WILLOW'S DREAM: *Shot of Miss Kitty playing with a ball of red yarn in slo-mo.* Since red represents death, this could represent Willow toying with death in season 6. Of course it could also represent Miss Kitty Fantastico's catcabob end thanks to Dawn leaving a crossbow lying around. *TARA: You don't know everything about me. WILLOW: Have you told me your real name? TARA: Oh, you know that.* S5, Family. Tara thinks she is part demon because of an old family myth to control the women of her family. This is why she disrupted Willow's demon locater spell in Goodbye, Iowa. But Willow knows the true Tara. *TARA: They will find out, you know. About you. WILLOW: Don't have time to think about that. You know I have all this homework to finish.* This is foreshadowing S6 Willow. She tries to hide her abuse of magicks at points and people find out after Tabula Rasa. Willow doesn't stop to think though, she just keeps on using magick. All the homework to finish sounds like Jonathan and Andrew to finish. She doesn't stop to think just tries to finish up her work. *TARA: But you've never taken drama before.* Willow takes drama in S5. It could also refer to pretending to be something you're not, i.e. lying, which Willow does in S6. Tara is draped completely in RED. This foreshadows her death in Seeing Red. Willow is writing a poem on her back by the Greek lesbian poet Sappho. *WILLOW: I don't wanna leave here. TARA: Why not? WILLOW: It's so bright.* Willow doesn't want to leave Tara and their relationship. She doesn't want to move on, as seen in S7. From Buffy in S6, she says this world is so cold and bright and violent, so bright in this sense is a bad thing. *OZ: Heard you're taking drama. WILLOW: Uh-huh OZ: It's a tough course. WILLOW: You took it? OZ: Oh, I've been here forever.* Oz has experience in lying and it was tough for him to do (Veruca). The I've been here forever refers to Oz always being in Willow's heart. Note that Xander is wearing a RED shirt here, but not red pants. He is wearing half red. This foreshadows him losing half his vision (i.e. half his life). The spells dialog obviously refers to sex and lesbians. Harmony is wearing part RED, which makes sense because she's already undead. *RILEY: I showed up on time, so I got to be cowboy guy.* Riley entered Buffy's life at the right time, so he got to be her boyfriend. *HARMONY: Props? GILES: No. RILEY: Props? GILES: Yes! It's all about subterfuge. (To Harmony) That's very annoying* No one takes Harmony seriously. They think she's stupid, and even though she's a vampire they think she's just annoying and not scary. Cheese Guy: Represents Dawn. Artificially inserted into Willow's dream just like Dawn was artificially inserted into Willow's memory. Willow walks through a bunch of RED curtains. This represents Willow being surrounded by death in S6. Tara died. Buffy almost died. Willow killed Warren and Rack, and tried to kill everyone. *HARMONY (to Riley): Why have you come to our lonely, small town?* This must represent Sunnydale. She's asking why Riley would settle for such a small town, a question Graham asks him in S5. Riley says he's looking for a SALES-man (Buffy). I'm not sure, but I think in Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman commits suicide to help his family. This would then foreshadow Buffy's sacrifice in The Gift. *TARA: Everyone's starting to wonder about you. The real you. If they find out, they'll punish you, I...I can't help you with that.* This foreshadows evil Willow in S6. They're starting to wonder about Willow's abuse of magick and when Willow goes overboard after Tara's death, they find out, and she's punished (/reformed) by the Coven in England. Tara can't help her because she's dead. Cut to Buffy yelling at Riley. This represents the fight they have in S5, Into the Woods and their breakup. Buffy asks Willow why she's still in costume. *BUFFY: Willow, everybody already knows. Take it off. WILLOW: No...I need it* Buffy rips Willow's clothes off to reveal the clothes she wore in the first episode. This represents Willow's fear that without her magicks, neither Tara nor anyone else would want her (from S6, Wrecked). Without those, she fears she's just a geek that no one would like. *ANYA: Oh my God, it's like a tragedy..It's exactly like a Greek tragedy!* This may refer to Willow's storyline in S6, which is very tragic. As for the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, in part it is about someone who becomes corrupted by magick. Also, the evil figure is the White Witch (evil Willow). *The first Slayer attacks Willow and drains the energy, the spirit, out of her.* Willow was the Spirit in uber-Buffy. XANDER'S DREAM *BUFFY: Want some corn? XANDER: Butter flavor? BUFFY: New car smell.* A lot of Xander's dream seems to be about fantasies. This would be his fantasy of having a new car, which seems unrealistic at this point in his life. *XANDER (about Willow): What's her deal? BUFFY: Big faker* This could be referring back to one of the major themes from Willow's dream faker = liar. It also shows that their dreams are connected. *GILES: Oh I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it.