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Buffy chats with a former classmate and current vampire, Dawn is visited by Joyce, and Willow is visited by an imposter pretending to have a message from Tara. Meanwhile, Jonathan and Andrew return from Mexico.
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| Number: |
Episode 129 |
| Titel: |
Conversations With Dead People |
| Book: |
Jane Espenson & Drew Goddard |
| Direction: |
Nick Marck |
| on TV: |
USA: 12.11.2002 / |
| Guests: |
Danny Strong als Jonathan
Tom Lenk als Andrew
Adam Busch als Warren
Jonathan M. Woodward als Holden Webster
Azura Skye als Cassie
Kristine Sutherland als Joyce Summers
Stacey Scowley als junge Frau |
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A band plays onstage at the Bronze while Spike sits at the bar. Outside, Buffy is walking through a cemetery, hunting vampires. Meanwhile, Willow sits in the school library, trying her best to study, while Dawn returns home to find a note from Buffy and some money for supper. Jonanthan and Andrew return from Mexico, determined to make things right again. Back in the cemetery, the newly risen vampire and Buffy are fighting viciously while Dawn is having fun home alone, playing with Buffy's weapons and eating junk food. At the library, Willow is suddenly surprised by Cassie, who tells her that she isn't sleeping but Cassie really is dead and very much standing in front of her. Cassie tells Willow that she was sent by Tara and that Tara still sings to her, even though she can't hear it.
At home, Dawn is shaken when she hears banging coming from inside the house. The door blows open and the television continues to play even when she pulls out the plug. The radio suddenly fritzes and Joyce's voice comes through the speakers, whispering Dawn's name. Buffy is still fighting the vamp when he suddenly recognizes her. His name is Holden Webster and apparently he went to school with Buffy, even though she can't really remember him. He tries to jog her memory with old stories. Recently he's been studying psychology and taking tae kwon do. She tells him that she's the Slayer and she does this kind of thing regularly. Dawn tries to reach Buffy with her cell phone but it fell out of Buffy's pocket during the fight. Suddenly messages in blood are displayed on the walls, and furniture is rearranged. Dawn is terrified but realizes that she can talk to the ghost. One knock for yes, two knocks for no. She finds out from the being that it's her mom, but she's not alone. The house begins to shake uncontrollably as windows break inwards.
Jonathan and Andrew sneak in to the new Sunnydale High, determined to find the symbol of Danzathar in order to help Buffy. Andrew is suddenly shocked to see Warren who walks right out to him. They plan to both become gods once Jonathan does what he's supposed to do. Back in the UC Sunnydale library, Cassie tells Willow that she not allowed to see Tara because she's taken human life, but Tara can still hear her. Willow cries out to Tara, wishing she could just touch her. With Tara's words, Cassie tries to encourage Willow by telling her that she's strong.
Back in the cemetery, Holden begins to psychoanalyze Buffy who starts to open up at him. He figures that she can't commit to guys because she's afraid of getting hurt. He thinks that she doesn't think they're worth it. She admits that the last guy she was with, totally took over who she was, and let him do things to her that she regrets now. He tells her that everyone has issues, and then beats her over the head with a virgin Mary statue. She launches at him and knocks him in to a mausoleum. At the Summers' residence, Dawn gets glimpses of her mother being attacked on the living room couch by a horrific looking beast while Joyce screams out. Meanwhile, Jonathan and Andrew have found the basement room containing the symbol and begin digging in the ground in order to get to it. Back in the mausoleum, Buffy continues to battle her old high school friend until he begins to analyze her again. He figures out that her last relationship was with a vampire.
In the university library, Willow discusses with Cassie about what happened with Tara and all the black magick she used, as well as all the people she hurt. Cassie tells her that the power is bigger than Willow is and she has to stop using magick from now on. Cassie then tells Willow that nothing is going to be okay if she uses magick, and that she's going to kill everybody. Jonathan and Andrew are still digging up the symbol, and Jonathan tells Andrew that he misses high school, even if he didn't have such a great time there. But Andrew argues that nobody from high school cares about him, but Jonathan says he still cares about them, even if they don't. Suddenly, according with Warren's plan, Andrew stabs Jonathan in the gut. He falls over onto the dug up symbol as his blood spills, and fills up the cracks in the symbol.
In the Summers' home, Dawn fights against the demon in her house and casts a spell, casting it out violently and bloodily. Suddenly Joyce Summer appears before Dawn, telling her that when it comes down to it, Buffy won't be on Dawn's side, she'll be against her. Meanwhile, Buffy opens up to Holden, telling him that she didn't want Spike to love her and that she wanted to be punished because she has so much power. Buffy feels that she's worse than her friends, that she's beneath them. But that their opinions don't matter because she's so powerful and that she sometimes feels better than them. Holden then points out that Buffy has a superiority complex with an inferiority complex to boot. Buffy mentions Spike's name which suddenly makes Holden stop, shocked. He mentions that Spike sired him, which makes Buffy stop in shock. Meanwhile Spike, outside a woman's house, bites down on her neck, draining her blood from her human body.
