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 |
Lance E. Nichols |
Middle-Aged Man |
Guest Star |
Dania Ramirez |
Caridad |
Guest Star |
Lisa Ann Cabasa |
Injured Girl |
Guest Star |
Nathan Fillion |
Caleb |
Recurring Role |
DB Woodside |
Principal Robin Wood |
Recurring Role |
Harry Groener |
Mayor Richard Wilkins III |
Recurring Role |
At the end of the previous episode, when everyone is ganging up on Buffy, Anya's hair is straight. The start of this episode is meant to be later on that night and everyone is wearing the same clothes but Anya's hair is curly.
The sex scene between Willow and Kennedy is the first lesbian sex scene ever on network TV
As with most such prophecies, by trying to keep Buffy from getting the scythe, Caleb and The First actually brought her attention to it. Ironically, she might have never known about it if they hadn't tried to thwart the prophecy.
When we first see Faith fighting Bringers at the arsenal, her first slice motion makes a cutting noise (like when a knife is used). However, the arm she used to hit the Bringer's face with holds a torch, not a knife (which is in her other hand). This is obviously a sound effect mistake.
Faith's conversation with Wood before they have sex makes no sense. Faith has a long history of not talking about her feelings out loud especially with men. For her to talk so openly with a man she just met is totally out of character. Having a one night stand and brushing him off the next day is in character, just the talking wasn't.
When Willow and Kennedy are lying on the bed, facing each other, Kennedy has her hand on Willow's side: when the angle is facing behind Willow, her hand is more directly on top of her side, but in the shots facing Willow, Kennedy's hand is lower down, more on her stomach just under her breast.
It's odd that neither The First nor Caleb sent Bringers to protect the weapon that is for Buffy.
Kennedy doesn't have her scars from the fight in "Dirty Girls" which appeared in "Empty Places". Yet, Buffy still has them in this episode. Does Kennedy actually heal faster than Buffy?
When Buffy is in the vineyard & just before she finds the trapdoor, she calls Caleb a "woman-hating jerk." The captions, however, say "woman-hating prick."
Wood: That's exactly what the first does. Finds your Achilles heel.
Faith: No, it just talked to me. What, it does a heel thing too?
Spike: There's always casualties in a war.
Buffy: Casualties. It just sounds so casual.
Buffy: I don't want to be the one.
Spike: Well I don't want to be this good looking and athletic. We all have crosses to bear.
Spike: That diabolical old torture device, the comfy chair.
Anya: We're all on death's door repeatedly ringing the doorbell like maniacal Girl Scouts trying to make quota!
The First/Buffy: I envy them. Isn't that the strangest thing?
Caleb: Well, it does throw me a tad. I mean they're just... well, they're barely more than animals, feeding off each other's flesh. It's nauseating. But you... you're everywhere. You're in the hearts of little children. you're in the souls of the rich. You're the fire that makes people kill and hate. The fire that will cure the world of weakness. They're just sinners. You are sin.
The Mayor: A "hello" or a "nice to see you" would be more appropriate. It is the end of humanity, Faith, not the end of courtesy.
The First: I know why they grab at each other... to feel. I want to feel. I want to wrap my hands around some innocent neck and feel it crack.
Caleb: Amen.
Spike: You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you. Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.
Caleb: You whore!
Buffy: You know, you really should watch your language. If someone didn't know you, they might think you were a woman-hating jerk.
Spike: (about Andrew) He's a breath of fresh air, isn't he? Thank God I don't breathe.
Spike: No?
Buffy: No.
Spike: You mean "no", as in "eventually"?
Buffy: You really have a problem with that word, don't you?
Wood: I mean, I wanted her to hold me like a little baby... in a manly way of course.
Faith: Of course.
Andrew: Rock, paper, scissors?
Spike: What's the matter with you?
Buffy: I thought the place would be empty. I was looking for a place to crash. You know, you really should leave.
Man: You can't just kick me out of my own house.
