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Glory discovers the identity of the Key.

Action Dress Rip: Glory tears off her dress after it gets sliced by a shattering mirror.
All Men Are Perverts

Xander: Whatever you choose, you've got my support. Just think of me as ... (nervous laugh) as your ... (frowns; Buffy looks curiously at him) You know, I'm searching for supportive things, and I'm comin' up all bras...

Bait and Switch: It appears Glory has worked out Dawn is the Key, but she actually assumes it's Tara, because Tara is new to the Scoobies.
Beware the Nice Ones: Giles and Willow both show their sinister sides.
Bath Kick: Glory as Loofah Girl.
Black Eyes of Evil / Power Floats / Shock and Awe / Mind Over Matter: Darth Rosenberg makes her debut.
Buffy-Speak

Buffy: Me, the grown-up. The authority figure. The strong guiding hand and the stompy foot that is me.

Call Back: Glory's house starts to shake and she asks, "Did anyone order an apocalypse?" Earthquakes heralded The End of the World as We Know It in "Prophecy Girl" and "Doomed".
Cliff Hanger
Comically Missing the Point: Sadface!Willow is upset over her first domestic quarrel. Giles seeks to comfort her by saying it's over now.

Willow: (very upset) Over? How can it be over? I just found her!
Giles: The quarrel is over.
Willow: (quieter) Oh. Yeah.

Conveniently-Timed Attack From Behind: Glory shoves Willow against the wall.

Glory: Know what they used to do to witches? (brings up her other hand with a dagger) Crucify 'em.
Buffy: (grabbing Glory's wrist) They used to bow down to gods. (punches her) Things change.

Corner of Woe: After their fight Willow sits alone on a pile of pillows in a corner of the Magic Shop. Tara sits alone on a bench at the Culture Fair.
Cry for the Devil: The look on Glory's face when she describes what it's like to be insane -- she's clearly talking from experience.
Dissonant Serenity: Giles interrogating Slook.
Don't Split Us Up
Door Judo: Giles suddenly yanks open the door to the Magic Shop, then slams it into the face of Glory's minion Slook as he falls inside.
Everything's Better with Chocolates, Mimosa and Bubble Baths: Glory
False Reassurance: Buffy finds Dawn has been playing hooky.

Buffy: What about all those times I asked you how school was, and you said fine?
Dawn: Well, it was. You didn’t ask me if I was in it when it was fine.

Fate Worse Than Death

Spike: Hey, chin up, Platelet. Don’t get scared. Maybe Glory doesn’t want to kill you. Maybe it’s something--

Dawn: Worse?

Finger-Lickin' Evil: Glory licks the blood off Tara's fingers.
Fingertip Key Analysis: Glory instantly realises Tara isn't the Key when she tastes her blood.
Flechette Storm / Mind Over Matter: Willow breaks a mirror with telekinesis and sends the shards flying at Glory. When that doesn't work, she breaks out the little black bag.

Glory: What's this, bag of tricks?
Willow: Bag of knives. (a dozen daggers lift out of the bag and fly at Glory)

Foe Yay: Glory (naturally) to Tara

Oh, this is nice. Just hanging out, just us girls. You like that sort of thing, don't you?

Freudian Slip

Tara: Oh, but you're way beyond me there! In just a few-- I mean ... it frightens me how powerful you're getting.
Willow: (frowns) That's a weird word.
Tara: (nervous smile) "Getting"?
Willow: It frightens you? I frighten you?
Willow: Well, I took Psych 101. I mean, I took it from an evil government scientist who was skewered by her Frankenstein-like creation before the final, but I know what a Freudian slip is.

Gayngst

Tara: I trust you. I just ... (looks down) I don't know where I'm gonna fit in ... in your life when...
Willow: When ... I change back? Yeah, this is a college thing, just a, a little experimentation before I get over the thrill and head back to boys' town. (pause) You think that?

Tara: Should I?

Willow: I'm really sorry that I didn't establish my lesbo street cred before I got into this relationship. You're the only woman I've ever fallen in love with, so ... how on Earth could you ever take me seriously?

Gory Discretion Shot: Giles does something in the instant the girls turn away that reduces Slook to quivering terror. All we hear is a Sickening Crunch.
Incest Subtext: Especially given that a doctor earlier assumed Tara was Willow's sister.

