Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7/E19 Empty Places
As the residents of Sunnydale flee, Buffy searches for a way to battle Caleb, but everyone has lost confidence in her leadership.
- Bait and Switch Comment: Buffy Passing the Torch to Faith. "Don't...be afraid to lead them."
- Buffy-Speak: Faith is no In Charge Chick.
- Calling The Slayer Out
- Character Development: Faith doesn't hit back at Buffy because "other things matter more".
- Conflict Ball
- Continuity Nod
- Xander suggest wearing his pirate costume from "All The Way".
- Spike's liking for the flowering onion ("I Was Made To Love You").
- Faith saying that she shuts up Anya re Xander by remind her she had him first. Faith took Xander's virginity in "The Zeppo".
- Doomsayer / Arc Words.
- Dramatic Irony: Giles arguing with Buffy that the girls need time off at the Bronze.
- Even Faith Has Standards: Faith has murdered, raped, worked for the Big Bad, started riots, tortured and broken out of prison, but she won't let the underage Slayers drink alcohol.
- Foreshadowing: Willow winces as she hears the police beating the crazy guy. After Giles and Willow walk off, two other cops arrive with information on a fugitive.
- What's hidden in the mission that wasn't for Caleb.
- Funny Background Event: Andrew drawing on the board while Anya gives her briefing to the Potentials.
- The Glomp: Dawn to Xander when he returns home.
- Good Cop, Bad Cop: Spike as good cop and Andrew as a less than convincing bad cop.
- A House Divided
- Homoerotic Subtext: Andrew with his arms around Spike on a motorcycle, discussing the delights of the flowering onion.
- Humiliation Conga: Buffy has to deal with the disastrous raid on the vineyard, then she gets beaten unconscious by Caleb, then deposed as leader of the Scooby Gang.
- Idiot Ball: Buffy running out of ideas to kill Caleb or ubervamps. Over the years the Scooby Gang has pulled hat tricks against impossible-to-kill enemies including a rocket launcher (which Buffy is shown to still have in "Him"), luring the target into a place primed with explosives (the Mayor in "Graduation Day"), an Enjoining Spell combining the essence of the Scooby Gang (Adam in "Primeval"), a whole Chekhov's Armoury against Glory, or just plain old Kill It With Fire (they couldn't just burn down Caleb's lair?)
- I'll Kill You!: Buffy tells Caleb, "I will end you." He's not impressed.
- Jedi Mind Trick: Unfortunately the cop gets stuck in a loop.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Spike and Andrew discussing onion blossoms.
- Neck Lift / Destination Defenestration
- Police Brutality: Justified as The First is influencing them; it sends them to kill Faith.
- Single Tear
- Screw the War, We're Partying
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Clem
- Sunnydale Syndrome: Finally averted completely as everyone decides Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Talk to The Fist: Buffy punching Faith.
- Tranquil Fury: Giles telling Andrew to shut up.
- Too Soon: Willow and Xander try to treat his missing eye with their usual Gallows Humor. It fails utterly.
- Too Much Information: Anya revealing that she had sex with Xander on the bed; the Potentials sitting their immediately get off it.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No-one takes notice of Clem driving his little red car in broad daylight.
- Verbal Backspace: Also Clem
- What the Hell, Hero?
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Faith eating Andrew's Hot Pocket.