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Season 3, Episode 8
Written by Dan Vebber
Directed by David Semel
Original Airdate: 24 November 1998
"You're not friends. You'll never be friends.
You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and
you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be
friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood… blood screaming inside you
to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to
admit it."
Spike
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
SYNOPSIS
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Willow complains about receiving a 740 on Verbal
for her SAT's. She and Xander offer the idea of a double date to
Cordelia and Oz. Buffy shows up, fearing her high score, a 1430, on her
SAT's since it means she may have an actual future. That night, Spike
drives through the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign again, but this time he's
dead drunk, falls out of the car and passes out.
Spike returns to the old burned down factory and surveys the damage
through his drunken state. He starts yelling and crying while destroying
some of Drusilla's dolls. It seems she's finished with him and he's
determined to win her back somehow. Back at school the next day, Xander
manages to persuade Cordelia to go on a double bowling date with Willow
and Oz, to which she agrees. Oz presents Willow with a cute Pez Witch as
a theme gift. She feels guilty, partly because she has nothing to give
him, and because of her relationship with Xander.
Giles is packing for a retreat and he seems to be taking everything he
owns with him. When presented with Buffy's SAT scores and her option of
college, Giles suggests that she should consider it. He warns her about
seeing Angel and she promises that nothing will happen between them and
that they're just friends. Meanwhile, Xander and Willow are discussing
the bowling date that they've made with Cordelia and Oz. They try to
avoid falling victim to their lust while on campus, but find it hard.
Spike visits Angel at the mansion where he yells at him for taking
Drusilla away and for making her insane. But Angel has left the room and
can't hear Spike's drunken rants. Spike ends up falling down and passing
out in the garden. The next morning, he wakes up when his hand catches
on fire as the sun hits him. He runs to his car to tend to his wound and
get even more drunk.
Back at home, Joyce is still strongly pushing the idea of going to
college, although Buffy doesn't want to. Even though Faith could take
over slaying for a while, Buffy's not sure if her reasons to stay are
strong enough to keep her in town. Buffy visits Angel who, as a friend,
suggests that she go. Unhappy with his answer, Buffy leaves. Spike goes
to the Magic Shop, later that day, in search of a curse for Angel.
Willow walks in, looking for ingredients for a "de-lusting" spell. When
she leaves, Spike kills the shop keeper, having gotten the idea of
casting a "love" spell on Drusilla.
At school, the night of the double date, Willow is in the chemistry lab,
working the ingredients for her anti-love spell. Xander shows up because
he has to be present for the spell, and when he discovers what it is
they begin to argue. Spike comes in, still very drunk, and attacks
Xander, wanting to borrow Willow for a while. Xander's knocked out with
a nasty head wound and they are both taken to the factory. Spike
threatens Willow's life if she doesn't do the spell and then tells her
all about his break-up with Drusilla. Apparently, she thought he'd gone
soft and told him that they could still be friends.
When Willow tells Spike that she doesn't have enough ingredients, he
goes to get some. At the library, Buffy is working out when Cordelia and
Oz show up, worried since the lab is in disarray and Willow and Xander
are gone. Joyce calls Buffy, and Buffy hears Spike enter the house over
the line. At Revello Drive, Joyce offers Spike some tea and he tells her
his sob tale. Angel spots them talking in the kitchen as he's walking
around, and tries to get in, but he's not invited. Buffy arrives,
invites Angel in and together they threaten Spike. He tells them that
he's got her friends and the three of them leave to get the supplies so
that Willow can do the spell and Spike can set Buffy's friends free.
On the way to the shop, Spike revels in the pain of his hangover and
reminisces on the past he had with Drusilla. Meanwhile, Oz and Cordelia,
having been on their way to get Giles, back track to the factory when Oz
smells Willow thanks to his werewolf senses. Elsewhere, Xander wakes up
with a bad head while he and Willow are locked in the basement of the
factory. At the shop, Spike, Buffy and Angel are getting the supplies
they need when Spike tells them that they can never be just friends.
They'll love each other until it kills them. As they leave with the
supplies, a group of Trick's vampires, sent by Wilkins, attack them.
Meanwhile, back at the factory, Willow and Xander kiss just in time for
Oz and Cordelia to come down into the basement and find them. Cordelia
is mortified and runs up the stairs, but she falls through the wood and
is impaled on a metal pipe in the floor.
A huge fight ensues out in the streets of Sunnydale as Spike fights
against the gang of vampires with the help of Buffy and Angel. After
killing a few, they retreat back into the shop and barricade themselves
in. When the vampires start to get inside, they fend them off. A
particularly verbal one makes the mistake of going after Spike and ends
up getting himself staked. Eventually, with the help of some holy water
and a broken chair, they scare off or kill all of the vampires. Spike
then comes to his senses, realizing that the only way he's going to get
Drusilla back is if he reverts back to his old self, and he leaves to
find Drusilla with the intention of torturing her until she likes him
again.
In the basement, Cordelia is in pretty bad shape, but she survives the
fall, not having any vital organs hurt. Buffy and Willow talk about the
relationships that have gone wrong: Oz isn't talking to her anymore.
Meanwhile, Xander goes to visit Cordelia in the hospital, but she tells
him to stay away from her. Buffy visits Angel, and tells him that they
aren't friends and, because he doesn't need her help anymore, she's not
coming back. Spike's words were very effective on her and she's come to
the conclusion that she can't see Angel unless he tells her that he
doesn't love her. He can't say it. Now, everyone's broken up and moping
in their own ways, while Spike is on his way to find Drusilla, smoking
and singing along to the lyrics of "My Way."
TRIVIA
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This is Spike's one and only appearance in
the third season. He last appeared in the season two finale, and next
appears in season four's The Harsh Light
of Day. James Marsters had huge blisters all over his hand after
filming the scene outside Angel's mansion.
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When this episode was aired in the US it
was followed by an advert for the phone service 1800-COLLECT, in which
Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz, as Buffy and Angel, offered a
prize of a walk-on part on the show.
CONTINUITY
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Xander mentions to Willow that he has bad
luck with love spells, a reference to the love spell in
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
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Spike mentions that he and Drusilla went to
Brazil after they left Sunnydale in
Becoming (Part 2). He also mentions that he got Drusilla 'making out
with a Chaos Demon' who he then describes as 'all slime and antlers.' We
see in Fool for Love that that was a
fairly accurate description.
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After being smacked around the head with a
microscope by Cordelia in Bad Eggs,
Spike does the same to poor Xander in this episode.
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Mayor Wilkins talks to Finch about the
events of last season, indicating that he knew about the vampire's
presence in Sunnydale and all of the schemes that he cooked up, which
presumably makes him aware of a lot of the things regarding Buffy.
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Spike crashes into the Welcome to Sunnydale
sign again in this episode, echoing his entrance into town in
School Hard.
GOOFS
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At one point Spike grabs Willow and
threatens her by shaking her. In one shot, her hair covers her face and
in the next it's smoothed back.
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When Buffy pins Spike down in her house,
her hand changes position on his chest several times in different shots.
Anne |
Dead Man's Party |
Faith, Hope and Trick |
Beauty and the Beasts |
Homecoming
Band
Candy |
Revelations |
Lover's Walk |
The Wish |
Amends |
Gingerbread
Helpless |
The Zeppo |
Bad Girls |
Consequences |
Doppelgangland |
Enemies
Earshot |
Choices |
The Prom |
Graduation Day (Part 1) |
Graduation Day (Part 2)
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