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In the library, Willow suggests another possibility; animated dummies harvesting organs in order to become humans. Sid is gone when Xander stops paying attention to him. Buffy finds Morgan's body missing its brain, just as a chandelier falls on her. When she wakes up, Buffy is attacked by Sid. They eventually realise they're both fighting for the same goal; to stop the demon.
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In the library, Willow suggests another possibility; animated dummies harvesting organs in order to become humans. Sid is gone when Xander stops paying attention to him. Buffy finds Morgan's body missing its brain, just as a chandelier falls on her. When she wakes up, Buffy is attacked by Sid. They eventually realise they're both fighting for the same goal; to stop the demon.
demon. Sid explains that he is a demon hunter, cursed to be in dummy form until he kills all of the Brotherhood of Seven; the demons who need hearts and brains. He's killed six so far. However as his body is long gone, Sid accepts that when he kills the last demon, he will also die. Realising the demon has what it needs, it'll be moving on.
Later, Sid suggests to Giles to form a power circle to see who's missing but they see that everyone is present. When Sid goes missing again, Buffy finds Morgan's brain when looking for Sid. Buffy, Willow and Xander discover Morgan had brain cancer which is probably why the demon didn't use it. The demon now must be looking for someone smart, meaning Giles and Willow are in trouble.
At the talent show, Marc the magician straps Giles into his guillotine trap designed to cut off his scalp and leave his brain exposed to take. Just in time, Buffy and the others realise what is happening and rush to the rescue. As Buffy and Sid battle Marc who's now taken on his demon form, Xander keeps Giles from getting hurt as Willow frees him with an axe. Finally, Buffy and Sid manage to decapitate Marc with the guillotine. Sid reveals that to kill Marc, they must stab him in the heart. After declining Buffy's offer to do it, Sid kills Marc and finally dies himself as the curtain falls. Everyone assumes it's part of the show and they receive minimal applause. Buffy, Xander and Willow finish their dramatic scene in front of the audience with Willow running off stage.
Later, Sid suggests to Giles to form a power circle to see who's missing but they see that everyone is present. When Sid goes missing again, Buffy finds Morgan's brain when looking for Sid. Buffy, Willow and Xander discover Morgan had brain cancer which is probably why the demon didn't use it. The demon now must be looking for someone smart, meaning Giles and Willow are in trouble.
At the talent show, Marc the magician straps Giles into his guillotine trap designed to cut off his scalp and leave his brain exposed to take. Just in time, Buffy and the others realise what is happening and rush to the rescue. As Buffy and Sid battle Marc who's now taken on his demon form, Xander keeps Giles from getting hurt as Willow frees him with an axe. Finally, Buffy and Sid manage to decapitate Marc with the guillotine. Sid reveals that to kill Marc, they must stab him in the heart. After declining Buffy's offer to do it, Sid kills Marc and finally dies himself as the curtain falls. Everyone assumes it's part of the show and they receive minimal applause. Buffy, Xander and Willow finish their dramatic scene in front of the audience with Willow running off stage.
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Something is killing the school TalentShow contestants and taking their body parts. The Slayerettes suspect a classmate and his dummy.
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The talent show rehearsals continue with an unsuccessful magician named Marc. Buffy, Xander and Willow come up with ideas for what they can do for the show and decide on a dramatic scene as it doesn't require any actual talent. Sid watches and makes rude comments as Morgan explains he's just doing an imitation of his father.
Snyder explains to Giles that he plans to run a safer, more disciplined school only to discover Emily's body, whose heart has been cut out. The Scoobies debate on whether the killer is human or demon; with Willow saying a human would be scarier as it could be anyone.
The Scoobies split up and begin interviewing people from the talent show to find the killer. All of their interviews point to Morgan and his dummy, Sid. They decide to check Morgan's locker after school hours. Morgan and Sid are watching with Sid telling him that Buffy is 'the one' due to her strength.
