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FOREVER

Season Five, Episode 17

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The Plot

  • Buffy and Dawn’s mother, Joyce has just died.
  • Dawn stays with Willow and Tara and tells them that she wants to bring her mother back from the dead.
  • Dawn steals a book from the Magic Box and prepares to resurrect Joyce, despite the witches' warnings.
  • Spike offers to help her out of sympathy and takes her to Doc, a not-quite-human who knows how to bring the dead back to life.
  • Doc tells them how to perform the spell, although he notes that Joyce might not be quite the same as she was. Tara notices a witchcraft book missing and realizes what Dawn is up to; Willow warns Buffy. Buffy finds Dawn too late; the spell has just been completed…

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The Warning

  • Doc tells them how to perform the spell, although he notes that Joyce might not be quite the same as she was.
  • Tara notices a witchcraft book missing and realizes what Dawn is up to;
  • Willow warns Buffy.
  • Buffy finds Dawn too late; the spell has just been completed…

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The Comparison

  • Dawn cannot accept Joyce’s death “what if Mom doesn’t like it?”
  • Dawn asks for a spell to bring Mom back…Willow and Dawn look horrified.
  • Dawn asks if her mother will come back the same. “More or less” is the answer.

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The Comparison

  • While Dawn is casting spell, camera pans to Mother’s grave/ Witches, when they realize what Dawn has done, panic.
  • Camera pans to feet of the resurrected mother, shadow outside of window, knocking on door. Buffy runs to door as Dawn tries to rip photo.