- 5/19/2025
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 7 Episode 4 Help
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00me to be a counselor spikes insane in a small basement sanders they're doing construction on
00:05the new gym i was uh wondering why i have this job i still haven't finished college
00:12these students need someone around here who understands them i need someone who understands
00:17these students
00:32you did good work on her she looks good thanks she's all set for the service tomorrow good
00:39all right then i'll see you in the morning good night
01:09sorry 33 minutes since when did we go to all this trouble for one lousy vampire
01:25excuse me one lousy potential vampire vampire by vampire it's the only way i know how
01:39oh i think this thing has a freaking child lock on it
01:47you know i'm not the shortest one here i don't know why i had to be in the kid coffin look
01:53i know it's my job i'm sorry i want to help i guess i've been a bit stressed out lately
02:00so i'm sorry i took it out on you no big i'm kind of stressed myself
02:06on the whole willow sitch is not unstressifying i mean she's here but not part of the gang here
02:12and hopefully not under my feet here in another time dimension here there's willow there's the
02:19looming humungo bad and it's a school night we should be home in bed cutting up to my insomnia
02:26and worrying about how i'm gonna mess up tomorrow you'll be fine you'll be a great counselor it's
02:32my first week actually talking to the kids one of their problems were weird and tricky
02:38well i think you underestimate your familiarity with the world of weird and tricky
02:43this job's perfect for you check out perfect me taking my sister on an educational outing to the
02:52dead body i don't know amateur opinion here but she looks dead i mean like natural causes dead
02:59dead the paper said she had unusual cuts and contusions on her neck maybe she cut herself
03:05shaving and then died naturally of embarrassment she looks peaceful i am not peaceful that i can
03:18help with i always thought closed caskets were more tasteful anyway
03:48so
04:18so
04:48hello
05:04come in hi
05:07hi mr miller sent me here do you know why i'm not sure
05:22maybe because this guy was picking on me
05:27i don't want to talk to you okay that's fine i'm serious i don't want to talk
05:33okay you know i hate to miss bio but i thought it was best i come speak with you
05:42so what's on your mind on my mind are you worried about school uh friends
05:53girls your parents yeah yeah that's it my parents so what about them um issues of divorce
06:04you know it's awful being teased but the thing is you know with bullies like this
06:10they're really just insecure yeah everyone says that you know i'm really tired of everyone being
06:20so insecure
06:35divorce is terrible my parents got divorced when i was a kid yeah my parents are happily married
06:42but it's hard i feel left out but i'm also concerned about girls
06:54okay i'm just bored
07:00maybe i should get back to bio
07:02you have to stick up for yourself amanda you need to show this bully that you're not
07:11going to take any more of his shit yeah any because that's what i did i stuck up for myself
07:22the other day after class i jumped him in the parking lot and i slammed his stupid ass
07:28insecure face right into the pavement you what i guess that's another reason
07:34mr miller wanted me to see you do you think i should pound on him some more
07:42i bet she's giving them great advice absolutely those kids are lucky to have
07:48buffy looking out for them i just wish she believed it she's still stressing over the whole
07:56dropped out of college not actually qualified thing plus this elevating hell mouth underneath
08:02her feet and the hole from beneath you it devours it's not the friendliest jingle is it it's no
08:09i like ike or milk it does a body good i know it's gonna be bad it's gonna be real bad
08:19and i wonder like well if it comes when it comes will i be able to help i think so
08:31i don't know i don't know what i can do i mean frankly i'm i'm scared of what i might do
08:41yeah i get that figuring out how to control your magic seems a lot like hammering a nail
08:49what hear me out so you're hammering right if you hold the end of the hammer you have the power
08:56but no control it takes like two strokes to hit the nail in or you could hit your thumb
09:01ouch so you choke up control but no power could take like 10 strokes to knock the nail in
09:10power control it's a trade-off that's actually not a bad analogy
09:17thanks except i'm less worried about hitting my thumb and more worried about going all
09:24black-eyed baddie and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friend's skulls open like coconuts
09:32right ouch sorry
09:37fan of being back here i don't know it'll take time
