Smashed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Smashed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)"

"Smashed" is the 9th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.

Plot synopsis

Willow finds herself alone without Tara and discovers she's now powerful enough to turn the metamorphosed Amy from a rat back into human. She does just this and they go out to have some fun. In the meantime, Spike discovers that something is wrong with Buffy because he hits her and does not feel the pain from the chip anymore. After making sure it's her, Spike is able to tell her that she "came back wrong".

Willow and Amy go over to The Bronze where a couple of guys try to intimidate them. They perform a spell on the boys to make fun of them, but soon they begin to perform more and more complex spells and the Bronze fills with weird things, strangely dressed people, mutations and so on. Willow is beginning to have a taste of her real power and she likes it.

Buffy finally confronts Spike and they fight, resulting in kissing leading to violent sex while the house in which they were fighting falls down around them.

Arc significance

This episode marks the beginning of Spike and Buffy's sexual relationship.