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4.13 The I in Team

Willow: "I just think there's certain questions you should ask before you go off and enlist."

What an interesting episode. How 'bout that surprise ending? I certainly wasn't expecting Maggie to bite the dust, but she surely deserves it -- if not for the Buffy ambush in the sewer, then at the very least for peeping at Buffy and Riley doing the horizontal warp. (That whole fighting/sex scene was really interesting and strange and had great music -- I liked it.) Maggie is dead, isn't she? Sometimes characters who get arrows through the chest on this show don't die.

My opinion of Riley just went all over the place in this episode; he's like a big, floating question mark. I had always assumed that his involvement with the Initiative went pretty deep, but now he is starting to look like Maggie's dupe. Riley isn't Buffy's equal or opposite, like Angel was, and now it looks like he isn't even the enemy. That scene when he got beeped to remind him to take his vitamins...mind-controlling drugs? It'll be interesting to see which way he jumps in the next episode -- Buffy's side, or the Initiative's?

The Spike scenes continued to be terrific; he keeps trying to go back to his evil ways, but winds up back with the gang. He should just give in and let it happen. Liked the scarred, pale, vein-y body makeup, too.

Why is Willow still keeping Tara a secret from Buffy? And did Willow and Tara spend the night together, too? Inquiring minds want to know!

Bits and pieces:

-- I liked the fact that Anya has "ex-demon issues."

-- "I spent the rest on blood and smokes." Was Spike taking a loaf of wheat bread home to his crypt?

-- The evil doctor Engleman. Sounds like Mengele, doesn't it?

-- The ionized hair was just hilarious.

Quotes:

Buffy: "(watching Riley) Tell me about your night."
Willow: "Well, spent most of it at Xander's teaching Anya to play poker."
Buffy: "That sounds like fun."
Willow: "Yeah. Except the Anya part and the poker part."
Buffy: "Will, I think you better get used to... a Twinkie? That's his lunch? Oh, he is so gonna be punished."
Willow: "Everyone's getting spanked but me."

Spike: "Hey. Wipe your feet when you enter a person's home."
Giles: "Oh, yes. Careless of me. Tracking mud all over your, uh, mud."
Spike: "I admit, it's a bit of a fixer-upper. Needs a woman's touch. Care to have a crack at it?"

Buffy: "Anya seems a bit on edge."
Willow: "She's a little angsty around commando-types. Ex-demon issues."
Buffy: "I know that. Like what?"
Willow: "Well, what's their ultimate agenda? I mean, okay, yeah, they neuter vampires and demons. But then what? Are they going to reintegrate them into society? Get them jobs as bagboys at Wal-Mart?"

Walsh: "They do have keen eyesight, however. You might want to be suited up for this."
Buffy: "Oh. You mean the camo and stuff? I thought about it but, I mean, it's gonna look all Private Benjamin. Don't worry. I've patrolled in this halter many times."

Spike: "I'm not going anywhere. Not until those bastards undo whatever they did to me. Put me back the way I was."
Xander: "Sure. Just explain to the nice scientist guys that you really miss killing and torturing innocent people."
Spike: "Do you think that would work?"

Two out of four stakes,

Billie





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