Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 2, Episode 19
“I Only Have Eyes for You” · Season 2, Episode 19
In this episode: Rupert Giles (3), Buffy Summers (2), Xander Harris (2), Willow Rosenberg (1), Spike (1), Drusilla (1), Angelus (1)
Impulsive? Do you remember my ex-boyfriend, the vampire? I slept with him, he lost his soul, now my boyfriend's gone forever, and the demon that wears his face is killing my friends. The next impulsive decision I make will involve my choice of dentures.
Okay, the Angel thing went badly, I'm on board with that, but that's not your fault. And anyways, love isn't always like that. Love can be... nice!
Oh, no, no. No. Not cool. This was no wimpy chain rattler. This was "I'm dead as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore."
Well, despite the Xander-speak, that's a fairly accurate definition of a poltergeist.
I defined something? Accurately? Guess I'm done with the book learning.
I appreciate your thoughts on the matter, in fact I encourage you to always challenge me when you feel it's appropriate; you should never be cowed by authority. Except, of course, in this instance, when I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong.
[about the ghost of James] He's-he's trying to... resolve whatever issues are keeping him in limbo. What exactly those are, I'm not...
He wants forgiveness.
Yes. I imagine he does. But when James possesses people, they act out exactly what happened that night. So he's experiencing a form of purgatory instead. I mean, he's doomed to kill his Ms. Newman over and over and over again, and... Forgiveness is impossible.
Good. He doesn't deserve it.
To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it, it's done because they need it.
No. James destroyed the one person he loved the most in a moment of blind passion. And that's not something you forgive. No matter why he did what he did. And no matter if he knows now that it was wrong and selfish and stupid, it is just something he's gonna have to live with.
He can't live with it, Buff. He's dead.
[as Angel viciously scrubs his face] You might want to let up. They say when you've drawn blood, you've exfoliated.
What do you know about it? I'm the one who was friggin' violated. You didn't have this thing in you.
What was it? A demon?
[still washing his face] Love!
Poor Angel.
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