Willow: I have to look after her [Tara]. She's my girl.
Buffy: (stroking Dawn's hair) I know what you mean.

Incredibly Lame Pun: The Scoobies explaining triangles to Dawn. Buffy is not in the mood to see the joke.

Willow: So we made a triangle with our bodies, and that's when I called Xander "obtuse", and he got really grumpy and then Dawn said we were "acute" triangle, and, well, hilarity ensued.

Intertwined Fingers: Brutally subverted -- Tara has had a fight with Willow and is sitting alone on her bench when a women entwines fingers with hers. Tara turns with a big smile...only to find herself facing Glory, who proceeds to torture her for information by crushing Tara's fingers until they bleed.
Is That the Best You Can Do?: Glory to Willow.
It's All My Fault: Dawn over how Tara and Spike have been injured protecting her.
Money Fetish: Anya complains about customers 'undressing the merchandise with their eyeballs' without paying for it.

Giles: Appalling. Almost as if they no longer think money can buy happiness.

"No" Means "Yes": Lampshaded

Tara: Do ... I act like ... the Big Knowledge Woman?

Willow: (weakly) No.

Tara: Is that no spelled Y-E-S?

Willow: S-O-R-T of.

Oblivious Mockery: Ben is fired for not turning up for work for two weeks, a fact that Ben wasn't even aware of until then.

Ben: There's an explanation for this. Which I can't exactly give you. I... Can I just tell you it's not my fault?
Doctor: Sure. You can also tell me that the dog ate your homework, or maybe eating Twinkies made you do it, or ... maybe yeah, that there's really a wicked demonic creature living inside you that takes control of your body and forces you to do its bidding. Take responsibility for your actions, Ben!

OOC Is Serious Business: Buffy blows up at Willow when she gets giggly with Dawn instead of studying, then stands over her little sister watching her do the homework. Eventually Buffy reveals that the principal has warned that Dawn will be taken away from her if Buffy doesn't show she's a suitable guardian.
Promotion to Parent: Buffy has to take over this role for Dawn, despite her desperate attempt to foist the task off onto Giles.
Pet the Dawnster: Spike reaches out to stroke Dawn's hair, but quickly pulls his hand away when she turns to face him.
Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: I...OWE YOU PAIN!
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Willow after Tara is Mind Raped.
Saying Too Much: An insane Tara recognizes Dawn as the Key. Right in front of Glory.
Some Kind of Force Field: "Thicken!" Willow uses a spell to slow down Glory.
Spiteful Spit: After all Willow's efforts to kill Glory fail, she resorts to spitting in the face of a Physical God.
Survival Mantra: Ben feels himself start to change and begins repeating "I'm Ben! I'm Ben! I'm Ben!" over and over until he morphs.

Glory: I'm hungry.

Tempting Fate: Buffy says she'll go back to college next year when she's more herself again. In Season 6 she suffers a year-long Heroic BSOD and her brief attempt to go back to college is a complete failure.
That Came Out Wrong: Tara is being held at the psych ward overnight for observation.

Willow: It's a whole night. I don't think I can sleep without her.
Anya: You can sleep with me! (everyone looks at her) Well, now that came out a lot more lesbian than it sounded in my head.

- Played for drama earlier on with Tara's comments about Willow frightening her.
There Was a Door: Glory enters Tara's dorm by blasting away the entire wall.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: Darkest Magick. It even has its own lock.
To the Pain / Black Bug Room: Glory describes to Tara what being Mind Raped will be like.

Think about it. You think your hand hurts? Imagine what you'd feel with my fingers wiggling in your brain. (Tara looks very scared) It doesn't kill you. What it does ... is make you feel like you're in a noisy little dark room ... (Glory frowns and fidgets uncomfortably) naked and ashamed ... and there are things in the dark that need to hurt you because you're bad ... little pinching things that go in your ears ... (Tara begins to cry) and crawl on the inside of your skull. And you know ... that if the noise and the crawling would stop ... that you could remember how to get out. But you never, ever will.

Vehicle Vanish: Willow runs through the crowd towards Tara & Glory while trying to remember a protection spell. A Chinese dragon passes between and Glory vanishes leaving an insane Tara on the bench.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: Willow gets Wicca on Glory's ass.
Walk in Chime In: Buffy's Big Damn Heroes moment as Glory is about to kill Willow.

