Villains

Season 6, Episode 20, Aired

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    • When Buffy is being loaded into the ambulance Willow exits the house still wearing the shirt with Tara's blood on it. It seems odd that Xander wouldn't connect this with another injured person in the house since he knew that Willow never came near Buffy.
    • When Buffy flatlines on the operating table after getting shot in the chest, this is the third time she has died on the show.
    • As Willow is chasing Warren through the woods, the cables pulling the trees away from the very powerful Willow are visible. At one point, as Willow is walking towards the camera, you can also see part of a crewman in a red shirt on the right-hand side of the screen.
    • When Warren's skin flies off, there isn't any bullet hole in his chest.
    • Assuming that Xander went inside the house to get the phone to call 911, wouldn't he have heard Willow screaming after Tara had been shot?
    • Notice while Dawn is in the room Tara is breathing. This happens several times.
    • The amount of blood on Willow's shirt changes a bit in some scenes - sometimes there's one larger splotch of Tara's blood near Willow's heart, but other times there's only a little spray of blood on the shirt.
    • In the operation scene, they are working on Buffy's "left ventricle" but haven't removed her shirt. There is no oxygen mask, no IV, no sterile wrap or covering, and she's not hooked up to any medical sensors that we can tell (although an assistant does seem to be reading off a machine giving her heart rate that then goes flat when she "dies"). None of this is standard emergency room procedure.
    • The bullet that Warren fired, and that we see Willow magically extract and later puts in Warren's chest, seems oddly intact. It's probably not a hollow-nose, but still there is typically a noticeable deformation ("mushrooming" as it were) of the bullet as it impacts and moves through the human body after a gun shot.
    • Buffy's gun shot wound looks lower in the hospital then where she was initally shot.

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    • Several of the wall paintings in the African cave appear to depict victims of violence and/or torture. This includes a man with his mouth sewn shut and one without his skin, both of which are fates that befall Warren by the end of the episode.
    • Even though only as a dead body, this episode is the last to feature Amber Benson as Tara Maclay. Tara is one of the only people on Buffy to die and never be seen again in any form. (Joyce in illusions/The First, Warren's girlfriend Katrina in illusions, Jenny Calendar as The First etc.)
    • While this episode was being filmed, season 7 writer Drew Goddard was on set being interviewed for joining the staff. He was upset since he was severely spoiled for the rest of season 6.
    • In the "Previously On" section, the producers seem to have taken note of Spike's incorrect grammar when he was on his dirtbike and throwing his cigarette on his way to Africa. He now says "I'll be back, and when I am..." as opposed to the original scene in which he said "when I do".
    • When Warren is in the demon bar bragging about killing the Slayer, the song in the background is "Die, Die, Die My Darling" by the Misfits.
    • Willow's line "Bored Now" was a favorite saying of her vampire alter-ego from the season 3 episodes 'The Wish' and 'Doppelgangland'.

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    • Andrew: This isn't Oz, it's like, Mayberry. Oz was a gritty, HBO prison drama. Mayberry was the nice southern town of The Andy Griffith Show where Andy Taylor was sheriff.
    • Andrew: I miss Ferris Matthew. Broadway Matthew -- I find him cold.
      This is a reference to actor Matthew Broderick, who is probably best known for his role of the title character in the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In later years, he established himself as a regular on Broadway, appearing in such hits at the musical version of The Producers.

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