Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E10 Amends

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  • S1
    • E01 Welcome to the Hellmouth
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    • E02 The Harvest
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    • E03 The Witch
    • E04 Teacher's Pet
    • E05 Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
    • E06 The Pack
    • E07 Angel
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    • E08 I Robot, You Jane
    • E09 The Puppet Show
    • E10 Nightmares
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    • E11 Out of Mind, Out of Sight
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    • E12 Prophecy Girl
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  • S2
    • E01 When She Was Bad
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    • E02 Some Assembly Required
    • E03 School Hard
    • E04 Inca Mummy Girl
    • E05 Reptile Boy
    • E06 Halloween
    • E07 Lie to Me
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    • E08 The Dark Age
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    • E09 What's My Line? Part 1
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    • E10 What's My Line? Part 2
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    • E11 Ted
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    • E12 Bad Eggs
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    • E13 Becoming Part 2
    • E13 Surprise
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    • E14 Innocence
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    • E15 Phases
    • E16 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
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    • E17 Passion
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    • E18 Killed By Death
    • E19 I Only Have Eyes for You
    • E20 Go Fish
    • E21 Becoming, Part 1
    • E22 Becoming, Part 2
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  • S3
    • E01 Anne
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    • E02 Dead Man's Party
    • E03 Faith, Hope, and Trick
    • E04 Beauty and the Beasts
    • E05 Homecoming
    • E06 Band Candy
    • E07 Revelations
    • E08 Lovers Walk
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    • E09 The Wish
    • E10 Amends
    • E11 Gingerbread
    • E12 Helpless
    • E13 The Zeppo
    • E15 Consequences
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    • E16 Doppelgangland
    • E17 Enemies
    • E18 Choices
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    • E19 Earshot
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    • E20 The Prom
    • E21 Graduation Day Part 1
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    • E22 Graduation Day Part 2
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  • S4
    • E01 The Freshman
    • E02 Living Conditions
    • E03 The Harsh Light of Day
    • E04 Fear Itself
    • E05 Beer Bad
    • E06 Wild at Heart
    • E07 The Initiative
    • E08 Pangs
    • E09 Something Blue
    • E10 Hush
    • E11 Doomed
    • E12 A New Man
    • E13 The I in Team
    • E14 Goodbye Iowa
    • E15 This Years Girl
    • E16 Who Are You
    • E18 Where the Wild Things Are
    • E19 New Moon Rising
    • E20 The Yoko Factor
    • E21 Primeval
    • E22 Restless
  • S5
    • E01 Buffy vs. Dracula
    • E02 Real Me
    • E03 The Replacement
    • E04 Out of My Mind
    • E05 No Place Like Home
    • E06 Family
    • E07 Fool for Love
    • E08 Shadow
    • E09 Listening to Fear
    • E10 Into the Woods
    • E11 Triangle
    • E12 Checkpoint
    • E13 Blood Ties
    • E14 Crush
    • E15 I Was Made to Love You
    • E16 The Body
    • E17 Forever
    • E18 Intervention
    • E19 Tough Love
    • E20 Spiral
    • E21 Weight of the World
    • E22 The Gift
  • S6
    • E01 Bargaining, Part 1
    • E02 Bargaining, Part 2
    • E03 After Life
    • E04 Flooded
    • E05 Life Serial
    • E06 All the Way
    • E07 Once More, With Feeling
    • E08 Tabula Rasa
    • E09 Smashed
    • E10 Wrecked
    • E11 Gone
    • E12 Doublemeat Palace
    • E13 Dead Things
    • E14 Older and Far Away
    • E15 As You Were
    • E16 Hell's Bells
    • E17 Normal Again
    • E18 Entropy
    • E19 Seeing Red
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    • E20 Villains
    • E21 Two to Go
    • E22 Grave
  • S7
    • E01 Lessons
    • E02 Beneath You
    • E03 Same Time, Same Place
    • E04 Help
    • E05 Selfless
    • E06 Him
    • E07 Conversations With Dead People
    • E08 Sleeper
    • E09 Never Leave Me
    • E10 Bring on the Night
    • E11 Showtime
    • E12 Potential
    • E13 The Killer in Me
    • E14 First Date
    • E15 Get It Done
    • E16 Storyteller
    • E17 Lies My Parents Told Me
    • E18 Dirty Girls
    • E19 Empty Places
    • E20 Touched
    • E21 End of Days
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"It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man."

Angel is haunted by the spirits of people he's killed, and the Scooby Gang suspect an ancient evil is involved.

• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Fourteen million square miles of them, and that's not including a lot of natural cave formations and a gateway to Hell.
• Accidental Innuendo (In-Universe): Joyce is putting up the Christmas decorations; Buffy is thinking about her Erotic Dream.

Joyce: So, angel's on top again? Buffy: (startled) What? Joyce: (holds up an angel and a star) Angel or star? Buffy: Oh, uh... star. Star.

• Actor Allusion: The maid Margaret is played by Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, who played Princess Margaret in Gods and Monsters.
• Always a Bigger Fish

Willy: Apparently there's been a lot of migration out of Sunnydale from the lower inhabitants. Something's scaring them off, and these are things that aren't easily scared.

• Blatant Lies: Faith turns down Buffy's offer of Christmas dinner, claiming she's already been invited to a big party.
• Call Back: Joyce claiming that Giles didn't want to share Christmas with them is undoubtedly due to the embarrassing events of "Band Candy".
• Chekhov's Gunman: The First would return in Season 7 as the final Big Bad of the series.
• Christmas Episode
• Christmas Miracle: It begins snowing on Sunnydale, leaving the town in total darkness, and saving Angel from burning. Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane.
• Dissonant Serenity: Giles opens the door to find Angel standing there asking for a Vampire Invitation. He keeps it together and walks into the kitchen, then comes out with a loaded crossbow. Oh Crap.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Unless you're Buffy.

