Spiral

The previouslys segue into the final scene from last week: Glory rips off the wall of Tara's dorm room, where Willow, Tara, Buffy, and Dawn are more than a little surprised at her rude manners for not bothering to knock. They stare aghast at the hellish god, perhaps appalled by the white-lace-dress-over-red-slip ensemble she's chosen to wear for her deconstructionist activities. Unfortunately, Tara takes this opportunity to fulfill her brain-sucked duties by recognizing Dawn as the Key. The screen goes dark for a second, and then we're back. Buffy grabs Dawn by the arm and busts out through Tara's dorm room door. Glory chuckles and prepares to follow, but Willow, hugging Tara with one arm, casts a spell that first freezes Glory in place and then knocks her backwards. Willow flees, Tara in tow. Glory follows after Buffy and Dawn, not letting little impediments like walls slow her down. She also runs all super-zippy fast, but the less said about the Flash-like activities, the better. Buffy (I actually had "Bussy" typed there, which is pretty funny, but not as funny as "Buggy", my usual typo) and Dawn run across campus, but Dawn can't keep up, so Buffy's stunt double grabs up Dawn and runs across the grass carrying her. I almost fell out of my chair laughing the first time I watched this episode and saw the scene of the stunt woman toddling along carrying the Dawn-dummy. While working on the recap, I did actually fall out of my chair laughing watching this, but that might say more about the number of margaritas I've been imbibing than the lasting comedy value of this scene. Either way, I don't think hysterical giggling was really the reaction the writer and director of this episode were looking for. But -- oops, all the carrying was in vain, because Glory has zipped along and positioned herself in front of the sisters. "Last words, slay-runt?" queries Glory, and Buffy responds, "Just one. Truck." A huge oil tanker slams full speed into Glory, who is sent flying and smashes onto a car hood. She then morphs reluctantly into Ben, who looks very silly in white lace.

The gang has gathered on Xander's incredible expanding and contracting apartment set. Hey, Xander has a swanky upholstered wet bar in his living room. I've never noticed that before. The gang are not gathered around the bar drinking margaritas on the rocks, which shows their lack of common sense, but are instead listening to Dawn relate the events of the most recent showdown with Glory. "And Buffy's just standing there not even blinking like, 'bring it on,' and WHAM! Hell bitch in orbit." The Scoobies think Dawn means that Buffy bested Glory and excitedly congratulate her, but Buffy, staring out the window, glooms, "A truck hit her." Geez, Buffy, the truck of your grimness just hit this happy little party. Still not looking at her friends and family, Buffy wonders how she and Dawn got away from Glory, since the truck "couldn't have slowed her down for more than a second." Buffy seems incredibly wound up as she rants that Glory will only be harder to fight now that she knows Dawn is the Key. Anya suggests dropping a piano on Glory, referencing Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and Giles snarks back, "Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing tunnel on the side of a mountain." I'm not convinced it's in character for Giles to even know such a thing. He's supposed to be the bookish, television-rejecting type, isn't he? ["But it was funny, plus cutting to Anya, and that's what really counts in my book." -- Ace] Suddenly, Buffy reenters the conversation, saying that there's no way for the Scooby gang to defeat Glory, and because of that, she's decided that they all have to leave town. Xander and Giles seem reluctant to run, but Buffy overrides the dissension and tells everyone to pack up supplies and not tell anyone of the plan. She snaps at Xander that she'll handle getting transportation.

Ben comes down the stairs in Glory's apartment, where, uh, I guess he lives too, come to think of it. He's followed by the first female minion we've seen, who of course has been relegated to wardrobe mistress. Grrr. Bride Of Dreg is bitching that Glory's ugly lace dress has been ripped, but Ben doesn't much care. Bride Of Dreg then squicks me out by referring to Ben as a "manly and painfully handsome assemblage," and tries to milk him for information about the Key. Ben grumps that he wouldn't spill the beans even if he did know something and continues, "And she's your god, you little scab, not mine!" BOD informs Ben that he only exists because of Glory, but he's all whine, whine, whine, Glory takes all the good toys and ruins my life. BOD gets agitated when Ben makes an off-hand reference to suppressing Glory with drugs, and lectures him that he should feel "honored" to be bathed in Glory's light. For some reason, the idea of being bathed in someone's light creates some nasty mental pictures for me, but hey, I'm drunk. Further conversation between BOD and Ben reveals that if he kills the Key, he will be freed from Glory, but if Glory finds the Key, Ben's life will end. Ben "plans on keeping" his life.

