Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S5/E13 Blood Ties

Dawn finds out she is The Key. Ben and Glory's relationship is revealed.

"Jinx: I fear your faith is gravely misplaced."
 * All Women Love Shoes: Buffy goes to kick Glory in the face. Glory grabs her ankle and compliments Buffy on her shoes.
 * Anger Montage: Dawn trashes her room and destroys her diaries.
 * Badass Boast:

"Orlando: Shall we test your faith now?"
 * and then...

"Glory: You know what I'm starting to think? I'm thinking that maybe you ... (Dawn looking very apprehensive) don't have any idea where my Key is."
 * Both subverted when Orlando defeats Jinx and prepares to deliver the killing blow, only for him be stopped by Glory.
 * Bait and Switch Comment: Dawn is trying to string Glory along to find out more about her nature as the Key.

"Willow: We're doing an early warning incantation. If anything hellgodishly powerful comes within a hundred feet of the shop, then screechy siren things will, you know, screech."
 * Barehanded Blade Block: Glory grabs a sword just as it's about to be stabbed into Jinx.
 * Blood Sisters: When Dawn insists she's not Buffy's sister, Buffy takes blood from her shoulder wound, presses it to Dawn's bleeding hand and declares that "Summers blood", runs through their veins. Not a literal version of this trope but affirming a link that already exists.
 * Buffy Speak

"Buffy: How was school today?
 * Casual Kink: Anya and Xander sexual roleplay involves firemen and shepherds.
 * Continuity Nod: Spike's birthday gift for Buffy is the box of chocolates he crumpled in "Triangle".
 * Curse Cut Short: When she's teleported into mid-air above Sunnydale, Glory has time to say "Oh sh__" before gravity beats godhood.
 * Description Cut: Dawn teases Buffy that she should have defeated Glory as "She didn't look that tough." Cut to Glory torturing her prisoner.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything: Dawn's angst over discovering she's the Key is played similar to a child finding out they were adopted.
 * Elephant in The Living Room: The Scoobies aren't good at acting normal around Dawn.
 * Everythings Better With Chocolate: Ben offers Dawn hot chocolate when he finds her at the hospital.
 * Exact Eaves Dropping: Dawn runs off when she hears Buffy say she isn't real. Security guards rush past discussing the man Glory murdered, letting Buffy know Glory is in the hospital.
 * Exact Words

Dawn: Um, the usual. Big square building filled with boredom and despair.

Buffy: Just how I remember it."

"Glory: When he wakes up, tell your boyfriend to watch his mouth.
 * Becomes a Brick Joke in "Tough Love", when we discover that Dawn's Exact Words answer is covering for her playing hooky.
 * Foe Yay: Glory has loads of this with Orlando and Dawn.
 * Foreshadowing
 * Tara is alarmed over the idea of Glory draining someone's mind.
 * Spike offers a sympathetic ear when Buffy is blaming herself for Dawn running away, pre-empting his role as Buffy's confidant at the beginning of Season 6.
 * Dawn steals for the first time; her kleptomania becomes a serious problem in Season 6.
 * Flashback Echo: Dawn starts remembering all the odd events with mental patients, Crazy Homeless People, and giant snake-demons while Spike is reading out what kind of people/creatures can detect the Key.
 * Flash Step: Dawn turns her head away from Glory (who's standing across the room) then jumps as Glory is suddenly in front of her.
 * Genre Savvy: Spike says that as The Hero Buffy will rescue Dawn in the nick of time. And she does.
 * Get-Out-Get-Out-GET OUT!
 * Glamor Failure: People "outside reality" (seers and the insane) see the Key's true nature.
 * He Is Not My Boyfriend: And it won't be the last time Buffy will deny this about Spike.

Buffy: He is NOT my boyfriend!"

"Buffy: Glory is powerful, evil and in no way prettier than me."
 * Heroic BSOD: Poor Dawn.
 * Holding Hands: Buffy and Dawn at the end.
 * Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: It's Buffy's birthday again. Violence ensues.
 * Immune to Bullets: Giles' crossbow bolt just bounces off Glory's stomach.
 * Killed Off for Real: Dreg
 * Laser Guided Amnesia: Dawn forgets We later discover this is due to a spell.
 * The Last of These Is Not Like the Others

"Glory: Rude! I was talking!"
 * Madness Mantra: The Knights' prayer becomes this once Orlando goes mad.
 * Major Injury Underreaction: Xander whacks Glory over the head with a crowbar, causing her to gripe, "Hey! Watch the hair!"
 * Neck Snap: Glory kills a security guard who walks in on her and Dawn.

"Glory: (still with her back to Dawn) You'd never make it. I'd rip out your spine before you got half a step. And those little legs? (smiles over her shoulder at Dawn) They wouldn't be much good without one of those."
 * Spider Sense: Glory is changing her clothes with her back to Dawn, who looks at the door, clearly thinking of making a run for it.

"Glory: Hey, we were just talking about you.
 * Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Glory is about to brain-suck Dawn to send the Slayer a message when Buffy enters.

Buffy: Conversation's over, hell-bitch."

"Jinx: The Knights of Byzantium are like ants. First you see one, then two, then the picnic's ruined. No matter how many we kill, they'll keep coming ... wave after wave."
 * Psychic Nosebleed: Willow after she uses the teleportation spell.
 * Redshirt Army

"Glory: (seeing Buffy impaled on the crowbar) Nice catch."
 * Self Harm: After discovering the truth, Dawn cuts herself with a knife and asks the others, "Is this blood?"
 * Taking the Bullet: Glory throws a crowbar at Dawn and Buffy leaps in its path.
 * Taking the Bullet: Glory throws a crowbar at Dawn and Buffy leaps in its path.

"Xander: Anya, you wanna help me with that thing?
 * Talk About That Thing: Xander trying to get Anya out of the room, as she's acting strange even for her around Dawn.

Anya: Xander needs help with his thing!"

"Spike: I thought you said this skank was tough. [Glory beats up Spike and tosses him across the room]
 * Tempting Fate: Loads in the battle with Glory at the end.

[Giles' crossbow bolt bounces off Glory] Oh please! Like that's__ [Xander whacks her over the head with a crowbar]

Glory: Is that the best you little crap-gnats can muster? [Willow and Tara teleport Glory several hundred feet above Sunnydale]"

"Orlando: The link will be severed. Such is the will of God.
 * There Was a Door: Lampshaded when Dawn is complaining of how long Spike is taking to pick the lock of the Magic Shop; Spike says that normally he just kicks open the door.
 * Toplessness From the Back: Glory
 * Walk in Chime In

Jinx: You really think he is going to help you?"

"Willow: Well, you know what they say: The bigger they are...
 * You Know What They Say

Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothing."

"Glory: What is it with you religious types? It's intimacy, isn't it? Oh! You're just scared of letting someone in! (circles around him, hugging him and rubbing his chest) Shh, shh, shh. It's okay. I know how difficult the first time can be."
 * You Need to Get Laid: Glory is torturing Orlando.