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Xander wonders at the vamp's acrobatics. Oz suddenly recognizes the vamp as Andy Hoelich from the gymnastics team. Xander, fuming, chastises Willow for her cheesy line, but she defensively points out that Buffy always has a quip ready. Xander misses her punnage, and Willow admonishes him for breaking the "past-tense rule." Right, right; Buffy's due back any moment now. The gang speculates on Buffy's return as the camera pans out.
Buffy is standing on the beach, close to sunset. A pair of arms encircle her; it's Angel. "I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me".
Buffy wakes up. She walks to the window, and the camera pans out to reveal a street that's definitely on [[Los Angeles|the wrong side of the tracks]].
In the morning, Buffy -- in pigtails and a checkered uniform -- waits on a young couple who are canoodling. The girl is vampire-wannabe Chantarelle (from "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2
Meanwhile, Sunnydale High is rebooting for the new year. Oz was supposed to go to summer school but forgot, so he's repeating senior year (lucky us). Xander and Cordelia initially look happy to see each other again, but each is waiting for the other to make the first move. After some fumbled dialogue, they dart off in opposite directions. Giles continues his search to find Buffy. He gets off the phone and announces that he has a lead -- a report of a young girl fighting vampires in Oakland. This is apparently not the first such lead they've had. Xander suspects they won't find Buffy until she ''wants'' to be found.
Night. Buffy walks back from work. Lily calls to her, "Buffy?" Buffy stops in her tracks. Lily asks if Buffy recognizes her, and promises that she didn't tell anyone Buffy's identity. We learn for sure that Lily is homeless, and Buffy reveals that Anne is [[Sue Donym|her middle name]]. Lily says that she's always changing her name; Chanterelle was part of her "exotic phase." Buffy informs her that chanterelle is a mushroom. Lily looks alarmed, and Buffy backpedals by telling her that it's an "exotic mushroom." Ah well. Inevitably, Lily asks Buffy for some cash, but an old man shambles in between them. He creepily says, "I'm no one," and wanders out into the street before freezing like a deer in the headlights. Since he's actually ''in'' the headlights, Buffy races out and pushes him to safety, and gets hit by an SUV for her trouble. A crowd forms around Buffy, but she recovers and quickly runs off. Rounding a corner, she runs right into a missionary, knocking a bunch of flyers out of his hand. As they gather the flyers up, he introduces himself as "Ken." He inquires after her well-being, and [[An Aesop|PSAs]] about kids on the street. He gives Buffy a flyer for a halfway house called "Family Home."
Giles returns from his false lead ("[[LARP|Bunch of school kids in heavy mascara]]") to visit with Joyce. She opens the door expectantly, but is disappointed to see him. She's afraid to leave the house in case Buffy calls or shows up. Giles tells Joyce that she shouldn't blame herself for Buffy's departure, but Joyce turns it around: "I blame you." Ooph.
Lily finds Buffy at the diner. She tells Buffy that Rickie has disappeared, and begs her for help. Cut to a blood bank, where Lily exposits that she and Rickie Lily and Ricky went there the day before to score money (and cookies). Buffy asks a large female doctor if Rickie has been in in the last day. Negative. As they leave, the ominous music of "I'm Not Telling The Whole Story" plays of the doc's face.
Out in the street, Buffy finds the man whose life she saved the previous night lying dead in the gutter, having drunk drain cleaner. She kneels and turns his arm over, and finds the "Lily" tattoo. Buffy concludes that Rickie has somehow been "drained" of his youth.
Lily waits nervously at Buffy's apartment. Buffy enters, and breaks the news about Rickie. Lily doesn't take it very well, accusing Buffy of maybe bringing a monster that caused this. Lily runs outside, straight into the arms of Ken. He invites her to come to Family Home, telling her that Rickie ''has already joined them''. Meanwhile at the blood bank, Buffy interrogates the doctor from earlier, who pleads that she just forwards "them" the names of the "healthy ones.". Cut to Ken preparing Lily, who's now wearing a smock, for a ceremony called a "Cleansing." Ken instructs Lily to kneel in front of an ink-black, rectangular pool. He explains that the pool is to "wash away the past." With motor oil? Meanwhile, Buffy's at the Family Home door, asking some goon if she can join up ("You know, I just -- I woke up, and I looked in the mirror and I thought, 'Hey! What's with all the sin?'"). When that doesn't work, she kicks the door open and finds Ken in the cleansing room -- just in time for the tar to suck Lily into the pool. Buffy tries to follow, but Ken tangles her up and they both fall in, right through the black pool and into a hellish-looking forge. Young men and women, all dressed in the same style of smock as Lily, working as slaves. Some are being whipped by demon guards. Ken reveals himself as a demon of some sort with a human face glued on, and sends his guards after the girls. The two are quickly caught and told that they will be living there for as long as they can serve as useful slaves. Time moves much more quickly in their current reality, which is why Rickie aged so many years while no time had passed on Earth.
