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
Giles, Xander, and Willow have managed to break into the back entrance. They start helping the scared people out of the building until Xander is grabbed from behind by a vamp. Buffy catches sight of this and grabs a cymbal, which she throws like a Frisbee at the vamp. Xander has the good sense to duck, and the cymbal decapitates the vamp. While Buffy is preoccupied with Xander, Luke grabs her from behind. Ruh roh! Onstage, Cordelia and her belly are squirming on the floor. Jesse straddles her and tells her to hold still, but Xander comes up behind him brandishing a stake and tells him to lay off.
Buffy struggles with Luke. Giles is attacked by Darla as he's helping everyone to safety. Jesse tells Xander that he's "a new man," and before he was changed he was a loser who couldn't get a date. Man, these vampires sure like to hear themselves talk, don't they? Luke finally gets down to business with Buffy as he says, "Master, taste of this and be free," and prepares to bite. Buffy finally realizes her ticket is good on the clue train and throws her head back, cracking Luke in the forehead and stunning him enough to drop her. She saucily asks him how she tasted. Darla has Giles pinned on the floor, but here comes shy l'il Willow with a jar of holy water. She catches Darla's attention, then throws the water in Darla's face when Darla turns to look at her. Darla's face starts steaming a lot -- like, kick the smoke machine down a couple of notches, guys -- and she runs off.
Jesse throws Xander against a wall, and Xander positions the business end of his stake right over Jesse's heart. Jessie snots that Xander lacks the cojones to stake him, but at that moment he's impaled onto the stake by a random fleeing girl who bumps into him. What, is Jesse made of Play-Doh? That was barely hard enough to break skin. As Jesse turns to dust, Xander is grabbed by two more random vampires. Back onstage, Luke STILL can't shut up. Buffy picks up a mic stand. Luke tells her that she "forgot" that metal is useless against him, but Buffy tells him that he forgot about sunrise, and she hurls the mic stand at the blacked-out window above the stage. As a bright backstage light shines onto Luke, he starts writhing in anticipation of being burned, and Buffy stakes him from behind. "It's in about nine hours, moron," she snarks. Luke takes a really long time to fall off the stage before bursting into dust on the floor.
Back in the cavern, the Master falls to his knees, screaming and throwing a little tantrum. Next we have that famous shot from the credits of the camera panning up from under Buffy to focus on her blue-lit face. She gives the two vampires who have Xander a look, and they take about two seconds to decide to un-live to fight another day. They run down the street, and Angel steps out of the street to deliver his obligatory line. If you're interested, it's, "She did it. I'll be damned." As it were.