. they start to fight and she says he's wrong even if he has proved it. cut to the bronze where Willow and Amy start to magic away and change everything they can and just have fun. cut to Spike and Buffy fighting in a house. they diss each other and Buffy says Spike loves her cause he's inlove with pain and they start to tear the place apart. cut to Willow and Amy. they think it's enough. they want something bigger than that. and the night is not over yet. cut back to Spike and Buffy and after fighting Buffy kisses him and then they start to have sex while the place tears apart. then they fall through the ground and continue having sex.



Black Out

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Best episode quotes:



Husband: I'm sure we can work something out.

Wife: A deal of some sort. Anything you want.

Buffy: I always wanted a pony.



Buffy: What the hell are you doing?

Spike: I thought they were demons.

Buffy: Way to go with the keen observiness, Jessica Fletcher.

Spike: Remind me not to help you.

Buffy: More often?

Spike: Hey. Little sympathy for the man with the migraine here, can we?

Buffy: Well, that's what you get for attacking a human.

Spike: Yeah. You'd think if the government was gonna put a chip in my head, they'd at least make it so I could attack criminals and that sort.

Buffy: Yes, because muggers deserve to be eaten. Just have to get your rocks off fightin' demons.

Spike: There are other ways.

Buffy: And to that, an extreme 'see you later.'

Spike: Buffy.

Buffy: Spike ... it's late, okay, can we just finish this another time?

Spike: Oh, so you wanna jump right to the kissing then, eh?

Buffy: I am not kissing you, Spike. Once was-

Spike: Twice.

Buffy: But not again.

Spike: You're a tease, you know that, Slayer? Get a fellow's motor revving, let Buffy: Need a few more metaphors for that little mix? It's only a matter of time before you realize I'm the only one here for you, pet. You got no one else!



Willow: What's the matter, Amy? You lonely? Oh, we need to get you a nice companion rat that you can love ... play with ... and grow attached to, until one day they leave you for no good reason. Won't that be fun?



Andrew: See, that's cool. How come he gets to play with all the cool stuff?

Jonathan: Because I'm allergic to methane and you're still afraid of hot things?



Willow: Hey. Here's some hot chocolate, you want-

Amy: No, thanks. Still ... kinda queasy.

Willow: Okay. Maybe later. Hey, no, i-it's okay. It's, it's just a siren. It's o-it's all right. Okay? You okay?

Amy: Mm-hm. Yeah. Just ... you know. Everything feels weird. I mean, it's like ... I felt like I was in that cage for weeks. But it can still be okay ... right? I-I can still get into the swing of things, like ... prom's coming up. I-I'm so hoping Larry would ask me. We would make such a splash at- Oh. Oh god. He hasn't asked someone else, has he?

Willow: Uh, Amy ... three things we have to talk about. One, Larry's gay. Two, Larry's dead. And three, high school's ... kinda over.



Amy: Hi Buffy.

Buffy: Hi. How've you been?

Amy: Rat. You?

Buffy: Dead.

Amy: Oh



Amy: Sorry about your mom.

Buffy: Thanks.

Amy: It's crazy, all the things that've happened since I went away.

Buffy: No kidding.

Amy: Snyder got eaten by a snake ... high school got destroyed...

Buffy: Oh, Gatorade has a new flavor. Blue.

Amy: See? Head spinning. People getting frozen ... Willow's dating girls ... and did you hear about Tom and Nicole?!



Buffy: Great.

Spike: Well, well, well. Look who decided to show up.

Buffy: What are you doing here, Spike?

Spike: Well, you know, a man was frozen alive in there. A little compassion, luv. Uh, you know, as long as we're both here, you might as well tag along. I mean, as a team we could-

Buffy: Yeah, that never really ends well, does it?

Spike: It did the other night.

Buffy: You really seem awfully fixated on a couple of kisses, Spike.

Spike: And you seem awfully quick to forget about them.

Buffy: Look. I'm sorry, okay? I'm-I'm sorry if you thought that it meant more.

Spike: But...

Buffy: But ... when I kissed you ... you know I was thinking about Giles, right?

Spike: You know, I always wondered about you two.

Buffy: What? Oh, gross, Spike! He left. I was depressed. Ergo vulnerability and, and bad kissing decisions. Okay, but, that's all that it was. You have to let it go.

