Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7/E15 Get It Done

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One of the potentials kills herself and Buffy discovers the origins of the First Slayer.

  • Amazon Brigade: There are now almost twenty Potentials living in Buffy's house, but to Buffy's mind they resemble more a Redshirt Army than a Slayer army.
  • Badass Decay (In-Universe): Buffy gets stuck into both Spike and Willow for not using their full abilities.
  • Badass Longcoat / Iconic Item
  • Bad Liar: Willow comes out with an armful of weaponry and sees Buffy with Principal Wood, watching the Potentials learn martial arts.

Willow: Oh, hi. Hey. Well, Buffy, I—I see that our preparation for the school-pep-dance-cheer-drill contest are coming along. (to the Potentials) Bring it on!
Buffy: It's OK, I filled him in on everything.
Willow: (lets out a sigh of relief) Oh, thank God! If I had to explain all these weapons, I had nothing.

Buffy: Does anyone want to say a few words? [silence] Then I will. Chloe was an idiot.

  • The Big Board: Andrew objects to Buffy showing Wood around the place as he might see the Big Board. When Buffy points out they don't have a Big Board, Andrew produces his own whiteboard drawing of Sunnydale.

Buffy: You'll have to forgive Andrew...or maybe not.

Kennedy: Better get started.
Willow: I think I might pee my pants.
Kennedy: You can do it -- the magics, not the pants thing.

  • Catapult Nightmare: One of the few played-straight examples; usually Buffy just wakes up normally from a bad dream.
  • Chained to a Rock / Chain Pain: Buffy is chained to the ground so she can be raped by the essence of a demon. As she's already got Slayer strength however, she rips free her chains and uses them the kick the Shadow Men's asses.
  • Continuity Nod
    • Robin Wood recognises Spike's Badass Longcoat, which he stripped from the corpse of the New York Slayer in "Fool For Love".
    • The Slayer's bag is the same Buffy saw in her dream in "Restless". Likewise the brief shot of the First Slayer chained to the ground is finally explained.
    • Spike says that having a soul makes him "more or less" unique, referring to Angel.
    • Both Adam (in her dream in "Restless") and Dracula (in "Buffy vs. Dracula") have hinted to Buffy that her power is rooted in darkness.
  • Cunning Linguist: Dawn can now read Sumerian; presumably because Anthony Stewart Head wasn't available for some reason.
  • Deadpan Snarker

Kennedy: Is getting thrown through the ceiling what he does best?

Willow: Via concursus tempus spatium audi me ut imperio Screw it! Mighty forces, I suck at Latin, OK? But that's not the issue. I'm the one in charge, and I'm telling you: Open up, portal, now!

  • Life Energy: Willow drains life force from Kennedy (and apparently Anya and Dawn) to increase her power. She's not happy about it.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Buffy's response to Wood regarding the Hellmouth "blowing around May" is referencing the fact that the apocalypses usually occur as the season finales, which tend to air in May.
  • Living Shadow: The shadow casters tell the story of the creation of the First Slayer.
  • Lotus Position: Willow casting the spell.
  • Magical Negro: The Shadow Men. To be fair though, since this takes place in the beginning of human race, everybody was black back then. Thus they couldn't really be anything but negros.
  • Magic Staff

Buffy: I knew it. It's always the staff.

  • Mind Rape: The First pulls it on Chloe. And succeeds.
  • Mood Whiplash: Dawn is teasing Buffy about bunking off her school studies when they open a door and find Chloe hanging from the ceiling. Willow tells the others to put on the coffee as the spell might take a while -- suddenly she's got Black Eyes of Evil and a banshee shriek.
  • Neck Snap: Spike killing the demon.
  • Not a Date: Spike and Anya.
  • Oh Crap: Buffy turns down the Shadow Men's offer of greater power. They then give Buffy a vision of what lies in wait for her, an army of thousands of Turok-Han inside the Hellmouth.
  • Open Says Me

Anya: (points to the box) What's inside it?
Wood: Mm, I don't know. It hasn't been opened since-- (Buffy breaks off the lock with her bare hands) Well, since now.

Anya: You missed her "everyone sucks but me" speech. If she's so superior, let her find her own way back.

Spike: I did this for you. The soul, the changes -- it's what you wanted!
Buffy: What I want is the Spike that's dangerous. The Spike that tried to kill me when we met.
Spike: (angrily) Oh, you don't know how close you are to bringing him out.
Buffy: I'm nowhere near him.

Wood: Buffy tells me you have been, um—oh, how shall I put it—experimenting. (Willow's eyes grow wide; she casts a "You said what?" glance at Buffy) With the magicks.

    • Anya is disappointed that Souled!Spike didn't fight a demon to the death when Buffy and Robin Wood walk into the conversation.

Spike: No need to thank me. I'm just the one who beat him off.
Buffy & Robin: ...

Spike: Repelled him would perhaps be the better phrase. (Buffy smirks) Demon...