Giles, Willow, Tara, Anya, and Xander are waiting on a random street corner. Everybody is terrified, but Xander attempts a pep talk, saying that the gang needs to be like Sergeant Rock, "cool and collected in the face of overwhelming odds." Comic-book characters are your role models now, Xander? How regressive of you. Um, at least I think Sergeant Rock is a comic-book character. When I tried to research it on the web, I only found a bunch of pages of "spanking videos" featuring young military men getting spanked on their bare bottoms. I don't think that's what Xander was referring to, but since his comments about Spike in "Intervention," I just can't be sure. Giles is just stating, "As soon as Buffy arrives," when a dilapidated motor home, windows covered in aluminum foil, pulls up. "We'll feel oddly worse," finishes Giles, surveying his new ride. The gang loads on in and take seats near Buffy, who is studying maps at the little kitchenette table. Perhaps wondering, "If Buffy's there, then who's driving this thing?" Giles turns to the front of the motor home and spots Spike in the captain's chair, looking real cute in a pair of black googly goggles. Giles and Xander protest Spike's presence, but Buffy defends her decision to bring him, saying that Spike is the only other being they know who has the slightest chance against Glory. She shouts, "This isn't a discussion! He stays. Get over it," and storms into the bedroom, slamming the door. "He stays. Get over it." I feel like that's Joss talking straight to me. Sigh. Spike gives Giles a fatuous grin, and the gang are off on their wacky road trip.

At a hospital, some guy in a baseball cap (Dante) with very nice penmanship is signing a document. He and his partner, also in street clothes, lead Orlando, the Knight who was cuter lying down, out of the hospital. I bet these guys are Orlando's fellow Knights of Borezantium. Well, they sure took their own sweet time coming for him. Swords to sharpen, chain mail to polish. A knight's life is a busy one, and sometimes it's hard to find the time to spring your companion from the mental ward. And how did they even find out Orlando was in the Sunnydale psych ward? I'm thinking he used the mysterious snack machine located in there. What? It had to serve some purpose other than taunting physically restrained crazy men. And if you've ever traveled in a foreign country, you'd know that snacks are the universal translator. Hee hee. I'm cracking myself up picturing the hospital staff coming across Orlando talking into a bag of Fritos. He's all, "Come get me soon, brothers in arms!" and the staff is all, "Tie him down and give him extra medication tonight." Anyway, the sane Knights are doing a pretty good job looking out of place in normal clothes, I'll give them that. They lead Orlando into the woods as he babbles, and then come face to face with a fully knight-geared guy whom they refer to as "General," but who I will call "Commander Blob" because he's a total waste of space. They doff their caps, revealing their forehead tattoos. Commander Blob promises to avenge Orlando, and then figures out that Orlando is looning about having seen the Key. "Pretty little shiny girl," says Orlando sadly. All right! Now everyone in the Buffyverse is finally on the same damn page! The Key is human. The Slayer is protecting the Key. And it only took twenty painful and repetitive episodes to reach this point. "Prepare to advance," bosses Commander Blob, and a whole troop of extras comes marching out of thee woods in full chain mail and armor. I fall off the couch again laughing. That scene was some funny shit and led to me doing a round of Holy Grail quotes to the cat, who as usual didn't appreciate my comic brilliance. Ungrateful feline.

The motor home cruises along a suburban street, with Giles now in the captain's chair. Xander, Anya, Tara, Willow, and Dawn sit at the kitchenette table; Spike sulks on the floor. I can just imagine the conversation where Xander persuaded dead boy to park his butt on the floorboards. Anya seems restless, and Xander is making burpy noises that I believe Nicholas Brendon intended to communicate "carsick." Why decide to make Xander carsick in this particular scene? I can't think of one reason why, other than perhaps to gross me out personally. Joss is mean that way. Giles grouses about the lack of acceleration; Xander burps and makes a froggy face; Anya refers to Xander as being like "fine shrimp" in that he doesn't travel well. Just a little slice of life on the road. Hey, maybe the Scoobies should form a rock band and travel around season in their RV, playing the campus concert circuit. Then we could enjoy these fine comedy stylings every episode! Oh wait, scratch that -- it's my vision of hell. Spike mopes that he should have stolen a Porsche instead, with only room for him, Buffy, and Dawn, and then catches the stink-eye from Xander. "See how fast you can hitch a ride with a flaming thumb," queasily and ineffectively threatens Xander, to which Spike replies, "Fine...shrimp." Hee, my first laugh of the night (at something I was supposed to laugh at, that is). Xander goes to ride in the front passenger seat and bitches some more to Giles about Spike and Buffy's stressed 'tude.