09:51are you sure you're ready for this
10:06so
10:36so
10:46hey
10:56that's me
11:15i'm scared
11:18i don't want to be left all alone my brother's joining up with the marines
11:26yeah you know if he knew i was making a fool of myself he'd smack me in my head
11:35i guess i'm just being stupid sounds like your brother's pretty tough
11:39yeah you know he's a man i'm just all messed up right now you are not messed up
11:46it's not messed up to worry about your brother what if he doesn't come back
11:52what if he gets blown up have you talked to him have you told him how you feel no
12:00no i don't i don't want to talk to him i don't want to do that i don't want to talk to him
12:06okay you understand so josh what's on your mind well i'm i'm worried that i'm gay
12:16gay okay first of all i i think it's great that you would come and talk to me about this and
12:23and second of all you should know that there is nothing shameful about being gay nothing
12:30i i know it's it's just i'm i'm not positive so uh i was thinking that
12:38why don't you go on a date with me so i can be sure
12:45um
12:51it sounds like it's difficult for you like maybe your sister makes it hard for you to
12:58establish your own identity you said she's controlling she doesn't let you make your
13:05own decisions yeah and she borrows my clothes without asking i understand that must be hard
13:12so you're not doing your homework i guess not it all just seems kind of
13:23whatever i know high school can seem kind of frustrating but if you just get through it then
13:29you can go to college you know or you can join the french foreign legion or anything you want
13:35or anything you want yeah well i'm not gonna do all that stuff okay no foreign legion i get that
13:45i mean all the changing your name and being indentured for all those years and occupying
13:50algeria no it's just that i'm not graduating from high school why not i really like that shirt
14:00where'd you get it cassie don't change the subject why won't you graduate
14:08because next friday i'm gonna die
14:22what can we talk about something else no we have to talk about this just
14:31never mind cassie what makes you feel like this feel like what like you want to hurt yourself
14:38oh i'm i'm not gonna commit suicide if that's what you're saying no way
14:45okay then then what are you saying look i don't mean to be a pain you seem really nice and i know
14:52you're just trying to help but i'm wasting your time no you're not this is why i'm here
14:58cassie please tell me why do you think you're gonna die i don't think it i know it i just
15:05know what what do you mean you know are you saying that someone's going to hurt you has
15:11someone threatened you no no i i just know that next friday i'm gonna die
15:18some things i just know i i don't know how i just do
15:22like i know there will be coins coins lots of coins weird ones
15:33i know that you'll go someplace dark underground i i don't know what do you mean underground
15:43i know you'll try to help cassie i don't understand what you're saying but you can't okay
15:52i gotta go trick i don't want mr corrigan sending me to principal wood again
15:58cassie please thanks for being so nice i really do like that shirt you should put a sweater on
16:04so it doesn't get stained i gotta go cassie wait please gotta go what am i supposed to do
16:11well you did what you were supposed to do you reported the situation to me
16:15and listen buffy it's hard kids this age they're hurting they're pissed off and they say things
16:23sometimes they say awful things when i was in high school i had a thing with this guy
16:29right real bully i kept telling everyone that he better sleep with one eye open because i was
16:36gonna bust his ass well i got suspended talk like that is taking pretty seriously where i come from
16:45the hud beverly hills
16:51which is a hood
16:56listen the point is i was talking big because i was scared i couldn't bust a move in high
17:02school let alone someone's ass most of the time that's what it is when these students act out
17:07fear pain but sometimes it's not just talk right every time there's a threat like this we do the
17:16same dance inform teachers search lockers but we can't we can't know what's gonna happen and we
17:24can't search their brains we just we just do what we can it's not enough i need to fix this
17:33i don't usually get a heads up before somebody dies what do you mean usually no no not since
17:42i i mean i'm i'm sure it's not usual to get a chance to stop something like
17:47i just i need to do something okay i have to make this better oh shoot
18:11i have a job for you what are you drawing
18:17don't you have a history test to study for why don't you design me a tattoo
18:25a tattoo oh right i can imagine that come on design something and maybe we can get matching
