- 5/19/2025
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 7 Episode 9 Never Leave Me
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00:00life. Nice job. Do you have any idea how hard it's been to act this cool?
00:05Now that death thing was all part of the master plan.
00:09A short round pulls off his end of the bargain, we'll both become
00:12gods.
00:15I saw mom. Things are coming, Don. Why are you...
00:28When it's bad, Buffy won't choose you. It wasn't her.
00:33What? It's the big bad, Don. The one we knew was
00:39coming. What the hell happened?
00:42This big evil that's been promising to devour us?
00:45I think it started chomping. Oh god. Buffy, this thing knows us.
00:52It made us think that we were talking to people we knew.
00:55I'm just a guy with his ear to the ground, but even I can feel it.
01:00Something's coming. I don't know what exactly, but
01:03something's brewing. And it's so big, ugly, and damned.
01:06It makes you and me look like little bitty puzzle pieces.
01:12Buffy, he's been feeding on human blood. That's gotta do stuff.
01:16I think there was something there, talking to him, making him do things.
01:21How could you use a poor mace?
01:26Spike!
01:33I remember. I've killed, and I can feel...
01:41I can feel everyone alone.
01:45There's something playing with us.
01:49Why is it doing this to me? I don't know.
01:54Help me. I'll help you. This thing has been closer to Spike than any of us,
01:59and if you want to understand it, I'm gonna have to get close to Spike.
02:06Robson, are you here?
02:11Robson?
02:16God, I thought you would gather them. What?
02:20It's started. It's all right. I understand.
02:27I'll take care of it. So the basement was filled with bodies?
02:33Apparently.
02:37And Spike could have sired countless others and
02:41buried them around town.
02:44And we're waiting for him to do what exactly? Do something crazy?
02:49It's not that simple. Shouldn't we stab him through the chest?
02:55Isn't that what we do when these things happen?
02:58Look, Buffy knows what she's doing. Well, Xander, you know what we're all talking
03:02about. I mean, you've always been part of the
03:05Spike is evil faction. I've got a house to put back together.
03:10Fine. You guys keep your heads buried in the sand,
03:14but I think we should all prepare ourselves for the possibility that
03:17William the Bloody is back.
03:28All right. Getting good. How do you feel?
03:36Good. Excellent. We've got work to do. We have to do work right now? Can't I just
03:42walk around for a while in my coat? Don't go soft on me now.
03:46We're right in the trench and the exhaust port's in sight.
03:51I thought that was it. I did what you told me. It's not my fault it didn't work.
03:57Why do I have to do all the wet work? Hey! You know the rules. I can't say
04:03corporeal form.
04:12Cool. Pretty bitchin', right? I'm like Obi-Wan. Or Patrick Swayze.
04:21Believe me, I would do this stuff if I could.
04:24I can't. I need you. You're my iron fist.
04:31I just don't think I can kill anybody else.
04:34Oh, will you stop worrying about that? I didn't want to kill you. Warren made me.
04:39Hey, I'm glad he did. This is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
04:45It didn't hurt too much. I'm not very good at stabbing.
04:49You know, it wasn't that bad. It was like a
04:53sharp pain, then a burning, then a general queasiness.
04:57It was kind of like when I used to get ulcers in high school, only at the end I
05:01became one with light and hope. I can't do it. I can't. I can't do it
05:05anymore. Hey, this isn't your fault, okay?
05:10It's my fault the ritual didn't work. I screwed up.
05:14I'm little. I don't have as much blood as other people.
05:18I probably should have told someone I was anemic.
05:22Don't worry. We're gonna fix it. You gotta trust us. We know what we're
05:27doing. I can't kill anybody else.
05:32Okay, calm down. We can work around that.
05:44We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
05:48We just can't take any chances. Don't.
05:54Make it tighter and I'll forgive.
05:59I get free, someone's gonna die.
06:18So,
06:48So,
06:51So,
07:07So,
07:11So,
07:14Now guys, look, we can settle this one of two ways.
07:19You can repaint the walls or I can suspend you and report this little
07:25incident on your permanent record. Fine.
07:30Do that. Okay, I was bluffing. I hadn't really
07:35thought that one through. Listen, this whole permanent record
07:40thing is such a myth anyway. Colleges never ask for anything past your SAT
07:46scores and it's not like employers are going to be calling up to check to see
07:49how many days you missed back in high school.
07:52So, listen, I could suspend you but that would mean calling your
07:59parents, alerting your teachers, filling out
08:02paperwork, and quite possibly having to talk to the school board.
