History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E13TheIInTeam

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Prof. Walsh calling "Agent Finn" by his first name when talking to her colleague, then [VerbalBackspace switching back]] when she realises what she's done, implies she's taking personally Buffy drawing her "boy" away from her. It happens again when Riley walks out on her.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The brand of energy bars, Boost Bars, is an actual bar in real life, though does not include the features Xander describes for the product seen in the episode.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Initiative's pet demons attack Buffy with a pair of large axes.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Buffy returns to her dorm the morning after she's slept with Riley for the first time, to find the dorm empty and Willow's bed still made. Willow then enters, having spent the night [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow casting spells]] with Tara. The following episode has one of the more famous spellcasting = lesbian love conversations when Willow and Tara are talking about what happened the previous night.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Tara and Willow's lesbian relationship is shown by implication -- Willow refusing a gift from Tara, only to turn up with it the next day after a night [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow casting spells]]. Buffy having sex with Riley for the first time, then returning home to find that Willow hasn't slept in her own bed that night. If that's not enough for you, the following episode has Willow and Tara talking about what happened last night in one of their more famous lesbian sex = spellcasting conversations.

* ChekhovsGun: Riley's "vitamins" turn out to be related to the conditioning Walsh is doing on him.

* IncrediblyObviousBug: The Initiative shoot Spike with a TrackingDevice, which Xander recognises because it blinks for no apparent reason.

* AlmostKiss: Buffy and Riley after Buffy sees how big it is (the Initiative base). Walsh interrupts.

* AnswerCut: Willow wonders what the Initiative is really up to. Cut to them tracking Buffy--as part of a training exercise.

%%* BattleCouple: Riley and Buffy.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Polgara demon's retractable bone skewers. Also a ChekhovsGun.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Spike gripes about his RestrainingBolt, Xander sarcastically suggests he tell the Initiative that he really misses torturing and killing innocent people. Spike asks, in perfect seriousness, "Do you think that would work?"
* ConflictKiller: KnightTemplar and ManipulativeBastard Maggie Walsh is replaced as the BigBad by Frankenstein's Monster-wannabe Adam, turning an interesting "do the ends justify the means" conflict [[spoiler:into an excuse for the heroes to turn into some spirit magic version of Anime/{{Voltron}}.]]

* DescriptionCut: "No time for layabouts!" Cut to post-boffed Buffy in bed.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Buffy is let into the Initiative's base for the first time it's first played as if Riley and she are going to have sex.
--->'''Buffy''': "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." \\
'''Riley''': "I don't like to brag."

'''Giles:''' . . . I'd venture "yes."
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Buffy gets her first look at the Initiative headquarters.
-->'''Buffy:''' You said it was big. You didn't say it was ''huge''.
-->'''Riley:''' I don't like to brag.

* FirstNameBasis: Prof. Walsh calling "Agent Finn" by his first name when talking to her colleague, then switching back when she realises what she's done, implies she's taking personally Buffy drawing her "boy" away from her. It happens again when Riley walks out on her.

%%* SelfMadeOrphan: Adam's first and last word to Prof. Walsh is "Mommy."

%%* SublimeRhyme: "This is a zap-n-trap."

* WellDoneSonGuy: Walsh says, "Riley, make me proud," before sending him after Hostile 17.

%%* ChekhovsGun: Riley's "vitamins."

* ConflictKiller: KnightTemplar and ManipulativeBastard Maggie Walsh is replaced as the BigBad by Frankenstein's Monster-wannabe Adam, turning an interesting "do the ends justify the means" conflict into an excuse for the heroes to turn into some spirit magic version of Anime/{{Voltron}}.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Buffy returns to her dorm the morning after she's slept with Riley for the first time, to find the dorm empty and Willow's bed still made. Willow then enters, having spent the night [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow casting spells]] with Tara. The following episode has one of the more famous [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar spellcasting = lesbian love]] conversations when Willow and Tara are talking about what happened the previous night.

-->'''Riley:''' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I don't like to brag.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tara and Willow's lesbian relationship is shown by implication -- Willow refusing a gift from Tara, only to turn up with it the next day after a night [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow casting spells]]. Buffy having sex with Riley for the first time, then returning home to find that Willow hasn't slept in her own bed that night. If that's not enough for you, the following episode has Willow and Tara talking about what happened last night in one of their more famous lesbian sex = spellcasting conversations.

