James Marsters |
Spike |
Sarah Michelle Gellar |
Buffy Anne Summers |
Marc Blucas |
Riley Finn |
Nicholas Brendon |
Alexander 'Xander' Harris |
Alyson Hannigan |
Willow Rosenberg |
Anthony Stewart Head |
Rupert Giles |
Bob Fimiani |
Mr Ward |
Guest Star |
Jade Carter |
Lieutenant |
Guest Star |
Conor O'Farrell |
Colonel McNamara |
Guest Star |
Amber Benson |
Tara |
Recurring Role |
Leonard Roberts |
Forrest Gates |
Recurring Role |
George Hertzberg |
Adam |
Recurring Role |
At 20:31 Just as Spike enters Giles's apartment, his reflection is visible in a mirror, just behind Tara's left shoulder.
When Angel leaps onto the loading dock to confront Riley an optical effect is added to give his coat an additional flair.
When Riley comes after Angel in Buffy's dorm room the door closes behind him as he points his gun at Angel. The camera angle changes and the door can be seen closing a second time.
During the fight between Angel and Riley, Angel tosses Riley several yards into a trash pile in front of the warehouse dock. Riley then jumps up on the dock and picks up his baton. However, as the fight began Angel grabbed Riley's arm, causing him to drop his baton(it can be heard hitting the ground) before being thrown.
When Buffy, Riley and Angel are arguing in Buffy and Willow's dorm room, Willows laptop is on her desk but Willow is supposed to have been decrypting the Initiative Disks from Spike all day, on her laptop, at Giles' house so unless she's got two laptops (which are identical) it shouldn't be in the dorm room.
Angel: Oh, and... Riley.
Buffy: Yeah?
Angel: I don't like him.
Buffy: (smiling) Thank you.
Xander: It happens that I'm good at a lot of things. I help out with all kinds of... stuff. I have skills and stratagems... I'm very... (to Anya) help me out.
Anya: He's a viking in the sack.
Buffy:(about Angel) He's... not bad.
Riley: Seriously? That's... a good day? Well, there you go. Even when he's good he's all Mister... Billowy Coat King of Pain and girls really-
Buffy: Riley, stop.
Buffy: Enough! All I know is you want to help, right? Be part of the team?
Willow: I don't know anymore.
Xander: Really not wanted.
Buffy: No! No, you said you wanted to go. So let's go! All of us. We'll walk into that cave with you two attacking me and the funny drunk drooling on my shoe! Hey! Hey, maybe that's the secret way of killing Adam?!
Xander: Buffy...
Buffy: Is that it? Is that how you can help? You're not answering me! How can you possibly help? So I guess I'm starting to understand why there's no ancient prophecy about a Chosen One and her friends. If I need help, I'll go to someone I can count on.
Giles: You never train with me anymore. (about Adam) He's gonna kick your ass.
Buffy: Giles!
Giles: Sorry. Was it a bit honest? Terribly sorry.
Giles: What ever happened to Latin? At least when that made no sense, the church approved.
Buffy: I can't just wait around, Will. The disk is no good to me unless you crack it soon.
Anya: Hey! We worked really hard getting that. Xander delivered clothing.
Giles: Church approved.
Spike: Call it the Yoko factor. Don't tell me you've never heard of the Beatles?
Adam: I have. I like "Helter Skelter".
Spike: What a surprise. The point is, they were once a real powerful group. It's not a stretch to say they ruled the world. And when they broke up everyone blamed Yoko, but the fact is the group split itself apart, she just happened to be there. And you know how it is with kids. They go off to college, they grow apart. Way of the world.
Forrest: Family's tearing apart.
Buffy: Family? What kind of family are you, Corleones?
Anya: (to Spike) Wow. That chip in your head means you can't even point a gun. How humiliating.
Xander: Doesn't work anyway. It's a fake.
Anya: Can't even point a decorative gun?
Xander: Give it up for a American chipmanship.
Spike: It doesn't work? What about self-defense? I'm taking a risk here, you know?
Xander: Can I tell you how much I really don't care?
Riley: I got a little tired of sitting around waiting, so...
Buffy: You joined the circus?
Riley: Xander took my clothes to clean them, left me these. Does he, uh, hate me in some way I don't know about yet?
