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Hello, and welcome to Buff in the art

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of story season 7

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or I should say, welcome back after a

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summer break. I'm so excited to be here

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again.

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This is a podcast that recap 1 episode

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of Buckle, the vampire slayer at a time,

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focusing on story elements.

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Today, we're looking at

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season 7 episode 8 sleeper.

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We're buff struggles to sort out weather, how

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and why

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spike is killing again, and gil is in

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peril.

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I am Lisa M Lily.

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Of the awakening supernatural

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Along with the recap of sleeper today, I'll

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talk about the fluid major plot turns that

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shift the narrative and keep the pace fast,

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how this episode lays the groundwork for future

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r

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among Buff and her friends,

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seen to scene segue.

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That smoothly

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transition the story from 1 key moment to

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the neck and character actions in dialogue

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that the audience and other characters can read

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multiple ways leading

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too believable

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genuine conflict

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between the characters.

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As always, there'll be no spoilers

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except when I get to the first foreshadowing

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section at the end, but I'll give you

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plenty of warning. Okay. Let's dive into the

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helm mouth, Sleeper aired the first time on

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11/19/2002.

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It was written by David Fury and Jane

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Aspen and directed Alan j Levi. It opens

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as it should

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with a conflict. Sometimes opening conflict relates to

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the main plot. Here it signals what that

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main plot is going to be. It is

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the middle of the night. Sanders awake and

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by loud knocking his door. He gru that

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it's 04:30AM.

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It's buff. She demands to know where spike

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And when she finds out that he's out,

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she asks if Sandra knows what he's doing

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and Xander says, I don't know, creature the

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night above, he's probably out creature.

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Buff hopes that spike is not in trouble.

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This is the first

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segue that takes us to the next scene

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where spike definitely in trouble.

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Is in a basement with a dirt floor.

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He bur a woman's body. It is the

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blonde woman.

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He was talking to in the bar in

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conversations with dead people and spike hu a

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tune

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later in the episode will find out out

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it is the song early 1 morning, but

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we don't hear the lyrics for a while.

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This is a very quick cold open because

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it's only 1 minute 48 seconds into the

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episode and we go to credits.

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On return, the scene is in London. A

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man returns to his apartment sees broken glass

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and calls out for nora. He finds her

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dead on the floor, a robe figure attacks

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him from behind with a dagger. The man

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thins and blocks the dagger with a book,

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which makes me pretty sure he's a watcher.

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Also, I don't know why else we'd be

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seeing him.

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He fights pretty well, but another robe figure

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stab him. The scene cuts to Willow who

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gets home. It's still the middle of the

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night. So this episode picked up right where

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conversations

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with dead people left off.

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Sanders apartment and Willow

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went from the library

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straight home because we see the summer's house

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is in sham.

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John is sitting huddled in the living room.

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She tells Willow she's okay.

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And that she saw her mom. Willow isn't

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sure it was joyce, and she explains

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to Dawn that she saw someone too someone

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who looked like somebody else, and it's the

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big bad they knew was coming. I find

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it entry thing that Willow uses the term

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big bad. I do think someone else used

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it probably spike in earlier seasons.

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the writers refer to the antagonist of every

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season. Dawn tells Willow that that's what Joyce

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said that things are on their way.

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Anne that Joyce said she loved them, and

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it had to be her because her warning

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was true.

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Willow is less certain she doesn't think they

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can trust anything.

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the evil thing might have been both at

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the library

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and the summer's home, but it's what was

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trying to keep joyce from talking to Dawn.

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The scene cuts to Za apartment. We're about

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5 minutes into the episode. Usually, by here,

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we see the story spark or in citing

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incident.

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That's what gets the main plot rolling.

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I don't know that there's a single 1

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here because in a way, this got rolling

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last

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episode in conversations with dead people when holden

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and told Buff that spike s him. And

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now we're going to get a reminder of

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that. So

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I think it serves pretty well to set

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off this

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episode, if you view it standalone alone and

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haven't seen the earlier ones because Xander is

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making tea or coffee. In his kitchen he

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says to Buff

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Why would a vampire lie about who ce

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him? What's that some kind of status symbol

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for the undead? My s can beat up

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your s?

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Buff not certain that the vampire holding webster

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from last time was telling the truth,

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thinks that Buff might not be quite objective

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enough. Buff argues that spike couldn't have turned

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a human because of the chip in his

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head, but Sandra points out that the chip

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doesn't work on Buff.

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Buff sure it still works on others. She's

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seen it in action

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Xander wonders if spikes been doing a great

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acting job. This

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conversation is a great way

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to get out

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exposition through conflict. We found out the most

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important thing from the last episode. And the

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previous scene did that as well with a

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more minor comp conflict

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between Willow and Dawn, we found out what

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happened to both of them. Buff insists that

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spike is different now that he has changed

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and she goes on and if it is

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an act, then the Oscar goes to

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and spike enters the apartment.

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Not a scene transition, but a really terrific

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way to introduce spike and add tension. Buff

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and sander fall silent

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spike asks if there's trouble with Buff being

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there at that hour. Buff kind of stu

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a response and spike assumes

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He's in ent. They just don't want him

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to hear their conversation. He starts to go

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into his room, but Buff asked him about

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his night. He asks about hers. It's awkward,

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but you can see where spike would think

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this awkward

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is because things have been

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really uncomfortable

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between him and Buff. Buff on the other

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hand, and we as the audience

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know that there's something much bigger going on.

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Buff tells him she killed a vampire last

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night that it was someone she used to

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spike is sympathetic about that. He says it

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must have been hard on her, and she

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tells him it was holding webster

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watching him for any

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reaction, and he doesn't react, he just seems

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very calm.

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After he goes in his room, Xander notes

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that too saying spike was cool is cool

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whip when Buff mentioned holden.

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Buff thinks someone needs to keep an eye

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on spike, meaning Xander should do it because

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She has to check on Dawn. But Sandra

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has a big client meeting at work. Buff

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tells him they can't leave spike alone until

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they know if he's killing again, they need

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to find someone to watch him. This is

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a transition to the next scene, which begins

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with On telling Xander to forget it. They're

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in the apartment It's now morning. The daylight

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is shining through the windows.

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Ami says she agreed on the phone to

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watch spike, but she didn't know them that

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he might be killing again.

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And Xander says you didn't mind being alone

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with him before. On says, what was that?

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It's a reference to the time

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On and spikes slept together which will be

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referenced again later, so it's a nice way

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to bring it in. Xander says that kind

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of under his breath, and he tells her

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nothing. They don't know anything for sure, and

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it might be a mistake.

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Ami asks if he search spikes room for

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trophies because killers keep them, things like scalp

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or necklaces or human teeth.

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Sandra did not think of that. He tells

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her to just stay in the sun and

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she'll be fine.

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I'm is unhappy. He's not leaving her a

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cross bow or some other weapon, but he

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doesn't want to alert spike that they might

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be on to him, and he doesn't want

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On to fight spike, he tells her just

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called buff if spike leaves. An threatens that

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if she gets va, she's going to bite

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his ass, under his breath, he says that

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wouldn't be the first time and she says

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what was that? It's a little bit

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artificial because clearly On you would be able

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to hear what Xander says,

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but it is a nice way to show

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that these 2 are getting along well enough

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that they can joke with 1 another.

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At 9 minutes 3 seconds, Buff, comes home.

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She's panicked when she sees the house

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trashed.

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Dawn is in her bedroom, Willow tells Buff.

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She just went to sleep and she's okay

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now, and then explains that, the big evil

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visited

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and Willow, and she says whatever's been threatening

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to devour them started champ.

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Willow

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observe that it knows them that her visitor

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came with a message from Tara and Dawn

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saw joyce. Willow says too that the lies

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it told were very convincing, and it seems

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real.

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By Buff expression, we can tell she is

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wondering about what holden and told her, and

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she says that the vampire she killed, claimed

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spike ce him.

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Buff doesn't quite believe it, but she says

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if she's wrong about spike killing again, she

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has to see it for herself and she

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has to be there to stop it. We're

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nearly 11 minutes through, so we're past the

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1 quarter point in the episode.

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major plot,

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and it should come from outside the protagonist,

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spin the story in a new correction and

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raise the stakes.

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Here too, I'm not sure there is exactly

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a moment. It is a little more fluid

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as Buff hears from Willow about what happened

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to her and Don,

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she becomes

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more focused on what she already decided that

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she's got to figure out what's going on

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with spike. So the shift in narrative here

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really is that Now the story is going

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to be about the

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investigation

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into spike. In a way it comes from

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outside Buff. She doesn't want this to happen.

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She doesn't want to have to do this.

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And for sure, the idea that Spike is

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killing raises the stakes but that has been

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present from the beginning. The scene shifts and

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rather than Buff, it is on, we see

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investigating

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after a commercial break. Holding a steak, she

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goes into spikes room. He's sleeping

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looks like he's nude under the sheet She

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searches the drawers in his chest of drawers.

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She goes through his jacket and his clothes.

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We think he's asleep, but he grabs her

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wrist.