Willow tells Dawn that she hasn't found a protection spell that will work on a moving vehicle, and Anya trots out Spam and a frying pan to whip up a quick snack. As she's blithering, Tara pulls open the blinds, and a beam of sunlight burns Spike's hand. Tara begins whining and crying because Willow yells at her, and Spike is remarkably gracious about the whole thing. Despite Willow's soothing tones, Tara remains agitated and starts moaning, "All dark, all dark."

Cut to the psych ward at Sunnydale General or whatever the hospital is called. Some of Glory's other brainsuck victims are echoing Tara's words, "All dark. All dark," while others are chanting, "Soon. Soon."

Bride Of Dreg and yet another new minion perform a ritual in Glory's apartment. BOD states some magical mumbo-jumbo about signs being in alignment and victory being within their grasp.

The motor home rambles through a bleak desert area. Dawn peeps her head into the bedroom and finds Buffy napping. She sweetly asks Buffy to come watch Anya cook, but Buffy declines. Dawn is about to leave, but then thanks Buffy for all she has done for her. Buffy doesn't take the praise graciously, though, and instead pillories herself for running from Glory. Coming into the room, Dawn tells Buffy, "It's the most amazing thing anyone has ever done for me," which causes Buffy to tear up. She sniffles that horrible things just keep happening: "Glory, Riley, Tara, Mom." Dawn says there's a bright side: "At least things can't get any crazier, right?" Just then, an arrow slams through the motor home wall near Buffy's head, and she quips, "You know this is your fault for saying that!" Hey, I was just thinking the same thing. Buffy peeps out the window and sees about six knights on horseback, chasing the RV and waving weapons. Using horses to chase a motorized vehicle? C'mon, Knights, which is more important, finding the Key or playing Ren Faire? Why haven't these guys learned to drive? Hey, maybe that's where they've been this whole time -- they've been taking driving lessons to prepare them for life in Southern California. But then why are they still on horseback? They must still be waiting for their driver's licenses to come in the mail. The only thing that stands between them and the Key is the ineptitude of the California DMV.

Buffy brings her weapons bag out into the main room of the motor home, and the gang starts to get agitated as arrows pierce the walls around them. Well, most of the gang gets agitated. Xander just gets stupid and exclaims the obvious: "Arrows! They're throwing arrows!" The Knights continue attacking; Buffy shoves Dawn under the table; Tara risks her life trying to look out the window and admire the "horsies." Spike reminds Giles that the RV can be used as a weapon, and Buffy tells him to "aim for the horsies." Giles swerves the vehicle, but the Knights are not dissuaded, and one of them manages to climb on top. He walks the length of the motor home, plunging his sword through the roof. Buffy cautions everyone to "stay low," but fails to heed her own advice and almost gets impaled. However, Spike prevents her from becoming Slayer shish-kebab by grabbing the blade in his hands. This gives Buffy an opportunity to exit the RV through the sun-roof hatch.

On the roof, Buffy fights the Knight, falling over the edge at one point but managing to clamber back up and kick the Knight on the face in the process. Inside the motor home, Dawn helps Spike to bandage his sliced-up hands. Knight-fight on the roof. One of the other Knights smashes in the window of the vehicle and reaches for Dawn, but Anya smacks him on the head with the frying pan until he loses his grip and falls away. Which makes a nice segue into this conversation between Ace and me:

Sep: Feh. I wish someone would use that frying pan on Anya.
Ace: No freakin' kidding. Okay, hey, this has been bugging me. How did the Knights Who Say Bore actually find Buffy and the Scoobies?
Sep: Well, maybe they just got their Global Key Positioning System in the mail?
Ace: Unacceptable!
Sep: Well, maybe they, uh, um, they
Ace: How did they find Buffy? How?! They never had any sort of Key tracking powers in the past. How? Tell me! How?
Sep: Dude, nowhere in my title does the word "continuity" appear.

Xander just sits and looks queasy. First he's super-power fighter-man in "Intervention" and now he's useless, sicky, burpy guy? Talk about your character irregularities. Buffy fights two Knights. She fights and fights. She fights the Knights. She fights them with a sword. She fights the whole damn horde. It seems the Knights have all been vanquished, and the Scoobies breath a sigh of relief.

