Buffy grabs Dawn and runs out of the
dorms immediately with Glory hot on their tails. But
before Glory can snag Dawn a huge truck comes out of
nowhere and slams into Glory, tossing her aside and
giving Buffy enough time to leave the area with Dawn. The
entire gang gathers at Xander's apartment and Buffy's
infuriated that Glory knows Dawn is that key and that
she's not physically capable to fight Glory. Buffy
insists that they leave Sunnydale immediately. At Glory's
place Ben is walking around, trailed by one of Glory's
minions. The female demon tells him that he only exists
because of Glory and that he should give in to her. But
Ben wants his own life and if Glory gets her key then Ben
will cease to exist, and he knows it. A short while later
Buffy and Spike pull up in a huge Winnebago with Spike at
the wheel. Giles doesn't want him along but Buffy argues
overtop of him and says he's staying. Meanwhile three
atrange men leave the hospital and meet a general in the
forest. They're part of the Knights of Byzantium and
they've just removed one of their insane members from the
hospital. The crazy man tells them that the key is human.
The general herds his large troop of men to look for the
key immediately.
Back on the Winnebago Giles is driving
and Xander has motion sickness while Willow researches
barrier spells. Dawn then thanks her sister for
everything that she's done for her and that she's doing
ana amazing job. Buffy can't hold back the tears of pain
for everything that has happened to her lately. Suddenly
the Knights of Byzantium on horseback swarm the
Winnebago. They jump on the vehicle and start attacking.
Buffy gets to the roof and start fighting off dozens of
knights. Then a knight throws a spear that hits Giles in
the gut and he ends up rolling the vehicle. Giles is
badly wounded and they carry him to an abandoned gas
station. Once again they're attacked by the knights who
fire flaming arrows at them. Buffy takes their general
hostage while Willow erects a powerful energy barrier
that should keep the knights out for half a day. Buffy
tries talking to the general but he will not help her in
any way. Suddenly Tara goes nuts, muttering over and over
the word "time". The mental patinets at the
hospital do the same but they get up and leave the
hospital.
Buffy is with Giles and he tells her that
she has grown up exceptionally well and that she's
everything he could have hoped for. Determined, Buffy
goes to the knights and asks them to be honorable and to
allow someone to come to heal Giles. They agree and Buffy
calls Ben who arrives shortly thereafter. He fixes up
Giles and Ben says he'll do anything to help. The general
then tells Buffy that Glory has an insatiable lust for
pain and the other two gods of her dimension cast out Glory
to live in this deimension because of her ways. She now
lives in this dimension in the form of a male. Dawn
demands to know what she is and he tells her that her
power is absolute and that she was created to open the
gates between dimensions to send Glory home. When this is
done, the dimensions will bleed to toether and nothing
but chaos will exist. Buffy promises that she won't let
anything happen to Dawn. The general tries to convince
Ben to destroy the key is order to destroy the Beast.
Suddenly Ben demands to be let out and then transforms
into Glory. She kills the general and runs off with Dawn.
Buffy can't make it to her sister and Glory disappears
into the night. Utterly shocked, Buffy collapses, crying
silently.
Okay, so you kill the human vessel
(Ben) and kill the Beast at the same time (Glory). Uh uh.
No way. Nothing is ever *that* simple in Buffyverse.
There's always gonna be a loophole somewhere. Like the
Ben himself will beat Glory inside his body, but then
we'd never see it and it'd be rather pointless. Okay, so
that's out. How about Dawn dies? Seriously doubting it
now just cuz Buffy's gonna really lose it if anyone else
in her family dies. Okay so that's out too. Damn. What's
let? Buffy physically cannot defeat Glory and is forced
to call on the first slayer's powers. Wait, no again,
that happened last season. We're running out of ideas
here. So maybe Willow will take Glory down? It's possible
but doesn't really work since it's always Buffy
destroying the big bad. I don't want a cheap ending. I
want a downright nasty fight scene. I wanna see Buffy
fight everything to get what she wants this time round. I
don't want a first slayer inhabiting her body and leaving
us with the episode Restless which I'm sure
we're all still trying to figure out. I
don't a big bomb exploding giving us an empty feeling. I
want Buffy fighting like she did in the first season. And
like she did in the second season. That's what's bothered
me about the past two seasons of Buffy, the season
finales (well Primeval last year) were easy ways out. I
don't want an easy way out this time round. PHEW! That
being said... a lot happened this episode. I don't really
have anything specific to say about it, I just wanted to
put out some thoughts about the finale.