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And in a very quiet but low voice

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says ami, do be specific and tele

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just exactly what you're doing here.

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On

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so smart claims after a moment that she

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wants sex. This is a perfect bruise because

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spike

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sits up immediately, he pulls the sheet farther

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over himself, and he's super awkward and forgets

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all about the surge.

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He notices she's holding a stake, and she

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says it's to be kinky, which does not

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thrill him and An as she tries to

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come on to him is so over dramatic

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and awkward.

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It's the way On would be, but exaggerated,

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and she tells him she can stop thinking

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about their brief but unforgettable time together. Why

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else would she be there. It's not like

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she's searching for proof that he's a whacked

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out serial killer.

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And then she says something like, I don't

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know why I said that and kind of

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lunges at him.

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Spike awkward,

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pulls back, puts his hands in arms and

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gently

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moves her farther from him. He says, obviously

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he's tempted,

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and this is so great because all of

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spikes concerned about why she's searching have gone

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right out of his head. You can tell

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because

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he is so uncomfortable with this. But he

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tells on you, she's a right catch and

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if things were different.

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She is at first relieved that she got

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away with it, but then it sinks in

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that spike reject did her, and she says

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he must think she's fat. Or it's her

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haircut. He tells her that's ridiculous. The haircut

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is fetching.

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She tells him he was a lot more

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fun when he was soul and says sol

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spike would have had me upside down and

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halfway to happy land by now.

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He just tells her he needs his pants.

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Another great way to get out

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exposition through conflict because this tells us or

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reminds us, that spike now has a soul

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that he tanya slept together when he didn't

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have 1

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and that that has made a big difference

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for spike. It's dark again when he emerges

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from the bedroom, so it seems on his

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stayed there all day,

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perhaps it's unclear, the time passing doesn't quite

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make sense here

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because An has been at the meant a

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really long time. So either she waited a

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very, very long time to go in and

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search his room or it took him a

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really, really long time to put on his

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pants. But at 15 minutes, 5 seconds, On

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reading a magazine in the living room, spike,

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apologize if he heard her feeling. She acts

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like it's no big deal. He leaves and

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on calls buff. The scene cup to a

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square. There's lots of people walking around

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spike passes a man playing the harmonic,

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A few seconds later tune shifts to the

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1 we heard earlier, which is early 1

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morning that we still don't get any words.

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Spike starts to the song again. From far

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enough away to not be seen, Buff follows

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spike, she almost loses sight of him, a

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couple times because there are, I think they're

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are juggle in the square and just a

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lot of people who got in her way.

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She does see him meet up with a

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woman, it's unclear to me if he

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made a date with a woman before, but

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I think she's just standing in line to

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get into a club, and he starts talking

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with her. They walk off together. In a

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bit, we will

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see that

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the evil that has been visiting

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our friends will take the form of Buff.

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So it's not completely clear

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if when it is buff following spike and

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when it might be what I'll call other

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Buff.

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Spike and the women are down a side

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alley. They talk and kiss, and we cut

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to buff running. She has lost sight of

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spike. Then Spike suddenly looks up and sees

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buff. It's 18 minutes 45 seconds in, Buff

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smiles at him and says, quote, you know

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you want it. You know I want you

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to end, quote. The woman starts to ask

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spike if everything's

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okay. He va out and attacks her, and

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at 19 minutes, Buff says, quote, there's my

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guy and, quote, and we cut to a

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commercial.

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Thanks again for coming back after the summer.

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Break, I

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took a

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vacation, and I also took the time to

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finish last changes on my current

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novel, the skeptical man, a Qc Davis crime

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novel, f

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that 1, I am planning to work on

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a new series that will have supernatural elements.

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I'll tell you more about it in future

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episodes.

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Right now, I have some comments from listeners.

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The first is from the Buff and the

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art of story. Facebook, page, Billy

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commented on as you were, that is the

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season 6 episode where Riley returns with his

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wife

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Sam, and I had talked a bit about

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Riley having been uncomfortable with Buff being stronger

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than him and thinking that was part of

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why he broke up with her. I don't

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recall. I may have said something about it

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being inconsistent

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with Riley now. And Billy said this I

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saw Riley being okay with Sam being in

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charge as that he's grown a bit. I

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think from him overcoming his mental health slash

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addiction problems and having a job slash further

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purpose in life, again, his values improved a

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bit with his fulfillment

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for want of a better way to word

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it. I love this comment and wanting to

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share it because

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all of you know, I am not a

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huge Riley fan, and which maybe has to

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do more with how the writers

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wrote the Riley Buff

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relationship when they

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apparently decided it wouldn't work so I I

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liked this very positive

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take on Riley, and maybe that was, in

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fact what the writers were trying to show.

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Also, a comment from Melissa,

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patron about conversations with dead people, and she

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pointed out

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that a theme that runs through all of

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Buff, and especially season 7 is, quote, the

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tension between the character's connectedness and isolation and

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it is so well highlighted here most beautifully

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in the Buff holden scenes.

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She disclose painful secrets that she'd hesitate to

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share with her friends but only because she's

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going to kill him and he listens

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even though he's filled with blood lust. While

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it's brilliant comedic, it's also so Mel Ka

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and, quote. That is a great

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observation, and it made me think of season

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6 where Buff can find in spike any

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says in the musical, something like you can

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whisper in a dead man's ear, and it

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doesn't make it real. Well Buff isn't going

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to kill spy like hold,

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Spike is a vampire. He's dead. She she

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might kill him at some point, but she

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does not have the relationship with him that

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she has with her friends. So in both

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cases,

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she is not concerned with what the other

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person

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thinks of her, and it frees her to

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say things she would not otherwise say.

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Melissa had other comments,

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including

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noting, quote, the poetic term en jam.

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Is employed in the lyrics of the song

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that opens and closes the episode, again, meaning

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conversations. And jam is a kind of unrest

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between the meaning created at the end of

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1 line with a meaning that is continued

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in the next phrase. So the line, can

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I spend the night on its own typically

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means to day over to be with someone

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sexually or otherwise, in the repetition of the

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line at the end of the episode, it

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is followed by alone creating a new intention?

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Do I have what it takes to do

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this on my own. And that is what

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the 4 storylines are about?

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Characters all trying to make connection and in

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the end, needing to be able to move

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on

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without it. End, quote. I love this observation

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as well

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because 1, it

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explains part of why the song has so

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much resonance

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with the episode and it connects those vi,

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and particularly,

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gives meaning to the Dawn and Joyce Vi.

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You probably remember in conversations with dead people

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guessed Stephen Young from Wolf and cast

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really felt that the Dawn enjoy seeing could

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be dropped entirely the vi.

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And I

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too

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felt like it it doesn't add a lot

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story wise to the episode or to the

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season,

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seeing it the way

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Melissa can it, though, it makes perfect sense

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because Dawn like Willow, like Buff like spike

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in his short scenes,

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maybe before he kills the woman, they all

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trying to connect

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and each 1

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does so or at least they think they

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do. Willow thinks she's talking to Tara, Dawn

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thinks she's talking to Joyce. Buff does connect

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holden.

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Spike does seem connect with the woman at

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the bar, and then they must go on

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without those connections as Melissa said, so great

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way to automatically

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tie those in addition to the themes of

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loneliness.

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Thank you, both, Billy and Melissa and everyone

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who has comment ted

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on

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the podcast

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episodes. If you would like to comment, you

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could do that at the Buff in the

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art of story

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Facebook page on Patreon where I post the

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episodes, even if you're not a patron, you

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can go on and comment.

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Or by emailing me at buff story pod

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at gmail dot com.

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And return from the commercial, Buff says to

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spike something like doesn't that feel better

543
00:22:59,186 --> 00:23:02,845
spike runs off, seemingly horrified by what he

544
00:23:02,845 --> 00:23:06,202
did, and a smiling Buff morph into spike

545
00:23:06,202 --> 00:23:09,230
and says a line from early 1 morning,

546
00:23:09,469 --> 00:23:12,098
quote, how could you use a poor maiden.

547
00:23:12,496 --> 00:23:13,548
So end quote.

548
00:23:14,266 --> 00:23:18,036
We are a little bit before the midpoint

549
00:23:18,094 --> 00:23:22,821
of the episode. Typically there in almost all

550
00:23:23,295 --> 00:23:26,275
stories in whatever foreign they take. There is

551
00:23:26,575 --> 00:23:27,075
either

552
00:23:27,455 --> 00:23:30,575
a reversal, a very serious reversal for the

553
00:23:30,575 --> 00:23:31,055
protagonist.

554
00:23:31,548 --> 00:23:34,090
Or the protagonist makes major commitment to the

555
00:23:34,090 --> 00:23:35,600
quest or both.

556
00:23:36,156 --> 00:23:38,483
Spike killing this woman

557
00:23:38,857 --> 00:23:39,914
is a major

558
00:23:40,224 --> 00:23:43,816
reversal for Buff. She was not able to

559
00:23:43,816 --> 00:23:45,412
be there to see it. As she told

560
00:23:45,572 --> 00:23:48,525
Willow she needed to or to stop it

561
00:23:48,525 --> 00:23:48,900
more

562
00:23:49,338 --> 00:23:49,817
important.

