Get It Done

"Get It Done" is the 15th episode of season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The First Slayer tells Buffy in a dream that "It is not enough". Principal Wood tells Buffy to go home a concentrate on her "real" job, killing monsters and getting ready to battle the First. Buffy takes him to the house and introduces him to the rest of the crew, including Spike. The tension between Spike and Wood is tangible. Wood gives Buffy a bag that he got from his mother and should have been passed on to Buffy anyway.

When one of the girls commits suicide after talking to the First, Buffy tells everybody in the house off in no uncertain way, insulting both Potentials and Scoobies like Anya and Spike in the process. She then calls an emergency and opens the slayer's bag. Inside is a set of shadow figures that trigger a portal. Against the advice of her friends, Buffy jumps in, sending back an enormous demon that beats everybody up and flees. After Spike recovers, he gets his leather coat out of a trunk, kills the demon, and drags it back to Buffy's house.

On the other side of the portal, Buffy is back in the desert where she once met the First Slayer. There, three men tell her she is the last slayer to guard the Hellmouth, and try to infuse her with the essence of the demon that give all the slayers their strength. Buffy refuses the power, telling the men that they were wrong to have created the slayer line in the first place. As a parting gift, they give Buffy a vision: An enormous army of Turok-Han just waiting to be unleashed on the world.

After struggling with the incantation, Willow manages to reopen the portal by sucking energy from of Anya and Kennedy. Spike throws the dead demon in, and Buffy returns. Later in bed she tells Willow about the vision, and admits that the First Slayer was right: What they have will not be enough.

Quotes and trivia

 * "I love this job! Did you see that? I called that girl a maggot!" - Kennedy showing a bit too much enthusiasm for the military life.


 * "From now on I'm your leader as in 'do as I say'." - Buffy also showing little grasp of the finer points of command. Faith will echo this when she is the leader in "Touched"


 * "I provide much-needed sarcasm." - Anya defining her use to the Scoobies


 * "I think I might pee my pants." - Willow showing her reluctance to use serious magic again


 * "The first slayer did not talk so much." - One of the three wise men in the desert, giving the complaint that Watchers through the ages have had about Buffy.


 * There are at least two references to Winnie-the-Pooh in this episode. Apart from "TTFN" - "Ta-ta for now", which is explained as what Tigger says when he leaves, Spike shows familiarity with the book when he goes away to do "what he does best": This is what Tigger claims about everything until he actually tries it.


 * When we see Dawn saying that the book she reads isn't in Sumerian anymore and changes to English, the writing beforehand wasn't Sumerian at all, it was a transliteration of Greek letters in the place of Latin letters in English. For example the word "see" in English in the book was witten as "ΣΕΕ" in the Greek letters; Sumerian is written in cuneiform script, the ancient Sumerian, Akkadian/Babylonian Alphabets, not in Greek.