Teaser
22A) Buffy and Kendra are faced off, ready to continue their fight. FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "Remember BUFFY and that chick who says she's the NEW SLAYER? They're still staring at each other, breathing hard. The apartment is in major shambles...The new slayer radiates poise and intensity. She's a 'take-no-guff' gal with a faintly regal air about her."--"What's My Line, Part 2" by Marti Noxon, available through Pocketbooks, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Two, Volume 2
22B) "Dere is but one, and I am she." THE CHOSEN TWO: "The first key example of the problems with the Watchers Council - Kendra and Buffy nearly kill each other because presumably no one at the top has bothered to tell Giles or Zabuto that two Slayers are active." Or to get more conspiracy-ish, perhaps the WC realized what a coup it was to have two Slayers at the same time, and worried that if each was aware of the other that one might decide to give up her calling. A possibility which does enter Buffy's mind in this episode.--KdS, Tues, 02/18/03 at 11:58:29, with additions by Rob
22C) "I accept your scenario." FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: In the original script, this line was followed by Kendra saying, "Your English is very odd, you know," to which Buffy replies, "Yeah - it's something about being woken by an axe. Makes me talk all crazy."--"What's My Line, Part 2" by Marti Noxon, available through Pocketbooks, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Two, Volume 2
Act One
22D)
"And your Watcher is, i-is Sam Zabuto, you say?" WHAT'S
IN A NAME?: "Zabuto is a Japanese word, the adjectival
form of zaibatusu or money-cliques. From http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/talks/japan.html:
'Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda were four of the families which had
bankrolled the restoration and the early years of Meijj. They were descended
from some of the large merchant families at the time of the daimyo and after
recruiting notable samurai they became agents for the execution of government
policy.In return for financial assistance to the government they received low
price State properties and valuable contracts. They owned large sections of
the economy, banks, manufacturing, transport and mines. By the late 20's they
could impose there [sic] wishes on the government. Their ownership also penetrated
into the mass of small scale enterprises.' Though the Zaibatsu were dissolved
around the late '40s (thanks in part to the military channeling money toward
non-zabuto groups like Nissan), Sam Zabuto's name implies that something of
the wealth, power and influence of the 'clique' behind Kendra--the Watchers'
Council.
Sam Zabuto's first name is probably Samuel. From the Hebrew Shemuel,
the name can be taken to mean 'one who hears God' or 'Heard or asked of God.'
Could this name signify that Zabuto, and the other Watchers, believe they are
doing the will of the Powers That Be by going to such extreme lengths to shape
Kendra into the Slayer they want?"--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22E) "Yes, sir." FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "When speaking to Giles, Kendra is extremely respectful. Almost subservient."--"What's My Line, Part 2" by Marti Noxon, available through Pocketbooks, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Two, Volume 2
22F) "We got that part, hon. He means your name." WHO ARE YOU?: "Kendra doesn't think of herself as Kendra. She thinks of herself as 'the vampire Slayer'. Her identity is built around being a Slayer...not being an individual."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22G) "Dey call me Kendra. I have no last name, sir." TO SURNAME WITH LOVE: "On Kendra's lack of a surname - typically in the Buffyverse humans have surnames, demons and vampires don't. Kendra's lack of one shows her specifically as closer to the mythic world than the human one. Faith's surname is so far as I know never mentioned on screen, either. Similarly, Jenny is referred to somewhat archaically [in Innocence] as 'Janna of the Calderash' - similar to, but not the same as, a 20th century Western surname."--KdS, Tues, 02/18/03 at 11:58:29
ANOTHER THEORY: "Deprived of her last name, she is deprived of any connection, even a nominal one to her family and to her past. She is disconnected from any clue about her heritage. Also, history indicates that traditionally, prisoners and captives are deprived of the use of their last names as a way of demeaning them and maintaining psychological control. Then, too, slaves did not normally use last names either, unless they were freed. Again, the implication is that the Council is objectifying--treating Kendra as a thing to be created and used for a specific purpose."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22H) "Can you say 'stuck in the 80's'?" ONE NAME WONDER: This is "a reference to several 80s pop musicians who were known by a single name: Madonna, Prince, Cher (who actually began long before the 80s). The irony in this is that 'Buffy' is a name commonly associated with 'yuppies,' another phenomenon of the 80s."--Tyreseus, Mon, 02/17/03 at 19:40:05
