Smashed

Template:Buffyepisode "Smashed" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is the one hundred ninth episode altogether. It was written by Drew Z. Greenberg and directed by Turi Meyer. It originally broadcast on November 20, 2001.

Synopsis

Willow 'de-rats' Amy. The Trio rob the Sunnydale Museum of Natural History. Buffy and Spike engage in some very rough play.

Summary

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Amy adjusts to no longer being a rat,

A nightly patrol begins as Buffy, rather to her own surprise, thwarts a simple mugging. From the darkness, Spike tries to come to the rescue. Unfortunately, the muggers are human so his chip activates. After the pain is relieved, Buffy and Spike argue briefly about their kisses. Once again, Buffy blows him off.

At the Slayer's home, Willow finds herself lonely without Tara. She has a "Eureka!" moment, though, and figures out how to transform Amy "the Rat" Madison back to her human form. At the Sunnydale Museum of Natural History, The Trio steal a diamond and freeze Rusty the security guard with their Freeze Ray.

Amy and Willow catch up and Amy finds out that she has been a rat for almost three years. Buffy returns home confused to find a rat-less Amy. Buffy intended to tell Willow about her two kisses with Spike, but the shock of seeing Amy makes her reconsider.

After seeing the frozen museum security guard on the news, Buffy rushes to investigate only to find Spike already there. After a heated exchange, Buffy slugs Spike and he hits her back. To his surprise and glee, the chip doesn't affect him though he quickly pretends to be in pain. Thinking that the chip has malfunctioned, Spike takes to the streets looking for a victim. After choosing one, he dives in for a bite and the chip activates.

Willow and Amy enjoy a night of magical debauchery.

Meanwhile, at the Magic Box, Buffy, Anya, Willow, and Xander research the stolen diamond. Looking for answers, Spike visits the Nerds' lair and coerces them by into helping him by threatening their Boba Fett action figure.

Willow and Amy decide to go do something fun on the town. After assessing Spike's chip, Warren tells him that it is not malfunctioning. Spike concludes that there is nothing wrong with him, but that there is something wrong with Buffy. Across town at The Bronze, Willow continues to bring Amy up to date, when two boys ask them to dance. Amy is only too happy to accept. Later, when the two college guys forcibly try to get Amy back on the dance floor, Willow and Amy magically trap the two into go-go cages and skimpy outfits.

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Bringing down the house.

At the Magic Box, Xander, Anya, and Buffy continue their detective work. discouraged by their lack of progress, their focus changes to Willow. Their concern is evident as Anya warns that once someone good gets a taste of bad that it's difficult to bring them back. Spike calls, inviting Buffy to the cemetery. At first she declines, but after Xander and Anya head home for the night, the trench-coated vamp appears from the shadows. He stands in front of Buffy, not letting her pass. She smacks him. To her horror, Spike hits her back. Unaffected by the chip, Spike explains saying, "Don't you see? You came back wrong." Immediately, a scrap breaks out.

At The Bronze, Willow and Amy continue generating havoc. As Willow turns a boy band into a girl band, people are dancing aimlessly in elaborate outfits and mutate.

The brawl continues between Spike and Buffy at a condemned house, the Slayer and the vampire are knocking the structure, as well as each other, all over the place. Suddenly, Buffy pins Spike against a wall and begins kissing him. As they engage in their most passionate make out session to date, the house crumbles all around them and they fall through the floor.

Quotes and trivia

• Spike: You're a tease, you know that, Slayer? Get a fellow's motor revving, let the tension marinate a couple-a days, then bam! Crown yourself the ice queen.

Buffy: Need a few more metaphors for that little mix?

• Buffy: Oh, Tara, hey..., Amy?

Amy: The whole school. By a giant snake thing. Okay, still adjusting. Hi, Buffy.

Buffy: Hi. How've ya been?

Amy: Rat. You?

Buffy: Dead.

Amy: Oh.

• Spike: "You can play Holodeck another time..." is a reference to Star Trek. And, of course, the toy Spike threatens to damage is Boba Fett, a classic Star Wars character.

• The nerds talk about Red Dwarf and Doctor Who. However, Andrew couldn't have actually seen every episode of Doctor Who on DVD, as he says he has, because only about a quarter have been released and some serials don't even exist anymore.

• A longer, more intense lovemaking scene was originally filmed for the finale of the episode, but cut out. The clip still makes the rounds occasionally in Whedonverse fan circles.

• Amy is returned to being human after being a rat since the middle of the third season. Amy was somehow able to get her hair styled during that time; it's very different from when she became a rat in "Gingerbread" and also different from "Something Blue".

• Amy casts a spell on a woman in The Bronze to make her fall for Willow until Willow says no. The script specifies the name of the woman is "Brie", an appropriate target for Amy since Brie is a form of cheese.

Music

• Halo Friendlies - "Run Away"