Line #94 Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E7TheInitiative


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"The problem is, what kind of girl's gonna go out with a guy who's acting all Joe Regular by day, and turns Demon Hunter by night?"'']]
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4	->''"No studying? Damn. Next thing you'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?"''
5	-->--'''Xander Harris'''
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7	Directed by Creator/JamesAContner
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9	Written by Creator/DouglasPetrie
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11	Riley, Forrest, and Graham watch as Buffy makes a mess of the soda and yogurt machines in the cafeteria. Forrest and Graham comment on how attractive she is and how interested in her they are, but Riley is reluctant to make fun.
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13	Giles and Xander discover the commando guys are human and that their help will not be needed, again. Buffy arrives and while Giles tells her to patrol, she says she's going to party with Willow and hopefully cheer her up.
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15	Spike, having previously been knocked out by a taser, wakes up in a facility where various types of demons are held captive behind electrically charged barriers. A packet of blood drops from the ceiling into Spike's cell but before he drinks it, a vampire in the next cell - Tom (captured in "The Freshman") - warns him that doctors starve the vampires and then feed them drugged blood before doing experiments on them.
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17	In class Willow asks about Oz, but Riley tells her that he's dropped out of college. After Willow tries to tell him that Oz will return, Professor Walsh informs her that he won't be welcome in her class, which upsets Willow and she quickly leaves. Buffy approaches the professor, and tells her off, prompting Walsh to comment to Riley that she likes her.
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19	Forrest asks Parker about Buffy, and when Parker vulgarly brags about having sex with her, Riley punches him. Riley then realizes he likes Buffy.
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21	Spike lies on the floor of his cell, pretending to have drunk the drugged blood, and when the doctors come to get him he attacks. Riley visits Willow and asks her advice in wooing Buffy. Willow, still emotionally distressed, questions his motives but eventually relents, listing some of Buffy's likes and interests. After escaping from the Initiative, Spike returns to Harmony's lair, telling her he's "back for good" - then immediately leaves to kill the Slayer.
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23	At the party, Willow tries to help Riley flirt with Buffy with little success but is upset when a Dingoes Ate My Baby song starts playing and decides to leave. Xander discovers Harmony crying, burning some of Spike's things. The two get into an inept slap-fight, and then mutually agree to stop. Harmony lets Xander know that Spike is back. Xander interrupts Riley's renewed attempt to chat Buffy up to inform Buffy that Spike has returned. Riley is also called away; he and Forrest break away from the party and, after passing through several electronic checkpoints, go down a hidden elevator to the underground facility where Spike had been held. The operation's head, Professor Walsh, informs them that "Hostile 17" (Spike) has escaped, and the guys suit up. Riley gives orders to three teams that he sends out all over Sunnydale to find Spike.
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25	Riley's team spot Buffy sitting on a bench. Riley says she won't be their bait and goes out to get rid of her. Each unaware of the other's secret identity, Riley and Buffy try to send each other out of harm's way.
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27	Meanwhile, Spike has found Buffy's dorm through the school computer system. Inside, Willow is feeling miserable and when the door knocks she calls out to come in without thinking, only for Spike to swagger through the door. Willow tries to get away, but Spike throws her against the bed and attempts to bite her, only to be stopped by an intense pain in his head. Willow hits him with a lamp and runs out just as Riley and friends cut the power and then work their way up to the dorm room. They capture Spike but, while they consider whether to take Willow or not, Spike breaks free and uses a fire extinguisher as a shield, filling the corridor with smoke. Buffy arrives and fights Riley and his friends while Spike manages to escape through a window. Buffy and Riley continue to trade blows, each unable to identify the other. Seeing that Spike has escaped, Riley orders them to retreat.
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29	Professor Walsh is not happy with what happened or with Riley's report on the event but he confirms that Walsh's inhibitor chip works, and Spike cannot kill or even harm a human without feeling pain thanks to an implant they placed in his head. Riley catches up with Buffy and they talk. Buffy tells him he's a little peculiar, which he says he can live with.
