History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne

* NotSoWeak: Lily. Just in time, too; she has no one but herself to rely on now. She later goes on to become a tough independent lady on ''Angel''.

* PlotRelevantAgeUp[=/=]YearInsideHourOutside: Time passing differently in alternate dimensions is introduced here; it will become more relevant with Angel's and later Buffy's return from the afterlife.

** [[CharacterizationMarchesOn We'll see.]] When she appears in season 2 of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', she's is an administrator at a shelter for homeless teenagers, so by then she has a lot of people to help take care of. In the ''Angel'' comics she becomes a mother of a HalfHumanHybrid.

** Ken drops the anvil with this line: "This is not a good place for a kid to be. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You get old fast]] out here." Becomes HarsherInHindsight when we see [[BrokenBird what happens]] to Cordelia [[{{Series/Angel}} once she moves to LA]].

-->'''Cordelia:''' [Xander] didn't meet anybody over the summer, did he? No, who's he gonna meet in Sunnydale, but monsters and stuff? But then again he's always been attracted to monsters...

** Ken drops the {{anvil|icious}} with this line: "This is not a good place for a kid to be. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You get old fast]] out here." Becomes HarsherInHindsight when we see [[BrokenBird what happens]] to Cordelia [[{{Series/Angel}} once she moves to LA]].

* RealityEnsues:
** With Buffy gone, the Scoobies manage to slay some vampires, but in the most awkward, realistic way possible. When one runs away, Oz hurls a stake at it... and it bounces off a gravestone and lands pathetically on the ground a few feet away.
** Ken knocks Lily down and does a speech about how his realm is inescapable. Then she gets up and pushes him off the edge.

--->'''Demon''': Who are you?\\

-->'''Lily:''' Gandhi? \\

-->'''Buffy:''' I don't want any trouble. [snip] Instead, I keep getting trouble, [[ImpliedDeathThreat which I am more than willing to share]].

* LampshadeHanging: Willow, Oz and Xander hilariously subvert and discuss two main tropes: PreAsskickingOneLiner and ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks. For more hilarity, Buffy successfully pulls off both later on. It's probably because she's the Slayer

* MadeASlave: The Family Home's true purpose

* BadassBoast: Having fled Sunnydale, Buffy's trying to abandon everything of her life as the Slayer, even to the point of going by her middle name, Anne. Then she gets tricked into falling into a hell dimension where demons are using humans kidnapped from Earth as slaves. To each slave, the slaver asks "Who are you?" then beats the captive until they reply "Nobody". The he reaches Buffy:

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ken's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Buffy. He ridiculing her for running away from Sunnydale and her old identity trying to disappear. "Congratulations. You got your wish."

* SpannerInTheWorks: Ken thought he'd just grabbed one more runaway that nobody will miss or look for, who he planned onworking to death with the rest of his slaves. He actually grabbed Buffy, and she brings his whole wretched world down around him.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Buffy refusing her calling and even a chance for gratuitous violence on the truck drivers.

* ShesBack: "I'm Buffy. The Vampire Slayer. And you are?"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: More like getting Communism Past the Radar...After liberating a bunch of homeless from slave labor, Buffy is seen walking from the building holding a couple of oddly familiar melee weapons.

* EverybodyWasKunFuFighting: {{Lampshaded}} when the Scooby Gang are hunting vampires while Buffy's out of town and encounter a newborn vampire who hands them their asses in this fashion. When Xander, pissed-off, demands to know how the hell he learnt that stuff, Oz recognizes him as a former classmate who used to be captain of the gymnastics team.

* WelcomeToHell[=/=]WelcomeToMyWorld: Ken warmly welcoming Buffy and her sidekick to his dimension.

* PlotRelevantAgeUp[=/=]YearInsideHourOutside: Time passing differently in alternate dimensions is introduced here; it will become more relevant with Angel's and later [[spoiler:Buffy]]'s return from the afterlife.

* {{Symbolism}}: While leading her workers' rebellion in hell, Buffy ends up fighting with [[WhyWereBummedCommunismFell a sickle in one hand and a hammer in the other]].
** Beneath a huge Series/{{angel}} statue.

%%* TrappedInAnotherWorld

%%* AnotherDimension

* BareYourMidriff: Lily. Also the appropriately named ''Belly Love'', the band singing at the Bronze.

* BrutalHonesty: As Buffy is rifling through some files, the nefarious doctor enters and demands to know what she's doing. Buffy: "Breaking into your office and going through your private files." Hee.

** Chanterelle, one of the {{Vampire Vannabe}}s from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me]]."

* CutPhoneLines: The female Doctor threatens to call the police, but Buffy, barely looking up, rips the phone out of the wall. Slayer strength!

* DisposableVagrant: Ken and his cronies prey on them

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Social issues covered by this episode include teenage runaways and sweatshops.

** When Buffy tells Lily Rickie is dead, she mentions that it seemed like something "sucked the life out of him", that it was probably something in his blood, and that something like that could happen to anyone, even "good" people. The scene right before shows an HIV poster.

* KarmaHoudini: The Hospital worker who was “just giving the names”.

* LeaveMeAlone

* PunchClockVillain: Ken's stooge at the blood bank.

** Buffy later throws an ax-thing and nails a demon in the back.

Buffy breaks the news to Lily, who doesn't take it very well; she accuses Buffy of bringing a monster along with her. Lily runs out Buffy's apartment--straight into the arms of Ken. He invites her to come to Family Home, telling her that Rickie ''has already joined them''. Meanwhile, at the blood bank, Buffy interrogates the doctor from earlier, who pleads that she just forwards "them" the names of the "healthy ones."

* HammerAndSickle: Buffy ends up wielding both during the climactic fight in the factory.

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Pool?]]: Did they somehow destroy it or just left it there hoping that [[NeverRecycleYourSchemes it will never reopen again on its own]]?

He tries to wallop her, but Buffy makes short work of the guards, and instructs the kids to follow her. Lily shepherds the kids out; they reach a large iron gate, which Buffy lifts up with Slayer strength. The kids go under it, and Buffy starts to go herself when Ken tackles her from behind. He bowls her over, and the gate crashes down, impaling him through both legs. The kids escape upward through the portal, while Buffy gives Ken her "pissed-off Ghandi" impression, bringing the club down on his skull.