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Bad Girls is the fourteenth episode of the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

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

And: Anthony Stewart Head (Giles)

Guest Starring: Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), Harry Groener (Mayor Richard Wilkins III), K. Todd Freeman (Mr. Trick), Jack Plotnick (Allan Finch), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndham-Pryce), Christian Clemenson (Balthazar), Eliza Dushku (Faith)

Co-Starring: Alex Skuby (Vincent), Wendy Clifford (Mrs. Taggert), Ron Rogge (Cop)

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 2.1 Monster of the Week 2.2 Body Count 2.3 Music 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes

[edit] Plot Overview

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

Balthazar is an obese demon who was robbed of his powers and thought killed 100 years ago. Now in the present, he leads a vampire cult known as El Eliminati who are desperate to regain his amulet and, in turn, his powers. Wesley explains their entire history until Buffy is too bored to listen anymore:

"Fifteenth Century duelist cult, deadly in their day. Their numbers dwindled in later centuries due to an increase in anti-vampire activity and a lot of pointless dueling. They eventually became the acolytes of a demon called Balthazar, who brought them to the New World, specifically here. They were driven out a hundred years ago. Happily, Balthazar was killed. I don't know by whom."

It is heavily implied that Mayor Wilkins was the one who crippled Balthazar, although he never comes out and says it.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Vampire	Buffy	Staked	Cemetery
2–3	Vampires	Faith	Staked	Cemetery
4	Vampire	Buffy	Staked	Sewer
5	Vampire	Balthazar	Neck Snapped	Warehouse
6	Vampire	Faith	Staked	Alley
7–8	Vampires	Buffy	Staked	Alley
9	Allan Finch	Faith	Stabbed	Alley
10	Vampire	Giles	Decapitated	Warehouse
11	Balthazar	Buffy	Electrocuted	Warehouse
12	Vampire	Mr. Trick	Staked	City Hall

[edit] Music

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

• Big Bad: The Mayor's plot remains vague, but he talks about "ascension" to a "higher plane." He also says that the vampire with the swords does not concern him because his ascension is imminent and those details will become trivial. After some time, the Mayor casts a spell which makes him invulnerable for 100 days, until his ascension.

• Watcher: Giles' replacement, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, finally arrives in Sunnydale to take Buffy and Faith under his wing. However, his by-the-book style and general lack of street smarts does not endear him to either and the atmosphere recalls Buffy's first meeting with Giles.

[edit] Characters

• Faith: Faith mistakenly murders Allan Finch, the deputy mayor, believing that he was a vampire. The killing strains her relationship with Buffy and ostracizes her from the group as a whole. Although she refuses to admit it, the murder weighs heavily on her mind too, made clear by the Macbeth nod where Faith was desperately cleaning her hands believing them stained with blood.

[edit] Referbacks

• 3x07 - Revelations: Gwendolyn Post posed as Faith's new watcher briefly in order to get at the Glove of Myneghon, which allowed her to wield massive power. After she was stopped, they later discovered that she was a watcher but was dismissed for her dark ways.

Wesley: Oh yes. Gwendolyn Post. We all heard.

• 1x13 - Prophecy Girl: Buffy was drowned by The Master in order to fulfill the prophecy concerning them both, but she was revived when Xander performed CPR on her.

Buffy: I hate it when they drown me.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• First Appearance: Alexis Denisof makes his first appearance as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, Buffy's new tightly-wound Watcher. He spends the rest of the season in Sunnydale, but more popularly appeared in the Angel spin-off.

[edit] 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: "El Eliminati"
  • Italian: "Balthzar"
  • German: "Der neue Wächter" ("The New Watcher")
  • Japanese: "バッドガールズ" ("Baddo Gāruzu" - "Bad Girls")
  • Spanish: "Chicas malas" ("Bad Girls")

[edit] Allusions and References

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

• Wesley: Ah. This is perhaps Faith.
  Faith: New Watcher?
  Buffy and Giles: New Watcher.
  Faith: Screw that.
  (Faith turns around and leaves.)
  Buffy: (to Giles) Now, why didn't I just say that?