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Season 3, Episode 19
Written by David Fury
Directed by James A. Contner
Original Airdate: 4 May 1999
"I made him an offer he didn't survive."
Faith
REGULAR CAST
GUEST CAST
CO-STARRING
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Keith Brunsmann as
Vampire Lackey
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Jimmie F. Skaggs as
Courier
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Jason Reed as
Vampire Guard
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Bonita Friedericy as
Manager
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Michael Schoenfeld as
Security Guard #1
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Seth Coltan as
Security Guard #2
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Brett Moses as
Student
SYNOPSIS
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Mayor Wilkins gives Faith a knife for a gift in
exchange for picking up a box at the airport. Buffy and Angel are
fighting off vampires at the cemetery. They then discuss their
relationship and how it seems to be going nowhere. Joyce finds out that
Buffy was accepted to North Western, but Buffy is reluctant to make any
plans for leaving because of what she'd be leaving behind. Joyce doesn't
seem to be hearing a word of it and goes to call family members in
Illinois.
At school, Snyder is on a drug search, and even searches a student's
lunch. Buffy and her friends discuss their college futures and Buffy
mentions that she did get accepted to the University of California,
Sunnydale. Willow on the other hand has been accepted to every school in
the country and some out of, including Oxford. Xander has plans to
travel around and find out what his future may be, since college isn't
posing as much of an option. Cordelia arrives long enough to insult
everyone based on their college futures.
Buffy tells Wesley and Giles that she wants out of Sunnydale. Her
slaying job, however, is too much of a problem for them to just ignore.
Buffy then decides that if she takes the offensive against Mayor
Wilkins, bringing the fight to him, then she could defeat him, stop the
ascension and then be able to go away for college. Later that night,
Faith is at the airport to meet the box, kills the courier and takes his
hand off to separate him from the box. Buffy watches from the bushes at
City Hall, as Faith arrives in a limo and brings the box to Mayor
Wilkins. After the coast is clear, Buffy attacks the limo driver and
forces information about the box out of him before staking him.
Buffy returns to the library, with information about the Box of Gavrok.
Giles and Willow bring maps of City Hall so that they can plan their
attack on the building in order to get the box back. The box, which is
being kept in a top floor conference room, is protected by magic which
they plan to have Willow destroy before they can take the box. Since
they have to destroy the box with a ritual, Xander is sent off in search
of ingredients. Wesley is annoyed that no one will listen to him, and
feels that they are rushing into this too much.
On his way to find ingredients for the ritual, Xander spies Cordelia in
a clothing shop. He stops in long enough to give her his best comeback
to the insults she provided for him the day before, but she shocks him
with her acceptance letters to several very important colleges. That
night, Wesley and Giles drop off Buffy, Willow and Angel at City Hall.
Back at the library, Xander and Oz prepare to help Willow with the
ritual to destroy the box.
After Willow performs the spell, she leaves, and Buffy gets ready to
take the box. Angel lowers her through the skylight to take the box.
After she gets the box though, an alarm goes off and the rope gets
stuck. Buffy is left hanging as two vampires enter. Unable to get Buffy
free, Angel jumps down and the two start kicking major vampire butt.
After tearing up the conference room, they escape through the main doors
and hide in a bush while Giles and Wesley cause a diversion.
Wilkins is extremely angry that they got away with his box, but he
suddenly becomes very happy when he finds that Faith has captured
Willow. The gang finds out about Willow's capture and they're all very
upset; Oz is, of course, taking it especially bad. Buffy decides that
they will trade the box for Willow. Wesley is strongly against that and
tells them that by giving up the box, they are sentencing all of
Sunnydale to death. Everyone fights over the issue until Oz gets their
attention and Buffy tells Giles to set up the meeting.
Willow tries to escape from the room she's locked in, but only succeeds
in attracting the attention of the vampire on look out. He comes in with
the intention of taking a bit of blood, but she manages to levitate a
pencil and stake him before he can take a bite. Willow sneaks out of her
room and finds Mayor Wilkins' office. Inside, she also finds the books
of ascension, which she reads until Faith finds her. Willow tells Faith
that she's made her decision and that it's over now and they fight for a
bit until Faith brings out her knife and the fun becomes less existent.
The meeting takes place in the cafeteria where everyone meets Mayor
Wilkins and his crew armed with weapons. After Mayor Wilkins gives a
speech about how he doesn't think that Buffy and Angel have any future
together, the trade is made, but Principal Snyder shows up with security
guards before anyone can leave, expecting to find drugs in the box. One
of the guards opens the box and a large spider crawls out and kills him.
Another spider breaks free and the two manage to attack Mayor Wilkins
and Buffy. They are both killed, and Mayor Wilkins leaves, box in hand
and Faith following reluctantly behind.
At the library, Willow tells everyone her story, then presents Giles
with a few important pages which she tore from the books of ascension.
At school the next day, Buffy comes to the conclusion that she's never
going to leave Sunnydale. Willow tells her of her plans to go to U.C.
Sunnydale because she wants to keep helping Buffy save the world and
continue her study of Wicca. That night Buffy and Angel talk about
Buffy's future and she says that everything will be okay.
TRIVIA
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Sunnydale’s Town Hall, the workplace of
Mayor Richard Wilkins III, is actually a chiropractic centre in real
life. The town hall is best seen in this episode when Buffy, Angel and
Willow broke in to steal the Mayor’s box of Gavrok spiders. Scenes of
the town hall was shot on location at 15411 Crenshaw Blvd. in Torrance,
California.
CONTINUITY
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Buffy was accepted to Northwestern
University. Willow was accepted to Oxford and MIT as well as the schools
she mentioned in
Bad Girls. There are probably more
available for her, as she says that she could go to "any college in the
country, plus four or five in Europe." Cordelia got into USC, Colorado
State, Duke, and Columbia. None of the girls go to these colleges.
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In this episode, and the next
The Prom, Cordelia works in April
Fools, a clothing shop on Main Street. Harmony steals clothes from there
in Family.
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Willow's ability to levitate pencils comes
in handy this week, when she uses it to kill a vampire.
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The Mayor gives Faith a very decorative
knife in this episode, which becomes the focal point of a battle between
Buffy and Faith in
Graduation Day (Part 1) when Buffy uses
it to stab Faith.
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Buffy and Wilkins meet face to face for the
first time in this episode, although they've been in the same room as
each other in Band Candy and
Gingerbread.
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The Mayor's speech to Angel about him not
growing old while Buffy deteriorates is part of the reason why he ends
the relationship with Buffy in the following episode.
GOOFS
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When the gang is in the library looking at
the map of city hall, Buffy and Giles point to a location and we can see
that Buffy uses her right arm. In the next shot, she's using her left
arm.
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When Cordelia is showing Xander which
schools she got into, first she hands him three envelopes — "USC,
Colorado State, Duke." Then she hands him two more, the top one of which
has a USC logo, and says, "...and Columbia."
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When the Gavrok creature gets on Buffy's
back, you can see Nicholas Brendon laughing at Sarah Michelle Gellar in
the background.
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When Willow is being held captive in Mayor
Wilkins' building, she stakes a vampire with a pencil, but the pencil
was nowhere near his heart.
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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