Self-defense is not violence. We call it intelligence. People are full of shit. Israel could go out and bomb anybody, nobody says nothing. It seems you almost glossed over the death of Radio Raheem. We love you, brother. All creative filming does. This is just a more explosive, volatile subject matter.
After the riot, the only people who lose out at the end of the film are the people who live in the neighborhood. That always happens. And so the buildings they burn down will never be built back. It was on th Street.
So, in a way, we do lose out. People have nothing to lose. Before the riot they had the pizzeria, whatever that meant.
They felt better about it, though. And they felt that they had some kind of say. They felt powerful. I made that choice because any time you hear people say Bed-Stuy, right away they think of the rapes, murders, drugs. It would be a fallacy to say that lower-income people always live in burned-out buildings. These are hard-working people, and they take pride in their stuff just like everybody else. You have to do an entire film on drugs. This film was not about that.
This film was about racism. The people in the film are very intelligent. The most ignorant person is Pino. Is there a difference between violence in the hands of the ignorant and violence in the hands of the intelligent?
But if you had really ignorant people fighting back the riot would have carried a different weight. I think that it is good these people were intelligent. Because then it shows this is not just a case of random violence. People knew exactly what they were doing. He gets that really from working for Sal. Because every man should be able to hold his own weight. They bear a strong resemblance to a musical score. Spike was easily outmaneuvered and fell off a thirty-foot tower, where he was unable to assist Dawn further; this would remain one of his deepest regrets after Buffy's death in the battle.
Upon setting eyes on her lifeless body, he collapsed in sorrow and wept openly. During this period, Spike officially joined the Scooby Gang as he fought at their side, [75] [33] keeping track of the number of days since Buffy's death. Spike remained unaware of the Scoobies' plan to resurrect Buffy until after the event; he returned to the Summers' residence in search of Dawn, only to discover Buffy alive-and-well days after her death. Unable to confide in her friends about being torn from Heaven due to guilt, Buffy began to go to Spike for comfort as a confidant.
Their physical relationship began after the demon Sweet cast a spell that caused them to share their true emotions through song. Buffy had begun to crave the ability to "feel" again, and expressed that she wanted "the fire back.
Their mutual desires clashed in the alleyway behind the Bronze, where they kissed. Though Buffy denied the act at first, their tension was finally consummated when Spike discovered that his chip no longer stopped him from harming the resurrected Buffy. He initially thought that it had stopped working, and attempted to feed on a woman, only to be shocked with pain. He then extorted the band of geeks known as the Trio to assess his chip, who told him that it was still completely functional; Spike came to the conclusion that it was Buffy who had changed, rather than the chip.
He showed her, claiming Buffy had come back from heaven "wrong. Although the already dilapidated house crumbled down around them, they didn't notice and allowed the moment to unfold. Buffy initiated their relationship partly as a way to punish herself, and partly as a means of connecting to life again. Buffy instituted much of the violence and sex between them which Spike happily took, and threatened to kill Spike if he ever told anyone about their time together.
Both members remained unsatisfied with their continued sexual acts; Buffy was very ashamed of her dark desires, while Spike craved the love, trust.
When Buffy believed she had killed a human, Katrina Silber , Spike tried to fix the problem by dumping the body into a river before Buffy could confess. When he revealed what he did and attempted to prevent her from alerting the police, a guilt-ridden Buffy took out her frustration on Spike and beat him thoroughly.
Shortly after Buffy's ex-boyfriend, Riley, returned to Sunnydale in search of a Suvolte demon egg smuggler, Spike egotistically informed him of his relationship with Buffy after Riley caught them together. Though Riley pretended not to care, he did accuse Spike of being the smuggler under the alias of "the Doctor. Spike subsequently tried to make her jealous by bringing a date to Xander and Anya Jenkins ' wedding.
And after Xander left Anya at the altar, Spike got drunk with the one-again vengeance demon at the Magic Box. He and Anya were able to relate easily as each had recently been abandoned by their loved ones.
They sought brief solace in each others' arms where they were caught on camera and seen by the Scoobies. Xander tried to kill Spike in a jealous rage but Buffy stopped him in time and her secret relationship with Spike was revealed as a result.