* This phrase has been used multiple times by different people (the Mayor for one in GD2). I think this may be how JW views the show. It's all about the journey of the major characters, especially Buffy. *XANDER: Well thanks for making me have to pee. BUFFY: You don't need any help with that, right? XANDER: Got a system.* This refers to how Xander often needs help (usually rescuing from his demon girlfriends) because he's just a normal guy with no superpowers. *Joyce is upstairs wearing an all-RED nightgown.* This represents Joyce's death in S5, The Body. *JOYCE: Anyway, they all left a while ago. XANDER: Oh, I should probably go catch up.* Throughout S4 and until early S5, Xander has a fear of being left behind by his friends, who have moved on to college, while he's still in his parents' basement. *Joyce flirts with Xander* Probably just another fantasy. But note that her lips don't move during a couple of her lines. This also seems to represent death as Tara does the same thing later. *Xander goes to the bathroom and sees a bunch of Initiative people watching him. Xander zips back up and leaves* Aside from Xander maybe having a shy bladder like Jonathan, this may represent the fact that Xander doesn't do well while the rest of the group is watching him. He's done well on his own (The Zeppo) but not so much with the group. Also, as per his speech to Dawn in Potential, Xander is at his best behind the scenes, watching everything around him. *Xander goes into another room and winds up back in the basement.* This represents Xander's feeling that he'll never get out of the basement. *BUFFY (playing in a sandbox): Are you sure it's us you were looking for?* Xander is not sure what he's looking for in life, as evidenced by his many (failed) jobs in S4 and his fear of marraige to Anya in S6. *SPIKE: Giles here is gonna teach me to be a Watcher. Says I got the stuff. GILES: Spike's like a son to me.* This foreshadows S6, where Spike takes on the role of looking after Buffy after Giles leaves. Note that Spike is wearing the same suit as in Tabula Rasa. In that episode, Giles thinks Spike is his son, and the episode starts out with the "loan Shark". *BUFFY: Like a shark. XANDER: Like a shark with feet and much less fins. SPIKE: And on land!* I think those three things in common between this scene and Tabula Rasa make it clear that this is what is being foreshadowed. Spike is Buffy's confidant and the only person she can stand to be around in S6. After Giles leaves, Spike looks out for her, as a Watcher would. In particular in Dead Things, he won't let Buffy turn herself into the police and tries to help the way he thinks best. Giles would not have let Buffy turn herself in either. A Slayer can never goto jail because that gives demons free roam. As Giles said in Consequences, the situation of a Slayer accidentally killing a person has happened before and the Council has a method of rehabilitation for dealing with it. If that fails, they just kill the Slayer so another one will be called. Even throughout S7, Spike at times seems more like a Watcher to Buffy than Giles is. He is the only one that fully supports her. *XANDER: That's good. I was into that for a while, but (nods toward ice-cream truck with Xander inside) I got other stuff goin' on.* Xander is moving away from his crush on Buffy and desire to be a Watcher for her to a relationship with Anya and a desire for a good real world job. *BUFFY: I'm okay. It's not coming for me yet. (sandbox turns into desert)* This refers to the first Slayer not coming for her yet, and Buffy's confrontation in the desert with the first Slayer later in the episode. It may also refer to death not coming for her yet. *BUFFY: I'm way ahead of you, big brother. XANDER: Brother?* Again, Xander is afraid of being left behind by his friends. Also he is beginning to realize that he is past his crush on Buffy and their relationship is becoming more like a brother/sister (as seen at the start of S7). *ANYA (to Xander): Do you know where you're going?* Again, Xander is not sure where his life is headed. *ANYA: I've been thinking about getting back into vengeance. XANDER: Is that right? ANYA: Well, you know how I miss it. I'm so at loose ends since I quit. I think this year is going to be a very big year for vengeance.* This foreshadows Anya becoming a Vengeance Demon again after Xander leaves her at the altar. Anya says that this year is going to be a very big year for vengeance. This could refer to the Buffy-Riley breakup and Willow going after Glory for vengeance after Tara got mind-sucked. But it seems like S6 is a much bigger year for vengeance and that is of course when Anya returns to being a VD. *Xander sees Willow and Tara in the back, making out, and they ask him if he wants to come in the back with them. Anya tells him "oh, go on."