Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996–2003): Season 6, Episode 22 - Grave - full transcript

The Scoobies continue to try and stop Dark Willow, who is now intent on destroying the world. After Dark Willow neutralizes Buffy, though, Xander is the only one left who can save the day. ...

Get nice and comfy, slayer.
I'll be back.

Previously on
Buffy the vampire slayer.

You want to return
to your former self.

Bitch is gonna see a change.

You think you can just
do that to me.

- Tara?
- Buffy?

- How did this happen?
- Warren... he had a gun.

- We need to find Willow.
- Yeah, she's off the wagon big-time.

Warren's a dead man
if she finds him.

Willow!

- What about Warren?
- She killed him. And the two of you are next.



Get in.

Willow, just stop
for a second.

- Buffy.
- Is she coming?

I don't see anything.

I get it now.
It's about the power.

Let's go.

- What about Willow?
- Buffy can handle her.

Are you sure?
That's why we're leaving.

And there's no one in the world
who has the power to stop me now.

I'd like to test
that theory.

Giles?

Giles.

Uh-oh. Daddy's home.

- I'm in wicked trouble now.
- You have no idea.



You have to stop
what you're doing.

Oh, sorry.
Can't do that.

I'm not finished yet.

Neither am I.
Stay down.

How'd you do that?

That's borrowed power.

- No way is it gonna be strong enough...
- I'm here to help you.

Thanks, but I can kill a
couple geeks all by myself.

But, hey, if you'd
like to watch.

I mean, that's what you watchers
are good at, right? Watching?

Butting in on things
that don't concern you?

You concern me, Willow.

Stay on this path
and you'll wind up dead.

Willow, listen to him. I don't
want to fight you anymore.

I don't wanna fight you either.
I wanna fight him.

- Stay down.
- No.

Remember that little spat
we had before you left?

When you were under the delusion
that you were still relevant here?

You called me a rank,
arrogant amateur.

Well, buckle up,
Rupert...

'Cause I've turned pro.

Asmodea, bring forth...

- Vincire!
- What? No, no! Get it off!

Solvo! Libero!

What did you do?

Contained her and her powers
within a binding field.

It puts her in a kind of
stasis for the time...

You cut your hair.

I'm blonde.

I-I colored my hair.
Again.

I'm blonde.

Yes, I noticed.

I'm very sorry about Tara.

This won't hold me forever.

I came as soon I heard.

The council?

The council haven't a clue.

About much of anything,
really.

No, there's a...

An extremely
powerful coven in Devon.

They sensed the rise of a dangerous
magical force here in sunnydale.

A dark force
fueled by grief.

Willow.

I'd so hoped it wasn't her.

And then a seer in the coven
told me about Tara.

That's when the coven
imbued me with their powers.

And sent you here
to bring Willow down?

Buffy, what's happened here?

God. I don't even know
where to start.

Well, Willow's clearly
been abusing the magics.

She has.

She was,
and I barely even noticed.

Giles, everything's
just been so...

Xander left Anya at the altar, and
Anya's a vengeance demon again.

Dawn's a total klepto.

Money's been so tight that I've been
slinging burgers at the doublemeat palace,

and... and I've been
sleeping with spike.

Sorry.

Anya.

Willow.

I need you, Anya. I need you
to do something for me.

I know what you're
trying to do.

I hate to burst your bubble,
but that mind control mojo...

Doesn't work on vengeance
demons, so why don't you just...

- Stop talking and listen.
- Okay.

You need to free me.

- No.
- You don't wanna call out to them.

You wanna take away
this binding spell.

I don't know how.

I do. Do you want me
to tell you?

- Duct tape?
- On their mouths. So the demon could eat them.

Because they were figments.

All of it.
You, sunnydale,

and I was just
some nutcase in L.A.

Of course.
Why didn't we see it before?

Can you forgive me?

For what?
I should never have left.

No. You were
right to leave.

We're just stupid.

I know you're all stupid.

I should never
have abandoned you.

No.

Giles, you were right
about everything.

It is time
I was an adult.

Sometimes the most adult thing you can
do is ask for help when you need it.

Now you tell me.

I guess...

I wasn't ready before.

It took a long time for
that feeling to go away.

The feeling that
I wasn't really here.

It was like...

When I clawed my way
out of that grave,

I left something behind,
a part of me.

I just...

I don't understand
why I'm back.

