3x18 Earshot - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Episode 03x18

Episode: 03x18
Title: Earshot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 3ABB18
First Aired: Sep. 21, 1999

Season 3 » Episode #18 - Earshot

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 03x18 Earshot

Summary: A fight with a demon leaves Buffy with the ability to read minds. When she hears a fellow Sunnydale High student thinking about killing the entire school, she goes on an all out hunt to find the person and stop them.

Who appeared in this episode?

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce	played by Alexis Denisof
Percy West	played by Ethan Erickson
Larry Blaisdell	played by Larry Bagby
Freddy	played by Keram Malicki-S�nchez
Hogan	played by Justin Doran
Nancy	played by Lauren E. Roman
Lunch Lady	played by Wendy Worthington
Mr. Beach	played by Robert Arce
Ms. Murray	played by Molly Bryant

	Season 3 / Episode 18: - Earshot Buffy: You had sex with Giles? You had sex with Giles? Joyce: It was the candy, we were teenagers. Buffy: On the hood of a police car? Joyce: I'll be downstairs. You feel better. Buffy: Twice?
	Season 3 / Episode 18: - Earshot Angel: You can't get into my mind. Buffy: How did you... Buffy: Why not? Angel: It's like the mirror. The thoughts are there, but they create no reflection in you.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: In the scene where Buffy is talking to Angel about his charade with Faith, Angel's necklace jumps from being tucked inside Angel's shirt to lying over top of his shirt and back again.
CONT: Buffy looks up at the clock tower and it says the time is 12:40. She then runs a few metres and looks up again. The time is now 12:10.
FAKE: Obvious stunt double for the baddie during Buffy's final showdown with them.

TRIVIA

In this episode we see that the Sunnydale High school newspaper has an obituary section.
When the gang are together in the library, Oz thinks to himself "I am my thoughts. If they exist in her, Buffy contains everything that is me, and she becomes me. I cease to exist". This is a nod to French philosopher René Descartes, who came up with the Latin phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" which translates to "I think, therefore i am". Descartes used it to prove his own existence, claiming his ability to form thoughts made him a real, living, human being.
SPOILER: This episode was about a student planning to kill himself on the school campus. It was filmed before the Columbine massacre, but it was scheduled to air a week after the shooting and was delayed until the next season. Due to the weapon he would have used, a sniper rifle, and being in a clock tower, many people are under the mis-impression that he was planning mass murder. This was also contributed to by the fact that Buffy did telepathically hear thoughts of somebody planning to kill all the students, but it wasn't that student.