Deleted scene #1: From season 1 ep 7 ANGEL

Cut to the library door. Giles hangs a sign that reads 'Library CLOSED for filing. Please come back tomorrow.' He walks over to weapons case and lifts up the crossbow. He is studying it with a nostalgic gleam in his eye when Buffy comes in and sees him.

Buffy: Cool! Crossbow!

Giles: Quite. This(he says, hefting it for her view) is not your father’s crossbow. (Turning it) double action, hair trigger, holds six bolts. When you’ve absolutely Positively got to kill ever master vampire in the room, accept no substitutes!

Buffy: Hmm. Goodbye stakes, hello flying fatality. What can I shoot?

Giles: Umm. Nothing. The crossbow comes later.

Joss commentary: Originally we really liked this, but after looking at the entire episode it just didn’t feel right. It was too soon for us to show that Giles wasn’t , well, Giles.

Deleted scene #2: Season 6 ep 9 SMASHED

Spike and Buffy are sitting side by side in the alley on the stoop of the abandoned house. Spike suddenly stands up and paces a few feet then turns to face her.

Buffy: I want you to do me a favor.

Spike: What’s that?

Buffy: I want you to hit me as hard as you can.

Spike: What?

Buffy: I want you to hit me as hard as you can.

Spike: I don’t know about this.

Buffy: I don’t know either, but it’s been a long time since you’ve been able to hit me. I don’t even know if I remember what it feels like. Come on. You’re the only person I’d ask.

Spike: Me?

Buffy: Come on, Spike, I’m letting you go first.

Spike: This is crazy.

Buffy: Alright, go crazy. Let her rip.

Spike: Where do you want it? In the face?

Buffy: Surprise me.

Spike swings a wide roundhouse and clips the side of Buffy’s head. She spins and clutches the spot with her hand.

Buffy: Ah! Mother-! You hit me in the ear!

Spike: Sorry. That didn’t count.

Buffy: Like hell! That counted.

She punched him in the face and he flies through the door and into the house. She follows him.

Joss Commentary: When it all came down to it, it was a little too light and friendly for what we were going for. We wanted more tension, more emotion hidden there so that it could explode at the end like it did.

Deleted scene #3: It was supposed to fit in somewhere in After life, just to establish the forming of the troika, but it was deleted because the ep was just a little too serious, but it shows a front door. We see a blond kid, twitching nervously from foot to foot as he looks left and right and then knocks on the door. It’s ripped open and Warren, looking a bit harried steps out.

Warren: Hello?

Andrew: Hi. I found this at the Green Dungeon, hanging between the Warhammer 40,000 and the new Witchblade. Umm… Super-villain wanted to be part of a team. Do you have what it takes to rule Sunnydale?

Warren: Uh, yeah, this is the place.

Andrew: Cool.

Warren: So?

Andrew: Huh?

Warren: Do you? Have what it takes?

Andrew: Uh, I guess so.

Warren: It’s not really a guessing thing. You do, or you don’t. Are you evil enough?

Andrew: Evil? Oh, sure. Evil. I’m evil.

Warren: What can you do?

Andrew: I can summon demons.

Warren: Really?

Andrew: At least I think I can. My brother could summon demons. He summoned a pack of hellhounds to wreck prom.

Warren: oh! That was good work.

Andrew: Yeah.

Warren: But it’ll take a lot more than having a brother who summoned demons once. It’ll take dedication, craftiness, ruthlessness, evil plots. You have to plan. You can’t get squeamish on me when we’re dealing with robbing banks, breaking into museums! (Working himself into a frenzy) We’ll be building freeze rays, controlling peoples minds, invisibility, we’ll be making invisibilty rays. You’ll have to chip in. Everyone pulls his own weight. There’ll be money. Cash, Diamonds. Women-

Andrew places his fingers over Warren’s mouth.

Andrew: Shh… (Tears in his eyes) You had me at hello.

Deleted scene #4 Season 5 episode 7 FOOL FOR LOVE: This was originally placed between Cecily telling William he was beneath her and William bumping into Angelus as he heads toward the alley where Dru ends up biting him.

Dru Angel and Darla are standing around. Watching people pass.

Darla: Who to eat? Who to eat?

Angel: So Much blood, so little time.

Dru: I’m going to make a dark knight.

Angel: What?

Dru: He will be evil. Powerful. He’ll be more famous than you.

Angel: Sure, Dru.

Dru: I am.

Darla: You couldn’t make anything more powerful than a mutt. We don’t need a mutt. Come on, Dru, pick a dinner.

Dru: I can so. I’ll make something beastly. But… sweet. He’ll kill a slayer.

Angel: Right. You’re going to make a master vampire.

Dru: Anyone can be a master, my Angel. Anyone. I could make my dark beast out of the pleasant little crumpets.

Angel: Anyone?

Dru smiles and nods evilly.

Angel: Fine, Dru. You can make a friend. I pick him, and if you don’t turn him into a master within… What do you say, Darla?

Darla: Twenty years.

Angel: Twenty years… Then you have to spend the next twenty living off pigs blood.

Dru: Yuck…. Ok.

Darla: A game it is. How about that one?

Angel: No, too angry. He’d end up like me.

Darla: There’s only one you. That one!

Angel: No, he’s letting his wife beat on him. He’ll wake up too twisted. She could make a master out of him.

Darla: That one?

Angel: Too Tall.

Darla: That one?

Angel: Too short.

Darla: That one?

Angel: Looks like a boxer.

Darla: Oh! Him!

Angel: Perfect.

Dru: But, Angel, he has glasses.

Angel: Sorry, Dru. Make him a master within twenty years, or it’s pig’s blood for you.

Dru: Fine.

Later we get treated to a quick scene that was taken out of the final cut. It’s the point when Spike is participating in his first real bloodbath and he’s being accepted by the other three.

Spike is practiaclly hopping, he’s so excited. He pulls Dru in for a kiss.

Spike: I feel like Harriet Smith in Emma, only without the whole mousy girl thing.

He smiles and kisses Dru again.