Spike: Did it work?

Buffy: What?

Spike: You convince yourself?

Buffy: Please, stop.

Spike: A man can change.

Buffy: You're not a man. You're a thing.

Spike: Stop walking away.

Buffy: Don't touch me! You're a thing. An evil, disgusting, thing.



Tara: Good god, that's a lot of shake. I mean, I know, part of our ... big ... movie and milkshake fun day, but ... good god, that's a lot of shake.

Dawn: Helps to wash down the Raisinettes.

Tara: Promise me that you will eat something green tonight. Leafy green, not ... gummi green. The movie was fun.

Dawn: Yeah. It was ironic when all those cute inner-city kids taught their coach a valuable lesson.

Tara: You know that I will always be there for you, right? There, there was actually more of a lead-in when I practiced that at home.

Dawn: I know.

Tara: It's just ... I wanted you to know that ... my moving out had nothing to do with you, and I, I will never stop loving you.

Dawn: I know. Do you think you'll ever get back together?

Tara: I wish I knew.

Dawn: But you still love her.

Tara: Very much. I just ... sometimes ... other things get in the way.

Dawn: I know. Uh, she's been doing a lot better lately, though. Uh, she's been really good about ... being careful ... a-about stuff.

Tara: Well, good. Great, that's ... that's great.



Buffy: Anya?

Anya: It's such a pain. The text I wanted, Giles took it with him. He has this thing that ... owning a book makes it like his property.

Buffy: What should we do, should we call him? It's like the middle of last night there. Or maybe it's tomorrow. Anyone remember how that works?

Willow: That's okay, no one freak. We'll just do it another way.

Buffy: I-I don't think we need to resort to ... I mean... Oh. Hey, cool.

Xander: All right, back to basics. A little old-fashioned state-of-the-art hacker action.

Buffy: That's great, Will, I haven't seen you do that in a long time. I-I don't remember that part.

Willow: It's quicker. It'll just take me a sec to go through the files. Okay. Internal police report. A diamond was stolen from the museum last night. A big one. On loan from the British museum. They're withholding information to smoke out the criminals. Oh! It's pretty. There's a picture.

Buffy: Well, is it a, a supernatural diamond? You know, like, healing powers, or, or good-lucky?

Anya: Maybe it's cursed. Diamonds are excellent for cursing.

Willow: Well, we'll keep checking, shall we?

Xander: Well, you know, I am kinda beat, and I bet you that's tiring, that ... thing you're doing there...

Willow: Guys, I'm fine. What's the deal with-

Anya: Oh, for crying out loud. This is bizarre. You're all, 'la la la!' with, with the magic, and the not talking, like everything's normal, when we all know that Tara up and left you and now everyone's scared to say anything to you. Except me. Is this that thing I do that you were commenting-

Xander: Guys ... it's okay. It's hard ... but i-it's better this way. Little things just ... starting taking over, things that didn't matter, but we saw them differently, so ... they got blown out of proportion. And, this time away will help us sort through things. Really. Now, let's just keep working on this. I don't wanna leave Amy alone in the house so long. Amy, is she ... how is she adjusting?

Willow: It's hard to say. It's a lot to take in. I keep expecting her to do, like, ratty stuff, you know, licking her hands clean, shredding newspaper, leaving little pellets in the corner.

Buffy: Let's definitely not leave her alone in the house too long.



Spike: Knock knock, robot boy. (knocks on Warren's head) Need you to look at my chip.

Jonathan: Is that like, British slang or something? 'Cause we're not-

Spike: In my head, the chip in my head.

Warren: We're kind of in the middle of something.

Spike: Well, you can play holodeck another time. Right now, I'm in charge.

Warren: Yeah, what are you gonna do if we don't especially feel like maybe playing your- What are, wait, what are you doing?

Spike: Examine my chip, or else Mister...Fett here is the first to die.

Jonathan: Hey, all right, let's not, let's not do anything crazy here.

Andrew: That's a limited edition, 1979 mint condition Boba Fett.

Warren: All right, dude ... chill. You can still make it right. You know you don't wanna do this.

Spike: What I want ... is answers, nimrod.

Warren: Right. But you don't wanna hurt the Fett, 'cause man, you're not comin' back from that. You know, you don't just do that and walk away.

Spike: That right? Let's find out.