18:34tattoos how about like a snake with some fire coming out of its mouth
18:39or a sexy hula girl that wiggles when he flex
18:42yeah now you're talking a sexy hula girl but a sexy snake hula girl you're so ridiculous
18:53so i was thinking maybe we should go to that dance after all
18:59what do you mean after all i told you i don't want to go well i assumed you were kidding
19:04i mean it'd probably be lame anyways well yeah but lame is funny and you know maybe fun if
19:14you know we're hanging out together we hang out together all the time
19:20right and therefore we should hang out together at the winter formal
19:24hey um i'm in ceramics class with you i'm don summers i forgot if we had an assignment last
19:34week i spaced right um hey don uh yeah you know we did have an assignment but i didn't write it
19:44down i think something to do with glazes assinilating as the pottery talk is i've
19:52better actually go study
19:56i'm mike by the way hi i'm sorry i didn't mean to oh don't worry about it i better go
20:04hit the books if i'm gonna use this test nice meeting you though cas i'll see you later yeah
20:11cas i'll see you later yeah
20:17hey mike you're gonna get a b oh a plus baby a plus
20:25so um is that any good yeah actually yeah what do you have to read it for
20:34oh just for me i guess i kind of stopped reading my homework assignments i just
20:40read what i want that's so cool i'd do that but my sister be down my neck in a second
20:47summers hey are you the counselor's little sister no she's my sister
20:57lucky me huh no no she's she's really nice i actually just saw her this morning oh really
21:05well what about
21:09i'm sorry that's none of my business no i don't care
21:15so mike's a cutie are you guys going to that dance no i don't think so oh i mean didn't he ask you
21:27i went like 105 times and you said no 106 times no i i can't go i'm not gonna be around that night
21:42cassie's records all show the same thing good grades good kid and all of a sudden
21:49not so good grades absenteeism comments about apathy and depression
21:55so the question is what changed right if she did have some sort of psychic vision that would
22:00explain it do you really think this girl is some kind of precog i don't know i told you about the
22:08shirt right buff you spilled a cup of coffee i'm not saying you don't have slayer grays but it's
22:14not the first time yeah i mean maybe just maybe you're trying so hard to help that you're seeing
22:20paranormal when there's just normal maybe but maybe not you want me to check her medical records
22:30your doctor already sent them
22:35strep throat ear infections yeast infections none of my business
22:40uh no real info here have you googled her yet willow she's 17 it's a search engine look
22:52okay let's see what cassie newton pulls up hey look check this she's got her own site
23:00a day and a half of researching and we finally try looking up her
23:04wow that's a lot of poems poems always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil
23:11the sheets above me cool my skin like dirt on a mad woman's grave i rise into the moonlight white
23:21and watch the mirror stare the pale fish looks back at me pale fish will never swim
23:30my skin is milk from no man to drink my thighs unused unclenched this body is not ready yet
23:40but dirt waits for no woman and coins will buy no time
23:47i hear the chatter of the bugs it's they alone will feast okay death really is on her brain
23:56we all deal with death this girl isn't just dealing she's given death a long sloppy word kiss
24:03she has a yin for the big dirt nap i don't know i mean a lot of teens post some pretty angsty
24:10poetry on the web i mean i even posted a melodramatic love poem or two back in the day
24:18love poems i'm over you now sweetie love poems look all i'm saying is that this is normal teen
24:27stuff you join chat rooms you write poetry you post dookie how's your fanfic it's all normal right
24:37let's see what other sites there you guys are way off track i got a hunch on this one oh wait no
24:43here's something no that's philip newton no that's her dad open it guys i'm telling you i
24:52got this case cracked wide open i got the purple fingered i told you about mike helgenberg right
24:59uh that's the guy that asked her to the dance right the one that keeps asking her to the dance
25:05i'm thinking who likes to be rejected nobody i'm thinking some people can't handle their rejection
25:12i'm thinking hey i got something oh drunken disorderly disturbing the peace
25:21it's a lot of charges here her dad's a drunk a violent drunk we better find out i have his
25:28address right here got your keys yeah guys i'm telling you i'm liking mike helgenberg for the
25:39let's call him before he lawyers up
25:47buffy the vampire slayer would break down this door and buffy the counselor
25:55waits