Ace: Where are the extras' horses? The ones the Knights leapt off of?
Sep: Probably grazing by the side of the road. They're stunt horses, you know. Very picky about their roles. "Darling, if I'm not doing stunts, I'm not in the scene. No stunt, no horse."
Ace: Damn prima donna horses!
Sep: Yeah. Hee. "These dirt roads are hell on my hooves and I just got them done! Do you have any idea how much a ferrier visit costs these days?"

Suddenly, Giles looks forward through the windshield (a good driving tip, by the way) and spots one more kamikaze Knight riding straight at him. The Knight throws a spear, which smashes the windshield and impales Giles in his side. He loses control of the RV, swerving wildly. Buffy leaps off the top, and the motor home careens off and then tips over onto its side. A cloud of dust rises.

The gang quickly wanders down the road and takes shelter in an abandoned gas station. Spike and Xander situate Giles and his gaping wound on a counter. Buffy checks Dawn to make sure she's fine with the obligatory hair stroke, then peeks out between the slats of the boarded-up windows. Everything appears to be fine. Anya gets all up in her grill, wanting to know if Buffy has another plan. Buffy says that they can rest for a moment but must keep moving. "Where?" queries Xander. "I don't know!" shouts Buffy, and starts stuttering about how they're too easy to find. Giles starts going into convulsions, and Buffy runs over at Willow's call. She's slowed the bleeding, but Giles is still having a rough time of things. Buffy begs for everyone to give her a minute to think, but at that moment a flaming arrow flies through the window. The gang springs into action, putting out fires and situating Dawn safely down behind another counter. Xander peeks out between the window slats to find that the Knights have surrounded them. "We got company. And they brought a crusade," yells Xander to the rest of the gang. Willow springs into spell mode while Buffy and Spike barricade the doors. The Knights start to break through the wall near Dawn, and then a few come swarming in from a back room. Buffy and Spike grapple with a Knight and dispatch him. Commander Blob strides in and aims his sword at Dawn, getting ready to make with the killing. Buffy throws a stray mace at his sword arm and quickly incapacitates him. Willow finally has her mojo going and raises a magical barrier around the gas station. Outside, Dante grunts in frustration and calls his clerics to work on removing the barrier. "Clerics"? Whatever. Wake me when the live-action D&D is over.

Cut to another room, where Commander Blob is tied up to a post and is being questioned by Buffy and Spike. For some reason, most likely for purposes of exposition, Dawn is there. Commander Blob is talking tough, and with a quick glance to Dawn monotones, "The instrument of chaos must be destroyed." Buffy warns him not to look at Dawn like that again and then makes the mistake of getting in a theological debate with a crusading religious fanatic. Blah blibbedy blah Buffy is all emotional, claims Dawn is human. Commander Blob argues that the Key is too dangerous to exist, "no matter what form it is pressed into." Which is actually a really good point. Why does the Key exist? Buffy starts to lose it some more, but is interrupted by a disturbance in the other room just before I pass out. Possibly because of the alcohol, but definitely because Commander Blob is a terrible and boring actor.

Buffy rushes into the other room to find Willow grappling with a crying and disturbed Tara, who is muttering, "Time. Time. Time," while trying to get outside. "We have to do something," implores Willow. Buffy is so stressed that tiny little hairline fractures are actually visible. Don't let your enemies see you crack under the pressure, Buffy! Just spackle on some more Maybelline.

Back at the psycho ward, all the other brain-suck victims try to escape from their restraints. They too are mumbling, "Time. Time. Time." One by one, they break free and all file out. I don't know which I find more unlikely: the snack machine that's still in the mental ward, or the fact that all of their hospital gowns completely close in the back.

So. Just in case you are stump stupid and didn't realize that all of Glory's victims are somehow tied into this whole thing, Orlando, outside the gas station, also starts with the chanting and the fleeing. Dante waylays him with a hand on his shoulder and promises him that, even though "the beast may have taken your mind, I swear to you she will never know the taste of your heart." This is Knightspeak for "I am going to stab you to death now." Orlando collapses on Dante. Oh boo hoo.