* ItWasAGift: Tara offers Willow a dolls-eye crystal that belonged to her grandmother, but Willow refuses on the grounds that it's a valuable family heirloom. But after they spend the night "casting spells," Willow turns up at her dorm the following morning holding the crystal, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar implying that she accepted it as a love token]].

* BattleCouple: Riley and Buffy.

** It turns out Faith was right when she said that fighting makes a Slayer horny ([[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E3FaithHopeAndTrick "Faith, Hope and Trick"]]).

* ChekhovsGun: Riley's "vitamins."

* ModestyBedsheet: Buffy and Riley, the morning after (and, at one point, [[RightThroughHisPants during]]).

* OminousMulitpleScreens: A scene of Buffy and Riley making love moves to one of Professor Walsh watching them on a bank of screens. At the end of the episode, Buffy uses those same screens to threaten Walsh after TheUriahGambit fails to kill her.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Adam's first and last word to Prof. Walsh is "Mommy."

-->'''Spike:''' Hey! Wipe your feet when you enter a person's home.
-->'''Giles:''' Oh, yes. Careless of me. Tracking mud all over your, uh . . . mud.
-->'''Spike:''' I admit, it's a bit of a fixer-upper. Needs a woman's touch. Care to have a crack at it?
-->'''Giles:''' While I'd love to go on trading jabs with you, Spike, perhaps I'll come to the point.
* SublimeRhyme: "This is a zap-n-trap."

-->'''Giles:''' Why should ''I'' help ''you?''
-->'''Spike:''' Because I helped you! ''[smugly]'' When you turned into that Fyarl demon, I helped you, didn't I?
-->'''Giles:''' And that was out of the, um, evilness of your heart?
-->'''Spike:''' Oh, hell no. I made you pay me-- ''[[[ExplainExplainOhCrap stops grinning]]]'' You right bastard. ''[hands back the money]''

* SexDressed: Very subtle: Willow returns with her [[SweaterGirl sweater]] inside out.

* ConflictKiller: KnightTemplar and ManipulativeBastard Maggie Walsh is replaced as the BigBad by Frankenstein's Monster-wannabe Adam, turning an interesting "do the ends justify the means" conflict [[spoiler:into an excuse for the heroes to turn into some spirit magic version of Anime/{{Voltron}}.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tara and Willow's lesbian relationship is shown by implication -- Willow refusing a gift from Tara, only to turn up with it the next day after a night [[IsThatWhatYoureCallingItNow casting spells]]. Buffy having sex with Riley for the first time, then returning home to find that Willow hasn't slept in her own bed that night. If that's not enough for you, the following episode has Willow and Tara talking about what happened last night in one of their more famous lesbian sex = spellcasting conversations.

--->'''Giles:''' Please leave my home now.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tara and Willow's lesbian relationship is shown by implication -- Willow refusing a gift from Tara, only to turn up with it the next day after a night [[IsThatWhatYouAreCallingItNow casting spells]]. Buffy having sex with Riley for the first time, then returning home to find that Willow hasn't slept in her own bed that night. If that's not enough for you, the following episode has Willow and Tara talking about what happened last night in one of their more famous lesbian sex = spellcasting conversations.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Tara offers Willow a dolls-eye crystal that belonged to her grandmother, but Willow refuses on the grounds that it's a valuable family heirloom. But after they spend the night "casting spells", Willow turns up at her dorm the following morning holding the crystal, implying that she accepted it as a love token. (If that's not enough for you, the episode has both Buffy and Willow returning to their empty dorm the morning after Buffy and Riley had sex for the first time, and the following episode has Willow and Tara talking about what happened last night in one of their more famous lesbian sex = spellcasting conversations).

* ConflictKiller: KnightTemplar and ManipulativeBastard Maggie Walsh is replaced as the BigBad by Frankenstein's Monster-wannabe Adam, turning an interesting "do the ends justify the means" conflict into an excuse for the heroes to turn into some spirit magic version of Anime/{{Voltron}}.

* GetOut: Xander gives Giles one of the food bars he's trying to sell. Giles takes a single bite and says, "Please leave my home now."

* MoralDissonance: When Spike gripes about his RestrainingBolt, Xander sarcastically suggests he tell the Initiative that he really misses torturing and killing innocent people. Spike asks, in perfect seriousness, "Do you think that would work?"