You have a calling.

But it was my time, Giles. Someone
would have taken my place.

So, why?

Right.

What's gonna happen
to Willow?

Well, the coven
is working on a way...

To extract her powers
without killing her,

and should she survive...

You ought to know, Buffy, that
there's no guarantee she'll...

Be as she was.

Willow's killed a human being.

How will she be able
to live with herself?

I wouldn't worry
about that.

Willow doesn't
live here anymore.

- Vincire.
- Solutum.

Fool me once...

- Willow...
- Shame on you.

Tego!

Excudo!

Where are we going?
I have no idea.

What?
I don't know, okay?

I can't even
run away well.

That's something I'm usually good at.
We should go back and help.

Yeah, 'cause I've been
such a big help already.

Standing around like a monkey
while Buffy gets shot.

Tara's dead,
and Willow's losing...

Well, feeling sorry for yourself
isn't helping either, Xander, okay?

You know, if spike were here,
he'd go back and fight.

Sure, if he wasn't too busy
trying to rape your sister.

What?

Forget it.

I don't believe you.
Fine.

He wouldn't do that.

Is this blind spot, like, a genetic
trait with the summers women?

The only useful thing spike ever
did was finally leave town.

Well, that was a bloody doddle
and a piece o' piss.

You got any more ruddy
tests for me, you ponce?

I'll take anything
you can throw at me...

If it'll get me what I need
to take care of the slayer.

Give her
what's coming to her.

You just bring it on.

Bring on the whole...

Bloody hell.

That all you got, Jeeves?

'Cause I could stand
to go another 10 rounds.

Whereas you can
barely stand.

Your powers...

May be undeniably greater,

but I can still hurt you
if I have to.

Boy, you just
don't get it, do you?

Nothing can hurt me now.

This... is nothing.

It's all... nothing.

I see.

If you lose
someone you love,

then the other people
in your life...

Who care about you
become meaningless.

I wonder what Tara
would say about that.

You can ask her yourself.

You're always saving everyone.
It's kinda pesky.

You probably even think
you're buying escape time...

For Jonathan
and the other one.

Well, I got a little
secret for ya.

I can kill them
from anywhere I want...

With this.

It'll find them,
it'll bury them,

along with anyone else
helping those dead men walking.

- Don't.
- Unless...

Somebody, somehow,

can get there in time
to save them. Huh.

Oh, well.
Fly, my pretty, fly.

- See what I did there?
- Go.

Good luck.

Thought she'd never leave.

Now I finally have you
all to myself.

You're such a hypocrite.

Waltzing in here with
your borrowed magics...

So you could tell me what?

"Magic's bad. Behave.

Be a good girl."

Well, I don't think
you're in any position...

To be telling me what to do.

Do you?

I used to think
you had all the answers,

that I had so much
to learn from you.

Willow... uhh!

You were jealous.
Still are.

Just couldn't bear that I
was the one with power.

That's why
you ran away.

- Incurso!
- That's why you...

That was rude.

Now I forgot
what I was saying.

Perhaps you're not as strong
as you think you are.

You are expending way too much
of your mystical energies...

To maintain your powers.

At this rate
you're gonna...

Burn out and...

Blah, blah, blah.

Willow, you need to stop.

What I need
is a little pick-me-up.

Whoa!

Head rush.

I'm like...
Wow. Whoa. Whew.

Who's your supplier?

This is... wow.

It's incredible.

I'm so juiced.

Giles, it's... it's like
no mortal person...

Has ever had
this much power, ever.

It's like I-I'm
connected to everything.

I can feel.

It feels like
I-i can feel...

Everyone.

Ohh.

Oh, my god.

All the emotion...

And the pain.

No, it's...
It's too much.

Oh, it's just too much.

Willow,

it doesn't have
to be like that.

You-you can stop it.

Uh, yeah.
I... I can.

I have to stop this.

I'll make it go away.

Willow.

Oh, you poor bastards.

Your suffering
has to end.

No.

Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow!

Ow!
Ow! You son of a bitch!

Butt wipe! I wasn't
talking to you.

Oh. Reflex.

Man, they've really tightened
security up here lately.

One too many squatters
from the hellmouth.

Hide out in the cemetery.
What a fantastic idea.

Yeah, I'm working on a whole
shut-the-hell-up pitch you might like, too.

