Everyone is sitting down to dinner, and even Spike's chair has been pulled up to the table. You'd think that since Buffy was so dead set (as it were) on getting rid of Spike once and for all last week, she would have finished him off by now. Willow is lamenting her transformation into "General Custer" at the first sign of trouble. I'm glad she said something about that so I didn't have to. Giles, who looks quite the worse for wear from his head-pounding, comments that it's completely normal in a violent situation for instinct to take over. Spike interjects, "That's the fun." Xander: "Nobody asked you." Spike: "Oh, lay off. You all had a fine meal. And me? An entire siege. You'd think one of you would bleed a little." Giles congratulates Buffy, but she doesn't think it was the Thanksgiving it should have been. Xander: "I don't know. Kinda seemed right to me. A bunch of anticipation, a big fight and now we're all sleepy." I guess that explains why Xander isn't celebrating with his family. My favorite part of this shot is the Pilgrim centerpiece pierced with an arrow. It's small touches like those that make this such a great show. Giles is thankful that everyone is alive, Xander for his syphilis clearing up, Willow for everyone working together. She mentions that it was "like old times." Since Harmony isn't in this scene, it falls to Xander to incite major plot advances, and he says, "Yeah, especially with Angel being here and everything." Buffy throws him a look. Jump-cut to Buffy-cam as she sees the gang staring at her down the length of the table; Spike's expression in particular is priceless. We fade to black with Xander dubbing in a "whoops."













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