Willow: (about Miss Kitty Fantastico) I keep thinking, "okay, that's the cutest thing ever." And then she does something cuter, and completely resets the whole scale.
Tara: Did you see her yawn earlier?
Willow: Yes! I thought I was gonna die!
Xander: Try those on, you'll feel like a new man.
Riley: (looking at the baggy pants that Xander is giving him) Would this man have a bright red nose and big floppy feet?
Spike: I get why all the demons all fall in line with you. You're like Tony Robbins. If he was a big, scary, Frankenstein-looking... You're exactly like Tony Robbins.
Willow: We have to face it, you can't handle Tara being my girlfriend.
Xander: No! It was bad before that! Since you two went off to college and forgot about me! Just left me in the basement to - Tara's your girlfriend?
Giles: (in the background) Bloody hell.
Spike: (startling Giles) You know, for someone who's got "Watcher" on his résumé, you might want to cast an eye to the front door every now and again.
Buffy: If I was any more open-minded about the choices you two make my whole brain would fall out.
This is the first episode where Willow mentions that Tara is her girlfriend (with the exception of New Moon Rising when she told Buffy).
Giles plays a Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Free Bird", a huge hit from the 70's.
Willow seems to have gotten over her stage fright (first shown in Season 1's "The Puppet Show" and "Nightmares") a little bit in this period, since in this episode she is heavily considering taking drama classes at UC Sunnydale. Perhaps her relationship with Tara is helping to build her confidence?
The previous week's episode of Angel, 'Sanctuary', showed Buffy going to LA after hearing that Faith was there. Angel is actually protecting Faith after she breaks down, and Buffy and Angel's fight ends with Angel harshly telling her to "Go home", which is why he came to apologise.
Xander: L.A. Woman? Haven't heard from her. "L.A. Woman" is the name of the 1971 album by The Doors. Jim Morrison reportedly recorded the lyrics for the title track in the bathroom of the recording studio to get a fuller sound. In the lyrics L.A. gets referred to as the "city of night", which makes perfect sense in the context of the Joss-verse.
Xander: But maybe that all changes when I'm doing sit-ups over at Fort Dix.
Fort Dix is an Army base/city in New Jersey.
Spike: You're not exactly the whiz these days...
Willow: I am a whiz.
Tara: She is a whiz.
Willow: If ever a whiz there was.
This is a line from "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" / "We're Off To See the Wizard" in the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a whiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was. If ever oh ever a wiz there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because, because, because... Because of the wonderful things he does!
Buffy: (to Forrest, regarding the Initiative): What kind of family are you, the Corleones?
The Corleones, an Italian Mafia family, are the main characters in the infamous The Godfather and its two sequels.
Xander: Xander got fired from Starbucks
Starbucks is a famous coffeehouse chain, commonly (and probably deservingly) credited with creating the influx of coffeehouses in the U.S. The chain started with a single location in Seattle, and now consists of over 2,200 stores around the world.
Xander called Sunnydale a "One Starbucks Town" in 'Welcome to the Hellmouth'.
Xander: I'll putter around the batcave with crusty old Alfred here.
Xander makes a reference to Batman's hideout in response to Buffy's suggestion that he stay behind while she goes after Adam. He refers to Giles as Batman's butler Alfred.
Adam: I like "Helter Skelter."
Adam claims to like the Beatles's song "Helter Skelter" which was also favorite of serial killer Charles Manson.
Spike: Call it the Yoko Factor.
As Spike explains the reference is to Yoko Ono who is often blamed for causing the breakup of the Beatles. Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife and many believe influenced him against his bandmates.
Spike: You're like Tony Robbins if he was a big scary Frankenstein looking... You're exactly like Tony Robbins.
Spike responds to Adam's rousing speech by comparing him to the motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Frankenstein is of course a reference to the Mary Shelley novel about the monster that was pieced together from various human corpses.
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S 7 : Ep 22
Aired 5/20/03 (43:43)
S 7 : Ep 21
Aired 5/13/03 (42:39)
S 7 : Ep 20
Aired 5/6/03 (42:40)
S 7 : Ep 19
Aired 4/29/03 (42:41)
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