* This is another fantasy. *ANYA: I'll be fine. I think I've figured out how to steer by gesturing emphatically.* Its interesting that this is right after the discussion about vengeance. In Villains, Willow steers Xander's car by gesturing when she is going after vengeance against Warren. *Xander ends up in the basement again.* Again, he feels he'll never get out of the basement. Cheese Guy: Again, represents Dawn. *Xander goes through a door and ends up at UC Sunnydale. The colors are all weird and Giles and Anya are speaking in French.* This represents how Xander feels like he doesn't belong at college and doesn't understand what goes on there. *SNYDER: I walked by your guidance councilor's office one time. A bunch of you were sitting there...waiting to be sheperded.* This could just refer to the guidance councilor sheperding them. It may relate the the "sheep" seen in the back of Xander's ice cream truck. The scoobies are a bunch of sheep. Maybe Buffy is the sheperd? That could be a Messiah-like reference to Buffy, that she'll die to save the world. *SNYDER: I remember it smelled like dead flowers. Like decay. Then it hit me. The hope of our nation's future is a bunch of mulch.* This definitely is referring to Buffy. She is dead after the Gift, in the ground decaying in the soil. Like a bunch of mulch. Buffy is the hope of our nation's future. This means that Buffy will be needed to save the world again after she dies in the Gift. Which was fulfilled in Chosen. *SNYDER: Where are you heading?* Just another reminder that Xander doesn't know where his life is heading. *SNYDER: Your time is running out. XANDER: No, I'm just trying to get away. There's...something I can't fight.* This could have easily been a reference to Xander dying soon, but since he didn't, it just must refer to him not having much time before the first Slayer got him in this episode. *SNYDER: You're neither. You're a whipping boy. Raised by mongrels and set on a sacrificial stone.* Well, we saw the raised by mongrels part in Hell's Bells, S6. The rest refers to Xander's part in saving the world in Grave. Willow certainly treated him as a whipping boy for a bit when he was up there giving his yellow crayon speech. The hilltop would then be the sacrificial stone, and Xander was ready to sacrifice himself. *Xander sees Giles, Buffy, and Anya around Willow who's still gasping and choking. They ignore Xander.* In Fear Itself, Xander had a fear of being ignored by everyone else. *BUFFY: I can fight anything, right? ANYA: Maybe we should slap her.* Buffy's most common reaction to anything is usually to try and fight it. Anya seems to like to slap people as a first attempt to solve anything (see Andrew in S7). *XANDER'S DAD: What are you, ashamed of us?...* This foreshadows their behavior in Hell's Bells. *XANDER'S DAD: No. You don't understand. The line ends here with us, and you're not gonna change that.* This seems to imply that Xander will not have any children. See his fears in Hell's Bells that he would end up being like his father. *The first Slayer attacks Xander and rips his heart out.* Xander was the Heart in uber-Buffy. GILES'S DREAM *BUFFY: Don't you think it's a little old-fashioned? GILES: This is the way women and men have behaved since the beginning... before time. Now look into the light. Giles appears to be hypnotizing Buffy* This represents the relationship between Slayer and Watchers. Buffy is questioning it, and Giles is saying this is how the Slayer-WC relationship has always been. The Watchers are trying to hypnotize, or control the Slayers. This is very similar to when Giles hypnotized Buffy to inject her with the drug that took away her powers in Helpless, S3. *BUFFY: Come on! Come on! She is wearing pigtails and pulling Giles by the hand. Olivia is walking beside Giles pushing an empty baby carriage.* Giles thinks of Buffy as a daughter. Olivia is his love interest. And the empty carraige represents Dawn, who is on the way. Giles also thinks of Dawn as a daughter. *OLIVIA: Does she always want to train this badly?* Buffy rededicates herself to training and slaying in S5. The scene with Buffy and the vampire game seems to just represent Giles teaching Buffy, but notice that the vampire in the game is Dracula, who Buffy fights in the very next episode. *GILES (to Olivia): This is my business. Blood of the lamb and all that.* Another possible Messianic reference to Buffy. Her blood closed the portal and saved the world at the cost of her life. *Buffy turns, her face covered in mud. The color changes as if a negative, or possibly heat-sensitive picture.* This could represent Buffy dying. Her body is covered in mud when it is buried. The heat-sensitive picture shows her face cold because its covered in mud. Of course, Buffy's dead body would be cold. It could also be a reference to the first Slayer though. The first Slayer has some kind of paint all over her face. *GILES: I know you. (echoes)* This may mean the previous image does refer to the first Slayer. *SPIKE: I've hired myself out as an attraction. Spike is in B/W and striking threating poses for cameras.