Wolves at the Gate part 3
Aiko is strung up downtown, her blood spelling out "Welcome to Tokyo." Buffy and her crew cut her down and take her body to the local headquarters, a building that looks kind of like a Shinto shrine out in the country, heavily fortified. Buffy lays Aiko's wrapped body at the feet of Buddha as the girls watch. Then she sits vigil.
Night falls, and Willow comes to see if she's gone catatonic again. They discuss options, not really clear on how to attack these vamps when they can't physically touch them. Enter Dracula with information on a containment spell, being snotty and condescending and laying claim to the master suite, poor Xander running along behind him.
At the top of a Tokyo building, which we later hear is called Ashikaga (which is the name of a city, a clan, and a shogunate), the huge red-tinted circle o' doom is buzzing away. Raidon is talking to a new woman about their plans, mentioning tech support (for the lens mechanism) and robotics division (just wait). They also have an army of vamps to guard them from the slayers while they're getting the lens up to speed. Kumiko hangs around sleeping or meditating like a bat. (Not that bats meditate, although they may, what do I know, I just mean hanging upside down, basically).
Renee is playing schoolgirl damsel in distress, luring a vampire into a Scooby ambush. Will uses the containment spell Dracula taught her, putting up a force-field box around the vamp. They pour gas on him and Buffy questions him about Toru. They find out what we already know, that Kumiko is going to use the scythe to reverse the spell, making all the slayers human again using the super lens on the Ashikaga building. They're just finishing getting the lens ready, which should happen before dawn -- be back before Dawn. (It's also going to happen before, as in in front of, Dawn, so punny foreshadowing).
After he spills, Buffy sets him on fire, and the four of them walk off through the night, a box of fiery light behind them. Cool if dark power shot.
Buffy and Satsu are arguing. Buffy doesn't want to take the local slayers, still reeling from Aiko's death, into battle with her. She wants Satsu to stay behind and watch over them, bury Aiko, stay out of it. Satsu is pissed about being put out of harm's way or out of sight, either one. She refuses to obey the order and storms off. Buffy: "I can't believe I find it sexy when she calls me ma'am." Heh.
Xander and Renee talk while gearing up, an unwilling? Dracula overhearing it off to the side. Xander makes a case for calling today their first date, avoiding all the normal first date awkwardness. Like getting tied up and sacrificed to open the Hellmouth you mean, Xander? Except that is like this. Anyway, Renee is not down with her first date with Xander being all schoolgirl vampbait, roasting vampsmores, and the company of the freaking dark prince...bator. She agrees to bypass the awkward waiting to see if a kiss is in order phase though, by planting one on Xander. They make out for a bit. Tick tock.
There's an army of a thousand vampires around the base of the building. They have plenty of slayers, but still no way to engage the enemy. We get a nice shot of Xander, Renee, Buffy, Dracula, Satsu, Andrew, and Leah ready to infiltrate the building. Buffy's only concern is to get in and get that scythe. To that end, Willow is creating a distraction. Come on, they already have a giant, are in Tokyo, you knew it was coming. Dawnzilla! Andrew: "Well, there's something you don't see everyday."
Dawn starts stomping havoc on the vamps as they run in terror. Buffy's team heads in and up, finding Toru and the scythe. But it's not him, it's a projection of him. Yes, it's a trap. Bye bye Renee. That may be the shortest love affair destroyed in its glory yet. Bong. Poor Xander.
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