History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion

* ShesGotLegs: Buffy isn't wearing pajama bottoms when she goes to bed. Becomes FanDisservice when she turns out the light to reveal Angel staring at her hungrily from outside the window, [[MaleGaze just like the audience]].

* StalkerWithACrush: Buffy tells her mother that she's being bothered by Angel, whom she used to date and who now has trouble letting go, hanging around and leaving notes for her. When Angelus realises this, he gleefully puts on a [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Boyfriend]] act to make Joyce nervous.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Word of Joss says the way Angel kills her is very "insulting" to Jenny herself, because he does not consider her worth feeding on.

* TheTalk: Joyce scolds Buffy for her dalliances with the "[[DramaticIrony too old]]," "obviously not very stable" Angel. The talk seems to bring the Summers women closer together.

* TheTragicRose: Angelus leaves one as part of his cruel taunt to Giles

At the factory, Spike is up in arms over the "incredibly brassed off" Slayer who is due to hunt them down. Angelus is perfectly cool, until a Molotov cocktail suddenly smashes a foot away, setting the factory ablaze. It's Giles, coming at Angelus with a full arsenal. He seems to have the upper hand, but is overpowered and at the vampire's mercy. At that moment, Buffy enters the fray. Dru and Spike make a strategic exit. Buffy drives back Angelus and almost has him in submission, but Angelus points at Giles, indicating his unconscious body near the approaching flames. Angelus gets away again as Buffy stops to save her Watcher. Outside the factory, a furious Giles screams that it wasn't her fight, and Buffy's response is to slug him--then hug him tight.

* ChekhovsGun: Jenny saves the translated ritual on the computer, on a floppy disc, and a printout. Angel destroys the computer and the printout; [[RuleOfThrees the disc falls behind the desk]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Angel can come into Cordy's car whenever he wants!

* ComputerEqualsMonitor: Angelus is satisfied that Jenny's electronic translation of the incantation that would restore Angel's soul is gone when he shoves her computer off her desk. The problem is, while the monitor was wrecked, the actual PC received minimal damage... Justified -- not like a 200 year-old vampire would really know how a computer works. His monologue before destroying the computer even makes it explicit. Later episodes imply that her hard drive was indeed undamaged.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Buffy hoping that Giles gets cracking on rescinding Angel's invite soon. "I know I'll sleep easier when I can... sleep easier."

* EvilGloating: Angel staring through the Summers' window and admiring the results of his handiwork.
* EvilIsPetty: Angel telling Joyce he had sex with her daughter. You can even see him [[DramaticPause pausing for just the right moment]] to drop this bombshell.

* KilledOffForReal: Although Jenny is killed off in this episode, the actress makes two further guest appearances: in [[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2}} the second part of the season finale]] where Drusilla hypnotizes Giles into thinking she's Jenny, and again in the "Amends" as a form assumed by the First Evil.
* KillItWithFire: A flaming bat and {{molotov cocktail}}s ought to get Rupert's point across.

* {{Masquerade}}: Buffy wants to warn her mother about Angel, but Giles balks at this, preferring to rely on the de-invite spell to protect Joyce instead.

* ProtectThisHouse: Buffy rescinding Angel's invitation from her house, as well as fortifying her bedroom with garlic.

* DramaticIrony: Joyce expressing her disappointment in her daughter's taste in men. This topic starts to get to Buffy, and the tears well up as she admits, "I made a mistake." And her mother can't even guess at the proportions of that mistake.

* EvilIsPetty: Angel telling Joyce he had sex with her daughter. You can even seen him [[DramaticPause pausing for just the right moment]] to drop this bombshell.

** Jenny asking Willow to her to cover for her in class tomorrow, as she might be "a little late".

* GagEcho: Joyce demands to know re Angel, "Was he [[TheirFirstTime your first]]?" Later when things have cooled down a bit Buffy lampshades that just had TheTalk and asks how it went. Joyce quips, "I don't know. It was my first."

* ThisAndThat: Willow reporting that the de-invitation went fine until "Angel showed up and told Buffy's mom that he and Buffy had -- well, you know, that they had -- you know. You do know, right?" Giles catches her drift, and Willow is pleased because, "being a librarian and all," she was [[NerdsAreVirgins afraid he didn't]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Spike initially seems to be disgusted by Angelus' killing of Jenny and what he did with the body, but it's quickly made clear that he's not angry about the murder itself, [[DoWrongRight just concerned because he knows it's only going to piss the Slayer off even more]].
-->'''Spike:''' ''(to Angelus)'' Are you insane?! [[PragmaticVillainy We're supposed to kill the bitch, not leave gag gifts in her friends' beds]].

