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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Episode 07x01

Episode: 07x01
Title: Lessons
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 7ABB01
First Aired: Sep. 24, 2002

Season 7 » Episode #01 - Lessons

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 07x01 Lessons

Summary: Buffy takes Dawn to her first day at the newly restored Sunnydale High, only to discover that the school still hides the deep, menacing secrets of years past. Meanwhile, a remorseful Willow recoups in England and turns to Giles and the coven to learn to control her magic.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Kit Holburn	played by Alexandra Breckenridge
Halfrek	played by Kali Rocha
Principal Robin Wood	played by D.B. Woodside
The Master	played by Mark Metcalf
Drusilla	played by Juliet Landau
Mayor Richard Wilkins	played by Harry Groener
Adam	played by George Hertzberg
Glory	played by Clare Kramer
Warren Meers	played by Adam Busch

	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Lessons Xander Harris: Being popular isn't so great. Or so I've read in books.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Lessons Buffy Summers: Talisman must've been destroyed. Dawn: How'd you know it was a talisman? Buffy Summers: There's always a talisman.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAIR: When The First (masquerading as Drusilla) speaks to Spike, she touches his hair and cheek, but The First is unable to touch anything. However, since Spike is still mentally unstable after getting his soul back, it is possible that he's just imagining Drusilla is touching him.

TRIVIA

When the writers first came up with the character of Robin Wood, they weren't definite on whether it would be a man or a woman, so they picked a name that could apply to either gender.
In the coffee shop scene, when Halfrek is advising Anya to improve her vengeance, Halfrek warns Anya to remember what happened with "Mr. Czolgosz" (phonetically spelled "Cholgosh" in the captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers). This is a reference to a moment in the episode "Superstar" in which Anya, while explaining what she used to do as a vengeance demon, said, "Vengeance wishes, on ex-boyfriends. I'd wish he was a dog, or ugly, or in love with President McKinley, or something." On September 6, 1901, a fanatical fringe Anarchist named Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz is one of the main characters depicted in the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical "Assassins;" Joss Whedon, the writer of this episode, has given many interviews (mostly in conjunction with "Buffy"'s musical episode) in which he has expressed his admiration for the works of Stephen Sondheim.
The First appears to Spike in reverse order of the Big Bads from each season. Warren (Season 6), Glory (Season 5), Adam (Season 4), Mayor Wilkins (Season 3), Drusilla (Season 2), The Master (Season 1) and finally Buffy.