Warren: Wah, uh, one second.

Andrew: Dudes, I think that's Spike.

Jonathan: Of course it is, and he's evil. Completely capable of removing that head.

Warren: I'm gonna help him out.

Jonathan: Are you sure we can trust him? I mean, we all have heads too.

Warren: See, we help him, and he owes us one. See, we get Spike on our side, we get info on Buffy. And maybe, Andrew: Jonathan's right, can we trust him?

Warren: 'Course not. But alliances aren't about trust. See, he needs us, we need him. Well, that's how these things work. I think we're ready. Agreed?

Jonathan: Agreed.

Andrew: Do what you need to do.

Warren: I think we can work something out. I'll take a look at your chip. It'll be a deal. We scratch your back, you scratch-

Spike: I'm not scratching your anything. You do what I tell you, that's the deal. Deal?

Warren: Deal.

Spike: Then let's go.

Andrew: Oh! It's okay, it's okay. It'll be fine.



Andrew: You're English, right?

Spike: Yeah.

Andrew: I've seen every episode of Doctor Who. Not Red Dwarf, though, 'cause, um...

Jonathan: 'Cause it's not out yet on DVD.

Andrew: Right. It's not out on DVD.

Spike: Warren!!

Warren: Here I am, here.

Spike: Bloody hell. Get on with it then. Help me out here, Spock, I don't speak loser.

Warren: Okay, right, um ... your chip works fine, yeah.

Spike: There's gotta be something wrong-

Warren: No, no, listen. I don't know what that thing does ... I'd like to...

Spike: Hey.

Warren: But whatever it is, it works fine. There's no deterioration of the signal, it still is coming through on a steady pulse. Which it's supposed to.

Spike: If you're lying to me-

Warren: No! It's all right here. I, I mean, it is. It's really not that hard to figure out, if you just... What?

Spike: You tell anyone about this...

Warren: No, I promise. Who would I tell, I don't even know what this is about!

Spike: It's about the rules having changed. Everything's different now. Nothing wrong with me. Something wrong with her.



Willow: I know. Xander engaged, I couldn't believe it either.

Amy: It's just so weird. So what's she like?

Willow: Thousand-year-old capitalist ex-demon with rabbit phobia. (walks around Amy)

Amy: Well, that's so his type.



Xander: Aha! I got it! Uh, here's our villain right here! What?

Anya: That's a D&D manual, sweetie.

Xander: No, but it could- Oh.

Anya: Let's face it, we're not gonna find this thing because it doesn't exist. There's no such thing as a frost monster who eats diamonds.

Buffy: Well, maybe he doesn't eat them. You know, maybe he just ... thinks they're pretty. We suck.

Xander: We need new brains. What's up with Willow?

Buffy: Out with Amy, I guess.

Anya: Great, someone to do more magic with.

Buffy: But at least she's not all cooped up and crying. That's forward momentum. Now, I know that I don't ... know everything that happened with her and Tara, but it-

Xander: Tara thinks Willow is doing too much magic. And she's not the only one.

Buffy: I know. But I-I think she'll be fine. You know, it's, it's Willow. She of the level head.

Anya: Well, those are the ones you have to watch out for the most. Responsible types.

Buffy: Right, she might go crazy and start alphabetizing everything.

Anya: I'm serious. Responsible people are ... always so concerned with ... being good all the time, that when they finally get a taste of being bad ... they can't get enough. It's like all kablooey.

Buffy: That's not true.

Anya: Okay, not kablooey, more like bam.

Xander: It's human nature, Buff. Will's getting a taste of something powerful, way bigger than her.

Anya: Yeah, she was getting out of control with it before Tara left, and now that she's gone...

Xander: It's gotta be seductive. Just giving in to it. Going totally wild. We need to keep an eye on her.



Xander: So, what did Captain Peroxide want?

Buffy: Nothing! You know, he just, you know, wanted to see if I-I wanted to patrol, for, for the, the monster. But I, I told him that I ... would ... not.



Buffy: I'm telling you, I, I think there's something about this thing.

Xander: Well, I don't know, Buff. It seems like we've been through every book.

Anya: Yeah, even the ones that weren't so boring you wanted to kill yourself.

Xander: We have those?

Buffy: I'm just saying, all the things that have happened lately? Okay, the, the bank robbery, the jewelry heist...