After witnessing Buffy's clear jealous reaction to his sexual liaison with Anya, Spike came to believe that he still had a chance to win her back. His attempts proved worthless, however. After being lectured by Dawn, he lost control of his obsession and cornered an injured Buffy in her bathroom. He made sexual advances towards her, and when she refused him, he grew desperate and tried to rape her.
After Buffy fought him off, Spike was shocked at his own behavior and tried to deny he would do anything, but he was violently reminded that the demon portion of his being still existed.
In tears, Buffy dared him to ask why she could never love him, but he quickly fled her house. He returned to his crypt in shame, to then left Sunnydale for the first time in nearly three years. He traveled to a remote location in Africa in seek of a legend. There, he underwent the Demon Trials , a series of brutal physical and mental tests, to prove his worth to the demon shaman in exchange for what he asked: to be what he once was, what Buffy deserved.
After his completion of the trials, the demon shaman restored his soul. With the returning of Spike's soul came a conscience filled with guilt, both for the sins he had committed throughout his life and his more recent attack on Buffy. He couldn't bring himself to see her for some time, and took shelter in the basement of the newly constructed Sunnydale High School.
There, he was tormented by both the First Evil and his soul, appearing to be losing his mind; he forced Buffy to leave when she discovered him, but he allowed her to see that he had tried to scratch out his own soul in self-contempt. During a moment of clarity, he helped Buffy to track down a Sluggoth demon created by Anya, during which time Buffy came to realize what had happened to him during his missing weeks.
Buffy, touched by his efforts, asked him why he had fought for his soul. Spike replied in partly cohesive mutters: "For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would never… To be a kind of man. And she shall look on him with forgiveness and everybody will forgive and love and he will be loved. Because Buffy insisted and because he had nowhere else to go, Spike once more became a reluctant roommate with Xander.
Spike initially had no memory of his actions; after discovering what he had done, he expected Buffy to kill him, but Buffy refused to do so, and instead took him to her house. In the Summers' residence, he suffered from human blood withdrawals, remained vulnerable to the First's influence, and was willingly confined with ropes.
She told him that she believed in him, a statement that would sustain him later through his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the First and its minions. After Buffy rescued him from the First, Spike helped her to train Potential Slayers by sparring with them.
In the meantime, his chip began to malfunction, causing him intense pain and threatening to end his life. To the dismay of Giles and her friends, Buffy showed her lasting trusted in Spike by ordering the Initiative's operatives to remove the chip from his head for good, telling him that he had the potential to be a good man. She also took Spike's side when Robin Wood attempted to kill him in retribution for the murder of his mother, Nikki Wood, the Slayer Spike killed in New York in the late '70s.
Ironically, by trying to kill Spike while he was under the influence of the First's programming, Wood freed Spike from the hypnotic trigger the song "Early One Morning," that Spike's mother once sang to him. The song evoked Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior after he turned her.
Finally able to address these issues, Spike realized that his mother had always loved him, a knowledge that freed him from the First's control for good.
Afterward, Spike bit Wood and left him heavily hurt, letting him live out of respect for Nikki. Spike assured Buffy that he had given Wood his last chance and that he would kill Robin without hesitation if he so much as looked at him the wrong way again. Buffy was supportive, stating that she would let him do it; both she and Spike knew that they had no more time for pointless vendettas.
Spike shows his love and admiration for Buffy by restoring her confidence in herself. Spike remained loyal to her when the other Scoobies and the Potentials removed her from her position as their leader, when he criticized them for treating Buffy with so little respect after all she had done for them. He even brawled briefly with Slayer Faith Lehane before leaving to find Buffy. He tracked her down in a house that had been left abandoned when its owner fled Sunnydale, where Spike offered emotional comfort and unconditional love, helping restore Buffy's battered confidence and will to fight.
His words had also restored the depressed Buffy's self-belief, and allowed her to trust her instincts, follow her hunch about the secret weapon being at the Vineyard, and helped her win back her role as leader of the army after Faith accidentally led the Potentials into a near-fatal trap.
