Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E10 What's My Line? Part 2: Difference between revisions

We open straight onto where we left: Buffy and Kendra in Angel's apartment, putting up their dukes. Buffy tells her to knock off the Slayer cover-story. Kendra lapses into a speech worthy of Giles about how she is one girl in all the world, a chosen one with strength and skill to kill the vampires. [[Smash Cut|Speaking of...]] Across town, Angel's huddled in a corner in his cage. The sun is blazing through the window now, and there is very little shade left.

Buffy and Kendra go to Giles for help in explaining their situation. They deduce that since Buffy was, for a moment, physically dead (in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1 /E12 Prophecy Girl|last season's finale]]), it caused the "activation" of the next Slayer. Their squabble reveals that Kendra had locked Angel in a cage, leaving him to be dusted at sunrise. Buffy and Kendra rush over there to find only an empty cage with a bit of smoke; Buffy fears the worst, but Kendra points out the absence of dust.

Willy the Snitch arrives in time to saves Angel, only to dump his body down a sewer grate where Spike is waiting. Spike hands Willy a wad of cash, and his men cart the severely-weakened Angel off.

Spike takes Angel back to the factory, where Dru coyly asks Spike to "let [her] have him." Spike agrees to let her play (i.e. torture), on the condition that she doesn't kill him, as he's needed for the ritual.

We cut back to Cordy and Xander who are still in Buffy's basement. Xander yells at her for letting in worm-guy; Cordelia fires back that Xander ought to be thinking up a plan, and he replies that he has one: to sit and wait for Buffy to come and save them. This sets off more arguing -- untilarguing—until finally, they grab each others' faces and kiss passionately, [[The Big Damn Kiss|whilst the music swells to a cheesy high point with violins and clashing cymbals]]. They break apart and Xander, with a look of alarm, points out that they ''really'' need to get out of there. They carefully remove the duct tape from the door and peek out. Coast is clear. Xander makes it, but Cordelia is covered in a barrage of worms falling from the ceiling and starts squealing for Xander to help her as she runs out of the house. Xander grabs a garden hose and starts hosing her down, then they jump into the "Queen C" and swerve off down the road.

Buffy sulks down to the career fair to appease Principal Snyder. The female cop leading the seminar reads off Buffy's name, but when Buffy identifies herself, the officer draws her gun. Buffy avoids the spray of bullets, which instead hit Oz in the arm as he pushes Willow out of harm's way. Kendra comes to Buffy's rescue, and Assassin #3 makes her escape. The Scoobies gather in the library, where Giles inquires after Oz (the bullet just grazed him) and then announces that Spike intends to kill "Drusilla's sire" in a ritual in order to restore Drusilla to full strength.

Angel is tied to the bedposts in Drusilla's room, and it's not as fun as it sounds. Dru pours holy water on him (""It makes pretty colors") as she reminds him about how he killed her whole family. Angel taunts Spike with insinuations that Dru is enjoying this too much, and that Spike is unable to satisfy Dru, in hopes that Spike will kill him. Spike flips out, but Dru warns him not lose sight of the big picture.

The Slayers go kicking in Willy's door again. Buffy forces Willy to take her to the location of the ritual, but Kendra refuses to accompany her because "proper procedure" dictates they report to their Watcher first. So Buffy alone accompanies Willy, but it's a trap--hetrap—he delivers her right into the assassins from earlier, then together they go into the church where the ritual is in progress: Angel and Dru are tied up beside the pulpit with a dagger through their palms. Spike orders Buffy's death, but at that moment, Kendra arrives to save her -- andher—and she's brought the rest of the Scoobies with her. Xander taunts "Larva boy" to follow him, then lures him outside where Cordelia is waiting with a bucket of liquid glue. The sticky trap keeps the worms from re-materializing, allowing Cordy and Xander to stomp them. Spike starts a fire and rushes to untie the unconscious Dru, hoping that the ritual has had time to cure her. However, Buffy knocks him into a pipe organ, which collapses on top of him and Dru. She rushes to the floor to help the weakened Angel, and everyone beats a hasty retreat.

Kendra and Buffy part on cordial terms--Kendraterms—Kendra even wearing Buffy's shirt. She tells Buffy she does not blame her for being with Angel, but chastises that slaying is not "a job", it is a part of who they are.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Buffy tells Kendra to watch the movie on her flight home unless it's a "movie with a dog in it and Chevy Chase." This may be a reference to ''[[Funny Farm]]'', a 1988 movie starring Chase that Gellar had [[Old Shame|a small, uncredited role in]].

** Kendra immediately accosting Willow in the library ("IDENTITY YOURSELF"), prompting Buffy to cut in, "Back off, Pink Ranger." This is likely an [[In -Joke]] since Sophia Crawford was both Amy Jo Johnson's stunt double on ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and SMG's on ''Buffy''.

* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: The restoration ritual requires the presence of Drusilla's sire, and must take place in a church on the night of the new moon.

* [[Badass in Distress]] / [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]

* [[Big Stupid Doodoo Head]] / [[Lame Comeback]]

* [[Blatant Lies]]: After giving himself props for saving Angel(!), Willy says that he went underground to "recuperate."

** Upon learning that Buffy is enrolled at SHS, Kendra casts her a disdainful look. "Right, of course. And I imagine she's a cheerleader as well." Buffy looks a bit cowed, and Giles chuckles that she actually was a cheerleader, and "it's [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1 E3/E03 The Witch|a funny story]]."

** "You [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1/E04 E4 TeachersTeacher's Pet|and bug people]], Xander. What's up with that?"

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: When Buffy and Kendra are talking in Giles' office, Buffy is sharpening a knife, but it appears that what she is doing would just be blunting the knife.

** Oz says that his current goal in life is to learn play an E flat diminished ninth chord. Despite his struggle, it's not an impossible chord on guitar.

* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]

* [[Dope Slap]]: Xander's quip about Angelus getting "major neck in his day", earning him a smack from Willow.

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Patrice aims at Buffy from point-blank range, but a foot comes into the frame and kicks the gun away, then connects with cop lady's face for good measure.

* [[Eek! aA Mouse!]]: Cordelia doesn't "do" worms.

* [[Human Shield]]: Jonathan's the [[Butt Monkey]], yet again -- heagain—he's briefly held at knifepoint by Patrice.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Kendra's dry question to Buffy, "Did anyone explain to you what 'secret identity' means?", recalls Buffy's own exasperated observation to that same effect in the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth".

** Oz is kind of excited to be shot. "It's odd! [[Captain Obvious|And painful]]."

* [[No Except Yes]]: Kendra deadpans that she had good reason to think Buffy was a creature of the night, as she saw her kissing one.

* [[PietaPietà Plagiarism]]: Drusilla carrying an injured Spike.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Giles asking Xander what his assassin looked like. Cordy pulls out a larva from somewhere in her dress, and runs off in a panic to shower. Xander: "Like that."

* [[Shout-Out]]: "If Dru dies, your little Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm and all her mates are spared her coming out party." This is a play on ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'', the 1903 book by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin.

* [[Snark -to -Snark Combat]]: Happens naturally when you've got two Slayers in the same room.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Trying to track Buffy's moves, Patrice fires several shots, one of which hits a diving Oz in the arm. /

* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: Cordelia badgering Norman about whether he has anything in raisin, as she's "both a winter and a summer."

* [[Trust Password]]: Kendra's watcher, Sam Zubuto, is very well respected, leading Giles to conclude that Kendra seems to be legitimate.

* [[Why Are You Not My Son?]]: Kendra impressing Giles with her knowledge of Draemius's writings. They share a tee-hee about how dry the book is.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]

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