Concerts
Tara's First Episode
Original Air Date: November 3, 1999
Episode 66, Season 4.10
Written by: Joss Whedon
TEASER
INT. LECTURE HALL - AFTERNOON (DAY)
The last rays of the afternoon sun pour into the class, blacklighting the students and washing Maggie's face in rich amber as she speaks. Buffy sits near the front, by Willow. Riley stands to one side of the class.
MAGGIE
So this is what it is.
Talking about communication,
talking about language.
Not the same thing. It's about the way a child can
recognize and produce
phonemes that don't occur
in its native language. It's about inspiration,
not the idea but the moment
before the idea when it's
total, when it blossoms in
your mind and connects to
everything, before the
coherent thought that
gives it shape, that locks
it in and cuts it off from
the universal. When you can
articulate it, it becomes
smaller. It's about thoughts
and experiences that we don't
have a word for. A demonstration.
Buffy Summers. Buffy looks around her. Me?