08:07All of which sounds positively exhausting
08:10to me. No. No, I think it would be much easier if I just
08:17called the police. Let them deal with it.
08:23Oh, and in case you're wondering, this is the part where I'm not bluffing.
08:32We'll repaint it. Good job.
08:39Excuse me.
08:45Ms. Summers. I'm with students. I just want to tell you that Buffy won't
08:51be coming in today. She's really sick. Oh no.
08:56Yeah, last night she was vomiting and then this morning she was vomiting some
09:00more and then just when we thought she was done, she
09:05started vomiting again. Yeah, we got that stomach flu going around.
09:09Her exact words were, I've got stuff coming out of both ends.
09:15Thank you. That's very helpful. Sure, no problem.
09:23Hey guys, how's it going? Pretty good. Tell your sister not to worry about
09:29her. We'll soldier on without her here. Just tell her to concentrate on getting
09:34better. Yeah, she'll be fine. She just needs to
09:39get some stuff out of her system. I need to find him as soon as possible.
09:43He's not answering any of his numbers. Ms. Summers, the Watcher's Council does
09:49not keep track of our lapsed employees. Ever since Mr. Giles pulled up his stake
09:56in Sunnydale, we've not made it our business to
10:00follow his every move. You don't need to get all British and dodgy, Mr. Travers. I
10:05know you have ways of finding him.
10:09Well, I suppose if you feel matters urgent, we could look into it.
10:13I'd appreciate it, thank you. Not at all. Good day.
10:20The girl knows nothing.
10:27And we need to find Rupert Giles.
10:35As soon as possible.
10:56Can I do something? I think you should probably...
11:15Here.
11:27He's been feasting on humans for weeks. He's having some pretty bad withdrawals.
11:33I think we need to get him some blood. Do you want me to kill Anya?
11:38No. We should probably try to wean him off humans.
11:43He'll have to make do with animal blood. I'll go get some.
11:47You don't mind? No, I have to get out of the house.
11:52Xander's installing the new windows and he keeps giving lectures on proper tool
11:58maintenance. Tool talk? Not my thing.
12:08How are you doing in there?
12:12He's in pretty bad shape. Past the point where he can tell me anything.
12:18I wasn't asking about him.
12:22I'll be okay. She won't feel a thing.
12:25Just do it. Fast. Cut her deep. Cut her quick.
12:33It'll be over before she knows what hit her. What if she squeals?
12:37I better go for her throat first.
12:42Babe 2 pig in the city was really underrated. Don't think about babe.
12:46Babe. You're Conan. You're the destroyer.
12:52It's you against nature. You're the hunter.
12:56You're primal. You live off the land. You're Andrew. Everyone knows you.
13:02You play by your own rules. It's kill or be killed.
13:05That'll do, pig!
13:09Oh, you gotta corner it.
13:13Stay between me and the hall or...
13:24That's the worst attempted pig slaughtering I've ever seen.
13:29I'm not very good at stabbing. Isn't there some other way we can get blood?
13:35Number 87.
13:39I'd like 12 pork chops,
13:45two pounds of sausage, eight quarts of pig's blood, three steaks,
13:54halibut and some toothpaste.
14:02This is a butcher shop, Neo. We don't sell toothpaste.
14:07Um, okay. Just the other stuff then.
14:13You got it.
14:20Oh, steak sauce.
14:37Number 88.
14:51Don't kill me! I'm not gonna kill you. Don't torture me and send me to an
14:56eternal pain dimension. I'm not gonna. Warren killed Tara. I didn't
15:01do it. And he was aiming for Buffy anyway.
15:06Not making it better. And you got your revenge. You killed my
15:11best friend. Or even. Even? You think I get
15:16satisfaction from what I did? Maybe not, but let me keep my skin, okay?
15:22I'm not bad. I'm not bad anymore. I'm good. I do good things now.
15:30Then why do you need lots and lots of blood?
15:36I am bad. I'm bad. I'm evil. But I'm protected by powerful forces.
15:42Forces you can't even begin to imagine, little girl.
15:48If you harm me, you shall know the wrath of he that is darkness and terror.
15:52Your blood will boil and you will know true suffering.
15:56Stand down, she-witch. Your defeat is at hand.
15:59Shut your mouth. I am a she-witch. A very
16:06powerful she-witch. Or witch, as is more accurate. I am not to be trifled with.