563
00:23:50,216 --> 00:23:52,449
And in the next scene, Buff, the real

564
00:23:52,608 --> 00:23:55,001
Buff, yank spike out of bed,

565
00:23:55,719 --> 00:23:57,633
demands that he tell her if he killed

566
00:23:57,633 --> 00:24:00,750
the woman he was with. He claims they

567
00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:04,902
just talked. And tells her, he can't kill

568
00:24:04,958 --> 00:24:07,277
anyone, And Buff says, yes, she knows the

569
00:24:07,277 --> 00:24:09,190
chip, and he tells her no not the

570
00:24:09,190 --> 00:24:12,139
chip his soul, and does she really think

571
00:24:12,139 --> 00:24:14,211
he went to the end of the underworld

572
00:24:14,211 --> 00:24:15,345
to get his soul,

573
00:24:15,904 --> 00:24:18,625
then to kill again, he can barely live

574
00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:21,585
with what he did before, and she's crazy

575
00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:23,105
if she thinks he would add to the

576
00:24:23,105 --> 00:24:24,384
body count now.

577
00:24:25,037 --> 00:24:28,059
So again, some exposition through conflict.

578
00:24:28,854 --> 00:24:30,547
When I watch this

579
00:24:30,922 --> 00:24:32,752
episode for the first time,

580
00:24:33,483 --> 00:24:36,529
And on a couple re rewatch, I didn't

581
00:24:36,586 --> 00:24:39,633
love it because there is so much

582
00:24:40,248 --> 00:24:40,748
exposition

583
00:24:41,058 --> 00:24:41,558
possible.

584
00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:42,984
The writers

585
00:24:43,435 --> 00:24:47,081
did that because we had last time conversations

586
00:24:47,081 --> 00:24:48,215
with dead people

587
00:24:48,604 --> 00:24:50,996
where each character was in their own vi.

588
00:24:51,236 --> 00:24:52,852
So while there were references,

589
00:24:53,469 --> 00:24:56,659
2 things that happened before, an audience watching

590
00:24:56,659 --> 00:24:57,855
in real time,

591
00:24:58,347 --> 00:25:01,285
might not remember the specifics of some of

592
00:25:01,285 --> 00:25:04,563
these events or because this was Network Tv

593
00:25:04,698 --> 00:25:05,413
back in the day.

594
00:25:05,984 --> 00:25:08,462
Some people really might have tuned in and

595
00:25:08,462 --> 00:25:11,099
not seen the scene in season 6 where

596
00:25:11,259 --> 00:25:12,958
Spike went to get his soul

597
00:25:13,337 --> 00:25:16,146
being a huge buff fan even then, I

598
00:25:16,146 --> 00:25:18,534
remembered all the things so the episode felt

599
00:25:18,534 --> 00:25:21,638
slow to me. In contrast now looking at

600
00:25:21,638 --> 00:25:24,366
it. I like it much better

601
00:25:25,234 --> 00:25:25,734
probably

602
00:25:26,115 --> 00:25:29,234
because I am really looking at it just

603
00:25:29,234 --> 00:25:30,535
as its own

604
00:25:30,914 --> 00:25:33,930
episode and seeing how well it works because

605
00:25:34,367 --> 00:25:36,378
Not only is this bringing out

606
00:25:36,833 --> 00:25:40,754
exposition, it is advancing spikes and Buff

607
00:25:41,686 --> 00:25:42,663
relationship in

608
00:25:42,974 --> 00:25:44,593
a way because now

609
00:25:44,972 --> 00:25:45,691
she says,

610
00:25:46,410 --> 00:25:48,568
sarcastic, oh, what he goes out there trolling

611
00:25:48,568 --> 00:25:50,666
for women because he's just hungry for

612
00:25:51,045 --> 00:25:54,172
conversation. And spike accuses for being jealous but

613
00:25:54,172 --> 00:25:57,364
being unable to admit it. There's a lot

614
00:25:57,364 --> 00:25:58,934
going on underneath

615
00:25:59,292 --> 00:26:00,111
about their

616
00:26:00,486 --> 00:26:02,792
relationship that I don't think I picked up

617
00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:03,292
on

618
00:26:04,065 --> 00:26:05,950
before, and that isn't just

619
00:26:06,789 --> 00:26:10,065
exposition. It is advancing things, and it's advancing

620
00:26:10,065 --> 00:26:11,285
the plot of this

621
00:26:11,664 --> 00:26:14,541
episode, which is Buff trying to figure out

622
00:26:14,541 --> 00:26:16,893
what's going on and trying to stop spike

623
00:26:17,191 --> 00:26:20,381
because she tells him she does not buy

624
00:26:20,381 --> 00:26:23,332
his claims that he doesn't want anyone, but

625
00:26:23,332 --> 00:26:26,218
her, and at 21 minutes for second and

626
00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:29,170
spikes says, as da a notion as soul

627
00:26:29,170 --> 00:26:32,280
spike the killer is, it is nothing compared

628
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,354
to the idea that another girl could mean

629
00:26:34,354 --> 00:26:37,076
anything to me. This chip they did to

630
00:26:37,076 --> 00:26:39,538
me. I couldn't help it, but the soul

631
00:26:39,697 --> 00:26:42,421
I got on my own for you. Buff

632
00:26:42,875 --> 00:26:45,416
now looks down and she's very quiet and

633
00:26:45,416 --> 00:26:48,062
says I know. And Spikes says, so, yeah,

634
00:26:48,301 --> 00:26:50,614
I go and pass the time with someone,

635
00:26:50,933 --> 00:26:53,804
but that's all it is is time because

636
00:26:53,804 --> 00:26:55,181
god helped me Buff

637
00:26:55,493 --> 00:26:57,168
still all about you.

638
00:26:57,726 --> 00:27:01,633
This scene follows them as well from conversations

639
00:27:01,633 --> 00:27:04,619
with dead people going back to Melissa says

640
00:27:04,675 --> 00:27:05,891
comments about

641
00:27:06,266 --> 00:27:09,128
attempts to connect and going on without it,

642
00:27:09,605 --> 00:27:12,013
we essentially see that happening here

643
00:27:12,404 --> 00:27:15,384
again. And I feel like the themes

644
00:27:15,684 --> 00:27:18,744
of these episodes are resonating with me more

645
00:27:19,045 --> 00:27:22,269
than when I want them in earlier viewing

646
00:27:22,883 --> 00:27:25,769
so focused on the plot and particularly

647
00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:26,701
action plots.

648
00:27:27,434 --> 00:27:30,070
Buff now tells him that the vampire she

649
00:27:30,070 --> 00:27:32,547
fought last night said spike s him and

650
00:27:32,547 --> 00:27:34,958
dumped him in a parking lot. And that

651
00:27:34,958 --> 00:27:37,350
she followed spike, and he didn't look lonely

652
00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:39,823
or casual, he looked on the pro.

653
00:27:40,381 --> 00:27:43,651
If he really isn't killing again then tell

654
00:27:43,651 --> 00:27:46,458
her what happen with the woman that she

655
00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:49,727
saw him meeting and talking to, and he

656
00:27:49,727 --> 00:27:50,227
admits

657
00:27:50,684 --> 00:27:53,769
that all he remembers is talking to the.

658
00:27:54,448 --> 00:27:56,842
So it's clear his memory is hazy, but

659
00:27:56,842 --> 00:27:59,076
he insists he couldn't forget the taste of

660
00:27:59,076 --> 00:28:02,525
human blood. Buff reminds him that he was

661
00:28:02,525 --> 00:28:04,605
on the hell mouth camped out there talking

662
00:28:04,605 --> 00:28:07,725
to invisible people not that long ago. He

663
00:28:07,725 --> 00:28:10,298
tells her she's got no proof and at

664
00:28:10,298 --> 00:28:13,009
23 minutes for seconds, Buff says, so I'll

665
00:28:13,009 --> 00:28:13,488
get some.

666
00:28:14,205 --> 00:28:17,076
And this, the the whole scene was something

667
00:28:17,076 --> 00:28:19,722
of a commitment by Buff a amid point

668
00:28:19,722 --> 00:28:22,505
commitment because she goes in and confront spike.

669
00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:25,050
She tells them what's been going on and

670
00:28:25,050 --> 00:28:25,788
what she

671
00:28:26,163 --> 00:28:28,253
suspects, and here she doubles down

672
00:28:28,628 --> 00:28:31,431
and makes a further commitment that she is

673
00:28:31,431 --> 00:28:34,459
going to get proof. And this is what

674
00:28:34,618 --> 00:28:35,517
I mean by

675
00:28:35,893 --> 00:28:39,490
fluid platt points because in some episodes, we

676
00:28:39,490 --> 00:28:41,797
have super strong clearly defined,

677
00:28:42,354 --> 00:28:45,315
major reversal major commitment right in the middle

678
00:28:45,315 --> 00:28:48,185
like, exactly in the middle of an episode.