Buffy, Lily, and several other kids are brought before a demon guard for orientation. He barks at the kids, "YOU ARE NO ONE NOW." Right. Let's practice. Demon Guard asks a boy at one end of the line who he is. The boy stammers, "Aaron." Wrong answer. Guard clocks him with a club. Buffy seems to steel herself at that. Lily's next in line: she cheeps, "No one!" Ding ding ding! You've been voted Most Likely Not To Get Clocked On The Head By A Demon Guard! Then it's Buffy's turn:
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{{quote|"[[Title Drop|I'm Buffy. The vampire slayer. And you are?"]]}}
He tries to beat her down, but she makes short work of the three guards, and instructs the kids to follow her. Time for the fight. Buffy is kicking demon ass and taking demon names. Aww yeah, who's no one now? Lily shepherds the kids out; they reach a large iron gate gate, which Buffy lifts up with slayer strength. The kids go under it, and Buffy starts to go herself when Ken tackles her from behind. He bowls her over, and the gate crashes down, impaling him through both legs. The kids are escaping upward through the portal. Buffy picks up a spiked club and approaches Ken.
{{quote|"Hey, Ken, wanna see my impression of Gandhi?" }}
She rains the club down on his head. Lily is still trying to figure out the joke.
{{quote|"...Well, you know, if he was really pissed off." }}
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* [[Adventure Duo]]: [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] Buffy, and lanky [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Lily.
* [[Art Shift]]: With better ratings came a bigger budget for the show; this episode was the first to be shot on larger-format 35mm film instead of the 16mm of the first two seasons, leading to a visible jump in image quality, particularly in nighttime scenes.
* [[An Axe to Grind]] / [[Drop the Hammer]]: The guards take swings at Buffy with hand axes and blacksmith hammers.
* [[Another Dimension]]
* [[Bad Liar]] / [[Dirty Harriet]]: Buffy trying (and failing) to talk her way into Family House.
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* [[The Bait]]: Cordy. And as a bonus, she's [[Bull Seeing Red|wearing red]].
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Lily.
* [[Benevolent Architecture]]: In the foundry, Buffy climbs hand-over-hands up a rope chain to escape the mob of guards.
** The giant spiked gate which closes on Ken. Yeeowch.
* [[Between My Legs]] / [[Closeup on Head]]: Willow getting her Slayer on.
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* [[Brutal Honesty]]: As Buffy is rifling through some files, the nefarious doctor enters and demands to know what she's doing. Buffy: "Breaking into your office and going through your private files." Hee.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Xander ordering Cordelia to go act "baity."
* [[Call Back]]: Chantelle, one of the [[Vampire Vannabe|Vampire Vannabes]] from "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2
** Cordelia suggesting that Xander might have got together with an "Inca Mummy Girl" while she was away.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Xander and Cordelia in the hall.
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* [[The City Narrows]]: Buffy finally tracks down Rickie, long since keeled over, in an abandoned warehouse full of [[Hobos]].
* [[Comically Missing the Point]] / [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: At the blood bank, Buffy thinks it would be best if she and Lily split up. Lily nods in agreement, then blankly asks, "Can I come with you?"
** "Okay, where did I lose you on the whole 'splitting up' thing?"
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Old!Rickie and Anne, unbeknowst to her. Her empty glare at the "rude" old man is definitely a case of [[Harsher in Hindsight]].
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]] / [[You Got Spunk]]: Ken. "You got guts. I think I'd like to slice you open and play with them."
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* [[Disposable Vagrant]]
* [[Dissimile]]: It seems Buffy has confused Gandhi with Teddy Roosevelt.
* [[Diving Save]]: Buffy pushing Old!Rickie out of a vehicle's path.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Social issues covered by this episode include teenage runaways and sweatshops.
** Ken drops the [[Anvilicious|anvil]] with this line: "This is not a good place for a kid to be. [[Foreshadowing|You get old fast]] out here."
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* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Ken.
* [[Greasy Spoon]]
* [[Half Truth]]: Xander whines over how weak and uncoordinated the gang is without a Slayer.
{{quote|'''Oz''': I don't know, I think we're getting a rhythm down.
'''Xander:''' We're losing half the vamps.
'''Oz:''' Yeah, but...rhythmically. }}
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: As Buffy and Lily are stewing in a cell, Ken drops by to gloat through the prison bars. He taunts Lily about her boyfriend's suffering, then turns his attention to Buffy, ridiculing her for running away from her old identity -- to disappear. "Congratulations. [[Be Careful What You Wish For|You got your wish.]]"
** [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Ken momentarily [[Bond Villain Stupidity|releases Lily]] and steps to the platform's edge to lecture everyone on "the price of "rebel--!!". One assumes he was going to say "rebellion," but we'll never know for sure, because Lily takes this opportunity to shove him off the platform. Thud.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Buffy asks for their order, Rickie dumps some change on the table and asks what they can afford with that much.
