Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 2, Episode 21
“Becoming, Part One” · Season 2, Episode 21
In this episode: Buffy Summers (2), Willow Rosenberg (2), Drusilla (2), Angelus (2), Rupert Giles (1), Spike (1), Cordelia Chase (1), Principal Snyder (1)
Are we having a chair shortage?
I didn't read anything about... oh, [slides off Oz's lap] I get it.
These public displays of affection are not acceptable in my school. This isn't an orgy, people. It's a classroom.
Yeah, where they teach lunch.
Just give me a reason to kick you out, Summers. Just give me a reason. [walks away]
How about 'cause you're a tiny impotent Nazi with a bug up his butt the size of an emu?
Sums it up.
Don't you think?
[flashback]
Me mum says I'm cursed. My seeing things is an affront to the Lord. That only He's supposed to see anything before it happens. But I don't mean to, Father, I swear. I swear. I try to be pure in His sight. I don't want to be an evil thing.
Oh, hush, child. The Lord has a plan for all creatures. Even a devil child like you.
[mortified] A devil...
Yes, you're a spawn of Satan, all the Hail Mary's in the world aren't going to help. The Lord will use you and smite you down. He's like that.
What can I do?
Fulfill His plan, child. Be evil. Just give in.
No! I want to be good. I want to be pure.
We all do, at first. World doesn't work that way.
Father, I beg you. Please... please, help me.
Very well. Ten 'Our Fathers' and an act of contrition. Does that sound good?
Yes. Yes, Father, thank you.
The pleasure was mine. Oh, and my child?
Yes?
God is watching you.
[Angelus, Drusilla and some vampires bring the sarcophagus back to show Spike]
It's a big rock. Can't wait to tell my friends, they all don't have a rock this big.
Spike, boy you never did learn your history.
Let's have a lesson then.
Acathla, the demon, came forth to swallow the world. He was killed by a virtuous knight who pierced the demon's heart before he could draw a breath to perform the act. Acathla turned to stone, as demons sometimes do, and was buried where neither man nor :demon would want to look. Unless of course they're puttin' up low-rent housing. [to other vampires] Boys.
[two vampires open the sarcophagus]
He fills my head. I can't hear anything else.
Let me guess, someone pulls out the sword...
Someone worthy.
...The demon wakes up and wackiness ensues.
He will swallow the world.
And every creature living on this planet will go to hell. My friends, we're about to make history... end.
I've been on the phone with the museum, the artifact in question is missing and the curator has been murdered vampires.
And you're sure this is the tomb of alfalfa.
Acathla, and yes the information provided by Kendra's Watcher seems conclusive.
Okay somebody explain the whole he will suck the world into hell thing because that's the part I'm not loving.
Well the demon universe exists in a dimension separate from our own, and one breath of Acathla will create a vortex a kind of whirlpool that will pull everything on earth into that dimension where any non-demon life will suffer horrible and eternal torment.
So that would be the literal kind of sucked into hell. Neat. Willow I think you should try the curse.
I tend to stand with your friend Xander on this one. Angel should be eliminated.
Oh I'll fight him. I'll kill him if I have to, but if I Don't get there in time or I lose then Willow might be our only hope.
[nervously] But I don't want to be our only hope, I crumble under pressure, lets have another hope.
We have. [pulls out a sword] Blessed by the knight who first slew the demon if all else fails this might stop it. [hesitantly] I think.
Oh ooh may I. [Kendra hands Giles the sword] Thank you. [examining sword] Well its only if all else fails. [to Willow] Uh uh-mm how close are you to figuring out the ritual to the curse.
Oh I need about a day, and an Orb of Thessulah, whatever that is.
Spirit vault for the undead, I've got one. I've been using it as a paperweight.
This means I can't help you study for tomorrow's final.
Oh, I'll wing it. Of course, if we go to Hell by then, I won't have to take 'em... Or maybe I'll be taking them forever.
Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.
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