22I)"Identify yourself!" BLIND SLAYAGE: Here we see that Kendra's attack-first-ask-questions-later methodology is worse than we thought. At the very least, she had good reason to be suspicious of Angel and Buffy being evil, but all Willow is guilty of is entering her own school library while "Slayer business" was going on!--partly inspired by a post from Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22J) "Back off, pink ranger!" POP CULTURE TIME: "Refers to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a popular [mid-90s] television show featuring teenagers with the secret ability to become superheroes and battle giant monsters to save the world. The Pink Ranger (aka Kimberly) was one of the five regulars, but the most 'feminine' with a skirt and, of course, pink costume."--Tyreseus, Mon, 02/17/03 at 19:40:05
METANARRATIVE HUMOR: "Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt-double [Sophia Crawford] also was previously the [stunt double for the] costumed Pink Power Ranger."--Cactus Watcher, Mon, 02/17/03 at 20:32:49
22K) "And you allow dis, sir?" DISCOMFORT: In many ways, Kendra makes Giles uncomfortable, because, while she acts subservient to him, she also makes him feel self-conscious and perhaps a little guilty for not being the textbook Watcher he was trained to be.
22L)"But de Slayer must work in secret for security." STRICT SLAYAGE: "Kendra here parrots a line that Giles has quoted to Buffy innumerable times--thus forcing Giles to argue Buffy's opinion."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22M) "Clearly it doesn't matter how long you were gone. You were physically dead! Thus causing the activation of the, the next Slayer." WHEN BUFFY DIED: See 12HHH.
22N) "What's the flum?" SCOOBY SPEAK: See 13CCC.
22O) "He looked to me just like anodder animal when I..." VAMPS AS ANIMALS: "Again, we have the depersonalization of vampires that Buffy has been struggling with. Kendra doesn't...think, 'Angel is not a person.' She thinks, 'That is an animal.' There is a real difference. To carry on the slave/prisoner analogy from before, slaves were often regarded as animals or property (the ancient Greeks, those lovers of democracy, called slaves by a word that translated as 'thing') and prison guards and law enforcement official often call criminals and prisoners such names as 'filthy animals'."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22P)
"Talk and I'll have your guts for garters." IDIOM
TIME: "From World Wide Words (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-hav1.htm):
'Somehow I don’t think this one is going to go away soon, at least not
to judge by its track record. The oldest example I can track down is from The
Bride of Lammermoor, by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819: "He that
would not pledge me, I would make his guts garter his stockings." But,
according to Paul Beale’s update of Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary
of Catch Phrases, it has been around in various forms since the eighteenth
century, was at one time Cockney low slang or the cant of racecourse toughs,
and was a common reprimand or threat by NCOs in the services during World War
Two and afterwards. As that book notes, it has since risen somewhat in the social
scale to become a macho phrase among some middle managers.
'When it first came into use two hundred years ago, it must have been a serious
warning, implying disembowelling, but in modern times it is merely figurative,
implying that one will take some unspecified action in reprisal for unacceptable
behaviour. The persistence of the expression surely owes a lot to the alliteration
of guts and garters, but also to the existence of similar phrases such as to
hate somebody’s guts. The fact that modern British men rarely wear garters,
and that when they do they tend to call them sock suspenders, has not affected
the popularity of the phrase!'"--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22Q) "Wild horses couldn't drag it." IDIOM TIME: A slightly shortened version of the famous phrase, "Wild horses couldn't drag it from me."
22R)
"Do you have anything in raisin? I know you wouldn't think so, but I'm
both a winter and a summer." CORDY'S TYPE: "Cordelia
is talking about her color type. At http://www.idiotsguides.com/Quick-Guides/MG_Find_Color_Type/file.htm,
it says that 'Strong and Rich people have dark hair and a rich eye
color, either brown, hazel, or even green,' that women with pink undertones
to their skin are considered Cool and Rosy, and that 'Jewel-like eyes
in myriad colors, fair skin and dark hair are the trademarks of a Clear
and Bright woman.'