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32	!!Tropes used in this episode include:
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34	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Spike attempts to eat Willow, but unbeknownst to him he's been newly outfitted with a RestrainingBolt and can't bite her. As she's having self-esteem issues after her boyfriend Oz left, Willow is very upset and thinks there must be something wrong with her. She does come to her senses eventually, whacks him with a lamp and legs it.
35	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Spike speculates who could have captured him - the government, Nazis or a cosmetics company.
36	* AttackHello: Buffy has to quickly hide her stake after Riley walks up on her instead of Spike.
37	* AttackPatternAlpha: Lots of Military Speak from Riley once he drops the adorkable TA act.
38	-->'''Riley:''' Call in a standard triangle flanking maneuver. We're going in. I need a lockdown on Grid 6.
39	* BadassDecay:
40	** InUniverse: Xander's WimpFight with Harmony was put in to show that Xander no longer remembers his [[ChekhovsBoomerang military skills]] from [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween "Halloween"]]. [[SidekickGlassCeiling Poor Xander.]]
41	** With the reveal that Spike's RestrainingBolt prevents him from harming mortals, the former {{Trope Namer\|s}}'s Spikeification kicks into full swing.
42	* BagOfKidnapping: Spike is bagged and tagged before Buffy inadvertently rescues him.
43	* TheBait: The commandos see Buffy sitting on a park bench and suggest using her to draw out Spike. Riley isn't impressed and tries to persuade Buffy to go home. As Buffy is hoping to draw out Spike herself, HilarityEnsues.
44	* BatteringRam: Having locked Willow's room remotely, the Initiative soldiers use a hand-held extendable battering ram to break down the door.
45	* BerserkButton: What finally makes Riley realize he has a crush on Buffy is that he smacked Parker to the ground hearing him be a complete pig about having slept with Buffy.
46	-->'''Parker:''' You know the difference between a freshman and a toilet seat, right? A toilet seat doesn't follow you around after you use it. [unconsciousness ensues]
47	* BestFriendManual: The only thing that Riley knows that Buffy likes is Willow, so he asks Willow's advice on how to court Buffy.
48	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Willow makes it clear that Riley must be careful with Buffy.
49	-->'''Willow:''' If you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel. [{{beat}}] A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend. Have fun!
50	* BigShutUp: Xander and Giles are out in the woods looking for vampires.
51	-->'''Xander:''' Every man faces this moment. Here. Now. Watching. Waiting. For an unseen enemy that has no face. Nerve endings screaming in silence. Never knowing which thought might be your last.\
52	'''Giles:''' Oh, shut up!
53	* BlindedByTheLight: Buffy just happens to be armed with a flare pistol when up against Initiative commandos wearing NightVisionGoggles in a dark corridor.
54	* BreakupBonfire: Xander comes across Harmony as she's building a bonfire of Spike's stuff.
55	* BuffySpeak: Spoofed
56	-->'''Forrest:''' Oh... Check her out. Is she hot, or is she hot?\
57	'''Riley:''' ''[looks up]'' She's Buffy.\
58	'''Forrest:''' Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.\
59	'''Riley:''' It's her name, Forrest.
60	* CacophonyCoverUp: Spike turns up the CD player in Willow's room before attacking her.
61	* CallBack:
62	** To [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E8LoversWalk "Lovers Walk"]], in which Willow offered a sympathetic ear to Spike while his prisoner.
63	** To [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne "Anne"]], in which someone is set up as bait for a vampire, only for that vampire to attack Willow instead.
64	* CasualKink:
65	-->'''Harmony:''' Let's leave the Slayer alone. She's just going to slap you around. I can do that!
66	* CatFight: {{Parodied}} with possibly the only cat fight in the series, between [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Vampire]] [[DumbBlonde Harmony]] and [[NonActionGuy Xander]] -- at the time the only male member of the group (other than [[MentorArchetype Giles]]). The fight, in classic cat fight fashion, begins with a bitchslap and continues into shin-kicking, name-calling, and hair-pulling. It finally ends in a stalemate and an agreement never to mention it to anyone.
