Get It Done

"Get It Done" is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the 137th episode in the series. Written and directed by Douglas Petrie, it was originally broadcast on February 18, 2003, on the UPN network.

Synopsis[]

BACK TO THE FUTURE — Buffy introduces Principal Wood to the Slayer headquarters and he gives her a slayer hand-me-down in return. When the First brings about a death amongst the potentials, Buffy and friends turn to Principal Wood's gift for help. But help is not necessarily what it will bring when Buffy is sent back in time and a demon is let loose in Sunnydale in her place.^[1]

Summary[]

The First Slayer tells Buffy in a dream that "it is not enough." Anya and Spike walk together when a demon attacks her at D'Hoffryn's request. Spike punches the demon, and the pair then runs away.

In Sunnydale High School, Principal Wood gives Buffy a bag he got from his mother and should have been passed on to the next Slayer, calling it an "emergency kit." He tells Buffy to go home and concentrate on her "real" job: killing monsters and getting ready to battle the First Evil. Buffy takes him to her house and shows him the operation. Andrew introduces himself as a "guestage" and shows Wood his big whiteboard with a map of Sunnydale and drawings of the First.

Outside, Buffy and Wood watch Kennedy leading the Potentials in training, and she forces Chloe to give push-ups for getting a move wrong while calling her a "maggot." Buffy and Wood then head to the basement, where Anya complains to Spike for running away from the demon instead of killing him like he would have before. Wood questions Spike about his past and his changes, to which Spike takes offense.

That night, as Buffy and Dawn discuss the contents of the "emergency kit," they find Chloe has hanged herself. The First then appears to taunt them, claiming that all it needed to do was talk to Chloe and make her realize they're fighting a losing battle. It reminds Buffy that she admitted that some of the Potentials will die, before promising to see the rest soon and disappearing.

Alone, Buffy buries Chloe next to Annabelle. She goes inside and delivers a harsh lecture, telling the remaining girls that Chloe was weak and she's tired of using her power to dig our graves. Buffy also sounds off at Anya for contributing nothing to the group besides needing protection. She declares that everyone has to step up and dig deep because the First is laughing at what they have now. When Spike turns to leave, Buffy tells him he's lost his edge since he got his soul back, and now she needs the vampire who tried to kill her.

Buffy decides to declare an emergency and open the Slayer's bag. After getting the remaining Potentials out of the way and calling in Wood, the Scoobies open it to find a set of shadow casters and a book that triggers a portal. Against the advice of her friends, Buffy jumps in, sending back a large demon who beats everyone up and flees.

On the other side of the portal, Buffy is back in the desert where she once met the First Slayer. Here, three men tell her the origin of the Slayer; they captured a girl and infused her with the essence of a demon so she could fight for them. The three men tell Buffy she is the last Slayer to guard the Hellmouth and try to infuse her with the essence of the demon that gives all the Slayers their strength. Buffy refuses the power, saying they were wrong to have created the Slayer line and forcing innocent girls to fight in their place. She manages to defeat them, but, as a parting gift, they give Buffy a vision.

Meanwhile, Spike goes after the demon that came through the portal, since it'll be needed if they want to get Buffy back. He goes to the school basement and retrieves his leather jacket; Wood witnesses it and asks Spike where he got it, who answers it was in New York. Spike locates the demon and manages to dispatch it, enjoying the kill.

After struggling with the incantation, Willow reopens the portal by sucking energy from Anya and Kennedy. Kennedy is shaken by Willow's power, which causes a strain on their relationship. Spike throws the dead demon in, and Buffy returns. Later, she tells Willow about the vision and fears she made a mistake turning down the offer of more power as the First Slayer was right: what they have will not be enough. In her vision, a never-ending horde of Turok-Hans waits to be unleashed on the world.

Continuity[]

• Anya complains about being human again, having lost her position as a vengeance demon in episode "Selfless."
• Anya tells Spike she likes her sex "on top of the table," in reference to when they had sex ("Entropy").
• When Robin is watching the potentials train, Willow says, about him: "So much cooler than Snyder.", Robin's predecessor as principal of Sunnydale High, before its destruction and his death at the Graduation Day battle.
• Robin asks for how long Spike's been in Sunnydale; he first arrived in town about five years earlier ("School Hard").
• When telling Robin about regaining his soul, Spike says, "now I'm unique," then amends: "Well, more or less." This is a reference to Angel, who also got his soul back in "Becoming, Part One" and "Becoming, Part Two" and will again in "Orpheus."
• Buffy arrives at the desert where she always met with the first Slayer, in "Restless" and "Intervention."
• Spike puts on his leather coat, last seen in episode "Seeing Red." It proves to Wood that Spike is the vampire who killed his mother ("Fool for Love"), setting the stage for their fight in "Lies My Parents Told Me."
• A similar exchange portal is used to carry Buffy to the future Haddyn in Time of Your Life, Part One.
• The origin of the Slayer as well as the existence of the Shadowmen appear on the television series, first introduced in comic issue Ready, Steady...
• Buffy is disgusted with how the very first Slayer was created, influencing her decision to bring down the whole system in "Chosen."
• This episode marks the beginning of Buffy's estrangement from the rest of the Scooby Gang, leading to her expulsion from the group in "Empty Places."
• The vision given to Buffy by the Shadowmen reveals the First's army of Turok-Han vampires inside the Hellmouth, which she'll face in "Chosen."

