Buffy and Spike are preparing for another one of their sex romps as Buffy tightly lashes Spike to a chair in her bedroom. Um, didn't they break up? Oh, wait. My mistake. This isn't one of those shameful, naughty, my-friends-must-not-know, tying-up situations that Buffy implies bring her so much shame, but rather one of those prosaic, day-to-day tying up situations that come with the whole Slayer package. How confusing. For everyone. Actually, I'm less confused about that than about why this sluggish, limply acted embarrassment of show is still on the air, and why I'm still watching it. Spike instructs Buffy to "make it tighter." They have these Kegel exercises for that. Oops, sorry, I got confused again. He was talking about the bondage, er, the ropes. "If I get free, someone's gonna die," mutters Spike to rising-menace music. Someone like you, Spike? Cool. Tie a slipknot, Buffy! And not to give away the whole episode, but Spike does get free, of course, because Buffy tied him to a crappy bedroom chair, and no one dies. And it just adds one more grain of sand to my growing mountain of hate for Buffy that when Angel came back from Hell, he merited manacles in an empty house, but Spike gets soft cotton rope in Buffy's bedroom.