67	-->'''Xander:''' Harmony, it's been great catching up. Really, I'm just gonna pick up the tattered shreds of my dignity and go home.
68	** Made even more awesome by the comedic use of slow motion and epic fight music.
69	** The reason that Harmony vs. Xander is the only cat fight in the series is because girl-on-girl throwdowns in the series in general (and there are quite a few of them) are deadly serious affairs that feature little in the way of typical cat fight tactics.
70	* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's]] FlareGun: Xander gives Buffy a flare pistol to signal them if she runs into trouble fighting Spike. It comes in useful [[BlindedByTheLight blinding the Initiative commandos]] who are wearing NightVisionGoggles.
71	* ChekhovsGunman: We discover the fate of the vampire Tom, who was captured in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E1TheFreshman The Freshman]]".
72	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Tom and Spike are escaping the lab when they're suddenly confronted by GasMaskMooks; [[GrievousHarmWithABody Spike pushes Tom into them]] saying, "New plan; we split up" and makes his escape while Tom is being staked.
73	* ContrivedCoincidence: Buffy has [[EpicHail never sent up a flare]] before or since, and if Spike got the better of her, she'd hardly be in a position (or condition) to do so anyway. Yet she accepts a FlarePistol on the one occasion she's up against humans in night-vision goggles.
74	* ADayInTheLimelight: Riley and his friends.
75	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Riley is bemoaning his failure [[EmotionallyTongueTied to chat up Buffy]]. Willow suggests he "failed extremely well."
76	* DescriptionCut:
77	-->'''Spike:''' I don't care how brilliant [Buffy] is!\
78	'''Buffy:''' ''[struggling with a ballpoint]'' Stupid pen.
79	* DespairSpeech: Riley asks Willow for her help in courting Buffy, but Willow is still depressed over Oz leaving her.
80	-->'''Willow:''' OK, say that I help ''[sweet music plays]'' and you start a conversation. It goes great. You like Buffy, she likes you. You spend time together, feelings grow deeper, and one day, without even realizing it, you find you're in love. Time stops, and it feels like the whole world's made for you two, and you two alone ''[MusicalisInterruptus]'' until the day one of you leaves and rips the still-beating heart from the other, who's now a broken, hollow, mockery of the human condition.
81	-->'''Riley:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' Yep, that's the plan.
82	* [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: Buffy accidentally tears the handle off a yogurt machine in the college cafeteria and makes a mess.
83	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After Spike finds himself incapable of biting Willow due to the recently implanted chip in his head, there follows a very funny conversation between the two which could almost word-for-word be about impotence. Until right at the end, when Willow mentions that they could "wait half an hour and try again," does a take that needs no words to express, "What the ''hell'' did I just say?", and brains him with a lamp.
84	** Right before that, Spike preparing to bite Willow is played very much like a rape scene, with her threatening to scream (and then actually doing it) and him turning on the radio to drown out the noise while he pins her down on the bed.
85	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: With the standard hidden elevator and filmed in the real-life former secret govt location, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works Skunk Works]].
86	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Forrest keeps bugging Riley about Buffy because everyone can see that Riley is nuts for her.
87	* FailedASpotCheck: After Riley comes to visit, Willow realises that Buffy has left an open bag of weapons in the dorm. She tries to surreptitiously nudge it back under the bed. Riley sees what she's doing and helps her without looking inside the bag.
88	* FakeKillScare: The scene where Spike attacks Willow in her dorm room was deliberately set up to make it appear Willow had been killed, in response to internet rumors that this would happen. Instead it leads to TheReveal (after the CommercialBreakCliffhanger) that Spike has been fitted with a RestrainingBolt.
89	* FlareGun: Xander gives Buffy a flare pistol to signal for help if she needs it when she goes to fight Spike. It turns out to be just what she needs when a team of Initiative soldiers attack Willow in a dorm corridor; Buffy fires the flare, overloading their night vision goggles.
90	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
91	** Giles draws a sketch of the Initiative soldier Buffy saw in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E6WildAtHeart "Wild at Heart"]].
92	--->'''Buffy:''' That's your man.\
93	'''Giles:''' Your man, actually.