Spike returned with her. When Angel returned to Sunnydale to help with the battle against the First, Buffy gave him a "hello" kiss; Spike witnessed this from a distance and overheard Angel tell Buffy about the magical properties of a mystical amulet that was to be worn by a Champion during the final fight. Later, Spike was hitting a punching bag with a self-drawn picture of Angel on it. When Buffy came to see him, Spike told her what he had seen and that he wanted to wear the amulet, as it was meant for a being who possessed a soul but was more than human.
Buffy explained that the amulet was meant only to worn by a true Champion, then handed it to Spike. They slept in each others' arms again during that second night. In the midst of battle, the amulet suddenly activated and began emitting a channel of mystical sunlight through his body. The sunlight destroyed all of the Turok-Hans and began to collapse the cavern containing the Hellmouth.
Buffy went to him and pleaded that he accompany her to the surface, telling him that he had done more than enough, but Spike decided to stay to finish the job of closing the Hellmouth. He told her that he could feel his soul. Buffy locked fingers with him and declared that she loved him. He answered: "No you don't, but thanks for saying it. As he burned and crumbled to dust, Spike reveled in seeing how it ended.
He died closing the Hellmouth and saving the world. Spike appeared in Los Angeles 19 days after his apparent death in Sunnydale. When Angel opened the package, the amulet fell out and Spike materialized from a cloud of dust. At first, he complained about being brought back, stating dramatically: "Can't a man die in peace without some high almighty deciding it's not his time?
Spike's connection to the human world was unstable and caused him to dematerialize at random, increasingly frequent intervals.
As his disappearances became more regular, a terrified Spike confided in the Winifred Burkle that every time he vanished he was being transported to Hell. He feared that despite his status as a Champion, he would still be damned for all eternity for his past sins. He asked Fred to save him, and she promised to find a way to make him corporeal again. Although Fred successfully created a machine to corporealize Spike, when Spike was forced to choose between his body and Fred's life, he faithfully threw away his opportunity in order to save her life.
Despite Angel's continued lack of confidence in Spike, Fred later told him that she believed him "worth saving. Just as Spike began to grow accustomed to his ghostly nature, a mysterious package arrived for him in the mail; upon opening it, a flash of light restored his body. Eve soon arrived with an addition to the Shanshu Prophecy that stated that the existence of two corporeal ensouled vampires would complicate the outcome of the prophecy, and perhaps even destroy the fabric of reality.
She told Angel and Spike that an extended translation of the text revealed that, in order to restore balance, the two must compete to drink from the Cup of Perpetual Torment. The winner would be bestowed with great responsibilities and pain before ultimately having his past washed clean, allowing him to live as a human again.
Spike, who desperately wanted to defeat Angel, traveled to the abandoned Nevadan opera house where the Cup was said to be kept. Upon his arrival, Angel engaged him in a duel for the Cup. The two vampires fought with fists and fangs, but, in the end, the deep roots of their century-old rivalry proved far more important to the battle's outcome.
In anger, Spike threw Angel against a pile of crosses and told him that, in the end, he was still a monster. Angel countered by saying that Spike was no different, but Spike denied any similarities between them, saying: "You had a soul forced on you. As a curse. Make you suffer for all the horrible things you've done. Me, I fought for my soul, went through the demon trials, almost did me in a dozen times over, but I kept fighting.
Because I knew it was the right thing to do. It's my destiny. Their battle culminated with Spike revealing his resentment toward Angel for making him the monster he became; he justified that although Drusilla had been the one to turn him, it had been Angelus's influence that had truly destroyed William Pratt and had forced Spike's more savage persona to develop.
In the end, Spike defeated Angel for the very first time in their long history. Angel later noted that Spike had possessed a far greater desire for the Cup, and was able to overcome Angel's superior strength.
Spike succeeded in drinking from the Cup, but the prophecy turned out to be a sham. The liquid in the Cup was merely Mountain Dew. Although Spike was then a corporeal vampire again and no longer bound to Los Angeles, he chose not to go to Europe in search of Buffy. He revealed that he wanted her to remember him as a hero who died to save the world.
He mockingly simulated a phone call between him and Buffy, stating: "Hello, Buffy, it's Spike. I didn't burn up like you thought I did. How are things? Angel's old enemy Lindsey McDonald subsequently chose to take advantage of Spike's desire to do good by pretending to be the late half-demon Doyle and persuading him that he was destined, like Angel before him, to "help the helpless.
