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NEVER LEAVE ME--Written by Drew Goddard, Directed by David Solomon
The gang talks about Buffy/Spike behind their back.
DAWN: So the basement was filled with bodies?
WILLOW: Apparently.
DAWN: And Spike could've sired countless others and buried them around town. And we're waiting for him to do what, exactly? Do something crazy?
WILLOW: It's not that simple.
ANYA: Shouldn't we stab him through the chest? Isn't that what we do when these things happen?
WILLOW: Look, Buffy knows what she's doing.
To Note, Xander who is usually right in there with the commentary stays remarkably quiet.
Buffy apologetically ties Spike to a chair as she tells him she can't take any chances. Spike tells her to make the ropes tighter.
He is going through withdrawal, and Buffy feeds him the pigs blood.
Buffy/Spike talk.. (notice she is wearing the same sweater as in SLEEPER)
SPIKE: Oh, things have been wonky since I got back, ever since?
BUFFY: You got your soul.
SPIKE: Figured that's what it was like, it'd been so long since I had one.
BUFFY: How did you do it? How'd you get your soul back?
SPIKE: Saw a man about a girl. I went to seek a legend out. Traveled to the other side of the world, made a deal with a demon.
BUFFY: Just like that?
SPIKE: No, not just like that. There was a price. There were trials, torture, pain and suffering... of sorts.
BUFFY: Of sorts?
SPIKE: Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
BUFFY: Meaning?
SPIKE: Meaning I have come to redefine the words pain and suffering since I fell in love with you.
BUFFY: How can you say that?
SPIKE: Apparently, I just slaughtered half of Sunnydale, pet. I'm not really worried about being polite anymore.
BUFFY: So, that's what this is about. You feeling sorry for yourself, Spike?
SPIKE: I'm feeling honest with myself. You used me.
BUFFY: Yes.
SPIKE: You told me that, of course. I never understood it though. Not until now. You hated yourself, and you took it out on me.
BUFFY: You figured that out just now?
SPIKE: Soul's not all about moonbeams and pennywhistles, luv. It's about self-loathing. I get it. Had to travel 'round the world, but I understand you now. I understand the violence inside.
BUFFY: Violence? William the Bloody now has insight into violence?
SPIKE: Not the same. As bad as I was, as evil and as wretched as I was, I never truly hated myself back then. Not like I do now.
Willow has found Andrew buying pigs blood (to open the hellmouth) and she brings him to the house. Anya/xander play good cop/bad cop with him. Buffy hears the ruckus and goes out to investigate. FE SPike shows up and triggers Spike. When Buffy comes back in, Spike goes apeshit, pulls Andrew through the wall and bites him.
Buffy throws Spike into a wall and kicks him in the head. Then then chains him down in the basement.
We find her tending his wounds.
I am not a fan of the writing of Drew Goddard by any stretch, (IMO, his writing confuses the character progress done by long term writers of the show) I do love this conversation between Buffy/Spike..
SPIKE: Buffy, I don't know why.
BUFFY: We think we do. Something's playing you. Some ghost or demon has figured out how to control you. Got the gang researching it right now. Xander has this theory that you're being triggered.
SPIKE: Kill me.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: Buffy, you have to kill me.
BUFFY: You don't understand. When I left the room earlier, I heard you talking to someone?
SPIKE: Do you have any idea what I'm capable of?
BUFFY: I was in the cellar with you. I saw what you did.
SPIKE: I'm not talking about the cellar. The people in the cellar got off easy. I'm talking about me. Buffy, you have never met the real me.
BUFFY: Believe me, I'm well aware of what you're capable of.
SPIKE: No, you got off easy too. Do you know how much blood you can drink from a girl before she'll die? I do. You see, the trick is to drink just enough to know how to damage them just enough so that they'll still cry when you? (chokes up) 'cause it's not worth it if they don't cry.
BUFFY: It's not your fault. You're not the one doing this.
SPIKE: I already did it. It's already done. (You wanna know what I've done to girls Dawn's age? This is me Buffy. You've got to kill me before I get out.
BUFFY: We can keep you locked up. Keep you here and we'll figure out...
SPIKE: Have you ever really asked yourself why you can't do it? Off me? After everything I've done to you, to people around you. It's not love. We both know that.
BUFFY: You fought by my side. You've saved lives. You've helped?
SPIKE: Don't do that.Don't rationalize this into some noble act. We both know the truth of it. (pained) You like men who hurt you.
BUFFY: No.
SPIKE: You need the pain we cause you. You need the hate. You need it to do your job, to be the slayer.
BUFFY: No. I don't hate like that. Not you, or myself. Not anymore. You think you have insight now because your soul's drenched in blood? You don't know me. You don't even know you. Was that you who killed those people in the cellar? Was that you who waited for those girls?
SPIKE: There's no one else.
BUFFY: That's not true. Listen to me. You're not alive because of hate or pain. You're alive because I saw you change. Because I saw your penance.
SPIKE: (lunges violently at her, but chains hold him back) Window dressing.
BUFFY: Be easier, wouldn't it, it if were an act, but it's not. You faced the monster inside of you and you fought back. You risked everything to be a better man.
SPIKE: Buffy...
BUFFY: And you can be. You are. You may not see it, but I do. I do. I believe in you, Spike.
Just as they connect, the Harbingers break in and kidnap Spike.
Spike is cut and hung on a cross. (TPTB were going to use nails but decided against it)
As Spike is bled, The FE shows Spike what a real vampire looks like.
