History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed

** The Xander/Buffy argument cutting to Tara saying "It's all a mess." (the Trio's captured files)
** Warren says, "Let's make some noise." Cut to Buffy fighting a vampire.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: According to Creator/JamesMarsters, the attempted rape scene was the idea of a female writer, based on an incident where she tried to force sex on her boyfriend who was breaking up with her. "The thing is, if you flip it and make it a man forcing himself on a woman, I believe it becomes a whole different thing."

** Jonathan re Warren. "He's going to end up getting us thrown into jail. Or worse."

** For the GrandFinale: "Great love is wild and passionate and dangerous. It burns and consumes." / "Until there's nothing left."
** Andrew telling Warren he's done being the bait. "Next time one of you can wiggle on the hook."

* MyFavoriteShirt: Buffy gets her leather jacket sliced by a bandsaw. "OK, that's gonna cost ya."

* RunningGag: "Warren and Jonathan and ''that other guy'' have been watching Buffy."

* ShowerOfAngst: Inverted from the usual scenario. Buffy is about to have a hot shower to soothe her back injury when Spike walks in on her -- her vulnerability at that point only increases the tension. When Xander finds Buffy afterwards, she's sitting on the floor crying, not in the shower.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Warren shows up in broad daylight with a gun, shoots Buffy on purpose and Tara by accident, and runs. Tara dies nearly instantly, Buffy's bleeding out and Willow, who just watched Tara die, starts getting glowing red eyes as she sobs in rage and grief...

* DoubleEntendre: Tara and Willow work in as many as possible.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: It's amazing that Warren, firing randomly into the air, ''just happens'' to hit a trajectory that goes clean through the window and into Tara. A few inches left, right, or down and he hits the window frame; a few inches up and he misses her completely.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Willow is saying (re Buffy and Spike) "You know, when two people have such strong feelings for each other--" when a [[SexDressed bedsheet-wrapped Tara]] steps out into the corridor, turning Dawn into {{Squee}} Girl.
* InstantDeathBullet: Well, not instant, but close enough. Tara barely has time to say two words to Willow before the hole in her chest registers and her brain shuts down.

* DaylightHorror: Spike's rape attempt occurs in a brightly-lit bathroom, in deliberate contrast to their rough but mutually-agreed sex in crypts, catwalks, dark alleys, and decrepit houses; Warren shoots Buffy and Tara on a sunny late morning.

* SexDressed: Dawn Tara (wearing a bedsheet) and Willow (wearing only a large shirt) come out of Willow's room. Cue {{Squee}}ing from Dawn and the fans alike.
* SexEqualsLove: What Spike believes -- all that violent passion must have meant something to her, right? Nope.

* RapeAsDrama: The writers knew that Spike had to commit [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil something particularly shocking]] to make his decision to undergo the Demon Trials plausible, especially given his BadassDecay. InUniverse Spike is horrified because he tried to rape ''Buffy'', not for the rape itself -- in fact he seems confused that he didn't go through with it. Xander views the act as one with the mass murders Spike committed in his pre-chip days. Buffy appears to blame herself, conscious of how her desire for rough sex and NoMeansYes behaviour has led up to this point.

* RapeAsDrama: The writers knew that Spike had to commit [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil something particularly shocking]] to make his decision to undergo the Demon Trials plausible, especially given his BadassDecay. InUniverse Spike is horrified because he tried to rape ''Buffy'', not for the rape itself -- in fact he's just as upset that he didn't go through with it. Xander views the act as one with the mass murders Spike committed in his pre-chip days. Buffy appears to blame herself, conscious of how her desire for rough sex and NoMeansYes behaviour has led up to this point.

** During the rape scene, Buffy struggles and pleads with Spike to get off her; he only stops after she kicks him across the bathroom into the wall.

* MyGirlIsNotASlut: There are shades of this with Xander and Buffy. Almost kinda.