People with Strong and Rich coloring are either Deep Autumn
(which means that good colors for them would be black, cream, deep peach, true
red, moss, bronze, emerald green, Chinese blue, pine, purple) or Deep Winter
(black, charcoal, pure white, icy gray, tomato red, mint, olive, clear teal,
bright periwinkle, true blue, navy).
Cool and Rosy people are either Cool Summer (pewter, charcoal,
taupe, icy pink, blue red, spruce, plum, sky blue, navy) or Cool Winter
(icy gray, medium gray, taupe, rose pink, hot pink, blue red, raspberry, icy
blue, lemon yellow, pine, medium blue, bright periwinkle, plum).
Clear and Bright people are either Clear Spring (navy, charcoal,
stone, light clear gold, pastel yellow-green, clear teal, periwinkle, pastel
pink, red, deep rose) or Clear Winter (charcoal, black, pewter, taupe,
icy blue, icy pink, clear red, icy yellow, hot turquoise, violet, royal blue).
What's interesting is that Cordy identifies herself as being a woman of contrasts
and contradictions--a winter and a summer. She is also saying, in a way, that
she has some Summer(s) in her... (see 1N)"--Rhys,
Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22S) "...nothing personal, but maybe you should look into selling dictionaries..." DOOR-TO-DOOR: "Cordy is talking about the one-time phenomenon of the door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. From http://www.ed-u.com/encyclopaedia-britannica.htm: '[A]uthoring an encyclopaedia was such a daunting and expensive task that only states, academic institutions, or well-funded businesses were able to produce them. At any given period there was a dearth of reliable encyclopaedias, which exercised a monopoly on the dissemination of knowledge. Competitors were few and far between. The price of these tomes was, therefore, always exorbitant but people paid it to secure education for their children and a fount [sic] of knowledge at home. Hence the long gone phenomenon of "door to door encyclopaedia salesmen" and instalment [sic] plans.' Such door to door reference material salesmen were common enough in the 1950s and even into the 1960s. Now, with the Internet, such an occupation is not only obsolete but unnecessary."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22T) "Okay, Mary Kay, time to..." POP CULTURE TIME: "Mary Kay Cosmetics sells innumerable health and beauty aids for men and for women. Most of the salespeople are ordinary people who buy the products from the company and then try to sell all of them at a higher price. The trick is trying to earn more selling than you spend buying the products. Amway works in a similar fashion (see http://www.skepdic.com/amway.html)."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22U) Xander backs away. FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "As Xander approaches, WORM GUY'S FACE starts to RIPPLE. Undulate, in fact. As though there were creepy crawly things UNDER his skin."--"What's My Line, Part 2" by Marti Noxon, available through Pocketbooks, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Two, Volume 2
22V) They open the door to the basement and hurry in... CONTINUITY CHECK: Interestingly, Xander and Cordy's relationship begins in Buffy's basement, and, the next time they will find refuge here is the first time they break up (for a short time) in Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (see 28CCC).
22W) "Whoa! There's a lotta tension in this room." LINKAGE: "This echoes back to Oz calling Buffy a tense person (see 21Fx4)."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22X) "That's really good for you, Percepto Girl..." POP CULTURE TIME: "Buffy is, of course, sarcastically commenting on how perceptive Kendra thinks she is. However, Percepto was a rather peculiar special effect used in the 1959 horror movie The Tingler. The Tingler was a monster that fed on fear and that attached itself to the base of human spines. The only thing that could kill it was a good loud scream. Theatres in which The Tingler was shown had seats rigged to deliver a mild electric shock. (I've heard all seats and certain selected seats--I suppose it depended on the theatre manager's budget and inclination.) At a certain point in the movie all the lights would go off and the projectionist announce that the Tingler was loose in THIS THEATRE, so scream as loud as you can...and would then administer the electric shocks. According to http://www.sudftw.com/movie3.htm, about 20 million people were buzzed at some point during this film. It was one of the most widespread horror movie gimmicks in history...and people hated it."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22Y) "Strictly high-class nude work. You know, art photographs. But naked." MARTI SPEAKS: "A lot of the times the best lines were added by your friend and mine, Joss Whedon." In the DVD Commentary, Marti also reveals that two other classic lines from this episode, Kendra calling her stake 'Mr. Pointy,' and 'Two slayers. No waiting,' were also penned by Joss.--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
22*1) Cut to Drusilla's bed. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED DRU SINGS: This transcript does not mention that a lace canopy is draped over the bedposts, and that when we first see Dru in this scene, it is through the netting. The lines obscuring her face reinforce the metaphor that Dru is trapped in her own madness that was used twice in Lie to Me (see 19A and 19ZZ) and will be used again in Becoming (see 33DDD).