16:14Stop talking! Don't interrupt me, insignificant man.
16:21I am willow. I am death. If you dare defy me, I will call down my
16:28fury, exact fresh vengeance, and make your
16:32worst fears come true.
16:37Okay?
16:43Look who I found. Oh, this can't be good.
16:47Guess who was buying mass amounts of blood at the butcher shop?
16:51Hey, your hair's not even black anymore. What are you doing back in town?
16:56You'll get nothing out of me, carpenter. We'll see about that.
17:03Careful with my coat. It's expensive. Is it new?
17:09Hey! Ow! Now, we can do this the hard way,
17:15if you want. But believe me when I tell you,
17:20this will go much easier if you just tell us what you know.
17:27Ow! You're barking up the wrong asparagus, man. I don't know anything.
17:32Here's the thing. I don't believe you. I haven't done anything wrong.
17:40Well, then you won't mind if I ask you a few questions.
17:43Yeah, okay. Why were you buying blood at the butcher shop?
17:49I fell in love with a beautiful vampire girl down in Mexico. Now we're trying to
17:53make a go of it on the straight and narrow,
17:55and put our lives back together here in Sunnydale.
17:58You think this is a game, junior? People are dying.
18:03Friends' lives are in danger. Hey, Anya.
18:07And now you want to waste my time with deceptions? Not on my watch!
18:11Hey, Anya! Can I talk to you outside for a second?
18:19Okay.
18:38Did you see that? I actually made him cry.
18:42You were perfect. I was worried I overdid it with the whole easy way, hard way thing.
18:46No, you were great. And I wasn't sure if I should slap him, but then he made me
18:51want to slap him, so I thought, okay, slap him.
18:53He'll be singing in no time. So what do we do now?
18:56Well, now we let him stew in his own juices for a bit,
18:59then we give him the hard brace. Right. What's the status with your guy?
19:06He's not talking yet, but we'll get there.
19:09How's your guy? The weasel wants to sing. He just needs a tune.
19:13He's primed. I'll be pumping him in no time.
19:19He'll give us information soon.
19:32Better?
19:37Good.
19:40I don't remember anything.
19:44Well, you were having pretty bad withdrawal. No, not that.
19:50I don't remember
19:53what I did. Nothing?
19:57It's all flashes here and there.
20:00It's like I'm watching someone else
20:05do it, kill people.
20:09I've been losing time for a while now, waking up in strange places.
20:19When did your chip stop working?
20:22Wasn't aware that it had, you know. Not until now.
20:28And the losing time? How long has that been going on?
20:33Things have been wonky for me ever since I got back, ever since...
20:39You got your soul. Figured that's what it was like.
20:44Been so long since I had one.
20:48How did you do it? How did you get your soul back?
20:55Saw a man about a girl.
21:00I went to seek a legend out.
21:08Traveled to the other side of the world, made a deal with a demon.
21:14Just like that? No, not just like that.
21:17There was a price. There were trials.
21:22Torture, pain, suffering.
21:28Of sorts. Of sorts?
21:31Well, it's all relative, isn't it? Meaning?
21:36Meaning I have come to redefine the words pain and suffering since I fell
21:41in love with you.
21:46How can you say that?
21:50Apparently I just slaughtered half a Sunnydale pet. I'm not really
21:54worried about being polite anymore.
21:58So that's what this is about. You're feeling sorry for yourself, Spike?
22:03Feeling honest with myself.
22:07You used me. Yes.
22:12You told me that, of course.
22:16You never understood it, though. Not till now.
22:22You hated yourself, and you took it out on me.
22:29You figure that out just now?
22:35Soul's not all about moonbeams and penny whistles, love.
22:39It's about self-loving. I get it. Had to travel around the world,
22:46but
22:49I understand you now.
22:52I understand the violence inside. Violence?
22:58William the Bloody now has insight into violence?
23:02Not the same.
23:06As bad as I was, as evil and as wretched as I was,
23:09I never truly hated myself back then.
23:14Not like I do now.
23:18No.
23:32How's your face? Okay.
23:37Sorry about that. She shouldn't have hit you.
23:41Okay.
23:45Okay.
23:49Thirsty? Go on.
23:57That chick's psycho. You don't know the half of it.
24:03She's a vengeance demon, you know. She's bad news.
24:10This one time I saw her having sex with Spike.
24:16She's killed more men than smallpox. Does smallpox still kill people?
24:20She's killed a lot of men. She tortures them.
