Bring on the Night

"Bring on the Night" is the tenth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

"Bring on the Night" starts with the Scooby Gang recovering from the attack by the Bringers and the loss of Spike, who is still being tortured by The First in the guises of himself, Buffy and Drusilla. Spike, however, refuses to give in, telling The First that if Buffy believes in him, he can believe in himself, too.

Back at Buffy's house, the somewhat overenthusiastic Dawn and Anya help Buffy question Andrew, who leads them to the seal underneath the school. They find Spike's blood and cover the seal up again with shovels they find next to it. Still carrying the shovels, the leave the school, meeting Principal Wood on the way - who himself is carrying a shovel, too, from burying Jonathan in the previous episode.

Back at home, Willow's locator spell goes terribly wrong, with a demon - probably the First - taking control of her briefly. Buffy promises the panicked witch they will not call on her to use magic until they know what they are doing.

Giles suddenly appears at the door, bringing three potential slayers, the news that the Watchers' Council has been destroyed and information on the First. After assessing the situation, Giles tells Buffy that she is the only chance the Potentials and in fact the world have. The Potentials try to settle in, with Kennedy showing a definite interest in sleeping in the same room as the slightly flustered Willow.

Buffy and Giles go back to the Christmas tree lot where Buffy first found the Bringers in "Amends". She falls in a hole and meets the Turok-Han, and barely manages to escape alive after a spike to the "Übervampire's" heart fails to kill it. That night, the Scoobies prepare for an attack on the house by the Turok-Han. However, one of the Potentials panics, bolts, and is killed by the monster. Buffy is too late to save her, and again only barely survives the encounter.

So badly wounded her friends wonder if she will even survive, Buffy ends the episode with a rousing speech, telling her gang that they will win - and that the Scoobies and Potentials have just become an army.

Quotes and trivia

 * Giles: "Sorry to barge in. I'm afraid we have a slight... apocalypse."

Spike: "She does. Because she believes in me."
 * Drusilla/First: "And what makes you think you have a choice? What makes you think you will ever be any good at all in this world?"


 * Buffy: "I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Oh, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. 'Cause we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them, and cut out their hearts one by one, until The First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. Any questions?"  - which represents the season's tonal turning point.


 * Joyce's appearance in Buffy's dreams are her last in the series.


 * In this episode, the Turok-Han's blood is black but in the series finale, "Chosen", there is red blood on the weapons Buffy and the other Slayers use.