679
00:28:48,584 --> 00:28:50,997
That's the kind of story that usually

680
00:28:51,374 --> 00:28:54,017
hits me the strongest, as long as it

681
00:28:54,017 --> 00:28:55,710
also has good characters

682
00:28:56,482 --> 00:28:59,607
and the emotional resonance. And here, it is

683
00:28:59,919 --> 00:29:02,956
a less strong commitment right at the midpoint,

684
00:29:03,116 --> 00:29:04,096
Buff isn't

685
00:29:04,554 --> 00:29:07,352
herself there for the reversal, though it happens,

686
00:29:07,511 --> 00:29:09,325
and now we get more of a commitment

687
00:29:09,524 --> 00:29:12,321
but this kind of story can also work

688
00:29:12,321 --> 00:29:15,058
really well, and I think that it does

689
00:29:15,198 --> 00:29:18,410
here. Now it is daytime again It's very

690
00:29:18,410 --> 00:29:21,769
sunny and Willow Don An and Buff are

691
00:29:21,769 --> 00:29:24,170
gathered in the summer's dining room to do

692
00:29:24,170 --> 00:29:26,625
research. Buff wants to find proof 1 way

693
00:29:26,824 --> 00:29:27,962
or the other

694
00:29:28,420 --> 00:29:31,291
about whether spike is killing. Dawn points out

695
00:29:31,291 --> 00:29:34,497
that Buff only thinks he is because the

696
00:29:34,497 --> 00:29:37,047
vampire last night told her things, and that

697
00:29:37,047 --> 00:29:39,437
the things they were all told last night

698
00:29:39,437 --> 00:29:40,951
might not be true.

699
00:29:41,524 --> 00:29:44,880
But Willow says that while they weren't talking

700
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,696
to the people they thought they were, those

701
00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:48,415
evil

702
00:29:48,809 --> 00:29:51,123
things could still be telling the truth. And

703
00:29:51,203 --> 00:29:53,197
An says, I used to tell the truth

704
00:29:53,197 --> 00:29:55,272
all the time when I was evil. A

705
00:29:55,272 --> 00:29:57,461
quick note as about Buff,

706
00:29:57,996 --> 00:29:59,749
when she talks about Holden,

707
00:30:00,227 --> 00:30:02,298
other than in the beginning when she says

708
00:30:02,457 --> 00:30:04,368
Holden name to spike to try to get

709
00:30:04,368 --> 00:30:08,199
a reaction, she refers to that vampire, the

710
00:30:08,199 --> 00:30:10,661
vampire, I killed last night in this scene

711
00:30:10,661 --> 00:30:13,202
with John. They talk about that vampire, And

712
00:30:13,202 --> 00:30:16,898
this is a good example of not overloading

713
00:30:17,194 --> 00:30:20,589
your audience with too many names. There's saying

714
00:30:20,709 --> 00:30:23,821
that every character name is like another brick

715
00:30:23,821 --> 00:30:26,215
in a backpack that your reader or your

716
00:30:26,215 --> 00:30:27,970
audience is carrying up a hill.

717
00:30:28,542 --> 00:30:31,080
So if you can just refer to a

718
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:31,580
character

719
00:30:32,112 --> 00:30:35,126
in a way that easily reminds the viewer

720
00:30:35,126 --> 00:30:35,998
who it is,

721
00:30:36,729 --> 00:30:39,122
Rather than using a name, that's a really

722
00:30:39,122 --> 00:30:41,296
good idea if that character's

723
00:30:41,833 --> 00:30:44,226
name, if there's no reason for the reader

724
00:30:44,226 --> 00:30:46,434
or viewer to me to remember it if

725
00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:48,955
the character isn't gonna return. We aren't gonna

726
00:30:48,955 --> 00:30:51,995
see holden again. In this episode, minor spoiler,

727
00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:53,914
we aren't gonna see him again at all.

728
00:30:54,410 --> 00:30:57,210
So the reader doesn't need to keep that

729
00:30:57,210 --> 00:30:57,710
character's

730
00:30:58,250 --> 00:30:59,450
name in mind,

731
00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:01,070
and it's much easier

732
00:31:01,690 --> 00:31:05,213
and takes up less mental base for the

733
00:31:05,213 --> 00:31:08,412
viewer, which they can then devote to the

734
00:31:08,547 --> 00:31:10,769
episode. So I like the way that is

735
00:31:10,769 --> 00:31:10,928
done.

736
00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:13,980
On your points out that if spike is

737
00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:16,299
killing, there should be a lot of dead

738
00:31:16,299 --> 00:31:18,539
people in Sunny day with neck trauma.

739
00:31:19,274 --> 00:31:22,943
Willow checks online and does not find that

740
00:31:22,943 --> 00:31:26,213
that she does find at least 10 missing

741
00:31:26,213 --> 00:31:30,446
people mostly women. Don notes that it's true

742
00:31:30,446 --> 00:31:33,617
what the vampire said, and she's clearly thinking

743
00:31:33,617 --> 00:31:35,544
of what Joyce said to her

744
00:31:35,916 --> 00:31:38,951
last week about Buff not being on her

745
00:31:38,951 --> 00:31:39,269
side.

746
00:31:39,825 --> 00:31:42,131
Buff says that still doesn't prove. It was

747
00:31:42,131 --> 00:31:44,516
spike, and he's the only 1 who knows

748
00:31:44,516 --> 00:31:47,664
for sure. This is another good segue

749
00:31:48,122 --> 00:31:50,597
to the next scene as spike gets ready

750
00:31:50,597 --> 00:31:52,593
to go out, and there's a bit of

751
00:31:52,593 --> 00:31:56,216
irony there because Spike doesn't know for sure

752
00:31:56,511 --> 00:31:59,216
as we will see. He finds a pack

753
00:31:59,216 --> 00:32:00,988
of cigarettes in his pocket

754
00:32:01,379 --> 00:32:04,088
and gets a quick flash of meeting the

755
00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:07,059
blonde women, a scene that we saw in

756
00:32:07,196 --> 00:32:09,444
conversations with dead people at the bar and

757
00:32:09,444 --> 00:32:11,202
then a flash of her dead body.

758
00:32:11,922 --> 00:32:15,278
Xander tries to block spike from leaving the

759
00:32:15,278 --> 00:32:17,516
apartment, but he says he has to go,

760
00:32:17,756 --> 00:32:20,168
so he is set. On trying to find

761
00:32:20,168 --> 00:32:22,405
the truth, and when Xander won't get out

762
00:32:22,405 --> 00:32:25,282
of the way, spike punches him and how

763
00:32:25,282 --> 00:32:26,800
in pain from his chip.

764
00:32:27,453 --> 00:32:30,557
So we know the chip is still working.

765
00:32:30,955 --> 00:32:33,661
At the bronze, Band is playing, singer Song

766
00:32:33,661 --> 00:32:36,621
writer, Amy Mann, it singing. Spike goes around

767
00:32:36,621 --> 00:32:39,805
asking different people about the woman if they've

768
00:32:39,805 --> 00:32:42,113
seen her. He describes her, and he seems

769
00:32:42,113 --> 00:32:44,785
to be trying to find her somewhere hopefully

770
00:32:44,924 --> 00:32:45,325
alive.

771
00:32:45,884 --> 00:32:46,384
Xander

772
00:32:46,765 --> 00:32:49,325
calls Buff on the phone. She is surprised

773
00:32:49,325 --> 00:32:51,484
that Spike hit him and was able to

774
00:32:51,484 --> 00:32:52,877
hit him Xander

775
00:32:53,252 --> 00:32:55,401
says spiked didn't just hit him, he knocked

776
00:32:55,401 --> 00:32:56,038
him out.

777
00:32:56,595 --> 00:32:58,902
And she asks if he has any idea

778
00:32:58,902 --> 00:33:01,145
where Spike his headed the scene cuts back

779
00:33:01,145 --> 00:33:02,019
to the bronze.

780
00:33:02,656 --> 00:33:05,678
Spike is on the second floor. He's looking

781
00:33:05,678 --> 00:33:07,848
down at the dance floor and a woman

782
00:33:08,238 --> 00:33:10,698
joins him and asks why he's scanning the

783
00:33:10,698 --> 00:33:14,189
crowd, and if he's looking for her. He

784
00:33:14,189 --> 00:33:16,612
tells her he's a type who is best

785
00:33:16,671 --> 00:33:18,983
left alone, and she says she gets it

786
00:33:18,983 --> 00:33:21,695
and va out and asks Timothy they should

787
00:33:21,695 --> 00:33:24,088
pick off the crowd 1 by 1 or

788
00:33:24,088 --> 00:33:27,053
block the exits He is not into that

789
00:33:27,053 --> 00:33:29,124
at all, and she is puzzled by his

790
00:33:29,124 --> 00:33:31,753
wall flower act as she puts it and

791
00:33:31,753 --> 00:33:33,444
says he didn't seem eye when he was

792
00:33:33,444 --> 00:33:37,279
biting her. Now spike looks appalled. She gets

793
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:39,357
really mad. She's not asking if they wanna

794
00:33:39,357 --> 00:33:42,005
be soul mates. Just maybe have some fun,

795
00:33:42,164 --> 00:33:44,783
and she looks down and says, quote, I

796
00:33:44,783 --> 00:33:48,140
take him, you take her, close, quote, a

797
00:33:48,195 --> 00:33:48,695
callback

798
00:33:49,163 --> 00:33:51,550
to the time that Drew came back to

799
00:33:51,550 --> 00:33:54,175
town, drew who he did feel was his

800
00:33:54,175 --> 00:33:56,758
soul mate, and he had the chip and

801
00:33:56,974 --> 00:34:01,190
she is going to help spike, kill again

802
00:34:01,190 --> 00:34:03,020
gather, and I think she says something like,

803
00:34:03,258 --> 00:34:05,261
I take him you take her. Or at

804
00:34:05,261 --> 00:34:06,851
least she acts that out.