94	** Spike says re Buffy, "I always worried what would happen when that bitch got some funding." To find out, see the ''[=BtVS=]'' comic series.
95	** Spike's comment about Nazis isn't a casual quip. [[spoiler: The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E13WhyWeFight Why We Fight]]" shows he was kidnapped by Nazis during World War 2 for their own experiments. That episode also mentions the "Demon Research Initiative", implied to be a precursor of the current organization.]]
96	** Spike assumes Buffy is in cahoots with the Initiative, but then sees Buffy fighting the soldiers. [[spoiler: In the next episode, having run out of options, Spike will go to Buffy for protection, offering information on the Initiative in exchange.]]
97	** Willow says "Come in" without checking who's at the door. The next time this happens, [[MustBeInvited it's a vampire]].
98	* GasLeakCoverup: A 'fraternity prank' is used to explain the battle between Buffy and the Initiative.
99	* GenreBlindness: It takes Willow quite a long time to realize that if Spike gets over his "performance problem," she is either dead or vamped. Then she hits him with a lamp and make a run for it.
100	* GilliganCut: Spike vows to get the Slayer.
101	-->'''Spike''' I don't care how brilliant she is.\
102	''[cut to Buffy in a lecture with ink all over her hands]''\
103	'''Buffy''': Stupid pen.
104	* GivenNameReveal: Willow asks Riley whether Oz is still signed up for Professor Walsh's class. This is the first time his real full name (Daniel Osbourne) is mentioned on the show.
105	* GovernmentConspiracy: The Initiative.
106	* GrievousHarmWithABody[=/=]HoistByHisOwnPetard: Spike swings one Initiative scientist into the other, who accidentally jabs his colleague with a knockout hypo.
107	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Walsh orders that Hostile 17 be recaptured because he knows about the Initiative.
108	* ICantDance: Willow {{Sherlock Scan}}s Buffy's dress and sensible shoes as saying that she's in the mood for dancing and light conversation only; Riley unfortunately isn't a dancer.
109	* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Willow]] re: Riley putting the moves on Buffy.
110	-->'''Willow:''' Have fun! And remember, if you hurt her, I'll beat you to death with a shovel.\
111	'''Riley:''' ''[pulls questioning face]''\
112	'''Willow:''' ''[matter-of-fact-ly]'' A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
113	* ImpairmentShot: Riley has a blurred view of the woman he's fighting, as his eyesight is still affected by the flare. Riley is wearing a balaclava so his SecretIdentity isn't revealed to Buffy either.
114	* IndyHatRoll: Spike escaping from the Initiative.
115	* IndyPloy: Giles asks what plan Buffy has for dealing with Spike. She replies, "[[IAmTheNoun I am the plan.]]"
116	* InfraredXrayCamera: The commandos' thermal camera enables them to see where Spike is in the dorm due to his low body temperature. Of course, real thermal cameras can't see through glass.
117	** Doubly implausible in that his "room temperature" signature actually showed up as a blue spot, against the background heat of the room.
118	* IronicEcho: Both Riley and Spike gotta "go see a girl."
119	* IronicEchoCut: Riley and Forrest are checking out Buffy.
120	-->'''Forrest:''' I bet a lot of guys would like to get their hands on her.\
121	''[Cut to Spike lying in his cell, half-conscious.]''\
122	'''Spike:''' Slayer... I'll kill you. Not so tough. I... Kill Slayer.
123	* ItsNotYouItsMe: Spike assures Willow she's still biteable.
124	* LetsYouAndHimFight: True to the show's inspiration from Marvel Comics, Buffy and Riley cross paths (though they don't recognize each other) and get into a no-holds-barred beatdown.
125	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: A vampirized Harmony meets Xander and decides to feed. They apparently regress to their grade school enemy stage (since both of them ''can'' fight better), and they're so ineffectual that they eventually just give up. They agree it never happened, and both leave.
126	* LockDown: After clocking Spike, Willow tries to run out of her dorm only to find the door is locked, the Initiative having locked down the entire dorm remotely.
