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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 (TV)/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.
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* [[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''.
* [[As Long Asas It Sounds Foreign]]: Buffy making Kendra promise not to go "wiggy" until they go talk to Giles and find out what's up.
{{quote| '''Kendra:''' ''(fists up)'' Wiggy?<br />
'''Buffy:''' No kicko, no fighto. }}
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{{quote| '''Cordelia:''' You know, [[Nothing Personal]], but maybe you should look into selling dictionaries."}}
* [[Call Back]]: To "Prophecy Girl".
** 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 (TV)/Recap/S1 E3 The Witch|a funny story]]."
** "You [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S1 E4 Teachers Pet|and bug people]], Xander. What's up with that?"
* [[Cannot Talk to Men]]: Kendra gets flustered when talking to Xander and refuses to look at him. She tells Buffy later that her Watcher forbid her to have anything to do with boys.
* [[Ceiling Cling]]: It's easier when you're a [[The Worm That Walks|swarm of maggots]].
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* [[Creepy Cathedral]]
* [[Cruel Mercy]]
* [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon]]: Spike gives Willy several bills, but adds a warning, "Talk and I'll have your guts for garters." For good measure, he drops one of the bills in the sewer water.
* [[Dark Action Girl]] / [[Impersonating an Officer]]: Patrice the assassin lady. Also [[Gun Nut]] (she's packing at least three guns) and [[Nothing Up My Sleeve]] (has a switchblade up each arm).
* [[Death Byby Looking Up]]
* [[Defensive Feint Trap]]
* [[Defiant to Thethe End]]
* [[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.
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* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: The larvae try to get in through the crack between the floor and the door. Xander stuffs the frame with duct tape.
* [[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.
* [[Emotions vs. Stoicism]]
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Oz explaining his decision not to become a Corporate Computer Suit Guy... or a [[Brilliant but Lazy|work-of-any-kind]] guy.
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{{quote| '''Kendra:''' That's ma best shirt! [[Berserk Button|That's ma only shirt!]]}}
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]
* [[Locked in Aa Room]]: Xander and Cordelia are trapped in Buffy's basement with Worm Guy lurking upstairs. They start arguing about whether or not to break out, which degrades into [[Volleying Insults]] which ends in a [[Big Damn Kiss]]. They then break apart, stare at each other in horror, and agree to break out immediately.
* [[Logical Weakness]]
* [[Long Story Short]]
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* [[Must Let Them Get Away]]: Patric, having exhausted all of her guns, grabs Jonathan and holds [[Knife Nut|a knife to his throat]]. She backs up toward the exit, then throws Jonathan aside and bolts.
* [[Neck Lift]]
* [[Needle in Aa Stack of Needles]]: In this episode, we learn that there are 43 churches in Sunnydale.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]
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* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]
* [[Punched Across the Room]]
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]
* [[Race Against the Clock]]
* [[Rage Judo]]
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* [[Screaming Warrior]]
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]
* [[Sealed Withwith a Kiss]]: Embarrassed over their earlier smooch, Xander and Cordelia agree [[That Didn't Happen]], but then [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|start arguing over whose fault it was]], which only gets them worked up for yet another kiss.
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]
* [[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."
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* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]
{{quote| '''Willow:''' Don't warn the tadpoles!}}
* [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]: Cordelia badgering Norman about whether he has anything in raisin, as she's "both a winter and a summer."
* [[Teach Him Anger]]
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]
* [[The End - Oror Is It?]]
* [[Throw It In]]: Sarah Michelle Gellar improvised the line "I tink we might make him", where she mocks Kendra's accent.
** Most of the "Monkey Pants" conversation was ad-libbed. Seth Green mentioned in an Ultimate TV talk that the line "I mock you with my monkey pants" was initially dreamed by Alyson Hannigan.
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