As a Slayer, Dana was burdened by dreams and memories that were not her own and mistakenly believed Spike to have killed her family she was confusing other Slayers' memories with her own. She captured and drugged Spike, and cut off his hands. The experience caused Spike to more deeply examine the nature of the evil within him; he later told Angel about Dana's misconception that he had murdered her family, and said: "And I'm supposed to do, what, complain, 'cause hers wasn't one of the hundreds of families I did kill?
Spike then pointed out that he and Angel were innocent victims too, "once upon a time. Spike's relationship with Angel became even more acrimonious after the showdown with Lindsey, and Angel contemplated the possibility of Spike leaving Los Angeles after a petty argument over whether cavemen or astronauts would win in a fight. Their relationship greatly improved after Spike officially joined Angel's crew. When Fred became infected with the essence of the Old One , Illyria , and Spike worked alongside Angel and the others to find a cure.
He officially joins Team Angel in her honor. The two develop a unique bond, though Illyria actually seemed to think of Spike as her "pet. At some point, Spike was tricked into admitting himself to the Mosaic Wellness Center , a rehabilitation clinic where supernatural beings could be cured of their demonic nature, by the parents of one of Spike's victims; [] in reality, Mosaic was a maximum-security prison from which inmates were unable to leave.
As it turned out, Spike had a reputation as a "boogeyman" at Mosaic, with inmates telling stories about him to scare each other. During his time in Mosaic, Spike befriended Beck , a pyrokinetic teenager, and Betta George , a Splenden beast ; this friendship nearly killed Beck when the vampire Wiseau stabbed her with a stake as a message to Spike. Spike was the first to vote for Angel's plan to wound the Senior Partners by taking out the Circle of the Black Thorn and going out in a blaze of glory.
Before Angel's team entered what could very well have been their final battle, Angel gave them the day off and told them to do whatever they wanted. Spike chose to go to an open mic poetry slam at the McTarnan's bar, where he drank to gather courage and recited the completed version of " My soul is wrapped in harsh repose ," the poem he had written before his siring.
After he finished reading, Spike received tumultuous applause from the audience. The following day, he single-handedly rescued an infant and destroyed the Fell Brethren, and then joined Angel, Illyria, and a badly-wounded Charles Gunn in the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel , where the four survivors prepared to meet the apocalyptic wrath of the Senior Partners, as a way of going out in a blaze of glory.
After the fall of Los Angeles into a hell dimension, Spike and Illyria were separated from Angel and began watching over a group of rescued humans and demons, residing at Happytime Studios amusement park.
One such civilian, Jeremy Johns — despite Spike's resistance — became Spike's right-hand man and friend. In hell, Illyria soon began randomly changing back into her Fred form, which left her confused and physically vulnerable, so Spike was forced to often urge her to remain as Illyria in order to protect her.
While wandering the city, Spike encountered a dragon [] and considered killing it until it telepathically told him that he should mount it. Unknown to him, this figure was Angel. Meanwhile, in Spike's absence, the civilians were kidnapped by a group of demonic warrior women. After leaving the law firm, Spike encountered one of the women and commandeered her truck in order to rescue the hostages. Together, Spike and Illyria fought with the demon women; their leader used life-draining magic on the hostages to turn them into zombies and knocked Illyria and Spike unconscious.
Spike woke up in chains in a dark room, where the demon leader, Non , told him she couldn't absorb the powers of a vampire but was keeping him alive for his connections. To keep him company, Spike was left with his zombified wards fallen around him.
He was eventually approached by one of Non's lackeys, a Maria "Spider" Harley , whom he had previously met when he took her truck. While he was tied up, the two had a short-lived sexual relationship. Non attempted to bargain with Charles Gunn, then a master vampire, to return Spike to him in return for a partnership; however, Gunn beat her instead, leading her to decide to kill Spike, Illyria, and Jeremy.
The following day, Non brought Illyria and Spike to be executed, but the axe shattered when she attempted to behead Illyria. Illyria broke free and started killing members of Non's army.
