The opening scene of the episode Spiral shows Buffy and Dawn getting away from Glory quite easily. Buffy writer Steven DeKnight said of the beginning of that episode:
“As a matter of fact, in the first draft of the outline for that script, the opening action scene where Buffy is trying to escape from Glory with Dawn, was massive. It was a ten minute long escape scene. Buffy gets smacked into a tree a hundred feet away, she ends up beating Glory with a sheared off lamp pole, there was big, big action. Joss read it and said “This is great, this is wonderful, Kubrick couldn’t film this in 20 days with five million dollars, so cut everything”. I’m like “Great, okay, that’s fine, as long as I get the Knights chasing the Winnebago”".