Buffy holds Giles's hand and apologizes, blaming herself for his injuries. Giles shushes her, then tells her how much he's always admired her for "being able to place [her] heart above all else." He goes on to tell her that she's "everything [he] could've hoped for." And I think Giles has a secret stash of morphine that was maybe implanted in one of his molars like a cyanide capsule, because he looks too much like a shiny, happy person to make me believe that he's seriously injured. Buffy sniffs and blinks back tears. Giles falls silent, and Buffy places a hand on his chest and then I have an awful moment where I think that he actually died, but then I realized that if that were truly the case, Ace and I would have had to work overtime to edit out the spoilers on the forums. Buffy turns to Willow and resolutely orders her to open a door in the barrier.

Outside, some CGI ripples let us know that Willow has indeed done so. Buffy and Xander exit to parlay with the Knights. Buffy wants the Knights to let someone come and help Giles. Dante refuses. Except he uses a lot of boring and pointless words to do so. Buffy decides that if nice doesn't work, maybe head-breaking will, but Xander holds her back and says that he's learned from Sergeant Rock that there are rules in war, "or at least there should be if you're as honorable as you think you are." Rules about when and where you get spanked, I guess. Dante looks pensive, because he hasn't ever read comic books and therefore has no source of his own to quote in rebuttal.

Back inside, Willow magically activates a pay phone. Buffy looks grateful and begins dialing. Spike comments that he has a crypt door that's squeaking: "Maybe you could, uh" Willow rolls her eyes and walks off. Heh. Ben answers on the other end of the line, and Buffy says, "I need to ask you a really big favor." I know some people have commented on how unlikely it is that Buffy would remember Ben's number, but it's almost statistically impossible that not one member of Scooby Gang has a cell phone and, in any case, that's the kind of belief I'm willing to suspend.

Outside, Ben pulls up in his oh-so-stylish suburban-mom-mobile. The Knights surround him, and if it were possible for Ben to look thoughtful, he would. Instead, the closest expression he can muster is "befuddled." They don't show Willow creating a portal for him, and I'm assuming that the grease factor just let him ooze on through. Seriously. The text on my screen may be fuzzy, but I can still see Ben's pores from across the room.

Ben ministers to Giles, and pointless chit-chat with Buffy ensues. Buffy thanks him; more pointless chit-chat. Spike looks jealous. Ben gives Dawn a hard, appraising look to try and create some tension to pep me up for the run-in with Commander Blob.

Commercials. Latch jumps in my lap for the millionth time despite the fact that the space is already occupied by my laptop. In retaliation, I color in her nose with my blue pen. Now she looks like she's been sodomizing Smurfs.

Ben tells Buffy that he's managed to stabilize Giles, but that he really needs more medical attention than Ben is capable of providing. Buffy points out that the Knights have other plans. Y'know, it's no wonder they've been searching for the Key for centuries -- they had a perfect opportunity to blackmail Buffy into either handing Dawn over, or at the very least trading Ben for Commander Blob. Idiots. Anyway, Buffy tells him that if things are too weird, he can go and she'll understand. "Don't worry about me," he assures her, "I won't leave until I've worn out my welcome." Uh, is this one of those interactive TV things that we can vote on? No? Damn. Just checking.

Back in the room with Commander Blob, Spike is having a bit of trouble getting his ciggie lit. Xander notices, lights it for him, and then just pockets Spike's lighter. Spike and Xander commiserate and bond a bit for some odd reason, but quickly start arguing about how their current situation should be handled. Spike wants to use "General Armor-All" as shield and make a run for it. Xander disagrees. "Look!" says Spike vehemently, "We stay here, we all die. At least this way some of us might --" "No!" interrupts a recently-entered Buffy. "We're all going to make it. I'm not losing anyone." She tells them to "check the supplies. See if anyone's hungry." The supplies? You mean the single can of Spam? Buffy, you've only been trapped a number of hours, and I guarantee nobody is that hungry. But Buffy just wants to get them out of the way so she can interrogate Commander Blob some more. He needles her about dissension in the ranks. She slaps him. I try to keep my eyes open. I'm pretty sure they only cast this guy because his forehead was big enough for the extra-fancy tattoo. Anyway, back to Commander Blob Explains It All. He expositions that Glory was banished by two other hell gods and trapped in our world in the body of a mortal boy, which is her only weakness, but she can manifest herself for short periods of time before her energy runs out. "What about me?" queries Dawn. "What about the Key?" Blah blah blibbedy blah. The Key is old. The Knights been looking for it all their live-long days because Dawn is used to "open gates that separate dimensions." But not just one dimension. All the gates to all the dimensions. Which makes Dawn not just any Key but the Pass Key To Every Universe. Apparently, if the Key is used, all the other dimensions will melt into each other, "order will be overthrown, and the universe will tumble into chaos." Kind of like when you make a grilled-cheese sandwich with more than one kind of cheese, the jack melts into the cheddar and the integrity of all the cheeses is compromised and mmmm. Grilled-cheese chaos sandwich.