25:55mr newton that's right i work at your daughter's school i need to talk to you
26:14so is she screwing up her grades again because she's not the sharpest apple in the barrel
26:24she's got some problems but it's um it's kind of you we wanted to talk about
26:30what about we know you've been picked up by the police a couple of times we wanted to know if you
26:36still drink a lot what's that got to do with cassie frankly we were worried that you might
26:46drink too much and hurt cassie
26:48that's all oh
26:56now i see that's that's all you just come in here in the middle of the night
27:04into my home and start accusing me of beating on my daughter that's all
27:11we just want to make sure that well that's a lie
27:16who told you this did cassie's mother put you up to this because i paid my support okay to the dime
27:26she just wants to take away the one weekend a month i get to be with my girl
27:31which is when what which weekend is it i just had her last weekend
27:43look i i may not be the greatest dad in the world but i don't beat up my daughter
27:55up my daughter so you won't be seeing her this friday then
28:02not unless my ex-wife gets a personality transplant okay okay what okay now you'll get out of my house
28:13yeah
28:25it's not him
28:29he's not the one who does it
28:33thank you for trying but i probably shouldn't have told you anything
28:40you're making such a big deal out of it and i want it to all just go away
28:45are you talking about killing yourself no of course not then fight try there's no point
28:52i told you this doesn't sound like someone who really wants to live you think i want this you
28:58think i don't care believe me i want to be here i do things i want to graduate from high school
29:09and i want to go to the stupid winter formal
29:15i have this friend and it would be fun to go with him
29:24it's to dance and hear lame music to wear a silly dress and laugh and stuff
29:37i'd like to go
29:40there's a lot of stuff i'd like to do
29:44i'd love to ice skate at rockefeller center and i'd love to see my cousins grow up and
29:51see how they turn out because they're really mean and i think they're gonna be fat
29:57i'd love to backpack across the country or
30:03i don't know fall in love
30:10but i won't i just never will you will cassie you will you just have to tell us what you know
30:20you have to tell us everything please help us i can't i just know it's gonna happen i don't know
30:28why and i don't know how but something out there is gonna kill me
31:28hey how are we doing
31:36oh i'm sorry i didn't mean to scare you oh no it's okay i just didn't get much sleep last night
31:42it's been a long week huh no thank god it's friday i can't believe i just said that
31:51i'll see you later
32:00i sit alone at my windowsill trees crackle sunshine blares and children laugh like death
32:13their sharp happiness is a knife to me one jealous snake on a windowsill
32:21they will be here trees and sun and children with canes and pruney skin
32:34when i am but a memory i laugh in the trees of time
32:42i sit alone and try to love them i sit alone a snake
32:50i sit alone and try to love them i sit alone and laugh
33:21so
33:38spec what are you doing nothing
33:42thing if i don't move if i don't think if i don't listen to the voices then i won't hurt
33:54much i need to ask you something don't there's a girl she's in danger and she needs your help now
34:04time is running out it's friday the day cassie said she's going to die i can't i can't hear you
34:13is there something evil in the school down here maybe spike please do you know anything
34:23yes
34:25yes
34:30there's evil
34:35down here right here
34:43i'm a bad man
34:47william is a bad man
34:49and i had to go
35:02spike stop it what did you do i hurt you buffy and i will pay i am paying because i heard to go
35:12oh spike no it's not me it's a different girl okay her name is cassie newton
35:27please do you know anything specific
35:31thick don't leave me stay here and help me be quiet
35:54i think it's worse when i'm here
36:02don't let him hurt the girl
36:06well there's nothing in this one what do you got
36:19where's your hall pass no hall pass i got a free period you seem kind of upset something on your
36:25mind no not really well i got a lousy b in egyptian history i knew this stuff cold so that
36:32you know that pisses me off you get pissed off a lot no i let me cut to the chase i hear you
36:39can't get a date for the winter formula oh well look look i i know it's your job to
36:45talk to kids with problems but honestly i i don't have any i'm fine all right look it's
36:52really no big deal i have a friend that i i really wanted to take i don't know i guess
36:58she doesn't see me that way she makes me crazy crazy yeah sometimes it's
37:10well that's that's funny you're don's sister right uh that's right don is my sister