805
00:34:07,566 --> 00:34:10,506
Now the woman vampire says, so was that

806
00:34:10,506 --> 00:34:12,230
all I was to you? A 1 bite

807
00:34:12,429 --> 00:34:12,748
stand.

808
00:34:13,387 --> 00:34:16,818
As they fight, the scene cuts between them

809
00:34:16,818 --> 00:34:19,530
and the band. The singer is so professional.

810
00:34:19,770 --> 00:34:21,939
She keeps your comp exposure all the band

811
00:34:21,939 --> 00:34:24,732
members do, and they play louder and louder

812
00:34:24,732 --> 00:34:27,285
as the fight becomes louder and more violent.

813
00:34:28,018 --> 00:34:31,047
Then the woman va body tumble over the

814
00:34:31,047 --> 00:34:34,872
railing, the music stops all at once, and

815
00:34:34,872 --> 00:34:37,275
her body hits the ground and dust at

816
00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:39,105
29 minutes 44 seconds.

817
00:34:39,741 --> 00:34:42,526
After a pause, where everyone is silent, the

818
00:34:42,526 --> 00:34:44,117
band just picks up again,

819
00:34:44,768 --> 00:34:45,745
right on Tempo

820
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,461
altogether. And as someone who did occasionally play

821
00:34:49,461 --> 00:34:52,661
in bars, I freely admire and I I

822
00:34:52,661 --> 00:34:55,212
remember the feeling I never saw vampire dusted,

823
00:34:55,531 --> 00:34:58,322
but you definitely just keep going no matter

824
00:34:58,322 --> 00:35:01,149
what is going on around you. So spike

825
00:35:01,207 --> 00:35:05,531
above, though looks appalled. The scene cuts to

826
00:35:05,668 --> 00:35:08,494
buff, talking to the bounce her out side

827
00:35:08,554 --> 00:35:10,411
that club where

828
00:35:10,790 --> 00:35:13,347
she saw spike approach a woman in line,

829
00:35:13,507 --> 00:35:15,757
and she says, I need some help. I'm

830
00:35:15,757 --> 00:35:18,631
looking for this guy, bleach blonde hair, leather

831
00:35:18,631 --> 00:35:21,106
jacket, British accent, kind of sal, but in

832
00:35:21,106 --> 00:35:23,022
a hot way, and the bounce says, yeah.

833
00:35:23,261 --> 00:35:25,107
Yeah. I know the guy Billie Idol don't

834
00:35:25,107 --> 00:35:28,205
wanna be. Buff says, actually, Billy Idol stole

835
00:35:28,205 --> 00:35:31,223
his look from never mind. The bounce asks

836
00:35:31,223 --> 00:35:33,606
if the guy's her boyfriend, Buff denies it

837
00:35:33,606 --> 00:35:36,093
says she just needs to find him. The

838
00:35:36,093 --> 00:35:39,363
bounce tells her that the guy leaves every

839
00:35:39,363 --> 00:35:42,075
night with a different girl, and he gives

840
00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:43,590
her some advice, quote,

841
00:35:44,162 --> 00:35:47,095
This not your boyfriend guy, and, quote, is

842
00:35:47,095 --> 00:35:49,394
a real player and Buff should lose him.

843
00:35:49,949 --> 00:35:52,027
At the bronze, the band heads out and

844
00:35:52,107 --> 00:35:54,732
Amy Man says, man, I hate playing vampire

845
00:35:54,732 --> 00:35:55,766
towns and, quote,

846
00:35:56,402 --> 00:35:58,891
I am pretty sure that is a repeat

847
00:35:59,027 --> 00:36:01,850
of a line, very close to a align

848
00:36:02,146 --> 00:36:05,592
at the beginning of I think season for

849
00:36:05,967 --> 00:36:07,798
when a band comes out and says something

850
00:36:07,798 --> 00:36:09,888
like that about the runs, But maybe maybe

851
00:36:09,888 --> 00:36:11,886
someone out there remembers and can tell me.

852
00:36:12,286 --> 00:36:15,562
We are at 31 minutes for seconds and

853
00:36:15,562 --> 00:36:17,560
spike at a pay phone calls buff.

854
00:36:18,135 --> 00:36:21,675
I see this as the last major plot

855
00:36:21,815 --> 00:36:22,135
turn.

856
00:36:22,775 --> 00:36:24,295
I think of it as the 3 quarter

857
00:36:24,295 --> 00:36:25,914
term because where it usually

858
00:36:26,295 --> 00:36:28,548
turns up in an up so, sometimes it's

859
00:36:28,548 --> 00:36:31,186
more like about 2 thirds through. It should

860
00:36:31,186 --> 00:36:34,142
grow from the midpoint, take the story in

861
00:36:34,142 --> 00:36:37,831
another new direction and further raise the stakes.

862
00:36:38,070 --> 00:36:40,700
And here it does all those things. It

863
00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:41,837
comes from

864
00:36:42,213 --> 00:36:42,713
Buff

865
00:36:43,409 --> 00:36:44,546
midpoint commitment

866
00:36:45,003 --> 00:36:48,548
of confronting spike. And then vowing to find

867
00:36:48,608 --> 00:36:51,565
the truth. So Spike now calls Buff,

868
00:36:52,124 --> 00:36:54,042
and it will turn the story because he

869
00:36:54,042 --> 00:36:56,140
tells her he thinks he's remembering

870
00:36:56,614 --> 00:36:58,450
He thinks he's done some very bad things.

871
00:36:58,610 --> 00:37:00,286
He needs to see her and he gives

872
00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:02,521
her the address of the house, and she

873
00:37:02,521 --> 00:37:05,289
says she'll meet him. And now it is

874
00:37:05,489 --> 00:37:08,065
going to lead to the final

875
00:37:09,082 --> 00:37:12,036
confrontation and too buff learning the truth about

876
00:37:12,036 --> 00:37:14,990
spike and spike facing the truth about spike.

877
00:37:15,404 --> 00:37:18,437
All of which raises the stakes for the

878
00:37:18,437 --> 00:37:21,869
season and for this episode because Buff will

879
00:37:21,869 --> 00:37:25,159
be in danger. As we'll spike as we'll

880
00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:28,775
see. After he hangs up, the other spike

881
00:37:28,834 --> 00:37:31,710
appears and says, the real spike shouldn't have

882
00:37:31,710 --> 00:37:33,644
done that. It's not the time yet, he's

883
00:37:33,644 --> 00:37:36,125
going against the plan, but they can make

884
00:37:36,125 --> 00:37:38,364
it work and we cut to a commercial.

885
00:37:38,765 --> 00:37:39,485
On return,

886
00:37:40,059 --> 00:37:43,568
spike heads down into a dark basement. Buff

887
00:37:43,568 --> 00:37:45,642
hesitate at the top of the steps holding

888
00:37:45,642 --> 00:37:46,440
her steak.

889
00:37:47,078 --> 00:37:49,630
Spike says he understands if Buff doesn't want

890
00:37:49,630 --> 00:37:52,984
to join him, it's risky. The other spike

891
00:37:52,984 --> 00:37:56,243
appears and tells him the slayer not in

892
00:37:56,243 --> 00:37:58,253
order. Similar to the things

893
00:37:58,786 --> 00:37:59,079
that

894
00:37:59,754 --> 00:38:01,578
spike was seeing and hearing when he was

895
00:38:01,578 --> 00:38:03,800
in the basement, and spike says under his

896
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,703
breath, you not here.

897
00:38:06,433 --> 00:38:09,219
Buff comes down the steps. Spike tells her

898
00:38:09,219 --> 00:38:12,721
he remembers walking the girl home and once

899
00:38:12,721 --> 00:38:15,208
before that, he thinks he killed them and

900
00:38:15,208 --> 00:38:17,765
the lady who lived there and maybe others.

901
00:38:18,244 --> 00:38:20,481
He says here and points to the dirt

902
00:38:20,481 --> 00:38:23,683
floor where he thinks he buried the girls

903
00:38:23,683 --> 00:38:26,148
and the woman. Bobby wants to know why

904
00:38:26,148 --> 00:38:28,771
and he doesn't know and he doesn't know

905
00:38:28,771 --> 00:38:31,099
how he did it. He shouldn't be able

906
00:38:31,570 --> 00:38:34,390
And then the other spike starts to sing

907
00:38:34,450 --> 00:38:36,690
early 1 morning. This is the first time

908
00:38:36,690 --> 00:38:39,650
we hear a good amount of the Lyrics

909
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:41,261
and spike van. Out.

