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This is a musical and somewhat difficult to transcribe because every lyric in the songs had a meaning.
The women in the Summers' house wake up to a new day and go about preparing themselves.
That night Buffy goes out on patrol and bursts into song about how she's only going through the motions. She wants to be alive again and not be so oblivious to feelings. The next day she goes to the Magic Box where she asks if anyone else burst out into song last night. They all fess up and can't figure out what's happening. Giles srtarts off a song where they all suggest their theories. Buffy then sings that if they're all together they can face anything. Buffy checks outside and realizes that it's not only the Scoobies affected by the singing and dancing. Dawn returns from school with the same news of people dancing and singing.
Willow and Tara take off for a break from research. Tara sings a love song to Willow and how she's been brought into the light of day when she met her. They dance and sing all the way home where Tara floats into the air. Back at the Magic Box, Dawns says she finds all the dancing and singing romantic. She then quietly steals an amulet and puts it in her pocket. Meanwhile outside, a man dances until he bursts into flame while a demon wactches on. The next day Anya and Xander get out of bed and start singing about their fears of being married and how they'll never tell each other certain secrets. Later on Anya and Xander babble to Giles about their song and he tells them about the man that spontaneously combusted. Buffy goes to Spike's crypt hoping he has some answers. He doesn't, and tells her to leave. He suddenly breaks into a song and to his dismay he finds himself singing about his feelings for Buffy. He loves her but she's also torturing him and he wants her to leave him alone so that he can rest in peace. His words don't seem to be affecting her until they fall into a grave outside and a confused Buffy gets up and runs off at high speed.
At home Dawn is talking with Tara and she says she's glad that Tara and Willow made up after their fight. Confused, Tara looks down at her shirt where she pinned Wilow's forgetting flower on herself. Realizing what must have happened she leaves Dawn alone in the house so that she can do research at the Magic Box. Dawn puts on the talisman she stole from the Magic Box and starts singing about how no one cares for her when she's suddenly kidnapped by three men in masks and brought to the Bronze. She dances around with them until the demon Sweet appears. He sings her song in which she'll become his queen in his underworld because she summoned him. He explains that after singing and dancing too much, people will combust. Dawn lets slip that her sister is the Slayer and Sweet orders his minions to have Buffy brought to the Bronze immediately.
While Giles trains Buffy he starts singing to her though she doesn't listen to him. He feel's he's sheltering Buffy from the world and he's standing in her way. Though he wants to stay, he knows he'll have to leave her. Meanwhile Tara looks through several books and realizes that Willow played tricks with her mind. Harmonizing with Giles, they sing that they'll have to leave their loved ones, though it'll break their hearts. Spike bursts in abruptly with Sweet's minion who tells Buffy that Dawn is being held hostage at the Bronze. Giles tells them all that Buffy is going alone and they will not help her. Lost, Buffy heads to the Bronze, singing on the way how she feels cold to the fire and she wants her fire back. Giles then decides that he made a bad decision and the group heads out to help Buffy. Buffy, still singing, how she can never tell her friends her immense secret. Buffy reaches the Bronze and kicks the door down. Sweet is inside, waiting for her.
Buffy starts off a song how life's a show and everyone plays a part. During her song she fights the minions and sings how she works so hard to be like other girls. The rest of the gang arrive and Tara and Anya act as Buffy's backup dancers. Continuin her solo, Buffy tells her friends how they didn't know enough and they pulled her out of heaven. Horrified, Willow backs away in shame. Buffy says she has nothing to sing about and starts dancing wildly until she begins to smoke. Spike stops her and tells her that she must go on living. The song ends and Sweet says he'll now take Dawn away because she summoned him. Xander steps in and admits he was the one who summoned Sweet because he wanted to know how his marriage to Anya would turn out. Sweet agrees to leave Xander and disappears in a poof. Dawn leads them in song. The whole gang is confused about where to go from here. During the song Spike gives up and heads outside where Buffy catches up to him. She starts to sing to him and then she reaches for him and they kiss.
