Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Consequences

Consequences
Season 3, Episode 15
Airdate	February 16, 1999
Production Number	3ABB15
Written by	Marti Noxon
Directed by	Michael Gershman
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Season Three

Consequences is the fifteenth episode of the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the forty-ninth episode overall.

Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers), Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris), Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), David Boreanaz (Angel), Seth Green (Oz) (credit only)

and Anthony Stewart Head (Giles)

Guest Starring: Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), Harry Groener (The Mayor), K. Todd Freeman (Mr. Trick), Jack Plotnick (Allan Finch), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), James G. MacDonald (Detective Stein), Eliza Dushku (Faith)

Co-Starring: Amy Powell (T.V. News Reporter), Patricia Place (Woman)

Uncredited: Scott Duthie (Henchman)

Plot Overview

The discovery of Finch's body further presses guilt onto Buffy while Faith continues to show no remorse. Having discovered her crime, the gang tries to figure out the best way to help her, but any attempt maybe sabotaged and risk sending her over the line.

Notes

Monster of the Week

There is no monster or demon in this episode; it deals with the fallout of Faith killing Allan Finch.

Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1–2	Vampires	Faith	Staked	Docks
3	Mr. Trick	Faith	Staked	Docks

Music

• "Wish We Never Met" by Kathleen Wilhoite: The song that plays during the montage of Willow crying in the bathroom, Xander staring into space and Faith in her room is "Wish We Never Met" by actress and musician Kathleen Wilhoite. The song appears on Wilhoite's debut album Pitch Like a Girl.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Big Bad: After mistakenly killing the deputy mayor and subsequently snooping in his office, Buffy and Faith discover that The Mayor is a "black hat" who is covering up for a greater plot. Faith later offers her services to the Mayor, not knowing what exactly he's up to.

Referbacks

• 3x11 - Gingerbread: Amy Madison turned herself into a rat in order to escape from a witch hunt lead by Buffy's mother, but is unable to transform herself back into a human. She is now living in a terrarium with Willow.

Willow: We're still trying to de-rat Amy.

• 3x07 - Revelations: When Xander discovered that Buffy had rekindled her relationship with Angel, who he had previously thought still in hell, he and the others staged an angry intervention which nearly ended with her assaulting Xander.

Buffy: Like that intervention you and Xander had on me?

• 3x13 - The Zeppo: Xander and Faith wound up sleeping together after he rescued her from a demon member of an apocalypse cult. After they did the deed, she threw him out of her apartment, naked.

Xander: She was fighting one of those apocalypse demon things and I helped.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• International: Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been dubbed into many different languages and the title translated for each different international version. Some international translations of this episode's title are:
  • French: "Au-dessus des lois" ("Above Laws")
  • Italian: "Fatta per uccidere" ("Made to Kill")
  • German: "Konsequenzen" ("Consequences")
  • Japanese: "ことの結果" ("Koto no Kekka" - "The Consequence of the Matter")
  • Spanish: "Consecuencias" ("Consequences")

Quotes

• Cordelia: Check out Giles: The Next Generation. What's your deal?

Wesley: Uh, I, uh, well, I'm, uh...

Faith: New Watcher.

Cordelia: Oh.

Wesley: Does everybody know about you?

Buffy: She's a friend.

Cordelia: Let's not exaggerate.

• Mr Trick: (realising he's been staked) Oh, no. No, this is no good at all.

• Faith: You sent your boy to kill me.

The Mayor: That's right, I did.

Faith: He's dust.

The Mayor: I thought he might be, what with you standing here and all.

Faith: I guess that means you have a job opening.