Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 2, Episode 7
“Lie to Me” · Season 2, Episode 7
In this episode: Buffy Summers (4), Angel (4), Xander Harris (2), Rupert Giles (2), Willow Rosenberg (1), Cordelia Chase (1), Drusilla (1)
I just don't see why everyone's always picking on Marie-Antoinette. I can so relate to her. She worked really hard to look that good, and people just don't appreciate that kind of effort. And I know the peasants were all depressed ...
I think you mean oppressed.
Whatever. They were cranky. So they're like, "Let's lose some heads." Uh! That's fair. And Marie-Antoinette cared about them. She was gonna let them have cake!
Uh, Angel? If I say something you really don't want to hear, do you promise not to bite me?
Are you going to tell me that I'm jealous?
Well, you do sometimes get that way.
You know, I never used to. Things used to be pretty simple. A hundred years, just hanging out, feeling guilty ... I really honed my brooding skills. Then she comes along. Yeah, I get jealous. But I know people. And my gut tells me this is a wrong guy.
He left no paper trail. That's incriminating enough.
I'm going to have to go with Deadboy on this one.
Could ya not call me that?
Do you love me?
What?
Do you?
I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
Maybe you shouldn't do either.
Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
I did a lot of unconscionable things when I became a vampire. Drusilla was the worst. She was ... an obsession of mine. She was pure, and sweet, and chaste.
And you made her a vampire.
First I made her insane. Killed everybody she loved. Visited every mental torture on her I could devise. She eventually fled to a convent, and on the day she took her holy orders, I turned her into a demon.
Well. I asked for the truth.
I believe that's called growing up.
Then I'd like to stop, okay?
I know the feeling.
Does it ever get easy?
(Ford rises from the ground and attacks Buffy, she stakes him)
You mean life?
Yeah. Does it get easy?
What do you want me to say?
Lie to me.
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.
Liar.
Come on, Mom. She's always late.
Are you lost?
No. My mom's just supposed to pick me up, is all.
Do you want me to walk you home?
No, thank you.
My mummy used to sing me to sleep at night. [singing] Run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch. She had the sweetest voice. What will your mummy sing when they find your body?
I'm not supposed to talk to people.
Oh. Well, I'm not a person, see, so that's just--
Run home.
My Angel.
Hello, Drusilla.
Do you remember the song Mummy used to sing me? Pretty.
I remember.
Yes, you do.
Drusilla, leave here. I'm offering you that chance. Take Spike and get out.
Or you'll hurt me? No. No, you can't. Not anymore.
If you don't leave, it'll go badly. For all of us.
My dear boy's gone all away, hasn't he? To her.
Who?
The girl. The Slayer. Your heart stinks of her. Poor little thing. She has no idea what's in store.
This can't go on, Drusilla. It's got to end.
Oh, no, my pet. This is just the beginning.
I'm sorry, Summers. Did I screw up your righteous anger riff? Does the nest of tumors liquefying my brain kinda spoil the fun?
I'm sorry. I had no idea. But what you're doing is still very wrong.
Okay, well, you try vomiting for twenty-four hours straight because the pain in your head is so intense, and then we'll discuss the concept of right and wrong. These people are sheep. They're wanna be vampires 'cause they're lonely, miserable or bored. I don't have a choice.
You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice. You're opting for mass murder here, and nothing you say is gonna make that okay.
You think I need to justify myself to you?
I think this is all part of your little fantasy drama. Isn't this exactly how you imagined it? You tell me how you've suffered and I feel sorry for you. Well, I do feel sorry for you, and if those vampires come in here and start feeding, I'll kill you myself.
You know what, Summers? I really did miss you.
Ford, help me stop this. Please. People, listen to me! This is not the mothership, people! This is ugly death come to play--
I don't know what I'm supposed to say.
You needn't say anything.
It'd be simpler if I could just hate him. I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really, he was just scared.
Yes, I suppose he was.
Nothing's ever simple anymore. I'm constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate. Who to trust. And it's just, like, the more I know the more confused I get.
I believe that's called growing up.
I'd like to stop then, okay?
I know the feeling.
Does it ever get easy?
[Ford rises from the ground and attacks Buffy, she stakes him]
You mean life?
Yeah. Does it get easy?
What do you want me to say?
Lie to me.
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.
Liar.
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