THE BAY OF PIGS. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.

In “Restless” Riley makes an oblique reference to the unsuccessful (and subsequently severely criticized) covert invasion of Cuba by CIA backed exiles with the support of the Eisenhower administration in 1961 at the Bay of Pigs.

As he leaves for a meeting with the Initiative to explain his role in the defeat of Adam, the Initiative’s secret project under the direction of Dr. Maggie Walsh he has the following conversation with Buffy and Giles:

Buffy: Are you sure you’ll be all right? Cause I can be there in the morning.

Riley: It’s just a debriefing. They’re not gonna make me disappear, and they’re not pinning anything on me. I got Graham and a lot of the guys testifying I’m the reason they’re alive. I might actually get out of this with an honorable discharge.

Giles: In return for your silence, no doubt.

Riley: Oh yeah. Having the inside scoop on the administration’s own Bay of Mutated Pigs is definitely an advantage.

--Janice Chan