* I'm not sure why Spike is in B/W but it may be that Giles and most other people always view Spike in terms of B/W. Even in S7, Giles tries to kill Spike because he doesn't trust him. Spike hiring himself out could refer to how he mostly hired himself out to Buffy and the gang is S5, doing favors for money. The threatening poses represent Spike trying to act tough and like the Big Bad when he in truth can't hurt anyone because of the chip. *GILES: Sideshow freak?* Buffy referred to her relationship with Spike as a freak show. *GILES: What am I supposed to do with all of this? SPIKE: You gotta make up your mind, Rupes. Olivia has been crying in the background the whole time.* Giles had to choose between staying in Sunnydale and going back to England to start a life with Olivia. He makes the choice to stay in Sunnydale at the end of Buffy vs. Dracula, S5, but then decided to go back to England in S6. *SPIKE: Haven't you figured it all out yet, with your enormous squishy frontal lobe?* The first Slayer is after Giles's mind, or his brain. Giles hasn't figured that out yet. *GILES: I still think Buffy should have killed you.* Giles feels this way even in S7 when he goes behind Buffy's back and conspires to kill Spike. *Spike strikes a very Jesus-on-the-cross-like pose, arms out wide. Loud oohs from the crowd, and flashbulbs go off.* This could be saying that Spike will become a savior. He will sacrifice himself to save the world. Fulfilled in Chosen. Cheese Guy once again represents Dawn. *WILLOW: Only at death's door over here, look at Xander!* More evidence that their dreams are all connected. *XANDER: I promised Anya I'd be there for her big night. Now I'll probably be pushing up daisies in the sense of being in the ground underneath them and fertilizing the soil with decomposition.* This seems to be yet another Xander death reference. Of course, Anya was the one who actually died. But it must refer to Xander walking out on Anya at their wedding (her big night). Its interesting to note that the fake Xander was killed at the wedding and they decided to cover the body with flowers. It could also refer to the death of Xander and Anya's relationship after Xander wasn't there for her big night. *Anya is trying to tell a joke on stage. She is wearing a RED top, but a brown skirt.* Anya trying to tell the joke is about her trying to be human, but having a hard time acting like a human throughout the series. She is wearing part red, which could foreshadow her death in Chosen, but why would Anya wearing only half red foreshadow her death when Xander wearing half red didn't? So maybe, it represents some kind of half-death, like Xander losing an eye. For Anya, this would be her becoming a VD again, and losing her humanity. *WILLOW: Do you know this is your fault? GILES: We have to think of the facts, Willow. I'm very busy. I have a gig myself, you know.* In one sense, they are talking about what's happening to them in this episode. But it could also refer to Giles blaming himself for Buffy's death and then leaving because he has a gig (life) of his own. *WILLOW: Something's after us. It's, uh, like some primal...some animal force. GILES: That used to be us.* This refers to the first Slayer. It used to be them, because of the spell they did in Primeval where they combined with Buffy. *Giles goes up into the stage and breaks into song.* JW was probably already thinking of doing a musical at this point. *GILES (singing): The spell we cast with Buffy must have released some primal evil that's come back seeking, I'm not sure what.* This of course refers to the spell in Primeval and the first Slayer...except that the first Slayer being described as a primal evil is kinda weird. But since the Slayer's power is rooted in evil it does make sense. On top of that though, it could also refer to the spill Willow did in S6 to resurrect Buffy. That allowed the First Evil to launch its attack. *Giles follows the cord of the microphone and finds a pile of cord with his pocket watch in it. GILES: Well, that was obvious* The watch seems to represent some link between Watchers and Slayers, so it makes Giles realize that he's dealing with the first Slayer. *GILES (face dripping blood, without his mouth moving): You never had a Watcher.* This is not foreshadowing, but it tells us to link a person speaking without their mouth moving to death (Joyce, Tara). Note that the first Slayer cuts Giles through the forehead, in the area of his brain. Giles was the Mind in uber-Buffy. BUFFY'S DREAM *ANYA: Buffy! Wake up! Buffy, you have to wake up right away! BUFFY (in bed): I'm not really in charge of these things (closes eyes). ANYA: Please wake up. Oh please. BUFFY: I need my beauty sleep. So stop it, okay.