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* NoodleIncident: Downplayed, but the revelation that Billy Idol stole his look from Spike rather the other way around (as characters and fans alike had thought since Season Two). The obvious inference is that the singer and vampire had some kind of encounter prior to 1976 (when Idol joined the punk rock band Chelsea and officially adopted his signature look). But we don't learn any other details about this.
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* NoodleIncident: Downplayed, but the revelation that Billy Idol stole his look from Spike rather the other way around (as as characters and fans alike had thought since Season Two). Two (and especially since "Fool for Love"'s 1977 flashback). The obvious inference is that the singer and vampire had some kind of encounter prior to during or around 1976 (when Idol joined the punk rock band Chelsea and officially adopted his signature look).now-signature hairstyle). But we don't learn any other details about this.
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** Similarly, the circumstances of how Buffy learned this about Spike (or alternately ''from'' Spike) are left unrevealed.
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* NoodleIncident: Downplayed, but the revelation that Billy Idol stole his look from Spike rather the other way around (as characters and fans alike had thought since Season Two). The obvious inference is that the singer and vampire had some kind of encounter prior to 1976 (when Idol joined the punk rock band Chelsea and officially adopted his signature look). But we don't learn any other details about this.
** Similarly, the circumstances of how Buffy learned this about Spike (or alternately ''from'' Spike) are left unrevealed.
** Similarly, the circumstances of how Buffy learned this about Spike (or alternately ''from'' Spike) are left unrevealed.
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Meanwhile Giles charges into the room in London and finds the dead girl and the nearly dead man that was with her. The man, Robson, warns Giles that "it" has started and that "they" need to be gathered. From behind, a cloaked figure raises an ax and swings it at Giles's head.----
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Meanwhile Giles charges into the room in London and finds the dead girl and the nearly dead man that was with her. The man, Robson, warns Giles that "it" has started and that "they" need to be gathered. From behind, a cloaked figure raises an ax and swings it at Giles's head.head.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Xander suggests that Spike might be faking the whole having-a-soul thing. Buffy says that if he's faking the Oscar goes to... cue awkward silence as Spike walks through the door.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Xander suggests that Spike might be faking still being inhibited by the whole having-a-soul thing.chip. Buffy says that if he's faking the Oscar goes to... cue Cue awkward silence as Spike walks through the door.
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* AnAxeToGrind: The Bringer. His axe has AudibleSharpness even though it's just swinging through air.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The first turned Spike into an eponymous Sleeper agent, using a song as a trigger to make him kill.
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** In "[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]", Spike told Fantasy!Buffy that he could never ask for her help. Here he asks the real Buffy for help, and gets it.
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** In "[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]", Spike told Fantasy!Buffy that he could never ask for her help. Here he asks the real Buffy for help, and gets it.
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Written by Creator/DavidFury, Creator/RebeccaKirshner, Creator/JaneEspenson, & Creator/DrewZGreenberg
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* AlmostDeadGuy: Robson
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* CallBack: To "Buffy vs. Dracula", when Spike tasting Buffy's blood breaks the MindControl being used on him.
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* CallBack: To "Buffy "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E1BuffyVsDracula Buffy vs. Dracula", Dracula]]", when Spike tasting Buffy's blood breaks the MindControl being used on him.
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* CelebrityStar: Aimee Mann
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* ContinuityNod: In "Fool for Love" when Spike tells Buffy his BackStory, he's seen in a flashback to 1977 in a hairstyle and attire similar to Billy Idol, several years before Idol's fame.
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* ContinuityNod: In "Fool "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E7FoolForLove Fool for Love" Love]]" when Spike tells Buffy his BackStory, he's seen in a flashback to 1977 in a hairstyle and attire similar to Billy Idol, several years before Idol's fame.
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* DreamMelody / TriggerPhrase: The English folk song "Early One Morning".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious hooded assassins are shown to be targeting Watchers and their potential Slayers-in-training. Giles is tasked by a dying Robson with gathering these Potentials.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The mysterious hooded assassins are shown to be targeting Watchers and their potential Slayers-in-training. Giles is tasked by a dying Robson with gathering these Potentials.
** The mysterious hooded assassins are shown to be targeting Watchers and their potential Slayers-in-training. Giles is tasked by a dying Robson with gathering these Potentials.