127	* LoveEpiphany: Riley doesn't realise he fancies Buffy [[TalkToTheFist until he punches]] [[AssholeVictim Parker]] for making a crude remark about her. His friends tell him [[EveryoneCanSeeIt that they've always known]].
128	* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming:
129	-->'''Willow:''' I-I'll scream.\
130	'''Spike:''' Bonus.
131	* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Lampshaded by Riley; see page quote.
132	* MeaningfulEcho: Riley's friends kid him that his referring to Buffy as "peculiar" was a dead giveaway that he's into her. At the end of the episode after Riley's bumbling attempts to ask her out, Buffy comments that ''he's'' peculiar. Riley takes this as a good sign.
133	* MoodWhiplash: Done in reverse. Spike attacks Willow (serious rape undertones) then we find out he has "performance anxiety".
134	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Xander gets in a fight with Harmony. After threatening each other with their new and improved skills, they ... get in a slap fight, with hair-pulling and shin-kicking. In slow motion. With dramatic music. It ends in a dual headlock truce. "Okay... on three." Done to explicitly mock the show's often unrealistic fight scenes.
135	* MustBeInvited: Willow learns the price of carelessness while at her college dorm. Spike knocks on the door and, without thinking, Willow replies, "Come in." Fortunately for her, Spike had just had his RestrainingBolt installed.
136	* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs: Buffy discovers that Spike has returned to Sunnydale and fumes, "Doesn't he know this is ''my'' town?"
137	* NotGoodWithRejection: Now that Oz has left her, being spurned as Spike's victim doesn't make Willow feel any better.
138	* ObscuredSpecialEffects: The sliding door drops a moment before an Initiative mook stakes Tom, saving on a dusting sfx shot.
139	* OldSchoolChivalry
140	-->'''Riley:''' I'm taking you home. Come on.\
141	'''Buffy:''' Oh, did you ever think maybe I'm gonna take you home, huh? What? You think that boys can take care of themselves and girls need help?\
142	'''Riley:''' [[BluntYes Yeah.]]\
143	'''Buffy:''' That is so Teutonic.
144	* OnSecondThought: Willow gets a little too caught up in her [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything understanding attitude towards]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight Spike's "performance issues"]].
145	-->'''Willow:''' Why don't we wait a half an hour and try again? ''[{{beat}}]'' Or... ''[grabs a lamp and whacks him]''
146	* OpenSesame[=/=]ToTheBatpole: The lift to the Initiative headquarters.
147	* Overcrank: The middle of the slap fight between Xander and Harmony.
148	* PlayingCyrano: Riley gets Willow's help in courting Buffy.
149	* PlotHole: Spike gets knocked out and captured by the titular government agency. He escapes, beating up several Initiative personnel on the way out, but when he tries to kill Willow, he learns the hard way that they implanted a chip in his brain that causes him excruitating pain whenever he tries to hurt humans. But again, he beat up the human scientists earlier in the episode, after the chip was installed, without any problem. Creator/JossWhedon also acknowledged this as an oversight.
150	* PowerPerversionPotential: Parker is crudely appreciative of Buffy's stamina. He's not the only one (see S4 [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E16WhoAreYou "Who Are You?"]] and S6 [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E15AsYouWere "As You Were"]]) to imply that her Slayer powers result in [[SexGoddess exceptional bedroom prowess]].
151	* PowerTrio: Riley, Forrest and Graham.
152	* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Creator/JamesMarsters (Spike) replaces Creator/SethGreen (Oz) in the opening credits.
153	* RedShirt: Tom, the vampire captured by the Initiative in the season premiere, gets dusted during Spike's escape attempt.
154	* RestrainingBolt: Spike has a chip in his head that causes him pain if he attacks any living creature.
155	* TheReveal: Riley Finn and Professor Walsh both work for the Initiative.
156	* RuleOfDrama: Spike slugs his way out of the Initiative, and only feels pain when he goes to bite someone. After this, Spike will feel pain even when {{Dope Slap}}ping a human. There's a suggestion though that the inhibitor chip takes a while to be properly calibrated.
