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* ComesGreatResponsibility
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Principal Wood already knows about Buffy, but mistakes her for a mother.
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* BuffySpeak: Willow says that the Earth is "not all good and pure and rootsy." Xander sees the hole in the toilet floor and says, "Contracty goodness."
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* BuffySpeak: Willow says that the Earth is "not all good and pure and rootsy." Xander sees the hole in the toilet floor and says, "Contracty "Woah! Contracty goodness."
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-->'''Buffy:''' Again, wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys. And, no offense, but they were hotties.
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-->'''Buffy:''' Again, wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys. And, no offense, [[VampiresAreSexGods but they were hotties.hotties]].
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* [[MarsNeedsWomen Zombies Need Women]]
-->'''Nerd Zombie:''' I think I'd like Dawn to be my girlfriend.
-->'''Buffy:''' Again, wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys. And, no offense, but they were hotties.
-->'''Nerd Zombie:''' I think I'd like Dawn to be my girlfriend.
-->'''Buffy:''' Again, wrong sister. I'm the one that dates dead guys. And, no offense, but they were hotties.
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* SunnydaleSyndrome: And How To Not Let It Kill You.
-->'''Kit:''' (seeing a zombie walking towards them) It's not real.
-->'''Dawn:''' Lesson One -- It's always real.
-->'''Kit:''' (seeing a zombie walking towards them) It's not real.
-->'''Dawn:''' Lesson One -- It's always real.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the implication that Carlos and Kit will join with Dawn to form their own Scooby Gang, we don't see them again.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Buffy fights her way through the zombies guarding the door she thinks Dawn is behind, only to find it opened by Spike who she hasn't seen since his AttemptedRape in "Seeing Red".
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Willow can feel the Hellmouth flexing its chompers all the way from England.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Willow can feel the Hellmouth [[PortentOfDoom flexing its chompers chompers]] all the way from England.
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* ShesBack: All of the Scoobies, with the notable exception of Spike and Anya.
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->''It's about power''.
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->''It's about power''.
power. Who's got it. Who knows how to use it.''
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Halfrek warns Anya that she's being perceived as this.
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* PokeThePoodle: Halfrek warns Anya that she's being perceived as this.
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-->When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or—with the torture. Instead, you [[PersonAsVerb go all Dumbledore on me]].
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-->When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to [[SealedEvilInACan lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or—with eternity]] or...with the torture. Instead, you [[PersonAsVerb go all Dumbledore on me]].
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* ShapeShifter: Unlike the FinalBossPreview in "Amends" where the First only took the form of Jenny Calender, this one morphs freely while giving its VillainSpeech.
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* ShapeShifter: Unlike the FinalBossPreview in "Amends" where the First only took the form of Jenny Calender, this one morphs freely while giving its VillainSpeech.having a JustBetweenYouAndMe conversation with Spike.
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* ExpostionalHairstyleChange: Spike
* FailedAttemptAtDrama / MusicInteruptis: Buffy is giving Dawn a dramatic speech about how the vampire just breaking out of the soil has all the power, when the vamp in question interrupts to ask for a helping hand as he's got his foot stuck on a root.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama / MusicInteruptis: Buffy is giving Dawn a dramatic speech about how the vampire just breaking out of the soil has all the power, when the vamp in question interrupts to ask for a helping hand as he's got his foot stuck on a root.
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* ExpostionalHairstyleChange: ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Spike
* FailedAttemptAtDrama /MusicInteruptis: Buffy MusicalisInterruptus: Mentor!Buffy is giving Dawn a dramatic speech about how the vampire just breaking out of the soil has all the power, when the vamp in question interrupts to ask for a helping hand as he's got his foot stuck on a root.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama /
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* ContinuityNod: Buffy missed the heart her [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 first time]] also.
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* ContinuityNod: Buffy missed the heart her [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 first time]] also.the first time she staked a vampire.
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-->'''Dawn:''' I know! -- 'You never know what's coming'. 'The stake is not the power'. ''To Serve Man'' is a cookbook.
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for hyena people, lizard-like athletes, and invisible people -- Dawn points out that the latter is rather impractical.
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for hyena people, lizard-like athletes, and invisible people -- Dawn points out that the latter is rather impractical.
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-->'''Dawn:''' I know! -- 'You never know what's coming'. 'The stake is not the power'. ''To Serve Man'' ''ToServeMan'' [[Series/TheTwilightZone is a cookbook.
cookbook]].
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack hyenapeople, people]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish lizard-like athletes, athletes]], and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E11OutOfMindOutOfSight invisible people people]] -- Dawn points out that the latter is rather impractical.
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack hyena
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* ArcWords / IronicEcho: "It's about power."
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* AesopAmnesia: Buffy is still letting her guard down around Spike (she turns her back on him several times even though he's clearly NotHimself) and lying to her friends about him.
* ArcWords / BookEnds / IronicEcho: "It's about power.""
* BadLiar: Buffy (as usual), but averted with Dawn who thinks up the 'bee in my eye" explanation for her EyeScream on the spur of the moment. I guess all that delinquent behaviour last year had a useful purpose after all.