Buffy: Why not? It's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.
Buffy: It's not your house. It's not your town. Not anymore. (the man leaves and Buffy wanders over to the refrigerator and looks inside)
Buffy: Got any Tab?
Andrew: I am a drone in the mind that is evil.
Xander: Could you just shut up?
Andrew: I say I am a part of the Great Darkness.
Kennedy: Somebody needs a reality check.
Xander: And a muzzle.
Giles: The Bringer is dumb.
Anya: You were expecting what? A Rhodes scholar?
Kennedy: I've never been the bait before. It's kinda scary.
Xander: Dear Mr. First, If you want your bringer back... we'll be surprised. You've got 3 million of them. So please disregard this letter.
Andrew: Hi, everybody. I missed you guys a lot. Sorry we took so long getting back from our mission... mission but we had to wait out the sun and, well, I think our mission went very well. We rode on Spike's hog, which was very cool, and played some amusing games and, oh, we got some information. But do you know what? I really need to urinate.
Giles: Really, it's for the best.
Dawn: Then why do I feel this way.
Andrew: I spy with my little eye something that begins with a T.
Spike: Tapestry
Andrew: Hey, good one! How did you--
Spike: Tapestry's the only thing in the whole bloody room.
Andrew: I feel used and violated... And I need a lozenge.
The First can also imitate smells, since Principal Wood said that when it appeared as his mother he could smell her perfume.
The BBC, for early evening purposes, cut out all of the scenes of lovemaking, including Heather Nova's song.
The song that plays while everyone is being "touched" is "It's Only Love" by Heather Nova from the album "South".
The Mayor/The First calls Faith a firecracker. He said the same thing to her in "Graduation Day, Part 1", and it's also what her mother used to call her.
Dania Ramirez, the actress that plays Caridad, is from the Philippines, and her accent is genuine. It is likely that Caridad is from the Philippines as well.
This is the second time for Giles to be accused of being jealous of the gang's power. He was told that previously in "Grave" by Evil Willow.
Andrew enters the kitchen with a blue football helmet which is used for two past episodes: "Bargaining (2)" and "Empty Places".
The spell that Willow uses for the bringer is actually in Turkish. She says "Konus bizimle gozsuz adam. Konus bizimle gozleri olmayan adam." Translation: "Eyeless man speak to us. The man without eyes speak to us."
The countdown of the bomb continues over the "EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS" screen. The countdown gets to zero when the screen disappears.
Buffy makes a reference to Spike's attempt to rape her in Seeing Red when she mentions his difficulty to understand the word "no".
Buffy's dislike of guns is shown once again when she kicks a random Sunnydale resident out of his home after ripping his shotgun from his hands. She throws it to the floor almost in disgust. When she goes to fight Caleb later that night she of course leaves it behind.
The weapon Buffy finds under the basement of the vineyard is a Scythe. This scythe made its debut in a comic book called Fray, created by Joss Whedon about a Slayer 200 years into the future.
Xander now wears a black eye patch over his left eye socket.
Indigo (Rona) Mary Wilcher (Shannon) and Kristy Wu (Chao Ahn) do not appear in this episode.
Caleb: Well, if it ain't the prodigal Slayer.
This is a reference to the biblical Prodigal Son who was a man who left his family for better things. He discovered that home and family were more important, and he returned.
The First/Mayor: Who was my favorite character in little women? Meg.
Little Women is an 1868 autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott that takes place during the American Civil War and retells the lives of four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy). This novel has 11 movie adaptations.
Visual: The Scythe
Fans of the Dark Horse Comic Book series Fray by Joss Whedon will recognize the Scythe. It is discovered by the future Slayer late in the series.
Spike: That diabolical torture device, the comfy chair.
This is a reference to "The Spanish Inquisition" skit from the show Monty Python's Flying Circus. The inquisitors try to torture people by making them sit in the comfy chair. But as we all know, comfy chairs aren't torture, they're... comfy.
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