The gang talks about Buffy/Spike behind their back.
DAWN: So the basement was filled with bodies?
WILLOW: Apparently.
DAWN: And Spike could've sired countless others and buried them around town. And we're waiting for him to do what, exactly? Do something crazy?
WILLOW: It's not that simple.
ANYA: Shouldn't we stab him through the chest? Isn't that what we do when these things happen?
WILLOW: Look, Buffy knows what she's doing.
To Note, Xander who is usually right in there with the commentary stays remarkably quiet.
Buffy apologetically ties Spike to a chair as she tells him she can't take any chances. Spike tells her to make the ropes tighter.
He is going through withdrawal, and Buffy feeds him the pigs blood.
Buffy/Spike talk.. (notice she is wearing the same sweater as in SLEEPER)
SPIKE: Oh, things have been wonky since I got back, ever since?
BUFFY: You got your soul.
SPIKE: Figured that's what it was like, it'd been so long since I had one.
BUFFY: How did you do it? How'd you get your soul back?
SPIKE: Saw a man about a girl. I went to seek a legend out. Traveled to the other side of the world, made a deal with a demon.
BUFFY: Just like that?
SPIKE: No, not just like that. There was a price. There were trials, torture, pain and suffering... of sorts.
BUFFY: Of sorts?
SPIKE: Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
BUFFY: Meaning?
SPIKE: Meaning I have come to redefine the words pain and suffering since I fell in love with you.
BUFFY: How can you say that?
SPIKE: Apparently, I just slaughtered half of Sunnydale, pet. I'm not really worried about being polite anymore.
BUFFY: So, that's what this is about. You feeling sorry for yourself, Spike?
SPIKE: I'm feeling honest with myself. You used me.
BUFFY: Yes.
SPIKE: You told me that, of course. I never understood it though. Not until now. You hated yourself, and you took it out on me.
BUFFY: You figured that out just now?
SPIKE: Soul's not all about moonbeams and pennywhistles, luv. It's about self-loathing. I get it. Had to travel 'round the world, but I understand you now. I understand the violence inside.
BUFFY: Violence? William the Bloody now has insight into violence?
SPIKE: Not the same. As bad as I was, as evil and as wretched as I was, I never truly hated myself back then. Not like I do now.
Willow has found Andrew buying pigs blood (to open the hellmouth) and she brings him to the house. Anya/xander play good cop/bad cop with him. Buffy hears the ruckus and goes out to investigate. FE SPike shows up and triggers Spike. When Buffy comes back in, Spike goes apeshit, pulls Andrew through the wall and bites him.
Buffy throws Spike into a wall and kicks him in the head. Then then chains him down in the basement.
We find her tending his wounds.
I am not a fan of the writing of Drew Goddard by any stretch, (IMO, his writing confuses the character progress done by long term writers of the show) I do love this conversation between Buffy/Spike..
SPIKE: Buffy, I don't know why.
BUFFY: We think we do. Something's playing you. Some ghost or demon has figured out how to control you. Got the gang researching it right now. Xander has this theory that you're being triggered.
SPIKE: Kill me.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: Buffy, you have to kill me.
BUFFY: You don't understand. When I left the room earlier, I heard you talking to someone?
SPIKE: Do you have any idea what I'm capable of?
BUFFY: I was in the cellar with you. I saw what you did.
SPIKE: I'm not talking about the cellar. The people in the cellar got off easy. I'm talking about me. Buffy, you have never met the real me.
BUFFY: Believe me, I'm well aware of what you're capable of.
SPIKE: No, you got off easy too. Do you know how much blood you can drink from a girl before she'll die? I do. You see, the trick is to drink just enough to know how to damage them just enough so that they'll still cry when you? (chokes up) 'cause it's not worth it if they don't cry.
BUFFY: It's not your fault. You're not the one doing this.
SPIKE: I already did it. It's already done. (You wanna know what I've done to girls Dawn's age? This is me Buffy. You've got to kill me before I get out.
BUFFY: We can keep you locked up. Keep you here and we'll figure out...
SPIKE: Have you ever really asked yourself why you can't do it? Off me? After everything I've done to you, to people around you. It's not love. We both know that.
BUFFY: You fought by my side. You've saved lives. You've helped?
SPIKE: Don't do that.Don't rationalize this into some noble act. We both know the truth of it. (pained) You like men who hurt you.
BUFFY: No.
SPIKE: You need the pain we cause you. You need the hate. You need it to do your job, to be the slayer.
BUFFY: No. I don't hate like that. Not you, or myself. Not anymore. You think you have insight now because your soul's drenched in blood? You don't know me. You don't even know you. Was that you who killed those people in the cellar? Was that you who waited for those girls?
SPIKE: There's no one else.
BUFFY: That's not true. Listen to me. You're not alive because of hate or pain. You're alive because I saw you change. Because I saw your penance.
SPIKE: (lunges violently at her, but chains hold him back) Window dressing.
BUFFY: Be easier, wouldn't it, it if were an act, but it's not. You faced the monster inside of you and you fought back. You risked everything to be a better man.
SPIKE: Buffy...
BUFFY: And you can be. You are. You may not see it, but I do. I do. I believe in you, Spike.
Just as they connect, the Harbingers break in and kidnap Spike.
Spike is cut and hung on a cross. (TPTB were going to use nails but decided against it)
As Spike is bled, The FE shows Spike what a real vampire looks like.