Showtime

"Showtime" is the eleventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In "Showtime", Buffy must win back the confidence of potential slayers.

Quotes and trivia

 * Buffy: "I don't know what's coming next, but I do know it's gonna be just like this. Hard. Painful. But in the end it's gonna be us. If we all do our parts, believe it, we'll be the ones left standing. Here endeth the lesson."


 * Spike: (scoffs) "A knife, now, is it?" (White-shirted, cut and bruised Buffy is standing before him holding a Bringer's knife in her hand.) "What'll...what'll that...you-you can't hurt me. You're-you're just a bloody figment, you are. You're just..." (Buffy approaches him slowly and cuts him loose of his tethers. He collapses forward and braces himself with his hand on her shoulder. When he touches her and realizes she's real, he smiles and squints, searching her face intently. She looks into his eyes, tapping an emotional connection between them.) "You. Oh."

Buffy's line "Here endeth the lesson" has been said three times in all throughout the series. Once, in season 1, by the Master, and second in season 5, by Spike.