Lies My Parents Told Me

"Lies My Parents Told Me" is the seventeenth episode in season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy.

Quotes and trivia

 * In the graveyard where Buffy is fighting a vampire while discussing Spike, Giles admits that he has killed a human before. (Giles killed Ben in the Season 5 Finale, "The Gift", so Glory could not return) However, his confession was cut from the episode.


 * Spike's brainwashing trigger, based on a troubled relationship with his mother, is reminiscent of the brainwashing trigger used in "The Manchurian Candidate." In the John Frankenheimer film, Raymond Shaw is triggered to kill by the Queen of Hearts, which he associates with his mother.  Both "Lies My Parents Told Me" and "The Manchurian Candidate" hinted at mother-son incestuous desires.