- Xander?
- I've had just about as much as I can stand...

Babysitting a couple of social
retards who don't appreciate...

- Xander.
- What?

What is that?

Get out of there!

Move!

Dawn! Dawn, hold on!

Mexico, huh?

Giles.

Giles!

Anya.

I'm so sorry. Willow forced me
to free her with her brain.

- Are you okay?
- I can see.

Oh! It's a... miracle.

Willow...

I can see her.

She took
the magic I had,

and now...

I know where she is.

I can feel what...

Oh, god.

Giles, you have to rest.

Silly girl.
I'm dying.

No, you're not.

It was...
It was the only way.

I thought we...

There'd be a chance,
now, but...

I know where Willow is.

She's gonna finish it.

Finish what?

The world.

Ohh!

Buffy!

Are you okay? We have
to get out of here.

Xander! I think I saw
him hit his head.

Xander!

This looks a little
like spike's place.

You know,
under his crypt?

What are you doing? If we can pull these
out, we can use the coffins for height.

Maybe get out of here.

Uh, maybe one of the tunnels
spike uses is around here.

We can get to his place. That's the
last place on earth we need to be.

Oh. But it was good enough for you to
take me there after what he did to you?

What he...
Tried to do. Whatever.

Xander.
So it's true?

Dawn, you might not have noticed.
We're in really big trouble here.

Why did you not tell me? 'Cause
you didn't need to know.

Yes, I do. I need to know.
I'm not a kid anymore.

Dawn, I'm trying to protect
you... well, you can't.

Look around, Buffy.
We're trapped in here.

Willow's killing and
people I love keep dying.

And you cannot
protect me from that.

Dawn...
Hello?

- Xander?
- Buffy, you okay?

Where's dawn?

Here. Are Jonathan and
Andrew up there with you?

Nah. They must have skedaddled
when I was out. Weasels.

Whoa!

Xander, you gotta find some kind of rope
or something and get us out of here!

Right. Okay.

I'll, uh, I'll
take a look around.

- And hurry up before...
- Holy frijole.

- Anya, what are you doing here? Where's Giles?
- Giles?

- He's still at the magic shop.
- Giles is back?

- You didn't tell me that.
- Did he stop Willow?

- No. And things just got a whole lot worse.
- How worse?

End of the world worse.
Willow's going to destroy it.

- She can do that?
- She can and she will...

- When she gets to where she's going.
- Where is she going?

Big old satanic temple.
Kingman's bluff?

There's no temple
on Kingman's bluff.

Proserpexa?

Who's she? Way up there in
the hierarchy of she-demons.

Her followers intended to use her
effigy to destroy the world.

They all died when the temple got swallowed
up in the big earthquake of '32.

So now, 70 years later, Willow's
gonna make their dreams come true?

She's going to drain
the planet's life force...

And funnel its energy through Proserpexa's
effigy and burn the earth to a cinder.

- Not if I can help it.
- You can't.

Something else Giles said, "no magic
or supernatural force can stop her."

- What does that mean?
- I don't know.

He said, "the slayer
can't stop her."

And then he said a bunch of other stuff.
He really wasn't too clear.

Anya, what are you...
Look, uh...

I should get back to him.
He's alone.

Is he okay?

Don't think he has
a lot of time left.

I'm sorry.

Xander,
where is that rope?

Buffy. Xander! Where is he?

You heard what Anya said.
And you heard what Giles said.

I heard,
and I don't care.

I have to try.

From the pit of forgotten shadows,
awaken, sister of the dark.

I'm not gonna sit
here while Willow incinerates

what I've chosen to protect.

I have to stop her.
Always the slayer,

right to the last.

Willow? And it is
the last, you know?

For all your fighting,

thinking you're
saving the world.

Buffy?
And in the end,

I'm the only one
that can save it.

By killing us?

It's the only way
to stop the pain.

I... I can't
take it anymore.

But I know you, Buffy.

You're a warrior. You won't
go out without a fight.

I don't really
have time for one.

But you should
go out fighting.

Willow, what are you... it was me
who took you out of the earth.

Well, now...

The earth wants you back.

Buffy!

They just keep coming.
I can't take 'em all.

Dawn,
will you help me?

I got your back.

Proserpexa, let the cleansing
fires from the depths...

Burn away the suffering souls
and bring sweet death.

Willow.

Giles?
Giles!