Glory: You know what they used to do to witches, lover? Crucify'em.
Buffy: They used to bow down to gods. Things change.

We Will Meet Again: After Willow slows Glory down long enough for her and Buffy to escape.

Glory: This isn't over, you hear me? IT ISN'T OVER!

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 * [[Action Dress Rip]]: Glory tears off her dress after it gets sliced by a shattering mirror.
 * [[All Men Are Perverts]]
-{{quote| '''Xander:''' Whatever you choose, you've got my support. Just think of me as ... ''(nervous laugh)'' as your ... ''(frowns; Buffy looks curiously at him)'' You know, I'm searching for supportive things, and I'm comin' up all bras...}}
+{{quote|'''Xander:''' Whatever you choose, you've got my support. Just think of me as ... ''(nervous laugh)'' as your ... ''(frowns; Buffy looks curiously at him)'' You know, I'm searching for supportive things, and I'm comin' up all bras...}}
 * [[Bait and Switch]]: {{spoiler|It appears Glory has worked out Dawn is the Key, but she actually assumes it's Tara, because Tara is new to the Scoobies.}}
 * [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: [[Cold-Blooded Torture|Giles]] and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Willow]] both show their sinister sides.
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 * [[Black Eyes of Evil]] / [[Power Floats]] / [[Shock and Awe]] / [[Mind Over Matter]]: Darth Rosenberg makes her debut.
 * [[Buffy-Speak]]
-{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Me, the grown-up. The authority figure. The strong guiding hand and the stompy foot that is me.}}
+{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Me, the grown-up. The authority figure. The strong guiding hand and the stompy foot that is me.}}
 * [[Call Back]]: Glory's house starts to shake and she asks, "Did anyone order an apocalypse?" Earthquakes heralded [[The End of the World as We Know It]] in "Prophecy Girl" and "Doomed".
 * [[Cliff Hanger]]
 * [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Sadface!Willow is upset over her first domestic quarrel. Giles seeks to comfort her by saying it's over now.
-{{quote| '''Willow:''' (very upset) Over? How can it be over? I just found her!<br />
+{{quote|'''Willow:''' (very upset) Over? How can it be over? I just found her!
-'''Giles:''' The ''quarrel'' is over.<br />
+'''Giles:''' The ''quarrel'' is over.
 '''Willow:''' (quieter) Oh. Yeah. }}
 * [[Conveniently-Timed Attack From Behind]]: Glory shoves Willow against the wall.
-{{quote| '''Glory:''' Know what they used to do to witches? (brings up her other hand with a dagger) Crucify 'em.<br />
+{{quote|'''Glory:''' Know what they used to do to witches? (brings up her other hand with a dagger) Crucify 'em.
 '''Buffy:''' (grabbing Glory's wrist) They used to bow down to gods. (punches her) Things change. }}
 * [[Corner of Woe]]: After their fight Willow sits alone on a pile of pillows in a corner of the Magic Shop. Tara sits [[Alone in a Crowd|alone on a bench at the Culture Fair]].
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 * [[Everything's Better with Chocolate|Everything's Better with Chocolates, Mimosa and Bubble Baths]]: Glory
 * [[False Reassurance]]: Buffy finds Dawn has been playing hooky.
-{{quote| '''Buffy:''' What about all those times I asked you how school was, and you said fine?<br />
+{{quote|'''Buffy:''' What about all those times I asked you how school was, and you said fine?
 '''Dawn:''' Well, it was. You didn’t ask me if I was in it when it was fine. }}
 * [[Fate Worse Than Death]]
-{{quote| '''Spike:''' Hey, chin up, [[The Nicknamer|Platelet]]. Don’t get scared. Maybe Glory doesn’t want to kill you. Maybe it’s something--<br />
+{{quote|'''Spike:''' Hey, chin up, [[The Nicknamer|Platelet]]. Don’t get scared. Maybe Glory doesn’t want to kill you. Maybe it’s something--<br />
 '''Dawn:''' Worse? }}
 * [[Finger-Lickin' Evil]]: Glory licks the blood off Tara's fingers.
 * {{spoiler|[[Fingertip Drug Analysis|Fingertip Key Analysis]]: Glory instantly realises Tara isn't the Key when she tastes her blood.}}
 * [[Flechette Storm]] / [[Mind Over Matter]]: Willow breaks a mirror with telekinesis and sends the shards flying at Glory. When that doesn't work, she breaks out the little black bag.
-{{quote| '''Glory:''' What's this, bag of tricks? <br />
+{{quote|'''Glory:''' What's this, bag of tricks?