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| Number: |
Episode 108 |
| Titel: |
Tabula Rasa |
| Book: |
Rebecca Rand Kirshner |
| Direction: |
David Grossman |
| on TV: |
USA: 13.11.2001 / |
| Guests: |
Anthony Stewart Head als Rupert Giles
Amber Benson als Tara
Raymond O'Connor als Teeth
Geordie White als Vampir #1
Stephen Triplett als Vampir #2
David Franco als Vampir #3 |
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Buffy is patrolling when Spike shows up. He wants to talk about their kiss, but Buffy refuses to ever interact with him like that again. Suddenly a demon that Spike owes kittens to shows up. Spike splits and the demon leaves when it realizes it can't beat Buffy.
Xander, Anya, Willow and Tara are discussing what heaven must have been like for Buffy and they're all depressed about what they've done. Especially Willow who wants to make it better by using a spell to make Buffy forget about heaven. But Tara adamantly tells her no. As Tara gets louder, Anya and Xander leave the room pretending that they heard the phone ring in the other room. Tara then tells Willow that she knows she used a spell on her and she feels like her mind has been violated. Slightly aghast, Willow says that she just wanted to make things better between between them. Tara then says that Willow's using magic to solve all her problems and she's fixing things to her liking. Tara confesses that she doesn't think their relationship is going to work, but Willow agrees to go a week without any magic. After that week, Tara will make up her mind. Meanwhile Giles is telling Buffy that he's going back to England. He feels this she needs to live on her own and she'll have to learn to believe in herself. Angered and confused, Buffy leaves the room.
The next day there's a Scooby meeting but Willow's not ready in time. She uses a spell to make herself dressed while Tara and Dawn head out. She then casts a spell on Buffy and Tara to make them forget all their past pain. When the crystal goes black, the spell will occur. Everyone has gathered at the Magic Box, including Spike who's hiding from the shark-faced demon. The crystal in Willow's pocket turns black but something goes wrong with the ingredients for the spell back home and while Giles is in the middle of telling them that he's leaving for England again, everyone faints. They all wake up sometime later and none of them have any recollection as to who they are. It's as if they all have amnesia. They're all freaked and weirded out to be in a magic shop. Spike figures he's Giles' son because they're both British. They check their licenses and tags to find out who they are. Spike finds he's named Randy and Buffy names herself Joan because she has no ID. Giles and Anya believe they're engaged. The whole group decides to head to the hospital but that plan is cut short when they're surprised to find vampires waiting outside the Magic Box door. "Joan" is shocked to find herself slaying the vamps when they break in and she realizes that she has super powers. Buffy then tells Randy to help her fight the vamps, Anya and Giles will stay in the shop and try out spells while Willow, Dawn, Xander and Tara will go down to the sewers and look for a different exit.
While fighting the vamps, Joan runs away from Randy when she realizes that he's a vampire. When Randy catches up to Joan, she throws him to the ground. Once Randy finds out he's a vampire he figures that he must be a vampire with a soul who helps the helpless. Eventually the shark-faced demon finds them, along with his minions. In the sewers, the group is discovered by a vamp and they run off to hide. Giles and Anya try out several spells, all of which backfire. Back in the sewers, the vamp attacks the foursome. Willow tumbles and the crystal slips out of her pocket. After staking the vamp, Alex steps on the crystal and all their memories return to them. Anya is shocked to find herself kissing her "fiance" Giles, Buffy loses her sense while fighting, and Tara starts crying, realizing what Willow did.
Later on Buffy heads to the Bronze where Michelle Branch is playing. She sits down, looking depressed. Meanwhile Tara packs up her stuff and leaves the Summers' home while Willow sits alone in the bathroom and cries. Giles sits alone on an airplane, headed for England. Spike finds Buffy at the Bronze and they end up making out by the staircase.
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Spike: "Can we talk?"
Buffy: "Vocal cord-wise, yes. With each other, no."
Buffy: "Hate suffering. Had about as much of it as I can take."
Buffy: "I'll name me.. Joan."
Dawn: "Urgh."
Buffy: "What? Did you just 'urgh' my name?"
Dawn: "No, I just... I mean, it's so blah. 'Joan'??"
Buffy: "I like it. I feel like a Joan."
Spike mit Vampirfratze: "Hey, I'm a superhero, too!". Buffy sieht ihn und läuft kreischend davon. "Joan, where are you going?"
Giles nach dem Kuss: "Well, this place certainly needs a good tidying."
Anya: "Oh, yes. Yes. Yes."
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Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You
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