Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 6 Episode 17 Normal Again
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00:00Warren and the nerd heard no man a nerd goes into hiding. He really goes into hiding big wedding coming up
00:07Lots of date possibilities you and Tara speaking again
00:12You want to call her? No, but if I did call she wouldn't hang up on me. You can't even stand to be around me
00:21You didn't want to come back it's over I've memorized this to love I'm using you
00:28And it's killing me, I'm sorry William, this is it
00:36Are you ready to go
00:40He's gone Sanders gone Sanders missing
00:46What do you mean Xander's missing
00:57I
01:27I
01:41Was get real funny and it serves you right for taking Z's on the lookout again, what do you expect?
01:47I haven't had a decent night's sleep since I
01:51Mean, I'm going Jack Torrance in here, you know
01:54Stuck in this basement for weeks
01:56We're under the whole house, can't we at least sleep upstairs?
02:00We're on the lam. We have to lay low
02:03underground
02:04It's figurative doofus. Did you even read Legion of Doom? Okay enough?
02:10Missionary get back to the monitors. The last thing that we need is to be surprised by that. She's Louise
02:16The
02:19Frickin slayer right there. I don't panic Andrew
02:23To play a little friend
02:53Oh
03:03Hi you didn't by chance happen to just eat a couple nerds
03:23Oh
03:53We're gonna have to strap her down
04:23You
04:53You
05:14You
05:23You
05:42Hi
05:43Tara, how are you?
05:45Well, I was wondering maybe
05:49You want to go out sometime?
05:52For coffee food
05:55kisses and gay love
05:59Hey Tara, guess what magic free now for his number days, huh?
06:21You
06:47Bucky
06:52It's time for your drugs I
06:58Said if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were on drugs. Okay good
07:21Oh
07:25What you doing
07:26I'm online checking to see if Xander email
07:30Hey luck
07:32No such
07:35Well, maybe on your fountain and they're trying to work it out
07:39How come you're all home hearth and DSL? Anyway, I thought you were gonna go see Tara
07:45Sorry
07:46Saw her completely. Oh, she's got a scratch from all that brittle
07:53It's when I was seeing her she was seeing someone else
07:59girl
08:02You mean I mean
08:04not
08:05seeing seeing
08:08Maybe I don't know. It was inconclusive and I didn't stick around to find out
08:14Might have magic my fist through a wall or something
08:19Well, I'm sorry
08:22They're probably just friends I
08:25Press my lips against my friends all the time
08:29I'm sure they're just friends
08:32Once you fall for willow you stay fallen
08:37Thanks
08:39I
08:44Xander I'm back
08:53I know I tried calling but I couldn't with that. Hey, you don't need to explain to us
09:01Right
09:04Is she here oh
09:07No, you want to find her I need to
09:11Her suitcase is gone and some of her stuff
09:14there's a clothesline on the magic box, which like
09:17Chills me to the bone
09:19She left a couple days ago. Is she looking for me?
09:24Before she left did she say anything you mean between sobs?
09:29There was mostly just wheezing
09:31She was a little
09:33She was kind of broken. I don't know how stuff got so mixed up
09:40I blew it. No
09:43Well, maybe it wasn't the best time to break up with her. But no
09:48It wasn't about breaking up. I
09:51Love her and God I miss her so much
09:54So much
09:55So you left her at the altar, but you still wanna you still wanna date I guess
10:03I know that i'm a better person with her in my life
10:06But things got so complicated with the wedding and with my family and with her
10:10Demons, and what if it all goes to hell and forever?
10:16But then I left
10:19And ever since
10:21I've had this painful hole inside
10:25And i'm the idiot that dug it out
10:31I screwed up real bad. Hey, we all screw up
10:36So
10:52You're looking for me
10:55Really not
10:57Oh, right then off you go
11:01Did you cry
11:04What
11:07The wedding
11:09Two hearts joined for eternity great pelting showers of rice and so forth
11:16You didn't hear
11:22What family's good out of hand
11:27Tell the place apart
11:29No, well, yes, absolutely
11:32But zander left the wedding didn't happen
11:40Mom i'm gonna say I didn't see that coming
11:45It was awful
11:47Anya was devastated
11:51Is that right?
