Episode Report Card Ace: A+ | 20 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Harvest (2)
By Ace | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.09.1997
Once inside, they shut the door, and one of the vamps kills the lights and music as Luke gets onstage and tells the crowd that there is "no cause for alarm." Since he's backlit, nobody can tell that he's a vampire. As someone flicks a spotlight on him, he amends that to, "Actually, there is cause for alarm. It just won't do any good," as someone in the crowd screams. Cordelia turns to see Jesse and his crap-ass makeup smiling at her, and she does that half-scream thing. One of the vamps brings Luke his first victim, the none-too-bright bouncer who wonders what's wrong with Luke's face. Luke pontificates some more, and I really wish Joss would learn for once and for all that only charismatic characters should be allowed to do that. Luke drains the bouncer amidst screams from the crowd.
We get a special Master reaction shot. He has a "did someone fart?" look on his face.
Luke drops the bouncer and calls for his next victim.
Outside the Bronze, the gang runs up to the door, only to find it locked. Buffy hands over her bag of tricks and tells them to find the back entrance, cautioning them to concentrate only on getting the people out and to leave the fighting to her. Around back, Giles, Xander, and Willow find the back entrance locked as well. Xander says they have to get in there quickly before Jesse "does something stupider than usual." Giles lectures Xander to remember that when he sees Jesse he's "not looking at [his] friend, [he's] looking at the thing that killed him."
Inside the Bronze, Luke is finishing up the next course; meanwhile, underground, the Master says that he's almost free and with a rebel yell he cries, "More, more, more!"
Or something. Back at the Bronze, Jesse is possessively holding onto Cordelia, but Darla takes her from him because the Master has dibs. Being a vampire henchman really sucks. Heh. I crack myself up. Upstairs somewhere, there's a sound of crashing glass, and Buffy comes crawling in. From her perch above the dance floor, she listens to Luke pontificate some more. Buffy recognizes him as the Master's vessel, but then the vamp techie who is running the lights hears her. Darla brings Cordelia out onto the stage to Luke, and he strokes her cheek as she screams. He's about to snack on Cordelia, but is interrupted by the techie vampire falling from the catwalk with a loud thud onto the stage. Buffy cracks wise a bit with Luke and then flips off of the catwalk onto the pool table. She is immediately rushed by a vamp, but she does a cartwheel off the pool table, simultaneously picking up a pool cue and jabbing it viciously to the side, impaling the vamp. The pool cue, for some reason, never clatters to the ground as it should if the vamp had turned to dust. Buffy taunts Luke and takes off her jacket. She runs onto the stage and delivers a roundhouse kick which knocks Luke to the back of the stage. They fight. Buffy tries to stake him, but he blocks it and she drops the stake. He throws her into some boxes. I'd forgotten how terribly boring the fights were in the first season. Before they hired Jeff Pruitt. Who choreographed amazing, exciting fights. Who has now been fired. Good move, Joss & Co.