As the battle broke out, Illyria remarked to Spike that he had slept with Spider, then forcefully kissed him, claiming to be his priority again. Non then prepared to kill Jeremy, but Angel's son, Connor , appeared suddenly and stopped her. In the midst of the fight, Spike discovered that Non's Sadecki demon, Noelle , was controlling her flock of female warriors, so he instructed Illyria to kill her. During the confrontation, she once more reverted between Fred and Illyria, but, after much encouragement from Spike, she was able to gather herself and kill the Sadecki.
The women were free from the mind control, so Spike was able to attack Non. After taking a beating from Spike, she began to use the last human hostage — Jeremy — to regain some of her power.
Illyria realized this and horrified Spike by killing Jeremy. Though upset, Spike took advantage of the situation to killed Non. After defeating the vampire Hugh Hefner , Spike had their headquarters at his mansion.
Spike partly chose to keep the girls with him in hopes that they would cause Illyria to remain on guard, thus making sure she wouldn't transform into Fred so often. He buried Jeremy's body, and told the other lords of Los Angeles to stay away from him. Later, Spike and Connor met up again and began their crusade to save the remaining humans in Los Angeles.
Spike eventually adjusted to Los Angeles' new status as a literal hell on Earth. It was eventually revealed that their position was a facade; Spike and Illyria were secretly rescuing humans and benevolent demons and evacuating them into the care of Connor , Nina Ash , Kate Lockley , and Gwen Raiden.
Spike was given the opportunity to return to the side of evil again, but as always he remained loyal to the good fight, and helped Angel to bring down the other Lords' champions when he challenged them for control of LA. Spike rallied with the rest of the gang against the machinations of Charles Gunn, who had become a self-hating and deluded soulless vampire unknowingly working under visions from the Senior Partners.
He also struggled to control Illyria's increasingly unstable powers in the hell dimension; she had continued to periodically revert to Fred's form and gentle personality, leaving Spike with the duty of protecting her.
During Gunn's attack on the Hyperion Hotel , Spike fought three of Gunn's enslaved Slayers, but was unable to defeat them all at once and was staked; however the fact that they were imprisoned in a time loop saved him, and he apparently managed to talk them round to fighting by his side rather than attacking him. After Gunn managed to unleash Illyria's truest form by killing Illyria's mental connections to Fred's personality, the only surviving members of the team were Spike, Connor, and a gravely-wounded, then-human Angel.
After Illyria was defeated by having her memories of Fred replaced by those of Spike and Wesley and Connor was killed by Gunn, Angel went on a rampage and began killing everything in sight.
Spike prevented the others from interfering in his grief, stating that they had to let him get it out of his system.
As Angel realized what needed to be done for them to return Los Angeles to Earth, Spike was asked by Wesley their then-ghostly connection to the Senior Partners to watch over Illyria, whose shell still contained the essences of Fred. Angel's plan worked, forcing the Senior Partners to undo LA's trip to hell by re-setting time to before the Fall, Spike kept his distance from Illyria, but finally made peace with a re-vamped Angel after more than a century of hating him.
Spike relocated to Las Vegas with his associates, the telepathic fish Betta George and pyrokinetic Beck, where he attempted to create Team Spike.
John had become sexually involved with Spike's sire and ex-lover Drusilla, and was convinced that Spike had "stolen" his soul. He was thrown from a window, and rescued by Groosalugg and his dragon , [] subsequently contacting Willow for additional assistance, reasoning that his enemies would be expecting him to contact one of Angel's team. After John took Beck and George hostage, he managed to extract Spike's soul with a ritual, but Spike remained good even without his soul due to his strength of character, and the fact that he had partly overcome his "evil" nature during his time with Buffy and the Scoobies in Sunnydale.
Willow informed Spike that with the ritual John had used only he could choose who got a soul in return, and Spike chose to give it to Drusilla, saving the then free from control Jeremy who she was biting and in the hopes of redeeming her. Drusilla killed John and Spike resolved that she was too unstable: her fragile mind could never handle the weight of the evil she had committed throughout her life.
He chose to take his soul back. Willow also informed Spike that Buffy knew of his continued existence, as she had apparently gone in search of information about the amulet and him to be sure about what had happened after the collapse of Sunnydale. Though Willow offered to tell Buffy about Spike's heroics, he declined, and told her that he would rather their meeting remain strictly between them.