11:53And zander thinks maybe they can still go back together, but
11:58He hurt her a lot
12:02Yeah, well some people can't see a good thing when they've got it
12:10Spike
12:12I should have known you'd be tagging along. Hey guys. I uh,
12:17I found spike and was uh
12:20Trying to figure out
12:22What kind of dangerous contraband he had?
12:25Tell you what slayer
12:27Let me get out of your way
12:29Stop bothering you. Yeah, maybe you should do that spike just run along
12:34You know, I guess you know all about that. Don't you?
12:37The king of the big exit heard it brought the house down
12:40I don't need this crap from you, right?
12:44Let's not listen to spike
12:46Might get a bit of truth on you
12:48Okay, okay
12:50Calm now
12:51Let's uh turn around and release this very manly thing the other way
12:57Why I forgot willie wanna bite can't hurt me
13:03Dumb to pick a fight I guess
13:06More unhappy to beat you right through the pain you pathetic
13:13Guys don't buffy. Can you hear me?
13:17So
13:27What is this do you know where you are buffy
13:34Sunnydale
13:36No, none of that's real. None of it. You're in a mental institution. You've been with us now for six years
13:44Do you remember
13:48Me
13:53Buffy are you okay? What happened?
14:01It's okay buffy buffy, it's okay
14:07Look look who's here
14:12Buffy
14:15Welcome home, sweetie
14:33Oh
14:35Oh, baby, you're really here
14:40She's lucid keep talking maybe the sound of your voice will ground her
14:45sweetheart
14:49We've missed you very much
14:53Honey, can you hear me?
14:58Oh buffy stay with us. Oh, no
15:06Yeah, let's get her back to my crib spike just go okay, she's our friend we'll take care of her
15:12I
15:14Know guys, i'm, okay. I'm, okay. Come on zander. Help me get her on
15:24Put a little ice on the back of her neck
15:32She likes that
15:37I've been having these flashes
15:39And hallucinations, I guess since when
15:46uh
15:48night before last
15:51I was uh checking houses on that list. You gave me i'm looking for lauren and his pals
15:58And then bam
16:01Some kind of gross waxy demon thing poked me
16:07And when you say poke in the arm
16:13It stung me or something and
16:16Then I was like
16:19No, it wasn't like I was in an institution there were um
16:27doctors and
16:30Nurses and other patients
16:32And
16:35They they told me that I was sick
16:39I guess crazy
16:44And that um sunnydale and and all of this
16:50None of it
16:51Was real. Oh, come on. That's ridiculous
16:54Ridiculous
16:55What?
16:56You think this isn't real just because of all the vampires and demons and
17:00Ex-vengeance demons and the sister that used to be a big ball of universe destroying energy
17:07I know how this must sound but it felt so real
17:13Mom was there she was
17:17Dad too
17:21They were together
17:24Like they used to be
17:27Before sunnydale
17:30Okay all in favor of research
17:34motion passed
17:36All right. Xander you hit the demon bars dig up any info on a new player in town
17:41Donnie you can help me research. We'll hop online check all the possibilities for full recovery, but we have to proceed
17:49Cautiously if we're not careful
17:52Uh, are you saying that buffy could be like she was before any of this happened
17:58Mr. Somers, you have to understand the severity of what's happened to your daughter
18:04For the last six years. She's been in an undifferentiated type of schizophrenia
18:10We know what her condition is. That's not what we're asking
18:16Buffy's delusion is multi-layered. She believes she's some type of hero
18:22the slayer
18:23The slayer, right, but that's only one level
18:26She's also created an intricate lattice work to support her primary delusion
18:33In her mind, she's the central figure in a fantastic world beyond imagination
18:39She surrounded herself with friends most with their own superpowers
18:44Who are as real to her as you and me more so unfortunately
18:49But
18:51together they face
18:52Grand overblown conflicts against an assortment of monsters both imaginary and rooted in actual myth
19:02Every time we think we're getting through to her
19:06more fanciful enemies magically appear and she's
19:12warren and
19:13Jonathan they did this to me
19:17Buffy, it's all right
19:20Yeah, they can't hurt you here you're with your family
19:26Don
19:28That's the sister right the magical key
19:34Buffy inserted dawn into her delusion actually rewriting the entire history of it to accommodate a need for a familial bond
19:43Buffy but that created inconsistencies, didn't it?