Back in the library, Cassie tells Willow there is another way to stop the bloodshed, she could just kill herself, and then she wouldn't have to worry about the magick. But suddenly Willow senses something from Cassie and demands to know who she really is. Cassie realizes she's gone too far and tells her that the last year is going to seem easy after what she's planning to put her and her friends through. Willow realizes the words "beneath you it devours" come into play when whoever has taken over Cassie's body, tells her that it's not IT who's going to devour them, it's HER. Suddenly it turns demonic and disappears. Buffy stakes Holden, unsure of what to think concerning Spike.
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Cassie: "She asked that I come talk to you. It's important."
Willow: "She?"
Cassie: "Don't worry. I'm not gona hurt you or anything..."
Willow: "Who asked you? What are you talking about?"
Cassie: "She says she still sings."
Willow: "What?"
Cassie: "Remember that time on the bridge, when you sang to each other? Well, she says even though you can't hear it, she still sings to you."
Willow: "Tara?"
Holden: "I heard a lot of rumors about you back then. You were all mysterious."
Buffy: "I was?"
Holden: "Well, you were never around. A lot of kids thought you were dating some really old guy, or that you were just heavy religious. Scott Hope said you were gay."
Buffy: "What? I dated that ringworm."
Holden: "He says that about every girl he breaks up with. And then last year, big surprise, he comes out."
Andrew: "That boy is our last hope.""
Warren: "No, there is another."
Andrew: "Wait, really? Who's our last hope?"
Warren: "No, I was just going with it. It was a thing... He's our last hope."
Holden: "Hey, I don't mean to be Count Buttinsky here, but you just don't seem as thrilled. Is it because we're gonna fight?"
Buffy: "It's 'cause I'm gonna win."
Holden: "Hello? Two years of Tae Kwon Do and vampire strength. I think somebody's counting their chickens."
Buffy: "You're not leaving this graveyard. Can't let you."
Holden: "Do the words 'superiority complex' mean anything to you?"
Holden: "Oh my God!"
Buffy: "Oh, your God what?"
Holden: "Oh, well, you know- not my God, because I defy him and all of his works, but... Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?"
Buffy: "Nothing solid."
Holden: "Oh."
Willow: "Black magic, of course. But Giles says it isn't as simple as quitting it all cold-turkey..."
Cassie: "It's too dangerous. You can't take the chance that you'll lose control."
Willow: "I-I don't want to. I-I can't. I never want to cause that kind of pain."
Cassie: "Of course you don't."
Willow: "So, I won't. I'm gonna be okay."
Cassie: "She says..."
Willow: "What...?"
Cassie: "You're not gonna be okay. You're gonna kill everybody."
Holden: "You do have a superiority complex, and you've got an inferiority complex about it. Kudos."
Buffy: "It doesn't make any sense."
Holden: Oh, it makes every kind of sense. And it all adds up to you feeling alone. But, Buffy, everybody feels alone. Everybody is- until you die."
Cassie: "Well, there is one thing. One thing you could do to stop it."
Willow: "What? Anything."
Cassie: "And you could see her. You wouldn't have to talk through me."
Willow: "Tara?"
Cassie: "That's what you want, isn't it?"
Willow: "Of course."
Cassie: "So go, be with her. Everybody will be safe, and you'll be together again. It's not that bad, really. It's just like going to sleep."
Willow: "...Who are you?"
Buffy: "What do you mean? How do you know Spike?"
Holden: "What do you mean, how? He was the guy that, uhm... oh, what's the word?"
Buffy: "Sired..."
Holden: "Yeah, he was the guy that sired me."
Joyce: "Things are coming, Dawn. Listen, things are on their way. I love you, and I love Buffy, but she won't be there for you."
Dawn: "What? Why are you...?"
Joyce: "When it's bad, Buffy won't choose you. She'll be against you."
Cassie: "I can see it now. Candlelight, the Indigo Girls playing, picture of your dead girlfriend on your bloody lap."
Willow: "Stop it!"
Cassie: "Oh, baby, you left such a big hole. It hurt so bad... You don't know hurt. This last year's gonna seem like cake after what I put you and your friends through, and I am not a fan of easy death. Fact is, the whole good-versus-evil, balancing the scales thing- I'm over it. I'm done with the mortal coil. But believe me, I'm going for a big finish."
Willow: "From beneath you, it devours."
Cassie: "Oh, not it. Me."
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