Don't die.
Not yet.

There are... there are
things I want to tell you.

Thanks a lot for coming.

It was good of you
to teleport all this way.

Though in retrospect, it probably
would have been better...

If you hadn't come and given
Willow all that magic...

That made her, like,
10 times more powerful.

That would've been a plus.

Hey, black-eyed girl.
Whatcha doing?

Get out of here. Oh, no. You're not
the only one with powers, you know.

You may be a hopped-up
uber-witch,

but this carpenter can drywall
you into the next century.

I'm not joking, Xander.
Get out of my way, now.

There.
What?

It's not over.

Dawn! I'm comin'!

What, you think
I never watched you?

You can't stop this.

Yeah. I get that. It's just,
where else am I gonna go?

You've been my best friend
my whole life.

World gonna end... where
else would I want to be?

Is this the master plan?

You're gonna stop me
by telling me you love me?

Well, I was gonna
walk you off a cliff...

And hand you an anvil, but
it seemed kind of cartoony.

Still making jokes.

I'm not joking.
I know you're in pain.

I can't imagine
the pain you're in.

And I know you're about to do
something apocalyptically evil...

And stupid, and hey,
I still want to hang.

- You're Willow.
- Don't call me that.

The first day of kindergarten you cried
because you broke the yellow crayon,

and you were too afraid
to tell anyone.

You've come pretty far. Ending the
world... not a terrific notion.

But the thing is,
yeah, I love you.

I love crayon-breaky Willow and
I love scary-veiny Willow.

So if I'm going out,
it's here.

If you want to kill the world,
well, then start with me.

- I've earned that.
- You think I won't?

It doesn't matter.

- I'll still love you.
- Shut up.

I love you.

I...
Love you...

Shut up!

I love you, Willow.

Stop!

- I love you.
- Stop!

I love you.

What happened?

Giles. You're not dead! No.

Ohh! However, I am
still in some pain.

Oh. Well,
why aren't you dead?

Why aren't I dead?
Uh, the threat's gone.

Willow's been stopped.

Oh. You mean she's, uh...

No, she's alive.

It, uh... the magic
she took from me...

It-it did what
I hoped it would do.

Oh, you dosed her.

You knew she'd take
your powers all along.

The gift that was given me by the
coven was the true essence of magic.

Willow's magic came from
a place of rage and power.

And vengeance.
Don't forget vengeance.

Oh. How could I?

In any case,
the magic she took from me...

Tapped into the spark
of humanity she had left.

Helped her to feel again.

Gave Xander
the opportunity to reach her.

Xander?

Yes.

It was he who got
to her in time.

He saved us all.

I...

I think it's over,
Buffy.

The world's still here.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Wait. Is... is that
happy crying?

Yes, dummy. You think
I wanted the world to end?

I don't know.
Didn't you?

Dawn...

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's okay, Buffy.
It's okay.

No.
It hasn't been.

It hasn't been okay.

But it's gonna be now.
I see it.

See what?

You.

Things have really
sucked lately.

That's all gonna change.

And I want to be there
when it does.

I want to see my friends
happy again.

I want to see you grow up.

The woman
you're gonna become.

Because she's
gonna be beautiful.

And she's gonna be powerful.

Dawn, I got it so wrong.

I don't want to protect
you from the world.

I want to show it to you.

There's so much that
I want to show you.

♪ Lord, make me an instrument ♪

♪ Of your peace ♪

♪ Where there is hatred ♪

♪ Let me sow love ♪

♪ Where there is injury ♪
♪ pardon ♪

♪ Where there is doubt, faith ♪

♪ Where there is despair ♪
♪ hope ♪

♪ Where there is darkness ♪
♪ light ♪

♪ Where there is sadness ♪

♪ Joy ♪

♪ O divine master
Grant that I may ♪

♪ Not so much seek to be
consoled as to console ♪

♪ To be understood ♪

♪ As to understand ♪

♪ To be loved ♪

♪ As to love ♪

♪ For it's in giving
that we receive ♪

♪ And it's in pardoning
that we are pardoned ♪

♪ And it's in dying
that we are born ♪

♪ To eternal life ♪

♪ Amen ♪♪

You have endured
the required trials.

Bloody right I have.

So you give me
what I want.

Make me what I was, so Buffy
can get what she deserves.

Very well.

We will return
your soul.

Grr! Arrgh!