910
00:38:47,798 --> 00:38:51,236
During the break from the regular podcast.

911
00:38:51,847 --> 00:38:53,300
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913
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914
00:38:59,817 --> 00:39:01,592
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915
00:39:02,207 --> 00:39:04,677
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916
00:39:04,677 --> 00:39:05,967
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917
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958
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959
00:41:04,427 --> 00:41:07,998
The episode is already heading into the climax.

960
00:41:08,157 --> 00:41:10,640
The climax is where the opposing forces

961
00:41:11,093 --> 00:41:14,472
have their final clash and resolve the main

962
00:41:14,530 --> 00:41:15,409
plot conflict.

963
00:41:15,967 --> 00:41:19,980
Here, I see the opposing forces as buff

964
00:41:20,198 --> 00:41:23,630
and the big evil, rather other than Buff

965
00:41:23,630 --> 00:41:27,116
versus spike. It seems like Buff versus spike,

966
00:41:27,354 --> 00:41:28,725
but because spike

967
00:41:29,034 --> 00:41:31,824
doesn't know what's happening to him, at least

968
00:41:31,824 --> 00:41:34,295
he doesn't know the really important things, and

969
00:41:34,295 --> 00:41:38,056
he's being controlled. It is really buff. Going

970
00:41:38,056 --> 00:41:41,345
up against this evil who has

971
00:41:41,721 --> 00:41:44,588
orchestrated all of this, although not quite according

972
00:41:44,588 --> 00:41:46,501
to its plan as we learned earlier,

973
00:41:47,233 --> 00:41:50,106
I am uncertain exactly what its plan was

974
00:41:50,106 --> 00:41:52,919
with all of this, but it is definitely

975
00:41:53,057 --> 00:41:53,776
behind what happens.

976
00:41:54,429 --> 00:41:55,570
Spike attacks

977
00:41:55,949 --> 00:41:59,070
to Buff shock, and he slices her arm

978
00:41:59,070 --> 00:42:00,909
with a piece of glass. They fight.

979
00:42:01,644 --> 00:42:04,537
And the recent victims who are now vampires

980
00:42:04,675 --> 00:42:08,505
start rising from that dirt floor at 34

981
00:42:08,505 --> 00:42:11,153
minutes for second. So this is a little

982
00:42:11,153 --> 00:42:14,424
early for the climax for some episodes, but

983
00:42:14,424 --> 00:42:16,041
now that we are in

984
00:42:16,354 --> 00:42:20,016
season 7, basically, 6 and 7 where the

985
00:42:20,016 --> 00:42:20,516
storytelling

986
00:42:20,891 --> 00:42:23,757
is much more than ever long form,

987
00:42:24,408 --> 00:42:27,055
a lot of times, climax has happen earlier

988
00:42:27,430 --> 00:42:30,451
because a lot occurs in the last part

989
00:42:30,451 --> 00:42:33,353
of the episode, the following action that moves

990
00:42:33,490 --> 00:42:36,839
the season arc. Luckily, for Buff, at least

991
00:42:36,839 --> 00:42:39,390
some of the vampires are stuck part way

992
00:42:39,390 --> 00:42:42,276
in the floor and having trouble getting out,

993
00:42:42,515 --> 00:42:45,944
but it's still a, pretty major fight, really

994
00:42:45,944 --> 00:42:46,843
good fight chore.

995
00:42:47,778 --> 00:42:50,824
And as Buff fights, the other spike talks

996
00:42:50,824 --> 00:42:52,105
to spike and says,

997
00:42:52,585 --> 00:42:55,385
you know what I want you to do.

998
00:42:55,784 --> 00:42:58,425
2 vampires finally get a hold of Buff

999
00:42:58,425 --> 00:43:01,792
holding her on either sign and spike approaches

1000
00:43:01,792 --> 00:43:04,817
her, the evil spike tells him to taste

1001
00:43:04,817 --> 00:43:07,922
her and make her weak. Spike smells Buff

1002
00:43:07,922 --> 00:43:10,873
and starts to lick the blood from where

1003
00:43:10,873 --> 00:43:13,672
she was cut, and he gets memory flashes

1004
00:43:13,726 --> 00:43:16,598
of so many people that he killed He's

1005
00:43:16,598 --> 00:43:18,934
horrified and he says I remember

1006
00:43:19,552 --> 00:43:22,347
and then gets even more flashes, and it

1007
00:43:22,347 --> 00:43:24,204
so throws him that he stagger

1008
00:43:24,582 --> 00:43:27,494
back and falls on the floor, Buff then

1009
00:43:27,635 --> 00:43:30,594
fights off those 2 vampires. It almost makes

1010
00:43:30,594 --> 00:43:32,914
me think she could have fought them off

1011
00:43:32,914 --> 00:43:35,244
before, but she needed to see what Spike

1012
00:43:35,244 --> 00:43:37,795
was going to do or say. Evil spike

1013
00:43:37,795 --> 00:43:39,947
tells the real spike that he failed and

1014
00:43:39,947 --> 00:43:42,021
now Buff will kill him and he loses.

1015
00:43:42,753 --> 00:43:45,226
Buff kills all these vampires. It's fun to

1016
00:43:45,226 --> 00:43:46,741
watch her steak them all in a row

1017
00:43:46,741 --> 00:43:49,373
in a circle, and the last is an

1018
00:43:49,373 --> 00:43:51,925
older woman, probably the 1 who owns the

1019
00:43:51,925 --> 00:43:54,170
house and Buff helps her out of the

1020
00:43:54,170 --> 00:43:54,670
grave

1021
00:43:55,045 --> 00:43:57,751
says, sorry, ma'am, but it's my job and

1022
00:43:57,751 --> 00:44:01,106
steaks her. This ends the action part of

1023
00:44:01,106 --> 00:44:03,965
the climax, Buff has prevailed and is safe,

1024
00:44:04,521 --> 00:44:07,483
but I do not think it ends the

1025
00:44:07,538 --> 00:44:08,769
actual climax

1026
00:44:09,390 --> 00:44:11,630
because she still has to deal with spike,

1027
00:44:12,030 --> 00:44:14,349
and he is sitting on the stairs. He

1028
00:44:14,349 --> 00:44:15,869
looks horrified and stricken.

1029
00:44:16,349 --> 00:44:18,989
He pulls his jacket Lapel open. He is

1030
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:21,214
ready for her to stay him and full

1031
00:44:21,214 --> 00:44:23,461
of guilt and confused

1032
00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:25,980
overall that he's done and he tells her

1033
00:44:25,980 --> 00:44:28,937
to do it. Fast. She stares down at

1034
00:44:28,937 --> 00:44:31,641
him and Spike says, quote, he said you

1035
00:44:31,641 --> 00:44:34,584
would do it and, quote, and Buff asks

1036
00:44:34,584 --> 00:44:37,944
who said and spike responds me. It was

1037
00:44:37,944 --> 00:44:40,096
me. I saw it. It was here the

1038
00:44:40,096 --> 00:44:43,460
whole time talking and singing there was song.

1039
00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:46,260
He clutches his head and he cries out

1040
00:44:46,260 --> 00:44:49,059
that he doesn't know when Buff demands that

1041
00:44:49,059 --> 00:44:50,739
he tell her what he means, and he

1042
00:44:50,739 --> 00:44:54,111
begs Buff not to make can remember. Then

1043
00:44:54,111 --> 00:44:56,505
he calls out to Evil spike, who we

1044
00:44:56,505 --> 00:44:59,618
aren't seeing now because we are seeing this

1045
00:44:59,618 --> 00:45:00,437
from Buff

1046
00:45:00,815 --> 00:45:03,214
perspective as she looks at spikes. So we

1047
00:45:03,214 --> 00:45:07,025
don't see evil spike. But spike clearly does

1048
00:45:07,025 --> 00:45:09,144
and he begs him to make him forget

1049
00:45:09,264 --> 00:45:11,407
again and says, quote, I did what you

1050
00:45:11,407 --> 00:45:11,907
wanted.

1051
00:45:12,597 --> 00:45:15,399
Buff tells the real spike there is something

1052
00:45:15,693 --> 00:45:18,567
there and she throws down her steak or

1053
00:45:18,885 --> 00:45:21,431
I think it's actually a giant board, but

1054
00:45:21,431 --> 00:45:24,375
spikes says please he needs that. Tells her

1055
00:45:24,375 --> 00:45:26,364
he can't cry the soul out of him

1056
00:45:26,364 --> 00:45:29,163
he tried. And he can feel every 1

1057
00:45:29,163 --> 00:45:30,140
of his victims.