* ArcWords / BookEnds / IronicEcho: "It's about power.
* BadLiar: Buffy (as usual), but averted with Dawn who thinks up the 'bee in my eye" explanation for her EyeScream on the spur of the moment. I guess all that delinquent behaviour last year had a useful purpose after all.
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* BookEndsBrickJoke: Principal Wood mistakes Buffy for Dawn's mother, causing Buffy to check to see if she's got "Mum hair". After his life is saved, Carlos calls her "[[ActionMum the coolest mom ever]]", causing Buffy to check her hair again.
* BuffySpeak: Willow says that the Earth is "not all good and pure and rootsy." Xander sees the hole in the toilet floor and says, "Contracty goodness."
* BuffySpeak: Willow says that the Earth is "not all good and pure and rootsy." Xander sees the hole in the toilet floor and says, "Contracty goodness."
* CatScare: Buffy startled by the basketball thrower. Dawn and Kit running into Carlos.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint
-->'''Spike:''' Buffy, duck.
-->'''Buffy:''' What? Duck? There's a duck? (zombie hits her over the head with a pipe)
* ComicallyMissingThePoint
-->'''Spike:''' Buffy, duck.
-->'''Buffy:''' What? Duck? There's a duck? (zombie hits her over the head with a pipe)
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The vampire complaining he's got his foot stuck.
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: ChekhovsGun: The gift-wrapped 'weapon' Buffy gives Dawn. It's an entirely practical CellPhone.
* CreepyBasement
* DaydreamSurprise / EyeScream: The boy next to Dawn asks to borrow a pencil. Suddenly he's a zombie jabbing the pencil into her eye.
* DescriptionCut: From Giles saying " In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed" to Xander back in Sunnydale in a suit and tie, getting out of an expensive car.
* EasilyForgiven: After murdering Warren, attempting to murder her friends, and trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Giles has taken Willow to the coven in Devon.
-->When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or—with the torture. Instead, you [[PersonAsVerb go all Dumbledore on me]].
* ExpostionalHairstyleChange: Spike
* FailedAttemptAtDrama / MusicInteruptis: Buffy is giving Dawn a dramatic speech about how the vampirecomplaining just breaking out of the soil has all the power, when the vamp in question interrupts to ask for a helping hand as he's got his foot stuck.stuck on a root.
* FantasticDrug: Averted -- magic is not an addiction. Thank you for confirming that, Rupert.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Giles asks Willow if she wants to be punished. She says she wants the power she has taken out of her. "I just want to be Willow."
* IncrediblyLamePun: The Resentful Dead guys.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Buffy tells Dawn to find a weapon. Carlos finds two bricks, Dawn places them in Kit's bag, and Buffy swings it to good effect.
* IronicEcho: The zombie janitor is attacking Dawn.
-->'''Zombie Janitor:''' You can thank your sister for this.
-->''Buffy enters and kicks zombie butt.''
-->'''Dawn:''' Thanks, sis.
* LaughingMad: Spike when Buffy asks if he's real -- it's not until the very end of the episode that we see why Buffy asking him this question would provoke such a reaction.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Dawn says that as the vampire she's facing is new "He might not know all those fancy martial arts skills they inevitably seem to pick up."
* LiteralGenie: Averted by Anya.
-->'''Halfrek:''' Waitress downtown wished her husband was a frog? You made him French.
* MeaningfulEcho: Anya's comment about an intervention.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Halfrek warns Anya that she's being perceived as this.
* MirrorScare
* NotHimself: Spike has gone insane, and it's not just his newfound soul that's the culprit.
* SelfHarm: Spike has scars on his chest from where he tried to 'cut out' his soul.
* ShapeShifter: Unlike the FinalBossPreview in "Amends" where the First only took the form of Jenny Calender, this one morphs freely while giving its VillainSpeech.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Willow can feel the Hellmouth flexing its chompers all the way from England.
* CreepyBasement
* DaydreamSurprise / EyeScream: The boy next to Dawn asks to borrow a pencil. Suddenly he's a zombie jabbing the pencil into her eye.
* DescriptionCut: From Giles saying " In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed" to Xander back in Sunnydale in a suit and tie, getting out of an expensive car.
* EasilyForgiven: After murdering Warren, attempting to murder her friends, and trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Giles has taken Willow to the coven in Devon.
-->When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or—with the torture. Instead, you [[PersonAsVerb go all Dumbledore on me]].
* ExpostionalHairstyleChange: Spike
* FailedAttemptAtDrama / MusicInteruptis: Buffy is giving Dawn a dramatic speech about how the vampire
* FantasticDrug: Averted -- magic is not an addiction. Thank you for confirming that, Rupert.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Giles asks Willow if she wants to be punished. She says she wants the power she has taken out of her. "I just want to be Willow."
* IncrediblyLamePun: The Resentful Dead guys.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Buffy tells Dawn to find a weapon. Carlos finds two bricks, Dawn places them in Kit's bag, and Buffy swings it to good effect.
* IronicEcho: The zombie janitor is attacking Dawn.
-->'''Zombie Janitor:''' You can thank your sister for this.
-->''Buffy enters and kicks zombie butt.''