The First: You think you can fight me? I'm not a demon, little girl. I am something that you can't even conceive. The First Evil. Beyond sin, beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears. You'll never see me, but I am everywhere. Every being, every thought, every drop of hate-- Buffy: Alright, I get it. You're evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?

The First: You have no idea what you're dealing with. Buffy: Let me guess. Is it...evil?

• Driven to Suicide
• Eldritch Abomination: The First briefly morphs into one before disappearing.
• Eureka Moment: Buffy realising the dead Christmas trees reveal the location of the Bringers.
• Erotic Dream: The First gives Angel these to entice him into sleeping with Buffy and losing his soul.
• Evil Plan: The First wants Angel to kill the Slayer, and in the process turn him back into the evil Angelus. Angel decides to prevent this by committing suicide, but this is also acceptable to the First, as it means Angel can no longer be a weapon against evil.
• Eyeless Face: Bringers, Harbingers. They have a 'no eyes' kinda look.
• Failed Attempt At Drama: After Willow says she wants to sleep with him, Oz responds by standing up.

Willow: Where are you going? Oz: No, I'm not going. Just a dramatic gesture.

• • Something Else Also Rises: After Willow goes into more detail about what she wants from him, he quickly has to sit down again.
• Final Boss Preview: The First Evil will return as the Big Bad of Season 7.
• Foreshadowing: Angel drinking Buffy's blood comes to pass as the First predicts, albeit for different reasons. And we get our first mention of Xander's troubled home life in a reference to him sleeping outside to avoid their drunken squabbles.
  • What Buffy says to Angel "Strong is fighting! It's hard, and it's painful, and it's every day" is what he puts into practice in the spin-off series Angel.
• Flashback Echo: Showing Angel as the drunken lout he was before being turned into a vampire.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: Played for Laughs as Willow has a couple of soda bottles in a champagne ice bucket.
• Hannibal Lecture: Plenty of these by the First to Angel.
• Hard Work Montage: The Scoobies researching the problem (and eating pizza).
• Holding Hands: Buffy and Angel at the end of the episode. Definitely not Just Friends.
• Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
• Humanoid Abomination. The Harbingers
• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Angel encounters Buffy in her bedroom wearing a blood-red dress, her hair pinned up to expose her neck and her lower lip trembling from repressed emotion -- he has to jump out the window to prevent himself from jumping her.
• I Have a Family

Margaret: (terrified) Sir! My son! Angelus: Oh, he'll make a fine dessert.

• Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Xander asks who else could have as pathetic a social life as he does. Cue Willow walking through the door.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: In Sunnydale the Underground really is underground!
• Ironic Echo: "Cry out. Make a scene."
• Insecure Love Interest
• I Wished You Were Dead: Inverted

Buffy: I love you so much... And I tried to make you go away... I killed you and it didn't help. (crying) And I hate it! I hate that it's so hard... and that you can hurt me so much. (sobs, then harshly) I know everything that you did, because you did it to me. Oh, God! I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. (whispers) I can't.

• No Time to Explain: Buffy to Faith -- Aesop Amnesia is averted when Buffy stresses that she will explain, all of it, remembering the lesson of "Revelations".
• Lady in Red: Invoked deliberately by Willow and accidentally by Buffy.
• Let's Wait a While: Oz turns down Willow's offer to lose her virginity, aware she's doing it just to prove she really loves him.
• Mind Rape: The First tries to pull one on Angel.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: The Harbingers of Death.
• Ominous Latin Chanting

Buffy: Alright, ten more minutes of chanting and then you guys have to go to bed.

• Perp Sweating: Xander isn't very good at it.

Willy: Doesn't ring a bell. Xander: (menacingly) How about I ring that bell for you? (hopefully to Buffy) Does the threatening come now? Buffy: Maybe you shouldn't help.

• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Angelus bullies a servant into agreeing to have sex with him, and then shows her his Game Face.
• Ready for Lovemaking: Oz enters Willow's house to find a candle-lit room, Willow wearing a tight red dress, and Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" playing on the stereo.
• The Reveal: We finally discover why Angel was brought out of the hell dimension; to kill Buffy. Buffy is not willing to accept this explanation, and the fact that the First is willing to settle for Angel's suicide is an indication she's right.
• Say Your Prayers: One of Angelus' victims says the Twenty-third Psalm.
• Sex for Solace: What the First tempts Angel with -- by sleeping with Buffy he can satiate his desire for her and then, by turning evil, be free of guilt forever.
• Shut UP, Hannibal: Buffy pulls one on the First Evil, which is the Buffyverse equivalent to Satan, after the latter's Hannibal Lecture.
• Talking in Your Dreams: Buffy is somehow able to see what Angel is dreaming, perhaps in order to further torment him (given that Buffy has a front-row seat on Angelus' crimes). During the Erotic Dream however it's more a case of "Screwing In Your Dreams".
• Tear Jerker: Buffy trying to talk Angel out of killing himself.
• This and That: Willow offers to "do that thing" with Oz.
• Twisted Christmas
• Two Scenes, One Dialogue

Giles: You realize if he [Angel] truly becomes a danger, you may have to kill him. Again. Can you do that? Buffy is silent. Cut to Angel in his mansion Angel: I can't do it!

• Villains Never Lie

Buffy: Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it?

• Walking Wasteland: The Bringers cause the Christmas trees to wilt over their heads.
• You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: And at this point in the series, Buffy really doesn't know. Then again she doesn't really care either.