Dawn is sitting alone, feeling sorry for herself some more. Buffy tries to comfort her, but fails to point out that the Knights may have a slightly biased view of the Key.

Ben is washing up in the sink near Commander Blob, who tries to enlist him to murder Dawn. You see, it's supposed to be tense because we know that Ben is Glory's mortal prison and that he would have a very personal interest in getting rid of her. I suppose this is as good of a time as any to mention that I have many, many problems with this whole situation. Now that we know that Ben, Glory thing aside, is supposedly Joe Regular, it seems a leetle disingenuous that he would a) have any knowledge of or b) be able to summon the Queller Feller. Can anyone just look to the skies and yell, "I need a huge rubber cockroach demon to alight from heaven and barf on the faces of mine enemies, thereby causing them to suffocate to death in order to cover up my deepest, darkest secret, which may or may not be that my body harbors a prissy little hell god?" And all those people that Ben effectively sentenced to death by Queller should really impede his chances of being perceived as a good guy, but instead, at worst, he's portrayed as having a slightly dingy gray heart. And why they heck did he tell Dawn that he had a sister? One could argue that he was speaking metaphorically, but I don't think he's capable of that, considering that he's stupid enough to stay in the vicinity of Dawn, whom he knows is the Key, and that if Glory gets her Palmolive-smooth paws on the Key, he will cease to exist, something he's very clearly stated that he's not in favor of. Furthermore, can someone explain to me what the Knights plan to do if they actually manage to "sever the link" and then are left with a highly pissed, practically invincible, and now stranded hell god? Maybe they should apply the crack stake-out skills or, as my people call it, "plot device" that allowed them to find Dawn to instead track down Glory, follow her around, and when she morphs back into Ben, end this nonsense for once and for all. Look. I'm drunk off my ass right now, and if I can still manage to see these inconsistencies through a 100-percent pure agave haze, then you know there's a problem.

Dawn is observing Giles, who is muttering in his sleep. Dawn tells Ben that it's all her fault. "No it isn't," says Ben. "I just know that sometimes terrible things happen to good people. It shouldn't but it does. It's nobody's fault. It's just the way life is." During this whole speech, creepy "music" is playing in the background, and Ben futzes with the syringe, delivering his lines in a distracted tone to make us think that he's going to inject Dawn with some sort of lethal substance. Which of course he doesn't. All of a sudden, Ben drops the syringe and shouts that he has to get out. The gang is confused, and Willow starts to open a door, but it's too late. Glory manifests as Buffy's eyes go HUGE with fear. "The beast!" groans Commander Blob. "Hey! It's Gregor!" calls Glory cheerily, obviously recognizing him. She grabs a hubcap and flings it like a Frisbee. Commander Blob catches it in the chest and dies. "Now it's not," she pouts. Spike and Xander both gather their courage for a moment before rushing in. Xander is possibly the bravest character on this show. Despite having no special skills whatsoever, he doesn't hesitate to take a beating. Glory easily catches Spike with a punch, knocking him into Xander. Buffy's turn. She gets knocked into Willow for her efforts. Done with Scooby bowling, Glory and Anya both grab Dawn in a tug-of-war. Glory wins easily and runs outside, dragging Dawn behind her. She hits Willow's barrier, but creates a gaping hole in it with just one punch. Buffy takes off after them and tries to jump through the hole that Glory created, but it's already closed by the time she gets to it. Buffy goes back inside and screams, "Willow. Get it down. NOW!" In the time it takes Buffy to run outside again, all the Knights are lying on the ground, dead or dying. I would feel sorry for them, but I don't suffer fools gladly. The gang rushes out behind her. "The car! Get the keys!" shouts Spike. And I'm glad that someone on this show has finally realized that cars and houses both require keys to be accessed properly. Willow urges Buffy to action, but Buffy heavily lowers herself into a sitting position, a completely vacant look on her face. As the camera focuses in on Buffy's face, Willow's voice fades farther and farther away.