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The pointless hell of Career Week looms over the Scooby Gang, and Buffy is reminded once more that her career is likely to be unpaid, antisocial, and short. Angel suggests the two of them go ice skating to cheer Buffy up. Well, she'd skate, he'd brood. Spike and Dru are planning something big, but they need to keep Buffy occupied, so they send for the Order of Taraka, deadly semi-human assassins. Oz and Willow meet, over canapés. The first assassin attacks Buffy and Angel at the ice rink, but is stopped by a Buffpowered ice-skate to the jugular. The second is a man made of bugs, who is let into Buffy's house by Cordy, while she and Xander look for Buffy. Angel tries to beat information on the Tarkans from Willy the Snitch, but Kendra appears and locks Angel in a cage, with the sun rising fast. She then attacks Buffy, and the episode ends with her telling Buffy "Me name is Kendra: The Vampire Slayer."
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Episode 21 |
| Titel: |
Die Rivalin |
| Book: |
Howard Gordon
Marti Noxon |
| Direction: |
David Solomon |
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USA: 17.11.1997 / |
| Guests: |
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne Seth Green
Spike James Marsters
Drusilla Juliet Landau
Principal Snyder Armin Shimerman
Dalton Eric Saiet
Kendra Bianca Lawson
Norman Pfister Kelly Connell
Suitman Michael Rothhaar
Mrs. Kalish P.B. Hutton |
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The career fair at school has Buffy down, for as the Slayer what kind of future can she have? Meanwhile, Spike, wrestling with a difficult translation of the book he stole from Giles, is planning to make that point moot for Buffy by killing her.
On patrol, Buffy comes across a pair of vampires stealing something from a mausoleum. She kills one, but the other gets away, thus further dampening her spirits. She takes it out on Angel, who suggests an ice-skating date to cheer her up. The next day, Giles is more than a little disturbed by Buffy's report of the kleptomaniacal vampires, and Spike decides to "bring in the big guns" to get rid of the Slayer: demonic bounty hunters known as the Order of Taraka.
A follow-up trip to the mausoleum confirms Giles' fears — the vampires robbed the tomb of Josephus du Lac, a theologian and mathematician who wrote the stolen book, a book of evil spells. Sunnydale has some new arrivals: a brutish man who gets off the bus from L.A., a mousy salesman who offers a woman free beauty care samples but whose entrance into her home is followed by a scream, and an exotic beauty who knocks an airport worker unconscious before emerging from a plane's cargo hold. Buffy's ice-skating is interrupted by the brutish man, who tries to kill her but is stopped by Angel. Together, Angel and Buffy dispatch the assassin, then share a romantic moment, unknowingly watched by the exotic beauty.
Giles explains to Buffy that the Order of Taraka is unstoppable, and that she should probably find somewhere to hide. Rattled, Buffy disappears. She doesn't go home (which, unbeknownst to her, is being staked out by the mousy salesman, who sits next to the maggot-covered corpse of the woman who let him in while his arm forms out of maggots). She instead goes to Angel's place, but he isn't there. He's at a bar, trying to find out from the vampire-friendly bartender who sent the Order after Buffy. Before he gets any useful information, though, he is attacked by the exotic beauty.
The beauty overpowers Angel and locks him in a steel cage that in six hours will be exposed to direct sunlight, then goes off to find Buffy. Giles has figured out that the book the vampires stole contains a spell to restore an ailing vampire to health — a vampire like Drusilla. Xander and Cordelia go to Buffy's house, trying to find her. They don't, but the maggoty salesman shows up and, enticed by his offer of free cosmetics, Cordelia lets him in. Buffy is awakened when the exotic beauty attacks her with a hatchet. They fight each other to a stalemate, and Buffy asks the girl who she is. "I am Kendra," the newcomer announces, "the Vampire Slayer." To be continued..
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Buffy: "Do I like shrubs?"
Xander: "That's between you and your god."
Buffy: "I wish we could be regular kids."
Angel: "Yeah. I'll never be a kid."
Buffy: "Okay, then a regular kid and her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend."
Buffy: "Well, there you go! I don't have to be the Slayer. I could be dead."
Giles: "That wasn't terribly funny. You'll notice I don't laugh."
Buffy: "Wouldn't be much of a change. Either way I'm bored, constricted, I never get to shop, and... my hair and fingernails still continue to grow. So, really, when you think about it, what's the diff?"
Dalton: "Yes, but... The Order of Taraka. I mean, isn't that overkill?"
Spike: "No, I think it's just enough kill."
Oz's first word to Willow: "Canapé?"
Giles: "You're behaving remarkably immaturely."
Buffy: "You know why? I am immature. I'm a teen. I have yet to mature."
Cordelia: "I can't even believe you. You dragged me out of bed for a ride? What am I, mass transportation?"
Xander: "That's what a lot of the guys say, but it's just locker room talk. I wouldn't pay it any mind."
Cordelia: "Oh, great, so now I'm your taxi and your punching bag."
Xander: "I like to think of you more as my witless foil, but have it your way."
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