Get It Done

"Get It Done" is the 15th episode of season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Plot synopsis

The First Slayer tells Buffy in a dream that "It is not enough".

Principal Wood tells Buffy to go home and concentrate on her "real" job, killing monsters and getting ready to battle the First. Buffy takes him to the house and introduces him to the rest of the crew, including Spike. The tension between Spike and Wood is tangible. Wood gives Buffy a bag that he got from his mother and should have been passed on to Buffy anyway.

Chloe commits suicide after the First talks to her all night. Buffy delivers a strong lecture, angering many of the others. She then calls an emergency and opens the slayer's bag. Inside is a set of shadow figures that trigger a portal. Against the advice of her friends, Buffy jumps in, sending back an enormous demon that beats everybody up and flees. After Spike recovers, he gets his leather coat out of a trunk, kills the demon, and drags it back to Buffy's house.

On the other side of the portal, Buffy is back in the desert where she once met the First Slayer. There, three men tell her she is the last slayer to guard the Hellmouth, and try to infuse her with the essence of the demon that give all the slayers their strength. Buffy refuses the power, telling the men that they were wrong to have created the slayer line in the first place. As a parting gift, one of them touches Buffy's head and gives her a vision (though the viewer does not immediately see what it is).

After struggling with the incantation, Willow manages to reopen the portal by sucking energy from Anya and Kennedy. Spike throws the dead demon in, and Buffy returns. Later, she tells Willow about the vision, and admits that the First Slayer was right that what they have is not enough. Willow asks Buffy what she saw, and the vision is shown to the viewer: Inside the Hellmouth, the First has an army made up of thousands of Turok-Han vampires.

Acting

Starring

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• 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

• Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
• Iyari Limon as Kennedy
• Clara Bryant as Molly
• Sarah Hagan as Amanda
• Indigo as Rona
• Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
• Lalaine as Chloe
• D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood

Co-starring

• Camden Toy as Ubervamp
• Felicia Day as Vi
• Sharon Ferguson as the First Slayer (credited as "Primitive")
• Geoffrey Kasule as Shadow Man #1
• Karara Muhoro as Shadow Man #2
• Daniel Wilson as Shadow Man #3

Production details

Translations

• German title: "Das Angebot" ("The Offer")
  • When Buffy tells the Potentials off, Xander responds to her with a "Jawohl!", an obvious reference to Nazi doctrine of blind obedience. In the German version, this German word is changed to "Zu Befehl" ("As you command"). Though this is still military jargon, the Nazi reference is lost.
• Italian title: On TV "Indietro nel tempo" ("Back in time") or, on DVD, "Bisogna fare qualcosa" ("Something must be done")
• French title: Retour aux sources ("Return to the Sources")
• Spanish title: "Estas cosas como Obtener" ("Get with It Done")

Quotes and trivia

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• The language spoken by the men who created the First Slayer is Swahili.

• When Spike is talking to Robin Wood, he says since he had a soul he was "unique, more or less.", an oblique reference to Angel.

• In response to the line "You can't just watch, you must see", Xander claims he dislikes cryptic messages because someone gets hurt, usually him. When the demon replaces Buffy, Xander is the first person attacked.

• Buffy's response to Wood regarding the Hellmouth "blowing around May" is referencing the fact that the apocalypses usually occur as the season finales, which tend to air in May.

• Andrew's comment to Buffy about principle Wood seeing "the big board" is the same line given by the character General "Buck" Turgidson to the President in the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove, as he refers to the risk of the Russian ambassador being let into the Pentagon situation room.

Continuity

• This episode features the last appearance of the First Slayer in the series.

• A similar exchange portal is used to carry Buffy to the Fray's future in "Time of Your Life" in Season Eight.

Arc significance

• Buffy finds out how the very first Slayer was created, and it disgusts her, foreshadowing her decision to bring down the whole system. Like with the decision to remove Spike's chip, she puts morals before what other characters in the story seem to consider common sense.

• She also finds out that she is the last guardian of the Hellmouth, and the surprise that the First is preparing on the other side of the seal is revealed.

• Spike puts back on his leather coat, last seen in the Season Six episode "Seeing Red", and with it regains his love for a good fight. Unfortunately, the coat proves to Wood that Spike in fact is the vampire who killed his mother, setting the stage for their battle.

• Kennedy finally realizes that Willow is serious when she says that her magic is not trivial or fun. This will briefly strain their relationship, but by the end of the series, Kennedy will have gained a deep respect for her girlfriend.

• Willow performs a major feat of magic successfully, although she did revert to Dark Willow before Xander pulled her from the spell.

• This episode marks the beginning of Buffy's estrangement from the rest of the Scooby Gang.

External links

• "Get It Done" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Get It Done" at TV.com
• BBC episode guide for "Get It Done"