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Buffy the Vampire Slayer :: Blood Ties (05x13)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: Blood Ties
Episode #: 05x13
Production Number: 5ABB13
Original Airdate: Tuesday February 06th, 2001
Airs On: The WB
8.7/10 (3 Votes cast)
Episode Crew
Director: Michael Gershman
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
 
Episode Summary
 
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Buffy's birthday party is ruined when Dawn finds out that she is the key and runs away, endangering herself and the world when Glory finds her.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Clare KramerplayedGloryRecurring (5th appearance)
Charlie WeberplayedBenRecurring (7th appearance)
Troy BlendellplayedJinx (credited as Troy T. Blendell)Recurring (second appearance)
Amber Benson (1)playedTaraRecurring (21st appearance)
Kristine SutherlandplayedJoyce SummersRecurring (51st appearance)
Co-Guest Stars
Justin GorenceplayedOrlandoRecurring (second appearance)
Paul Bates (1)playedCrazie #1Recurring (first appearance)
Carl J. Johnson (1)playedCrazie #2Recurring (first appearance)
Michael EmanuelplayedBurly Guard 
Joe OchmanplayedJanitor 
Candice NicoleplayedYoung Buffy 
Elyssa D. VitoplayedYoung Dawn 
 
Main Cast
 
Sarah Michelle GellarplayedBuffy Anne Summers
Nicholas BrendonplayedAlexander "Xander" Harris
Alyson HanniganplayedWillow Rosenberg
Anthony Stewart HeadplayedRupert Giles
James MarstersplayedSpike
Emma CaulfieldplayedAnya Jenkins
Michelle TrachtenbergplayedDawn Summers
 
Episode Notes
 
This episode scored a 5.3/8 in the ratings.
 
This episode ranked 4th out of 17 WB shows for the week.
 
This episode scored a 3.3 in the national ratings.
 
Ranked 91 out of 136 prime time shows.
 
 
Featured Songs
 
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
Star Ghost DogHoliday 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Willow: This is exactly what you need - a twentieth birthday party with - with presents and funny hats and - and those candles that don't blow out. Those used to scare me.
Tara: Me, too.
 
Xander: A crazy Hell-god? And the fun just keeps on leavin'.
 
Buffy: Look, if - if Glory knew that you knew where it was, I -- I just didn't want to put you in that kind of danger.
Xander: As opposed to the other kind we're always in?
 
Anya: You make a very pretty little girl.
Xander: Anya, you wanna help me with that thing?
Anya: (laughs) Xander needs help with his thing!
 
Giles: I'm not sure our regular workout is challenging you anymore. Perhaps we should make it harder.
Buffy: You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry little bricks and use a stake made of butter.
 
Buffy: How was school today?
Dawn: Um, the usual. Big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
 
Dawn: I just think you're just freaking out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you. That is the case, right?
Buffy: Glory is evil and powerful, and in no way prettier than me.
 
Buffy: (opening a birthday present) Oh! It's beautiful. Thank you, guys.
Tara: Well, we thought you get lots of crossbows and other killy stuff.
Willow: Yeah, so we figured less killy, more frilly.
Anya: Gotta look. (grabs the dress from Buffy) Oh, it's just so lovely! Oh, I wish it was mine! Oh, like you weren't all thinking the same thing.
Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't. (whispers to Xander) I've got one just like it.
 
Spike: (reading from Giles' notes) "They had to be certain the Slayer would protect it with her life. So they sent the key to her... in human form. In the form of a sister." (to Dawn) Huh. I guess that's you, nibblet.
 
Buffy: Maybe it's time for a new tradition: birthdays without boyfriends. It could be just as much fun.
Willow: Preaching to the choir here, baby.
 
Xander: There's so many things I remember. Seeing Dawn, hanging with her, listening to Buffy complain about her. Mostly that last one. How could it be that all those things never really happened?
Giles: Well, it takes some getting used to, the idea of a bright fourteen-year-old actually being living energy thousands of years old.
Xander: I'm guessing some kind of super-powerful in her raw form.
Giles: People have killed, died for it, summoned armies to control the key.
Xander: You know, uh... she kinda has a crush on me.
Giles: Your point being?
Xander: Well, nothing, no. Just saying, powerful being, big energy gal digging the Xan man. Some guys are just cooler, you know?
 
Spike: She probably would have skipped off anyway, even if she never found out. She's not just a blob of energy; she's also a fourteen-year-old hormone bomb. Which one's screwing her up more right now? Spin the bloody wheel. You'll find her, just in the nick of time. That's what you hero types do. You'll find her.
 
Glory: Hey! We were just talking about you!
Buffy: Conversation's over, Hellbitch.
 
Spike: (about Glory) I thought you said this skank was tough. (Glory knocks him out)
Glory: If he wakes up, tell your boyfriend to watch his mouth.
Buffy: He is not my boyfriend.
 
Dawn: Is she mad about the whole fire thing?
Buffy: I think you sort of have a "get out of jail free" card, on account of big love and trauma.
Dawn: Really? Okay. Good. You think she'd raise my allowance?
Buffy: Don't push it.
 
 
Episode Goofs
 
In the teaser, you can see a boom mic reflected in the glass case behind Buffy in several shots.
 
 
Other Episode Crew
 
CreatorJoss Whedon
Executive ProducerJoss Whedon
 
 
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