19:47Your sister your friends all those people you created
19:52Sunnydale, they aren't as comforting as they once were
19:55Are they?
19:57They're coming apart
19:59Buffy listened to what the doctor's saying. It's important buffy
20:04used to create these
20:06grand villains to battle against
20:08These grand villains to battle against
20:13And now what is it?
20:15Just ordinary students you went to high school with no gods or monsters
20:23Just three pathetic little men who like playing with toys
20:32Dude that poison has got her drooling like I have some kind of where you guys been
20:37Uh picking up some stuff and checking out buffy on the vans remote surveillance
20:45Andrew steven pan has done some number on the slayer got her tripping like a ken russell film festival
20:53What kind of stuff?
20:55What?
20:57the packages
20:59What's in them?
21:01Oh, what do you think spanky? You think we're plotting against you?
21:03We're plotting against you better not be
21:08It's just stuff big man, all right, you'll be in the know just as soon as you stop being all freakazoid
21:18Ah, there's the vault I still say we're gonna need eight other guys to pull this off never should have let you see that movie
21:27Where are you going?
21:28out
21:30Getting stuff I need, you know, I don't really think that's such a good idea. Why not?
21:37Well, it's
21:40It's just that safe out there alone
21:44You saw how close the slayer got
21:48But we're a team something happens to you it happens to all of us, right
21:54Look I know I know you're antsy we all are but you see things they're they're about to pick up
21:59Big big time
22:02Just gotta be careful right now. All right
22:06Stick together
22:08Okay
22:29You
22:34Look buffy, I found the demon fit your description and symptoms perfectly. Look is this it?
22:45See it's gonna be okay. It's pokey stinger carries an antidote to its own poison
22:51I
22:57Feel so lost
23:01I know you're confused. It's it's that crazy juice inside you. It's more than that
23:13Even before the demon
23:17I've been so detached
23:21We've all been kind of slumming every day I try to snap out of it
23:29Figure out why i'm like that buffy look at me
23:35You are not in an institution you have never been in an institution
23:44Yes, I have what
23:51You
23:56Back when I saw my first vampires
24:02I got so scared
24:06I told my parents and they completely freaked out
24:14They thought there was something seriously wrong with me
24:21So
24:23They sent me to a clinic
24:28You never said anything
24:34I was only there a couple of weeks
24:41I stopped talking about it and they let me go
24:46So
24:50Eventually
24:53My parents just forgot
24:59God
25:01That's horrible
25:04What if i'm still there
25:07What if I never left that clinic
25:12Buffy
25:15Buffy you're not
25:20I'm so sorry you had to go through that
25:26But it's the past
25:32You've got to trust me we're gonna get you that antidote
25:38Xander's hunting the demon right now
25:41Oh
25:43Oh, he can't it's too strong, it's okay we got help
25:48so
25:49She's having the wickets is she?
25:52I think it's none of us are real
25:55I'm, bloody self-centered if you ask me spike. We need muscle not color commentary
26:00On the other hand it might explain some things
26:04this all being
26:06twisted brain of us
26:08Yeah
26:09Fix up some chip in my head make me soft fall in love with her then turn me into a sodden sex slave
26:17What?
