Conversations with Dead People

"Conversations with Dead People" is the seventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Several separate encounters take place around Sunnydale on one night. What makes this particular episode unique is none of the subplots, or the characters in them, interact with each other. Instead, the characters each interact with someone dead that they once knew, hence the title of the episode. According to... more

"Conversations with Dead People" is the seventh episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Several separate encounters take place around Sunnydale on one night. What makes this particular episode unique is none of the subplots, or the characters in them, interact with each other. Instead, the characters each interact with someone dead that they once knew, hence the title of the episode. According to the episode's staff writers, it was important to note that the primary emotion to be felt in this episode was "being alone". This is also the first episode, in the series, in which Xander, portrayed by Nicholas Brendon, does not appear. According to the episode's co-writer, Jane Espenson, it was determined that Xander didn't appear in this episode because his character didn't have a deceased friend, or relative, that he once knew, or had a direct relationship with. On patrol, Buffy discovers that her latest vampire foe is an old High School... less