Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

I mean...
Is that supposed to scare me?
- Previously on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": - We had to hide the Key.
I know how difficult the first time can be.
I thought you said this skank was tough.
- How could all that never really happen? - It takes some getting used to,
Very amusing. I'm sure Dawn feels that way about her schoolwork sometimes.
The Slayer is the only thing standing between Dawn and this god from the bitch dimension
She's been keeping those since...
Makes your skin sing.
No.
We're goin' up against a god, an actual mightier-than-thou god.
We imagine what we'll be like in ten years and write a letter to our future self.
Oh, right. Of course. Can't let Dawn hear anything.
I don't want the book, just what's inside. I think it was Giles's notes.
an energy matrix vibrating at a dimensional frequency beyond human perception."
You know what the Key is?
Thank you. Thank you.
It's OK. Don't worry about it. Next time we see him, we'll thank him.
OK. Small talk over. I'm in a bit of a crunch, so let's cut right to the ooey-gooey centre.
Yeah, we're doing an early-warning incantation.
- Jeez! Lurk much? - I wasn't lurkin'.
summoned armies to control the Key.
Watch the hair.
All pushing at our reality, trying to find a way in.
It's beautiful. Thank you, guys.
and funny hats, and those candles that don't blow out.
Which is why there's been an increase in the ranks of the mentally unstable in Sunnydale.
You worry about me because you have to. I'm your job. Protect the Key, right?
No contact with civilians. There's probably a code name for it.
It's just like mine.
yeah.
- Dawn! - Oh, baby.
Very irritating, irrational. You know what I mean, tiny snapdragon? Like...
I guess that's you, niblet.
I can take care of myself.
It doesn't matter where you came from, or how you got here.
Dawn? Did you know your sister took my Key? And she won't give it back.
Is she mad about the whole fire thing?
- You should've said something. - Will, there...
- You could have stopped her. - Oh, yeah, here it comes.
Are you giving Buffy a birthday present?
As opposed to the other kind we're always in?
So this Key thing...
then screechy siren things will, you know, screech.
A crazy Hell god? And the fun just keeps on leavin'.
Hey, this doesn't have to be a complete waste of my precious time.
What am I?
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You'll find her.
The birds have been pecking too hard.
- Once drained, all that's left is... - Crazy people.
- How can you talk as if she's a thing? - I'm not!
I usually just burst through doors.
first you see one, then two... then the picnic's ruined.
She's been extremely forgiving of your considerable foibles up until now,
Look, if Glory knew that you guys knew where it was...
Unfortunate, but not completely unexpected.
Xander, Giles, take the centre of town. Willow, Tara, west side.
Even if I knew, I'd die a thousand deaths before I'd tell you.
She's real. She's just kinda... new.
Just find her. Please.
Oh, nothing, no.
How could you let her find out like that? From books and papers?
From what the Council's discovered from the Book of Tarnis and other sources,
- I bet you know where she put it. - She doesn't know.
Yeah. Shouldn't we try to find it before she does?
Oh, my God. Weird. And chocolates? Lame.