Xander and Anya are in their apartment and
Xander keeps forgetting that Riley's left Sunnydale. Anya
tells Xander that if he's planning on leaving her, she wants
plenty of advance notice with big flashing lights. Anya seems
to think that maybe it's Buffy that has the problem, and not
the guys she dates. Meanwhile Buffy is at a convent saving a
nun from a vampire. The next day Buffy trains with Giles
during which he tells her that he's going to England to get
more informatin about Glory. Buffy doesn't like that they
have to tell the Council about the key. Giles mentions Riley,
but Buffy's semi-okay with hearing his name. Later on Giles
tells the rest of the gang that he's leaving for a week, to
which Anya becomes very excited about. Giles is a little
uncomfortable letting Anya run the whole store but Willow
offers to help out. Anya gets upset because she doesn't want
Willow's help. Buffy's mom is finally feeling better at home.
Buffy's in her room and she's talking to Dawn. Dawn notices
that Buffy took down all of Riley's pictures. Buffy tells
Dawn that it really hurts because she realizes she's to blame
for Riley leaving her and Dawn seems to miss him too. Buffy's
hoping that he'll come back so she can say everything she
didn't get the chance to say. Meanwhile Spike is rehearsing a
speech to a mannequin that he's pretending is Buffy. He's
trying to apologize for taking her to see Riley at the
vampire house.
Willow and Tara are going to try spells with
materials from Giles' shop but Anya thinks they're stealing
and wants them to stop immediately. Xander walks in and both
Willow and Anya try to get him to see their point of view. He
doesn't want to be put in the middle of it. Willow
accidentally makes the cash register disappear and Anya
starts flipping out for fear of danger to the money. Xander
leaves and so does Tara because they figure Willow and Anya
need to talk things out. Willow continues with her spell
while Anya marks down everything that she uses. Willow begins
chanting but Anya keeps interrupting, ruining the spell. They
start arguing heatedly when suddenly a huge troll appears
from Willow's half-done spell. It bashes things apart with
its huge hammer and then leaves in search of some victims.
At school Tara and Buffy are leaving their
class together when Tara mentions that Willow and Anya were
arguing and that Xander left so that they could talk it over.
Buffy starts to panic, thinking that Xander's leaving Anya.
She starts to cry on Tara's shoulder, babbling hysterically
about love. Meanwhile Willow and Anya are in Giles' car
trailing after the troll, bickering the whole way. Anya
drives while Willow looks for a reversal spell. Meanwhile
Xander runs into Spike at the Bronze and they sit down
together. Spike asks about Buffy continuously. Tara and Buffy
find the Magic Box in shambles and no sign of Willow or Anya
anywhere. The troll is outside running rampant over the town.
He enters the Bronze where Spike and Xander are discussing
the problems with women. The troll starts guzzling all the
beer. Buffy and Tara show up at the same time as Anya and
Willow do. The troll addresses Anya by name. Apparently they
dated, he cheated on her and she turned him into a troll,
which led to her becoming a vengeance demon. The troll vows
to kill her as well as all witches because it was witches
that had trapped him in that crytsal for seven centuries.
Willow tries to reverse the her spell but it's not working.
The troll starts destroying the Bronze with his huge hammer
and then leaves in search of small babies to eat.
Willow and Anya return to Giles' shop to look
for more spells to get rid of Olaf. Willow and Anya get
started on how they think the other is going to hurt Xander
in some way. Anya makes it clear that she would never cast a
spell on Xander but she's worried that Willow might try to
steal Xander away from her, like she did with Cordelia.
Suddenly Olaf the troll burst in, followed by Xander who
orders Olaf no to touch them. Xander tries to fight back but
he's no match for Olaf. Impressed by Xander's attempt to
fight back, he grants Xander that one of his women will live.
He just has to choose which one will live. Xander cannot
choose so Olaf breaks Xander's wrist. Buffy appears and
starts fighting Olaf while Anya tries to distract him by
saying nasty things about him. Willow destroys the power in
Olaf's hammer and Buffy starts wailing on him, even more so
when he insults her friends. She knocks him out and Willow
sends him to the land of trolls.
When Giles returns to Sunnydale, Buffy tells
him about the troll and Giles informs her that he learned
nothing about Glory while in England, but that the Council is
now researching it thoroughly. Joyce mentions that she can't
believe Dawn, her little girl, is the key. Unbeknowst to
them, Dawn is overhearing all of this.
Summary written by
Nika
My Rating
2/5
Nika's Review
Not really fussy about this episode. It
had it's funny moments and it was nice to see Anya and
Willow sort some things about between themselves but I
still wasn't that excited about this episode. I left me
with no feeling and just a general "oh, it's
over" sort of deal. I really liked the troll though,
he was funny and his whole attitude was enjoyable (well,
up until the whole "let's kill them all
routine"). Interesting to find out what exactly had
made Anya a vengeance demon! Ugh, the parts that made me
cringe the most was when Buffy started babbling
hysterically about miraculous love. Jeez... we get it...
you miss Riley but seriously! No one acts like
that! What I'm hating is that Dawn is always hearing
people say weird things about her. That's gotta be really
hurtful for her. I'm surprised she's not suicidal or
something! I mean really... You'd think that Giles, Buffy
and Joyce would have the common sense to talk about it
somewhere where Dawn wouldn't be in the near vicinity. So
if Giles has no info from the Council about Glory then
this is only reinforcing the theory that the Council
really isn't very with it. They wouldn't help with
Angel's poison situation back in Season 3, they didn't
know how to deal with a rogue Slayer, they alienated both
the Slayer and the Watcher. What is WRONG with this
Council? Do they not realize they aren't functioning so
damn well? Geez, smarten up people!
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