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"Two to Go" is the 21st episode of season 6 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Plot synopsis

Summary

After flaying Warren alive Dark Willow turns to go after Jonathan and Andrew who are still in jail. To give them a warning, Anya teleports into their cell, but the guard doesn't listen to her that they have to leave. She also cannot teleport them out when Willow arrives outside of the police station and starts to tear down the wall. Meanwhile Buffy and Xander are held up in the forest as Willow had made sure to damage the car. Buffy resorts to running to the police station and sneaks in from a side entrance when she realizes she cannot stop Willow in a direct confrontation. When Willow decides to fly up the hole to the cell, Jonathan and Andrew are already gone. Just as they leave the building, Xander picks them up with a stolen police car and they try to outrun Dark Willow. Willow however keeps up with the police car, standing on a truck she controls with the truck driver first unable to stop the vehicle. Only after it appears that Willow becomes exhausted can they put a distance between them an the truck driver finally manages to stop the truck.

Meanwhile at Spike's place Dawn convinces Clem to take her to Rack's in order to find Willow. It turns out that Willow is already there has murdered Rack and absorbed his magic in order to become more powerful. After leaving Andrew and Jonathan safe at the Magic Box Buffy finds Dawn at Rack's with Willow and a fight ensues. Magically the fight ends up at The Magic Box. Giles appears to stop Dark Willow.

Acting

Starring

Special guest star

Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

Guest starring

Co-starring

James Charles Leary as Clem (uncredited)
Steven W. Bailey as Cave Demon
Jeff McCredie as Officer
Damian Mooney as Patrol Cop
Michael Younger as Truck Driver
Brett Wagner as Trucker (credited but does not appear)

Production details

Translations

Italian title: "Due da Eliminare" ("Two to Eliminate")
German title: "Dann waren's nur noch zwei" ("Then There Were Only Two") Refers to a German nursery rhyme which is based on a song by Septimus Winner called "Ten Little Injuns"
French title: "Toute la peine du monde - 1ère partie" ("The Sadness Of The Whole World - Part 1")

Cultural references

Andrew: "You saw her. She's a truck-driving magic mama! And we've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers, and not one of you bunch has the Midi-chlorians to stop her." — This quote contains three different Star Wars references.

Andrew comments that Willow is, "like Dark Phoenix up there!" referencing the character and related storyline from X-Men comics.

In the scene right after the opening credits, Andrew tells Jonathan, "Laugh it up, Fuzzball", another Star Wars quote.

Spike, when confronted with the flaming-fists opponent in Africa, says "Here we are now, entertain us," referencing the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

When Xander, Dawn, Jonathan, and Andy are running from Willow, Andy asks if they are just going to wait for "Sabrina" to show up. This is a reference to Sabrina the Teeange Witch.

Quotes and trivia

After Willow is consumed by the dark arts she uses the phrase "bored now..." which her vampire self also used in the episodes "The Wish" and "Doppelgängland."

Tara, despite her death, remains in brief scenes that are part of the opening credits.

The name of the episode is a reference to the previous one, which ends with Willow saying "One down" after killing Warren. It is also a double entendre as to there being two episodes left in the season (this one and "Grave").

This episode, and its second part, "Grave", were shown, back-to-back, as a two-hour feature on its original airing in both the USA and UK – consequently, the presentation of this episode on DVD includes credits such as "Grave" Written by...

Buffy echos Spike's dialogue to Drusilla from the Season Two finale when she says to Willow, "I don't wan't to hurt you", and then responds after a blow by saying, "Didn't say I wouldn't".

Giles's line "I'd like to test that theory," is repeated by Willow in issue two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight against Amy Madison.

Continuity

Arc significance

Giles returns to Sunnydale (again).

External links

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 === Summary ===
 After flaying [[Warren Mears|Warren]] alive Dark [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] turns to go after [[Jonathan Levinson|Jonathan]] and [[Andrew Wells|Andrew]] who are still in jail. To give them a warning, [[Anya Jenkins|Anya]] teleports into their cell, but the guard doesn't listen to her that they have to leave. She also cannot teleport them out when Willow arrives outside of the police station and starts to tear down the wall. Meanwhile [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] and [[Xander Harris|Xander]] are held up in the forest as Willow had made sure to damage the car. Buffy resorts to running to the police station and sneaks in from a side entrance when she realizes she cannot stop Willow in a direct confrontation. When Willow decides to fly up the hole to the cell, Jonathan and Andrew are already gone.  Just as they leave the building, Xander picks them up with a stolen police car and they try to outrun Dark Willow.
-Willow however keeps up with the police car, standing on a truck she controls with the truck driver unable to stop the vehicle.
+Willow however keeps up with the police car, standing on a truck she controls with the truck driver first unable to stop the vehicle. Only after it appears that Willow becomes exhausted can they put a distance between them an the truck driver finally manages to stop the truck.
 Meanwhile at [[Spike (Buffyverse)|Spike]]'s place Dawn convinces [[Clem]] to take her to Rack's in order to find Willow. It turns out that Willow is already there has murdered Rack and absorbed his magic in order to become more powerful. After leaving Andrew and Jonathan safe at the Magic Box Buffy finds [[Dawn Summers|Dawn]] at [[Rack (Buffyverse)|Rack's]] with Willow and a fight ensues. Magically the fight ends up at [[The Magic Box]]. [[Rupert Giles|Giles]] appears to stop Dark Willow.