1058
00:45:30,754 --> 00:45:33,061
Buff though sits next to him and at

1059
00:45:33,061 --> 00:45:37,542
37 minute 38 seconds says there's something playing

1060
00:45:37,542 --> 00:45:40,496
with us, all of us. He asks her

1061
00:45:40,496 --> 00:45:43,051
why it's doing this. She doesn't know, and

1062
00:45:43,051 --> 00:45:46,122
he asks her to help him, and Buff

1063
00:45:46,182 --> 00:45:49,138
says she will. So for now, in the

1064
00:45:49,138 --> 00:45:52,926
buff versus the evil plot, Buff has

1065
00:45:53,301 --> 00:45:55,950
prevailed. Now we are in the falling

1066
00:45:56,325 --> 00:45:56,825
action

1067
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,244
section of the episode This is where the

1068
00:46:00,244 --> 00:46:03,385
writers tie up loose ends, resolve sub plots

1069
00:46:03,684 --> 00:46:04,184
and

1070
00:46:04,644 --> 00:46:07,780
move along the season arch. When you have

1071
00:46:07,780 --> 00:46:10,579
a longer story arc. So if you were

1072
00:46:10,579 --> 00:46:12,340
writing a series of novels,

1073
00:46:12,820 --> 00:46:14,200
you might have something

1074
00:46:14,579 --> 00:46:16,905
in the falling in of each book that

1075
00:46:16,905 --> 00:46:18,495
leads into the next 1. In fact, it's

1076
00:46:18,495 --> 00:46:20,721
a really good idea marketing wise to do

1077
00:46:20,721 --> 00:46:23,678
that, and it's just compelling story, telling At

1078
00:46:23,678 --> 00:46:26,947
38 minutes 47 seconds. Buff is at the

1079
00:46:26,947 --> 00:46:29,179
house with the gang. It's a really good

1080
00:46:29,179 --> 00:46:31,625
segue because Buff last line to spike was

1081
00:46:31,744 --> 00:46:35,018
I'll help you. An Omni now says, and

1082
00:46:35,018 --> 00:46:35,896
you believe him,

1083
00:46:36,694 --> 00:46:38,530
spikes sits in the other room in the

1084
00:46:38,530 --> 00:46:41,245
dark, wrapped in a blanket huddled and shaky.

1085
00:46:41,659 --> 00:46:44,717
And he reminds me of how Dawn was

1086
00:46:44,936 --> 00:46:47,573
when Willow walked into the room. She was

1087
00:46:47,573 --> 00:46:49,971
sitting in a similar spot, same kind of

1088
00:46:49,971 --> 00:46:50,870
body posture

1089
00:46:51,344 --> 00:46:52,617
I don't know if that was on purpose,

1090
00:46:52,856 --> 00:46:55,663
but it makes spike seem very vulnerable.

1091
00:46:56,357 --> 00:46:59,157
Buff says, you didn't see him down there.

1092
00:46:59,474 --> 00:47:01,463
He really didn't know what he'd done. It

1093
00:47:01,463 --> 00:47:04,724
wasn't in his control and Sander responds, oh,

1094
00:47:05,042 --> 00:47:06,871
and out of control serial killer.

1095
00:47:07,523 --> 00:47:09,591
You're right. That is a great house guest.

1096
00:47:10,307 --> 00:47:12,534
Dawn is shocked by the idea that Spike

1097
00:47:12,534 --> 00:47:15,556
will be staying there. Willow 2 is worried

1098
00:47:15,556 --> 00:47:17,728
because spike fat on human blood, and that

1099
00:47:17,728 --> 00:47:21,004
must do something to him. Buff thinks that

1100
00:47:21,004 --> 00:47:23,961
something is making spike do these things that

1101
00:47:23,961 --> 00:47:26,693
it's been messing with spike and Xander says,

1102
00:47:26,852 --> 00:47:28,950
so you want him around because

1103
00:47:29,808 --> 00:47:32,525
Buff says the evil has been close to

1104
00:47:32,525 --> 00:47:34,234
spike. And she and Willow

1105
00:47:34,767 --> 00:47:36,618
agree that if they want to

1106
00:47:36,992 --> 00:47:40,353
understand it. It makes sense to get close

1107
00:47:40,585 --> 00:47:44,425
to spike. Xander thinks that's too dangerous. Buff

1108
00:47:44,425 --> 00:47:46,184
says she doesn't have a choice.

1109
00:47:46,664 --> 00:47:49,956
Whatever it is, quote, from beneath us unquote.

1110
00:47:50,275 --> 00:47:53,219
It's bad and only getting worse, which is

1111
00:47:53,219 --> 00:47:56,482
a great segue to the last scene at

1112
00:47:56,482 --> 00:47:59,844
39 minutes 58 seconds at an apartment in

1113
00:48:00,005 --> 00:48:00,505
London

1114
00:48:00,885 --> 00:48:04,324
gil enters and sees dead bodies he calls

1115
00:48:04,324 --> 00:48:05,224
out for Rob

1116
00:48:05,605 --> 00:48:08,420
and finds him Ro looks dead,

1117
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:11,219
Gil says you too.

1118
00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:14,440
Suggesting that he has found other

1119
00:48:14,833 --> 00:48:17,454
dead, bodies, dead watchers today.

1120
00:48:18,090 --> 00:48:20,712
Rap in, though, is not quite dead. He

1121
00:48:20,712 --> 00:48:23,309
opens his eyes and he tells gil to

1122
00:48:23,429 --> 00:48:26,681
gather them and that it started. And as

1123
00:48:26,681 --> 00:48:29,140
gil starts to say, he'll take care of

1124
00:48:29,140 --> 00:48:31,043
it, a robe figure,

1125
00:48:31,695 --> 00:48:35,055
behind gil, swings and axe at his head

1126
00:48:35,055 --> 00:48:38,015
and just as it's about to connect. The

1127
00:48:38,015 --> 00:48:40,894
scene ends, we cut to the final credit.

1128
00:48:41,547 --> 00:48:42,604
This scene

1129
00:48:43,059 --> 00:48:43,559
is

1130
00:48:43,935 --> 00:48:46,084
both a cliff hanger and a game changer.

1131
00:48:46,322 --> 00:48:48,574
I've talked about the difference, a cliff hanger

1132
00:48:48,869 --> 00:48:50,835
is where you don't finish your main plot

1133
00:48:51,114 --> 00:48:52,790
and the audience has to come back for

1134
00:48:52,790 --> 00:48:55,583
the next installment to get the answer. And

1135
00:48:55,583 --> 00:48:58,398
in a game changer, the main plot is

1136
00:48:58,536 --> 00:48:59,036
finished

1137
00:48:59,429 --> 00:49:03,985
and something occurs that changes everything going forward.

1138
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,864
And they're different in terms of how satisfied

1139
00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:10,440
or not your audience feels and how complete

1140
00:49:10,576 --> 00:49:12,880
your story is because you could have a

1141
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,239
game changer at the end of a stand

1142
00:49:15,359 --> 00:49:17,746
loan story as long as you resolve that

1143
00:49:17,746 --> 00:49:20,691
main plot, if the game changer signals the

1144
00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:24,369
reader that hey, this is the new normal,

1145
00:49:24,608 --> 00:49:25,984
and that is a satisfying

1146
00:49:26,361 --> 00:49:26,861
ending.

1147
00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:28,114
Here,

1148
00:49:28,592 --> 00:49:30,584
it's a game changer in the sense that

1149
00:49:30,584 --> 00:49:31,880
the main plot

1150
00:49:32,337 --> 00:49:32,837
resolved

1151
00:49:33,309 --> 00:49:36,980
Buff for the moment prevailed over the evil,

1152
00:49:37,139 --> 00:49:38,916
so that has resolved

1153
00:49:39,453 --> 00:49:40,751
and this suggests

1154
00:49:41,303 --> 00:49:44,803
something is changing going forward that gil is

1155
00:49:44,803 --> 00:49:46,791
out of the mix. But it is a

1156
00:49:46,791 --> 00:49:49,917
cliff hanger for this some about gil, which

1157
00:49:49,917 --> 00:49:52,234
we've gotten very little of about watchers,

1158
00:49:52,873 --> 00:49:53,853
getting killed

1159
00:49:54,311 --> 00:49:55,804
because it cuts

1160
00:49:56,243 --> 00:49:59,753
as the robe figure is swinging. So we

1161
00:49:59,753 --> 00:50:03,103
assume that gil is killed, but we don't

1162
00:50:03,103 --> 00:50:05,789
know for certain making it a cliff hanger

1163
00:50:05,909 --> 00:50:08,533
for the sub plot. That is it for

1164
00:50:08,533 --> 00:50:12,054
this episode other than for foreshadowing, which does

1165
00:50:12,110 --> 00:50:12,610
include

1166
00:50:13,065 --> 00:50:13,542
spoilers,

1167
00:50:14,113 --> 00:50:15,702
If you find the way I talk about

1168
00:50:15,702 --> 00:50:17,155
story structure, helpful

1169
00:50:17,528 --> 00:50:19,514
and want to apply it to your own

1170
00:50:19,514 --> 00:50:23,326
writing, you can get free story structure, worksheet,

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00:50:23,897 --> 00:50:26,201
at writing as a second career dot com

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00:50:26,201 --> 00:50:29,538
slash worksheets or check out my course how

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00:50:29,538 --> 00:50:32,001
to plot your novel from idea to first

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00:50:32,001 --> 00:50:32,295
draft

1175
00:50:32,893 --> 00:50:35,448
in the shop menu on

1176
00:50:35,847 --> 00:50:38,401
Patreon. And as I mentioned, it is free

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00:50:38,401 --> 00:50:40,317
for patrons at the 5 dollar and up

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00:50:40,317 --> 00:50:42,963
level, but anyone else can buy any of

1179
00:50:42,963 --> 00:50:43,520
the modules.

