"Smashed" is the 9th episode of

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of the television series ''

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is an American supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. The concept is based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film), 1992 film, also written by Whedon, a ...

''. The episode aired on November 20, 2001 on

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Plot

Whilst trying to help Buffy defend a couple from two muggers,

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confronts Buffy on their previous

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; she refuses to discuss the matter and he gets frustrated, telling her she is still not admitting her feelings towards him. In a comical scene resembling a famous sequence from the '' Mission: Impossible'' films,

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, Jonathan and

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steal a large diamond from a museum, leaving its sole guard frozen by their freeze-ray. As Buffy rushes to the scene, Spike again asks her about the last kiss; she says she was on edge due to Giles' decision to leave and apologizes for leading him on. Spike remains unconvinced and tries to coax her until she punches him; he punches her back and discovers that the chip in his head gives him no pain when he hits her. After verifying, with Warren's help, that the chip appears undamaged and still causes him agony when he harms humans, Spike tells Buffy that she "came back wrong" and that she has a "little demon" in her. In furious disbelief, Buffy assaults Spike and they battle until Buffy unleashes her desire and kisses him, initiating such passionate sex that the abandoned house in which they were fighting collapses around them.

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, sad and lonely without Tara, figures out a way to turn the metamorphosed Amy from a

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back into

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. Feeling newly liberated, they decide to go out and have some fun. At The Bronze, a couple of guys try to intimidate them. They perform a spell on the boys to make fun of them, but soon they begin to perform more and more complex spells, filling the Bronze with strangely dressed people, sheep, mutations and so on. Willow is beginning to have a taste of her real power and she likes it. Meanwhile, Tara meets with a depressed

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and assures her that she was not to blame for her moving out or her break-up with Willow. Tara admits that she still loves Willow but is uncertain of their future and still concerned about Willow's overuse of magic. She reluctantly agrees to have a sleepover with Dawn to keep her company.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smashed (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 episodes 2001 American television episodes Television episodes written by Drew Z. Greenberg