Bargaining, Part Two

Infobox Television episode
Title=Bargaining, Part Two


Series=Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season=6
Episode=2
Airdate=October 2 2001
Production=6ABB02
Writer=David Fury
Director=David Grossman
Guests=Franc Ross
(Razor)
Amber Benson
(Tara)
Episode list=List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
Prev=Bargaining, Part One
Next=After Life

"Bargaining, Part Two" is the second episode of the sixth season of the television series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". It originally aired on October 2, 2001.

Plot synopsis

Xander carries a weakened Willow off toward the magic shop where Tara and Anya will meet them with Spike and Dawn. The Buffybot is in the possession of the demon bikers and getting beaten badly. Meanwhile, beneath the ground, the real Buffy desperately fights her way through her coffin. Xander stops on the way to the Magic Shop, and Willow breaks down into tears as she thinks her attempt to bring Buffy back failed. Tara and Anya pause on their way in time to hide from a few of Razor's followers and overhear their conversation about visiting some stores.

Spike prepares to leave the house with Dawn for a safer location. Buffy finally breaks out of her coffin and reaches the surface. Dressed in a black dress and pumps, Buffy roams the damaged streets of Sunnydale, confused by the mayhem occurring. Back at the Magic Box, Tara and Anya return to find that the store is still safe. Tara casts a spell to locate Willow and Xander. Xander questions Willow's directions back to the shop and the power of the spell she conducted. Tara's spell sends a small blue light to guide Willow and Xander back to the Magic Box.

A disoriented Buffy bumps into a car, setting off the alarm and causing the owner to threaten her with a shotgun. Out in the streets, Spike knocks one of the demons off his moving bike with ease and takes it for him and Dawn to ride off on. The gang meets up at the shop to discuss their plans and how they're going to deal without Buffy, Spike, Giles or a strong Willow. The real Buffy stumbles upon the demon bikers in the midst of celebration. Four demons on their bikes are chained to the limbs of the Buffybot and drive off in four different directions, destroying it.

The real Buffy draws attention to herself and is forced to run off followed by the bikers. The Scooby Gang is armed and ready for battle, discussing the reasons for their failure when Buffy drops down from a fence in front of them. Willow recognizes her as the real Buffy, but scares her off. The gang follows and Xander realizes to his horror that the spell brought Buffy back to life inside her coffin. Buffy is frightened and confused, but is motivated to beat the demons when Razor and his crew try to hurt her and her friends.

Dawn and Spike find the Buffybot's head and torso and while Spike looks for the rest of her, the robot hints that the real Buffy is back. Dawn takes off, leaving Spike to freak out when he doesn't know where she went. Buffy finishes off most of the demons before she runs off to Glory's tower, but Razor doesn't die. Willow, Tara and Anya fight with Razor using various weapons and magic. As he is strangling Willow, Tara kills him with an axe — her first (and only) demon kill. Dawn tracks Buffy to the tower and follows the Slayer as she heads to the top.

Buffy remembers what occurred the last time she was there until Dawn interrupts. Buffy questions if she's in hell and contemplates another jump. The tower starts to collapse as Dawn begs Buffy to come with her, she's needed. Buffy uses a rope and pulley to get partially to the ground. They fall the rest of the distance and Buffy cushions the fall and rolls them out of the way before the tower completely collapses. Safe, the girls hug, but Buffy's eyes don't reflect happiness.

Acting

tarring

*Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers/Buffybot
*Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
*Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
*Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
*James Marsters as Spike
*Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg

Guest starring

*Franc Ross as Razer
*Amber Benson as Tara Maclay

Co-starring

*Geoff Meed as Mag
*Mike Grief as Klyed
*Richard Wharton as Homeowner

Production details

Music

* Static-X - "Permanence"

Translations

* Italian title: "Il rito - II parte" ("The rite - Part 2")
* German title: "Die Auferstehung - Teil 2" ("The resurrection - Part 2")
* French title: "Chaos, deuxième partie" ("Chaos - Part 2")

Quotes and trivia

* When Tara realizes that Willow and Xander might be lost, she says that lost is good because she and Willow know how to find each other when they are lost. After Willow restores Tara's mind, Tara says that she "got so lost" and Willow says that she found her and would always find her.

* Tara uses a spell similar to the spell that Willow uses in "Fear Itself" to send a guiding light to Willow and Xander, even invoking the same Goddess, Aradia.

* When Buffy and Dawn are on top of Glory's tower, just before they leave, the camera pans down to follow a piece of falling scaffold. On the ground below, Dawn can clearly been seen approaching the tower (even though she is already on it).

Continuity

Arc significance

* The episode shows Buffy's uncertainty and confused feelings about being back from the dead. She asks Dawn, "Is this hell?", which is a view that the Slayer will express throughout the season as she tries to adjust back to normal life.

* The Buffybot, which first appeared in Season Five, is destroyed in this episode, and does not make any further appearances on the show.

* There are also some hints about the different attitudes that Willow and Tara have towards magic, with Tara fearing that the Scoobies were wrong to meddle with the laws of nature, while Willow seems sure that they were doing the right thing.

* The episode is also the first ever without Anthony Stewart Head as Giles.

* Tara makes her first kill in this episode when she axes Razor in the back as he tries to strangle Willow.

* The episode shows Spike stealing a motorcycle from one of the biker demons, which he will keep and use all the way up through Season Seven.

Timing

* Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

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