24:25Anyone who incurs her wrath. One time she...
24:32Now, never mind. What? It's not important.
24:35What'd she do? Well, there was this one guy.
24:40There was this one guy. He hurt her real bad,
24:45so she paid him back. She killed him, but she did it real slow.
24:53See, first she stopped his heart, and then she replaced it with darkness,
24:58and then she made him live his life like that, but he still had to
25:03go do his job and see his friends and wake up in the morning and go to bed at
25:09night, but he had to do it all empty
25:15without anything to look forward to, ever. Sounds bad.
25:22Well, then she tore at his intestines and rubbed it in his face and took
25:25pictures of it. My God. But she's downstairs now. Don't worry
25:30about her. What? See, the thing is, we've all been a
25:34little on edge lately. Some bad things have been happening, and
25:39the girls, they're all looking for someone to blame.
25:42It didn't do anything. You lying son of a bitch!
25:46You're gonna tell us what we need to know, and you're gonna tell us right now!
25:49Anya, no! Stop it! Get off me, Paris!
25:59Come here, you pipsqueak! Get her off me! I'll tell you! I'll tell you what you need to know!
26:09Excuse me.
26:19Well,
26:24we've got ourselves a problem.
26:30Somebody help! Everything okay? Fine.
26:38Okay.
26:42What do I do? I'm half done. Never send a boy to do a man's job.
26:52Oh, don't deceive me. Oh, never deceive me.
26:58Who are you talking to? What's that?
27:11I heard you through the door. Who were you talking to?
27:14Nobody. I was just keeping myself company.
27:20Are you okay? Fine.
27:24How are you? Now you can talk, or I could keep hitting
27:29you. Believe me, I'd love to keep hitting you.
27:33Spike? I'm fine, Buffy, really. I'm just
27:40feeling a bit peckish, I suppose. Do you mind?
27:54No.
28:10Well, we needed more blood to activate the skill of dancing.
28:24You
28:54didn't seem to want anything to do with me. I mean, he just
29:00pushed me aside and charged at the wall. Are you hurt?
29:04Not really. How's, what's his name? He's got a good chunk taken out of his
29:11neck. It'll be all right. Had to tie him up again, but mainly just
29:15to keep him from scratching at his bandages. What the hell
29:19happened up there? I don't know. I mean, Spike and I were
29:23having a conversation, and he was fine. I mean, you know, fine as Spike can be,
29:29and then I went to check on you guys, and
29:32and when I got back, it was like he was a completely different person.
29:37Different like William the Bloody type different?
29:40He was talking to someone. I heard through the door he was having this
29:44conversation, and then he started singing. Maybe it's
29:48another musical.
29:51A much crappier musical. He mentioned something about a song in
29:56the cellar, and he changed there too. I mean,
30:00instantly became another person. Trigger. The horse? No, in his head.
30:08It's a trigger. It's a brainwashing term. It's how the military makes sleeper
30:14agents. They brainwash operatives and
30:18condition them with a specific trigger, like a psalm, that makes them
30:24drastically change at a moment's notice. Is this left over from your days in the
30:29army? No, that's left over from every army
30:32movie I've ever seen. But it makes sense. We've had ghosts or
30:37something haunting us, right? Well, what if Spike's ghosts have
30:42figured out a way to not only haunt him, what if they figured
30:45out how to how to control them? Spike said he's been
30:50seeing things since I found him in the basement.
30:52So he gets his soul back, he starts seeing spooky things, and he goes extra
30:58extra crazy. This trigger. How do we holster
31:04safety or, I don't know, guns? How do we make it stop?
31:09Well, usually the operative completes his task and either blows his head off or
31:14steals a submarine. All right, I need information. Spike's a
31:20bomb, then I need to know how to defuse him.
31:22You two, I want to know what did this to him. Spirits, ghosts,
31:26demons, check the lot of them. Look for anything that could haunt
31:29or possibly control like this. I need to know exactly what we're
31:33dealing with.
31:59So,
32:29so,
32:59so,
33:29so,
34:00so,
34:15did I hurt anybody? You took a good bite out of Andrew.
34:23Who? Tucker's brother.
34:30He'll be okay.
34:34I don't remember.
34:38It's okay.
34:43Luffy, I don't know why. We think we do.
34:49Something's playing you. Some ghost or demon has figured out how to
34:55control you. I've got the gang researching it right
35:00now.
35:02Xander has this theory that you're being triggered.
35:08Kill me.
