Xander is helping the girls away as Buffy continues to fight Caleb. She manages to land a good punch and send him flying, and Spike stops her from going after him, stressing the urgency to leave. Xander manages to get Kennedy up, and she runs for the door. Oops, he gets grabbed by Caleb. Caleb says that Xander is the one who sees everything, and indicates he’s going to do something about that. Seems that Caleb has actually been reading scripts, as opposed to Goddard. He takes his thumb and plunges it into Xander’s eye socket. Spike and Buffy leave Rona (whom they were trying to help up) when they hear the screams. Spike manages to punch Caleb away before he goes for Xander’s other eye (I swear these people love Oedipus Rex imagery more than anything), and Buffy catches Xander. The two of them carry Xander out, and I get prepared for the deluge of posts on how Xander wearing a pirate eyepatch in “All the Way” was “foreshadowing”. Caleb smiles and heads back into the darkness.
Scenes as Caleb does a voice over. The SiTs and Xander in the emergency room. Willow taking care of Xander. Buffy’s house, full of wounded SiTs, as she walks through the rooms. The SiTs are shooting her blaming looks. She can’t look at them. Caleb is talking about the story, and how it is going to have a happy ending.
Buffy walks alone in the night. Caleb talks about the foulness of women and the dirtiness of humans, as I roll my eyes. He says she is filled with despair because she does not know the glory that is coming. Caleb is talking to the FE/Buffy. He says he’ll kill them all, and that is the happy ending. Hell, he might be right.
So, we go from the best episode of the season to this. I am deeply disappointed.
