Lies My Parents Told Me

"Lies My Parents Told Me" is the seventeenth episode in season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy. New York, 1977: Spike is fighting Nikki Wood, a Slayer also seen in the fifth season episode "Fool for Love", in a park at night in pouring rain while her son watches from his hiding place behind a bench. Spike has the opportunity to kill her but th... more

"Lies My Parents Told Me" is the seventeenth episode in season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy. New York, 1977: Spike is fighting Nikki Wood, a Slayer also seen in the fifth season episode "Fool for Love", in a park at night in pouring rain while her son watches from his hiding place behind a bench. Spike has the opportunity to kill her but the kid distracts him and he lets her go with the promise that they'll meet again. "Love the coat," he adds with a smile, before he leaves. When he's gone, a clearly troubled Nikki finds her son and calms his fears by telling him, "The mission is what matters." The scene switches to an alley in present-day Sunnydale. Buffy, Principal Robin Wood, and Spike are fighting a bunch of vampires. Buffy and Spike manage to kill their quarry, but a vampire has knocked Wood to the ground, and is about to kill him. Spike saves Wood by killing the vampire... less