37:19oh that's so weird i was just thinking about her
37:23yeah i was thinking if you know cassie won't budge maybe i'll ask don
37:29you aren't mad at cassie with her rejecting you like that
37:35nah she's a girl right making boys crazy is like your job description
37:42you're asking my sister to the dance and she's your second choice
37:49i'll be keeping an eye on you
38:00seems like someone's got quite a coin collection huh
38:12do you want to see me you have locker number 281 yeah why
38:21why don't you tell me what this is and what this has to do with a girl named cassie newton
38:28i don't know it's late i'm gonna miss my bus i know it's late that's why i don't have time
38:33to mess around so you need to talk to me now believe me if i knew anything i'd tell you i i just
38:44don't
38:48do you know why i came back to sunnydale high to creep me out to help
38:56i'm a counselor here because i want to help
38:58i know what it's like to walk these halls and feel lost alone i just want to make things better
39:07connect and i'm going to connect with your face if you don't stop wasting my time and help me do my
39:16job i please a girl could die
39:27i guess i know who you're talking about she's some weirdo suicidal poet girl these guys i
39:33know want to mess with her they've got this plan well i guess this is goodbye no i mean
39:41let me walk you home oh don't worry about it i'm going to my mom's it's kind of far far is good
39:48son i know what's going on here what fuck you told you about me right
39:55she told you to pretend to be my friend no
39:59maybe hey cassie she was scared she wanted to help you well she can't maybe she can
40:07she's not like you think she's got powers of helping and look she was worried and
40:16now i'm worried and i wasn't pretending at all i really wanted to be her friend
40:23you are my friend i am yeah just remember i'm not as dumb as i look i'm glad
40:33okay hey summers
40:39listen don whatever happens now it's not your fault okay uh summers what's up peter i was
40:48just wondering if anyone had asked you to winter for me what oh uh no not exactly well uh i was
41:00just doing a poll i'll see that guy is such an ass cassie
41:15cassie
41:20cassie
41:31all present all present
41:48then we begin
41:52mandel shut up sorry dude it's it's just so cool when you were to be rich yeah we'll keep
41:59your shorts all right we have to do the ritual if we want to score okay okie did you take care
42:06of the fire exits yeah anybody tries to bust in here is going to get a nasty surprise
42:12i set up this booby trap my cousin ben always used to do then nobody is getting in
42:18and nobody is getting out dude
42:36it's our sacrifice
42:39oh
42:46it's nothing personal it's just that you have this death chick suicidal vibe going
42:54i figure if you disappear everybody will just assume you threw yourself in a river somewhere
43:02extinguish
43:09oh
43:10almighty athelas please accept our sacrifice please appear before us oh mighty soldier of
43:19the dark please appear before us and grant us with infinite riches and we will pay you with
43:26our sacrifice we kneel before you with the gift of flesh okay that is going to lie in permanent
43:36record wait this is the counselor what the hell is she doing here it was his idea back off get back
43:49get back you stupid bitch
43:54all right you're gonna die
43:59do you know how lame this is bored teenage boys trying to raise up a demon
44:05sorry it didn't show i bet it's because you forgot the boombox playing some
44:11heavy metal thing like blue clam cult i think that's the key to the raising of lame demons
44:24that lame demon
44:35so
44:49dude help
45:05oh
45:24spike here to help no hurting my goal i'm tired i'll take care of this
45:35uh
45:55no no please
46:05so
46:26she'll tell you
46:30someday she'll tell you
46:35so
46:39are you okay
46:51you can't be dead
46:58where are my infinite riches
47:06so
47:13come on
47:18help help me please i'm bleeding sorry my office hours are 10 before
47:24it's all okay now i hope you're not too disappointed
47:44see you can make a difference
47:55and you will
48:00cassie cassie cassie no come on cassie
48:10cassie
48:25so
48:29how was her mom
48:33okay
48:39as okay as
48:44she told me their family had a history of heart irregularities
48:50but she never told cassie
48:56cassie didn't know
49:00and it was fate
49:03then she was gonna die no matter what wasn't she
49:07it didn't matter what you did she just knew
49:14she was special
49:18i failed her
49:20uh-huh no
49:26you didn't because you tried you listened and you tried
49:34she died because of her heart not because of you
49:40she was my friend because of you
49:43i guess sometimes you can't help
49:48so what then
49:53what do you do when you know that
49:59when you know that maybe you can't help
50:12yeah
50:42you
51:13you
51:14grr argh
Recommended
47:27
|
Up next