 '''Willow:''' Bag of knives. (a dozen daggers lift out of the bag and fly at Glory) }}
 * [[Foe Yay]]: Glory (naturally) to Tara
-{{quote| Oh, this is nice. Just hanging out, just us girls. [[Lipstick Lesbian|You like that sort of thing, don't you?]]}}
+{{quote|Oh, this is nice. Just hanging out, just us girls. [[Lipstick Lesbian|You like that sort of thing, don't you?]]}}
 * [[Freudian Slip]]
-{{quote| '''Tara:''' Oh, but you're way beyond me there! In just a few-- I mean ... it frightens me how powerful you're getting.<br />
+{{quote|'''Tara:''' Oh, but you're way beyond me there! In just a few-- I mean ... it frightens me how powerful you're getting.
-'''Willow:''' (frowns) That's a weird word.<br />
+'''Willow:''' (frowns) That's a weird word.
-'''Tara:''' (nervous smile) "Getting"?<br />
+'''Tara:''' (nervous smile) "Getting"?
-'''Willow:''' It frightens you? ''I'' frighten you?<br />
+'''Willow:''' It frightens you? ''I'' frighten you?
 '''Willow:''' Well, I took Psych 101. I mean, I took it from an evil government scientist who was skewered by her Frankenstein-like creation before the final, but I know what a Freudian slip is.  }}
 * [[Gayngst]]
-{{quote| '''Tara:''' I trust you. I just ... (looks down) I don't know where I'm gonna fit in ... in your life when...<br />
+{{quote|'''Tara:''' I trust you. I just ... (looks down) I don't know where I'm gonna fit in ... in your life when...
 '''Willow:''' When ... I change back? Yeah, this is a [[Experimented in College|college thing, just a, a little experimentation]] before I get over the thrill and head back to boys' town. ''(pause)'' You think that?<br />
 '''Tara:''' Should I?<br />
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 * [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Giles does something in the instant the girls turn away that reduces Slook to quivering terror. All we hear is a [[Sickening Crunch]].
 * [[Incest Subtext]]: Especially given that a doctor earlier assumed Tara was Willow's sister.
-{{quote| '''Willow:''' I have to look after her [Tara]. She's my girl.<br />
+{{quote|'''Willow:''' I have to look after her [Tara]. She's my girl.
 '''Buffy:''' ''(stroking Dawn's hair)'' I know what you mean. }}
 * [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The Scoobies explaining triangles to Dawn. Buffy is not in the mood to see the joke.
-{{quote| '''Willow:''' So we made a triangle with our bodies, and that's when I called Xander "obtuse", and he got really grumpy and then Dawn said we were "acute" triangle, and, well, [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]].}}
+{{quote|'''Willow:''' So we made a triangle with our bodies, and that's when I called Xander "obtuse", and he got really grumpy and then Dawn said we were "acute" triangle, and, well, [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]].}}
 * [[Intertwined Fingers]]: Brutally subverted -- Tara has had a fight with Willow and is sitting alone on her bench when a women entwines fingers with hers. Tara turns with a big smile...only to [[Oh Crap|find herself facing Glory]], who proceeds to torture her for information by crushing Tara's fingers until they bleed.
 * [[Is That the Best You Can Do?]]: Glory to Willow.
 * [[It's All My Fault]]: Dawn over how Tara and Spike have been injured protecting her.
 * [[Money Fetish]]: Anya complains about customers 'undressing the merchandise with their eyeballs' without paying for it.
-{{quote| '''Giles:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Appalling. Almost as if they no longer think money can buy happiness.]]}}
+{{quote|'''Giles:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Appalling. Almost as if they no longer think money can buy happiness.]]}}
 * [["No" Means "Yes"]]: [[Lampshaded]]
-{{quote| '''Tara:''' Do ... I act like ... the [[Buffy-Speak|Big Knowledge Woman]]?<br />
+{{quote|'''Tara:''' Do ... I act like ... the [[Buffy-Speak|Big Knowledge Woman]]?<br />
 '''Willow:''' (weakly) No.<br />
 '''Tara:''' Is that no spelled Y-E-S?<br />
 '''Willow:''' S-O-R-T of. }}
 * [[Oblivious Mockery]]: Ben is fired for not turning up for work for two weeks, a fact that Ben [[Jekyll and Hyde|wasn't even aware of until then]].
-{{quote| '''Ben:''' There's an explanation for this. Which I can't exactly give you. I... Can I just tell you it's not my fault?<br />
