Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Fear, Itself

Corpses burst out of the ground and menace Buffy, who screams and struggles. Outside, Giles is inspecting the former location of the door. He remarks to Anya that he'll have to create a door. Anya asks if he can do that. Hasn't this girl ever heard of carpenters? Giles stalks over to his bag and pulls out a chainsaw. He marches up to the house and gets to work. Okay, usually Giles doesn't do anything for me, but in this scene he's wearing a cute little grin and an all-black outfit and looks pretty good. Giles fans will be talking about this episode for years to come, I'm sure. Buffy fights to get away from the corpses. DeadFratJerk utters some pretty ineffective "scary" dialogue about how no matter how hard she fights, she always ends up in the same place. Shut up, DeadFratJerk. Buffy exits the basement through a small door and ends up in the Goat Room. She sees people cowering in fright, including Oz, who is no longer wolfed out. Willow runs in screaming, "Get 'em off me!" and batting at her hair, but we don't see any of the tiny lights. Oz grabs her hands and hugs her. Xander sits rocking and sulks, "I'd offer my opinion but you jerks aren't going to hear it anyway. I might as well hang out with my new best friend, bleeding dummy head, for all you dorks care." Obviously Xander is no longer invisible because Buffy snaps, "What is with you, Xander?" Buffy says that they were all brought to the attic, but for what purpose? The gang notices the rune painted on the floor and Xander finds the book from which it was copied. The scary voice says (sigh -- again), "Release me!" Willow says the rune is the mark of Gachnar and is a summoning spell for -- um, Gachnar. Somehow the beginning of the spell was triggered, and the demon, who feeds on fear, is trying to manifest itself. I find it pretty hard to believe that Willow has a workable command of Gaelic, considering that fewer than one million people speak it. I hardly think Gaelic 100 was a course at Sunnydale High. The gang tries to talk themselves out of being scared, but Gachnar continues to yell and all the doors in the room start to rattle. It's interesting to note how the Scooby Gang's fears have changed from the last time they did this episode and called it Nightmares.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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