Appearances[]

Individuals[]

• Amanda
• Annabelle (Only mentioned)
• Chao-Ahn
• Chloe
• D'Hoffryn (Only mentioned)
• D'Korr
• First Evil
• Grothnar (Only mentioned)
• Alexander Harris
• Anya Jenkins
• Kennedy
• Molly
• Rona
• Willow Rosenberg
• Sineya (Only in visions)
• Snyder (Only mentioned)
• Spike
• Buffy Summers
• Dawn Summers
• Violet
• Andrew Wells
• Nikki Wood (Only mentioned)
• Robin Wood
• First Turok-Han (Only in visions)
• Shadow demon
• Unidentified demon (Get It Done)
• Unidentified Shadowman I
• Unidentified Shadowman II
• Unidentified Shadowman III

Organizations and titles[]

• Key
• Potential Slayer
• Shadowmen
• Scooby Gang
• Slayer
• Watcher (Only mentioned)
• Watchers Council (Only mentioned)
• Witch

Species[]

• Demon
  • Lower being (Only mentioned)
  • Vengeance demon (Only mentioned)
• Kraken (Only mentioned)
• Human
• Turok-Han (Only in visions)
• Vampire

Locations[]

• Dreamspace
• Earth
  • Africa
  • New York City (Only mentioned)
  • Sunnydale
    • Hellmouth (Only in visions)
    • Revello Drive
      • 1630 Revello Drive
    • Sunnydale High School

Objects[]

• Blood
• Emergency kit
• Kraken's tooth (Only mentioned)
• Search
• Shadow caster manual
• Shadow casters
• Shadowmen's staff
• Skin of Draconus (Only mentioned)
• Soul (Only mentioned)
• Spike's duster
• Stake

Rituals and spells[]

• Portal spell

Death count[]

• Chloe, hanged herself.
• Unidentified demon, neck broken by Spike.

Behind the scenes[]

Production[]

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

Broadcast[]

• "Get It Done" had an audience of 2.4 million households upon its original airing.^[2]

Deleted scenes[]

• Andrew welcomes Wood:^[3]

  Andrew: "Welcome to our perfectly typical American household where nothing unusual happens."

• After Spike learns that Buffy has told Wood that he has a soul:^[3]

  Spike: "What are you spilling next, that I bleach my hair?"

  Wood: "I never would have guessed."

• In the shooting script, Buffy's vision of the First's Turok-Han army was of the creatures on a rampage within a ravaged, post-apocalyptic Sunnydale.^[3]

Pop culture references[]

• 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 the Pooh character Tigger says when he leaves — Spike shows familiarity with the book when he goes away to do "what he does best," which 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 Kennedy is trying to convince Willow to use magic she says: "Why not try all 32 flavors," a reference to the song "32 Flavors" by Ani Difranco, a bisexual musical icon.
• Xander says: "The First hates puppets. Now if we could just airlift Kermit, Fozzie the Bear, and Miss Piggy into town," a reference to characters from The Muppet Show.

Goofs[]

• When Dawn says 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 written as "ΣΕΕ" in the Greek letters; Sumerian is written in cuneiform script, the ancient Sumerian, Akkadian/Babylonian alphabets, not in Greek.
• The door behind Buffy and Dawn, when they walk into the bathroom to Chloe's body, is open and closed in changing shots.
• When the demon appears and Xander says: "Ah, this must be the exchange student." looking at the ceiling, the top of the set is visible on the sides. This goof is not present in the widescreen version.
• Buffy's boots change from stilettos to chunky heels before she goes through the portal to make the exchange.

Music[]

• Robert Duncan — original soundtrack

International titles[]

• Armenian: "Արա դա" (Do It)
• Czech: "Síla přemožitelky" (Slayer Power)
• Finnish: "Hämärän rajamailla" (Twilight Zone)
• French: "Retour aux sources" (Return to the Sources)
• German: "Das Angebot" (The Offer)
• Hungarian: "Véghezvitel" (Completion)
• Italian: "Indietro nel Tempo" (Back in Time)
• Japanese: "魔力の源" (Source of Demon Power)
• Polish: "Powrót do źródeł" (Return to Sources)
• Portuguese (Brazil): "O Que Tem Que Ser Feito" (What Has to Be Done)
• Romanian: "Termină" (Finish)
• Russian: "Сделай это" (Do It)
• Spanish (Latin America): "Hazlo Ya" (Do It Now)
• Spanish (Spain): "Tenemos que Hacerlo" (We Have to Do It)
• Swedish: "Få det Gjort" (Get It Done)

Adaptations[]

• The book Chosen: The One includes a novelization of this episode, along with all season 7.

Gallery[]

Promotional stills[]

Behind the scenes[]

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