Welcome to Rewatching Buffy, the part of the blog where I rewatch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love this show 22 years ago.
Dead Things
- Buffy is visiting Spike’s crypt.
- …For a workout session.
- And then they have a conversation.
- Like a real couple.
- The nerds are hiding out at Andrew’s parents’ basement.
- Their newest techno-magical gadget is referred to as a cerebral dampener.
- According to Warren, it will turn any woman they desire into their willing sex slave.
- Good… they’ve created a date rape marble.
- You know, at least when Buffy has to fight demons, they’re evil because they have no soul.
- What’s these dorks’ excuses?
- Buffy asks Tara to come and visit her at work.
- Yeah, she’s still at the Doublemeat Palace.
- Buffy wants help to figure out why she came back different.
- Why is Spike able to hurt her?
- Jonathan and Andrew watch from the surveillance van while Warren looks for women inside a bar.
- And then he spots his ex, Katrina.
- Last we saw her, she was nearly killed by Warren’s robot.
- Of course, she tells Warren to drop dead.
- But he’s got his fancy date rape orb, so she begins to refer to him as “master.”
- I’d like to see Buffy rip these guys’ spines out.
- They have her dress in a French maid’s outfit and serve them champagne.
- But she does nothing but stand there and stare into nothingness until they give her an order.
- Warren leads her off for some private time.
- But then the spell wears off.
- The orb is out of juice…
- When Katrina points out that what they’re doing is rape, Jonathan and Andrew have a freak out moment.
- She tries to get away, but Warren hits her over the head with a bottle.
- He demands that Andrew recharge the dampener, but Andrew takes a closer look and sees that she’s dead.
- Seriously, Buffy needs to wear Warren’s ribcage as a hat.
- Well, boys, you wanted to be villains… here you are.
- Warren decides the best way to take care of this is to arrange it so Buffy thinks she killed Katrina.
- Buffy hangs out with her crew at The Bronze.
- While they dance, she goes upstairs and gets pretty inappropriate with Spike.
- The next day, Willow bumps into Tara as she’s leaving the Magic Box.
- First healthy conversation between those two in a long time.
- Later, while Buffy’s on patrol, she’s tempted to go to Spike’s again.
- She lingers outside his door for a moment, and he can sense she’s there.
- But she leaves before he opens the door.
- Honestly, I think this is the most CW this show has ever been.
- Buffy gets distracted by hearing Katrina scream.
- Then some weird things really start up… like when the nerds pulled the time shift thing.
- She and Spike fight some demons… but they might be hallucinations.
- And that’s what leads Buffy to think she accidentally killed Katrina.
- I can’t tell if Buffy and Spike really killed three hooded demons or not. I’ll count them just in case.
- Buffy is wracked with guilt and Spike hurries her away.
- Warren seems pretty proud of himself… Jonathan is feeling guilty…
- Buffy’s dreams are restless, and she wakes in the middle of the night to tell Dawn goodbye.
- She’s planning to turn herself in.
- When Buffy says she’s sorry, Dawn says she really isn’t… she’s never home, she doesn’t want to be there…
- Spike tries to stop Buffy outside the police station.
- He claims he took care of the body… but then they hear a couple of officers talking about a body that washed up at the river’s edge near the cemetery.
- Bollocks.
- Spike still tries to stop Buffy, telling her again that he loves her.
- She still can’t believe it’s possible for him to love her.
- They start fighting… and Buffy really beats the crap out of him.
- Meanwhile… she’s yelling at him about how he’s dead inside… there’s nothing good about him…
- But I think it’s safe to say she’s telling herself these things.
- She leaves Spike on the ground and goes inside the station.
- Before she can confess to the police, she hears the sergeant on the phone as they’ve identified the body as Katrina.
- She recognizes the name as Warren’s ex-girlfriend.
- At the Magic Box, they identify the demons that Buffy and Spike fought.
- Apparently, when they enter our dimension, they cause a localized temporal disturbance.
- Buffy knows that Warren and the others are somehow connected, but can’t prove it yet.
- Tara lets Buffy know that she’s fine.
- Bringing her back may have slightly altered her on a molecular level, just enough to mess with the sensors in Spike’s brain chip.
- But hearing that she didn’t come back wrong really upsets her…
- Because if something isn’t wrong, why would she continually allow Spike to do these things to her…?
- Tara understands what Buffy is saying… and Buffy admits that it’s the only time she actually feels something.
- Tara promises that she won’t tell anyone.
- Buffy wants so desperately for Tara to tell her that she’s wrong.
- It’s kind of heartbreaking to see Buffy like this… she’s broken…
- Body count: Humans – 1; Hooded demons – 3
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