22Z) "We were in Paris. You had a branding iron." SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS: One of the first instances of Dru's sadomasochistic tendencies.
22AA) "And there were worms in my baguette." DREAM A LITTLE DREAM: "A baguette is a long narrow loaf of French bread. Drusilla is probably dreaming of worms because of the ongoing battle Norman Pfister/Worm Guy is having Xander and Cordelia."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22BB) "Now all we need's the full moon tonight..." THAT TIME OF THE MONTH: "In the broadcast version of the episode Spike declares that night will be the night of the full moon. Later Giles and Kendra agree the same night will be the night of the new moon. The original script says new moon in both places, but... The new moon by definition sets at sunset. The full moon rises at sunset. Since Marti Noxon has Drusilla say 'The moon rising,' after dusk in the episode (see 22YYY), she should have written the full moon everywhere, or better, just left out the new moon/full moon hocus-pocus."--Cactus Watcher, Mon, 02/17/03 at 20:32:49
Playing Devil's Advocate (and trying to spackle in continuity problems!), it's possible that since Dru is crazy, we can discount what she says. The only real problem, then, would be James Marsters flubbing by saying "full" instead of "new," and since Spike doesn't go for all the ritual and hocus pocus, he may have misheard Dalton and not cared. Spike, after all, doesn't give a fig for the specifics of what moon it is, as long as the spell works.
22CC) "My black goddess." ASTROLOGICAL GOODNESS: "On at least one astrology website the Black Goddess, a seductress, child-killer and bride of evil, is related to the new moon. The image seems to suit Dru."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22DD) "...wicked plum." FRUITY GOODNESS: "In Chinese symbolism, the plum is a symbol of long life and strength. It's also the symbol of winter. Dru, the ‘ripe, wicked plum,’ the symbol of winter and long life (in the case of a vampire, eternal life), will be followed romantically by her opposite, the Summer(s) Slayer."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22EE) "You've been a very bad daddy." CONTINUITY CHECK: We will see Angel's siring of Dru in the two part season finale, Becoming.
NAMES: Dru, throughout the show will call attention to the symbolic incest prevalent in vampires, calling her sires by parental names. She calls Darla "Mummy" and Angel "Daddy." She also madly confuses matters more by referring to Spike as "Daddy," which implies the sadomasochistic tendencies underlying their relationship. She likes to think of her sexual partners (Spike, and possibly Angel) as her "Daddy."
Act Two
22FF) "It's a little more complicated than that, John Wayne." POP CULTURE TIME: "As an actor, John Wayne (1907-1979) specialized in take-charge roles in Westerns and war movies. From Wayne's biography at http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Wayne,+John: 'He has come to represent the archetypal American of our country's formative period: honest, direct, decisive, solitary, and reverent; one whose faith in his own ability enables him to take action when it's needed, and whose belief in justice spurs him to right wrongs when they're discovered.' Wayne's characters are prone to going into battle while vastly outnumbered and to making death-or-glory charges that can't possibly succeed but somehow do. Kendra has this inclination too. Ironically, so does Buffy."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22GG) "After meeting you, Buffy, I realized that, uh, the handbook would be of no use in your case." MARTI SPEAKS : "I made that [the Slayer Handbook] up, just because I thought it would be a funny way of showing that there were a bunch of…things that Giles had bypassed, because Buffy was unconventional and wasn’t a…rule-follower."--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
CONTINUITY CHECK: See 5WW.
