Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Revelations

Revelations
Season 3, Episode 7
Airdate	November 17, 1998
Production Number	3ABB07
Written by	Douglas Petrie
Directed by	James A. Contner
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Season Three

Revelations is the seventh episode of the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the forty-first 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)

and Anthony Stewart Head (Giles)

Guest Starring: Serena Scott Thomas (Gwendolyn Post), Eliza Dushku (Faith)

Co-Starring: Jason Hall (Devon), Kate Rodger (Paramedic)

Plot Overview

The Council sends a new Watcher for Faith, a woman by the name of Gwendolyn Post who warns of a powerful weapon that is being sought in Sunnydale. Things get worse when everyone else finds out that Angel is back and that Buffy has been hiding him.

Notes

Monster of the Week

Although Lagos, a tusked demon with an axe, is established early on as the villain of the episode, little is known about him and he's quickly killed off while rumaging around for the artifact at the heart of the episode, the Glove of Myneghon. The glove permanently bonds with the wearer and apparently harnesses lightning strikes at the utterance of a single-word incantation. When Gwendolyn Post's arm was severed, the power which the glove harnessed burned her from the inside out because there was no conduit for it to go through. The glove itself could only be destroyed by conjuring living flame to melt it down.

Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Vampire	Buffy	Staked	Cemetery
2	Vampire	Faith	Staked	Cemetery
3	Lagos	Buffy	Decapitated	Crypt
4	Gwendolyn Post	Buffy	Disintegrated	Mansion

Music

• Four Star Mary - "Run"

• Lolly - "Silver Dollar"

• Lotion - "West of Here"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Watchers Council: Gwendolyn Post, a disgraced watcher, comes to Sunnydale to cut down Giles, Buffy and Faith. Although Post turns out to have been expelled from the council, her words echo the sentiment that Giles may be estranged from the rest of the council.

• Intervention: While snooping around a crypt, Xander discovers that Angel is still alive and immediately tells Giles and the others about the situation. The resulting fall-out causes a rift within the group. Although she regains tenuous support from Xander, Willow and Giles, Cordelia and Faith distrust her and Oz remains silent about the matter entirely.

Characters

• Faith: Faith removes herself from the rest of the group after being burned on trusting Gwendolyn Post.

Referbacks

• 2x17 - Passion: Jenny Calendar was murdered by Angelus before she was able to recapture his soul and curse him again with it. It likely is not coincidental that the episode also dealt with betrayal and mistrust and that her death would have been prevented had she not been ostracized from the core group.

Xander: ...you would stop him. Like you did last time with Ms. Calendar.

• 2x22 - Becoming (2): Angel hoped to remove the sword from the demon Eyghon in order to open a portal that would suck the planet into hell. When his ritual did not work, he kidnapped and tortured Giles to get the answers he needed as to why he failed to remove the sword.

Giles: But sadly, I must remind you that Angel tortured me... for hours... for pleasure.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• The lightning that shoots from the Glove of Myhneghon in this episode was drawn frame by frame by an artist per Joss's request.

• 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: "Révélations" ("Revelations")
  • Italian: "Rivelazioni" ("Revelations")
  • German: "Der Handschuh von Myhnegon" ("The Glove of Myhnegon")
  • Japanese: "黙示録" ("Mokushiroku" - "Revelations")
  • Spanish: "Revelaciones" ("Revelations")

Quotes

• Giles: I won't remind you that the fate of the world often lies with the Slayer. What would be the point? Nor shall I remind you that you've jeopardised the lives of all that you hold dear by harbouring a known murderer. But, sadly, I must remind you that Angel tortured me... for hours... for pleasure. You should have told me he was alive. You didn't. You have no respect for me or the job I perform.

• Oz: Sounds like we missed a lot of fun.

Xander: Then we're telling it wrong.

• Willow: (about Angel) Well, he saved me from a horrible flamey death. That sort of makes me like him again.

• Buffy: Let me guess. Gwendolyn Post - not a Watcher?

Giles: Yes she was. She was kicked out by the Council a couple of years ago for "misuses of dark power." They swear there was a memo.

• Buffy: How are you?

Faith: Five by five.

Buffy: I'll interpret that as good.