-->'''Dawn:''' Thanks, sis.
* LaughingMad: Spike when Buffy asks if he's real -- it's not until the very end of the episode that we see why Buffy asking him this question would provoke such a reaction.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Dawn says that as the vampire she's facing is new "He might not know all those fancy martial arts skills they inevitably seem to pick up."
* LiteralGenie: Averted by Anya.
-->'''Halfrek:''' Waitress downtown wished her husband was a frog? You made him French.
* MeaningfulEcho: Anya's comment about an intervention.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Halfrek warns Anya that she's being perceived as this.
* MirrorScare
* NotHimself: Spike has gone insane, and it's not just his newfound soul that's the culprit.
* SelfHarm: Spike has scars on his chest from where he tried to 'cut out' his soul.
* ShapeShifter: Unlike the FinalBossPreview in "Amends" where the First only took the form of Jenny Calender, this one morphs freely while giving its VillainSpeech.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Willow can feel the Hellmouth flexing its chompers all the way from England.
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* TeachMeHowToFight OurZombiesAreDifferent: These ones can pull a StealthHiBye, yet Buffy can hit them so they can't be ghosts.
* RuleOfThrees /SinkOrSwimMentorTheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
-->'''Buffy:''' You have everything? Books, lunch, stakes?
--->'''Dawn:''' Checked thrice.
** Later when Buffy keeps fussing...
-->'''Dawn:''' I know! -- 'You never know what's coming'. 'The stake is not the power'. ''To Serve Man'' is a cookbook.
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for hyena people, lizard-like athletes, and invisible people -- Dawn points out that the latter is rather impractical.
* SceneryPorn: The green fields of Westbury, England. Plus there's Giles on a horse!
* SmashCut
* TeachMeHowToFight: Buffy is teaching Dawn how to fight vampires, using an actual vampire. [[SinkOrSwimMentor She doesn't intervene]] until Dawn is in imminent danger of being eaten.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Spike watching zombies pound on Buffy.
-->'''Spike:''' No visitors today. Terribly busy.
* XanatosGambit
-->'''First (as Adam):''' Everything is well within parameters. She [Buffy] is exactly where I want her to be.
* RuleOfThrees /
-->'''Buffy:''' You have everything? Books, lunch, stakes?
--->'''Dawn:''' Checked thrice.
** Later when Buffy keeps fussing...
-->'''Dawn:''' I know! -- 'You never know what's coming'. 'The stake is not the power'. ''To Serve Man'' is a cookbook.
** Buffy warns Dawn to be on the lookout for hyena people, lizard-like athletes, and invisible people -- Dawn points out that the latter is rather impractical.
* SceneryPorn: The green fields of Westbury, England. Plus there's Giles on a horse!
* SmashCut
* TeachMeHowToFight: Buffy is teaching Dawn how to fight vampires, using an actual vampire. [[SinkOrSwimMentor She doesn't intervene]] until Dawn is in imminent danger of being eaten.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Spike watching zombies pound on Buffy.
-->'''Spike:''' No visitors today. Terribly busy.
* XanatosGambit
-->'''First (as Adam):''' Everything is well within parameters. She [Buffy] is exactly where I want her to be.
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* TeachMeHowToFightTeachMeHowToFight / SinkOrSwimMentor
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* CallBack: Buffy missed the heart her [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 first time]] also.
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* ContinuityNod: Buffy mentions how she missed the heart of her first vampire, which we saw in a flashback in "Becoming."
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* ContinuityNod: Buffy mentions how she missed the heart of her [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 first vampire, which we saw in a flashback in "Becoming."time]] also.
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* ContinuityNod: Buffy mentions how she missed the heart of her first vampire, which we saw in a flashback in "Becoming."
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The vampire complaining he's got his foot stuck.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The vampire complaining he's got his foot stuck.
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* NotNamedInOpeningCreditsNotNamedInOpeningCredits
* TeachMeHowToFight
* TeachMeHowToFight
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* ContinuityCavalcade: The First torments Spike while shifting into the {{BigBad}}s of the previous seasons (choosing Warren for the sixth and Drusilla for the second) in reverse order.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: The First torments Spike while shifting into the {{BigBad}}s {{Big Bad}}s of the previous seasons (choosing Warren for the sixth and Drusilla for the second) in reverse order.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: The First torments Spike while shifting into the {{BigBad}}s of the previous seasons (choosing Warren for the sixth and Drusilla for the second) in reverse order.order.
* NotNamedInOpeningCredits
* NotNamedInOpeningCredits
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* BigBad: The First.
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* CanYouHearMeNow: Dawn's cell phone.
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* CanYouHearMeNow: Dawn's cell phone.phone.
* ContinuityCavalcade
* ContinuityCavalcade
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Sunnydale High is reopened. Buffy discovers the place is infested by zombie spirits. She also finds a crazed Spike living in the basement.
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*CanYouHearMeNow: Dawn's cell phone.
Sunnydale High is reopened. Buffy discovers the place is infested by zombie spirits. She also finds a crazed Spike living in the basement.
*BookEnds
*CanYouHearMeNow: Dawn's cell phone.