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** The significance of "Early One Morning" as Spike's TriggerPhrase will be shown in "Lies My Parents Told Me".
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** The significance of "Early One Morning" as Spike's TriggerPhrase will be shown in "Lies "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe Lies My Parents Told Me".Me]]".
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* TheKillerInMe: Spike is a ManchurianAgent under the control of The First, killing and then having no memory of having done so.
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** In "Selfless" Spike told Fantasy!Buffy that he could never ask for her help. Here he asks the real Buffy for help, and gets it.
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** In "Selfless" "[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E5Selfless Selfless]]", Spike told Fantasy!Buffy that he could never ask for her help. Here he asks the real Buffy for help, and gets it.
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* ShovelStrikeShovelStrike: Buffy discovers Spike has been killing people and burying them in a basement Serial Killer-style. The victims appear as vampires, so she stakes them with the shovel used to bury them.
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* YoureJustJealous: Spike accuses Buffy of this when she gets on his case about going out at night and chatting up women. The HeIsNotMyBoyfriend scene implies he might not be entirely wrong.
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* YoureJustJealous: Spike accuses Buffy of this when she gets on his case about going out at night and chatting up women. The HeIsNotMyBoyfriend scene implies he might not be entirely wrong.wrong.
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The Scoobies investigate claims that Spike has been killing again.
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Spike digs a grave for and buries a woman's body while he hums a tune. In London, a man with a briefcase finds a young woman he knows lying dead. When he investigates her body, a robed figure attacks the man with a dagger, but the man fights back. Another robed figure joins in and soon, the man is stabbed and falls dead next to the young woman. Willow arrives at the Summers' house and finds the house a disaster and Dawn still in shock. Dawn tries to tell her what happened and how she saw Joyce, but Willow explains that it was a big evil messing with their minds.
At Xander's apartment, Buffy and Xander talk about the possibility of Spike turning a human, even in spite of his chip. Buffy doesn't want to believe it because she knows the chip still works, but she and Xander have to wonder if maybe Spike's been acting all this time. Spike returns to Xander's apartment and receives a somewhat cold reception. In attempts to get a reaction from him about Holden Webster, Buffy mentions the encounter to Spike, but he reacts with complete calm and heads off to bed. Both having things to do, but not wanting to leave Spike alone, Xander gets a reluctant Anya to come over and stay with Spike. She doesn't like the idea of being stuck weaponless with Spike when he may be able to bite again. Xander tells her to call if Spike decides to go anywhere and then leaves for work.
Buffy returns to find the downstairs of the house trashed from Dawn's encounter with the unknown, hostile entity from the previous night and freaks out until she finds Willow putting Dawn to sleep. Willow informs her about the "evil" visits she and Dawn had and Buffy tells Willow about her encounter with Holden. Buffy wonders if they've been victim of lies and tricks, or if something else has been going on. Armed with a stake, Anya quietly searches Spike's room and clothes while he sleeps, but he awakes and catches her. She tries to lie about her intentions, claiming to want sex, but Spike doesn't really believe her and isn't interested in her offer. Later, after the sun sets, Spike leaves the apartment with an apology to Anya for any potentially hurt feelings. She quickly makes a phone call to Buffy about Spike's departure.
Spike walks the streets and passes by a man playing a harmonica, but as the vampire passes, the tune changes to the one Spike was humming earlier. TheScoobies investigate claims sound seems to have a hypnotic effect on Spike and he begins to hum again. Buffy follows him, keeping out of sight. He finds a woman standing around outside and the two talk and flirt before going outside to an alleyway. Buffy tries to keep tabs on Spike, but she has a hard time following him through the crowd of people out walking the streets. Spike and the woman kiss against a wall and Spike pauses, looking up to see Buffy approach him and the woman. With a smile, she reminds him that she wants him to do it and he vamps and bites the woman, much to Buffy's pleasure.
Once the woman is dead, Spike realizes with great horror what he just did. He runs off in a blind panic as Buffy morphs into Spike form. Later, Buffy barges in on a sleeping Spike, angrily demanding to know whether he killed the woman she saw him with. He reminds her that can't kill anyone. She asks if it's because of the chip and he corrects her telling her that it's because of his soul and suspects that she's jealous. He doesn't deny talking to other women, but swears they mean nothing to him and reminds her of the seriousness of his efforts to prove his love to her. Though visibly taken aback and moved by his words and emotion, Buffy gets confrontational about Spike killing people and, although he doesn't remember everything, he's confident that he didn't kill anybody.