22HH) "Hello, and welcome to planet pocket protector." DO THE URKEL: "A pocket protector is a piece of plastic which could be slipped in a shirt pocket to hold fountain pens or ballpoint pens to prevent leakage. Over the years, it evolved into the ultimate symbol of nerdiness. Willow doesn't respond to this comment, which may indicate that she's a bit hurt; after all, she's a nerd, and she wouldn't consider knowing a great deal about a text, as Kendra and Giles do, to be despicable."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22II) "Oh, no, well, a-a-actually she had to give up her cheerleading...Uh, it was quite an amusing story, actually." CONTINUITY CHECK: This is a reference to the events of The Witch, when Buffy loses her position as alternate cheerleader after throwing Joy into a wall.
22JJ) "Get a load of the she-Giles." MARTI SPEAKS: "The two Slayers don’t get along real well. Kendra’s much more…book-smart, and we were sort of making fun of the fact that…Buffy is not big with the studying, that’s she’s more of an instinctual Slayer…Kendra has more in common with…Giles, because she’s more of a learned person…"--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
22KK) "Buffy, no one could replace you. You'll always be Giles' favorite." JEALOUSY: There is a nice metaphor here, adding to the Giles-as-father metaphor. Here, Kendra is like a new stepsister (or perhaps stepmother) competing for the father's affections, and Willow reminds Buffy (who is the child, in this metaphor) that the father will always love her more than anybody else.
22LL) "You're *his* Slayer. The *real* Slayer." THE CHOSEN TWO: "Is Buffy the real slayer or not? Clearly, the bloodline has passed from Buffy to Kendra, and Kendra has been called. In that sense, Buffy is no longer a creature of destiny. She still retains her Slayer powers, but she now has freedom of choice: she can live a normal life, or she can continue to take on the responsibility of Slaying. If she continues to Slay, it will be because she chooses to--not because she is compelled to. There is a very real difference."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
Kendra would argue with this idea. See 22Kx4.
22MM) "Kendra, you slay, I'm going to Disneyland." COMMERCIAL BREAK: "Buffy's line is a take-off of the marketing campaign between Disney and the Superbowl, in which MVP players at the American Football championship reply to the question, 'What are you going to do next?' with 'I'm going to Disneyland.' The Disney postgame tradition began 14 years ago in Pasadena, Calif. Moments after leading the Giants to a 39-20 victory over the Broncos in Super Bowl XXI, New York quarterback Phil Simms stood in the middle of the Rose Bowl and, while showered with cheers from fans and the flicker of flashbulbs, uttered those memorable four words: 'I'm going to Disneyland.' Since then, 11 out of 13 Super Bowl MVPs have followed in Simms' footsteps."--Tyreseus, Mon, 02/17/03 at 19:40:05
22NN) "I can't believe that I'm stuck spending what will probably be my last few moments on Earth here WITH YOU!" CONTINUITY CHECK: In Apocalypse Nowish, Cordy will once again get romantic with the guy she is alone with when it looks like the world is about to end.
22OO) "I HATE YOU!" FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT: "A beat. They FALL INTO A KISS. A kiss of steel-melting, ground-shaking intensity. It just goes on and on and on...Finally, they break. LEAP apart as if they've been electrocuted."--"What's My Line, Part 2" by Marti Noxon, available through Pocketbooks, Inc. as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Two, Volume 2
22PP) She rushes up the stairs with Xander right behind. MARTI SPEAKS: "And they high-tail it out of there, ‘cause they’re more afraid of kissing each other than they are of the creepy worms!"--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
22QQ) "Told you!" SHY WILLOW: Never in her life has anyone ever checked Willow out. This is the girl who, when Buffy first approached her to be friends, had so little self-esteem, she couldn't fathom why anyone who was just hanging with Cordy would choose to be her friend (see 1U). The concept doesn't even enter her mind that someone might find her desirable as a friend or lover, but Buffy, perceptive as always, notices right away. She loves her friend and supports her finally finding a guy.
