History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E10Amends

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Willow tells Oz she wants to "do that thing", he's so surprised he stands up as a "dramatic gesture". When she reiterates the point, he has to [[RagingStiffie sit down again]].

* NewsreaderCameo: The weatherman, Mark Kriski, is a real weatherman for KTLA's morning news, an affiliate of Creator/TheWB in Los Angeles.

* AesopAmnesia: Buffy's resolution in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E8LoversWalk Lovers Walk]]" to stay away from Angel gets thrown out the window when she has to intervene to stop Angel from committing suicide.

** GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Willow goes into more detail about what she wants from him, [[RagingStiffie he quickly has to sit down again]].

* ChristmasMiracle: It snows in Sunnydale after a forecast of sunny with temperatures in the high 70s Fahrenheit. Why? Because Buffy was trying to convince Angel not to kill himself by sunlight, and they needed a ChristmasMiracle to save him from death-by-sunlight. This on a show with DevilButNoGod. Of course, years later it's revealed a prime candidate for who saved him was [[WellIntentionedExtremist Jasmine]] whose motives were hardly purely benevolent. Or maybe [[WellIntentionedExtremist her motives]] were a bit ''too'' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans benevolent]]...

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Angel drinking Buffy's blood comes to pass as the First predicts, [[ProphecyTwist albeit for different reasons]] ("[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2}} Graduation Day, Part 2]] ").

* JustLikeMakingLove: The First urges Angel to pour out all his [[IsThatWhatTheyAreCallingItNow frustration]] into Buffy.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Angel decides to kill himself. Jenny!First says "You're not supposed to die, that's not the plan." After Angel leaves she adds, "But it'll do."

** LaymansTerms: Giles then sums up what they've found as "[[CardCarryingVillain We're bad and we're not going to get any better.]]"

* [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith A Form You Are Really, Really Not Comfortable With]]: The First appears in the form of Jenny Calender, killed by Angelus in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion}} Passion]]", plus [[ISeeDeadPeople several other victims]] from before he was ensouled. The First also uses the Jenny form with Buffy, who has her own guilt issues in that area (Buffy failing to kill Angelus in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E14Innocence}} Innocence]]" led to Jenny's death).

* JustLikeMakingLove: Jenny!First urges Angel to pour out all his [[IsThatWhatTheyAreCallingItNow frustration]] into Buffy.

It turns out that this is a nightmare of Angel's. When he wakes up, unable to fall asleep again, he walks the streets of Sunnydale and runs into Buffy, their first encounter since ending their friendship. They exchange a few awkward words before Angel becomes frightened, seeing the ghost of Daniel staring at him. The next day, as Sunnydale High starts winding down for Christmas vacation, Buffy tells her friends about her freaky encounter with Angel. They fill each other in on holiday plans and then Oz shows up, ready to talk to Willow. He tells her that he knows that she and Xander have a history and how doesn't know if things between the two will ever be over. However he also tells her he misses her terribly, so is willing to give their relationship another shot. Cordelia Chase on the other hand is still cold and hostile toward the rest of the Scooby Gang and smuggly tells them that she'll be going to Aspen, "With real snow."

* AlwaysABiggerFish

->'' "You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood; blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."''
-->--'''Spike'''

-->'''Buffy''': You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Maybe this evil power ''did'' bring you back, but if it
did, it's because it needs you. And that means you can hurt it. Angel, you have the power to do real good! To make amends! But if you die now, then all you ever were was a monster!

* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: And at this point in the series, Buffy really doesn't know. Then again she doesn't really care either.

* MindRape: The First tries to pull one on Angel.

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Faced with an Angel who's going to pieces, Buffy urges Giles to give her something to pummel. Killing the Bringer priests and breaking the First's connection with Sunnydale may or may not have helped with the subsequent ChristmasMiracle.

'''Xander:''' (menacingly) How about I ring that bell for you? (hopefully to Buffy) Does the threatening come now?\\
'''Buffy:''' Maybe you shouldn't help.

-->'''Angel:''' ''(staring hungrily at her)'' I think you're the one who's confused.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer / TunnelNetwork: [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles Fourteen million square miles]] of them, and that's not including a lot of natural cave formations and a gateway to Hell.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Harbingers of Death.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles Fourteen million square miles]] of them, and that's not including a lot of natural cave formations and a gateway to Hell.

* ThisAndThat: Willow offers to "do that thing" with Oz.

* AesopAmnesia: Buffy's resolution in "Lovers Walk" to stay away from Angel gets thrown out the window when she has to intervene to stop Angel from committing suicide.

* BadDreams

* ChristmasEpisode
* ChristmasMiracle / DeusExMachina: It begins snowing on Sunnydale, leaving the town in total darkness, and saving Angel from burning. MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Angel drinking Buffy's blood comes to pass as the First predicts, [[ProphecyTwist albeit for different reasons]] ("Graduation Day, Part Two").

* [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith A Form You Are Really, Really Not Comfortable With]]: The First appears in the form of Jenny Calender, killed by Angelus in "Passions", plus [[ISeeDeadPeople several other victims]] from before he was ensouled. The First also uses the Jenny form with Buffy, who has her own guilt issues in that area (Buffy failing to kill Angelus in "Innocence" led to Jenny's death).

* TheHedonist: Liam
* HoldingHands / SnowMeansLove: Buffy and Angel at the end of the episode. Definitely not JustFriends.

* HumanoidAbomination. The Harbingers

* IHaveAFamily

* InsecureLoveInterest

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage

* OminousLatinChanting

* TearJerker: Buffy trying to talk Angel out of killing himself.

* ThisIsThePartWhere

* TwistedChristmas
* TwoScenesOneDialogue

* VillainsNeverLie

* ActorAllusion: The maid Margaret is played by Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, who played Princess Margaret in ''Gods and Monsters''.

-->"'A child shall be born of man and goat and have two heads, and The First shall speak only in riddles...' No wonder you like this stuff. It's like reading The Sun."

* BeneathTheMask: Carrying on the themes raised in "Becoming", this episode deconstructs Angel the MysteriousProtector and [[StarCrossedLovers Star Crossed Lover]]. He was a drunken hedonist as a human, now crushed under the guilt of hundreds of years of gleefully sadistic evil. A couple of years as Buffy's champion don't even begin to up for that, even if he hadn't spent the time falling for the woman he was supposed to be protecting. Afraid that he doesn't have the strength of character to resist having sex with (and killing) Buffy again, he tries to kill himself.