* This foreshadows Buffy's resurrection in Bargaining, S6. Anya is one of the four people who do the spell to resurrect Buffy. Buffy is not in charge of waking up (coming back to life). Her beauty sleep represents her time in Heaven. She doesn't want to leave Heaven, but is torn out by Anya and the others. *BUFFY: Faith and I just made that bed. TARA: For who?* This shows a connection between this dream and the shared dream Faith and Buffy had in GD2. In that dream, they are making the bed, and Faith says to Buffy "Miles to go. Little Miss Muffet, counting down from 7-3-0." The 7-3-0 foreshadows Buffy's death in The Gift, the S5 finale, which is 2 years or 730 days after the dream in GD2, the season 3 finale. Buffy is even wearing the same dress Faith did in GD1. *TARA: You lost them (her friends). BUFFY: No. I think they need me to find them.* Buffy realized that she needs to save her friends. *Buffy looks at the clock by her bed. It shows 7:30 AM. BUFFY: It's so late. TARA: Oh...that clock's completely wrong.* This is a reference to the 7-3-0 line from GD2. But as Tara said, that clock is completely wrong. Buffy now has only 365 days left to live. *TARA: You think you know...what's to come...what you are. You haven't even begun.* Dracula uses the exact same line in the next episode. Buffy doesn't know what she is until Get It Done, S7, when she finds out exactly how the Slayer was created. And the Slayer power is rooted in darkness just like Dracula said. *TARA: Be back before dawn. At this point, the bed is made up again.* A reference to Dawn's arrival, seemingly out of the blue, at the end of the next episode. *Buffy is walking down the halls of UC Sunnydale and sees a hole in the wall. BUFFY: Mom? Joyce's face appears in the hole. JOYCE: Oh, hi honey. BUFFY: Why are you living in the walls. JOYCE: Oh, sweetie, no. I'm fine here. Don't worry about me. BUFFY: It looks dirty. JOYCE: Well, it seems that way to you. I made some lemonade, and I'm learning how to play mah-jongg. You go find your friends. BUFFY: I, I think they might be in danger. Joyce laughs. JOYCE: I-I'm sorry, dear. Um, a mouse is playing with my knees. BUFFY: I, I really don't think you should live in there. JOYCE: Well...you could...probably break through the wall.* This represents Joyce in Heaven. The hole in the wall is a whole in the ground, Joyce's grave. To Buffy, on Earth, it looks dirty, but Joyce is actually in Heaven and at peace. Joyce's comment about breaking through the wall probably refers to the spell Dawn attempted to resurrect Joyce. *RILEY: Hey there, killer.* Killer is what Dracula called Buffy. *BUFFY: Riley? You're back? RILEY: I never left.* Buffy is asking if Riley is back with the government. He rejoins the government and leaves Buffy in Into the Woods, S5. *The gun on the table is pointing straight at Buffy.* Possible foreshadow of Buffy being shot by Warren in Seeing Red, S6. *ADAM: She's uncomfortable with certain concepts. It's understandable. Agression is a natural human tendency. (looks at Buffy) Though you and me come by it another way. BUFFY (with the first Slayer behind her): We're not demons. ADAM: Is that a fact?* The source of the Slayer's power is based on a demon, as Buffy finds out in Get It Done, S7. *RILEY: Buffy, we've got important work here. A lot of filing, giving things names. BUFFY (to Adam): What was yours? ADAM: Before Adam? Not a man among us can remember.* The first part foreshadows Riley leaving Buffy for the government (work). I'm sure the "Not a man among us can remember" refers to something, but I can't figure it out. *BUFFY: Wait! I have weapons! She opens a bag and its full of mud. Buffy puts it on her hands and smears the mud on her face. Again, the color inverts, like a heat-sensitive picture.* Just like in Giles's dream, this could represent Buffy's death, where her body is cold and covered with mud (earth). Or it could represent the first Slayer who has some kind of paint all over her face. *RILEY: Thought you were looking for your friends. Okay, killer...if that's the way you want it. I guess you're on your own.* Foreshadowing of Riley leaving Buffy in S5. The scene with Buffy and the first Slayer in the desert shows how the first Slayer believes, as we've been told many times, that the Slayer is alone. She can have no friends. It also shows Buffy's resistance to this and how she is different from most other Slayers. The Cheese Guy once again represents Dawn. After Buffy tells the first Slayer "You're not the source of me," she wakes up. *BUFFY: Well, at least you all didn't dream about that guy with the cheese. I don't know where the hell that came from. The other three look at each other.* This is more evidence that the Cheese Guy is Dawn. It was in all of their dreams (memories), but they don't know where it came from (i.e. they know the memories aren't real). *Buffy looks into the bedroom that will become Dawn's. TARA (voiceover): You think you know...what's to come...what you are. You haven't even begun.* More foreshadowing of Dawn's arrival.