Xander: The exploding lint.

Buffy: I-is it me, or do these things seem really-

Anya: Lame?

Buffy: Well, I was gonna go with unusual, but, yeah. I don't know. You know, I'll do a quick patrol tonight, and after a good night's sleep, we can solve this tomorrow.

Anya: Optimism. I remember optimism.

Xander: That's because you're like a thousand.

Buffy: Good night, guys.

Xander/Anya: Good night.



Spike: Slayer.

Buffy: And so my night is now complete.

Spike: You never showed.

Buffy: Sorry. Little busy actually doing stuff.

Spike: You shouldn't be so flip, luv.

Buffy: What are you gonna do, walk behind me to death?

Spike: I'm just saying things might be a little different. You oughta be careful.

Buffy: Enough. Get out of my way.

Spike: Or what? Oh, the pain! The pain! Is gone. Guess what I just found out. Looks like I'm not as toothless as you thought, sweetheart.

Buffy: How?

Spike: Don't you get it? Don't you see? You came back wrong.



Spike: Oh, poor little lost girl. She doesn't fit in anywhere. She's got no one to love.

Buffy: Me? I'm lost? Look at you, you idiot! Poor Spikey. Can't be a human, can't be a vampire. Where the hell do you fit in? Your job is to kill the slayer. But all you can do is follow me around making moon eyes.

Spike: I'm in love with you.

Buffy: You're in love with pain. Admit it. You like me ... because you enjoy getting beat down. So really, who's screwed up?

Spike: Hello! Vampire! I'm supposed to be treading on the dark side. What's your excuse?



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Story: 10

Acting: 10

Writing: 10

Picture: 10

Gripping: 10

My Rank: 10

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Total: 10

This is one of my favorite episodes! I mean, you have Spike at his best (threatening to break Boba Fett to get the Trio to help him) and Buffy at her darkest moment. Willow reaches a turning point with her witchcraft and hey, Amy comes back from being a rat!



Like most, my favorite part is the end where Spike and Buffy are beating the you know what out of each other, both physically and verbally. Although I don't like it when anyone gets hit, especially women, I have to admit that the entire fight scene was sexy. And when Buffy finally gives in and kisses Spike (a pretty big deal as she was the one who was supposed to be repulsed by Spike) and the noise of the crashing house recedes and that beautiful haunting music comes up.



This is also where Willow changes Amy back from a rat. I was wondering if they would ever be able to change her back and poof, out of no where, Willow changes her. The only bad thing about this is that Amy encourages Willow to use as much magic as she can and this lead to Bad willow.



It was just a great episode!

# This is the first episode featuring raunchy sex; all previous sexual encounters (Buffy and Angel in \\\'Surprise\\\'; Willow and Oz in \\\'Graduation Day\\\', Buffy and Parker in \\\'The Harsh Light of Day\\\'; Buffy and Riley in \\\'Where the Wild Things Are\\\') are all depicted as passionate, tender experiences.

# Willow tells Amy that Larry had died, presumably in the attack by the Mayor in the season 3 finale \\\'Graduation Day\\\'. While we actually do see him getting hurt in the episode, many fans speculated that he may have survived and were awaiting his return. Alas, it will not come.

# When Spike knocks Buffy down he notices that his chip didn\\\'t zap him, but he immediately pretended it did. He did not tip his hand so Buffy still thinks his chip works and is not after him allowing him to run amok.

# When Amy asks to have something to eat, but wants anything but cheese, it is of course is a joke about her being a rat, but may also be because Elizabeth Anne Allen is allergic to cheese.

# There was an extra part to the sex scene between Buffy and Spike after they fall through the floor. This was apparently censored but many websites have it available to download (e.g. www.buffy.nu).

# LOOK HARD: Just before Amy turns off the TV to tell Buffy about people being frozen (the security guard at the museum), you can hear a commercial she was watching, for the Doublemeat Palace, which we find out about 3 episodes later.

# This particular episode was the focus of a F.C.C investigation, for indecency, by a watchdog group. Fortunately, the FCC deemed the episode as not being indecent at all. Read more about it.

# The band Virgil performs \\\"Vermilllion Borders\\\" and \\\"Here\\\" at the Bronze, later Halo Friendlies perform \\\"Run Away\\\" at the Bronze as well.