As Buffy sleeps, Sid enters her room and quickly sneaks out when she turns the lights on. Naturally, the Scoobies struggle to believe her the following day when she tries to convince them that Sid broke into her room. Giles suggests that the demon needs a heart and later a brain to continue its human guise, meaning it could still be anyone. When a teacher confiscates Sid from Morgan, Xander steals him so Buffy can speak to Morgan alone. As Buffy searches for Morgan backstage, Snyder catches her and berates her for being somewhere he doesn't think she belongs.
In the library, Willow suggests another possibility; animated dummies harvesting organs in order to become humans. Sid is gone when Xander stops paying attention to him. Buffy finds Morgan's body missing its brain, just as a chandelier falls on her. When she wakes up, Buffy is attacked by Sid. They eventually realise they're both fighting for the same goal; to stop the demon.
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* ThrowItIn: Willow running away in the middle of the final scene. It's worked in perfectly.
** Nicholas Brendon screaming [[Film/TheShining "REDRUM!!!"]] while playing with the puppet was shot between takes.
** Nicholas Brendon screaming [[Film/TheShining "REDRUM!!!"]] while playing with the puppet was shot between takes.
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* ContinuityNod: The principal mentions [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack his predecessor's death]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane a suicide]] and a [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E3TheWitch spontaneous cheerleader combustion]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Quark]] is now a student-hating principal! (Mmm, perhaps it should be HeyItsThatVoice).
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* MessyHair / [[WeNeedADistraction I Need A Distraction]]: Cordy is bending Giles' ear about the talent quest.
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* SpeakInUnison / FlatWhat: Sid and Buffy simultaneously realising the other is a demon hunter, not a demon.
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* ItsALongStory
-->'''Buffy:''' [[CreepyDoll [Dummies] give me]] [[TotallyRadical the wig]]. Ever since I was little.
-->'''Willow:''' What happened?
-->'''Buffy:''' I saw a dummy. It gave me the wig. There...really wasn't a story there.
-->'''Buffy:''' [[CreepyDoll [Dummies] give me]] [[TotallyRadical the wig]]. Ever since I was little.
-->'''Willow:''' What happened?
-->'''Buffy:''' I saw a dummy. It gave me the wig. There...really wasn't a story there.
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-->Don't get sniffley on me sis. I've lived a lot longer than most demon hunters, or vampire slayers for that matter.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The dummy is actually a cursed demon hunter who believes that Buffy is the demon after seeing her Slayer strength.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The dummy is actually a cursed demon hunter hunter, who believes that Buffy is the demon after seeing her Slayer strength.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Poor Morgan is Sid's initial ally, showing tremendous concern when Sid vanishes and seems like a shy, sweet guy who at least Willow seems to be friends with. After his death he is never so much as mentioned again by Sid and even our regular heroes only bring him up as a plot point (his illness making his brain unsuitable for the demon.)
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* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler:Sid Sid had a relationship with a Korean Slayer in the 1930's, and is definitely turned on by Buffy.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Willow's stagefright and Cordelia's terror of having bad hair are carried over in "Nightmares".
** A demon hunter being hit with a curse [[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime that turns him into a puppet]].
** A demon hunter being hit with a curse [[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime that turns him into a puppet]].
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-->'''Xander:''' [[spoiler:The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain.]] Does anybody else feel like they've been [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Sozed]]?
* PietaPlagiarism: Buffy holding [[spoiler:Sid after his 'death'.]]
* [[spoiler:RedHerring: Both Sid and Principal Snyder are implied to be the demon.]]
* RewatchBonus: Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
* PietaPlagiarism: Buffy holding [[spoiler:Sid after his 'death'.]]
* [[spoiler:RedHerring: Both Sid and Principal Snyder are implied to be the demon.]]
* RewatchBonus: Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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-->'''Xander:''' [[spoiler:The The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain.]] Does anybody else feel like they've been [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Sozed]]?
* PietaPlagiarism: Buffy holding[[spoiler:Sid Sid after his 'death'.]]
'death'.
*[[spoiler:RedHerring: RedHerring: Both Sid and Principal Snyder are implied to be the demon.]]