1180
00:50:43,997 --> 00:50:46,863
If you're not sticking around for foreshadowing and

1181
00:50:46,863 --> 00:50:49,193
spoilers. Thank you so much for listening

1182
00:50:49,569 --> 00:50:51,893
and thank you again to Patrons to support.

1183
00:50:52,132 --> 00:50:52,791
The podcast

1184
00:50:53,328 --> 00:50:56,197
come back in 2 weeks for season 7,

1185
00:50:56,675 --> 00:50:59,519
episode 9 never leave me where the gang

1186
00:50:59,959 --> 00:51:01,898
unexpectedly has 2 hostages

1187
00:51:02,277 --> 00:51:05,633
to inter, not just 1, and the watchers

1188
00:51:05,633 --> 00:51:07,391
council prepares for battle.

1189
00:51:13,724 --> 00:51:15,585
The concerns that An

1190
00:51:16,204 --> 00:51:16,704
Dawn

1191
00:51:17,005 --> 00:51:17,505
Za

1192
00:51:17,805 --> 00:51:20,605
and even Willow stress about spike.

1193
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,374
Sow the seeds

1194
00:51:22,746 --> 00:51:26,473
for them turning against buff later in the

1195
00:51:26,473 --> 00:51:26,791
season.

1196
00:51:27,363 --> 00:51:30,412
Added to that. Buff is the only 1

1197
00:51:30,629 --> 00:51:33,496
who sees firsthand what spike is going through.

1198
00:51:33,895 --> 00:51:37,180
As audience members, we don't doubt. That spike

1199
00:51:37,180 --> 00:51:38,160
doesn't remember

1200
00:51:38,460 --> 00:51:38,960
killing

1201
00:51:39,340 --> 00:51:41,500
all those people until he gets those flashes,

1202
00:51:41,660 --> 00:51:44,140
and we don't doubt how Guilt ridden he

1203
00:51:44,140 --> 00:51:46,114
is and how stricken he is, and that

1204
00:51:46,234 --> 00:51:47,132
the first is

1205
00:51:47,588 --> 00:51:50,057
compelling him to do things and controlling him.

1206
00:51:50,614 --> 00:51:52,924
Ba sees that. She doesn't know yet. I

1207
00:51:52,924 --> 00:51:54,676
don't think they call it the first yet.

1208
00:51:55,170 --> 00:51:58,369
But Buff sees all that and she believes

1209
00:51:58,369 --> 00:52:00,690
it, and she's right to believe it, but

1210
00:52:00,690 --> 00:52:03,838
the others don't and this for shadows

1211
00:52:04,293 --> 00:52:06,544
that there will be this split

1212
00:52:06,999 --> 00:52:09,679
among Buff, first Buff in the potentials

1213
00:52:10,117 --> 00:52:13,242
Buff and gil who sees none of this

1214
00:52:13,537 --> 00:52:14,037
and

1215
00:52:14,412 --> 00:52:16,106
Buff and her friends, ultimately

1216
00:52:16,894 --> 00:52:19,315
I'm looking forward to examining what else

1217
00:52:19,695 --> 00:52:21,934
contributes to that R between her and her

1218
00:52:21,934 --> 00:52:24,735
friends where they sent her away,

1219
00:52:25,215 --> 00:52:28,043
but I think this is

1220
00:52:28,421 --> 00:52:31,213
a big part of it. And we saw

1221
00:52:31,213 --> 00:52:33,844
earlier too when Buff is saying Spike is

1222
00:52:33,844 --> 00:52:35,302
different. He's changed

1223
00:52:35,614 --> 00:52:37,952
And Sandra, he's really being

1224
00:52:38,331 --> 00:52:38,831
pretty

1225
00:52:39,290 --> 00:52:41,607
good in that whole scene. He is trying

1226
00:52:41,607 --> 00:52:43,619
to be objective. You don't feel like he's

1227
00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:47,460
drawing on his personal feelings about spike as

1228
00:52:47,460 --> 00:52:48,199
he often

1229
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:51,059
does or doing that thing he used to

1230
00:52:51,059 --> 00:52:53,786
do about being jealous of Buff being with

1231
00:52:53,786 --> 00:52:56,972
anyone. He does seem objective. But from his

1232
00:52:56,972 --> 00:52:59,440
point of view, Buff saying, he's changed. I

1233
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:00,498
know he has

1234
00:53:00,968 --> 00:53:03,828
For him, it must seem like Buff is

1235
00:53:03,828 --> 00:53:06,529
kidding herself like so many people do in

1236
00:53:06,529 --> 00:53:08,912
a relationship where you want to believe that

1237
00:53:08,912 --> 00:53:11,309
partner has changed and they really haven't.

1238
00:53:11,785 --> 00:53:14,904
And nothing that any of the others c

1239
00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:18,056
give them any proof just the opposite.

1240
00:53:18,548 --> 00:53:21,259
They've heard that Spike led Buff to a

1241
00:53:21,259 --> 00:53:23,253
basement full of vampires who were about to

1242
00:53:23,253 --> 00:53:25,326
rise and tried to kill her. The song,

1243
00:53:25,485 --> 00:53:28,055
of course, early 1 morning for shadows,

1244
00:53:28,614 --> 00:53:31,894
later episodes where they figure out that the

1245
00:53:31,894 --> 00:53:35,175
first has a trigger for spike and finally

1246
00:53:35,175 --> 00:53:37,340
figure out the song is the trigger and

1247
00:53:37,340 --> 00:53:38,773
try to get rid of it. And it

1248
00:53:38,773 --> 00:53:40,285
is a big part of 1 of my

1249
00:53:40,285 --> 00:53:43,331
favorite episodes of the season lies my parents

1250
00:53:43,627 --> 00:53:45,003
told me where

1251
00:53:45,313 --> 00:53:47,083
the trigger is finally

1252
00:53:47,456 --> 00:53:47,853
removed,

1253
00:53:48,489 --> 00:53:49,703
and there's that great

1254
00:53:50,076 --> 00:53:52,696
confrontation between Robin wood and spike.

1255
00:53:53,429 --> 00:53:56,010
Foreshadowing here too about

1256
00:53:56,389 --> 00:53:57,929
Gil is return

1257
00:53:58,230 --> 00:53:59,130
and how

1258
00:53:59,670 --> 00:54:01,510
everyone will think for a while that he

1259
00:54:01,510 --> 00:54:02,469
is the first.

1260
00:54:03,123 --> 00:54:05,858
In the audience we'll think it too because

1261
00:54:06,077 --> 00:54:09,509
we won't be shown how that scene played

1262
00:54:09,509 --> 00:54:12,397
out where he almost gets killed, we're gonna

1263
00:54:12,397 --> 00:54:14,391
think that maybe he did get killed and

1264
00:54:14,391 --> 00:54:16,545
he is the first, and I have some

1265
00:54:16,545 --> 00:54:18,721
issues with that episode because

1266
00:54:19,194 --> 00:54:23,369
the way it's written and directed feels so

1267
00:54:23,828 --> 00:54:25,985
unnatural and unbelievable to me.

1268
00:54:26,799 --> 00:54:28,877
But baby it won't, when I look more

1269
00:54:28,877 --> 00:54:31,534
closely, the way the writers keep that

1270
00:54:31,994 --> 00:54:32,494
question

1271
00:54:32,873 --> 00:54:35,130
alive for the episode, is it really gil

1272
00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:37,777
or is it the first, but this definitely

1273
00:54:38,072 --> 00:54:40,801
fore shadows that and fore shadows

1274
00:54:41,336 --> 00:54:43,963
the end of the Watchers council, which is

1275
00:54:43,963 --> 00:54:45,497
coming in the next

1276
00:54:46,046 --> 00:54:49,723
episode. So overall, sleeper did a lot to

1277
00:54:50,097 --> 00:54:53,116
not just move forward the season, 7 arc,

1278
00:54:53,275 --> 00:54:55,125
but kick it into high

1279
00:54:55,514 --> 00:54:58,870
gear. That is it. For today. Thank you

1280
00:54:58,870 --> 00:55:00,149
again for listening.

1281
00:55:00,628 --> 00:55:03,639
Come back in 2 weeks for season 7

1282
00:55:03,997 --> 00:55:07,277
episode 9, never leave me where Buff inter

1283
00:55:07,651 --> 00:55:11,003
spike, Willow runs into Andrew, and prince little

1284
00:55:11,082 --> 00:55:13,802
Robin would axe rather strangely.

1285
00:55:14,253 --> 00:55:16,869
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