+{{quote|'''Ben:''' There's an explanation for this. Which I can't exactly give you. I... Can I just tell you it's not my fault?
 '''Doctor:''' Sure. You can also tell me that the dog ate your homework, or maybe eating Twinkies made you do it, or ... maybe yeah, that there's really a wicked demonic creature living inside you that takes control of your body and forces you to do its bidding. Take responsibility for your actions, Ben! }}
 * [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Buffy blows up at Willow when she gets giggly with Dawn instead of studying, then stands over her little sister watching her do the homework. Eventually Buffy reveals that the principal has warned that Dawn will be taken away from her if Buffy doesn't show she's a suitable guardian.
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 * [[Spiteful Spit]]: After all Willow's efforts to kill Glory fail, she resorts to spitting in the face of a [[Physical God]].
 * [[Survival Mantra]]: Ben feels himself start to change and begins repeating "I'm Ben! I'm Ben! I'm Ben!" over and over until he morphs.
-{{quote| '''Glory:''' I'm hungry.}}
+{{quote|'''Glory:''' I'm hungry.}}
 * [[Tempting Fate]]: Buffy says she'll go back to college next year when she's more herself again. {{spoiler|In Season 6 she suffers a year-long [[Heroic BSOD]] and her brief attempt to go back to college is a complete failure.}}
 * [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Tara is being held at the psych ward overnight for observation.
-{{quote| '''Willow:''' It's a whole night. I don't think I can sleep without her.<br />
+{{quote|'''Willow:''' It's a whole night. I don't think I can sleep without her.
 '''Anya:''' You can sleep with me! ''(everyone looks at her)'' Well, now that came out a lot more lesbian than it sounded in my head. }}
 ** Played for drama earlier on with Tara's comments about Willow frightening her.
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 * [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: Darkest Magick. It even has its own lock.
 * [[To the Pain]] / [[Black Bug Room]]: Glory describes to Tara what being [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] will be like.
-{{quote| Think about it. You think your hand hurts? Imagine what you'd feel with my fingers wiggling in your brain. ''(Tara looks very scared)'' It doesn't kill you. What it does ... is make you feel like you're in a noisy little dark room ... ''(Glory frowns and fidgets uncomfortably)'' naked and ashamed ... and there are things in the dark that need to hurt you because you're bad ... little pinching things that go in your ears ... ''(Tara begins to cry)'' and crawl on the inside of your skull. And you know ... that if the noise and the crawling would stop ... that you could remember how to get out. But you never, ever will.}}
+{{quote|Think about it. You think your hand hurts? Imagine what you'd feel with my fingers wiggling in your brain. ''(Tara looks very scared)'' It doesn't kill you. What it does ... is make you feel like you're in a noisy little dark room ... ''(Glory frowns and fidgets uncomfortably)'' naked and ashamed ... and there are things in the dark that need to hurt you because you're bad ... little pinching things that go in your ears ... ''(Tara begins to cry)'' and crawl on the inside of your skull. And you know ... that if the noise and the crawling would stop ... that you could remember how to get out. But you never, ever will.}}
 * [[Vehicle Vanish]]: Willow runs through the crowd towards Tara & Glory while trying to remember a protection spell. A Chinese dragon passes between and [[Super Speed|Glory vanishes]] leaving an insane Tara on the bench.
 * [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Willow gets Wicca on Glory's ass.
 * [[Walk in Chime In]]: Buffy's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment as Glory is about to kill Willow.
-{{quote| '''Glory:''' You know what they used to do to witches, lover? Crucify'em.<br />
+{{quote|'''Glory:''' You know what they used to do to witches, lover? Crucify'em.
 '''Buffy:''' They used to bow down to gods. Things change. }}
 * [[We Will Meet Again]]: After Willow slows Glory down long enough for her and Buffy to escape.
-{{quote| '''Glory:''' ''This isn't over, you hear me? IT ISN'T OVER!''
+{{quote|'''Glory:''' ''This isn't over, you hear me? IT ISN'T OVER!''
 }}