* MustBeInvited: Angelus can get into the school because the sign outside says in Latin, "Enter all ye who seek knowledge". Ironically the [[SeriesContinuityError next episode would establish the rule]] that vampire invitation isn't required in a public place, making this trope unnecessary.

* YourDoorWasOpen: ''"Formatia trans sicere educatorum."''

* MustLetThemGetAway: During the catwalk battle, Buffy is winning, but is forced to unhand Angelus to save Giles from the fire.

That night at Willow's house, they find another envelope, this one for Buffy — it's a picture of Buffy's mother, asleep. At the Summers residence, Joyce pulls into the driveway to find Angelus waiting for her in the front yard, impersonating a distinctly deranged Angel. Over her threats to call the police, Angelus drops the bomb about him and Buffy making love. Rattled, Joyce runs inside the house, just as Willow and Buffy read an incantation revoking Angel's invitation.

* ThisIsThePartWhere: Joyce telling her daughter that she'll never stop caring about her, then resignedly sitting next to Buffy on the bed. "That would be your cue to, uh, [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents roll your eyes and tell me I'm grossing you out]]."
-->'''Buffy:''' You're not.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Oz was originally supposed to be killed by Angel, but his character had a lot of potential, so the decision was made to bump off Jenny instead.
** Jenny Calendar was supposed to have died in an earlier episode, [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E14Innocence "Innocence"]], presumably in place of Uncle Enyos.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Jenny nearly spilling the Ritual of Restoration to Buffy, who cuts her off with, "We're good here... Let's just leave it."

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Willow/Buffy exit the Bronze arm-in-arm, followed by OfficialCouple Xander/Cordelia. Lesbian shippers certainly noticed the subtext here, intended or otherwise.
* RuleOfThree: Angelus sketching three images of women in repose: Buffy, her mother, and Jenny Calender (who will never 'wake' again).

* ThousandYardStare: Giles' anticipatory smile vanishes as he focuses in on Jenny's lifeless face. Later, as the authorities wheel Jenny's body out of his room, Giles is still wearing the same horrified blank expression.

* TitleDrop: Angelus reciting verses from his ode to "passion."

* DueToTheDead: The evil version.

* JustTryingToHelp: Cordelia wonders why Angelus bothers with CriminalMindGames.
-->"[[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why doesn't he just slit her throat or strangle her while she's sleeping or cut her heart out?]]" ''([[EyeTake off everyone's looks]])'' "What, I'm trying to help."

** Jonathan coming into the library to get a book on {{Stalin}}. The Scooby gang just stares at him (Buffy [[QuizzicalTilt tilts her head]] and looks confused).

-->'''Spike:''' ''(to Angelus)'' Are you insane?! [[PragmaticVilliany We're supposed to kill the bitch, not leave gag gifts in her friends' beds]].

-->'''Spike:''' ''(to Angelus)'' Are you insane?! [[PragmaticVillany We're supposed to kill the bitch not leave gag gifts in her friends' beds]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Spike initially seems to be disgusted by Angelus' killing of Jenny and what he did with the body, but it's quickly made clear that he's not angry about the murder itself, [[DoWrongRight just concerned because he knows it's only going to piss off the Slayer even more]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Spike initially seems to be disgusted by Angelus' killing of Jenny and what he did with the body, but it's quickly made clear that he's not angry about the murder itself, [[DoWrongRight just concerned that it's only going to piss off the Slayer even more]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Spike initially seems to be disgusted by Angelus' murder of Jenny and what he did with the body, but it's quickly made clear that he's not angry about the murder itself, [[DoWrongRight just concerned that it's only going to piss off the Slayer even more]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Spike initially seems to be disgusted by Angelus' murder of Jenny and what he did with the body, but it's quickly smade clear that he's not angry about the murder itself, [[DoWrongRight just concerned that it's only going to piss off the Slayer even more]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Spike is disgusted at Angelus' murder of Jenny and what he did with the body. However, it's quickly subverted as it's made clear that Spike's less angry about the murder itself and [[DoWrongRight more concerned that this is only going to piss off the Slayer even more]].