22RR) Quickly she draws her gun and aims it at Buffy. MARTI SPEAKS: "There’s some gunplay in this scene, which is really, really unusual…and I don’t think we would be allowed to do a gun in a school, period[, now]. We had to pull an episode after the Columbine tragedy [Earshot]…after that, the whole issue of guns in the schools on television has been taken a lot more seriously."--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
22SS) He lunges for Willow and pulls her to the floor with him, but takes the next bullet meant for Buffy in the arm. THE WONDER OF OZ: Note how with such casual effortlessness Oz behaves heroically.
INITIATION: "On the shooting of Oz - ME are very careful to show that nobody not previously involved in the occult joins the Scooby Gang in an Enid Blyton mood expecting fun adventure. Xander and Willow get attacked and lose a mutual friend the day they meet Buffy [in The Harvest], Cordelia is repeatedly threatened throughout late Season 1-early Season 2, Oz gets shot, even Tara nearly gets slaughtered by the Gentlemen [in Hush]. Owen [from Never Kill a Boy on the First Date] gets excluded as a potential adrenaline junkie (see 5UU)."--KdS, Tues, 02/18/03 at 11:58:29
22TT) Patrice grabs Jonathan as a hostage... POOR JONATHAN: The victim again. See 16Dx4, 17XXX, 24WW, 32M, 36VVV, 39SSS, and 43Y.
22UU) "I, uh, I'm shot!...Y'know...Wow! It's odd! And painful." THE WONDER OF OZ: Even when he is shot, Oz doesn't freak out or lose his quiet coolness. He seems oddly curious about what has happened to him, as if he welcomes every new experience, pleasant or unpleasant, with the same interest.
22VV) "Who sponsored career day today? The British Soccer Fan Association?" OUCH!: British Soccer games are known for the violence that ensues. "A number of fights, assaults, hurling of bottles and rocks, overturning of cars and buses and shootings...[are known to take] place at or after soccer matches...usually because the fans...[get] overly passionate about the game (a)...UK soccer hooliganism [has been going on] from the 1970s on, reached a peak in the 80s and still rumbles (b)."--(a) Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50; (b) KdS, Tues, 02/18/03 at 11:58:29, with additions by Rob
22WW) "Uh, i-it's rather complicated, but she's also a Slayer." COMPLICATED MYTHOLOGY: A great, understated example of the self-effacing nature of the show. So many fantastical happenings occur in Sunnydale everyday that Giles tells Xander the impossible...a new Slayer has been called. He doesn't act surprised at all, and doesn't even ask how it's possible. At many times, the mythology of the series can get so complicated that the fans are tearing their hair out trying to figure it out, while the characters just shrug it off, and this is a perfect example of that.
22XX) "Uh... I hope... I tank you... I mean, sir, um... I will be of service." MARTI SPEAKS: "…Kendra was completely unable to socialize. The quality that she didn’t share with Buffy was an ability to have friends and talk to boys and all that kind of stuff, where Buffy was…more like a real high school student, in a lot of ways. Kendra is the epitome of someone who’s just been raised to be a weapon."--Marti Noxon, DVD Commentary
22YY) "No, but this dude was completely different than praying mantis lady." CONTINUITY CHECK: "Preying Mantis lady" is, of course, the fake Mrs. French from Teacher's Pet (see 4II).
22ZZ) "Angel? But our priority is to stop Drusilla!" MESHED MOTIVES: "It doesn't seem to have occurred to Kendra that if Angel is saved and not bled for the ritual, that WILL stop Drusilla."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50
22AAA) "Angel's our friend! Except I don't like him." THE LOYAL: As ever, Xander is fiercely protective of his friends, and here it is to the point that he even argues the saving-Angel angle! This is such a wonderfully written line, because we see that Xander takes Buffy's side and will even help Angel, because, regardless of his personal feelings about Angel, he knows that Angel is important to Buffy, and that is enough.
22BBB) "But nobody messes with my boyfriend!" BUFFY THE PROTECTOR: "Typical Buffy here, stating an attitude she will hold for the rest of the series. She accepts danger for herself as part of the job; she neither accepts nor forgives anyone menacing or harming those she loves."--Rhys, Mon, 02/17/03 at 23:24:50