Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7/E15 Get It Done

One of the potentials  and Buffy discovers the origins of the First Slayer.

"Willow: Oh, hi. Hey. Well, Buffy, I—I see that our preparation for the school-pep-dance-cheer-drill contest are coming along. (to the Potentials) Bring it on!
 * Amazon Brigade: There are now almost twenty Potentials living in Buffy's house, but to Buffy's mind they resemble more a Redshirt Army than a Slayer army.
 * Badass Decay (In Universe): Buffy gets stuck into both Spike and Willow for not using their full abilities.
 * Badass Longcoat / Iconic Item
 * Bad Liar: Willow comes out with an armful of weaponry and sees Buffy with Principal Wood, watching the Potentials learn martial arts.

Buffy: It's OK, I filled him in on everything.

Willow: (lets out a sigh of relief) Oh, thank God! If I had to explain all these weapons, I had nothing."

"Buffy: Does anyone want to say a few words? [silence] Then I will. Chloe was an idiot."
 * Bait and Switch Comment: Buffy returns from burying Chloe.

"Buffy: You'll have to forgive Andrew...or maybe not."
 * The Big Board: Andrew objects to Buffy showing Wood around the place as he might see the Big Board. When Buffy points out they don't have a Big Board, Andrew produces his own whiteboard drawing of Sunnydale.

"Kennedy: Better get started.
 * Bring Me My Brown Pants

Willow: I think I might pee my pants.

Kennedy: You can do it -- the magics, not the pants thing."

"Kennedy: Is getting thrown through the ceiling what he does best?"
 * Catapult Nightmare: One of the few played-straight examples; usually Buffy just wakes up normally from a bad dream.
 * Chained to A Rock / Chain Pain: Buffy is chained to the ground so she can be raped by the essence of a demon. As she's already got Slayer strength however, she rips free her chains and uses them the kick the Shadow Men's asses.
 * Continuity Nod
 * Robin Wood recognises Spike's Badass Longcoat, which he stripped from the corpse of the New York Slayer in "Fool For Love".
 * The Slayer's bag is the same Buffy saw in her dream in "Restless". Likewise the brief shot of the First Slayer chained to the ground is finally explained.
 * Spike says that having a soul makes him "more or less" unique, referring to Angel.
 * Both Adam (in her dream in "Restless") and Dracula (in "Buffy vs. Dracula") have hinted to Buffy that her power is rooted in darkness.
 * Cunning Linguist: Dawn can now read Sumerian; presumably because Anthony Stewart Head wasn't available for some reason.
 * Deadpan Snarker

"Willow: Via concursus tempus spatium audi me ut imperio Screw it! Mighty forces, I suck at Latin, OK? But that's not the issue. I'm the one in charge, and I'm telling you: Open up, portal, now!"
 * Double Entendre: Spike with "It's my bone. Let it go." and "You don't want to miss a look at her weapons chest."
 * Driven to Suicide: Chloe
 * Empathic Environment / Running Gag: The BEWARE OF THE DOG sign reappears in the alley where Spike fights the demon.
 * Evil Gloating: The First materialises as Chloe next to her hanging corpse to give its own "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
 * Evil Makeover: Willow "going brunette".
 * Exact Eavesdropping: The First repeats Buffy's words back to the Potentials.
 * Foreshadowing
 * Buffy sees Chloe crying in her dream.
 * Buffy's Cruel to Be Kind approach alienates the Potentials, which only makes her worse and sets her up for her confrontation with Faith.
 * He's Back: From Wimpyre to Blood Knight in one Badass fight.
 * Humanoid Abomination:
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Spike strikes a match on the dead demon and lights up a ciggie.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Buffy describes Willow as "The Wicca Who Won't-a".
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: Merging with the shadowy demon that turns her into the Slayer borders on rape.
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: Kennedy takes to the role with gusto.
 * Language of Magic: Spoofed.

