Buffyverse Dialogue Database - EPISODE: 'Lie to Me'


Season: Episode 7 of Season 2
Original Air Date: 11/03/1997
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon

Notes:

Buffy's old friend Ford comes to Sunnydale intent on becoming a vampire.
Plot Highlights:

Buffy sees Angel warning Dru to leave town. Cordelia expounds on Marie Antoinnette. Ford shows up at Sunnydale High. Angel meets Ford at the Bronze. Ford reveals he knows Buffy's the slayer. Angel asks Willow to research Ford. Willow, Xander & Angel investigate the vampire-worshipping club Ford's involved with. Giles gratefully breaks off his Monster Truck date with Jenny. Dru's dead pet bird won't sing. Ford strikes a bargain with Spike. Angel tells Buffy about siring Dru. Ford traps Buffy & vampire worshippers in a bomb shelter. Buffy uses Dru to force Spike to let everyone go. Buffy asks Giles to lie to her.
Memorable Moments:

Angel and Xander grumpily working together to investigate Ford (could you not call me dead boy?) and their fun filled trip to the Sunset Club (esp Chanterelle's wounded sensibilities and the random vamp-worshipper walking by wearing Angel's outfit)
Giles' post-date reaction to Jenny's taking him to see monster trucks (What, and miss the nitro-burning funny cars? No, couldn't have that!)
Drusilla cooing over her dead bird, Spike snapping at her and then apologizing for his rudeness.
Ford in the lion's den, trying to use vampire movie clichés to make a deal with Spike; Spike's reactions (I've known you for two minutes, and I can't stand you. I don't really feature you livin' forever.)
Angel telling Buffy about how he drove Drusilla insane before vamping her.
Buffy asking Giles to lie to her, and Giles delivering his great "everything is terribly simple" speech.

Transcript Source:

Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/19lietome.html
Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson
(If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)

There are 29 clips for this episode

AKAs

Xander referred to Angel as Buffy's beau

Willow referred to Willow as so the 'Net girl

Xander referred to Angel as Dead Boy

Xander referred to Angel as Bossy the cow

Chanterelle referred to Vampires as the Lonely Ones

Xander referred to Vampires as the nasty, pointy, bitey ones

Giles referred to Drusilla as a sometime paramour of Spike's

Spike referred to Spike as a bad, rude man

characters

Story Arcs

NOTES ON EPISODE ART: CREATED 06/2002 ~This collage was created for this week's Imaging Buffy Challenge; since the challenge was to create a collage for "Lie to Me", I just had to add the results to this site... Lemme just say that the crystal clear DVD caps provided by Laura & Val for this challenge have seriously got me lusting after a DVD-ROM drive of my own! The collage itself is fairly straight forward, just layered images, and tweaked the coloring a very little bit. Once I had the basic layout, I copy pasted the whole thing onto itself, flipped it horizontally, reduced the opacity and masked out bits and pieces to try to give it a little more mystery and depth befitting the whole "secrets & lies" theme of the episode. I chose to focus on the main issue of the episode: the Billy/Buffy dynamic, with supporting roll to Angel's secret past with Dru & Buffy's discovery of it.

Notes: Buffy's old friend Ford comes to Sunnydale intent on becoming a vampire. Plot Highlights: Buffy sees Angel warning Dru to leave town. Cordelia expounds on Marie Antoinnette. Ford shows up at Sunnydale High. Angel meets Ford at the Bronze. Ford reveals he knows Buffy's the slayer. Angel asks Willow to research Ford. Willow, Xander & Angel investigate the vampire-worshipping club Ford's involved with. Giles gratefully breaks off his Monster Truck date with Jenny. Dru's dead pet bird won't sing. Ford strikes a bargain with Spike. Angel tells Buffy about siring Dru. Ford traps Buffy & vampire worshippers in a bomb shelter. Buffy uses Dru to force Spike to let everyone go. Buffy asks Giles to lie to her. Memorable Moments: Angel and Xander grumpily working together to investigate Ford (could you not call me dead boy?) and their fun filled trip to the Sunset Club (esp Chanterelle's wounded sensibilities and the random vamp-worshipper walking by wearing Angel's outfit) Giles' post-date reaction to Jenny's taking him to see monster trucks (What, and miss the nitro-burning funny cars? No, couldn't have that!) Drusilla cooing over her dead bird, Spike snapping at her and then apologizing for his rudeness. Ford in the lion's den, trying to use vampire movie clichés to make a deal with Spike; Spike's reactions (I've known you for two minutes, and I can't stand you. I don't really feature you livin' forever.) Angel telling Buffy about how he drove Drusilla insane before vamping her. Buffy asking Giles to lie to her, and Giles delivering his great "everything is terribly simple" speech.
Transcript Source: Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/19lietome.html Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson (If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)
There are 29 clips for this episode

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