Tuesday, October 08, 2002 -

Buffy in a Whole Other Light!

I posed the following question on an email list:
Can someone please tell me what happened up to the point where Spike was doing a Screed with a rat and then there was an earthquake?

Paul, the "Guy" in the Gaggle, responded with the following, and I had to share:

Not much, if I remember rightly. Buffy shows up at work/school and talks
to the new principle. Buffy wants to know more of what her job entails;
and in a rush of beurocratic power, asks if she can suspend people. :)
The Willow/Giles scene might have happened before that point, too.
Willow: I don't want to go b/c there's so much more to learn here.
Giles: That's rubbish, you don't want to go b/c you're afraid your
friends won't forgive you. They will.
Willow: You're right. Also, let me do some set up for our Big Bad this
season. The Earth has teeth. The hellmouth is opening. This is the
Biggest Baddest yet. I'm scared.
Giles: Yes, well I'm sure you Yanks will sort all that out. Here's your
cab. Toodles, I'm off for tea.

Spike (to rat): Alas Yorick! I knew him, Horatio! A man of infinite
jest! Oh, hold on a minute. I mean, they did it! They gave it back!
And it hurts! It burns, inside where there wasn't anything before! You
know, this is great stuff. I haven't gotten to do a decent madman bit
since the student-directed one-acts back in college. Grrr!!! Argh!!!
'Struth, I am full up with angst!

Later, at the Summers house. Cyclops, Jean, Havok and Cable walk in.
Cyclops: Sheesh, that was quite a battle with Apocolypse we had today.
Havok: Boy howdy, you ain't kiddin'.

Sorry...wrong Summers house.

Later, at the Summers house in Sunnydale. Buffy, Xander, and Dawn,
World's Tallest Girl, are consoling and gathering info from Ms. Plot
Device Of The Week. Spike arrives all jaunty-like, offering to help.
Spike: Oh, yeah, I'm back, baby. Yeah, I was talking to rats for a bit,
but I'm over that now. I pinched some bleach from the store and fixed my
hair again on the way over. Now, I know when I left last season, we
weren't on the best of terms. I know I tried to rape you and all that
rot, but I'm sexy and angsty, so the audience will forgive me pretty
fast, and you should, too.
Buffy: I suppose you're right. Let's team up. By the way, I lost
another 30 pounds over the summer. Watch this, when I turn sideways I'm
invisible!
Dawn: Hurt my sister and I'll skewer you. I'm all tough now. Grrr.
(Turns to camera) See, UPN programming guys? I can carry this show next
year! Let Gellar go off and make more talking dog movies! I'm the star
now! Me! Mmmwwwahahaha!!!

Some stuff happens.

Spike vamps out.
Spike: I've got a soul now! I'm all distraught over all the bad stuff I
did. Oh, woe! (gnashes teeth)

Paul, watching show: Well, shit. I guess we're in for Angel: Redux now.
Joelle and Cynthia: Shuttup! He's all sexy and angsty! Spike rules!
Woo-hoo!
Blue the dog: Ruf!
Scout, World's Cutest Puppy: While y'all aren't paying attention, I'm
gonna crap on the floor over here.
Charlotte the cat: You people disgust me.

Or, that's how I remember it, anyway.

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