157	* SexIsViolence: Spike attacking Willow is played like a rape metaphor.
158	* SexyBacklessOutfit: Buffy changes into "something slutty" to wear at the party.
159	* ShadowArchetype: Parallels are drawn between Spike and Riley foreshadowing their alliance with Buffy, their rivalry for her affection, and the fact that Riley like Spike is also one of the Initiative's experimental subjects.
160	* ShoutOut: To ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'', including a large white ball in the huge hanger.
161	* ShipperOnDeck: At the end of the episode Buffy looks rather amused when Riley tries hitting on her again, implying that Willow has tipped Buffy off about his interest.
162	* SmokeOut: An accidental version when a projectile hits a fire extinguisher wielded by Spike as an ImprovisedWeapon, filling the corridor with [=CO2=] gas and enabling him to escape.
163	* SomeKindOfForcefield: The transparent wall of Spike's cell is electrified.
164	* SongsOfSolace: Lampshaded by Riley when he enters Willow's dorm. "Geez, I hope I'm not interrupting anything really depressing."
165	* StealthHiBye: When Harmony tells Xander that Spike disappeared after mentioning Buffy, she turns to set a pile of Spike's stuff on fire. She turns back and Xander has disappeared.
166	* SuperWindowJump: Spike escaping Stevenson dorm.
167	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Tom warns Spike against drinking from the bloodbag that gets dropped into his cell, as it's drugged to keep them docile.
168	* TalkAboutThatThing: Xander getting Buffy away from Riley with the news that Spike is back in town. Seeing Xander HoldingHands with Buffy as he pulls her out of the crowd doesn't help Riley feel better.
169	* TitledAfterTheSong / SpoilerTitle: Averted; the original title of this episode was "Secret Agent Man" (from the song by Johnny Rivers), but that would have given away TheReveal about Riley Finn.
170	* TheTriple:
171	** Spike's terms of endearment for Harmony. She's his little foam latte, his mon petite creme brulee[[note]]Aww, Italian![[/note]], his... [[MustHaveNicotine pack of mentholated cigarettes]]?
172	** Spike wants to know who's kidnapped him. "The government? Nazis? A major cosmetics company?"
173	* {{Tuckerization}}: Several of the names in the student directory Spike examines are actually behind-the-scenes production people, such as assistant chief lighting technician Eric Parker, Marti Noxon's assistant JD Peralta, stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt, hair stylist Lisa Rosenberg, costume supervisor Cindy Rosenthal, set designer Victoria Ruskin, special effects technician Leo Solis, lighting console operator Tim Speed, and co-producer David Solomon.
174	* VerbThis: "Contain this!"
175	* VillainousValour: There was some debate among the writers as to how heroic to make Spike in his escape from the Initiative. To avoid making him too heroic, Spike is given a KickTheDog moment by sacrificing a fellow vampire (the vampire who'd helped him, no less) to save himself.
176	* WimpFight: [[NonActionGuy Xander]] comes across [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Vampire]] [[DumbBlonde Harmony]] and, after initial boastful threats start fighting... with a bitchslap and continuing into [[LittleGirlsKickShins shin-kicking]], name-calling, and [[ByTheHair hair-pulling]]. It finally ends in a stalemate and an [[LetUsNeverSpeakofThisAgain agreement never to mention it to anyone]].
177	-->'''Xander:''' Harmony, it's been great catching up, really. I'm just gonna pick up the tattered shreds of my dignity and go home.
178	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Spike pretends to have been doped out, so he can jump the Initiative scientists while he's being StrappedToAnOperatingTable.
179	* WouldNotHitAGirl: Riley orders his team to withdraw when he sees he's fighting a small woman.
180	* YouAreNumberSix: Spike is Hostile 17.
181	* YourMom: Riley's friends get up him for punching Parker, which as a TA could get him fired.
182	-->'''Riley:''' He--he was just being so crude.\
183	'''Forrest:''' Please. You've heard me say much grosser things than that.\
184	'''Riley:''' And most of those are about your own mother. ''[Forrest {{Dope Slap}}s him]''

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