The Watchers Council (uppenbarligen) informerades inte. Scoobiesna återupplivade Buffybot och använde den för att imitera den riktiga Buffy i flera månader. Hennes förhållande till rådet var så häftigt vid denna tidpunkt att det inte fanns en liten chans att ruseen upptäcktes om Giles inte berättade för dem.
GILES: We just can't have her messing up in front of the wrong person -- or the wrong thing. We need the world and the underworld -- to believe Buffy is alive and well.
Observera att Buffys död inte resulterade i uppmaningen till en ny Slayer (som omedelbart varnar vaktarna), eftersom hon inte längre var " aktiv linje ".
New Vampire Slayer Wanted? by Charlie Mason
Where's the Watchers Council when you need it? Historically, every time that one Slayer is killed on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, another is magically drafted for active duty. Heck, back in the first season, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) only stopped breathing for a matter of seconds before a successor, Kendra (Bianca Lawson), was dispatched to Sunnydale. So, after Buffy spent the entire summer pushing up daisies, how come no new Slayer has been called to arms? Has the show forgotten its own mythology?
"We actually have an answer for that," executive producer Marti Noxon tells TV Guide Online. "It's a technicality. The reason [Buffy's demise didn't activate another vampire hunter] is that when she died the first time, a Slayer was called, so she's already had her replacement Slayer.
"It doesn't happen twice," she continues. "You only get one, and Buffy already did."
The fact that Kendra quickly kicked the bucket, and her next-in-line, Faith (Eliza Dushku), is behind bars makes no difference to the powers that be. "Since Faith is still alive," Noxon notes, "the line remains intact."
So, in other words, viewers shouldn't look for another stake-toting teenager to turn up in Sunnydale anytime soon "” at least not unless Dushku's burgeoning film career takes a dive. "It would take Faith dying for another Slayer to be called," Noxon says, "and since we can't get [Dushku] on the show, the odds of that happening aren't big."
För rekordet verkar alla ha haft en riktigt gal sommar och nästan fått dem dödade en massa gånger men det finns inget omnämnande av en "stor dålig" vändning som de hade att göra med, bara den vanliga vampyren och demoner. De hade tur.