26:20Nothing
26:21alternative realities
26:23Where we're all little figments of buffy's funny farm delusion, you know in a different reality
26:29You might not have left your bride at the altar. You might have gone through with it like a man
26:33Okay, one more syllable about onion
26:37Hey
26:39Oh balls, you didn't say it was a gargle gash monique because I can't say it
27:09I
27:19Altered his reality get it. I
27:25Never met
27:28I made you some tea
27:34Thanks
27:40I'm okay. Don the thousand yard stare really helps all that
27:57You're burning up
28:02I should be taller than you. Maybe you're not growing
28:10Coming apart
28:13What's coming apart
28:16We have to try harder and make things better i'm trying you're great
28:24Stealing
28:28Willow's been doing your chores, hasn't she?
28:32What?
28:34No, it's
28:36It's the fever. It's cooking your brain
28:39Oh
28:41We have to deal with these things don we you don't have a sister buffy
28:47Don no, honey say it it'll help you believe it
28:57I don't
29:00Have a sister
29:03I know
29:05I didn't grow up with her
29:07These monks
29:10They made her
29:14It's your mind
29:16Just playing tricks on you. You're a little girl buffy
29:21Her one and only
29:24We have missed you so much
29:28Mom and dad just want to take you home and take care of you
29:37Oh
29:50I'm not even there. Am I?
29:53What
29:56I said it a second ago
30:02You don't have a sister
30:08It's your ideal reality and i'm not even a part of it
30:15Donna I didn't mean I have to go finish my chores
30:27Hold it
30:30I'll need its arm. Oh
30:33I'd like both my arms, too
30:37Oh
30:39Thanks spike i'll help on the blistering pain subside
30:48Ready
30:58Xander go to the magic shop. We'll need alkanet root and a handful of nettle leaf just for the medicinal properties. No magic
31:07You've got them meet me at the campus lab. I'll see if I can brew up an antidote field pressure
31:12Oh, hold here. Keep an eye on the wax job. Make sure that's all your heartland xander
31:20Buffy wake up got yummy antidote goodness for you
31:31What happened
31:33It took a little longer than i'd hoped no magic and all
31:38One boom twice, but then I got it
31:41Just when it's cold drink it all down and everything should go back to normal
31:49You never stop coming through thank you willow
32:00How is she
32:04Make sure she drinks all that i'm gonna let don know that everything's gonna be okay
32:16You're, all right
32:21You need to leave me alone you're not a part of my life
32:30Fine then
32:33You know, but I hope you don't think this
32:39I hope you don't think this antidote's gonna rid you of that nasty martyrdom
32:43See I figured it out love you can't help yourself
32:48You're not drawn to the dark like I thought
32:51You're addicted to the misery
32:55That's why you won't tell your pals about it
32:58Might actually have to be happy if you did
33:03Did I learn to stand and help you god forbid
33:07Or drive you out
33:09We could finally be at peace in the dark
33:14with me
33:16Either way you'd be better off for it, but you're too twisted for that
33:24Let yourself live already
33:28You
33:30Stop with the bloody hero trip for a sec would all be the better for it
33:39You either tell your friends about us or I will
33:57So
34:27So
34:41I don't want to go back there. I want to be healthy again
34:55What do I have to do
34:58You
35:03Oh, please help me
35:08I want to call home
35:10With you and dad
35:11I know buffy
35:14But first you've got to get better. It's not going to be easy buffy. You have to take it one step at a time
35:21You have to start ridding your mind of those things that support your hallucinations
35:28You understand
35:30There are things in that world you cling to
35:34For your delusion, they're safe holes, but for your mind, they're traps
35:39They have to break those down
35:44It's late
35:46Yes
35:48I'm talking about those things you want there
35:53What keeps you going back
35:55My friends, that's right
35:59Last summer when you had a momentary awakening it was them that pulled you back in
36:05They're not really your friends buffy
36:08they're just
36:09Tricks keeping you from getting healthy. You have to do whatever it takes to convince yourself of that buffy
36:17whatever it takes
36:25I didn't see you
36:27I was just coming to check on you. You feeling better?
