Smashed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Smashed"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
After two previous kisses, Buffy finally embraces Spike before having sex with him for the first time
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 9
Directed by	Turi Meyer
Written by	Drew Z. Greenberg
Production code	6ABB09
Original air date	November 20, 2001
Guest appearance(s)
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson Adam Busch as Warren Mears Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells Amber Benson as Tara Maclay Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison Patrice Walters as Woman John Patrick Clerkin as Man Jack Jozefson as Rusty Rick Garcia as Reporter Kelly Smith as Innocent Girl Jordan Belfi as Ryan Adam Weiner as Simon Melanie Sirmons as Brie Lauren Nissi as Girlfriend
Episode chronology
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"Smashed" is the 9th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Willow, sad and lonely without Tara, figures out a way to turn the metamorphosed Amy from a rat back into human. Feeling newly liberated, they decide to go out and have some fun. At The Bronze, 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, filling the Bronze with strangely dressed people, sheep, mutations and so on. Willow is beginning to have a taste of her real power and she likes it.

Warren, Jonathan and Andrew steal a large diamond from a museum, in a comical scene resembling a famous sequence from the Mission: Impossible films, leaving its sole guard frozen by their freeze-ray.

Spike discovers that the chip in his head gives him no pain when he punches Buffy. After verifying, with Warren's help, that the chip appears undamaged and still causes him agony when he harms humans, Spike tells Buffy that she "came back wrong" and that she "has a little demon" in her. In furious disbelief, Buffy assaults Spike and they battle until Buffy unleashes her desire and kisses him, initiating such passionate sex that the abandoned house in which they were fighting collapses around them.

Steve Tartalia, James Marsters' stunt double, says he knocked himself out during the last scene, in which Buffy and Spike fall through the ceiling. "On that fall," he says, "our legs got tangled in the breakaway ceiling, and it caused us to tilt at an angle so that my head would be the first thing to hit the ground. And it did, and it knocked me out. Basically, I came to with some flashlights and smelling salts." Stunt coordinator John Medlen also hurt himself during this episode, while demonstrating how Spike should swing from the chandelier. The chandelier broke, he fell 7 feet, and the chandelier landed on his face, breaking his nose.

A longer, more intense lovemaking scene was originally filmed for the finale of the episode, but was cut out.