The Order of Taraka are assassins, or bounty hunters. Giles says about them, “Unlike vampires, they have no earthly desires except to collect their bounty. They find their target and eliminate it. You can kill as many of them as you like. It won’t make a difference - where there is one, there will be another. And another. They won’t stop coming until the job is done. Each of them works alone. His own way. Some of them are human. Some are not. We don’t know who they are…until they strike.” Members of the Order wear a ring which identifies them. Spike sends the Order after Buffy to get her out of the way in What’s My Line? (Part 1) The Order included Octarus, Patrice and the Bug Man, who pretended to be Norman Pfister.
Appeared in: What's My Line? (Part 1),
What's My Line? (Part 2)
September 4th, 2005 at 5:41 am
Hey! I think Marti Noxon and Howard Fordan got the name “Taraka” fron Roger Zelazny’s “Lord of Light.” Taraka was the supreme demon being in the novel.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:42 am
sorry. typo. i meant “Howard Gordan.”
September 4th, 2005 at 10:23 am
So why did they stop trying to kill Buffy? Wasn’t that their job?
September 4th, 2005 at 10:29 am
Blondie-Bear - In the episode Ted, Willow says, “So we’re pretty sure that there’re not more Tarakan assassins coming our way?” to which Buffy replies, “Angel’s sources say the contract’s off.”