At Buffy's house, the girls do some research in attempts to find proof that Spike is or is not killing again. They discuss the possibility of Spike killing and Willow discovers that although there haven't been a lot of dead bodies found, there are ten missing people in Sunnydale, mostly young women. Though this proves that what Holden told Buffy is true, Buffy is still not positive that Spike is the culprit. As he gets ready to leave, Spike finds a pack of cigarettes in his pocket and gets flashes of killing the blond woman he met at the Bronze. He tries to leave the apartment, but Xander stands in the way. Spike knocks Xander out, setting off his chip for his efforts and then departs.
Spike arrives at the Bronze, where Aimee Mann is performing. Spike asks around after the young blond woman he was there with then moves upstairs to watch over the crowd. Meanwhile, Xander recovers from Spike's blow and calls Buffy to let her know what happened. A woman hits aggressively on an uninterested Spike, eventually reveals herself to be a vampire he'd sired a few nights before. The two break into a fight which Spike resolves by staking her and dropping her to turn to dust on the dance floor below, briefly distracting the band on stage and the surrounding crowd. Meanwhile, Buffy talks to the doorman at the club she'd followed Spike to the night before, learning that Spike hasbeen left there with a different girl every night. At the Bronze, Aimee Mann is heading backstage, telling a bandmate that she "hates playing vampire towns" as Spike phones Buffy cell to tell her he's remembering the bad things he's done recently and asks for her help. She agrees to meet with him at a set location. As Spike tries to leave, the morphing version of Spike shows up and chides the real Spike for deviating from the plan by calling Buffy, but that they can work around it.
Spike leads a hesitant Buffy into a dark basement and tries to show her what he remembers about his victims (several girls he's picked up, plus the owner of the house). Obviously suspicious, Buffy has come wielding a stake. The fake Spike is there as well, but Buffy can't see him. While the real Spike tries to show Buffy where he buried the bodies of those he killed, the fake Spike begins to sing the hypnotizing tune.
Spike vamps and attacks Buffy, cutting into her arm with a broken piece of glass. As the two battle it out, the bodies Spike's recent victims start to rise from the ground beneath them as newly-risen vampires. Buffy struggles with the fledglings while the real Spike gets a pep talk from his morphing version about tasting Buffy's blood. As two vampires hold Buffy still, Spike leans down into the cut on her arm, but he suddenly reawakens all of his memories of killingagain.
and he falls to the ground, horrified.
Buffy finishes off the rest of the vampires, including a late elderly vampire, then turns her attention back to Spike. Tearfully, Spike offers his heart for the staking. He's confused, scared, and hurting because of the lives he's taken. Buffy realizes that something has been messing with Spike's head like with Dawn and Willow and that he needs help. Back at her house, Buffy tells the gang about Spike and how she needs to keep Spike close if she intends to get answers they all need.
Meanwhile Giles charges into the room in London and finds the dead girl and the nearly dead man that was with her. The man, Robson, warns Giles that "it" has started and that "they" need to be gathered. From behind, a cloaked figure raises an ax and swings it at Giles's head.----
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At Xander's apartment, Buffy and Xander talk about the possibility of Spike turning a human, even in spite of his chip. Buffy doesn't want to believe it because she knows the chip still works, but she and Xander have to wonder if maybe Spike's been acting all this time. Spike returns to Xander's apartment and receives a somewhat cold reception. In attempts to get a reaction from him about Holden Webster, Buffy mentions the encounter to Spike, but he reacts with complete calm and heads off to bed. Both having things to do, but not wanting to leave Spike alone, Xander gets a reluctant Anya to come over and stay with Spike. She doesn't like the idea of being stuck weaponless with Spike when he may be able to bite again. Xander tells her to call if Spike decides to go anywhere and then leaves for work.