* RewatchBonus: Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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* RewatchBonus: Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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* SpeakInUnison / FlatWhat: [[spoiler:Sid and Buffy simultaneously realising the other is a demon hunter, not a demon.]]
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Sid finishes off the demon to end the curse, even though it will mean the end of his own existence.]]
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Sid Sid finishes off the demon to end the curse, even though it will mean the end of his own existence.]]
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-->'''Xander:''' [[spoiler:The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain.]] Does anybody else feel like they've been [[TheUsualSuspects Keyser Sozed]]?
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-->'''Xander:''' [[spoiler:The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain.]] Does anybody else feel like they've been [[TheUsualSuspects [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Sozed]]?
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* [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong: After most of the episode has been hinting that Sid is the demon, it turns out ''he's'' a Demon Hunter as well and assumed Buffy was the villain.]]
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* DemonicDummy: [[spoiler:Averted; the dummy is in fact hunting the demon himself.]]
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-->'''Snyder:''' I don't get it. [Cut to credits] What is it, avant garde?
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-->'''Snyder:''' I don't get it. [Cut [[[InterruptedByTheEnd Cut to credits] credits]]] What is it, avant garde?
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* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler:Sid had a relationship with a Korean Slayer in the past, and is definitely turned on by Buffy.]]
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* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler:Sid had a relationship with a Korean Slayer in the past, 1930's, and is definitely turned on by Buffy.]]
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'''Giles:''' (to himself) Xander was right. It worked like a charm.\\
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'''Giles:''' (to himself) Xander was right. It worked like a charm.\\
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** A demon hunter being hit with a curse [[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime that turns him into a puppet]].
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** Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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* RewatchBonus: A demon hunter being hit with a curse that turns him into a puppet.
**Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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* AlphaBitch: Cordelia has stagefright. "All those people judging me like I'm some kind of...Buffy!"
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** Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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** Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Willow's stagefright and Cordelia's terror of having bad hair are carried over in "Nightmares".
** A demon hunter being hit with a curse that turns him into a puppet.
** Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
** A demon hunter being hit with a curse that turns him into a puppet.
** Willow notes how creepy it is that the killer could be human. "It could be anyone -- even me!" PlayedForLaughs now, but not in Season 6 when Willow is driven to commit murder for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very human reasons]].
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'''Giles:''' Xander was right. It worked like a charm.
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* MessyHair: Cordy is bending Giles' ear about the talent quest.
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* HoistWithTheirOwnPetard: The demon gets decapitated with the guillotine it was going to use on Giles.
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* AlphaBitch: "All those people judging me like I'm some kind of...Buffy!"
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* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Buffy gets trapped under one (rather unconvincingly, as it looks like [[BrokenHeel something an ordinary cheerleader could lift]], let alone Buffy).
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* MessyHair: Cordy is bending Giles' ear about the talent quest.
-->'''Giles:''' Oh! I'm sorry. Um, your hair, uh...\\
'''Cordelia:''' There's something wrong with my hair? (pulls it behind her ears. Gilesplays on Cordy's worst fear.
-->'''Giles:'''remains silent, but continues to stare.)\\
'''Cordelia:''' Ohmigod! (quickly leaves)\\
'''Giles:''' (to himself) Xander was right. It worked like a charm.\\
'''Giles:''' Xander was right. It worked like a charm.
-->'''Giles:''' Oh! I'm sorry. Um, your hair, uh...\\
'''Cordelia:''' There's something wrong with my hair? (pulls it behind her ears. Giles
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'''Giles:''' Xander was right. It worked like a charm.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Buffy tackles the demon as it's hacking at the rope holding the guillotine blade over Giles' head; the rope breaks, but Xander grabs it as the blade is falling. Sid appears to attack the demon as it's getting the better of Buffy.
-->'''Giles:''' I must say all of you, your timing is impeccable.
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-->'''Snyder:''' From now on you're gonna see a very different Sunnydale High. Tight ship, ship; clean, orderly...and quiet.
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-->'''Cordelia:''' "My song is about dignity, and human feelings, and personal...hygiene or something."
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