Lies My Parents Told Me is the seventeenth episode of season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series loosely based on the 1992 movie of the same name. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series loosely based on the 1992 movie of the same name. ... The following is a list of episodes for the television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ...

Plot Synopsis

The episode opens in New York, 1977. Spike is beating a black slayer in a park at night while her son watches the fight hidden behind a bench. Spike has the opportunity to kill her but the kid distracts him and he lets her go, with the promise that he'll chase her again. Switch to a present day Sunnydale alley. Buffy, Principal Robin Wood and Spike are fighting a bunch of vampires. Buffy and Spike manage to kill theirs, but a vampire gets Wood on the floor and prepares to kill him. Spike kills the vampire from behind and helps Wood up. Wood thanks him, but the camera zooms in on the stake he's holding and we see blood dripping from his hand. He still seems determined to have his revenge, only not just now. The Whedonverse is a name for the fictional universe which includes most of the collected works of Joss Whedon, including: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer Angel: the Series Fray Tales of the Vampires and other comics The Whedonverse is also known as the Buffyverse or the Slayerverse. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series loosely based on the 1992 movie of the same name. ... Angel was the highly successful spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Fray is an eight-issue miniseries of comic books from Dark Horse Comics, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and drawn by Karl Moline (pencils) and Andy Owens (inks). ...

The final act takes place in R. Woods hideout. He takes Spike there with the promise to protect him, but this feeling is clearly undermined as soon as they enter and it is revealed that the walls are covered with all kinds of crosses. Woods awakes a PC that seemingly was hibernating and double-clicks on a song in a media player. It turns out to be the song that turns Spike into an evil vampire. Meanwhile, Woods reveals to Spike that he knows he murdered his mother and that he's going to kill the monster inside him. Unabashed, Spike confronts him and they fight. Spike seems to be about to lose, as Principal Woods leaves him beaten on the floor. But then he springs up with new energy and finally wins. It seems that he's about to bite him.

All the while, Buffy had been fighting a vampire at the cemetery and talking to Giles. All of a sudden, she notices Giles is trying to distract her while Woods kills Spike. She leaves Giles and rushes to Wood's place. She finds Spike there, who tells her that if Wood tries it on him again he'll kill him for good. Wood is beaten but alive, and Buffy tells him that she needs Spike alive and that she won't try to stop him if he persists in his revenge plans. In the closing scene, Buffy tells Giles that she already knows everything he was there to teach her. Clearly bitter, Buffy closes the door of Dawn's room on him.

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