"Buffy: I knew it. It's always the staff."
 * Life Energy: Willow drains life force from Kennedy (and apparently Anya and Dawn) to increase her power. She's not happy about it.
 * Leaning On the Fourth Wall: Buffy's response to Wood regarding the Hellmouth "blowing around May" is referencing the fact that the apocalypses usually occur as the season finales, which tend to air in May.
 * Anya and Xander note that their role is to "provide much needed sarcasm."
 * Living Shadow: The shadow casters tell the story of the creation of the First Slayer.
 * Lotus Position: Willow casting the spell.
 * Magical Negro: The Shadow Men. To be fair though, since this takes place in the beginning of human race, everybody was black back then. Thus they couldn't really be anything but negros.
 * Magic Staff

"Anya: (points to the box) What's inside it?
 * Mind Rape: The First pulls it on Chloe.
 * Mood Whiplash: Dawn is teasing Buffy about bunking off her school studies when they open a door and find Chloe hanging from the ceiling. Willow tells the others to put on the coffee as the spell might take a while -- suddenly she's got Black Eyes of Evil and a banshee shriek.
 * Neck Snap: Spike killing the demon.
 * Not a Date: Spike and Anya.
 * Oh Crap: Buffy turns down the Shadow Men's offer of greater power. They then give Buffy a vision of what lies in wait for her,
 * Open Says Me

Wood: Mm, I don't know. It hasn't been opened since-- (Buffy breaks off the lock with her bare hands) Well, since now."

"Anya: You missed her "everyone sucks but me" speech. If she's so superior, let her find her own way back."
 * Power Trio: The Shadow Men
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Buffy gives one to the Potentials and Scoobies. Anya even lampshades it later.

"Spike: I did this for you. The soul, the changes -- it's what you wanted!
 * Sealed Evil in A Can: A literal version with the Shadow Men keeping the essence of a demon in a box.
 * Series Continuity Error: Spike left his black leather duster at Buffy's place after his Attempted Rape in "Seeing Red". Having it in a box in the Sunnydale High basement implies he had it with him all the time.
 * Sink or Swim Mentor: Buffy jumps into the portal, knowing it will force Spike and Willow to overcome their insecurities to save her.
 * Squishy Wizard: It doesn't take much for Buffy to knock the Shadow Men on their keisters.
 * Staircase Tumble: Buffy is knocked down the stairs in her dream by the First Slayer.
 * Stock Ninja Weaponry: Wood chucks some shuriken at the demon. They're about as useful as you'd expect.
 * Teach Him Anger: Buffy taunts Spike that he was more Badass when he didn't have a soul.

Buffy: What I want is the Spike that's dangerous. The Spike that tried to kill me when we met.

Spike: (angrily) Oh, you don't know how close you are to bringing him out.

Buffy: I'm nowhere near him."

"Wood: Buffy tells me you have been, um—oh, how shall I put it—experimenting. (Willow's eyes grow wide; she casts a "You said what?" glance at Buffy) With the magicks."
 * Tempting Fate: Buffy says she's in some kind of simulation; one of the Shadow Men knocks her out with his staff. Later Buffy says, "Tell me something I don't know." The Shadow Men show her something she doesn't want to know.
 * Testosterone Poisoning / Terse Talker: Spike vs. Wood
 * That Came Out Wrong

"Spike: No need to thank me. I'm just the one who beat him off.
 * Anya is disappointed that Souled!Spike didn't fight a demon to the death when Buffy and Robin Wood walk into the conversation.

Buffy & Robin: ...

Spike: Repelled him would perhaps be the better phrase. (Buffy smirks) Demon..."


 * Translator Microbes
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Buffy gets called out on the way she's acting.
 * Kennedy is shocked when Willow drains her Life Energy.
 * Buffy does this to the Shadow Men.
 * You Talk Too Much: The Shadow Men comment that "The First Slayer did not talk so much."