{{quote|'''Lily:''' Can we get cake?
'''Rickie:''' Don't be stupid. We gotta eat healthy. [to Buffy] You got any pie? }}
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* [[It Gets Easier]]: Buffy to Anne in the epilogue.
* [[It's Kind of a Funny Story]]: Oz prefacing his admission that he's repeating the 12th grade.
* [[It's Personal]]: Willow stubbornly defends her [[You Fight Like a Cow|quips]], but admits her choice of words was lame. Oz suggests this trope instead. "There's a reason why it's a classic."
* [[Latex Perfection]]: Ken's rubber mask. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to glue that thing on?!"
* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]: Buffy discovers that the runaways have all been stamped "<small>CANDIDATE</small>" by the blood bank.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Ken. After Buffy returns with all the others, the black pool solidifies.
* [[The Lost Lenore]]: Buffy for Angel; even the sight of Lily and Richie smooching makes her envious.
* [[Made a Slave]]
* [[Malaproper]]: Xander. "Look, I don't mean to poop the party here..."
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: ''I'm no one.''
** At hearing news of Rickie's death, Lily says despairingly, "But -- he takes care of me." We can surmise that she's has spent years drifting from one 'protector' to the next. At the end, Lily (now "Anne") is resigned to standing on her own feet, but laments, "I'm not very good at taking care of myself."
** [[Characterization Marches On|We'll see]].
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Ken's stooge at the blood bank.
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* [[Rescue Sex]] / [[Suggestive Collision]]: Xander comes at Andy Hoelich, stake ready, but is easily overpowered. Upon seeing Xander in distress, Cordelia's scorn immediately turns to concern, and she dogpiles on Andrew from behind. They end up with Andrew sandwiched between Xander on the bottom and Cordelia on the top. With Cordelia's weight on top of him, Andrew can't hold back the stake any longer, and he explodes into ashes. Cordelia falls down on top of Xander. The two of them look at each other for an instant, then grab each other and start kissing passionately.
* [[The Reveal]]: Ken assuring Lily that her boyfriend is safe and sound at his halfway house.
* [[The Runaway]]: Buffy, of course. Also implied to be the case with Lily. When Buffy asks what they call Lily "at home", Lily looks away with an expression that clearly says, "Home is where the sexual abuse is."
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Willow's "past-tense rule." She daydreams that Buffy will suddenly show up when school starts. Xander brings her back to reality: "She can't just show up; she got ''kicked out''."
* [[She's Back]]: "I'm Buffy. The Vampire Slayer. And you are?"
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'''Xander:''' [[Ask a Stupid Question|The vampire kills you]]. [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|We watch. We rejoice]]. }}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lily wears a white t-shirt that says, "Dent" and has a red heart with the words "Home of" visible inside the heart. This is most likely a nod to ''[[Rocky Horror]]'', in which a billboard depicts a large red heart with the word "Denton" above it (Denton is the name of the town in which the film takes place) and the phrase "The Home of Happiness" inside it.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: It goes without saying, Lily and Rickie.
{{quote|'''Ken''': [to Lily] He forgot you. Took him a long time. He remembered your name years after he'd forgotten his own. But, in the end...}}
* [[Stock Footage]]: The montage depicting the teen runaways will be used again in the ''Angel'' pitch tape. The image of the teenage girl with the large skirt alone in the street will be used in the credits of ''Angel''.
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* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Joyce's speech to Giles.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]
* [[The Triple]]: The doctor warns Buffy that she's in a whole lot of trouble. Lady, don't argue with a grouchy Slayer at 3am.
{{quote|"[[The Drifter|I don't want any trouble]]. I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fireplace and a tea cozy. I don't even know what a tea cozy is, [[Rule of Cool|but I want one]]."}}
* [[A Truce While We Gawk]]: The guards holding Buffy freeze in place when Ken shouts his ultimatums. Lily pushes him from behind, and he falls screaming to the floor below. The guards holding Buffy just watch as he hits bottom with a loud thud.
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{{quote|'''Cordelia:''' [Xander] didn't meet anybody over the summer, did he? No, who's he gonna meet in Sunnydale, but monsters and stuff? But then again he's always been attracted to monsters...}}
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: The escaped kids hide under the stairs while Buffy and Lily hatch a plan: Buffy=diversion, Lily=get the kids to safety.
* [[Welcome to Hell]] / [[Welcome to My World]]: Ken warmly welcoming Buffy and her sidekick to his dimension.
** Later, when Lily wonders if they're in Hell, Ken waxes philosophic about Hell being "the total absence of hope."
* [[World Half Empty]]: [[Smash Cut]] from Buffy's dream of [[One True Love|her and Angel]] on a beautiful beach to Buffy alone in a rundown apartment with police cars screaming by outside.
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