Buffy returns to find the downstairs of the house trashed from Dawn's encounter with the unknown, hostile entity from the previous night and freaks out until she finds Willow putting Dawn to sleep. Willow informs her about the "evil" visits she and Dawn had and Buffy tells Willow about her encounter with Holden. Buffy wonders if they've been victim of lies and tricks, or if something else has been going on. Armed with a stake, Anya quietly searches Spike's room and clothes while he sleeps, but he awakes and catches her. She tries to lie about her intentions, claiming to want sex, but Spike doesn't really believe her and isn't interested in her offer. Later, after the sun sets, Spike leaves the apartment with an apology to Anya for any potentially hurt feelings. She quickly makes a phone call to Buffy about Spike's departure.
Spike walks the streets and passes by a man playing a harmonica, but as the vampire passes, the tune changes to the one Spike was humming earlier. The
Once the woman is dead, Spike realizes with great horror what he just did. He runs off in a blind panic as Buffy morphs into Spike form. Later, Buffy barges in on a sleeping Spike, angrily demanding to know whether he killed the woman she saw him with. He reminds her that can't kill anyone. She asks if it's because of the chip and he corrects her telling her that it's because of his soul and suspects that she's jealous. He doesn't deny talking to other women, but swears they mean nothing to him and reminds her of the seriousness of his efforts to prove his love to her. Though visibly taken aback and moved by his words and emotion, Buffy gets confrontational about Spike killing people and, although he doesn't remember everything, he's confident that he didn't kill anybody.
At Buffy's house, the girls do some research in attempts to find proof that Spike is or is not killing again. They discuss the possibility of Spike killing and Willow discovers that although there haven't been a lot of dead bodies found, there are ten missing people in Sunnydale, mostly young women. Though this proves that what Holden told Buffy is true, Buffy is still not positive that Spike is the culprit. As he gets ready to leave, Spike finds a pack of cigarettes in his pocket and gets flashes of killing the blond woman he met at the Bronze. He tries to leave the apartment, but Xander stands in the way. Spike knocks Xander out, setting off his chip for his efforts and then departs.
Spike arrives at the Bronze, where Aimee Mann is performing. Spike asks around after the young blond woman he was there with then moves upstairs to watch over the crowd. Meanwhile, Xander recovers from Spike's blow and calls Buffy to let her know what happened. A woman hits aggressively on an uninterested Spike, eventually reveals herself to be a vampire he'd sired a few nights before. The two break into a fight which Spike resolves by staking her and dropping her to turn to dust on the dance floor below, briefly distracting the band on stage and the surrounding crowd. Meanwhile, Buffy talks to the doorman at the club she'd followed Spike to the night before, learning that Spike has
Spike leads a hesitant Buffy into a dark basement and tries to show her what he remembers about his victims (several girls he's picked up, plus the owner of the house). Obviously suspicious, Buffy has come wielding a stake. The fake Spike is there as well, but Buffy can't see him. While the real Spike tries to show Buffy where he buried the bodies of those he killed, the fake Spike begins to sing the hypnotizing tune.
Spike vamps and attacks Buffy, cutting into her arm with a broken piece of glass. As the two battle it out, the bodies Spike's recent victims start to rise from the ground beneath them as newly-risen vampires. Buffy struggles with the fledglings while the real Spike gets a pep talk from his morphing version about tasting Buffy's blood. As two vampires hold Buffy still, Spike leans down into the cut on her arm, but he suddenly reawakens all of his memories of killing
Buffy finishes off the rest of the vampires, including a late elderly vampire, then turns her attention back to Spike. Tearfully, Spike offers his heart for the staking. He's confused, scared, and hurting because of the lives he's taken. Buffy realizes that something has been messing with Spike's head like with Dawn and Willow and that he needs help. Back at her house, Buffy tells the gang about Spike and how she needs to keep Spike close if she intends to get answers they all need.
Meanwhile Giles charges into the room in London and finds the dead girl and the nearly dead man that was with her. The man, Robson, warns Giles that "it" has started and that "they" need to be gathered. From behind, a cloaked figure raises an ax and swings it at Giles's head.----
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* BiTheWay: The female vampire picks out a couple dancing and suggests them as victims for Spike.
-->"I take him, you take her? Or the other way round, whatever..."
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* ButNotTooBi: There's definite male victims, along with Holden last episode, and it can only be assumed Spike was using the flirt and bite act with them too, but everybody just acknowledges the female victims.
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Aimee Mann singing "Pavlov's Bell" in an episode involving Pavlovian conditioning.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. The cut to the face Dawn got in the previous episode is still present (although it's clearly not very bad).