36:30Do the antidote work?
36:32um
36:33still pretty dazed but uh
36:36better
36:39No more cuckoo's nest
36:42Well, we still have the big bad all tranqued out down in the basement in case it didn't work and we need more parts
36:51It'll be nice to see you all better
36:55Yeah
36:59Thanks, I can make you some food something big with energy help you clear your noggin, come on
37:14Hello i'm back clean and with the better smell now
37:20Friends romans
37:25Anyone
37:34Hey
37:36Hey there sane girl. So did will get that antidote to you? All right
37:40Yeah
37:42I'm better now
37:44Great, so it's settled. We're uh, we're real right?
37:47I guess we should finish off that demon and drag it out of the basement and tell me you're up for that
37:54I so don't want to see spike right now. I mean talk about losing touch
38:00Hate to say it but I almost
38:03Feel sorry for the guy
38:05Almost the things that poor guy was saying
38:08I mean, I get it, you know been a part of the buffy obsession
38:17Oh
38:20Oh
38:45What
38:49So
39:20So
39:33Um
39:50So
40:02Don't you knock
40:06I called for you
40:09Buffy are you okay?
40:15Where are you going
40:18I'm going over to janice's where they actually like having me around. You're not going anywhere
40:28Why not you want me gone anyway, what do you care I care
40:37You're going downstairs with the others
40:41It's the only way I can get healthy
40:44What are you talking about?
40:48Oh
40:50Buffy you look sick. What are you doing? What's wrong with you?
41:04Buffy please
41:07You can't hide don
41:09Talk to me
41:12You're hallucinating
41:14I know
41:16Just a trap from my mind
41:18Buffy, please. Listen to me
41:21That asylum and those people they're not real
41:38Buffy
41:40Look at me
41:43I'm right here
41:47You're my sister I need you and love you
41:53Somewhere inside you must know that's real sure it is
42:00Because what's more real
42:04A sick girl in an institution
42:07Don't please listen to me kind of super girl
42:13Chosen to
42:14Fight demons and save the world
42:21That's ridiculous
42:31The girl who sleeps with a vampire she hates yeah, that makes sense
42:37Ah
42:54I promise you're not thinking. Oh
43:07Oh
43:16It's okay buffy don't stress yourself
43:19honey
43:20Take your time
43:22Make it as easy on yourself as possible
43:26Nothing wrong with that
43:38Oh
43:48What are you doing
43:57Oh my god
44:08You
44:16Fuck you help me. I need my hands
44:28Hello
44:31Hmm
44:35Anybody home
44:37Oh
44:50Buffy
44:57It's gonna be okay sweetheart whatever it is, it's not real remember
45:02Just keep concentrating right here, sweetie
45:07Buffy help me
45:10Buffy help
45:14Willow
45:31No
45:38I don't know buffy. Look at me. I believe in you
45:48You're a survivor you can do this
46:08Me
46:19Buffy
46:22Buffy
46:23Buffy fight it
46:25You're too good to give in you can beat this thing
46:29Be strong baby, okay
46:33I know you're afraid
46:35I know the world feels like a hard place sometimes
46:40But you've got people who love you
46:43Your dad and I we have all the faith in the world in you
46:48We'll always be with you
46:52You've got a world of strength in your heart, I know you do you just have to find it again
47:01Believe in yourself
47:05You
47:22You're right, thank you
47:35Good morning
47:46Buffy
48:05Oh
48:35I'm so sorry
48:46Buffy we're okay. It's all okay
48:52Buffy sit down. You'll you'll fall over. No, I can't
48:57I can't
48:59Not until I have the antidote, okay, we'll make more we'll take care of it
49:06Everything's gonna be okay. Buffy
49:16I'm sorry, there's no reaction at all. I'm afraid we lost her
49:27But
49:57So
50:14Grr argh