Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E07 Lie to Me: Difference between revisions

* [[Book Ends]]: Ford arranging a date with Buffy is eerily reminiscent of the scene between Angel and Drusilla at the beginning of the episode, and conveys the same sense of battle lines being drawn.

** Buffy refuses to be lied to anymore, but Angel tells her that some lies are necessary, which is a nice setup for the end of the episode. (See "Title Drop")

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Buffy finally prying some hard facts out of Angel about his past. The truth will set you free -- unless it turns out to be [[Too Much Information]].

* [[Building Is Welding]]: The entrance to the Sunset Club.

* [[Cruel to Be Kind]]: Chantarelle asking Buffy if she can't see that it's a beautiful day for them. Time to duck, because Buffy's not pulling any more punches: "What I see is that, right after the sun goes down, Spike and all of his friends are going to be pigging out at the all-you-can-eat moron bar."

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Ford

* [[Death Trap]]: The Sunset Club. The handles have been cut off the metal doors, and the walls are three feet of solid concrete.

* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: Ford's flunky, Marvin. ("'''Diego!''' C'mon, man, it's Diego now!")

{{quote| '''Angel:''' Do you love me?<br />

'''Buffy:''' What?<br />

** Buffy apologizing for beeping Giles during his date, and Giles telling her she did the right thing, a little too enthusiastically. Miss Calendar picks up on that, and says she thought monster trucks would be a change of pace, to which Giles mutters, "It was a change."

* [[Hey, Wait!]]: Willow very-obviously acting jumpy around Ford. Buffy tells her to "'fess up", then accuses her of drinking too much caffeine. Willow gives a spastic fake laugh.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Angel railing on about how these kids don't know anything about vampires. "What they are, how they live, how they dress!" At that moment, a dude dressed in exactly the same outfit as Angel walks by. Angel [[Ahem|ahems]], and Xander and Willow share a smirk.

* [[I Have to Iron My Dog]]: Buffy covering for a vamp attack by asking Ford to fetch her purse, which she "left back at the Bronze."

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Giles is unsure about Jenny's "surprise" for him, but finally stammers, "Alright, I put myself in your hands."

{{quote| '''Jenny''': That sounds like fun.}}

* [[It Never Gets Any Easier]]

* [[It's Probably Nothing]]: Willow discovering that Ford isn't actually registered at Sunnydale High.

'''Jenny''': The kind that's secret. You know, where I don't actually tell you what it is. }}

* [[Shout-Out]]: Ford's line "die young and stay pretty" is a reference to the line "live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse" from Humphrey Bogart's 1949 film Knock on Any Door. James Dean also quoted the line in an interview shortly before his death.

** The movie playing at the Sunset Club was Dan Curtis' 1973 television adaption of Bram Stoker's ''[[Dracula]]'', starring Jack Palance.

{{quote| '''Willow:''' Do they stick out? I mean, have you ever seen a thumb and gone, 'Wow! That baby is sore!'<br />

'''Xander:''' You have too many thoughts. }}

* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: Spike bemoans his poor security when he discovers Ford gawking at his "cool" lair.

** When Buffy crashes his party, Ford mutters to Diego that it's "drafty". Subverted, as this is code for "seal the doors."

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Willow thinks it's "neat" that Ford kept her secret, and Buffy agrees, because now she can relax around him. In a lovely ironic transition, we fade to Ford knocking on the door of the Sunset Club.

** Ford searches for a word to describe the town, and Buffy suggests "dull." He agrees, but upon seeing two vampires hurrying near the school, he changes his mind.