35:12What? Luffy, you have to kill me. You don't understand.
35:20When I left the room earlier, I heard you talking. Do you have any idea what I'm
35:23capable of?
35:30I was in the cellar with you. I saw what you did.
35:34I'm not talking about the cellar. People in the cellar got off easy.
35:40I'm talking about me.
35:44Luffy, you've never met the real me.
35:50Believe me, I'm well aware of what you're capable of.
35:53No, you got off easy too.
36:04Do you know how much blood you can drink from a girl before she'll die?
36:08I do. You see, the trick is to drink just enough,
36:15to know how to damage them just enough so that they'll still cry
36:22when you...
36:26Because it's not worth it if they don't cry.
36:31It's not your fault. You're not the one doing this.
36:35I already did it. It's already done.
36:40You want to know what I've done to girls, Dawn Sage?
36:50This is me, Buffy. You've got to kill me
36:54before I get out.
36:58We can keep you locked up. Keep you here and we'll figure out...
37:02Have you ever really asked yourself why you can't do it?
37:05Off me? After everything I've done to you, to people around you?
37:13It's not love. We both know that. You fought by my side.
37:19You've saved lives. You've helped... Don't do that.
37:25Don't rationalize this into some noble act.
37:31Because we both know the truth, Luffy.
37:36You like men who hurt you. No.
37:47You need the pain we cause you. You need the hate. You need it to do your
37:53job, to be the slayer. No.
38:00I don't hate like that.
38:04Not you or myself.
38:09Not anymore.
38:13You think you have insight now because your soul's drenched in blood?
38:19You don't know me.
38:23You don't even know you. Was that you who killed those people in
38:28the cellar? Was that you who waited for those girls?
38:32There's no one else. That's not true.
38:38Listen to me. You're not alive because of
38:42hate or pain.
38:47You're alive because I saw you change.
38:51Because I saw your penance. Kindle dressing.
38:56Be easier, wouldn't it? If it were an act. But it's not.
39:05You faced the monster inside of you and you fought back.
39:10You risked everything to be a better man. Luffy.
39:14And you can be.
39:18You are. You may not see it, but I do.
39:26I do.
39:31I believe in you, Spike.
42:26Ah!
42:42Luffy. Don. She's okay. Is this it? I thought there was
42:47more of them. Spike.
42:56Spike.
43:12They were so fast.
43:16And organized. They were after Spike all along.
43:21And we were just in the way.
43:27I know these guys. I fought them before.
43:40We aren't being haunted. This isn't some demon.
43:46It's all the same thing. Spike's ghosts. The people that you guys saw
43:53from beneath us. It's all the same thing.
44:01I know what we're up against.
44:05But first.
44:15They took our files. Wiped out our records.
44:19We've lost contact with operations in Munich, Switzerland and Rome.
44:24We've got casualty confirmations coming in from as far away as Melbourne.
44:30Sir. We are crippled.
44:37It's all right, Lydia. We are still masters of our fate.
44:44We're still captains of our souls.
44:51Yes, sir.
44:58Ladies and gentlemen.
45:02Our fears have been confirmed. The first evil has declared all-out war
45:09on this institution.
45:12The first volleys proved most effective.
45:18I, for one, think it's time we struck back.
45:26Get me confirmations on all remaining operatives.
45:32Visuals and tacticals. Highest alert. Get them here as soon as
45:38possible. Begin preparations for mobilization.
45:43Once we're accounted for, I want to be ready to move.
45:48Sir? We'll be paying a visit to the Hellmouth.
45:54My friends, these are the times that define us.
46:01Proverbs 24-6. For by wise counsel,
46:07you shall make your war.
46:10You'll have to excuse the spectacle, but I've always been a bit of a sucker for
46:35the old classics.
46:40Oh, don't look at me that way. I wanted to do this more subtle life.
47:07My harbingers have a tendency to call attention to themselves.
47:20You're the one who couldn't hold his end of the bargain.
47:24You're the one who couldn't take care of what's-his-name.
47:27You're the one who had to make breakthroughs and learn something about
47:30himself.
47:34And so now, fittingly, you're the one who gets to do the
47:40honors. I have to admit, I'm glad it worked out
47:45this way. I was going to bleed Andrew, but you look
47:50a lot better with your shirt off.
47:53To be honest, I'm getting a little tired of subtle.
48:09I think it's about time we brought some authority to our presence.
48:15Now Spike, you want to see what a real vampire looks like?
49:53Grr! Arrgh!
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