Willow then takes Drusilla to Mosaic for treatment. Accepting the mission of giving meaning to his new crew, Spike decided to follow the Senior Partners to figure out why they were running. Upon his return to earth's dimension on his ship, Spike took to a coffee shop in London, where he got up to speed on the new anti-Slayer, pro-vampire world system that had come about as a result of Harmony revealing vampires to the world.
Spike quickly learned more about the rumors of "Twilight," the leader of an anti-Slayer cabal, and was quick to ascertain that Twilight was, in fact, Angel. During this time, he chased leads and pulled together a cogent theory of the prophecy involving both Angel and Buffy, [] and later sought Buffy and her friends out. He arrived at the climax of their confrontation with Twilight, appearing to the Scooby Gang as they and Angel fought off a mass of extra-dimensional demons.
He claimed that he alone could stop the current crisis as reality's "evolution" was thwarted by Buffy rejecting her role. Reunited, Buffy finally thanked Spike for destroying the Turok-Han and closing the Hellmouth and also revealed that she had known he was still alive for a time, but merely could not find the time to get in contact with him. Spike explained the nature of the prophecy she was party to, and informed her that the Seed of Wonder — the source of magic and "heart of the world" — currently resided in Sunnydale and had the power to end all of the chaos of Twilight.
Together, they delved into the heart of the Hellmouth where they found the Seed and its protector, the Master. When Angel returned, possessed once more by the Twilight entity, he attempted to kill Spike, forcing Spike to retreat to his ship and recover from the sunlight. From there, he watched as Willow — in full connection to the Earth through the Seed — led a charge against the military and placenturian demons that had been pouring into the then expendable dimension. As the magic suddenly being cut from the world as a result of Buffy destroying the Seed, Spike witnessed demons disappearing back into the sky, and immediately gave chase to one that escaped.
Four months after Buffy shattered the Seed of Wonder in the Sunnydale crater, Spike, having headed to San Francisco with the remaining Scoobies, visited Buffy on the fire escape of Xander and Dawn's apartment. He tried to warn her that he had heard rumors about a new evil tracking her, but their conversation quickly turned to the destruction of the Seed.
Spike expressed that, unlike Willow, he supported her decision, and reminded her that she had done right by her companions in the end. As he tried to cheer her up, she unexpectedly started to cry, and quickly went back inside the apartment so Spike wouldn't be witness to her growing insecurity.
As the gang settled down in San Francisco, Spike chose to remain there to give Buffy whatever support he could. As always, he followed Buffy on her nightly patrols and continued to warn her about the reports of approaching danger.
There, he encountered Eldre Koh , a demon who had been freed from imprisonment when the Seed was shattered. He expressed his desire to serve Buffy rather than kill her, and although Spike didn't believe him at first, Koh quickly disclosed the true threat: the mysterious "Siphon," a prophesied being with the power to drain mystical and demonic energy from anything he touches. Joined by Koh, Spike returned to the mainland to save Buffy, who was under attack by Severin , the Siphon.
Koh asked him why he, a vampire, would have such a strong desire to help a Slayer, which caused Spike to relay his and Buffy's story without reluctance. When Koh deduced that he was still in love with Buffy, Spike admitted that after everything she had been through, he believed she deserved to be with someone "normal. Inside, they found Robert Dowling , a detective for the S. Though Dowling initially pointed his gun at Spike and Koh, they quickly realized they were on the same team, and went to help Buffy.
After the battle had subsided and Buffy was being interrogated by Dowling, Koh told Spike that Buffy would want to talk to him for risking his life for her; Spike, however, chose to keep his distance. Some of the references are flat, just pop culture. And some people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made — an honorary black man?
You can print that… Spike needs to shut the hell up! He has no human feeling whatsoever. He wants to be the new De Mille. Peter Benjamin-Edward Stark was murdered on a Friday. Meanwhile Peter Parker was having literally the worst day ever.
He just wanted to help make the world a better place, but instead he got stabbed. That's just his luck, isn't it? Peter tried to keep his face a smooth as possible as the group around him talked in Italian, the Avengers promising they would explain later. They had forgotten that Peter had been raised by May Parker.
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