Get It Done

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season 7, Episode 15
Air date	February 18, 2003
Written by	Douglas Petrie
Directed by	Douglas Petrie
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"We cannot give you knowledge. Only power."

―Shadow Man

"Get It Done" is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is the one hundred thirty-seventh episode altogether. It was written and directed by Douglas Petrie. It originally broadcast on February 18, 2003.

Buffy introduces Principal Wood to the rest of the crew and he gives her a bag that he got from his mother. One of the girls commits suicide after talking to the First. Buffy uses the set of shadow figures in the slayer's bag to trigger a portal. On the other side, she meets the Shadow Men, who tell her of the origin of the Slayer and offer to infuse her with more power. She refuses upon discovering the cost. They leave her with a terrifying vision.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 2.1 Starring 2.2 Guest Starring 2.3 Co Starring 3 Trivia 4 Quotes 5 Continuity

Synopsis

The First Slayer tells Buffy in a dream that "It is not enough".

Principal Wood tells Buffy to go home and concentrate on her "real" job:, Killing monsters and getting ready to battle the First. Buffy takes him to the house and introduces him to the rest of the crew, including Spike. The tension between Spike and Wood is tangible. Wood gives Buffy a bag that he got from his mother and should have been passed on to Buffy anyway.

Chloe commits suicide after the First talks to her all night. Buffy delivers a strong lecture, angering many of the others. She then calls an emergency and opens the slayer's bag. Inside is a set of shadow figures that trigger a portal. Against the advice of her friends, Buffy jumps in, sending back an enormous demon that beats everybody up and flees. After Spike recovers, he gets his leather coat out of a trunk, kills the demon, and drags it back to Buffy's house.

On the other side of the portal, Buffy is back in the desert where she once met the First Slayer. There, three men tell her she is the last Slayer to guard the Hellmouth, and try to infuse her with the essence of the demon that give all the Slayers their strength. Buffy refuses the power, telling the men that they were wrong to have created the Slayer line in the first place. As a parting gift, they give Buffy a vision: An enormous army of Turok-Han just waiting to be unleashed on the world.

After struggling with the incantation, Willow manages to reopen the portal by sucking energy from Anya and Kennedy. Spike throws the dead demon in, and Buffy returns. Later, she tells Willow about the vision, and admits that the First Slayer was right: What they have will not be enough.

Cast

Starring

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
• Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
• James Marsters as Spike
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg

Guest Starring

• Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
• Iyari Limon as Kennedy
• Clara Bryant as Molly
• Sarah Hagan as Amanda
• Indigo as Rona
• Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
• Lalaine as Chloe
• D. B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood

Co Starring

• Camden Toy as Ubervamp
• Felicia Day as Vi
• Sharon Ferguson as the First Slayer (credited as "Primitive")
• Geoffrey Kasule as Shadow Man #1
• Karara Muhoro as Shadow Man #2
• Daniel Wilson as Shadow Man #3

Trivia

• There are at least two references to Winnie-the-Pooh in this episode. Apart from "TTFN" - "Ta-ta for now", which is explained as what Tigger says when he leaves, Spike shows familiarity with the book when he goes away to do "what he does best": This is what Tigger claims about everything until he actually tries it.

• Andrew's line "They're gonna see everything. They'll see the Big Board." is a reference to Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

• When we see Dawn saying that the book she reads isn't in Sumerian anymore and changes to English, the writing beforehand wasn't Sumerian at all, it was a transliteration of Greek letters in the place of Latin letters in English. For example the word "see" in English in the book was witten as "ΣΕΕ" in the Greek letters; Sumerian is written in cuneiform script, the ancient Sumerian, Akkadian/Babylonian Alphabets, not in Greek.

• The language spoken by the men who created the First Slayer is Swahili.

• Buffy's response to Wood regarding the Hellmouth "blowing around May" is referencing the fact that the apocalypses usually occur as the season finales, which tend to air in May.

• This episode features the last appearance of the First Slayer in the series.

Quotes

Kennedy - "I love this job! Did you see that? I called that girl a maggot!"

Buffy - "From now on I'm your leader as in 'do as I say'."

Anya - "I provide much-needed sarcasm."
Anya's defines her role in the Scoobies.

Shadow Man - "The first Slayer did not talk so much."
A similar complaint that several Watchers have had about Buffy.

Continuity

• When Spike is talking to Robin Wood, he says since he had a soul he was "unique, more or less.", an obvious reference to Angel.

• Spike puts back on his leather coat, last seen in the Season Six episode "Seeing Red", and with it regains his love for a good fight. Unfortunately, the coat proves to Wood that Spike in fact is the vampire who killed his mother, setting the stage for their battle.

• In response to the line "You can't just watch, you must see", Xander claims he dislikes cryptic messages because someone gets hurt, usually him. When the demon replaces Buffy, Xander is the first person attacked.

• A similar exchange portal is used to carry Buffy to the Fray's future in "Time of Your Life" in Season Eight.

• Buffy finds out how the very first Slayer was created, and it disgusts her, foreshadowing her decision to bring down the whole system.

• This episode marks the beginning of Buffy's estrangement from the rest of the Scooby Gang.