Potential (Buffy episode)
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| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 12 |
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| Written by | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | ||||||
| Directed by | James A. Contner | ||||||
| Guest stars | Tom Lenk (Andrew) Iyari Limon (Kennedy) Clara Bryant (Molly) Indigo (Rona) Sarah Hagan (Amanda) |
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| Production no. | 7ABB12 | ||||||
| Original airdate | January 21, 2003 | ||||||
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"Potential" is the twelfth episode of season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
Willow learns from her contacts that there is another Slayer-to-be in Sunnydale, the next Potential. She casts a reveal spell that makes all the Scoobies (save Buffy, who is not home) think this new Slayer is Dawn.
After Dawn sneaks out of the house and takes a walk to clear her head, she meets her friend Amanda, who tells her that all sorts of strange things have been happenning to her at Sunnydale High, like facing a vampire and so on. Dawn believes her and she and Amanda head to the school to investigate; after running into the vampire and encountering several Bringers, Dawn discovers that Amanda is the real next Potential and not her. As the Bringers move to kill Amanda, Dawn blasts The First's disciples with flame from a Bunsen burner gas valve, enabling her and Amanda to escape before telling her friend that she, not Dawn, is the special one; while Amanda battles and dusts the vampire she first encountered, Buffy, Spike and Xander arrive in time to defeat the Bringers.
[edit] Acting
[edit] Main cast
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
- Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
- Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
- Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
- James Marsters as Spike
- Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
[edit] Recurring role
- Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
- Iyari Limon as Kennedy
- Sarah Hagan as Amanda
[edit] Guest stars
- Clara Bryant as Molly
- Indigo as Rona
- Felicia Day as Vi
- James Charles Leary as Clem
[edit] Production details
[edit] Music
- Silverbullit - "I Love You"
[edit] Trivia
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- The role of Amanda (who first appeared in "Help") was originally intended as a one-episode part, but was brought back as a recurring character (beginning with this episode) due to Sarah Hagan's connection to episode writer Rebecca Rand Kirshner, who wrote for Hagan's previous series Freaks and Geeks.
- Clem's face gag that terrifies the Potential Slayers is essentially a CGI version of the one in Beetlejuice.
- The twelfth episode of the season is generally the episode in which Buffy has her birthday. Apart from the first season, which was a mid-season replacement and probably began just after Buffy's sixteenth birthday, this is the only season where Buffy's birthday is not only un-celebrated but also unacknowledged. This may be explained by the fact that at Buffy's last birthday party, in "Older and Far Away", Spike suggested Buffy should not celebrate her birthday any more.
[edit] Translations
- Italian title: On TV "Addestramento" ("Training") or, on DVD, "Aspirante" ("Aspirant")
- German title: "Die Anwärterin" ("Potential (fem.)")
- French title: "La relève" ("The Next Generation")
- Spanish title: "Las Candidatas" ("The Candidates")
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Arc significance
♦ Buffy assumes the role of trainer for the potential slayers.
♦ Amanda is revealed to be a new potential slayer.
[edit] Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse: January 2003 - Spring 2003 (non-canon = italic) |
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| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.11 Showtime |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.12 Potential |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.11 Soulless |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.13 The Killer in Me |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.14 First Date |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.12 Calvary |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.15 Get It Done |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.13 Salvage |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.16 Storyteller |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.14 Release |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.15 Orpheus |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.18 Dirty Girls |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.16 Players |
| L.A., 2003 | Angel book: Nemesis |
| L.A., 2003 | Angel book: Book of the Dead |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.17 Inside Out |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.18 Shiny Happy People |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.19 Empty Places |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.19 The Magic Bullet |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.20 Sacrifice |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.20 Touched |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.21 Peace Out |
| L.A., 2003 | A4.22 Home |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.21 End of Days |
| Sunnydale, 2003 | B7.22 Chosen |
[edit] External links
- "Potential" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Potential" at TV.com
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