Kali and I have changed up our schedule in order to allow us both to write about the episodes we like. So, for the next week, I shall write on her days and she shall write on mine because I really like Lie to Me. Now that you know the plans, let's get to the episode!
Season Two, Episode Seven
"Lie to Me"
While, I really do enjoy this episode, the main point of it is easily summed up at the end so, up until that point, I'm going to just post my notes about weird/funny things that occur in the beginning.
-What the hell kind of mother leaves their child at a park and forgets to pick them up in the middle of the night?!
- Buffy listening to I touch myself. Xander telling Ford he would only be imposing in "the literal sense". And Willow does her first adorable thing of the episode by saying “oh, that’s what that song is about?” a few minutes after Buffy mentions the song. Basically, this whole scene is made of awesome!
-And now Buffy is mad at Angel because she believes he’s cheating on her. Buffy leaves with Ford. And Willow just wants to play pool with Angel lol. Angel leaves and Willow yells at Xander saying “See, you made him do that thing where he’s gone!"
-After leaving with Ford, she hears noises and asks him to run and fetch her purse while she rushes to a dark alley where two cats were fighting (she is such a bad liar.) However, it is here she learns that Ford knows of her "dark secret" and Buffy reacts by making this face:
"Whating a what?"
-Ford, after confessing to Buffy that he knows she’s the Slayer, walks back to his friends and talks with them about “dying young and staying pretty.” I wonder what on earth he's planning to do...
-Angel goes up to Willow, in her room, at night. Willow pushes her bra off the bed (lol) and very nervously asks Angel what he wants. He apparently has come to Willow because he wants to know more about Ford. Within two minutes of searching, she finds that he apparently isn’t a student at Sunnydale.
-Willow is the least cool person ever when she has a secret to keep; it’s adorable.
-“Is that more vampires?” shouldn’t that be “are those more vampires?” Ugh, Ford, you’re so stupid!
-“I’m gonna have to go with dead boy on this one” “can you not call me that?” Xander/Angel 4eva
-And now Ford is an idiot going to Spike to asked to be turned. In theory this plan seems pretty solid, with Ford offering up Buffy in exchange for him to be turned into a vampire. However, Spike is so much smarter than Ford that it turns into a really dumb plan.
-Angel goes to her house to warn about Ford and one-track-mind Buffy asks about Drusilla. From here, we learn that Angel tortured her until she went insane and turned her the day she took her holy orders. After relaying the information, Angel goes back to the important part of what he wanted to talk with her about and tells her of Ford’s fascination of vampires.
And now, the main event, Ford tells us why he has been doing what he has: he’s dying and he doesn’t feel he deserves to. Just like the rest of this series, Ford had a really bad hand dealt to him and he isn’t doing the right thing with it. Instead of facing his circumstances he’s putting everyone else in danger in order to achieve immortality.
However, plans change when Buffy gets herself and everyone except Ford out by threatening Drusilla. Spike is adorable and forces everyone to stop what they're doing and let people go in order to save her. Buffy comes out and tells the gang, who are all there waiting for her, that they'll come back later for the body. Sadface Buffy.
Just like in Reptile Boy, Buffy and Giles discuss the main theme of the story over Ford's grave. Buffy complains that “nothing’s simple anymore” and she doesn’t know who to trust, love, or believe to which Giles says that’s this is what happens when you grow up, and he is right. Some people, like Ford, are selfish and believe that they deserve more than others which is why he was willing to sacrifice all those lives to spare his. It’s a cruel reality, but it’s one Buffy, along with every other person in the entire world, has to face at some point.
However, there is a silver lining. Through this episode, Buffy also learned who she could trust. Willow, Xander, and Giles she already knew she had but she learns that Angel is on her side as well. At first it’s a school girl crush on a 241 year old man but now she sees it’s real on both ends. Buffy was jealous as asked about Drusilla and he told her everything, even though it made him look bad. And Angel was concerned and went behind Buffy’s back to help her and fesses up to everything even though, again, it made him look bad but it ended up saving her life. Whether she likes it or not, Angel deeply cares for her and wants to keep her safe above all else.
Favorite Line: “Sore thumbs, do they really stick out? I mean have you ever seen a thumb and thought ‘wow, that baby is sore!’” –Willow
-Sarah!
Kali’s Notes:
-This episode is just made of awesome dialogue. Not surprisingly, this is also one of the episodes that Joss Whedon both wrote and directed.
-Drusilla: Run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch. Gotta love her insanity. Also, Angel could easily kill her, but he feels guilty since he made her crazy and a vampire.
-Note: Buffy doesn't have a bra on and it's really bothering me.
-Willow: OH, that's what that song was about! LOL
-Ford: Oh. I thought you were just slaying a vampire.
Buffy: What? Whating a what? He totes knows your secret Buffy.
-Angel: I-if this is a bad time, I...
Willow: No! I just... I'm not supposed to have boys in my room.
Angel: I promise to behave myself.
Willow: Okay. Good.
-Angel:…I really honed my brooding skills. Indeed you did. Yet, you get even better at them on Angel.
-Willow all paranoid keeping secrets
- Giles: You aren't telling people your secret to impress cute boys?
-Yeah Xander, you can only call Angel "dead boy" when you two are alone.
Xander: Sure thing Bossy the Cow!
-Note: Dude, there is a vampire with long blonde hair, then Spike says something about "Lucius". Guys, Lucius Malfoy is a vampire.
- Spike: The bird's dead Dru. You left it in a cage and you didn't feed it and now it's all dead, just like the last one.
-Xander: Angel was in your bedroom?
Willow: Ours is a forbidden love. ßFavorite line right there.
- Buffy leaves the vampires locked up and says that they will get out eventually. Um... why don't you kill the vampires? Just sayin, that's kinda your job.
- Buffy: I'd like to stop then. Wouldn’t we all just love to not grow up?
-Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.
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