Andrew Wells
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Andrew was a member of the Troika, a group made up of Andrew (left), Warren (center) and Jonathan (right). Their main goal, when they joined forces (S6 I believe), was to be the new 'big bad' in town, to foil Buffy and gets rich. (see clip below, Flooded - S6,Ep4) Both Andrew and Jonathan have never really hurt anyone, (see clip below, Flooded - S6,Ep4) their previous stunts where annoying, but rarely cause injury. Warren is another matter, he was involved with his girlfriend's death, but it's hard to tell if she just tripped running away from him or if he meant her to get hurt. Warren was also responsible for Tara's death and if it wasn't for Willow's power that removed the bullet from Buffy, she would have died as well. Up to this point he basically killed 1 person (Tara), attempted to kill another (Buffy) and in some way is responsible to his ex-girlfriend's death. All in all not a pure soul. After Warren was brutally killed by Willow, The First Evil, uses Warrens image to convince Andrew to kill Jonathan. Andrew thinks that the three of them will become gods. This is a lie and The First Evil just wants to help open the Hellmouth and bring one of his uber-vampires out to destroy Buffy and help bring about the Apocalypse. Andrew is convinced and stabs Jonathan over the seal. (See clip below, Conversations With Dead People - S7,Ep7 and Never Leave Me - S7, Ep9) letting one uber-vampire loose on Sunnydale. During 'Never Leave Me' (see clip below, Never Leave Me - S7, Ep9) Andrew is caught by Willow while he is on an errand for The First Evil posing as Warren. Andrew is kept tied up for a couple of episodes at the Slayerettes' headquarters, Buffy and Dawn's house. He is tied up until everyone sees that it's pointless and he's just annoying and not a real threat. So they untie him and he helps with the cooking, whines a lot, but is rather funny. Andrew does try and trick The First Evil into talking to find out about its weakness, but he doesn't succeed. He says that he wants to be good and make up for all the things he has done as well as the murder of Jonathan. He says that he wants to be redeemed and he is willing to do what is needed to make up for what he did (See clip below, Storyteller - S7,Ep16). He is a 'fallen angel'. During Chosen (S7, Ep22) Andrew knows that he will most likely not survive the coming apocalypse and he is fine with that. It seems that he feels that the only way to atone for murdering his best friend, Jonathan, is to 'fight the good fight' and die 'for the cause'. After surviving the destruction of Sunnydale he is in a daze and can't believe that he actually survived. He doesn't seems to believe that he deserves to survive. Andrew seems to be one of the only 'fallen angels' that knows that nothing they do will wipe away their crimes or the blood on their hands. An eye for an eye, his life for the one he snuffed out, Jonathan. I was touched that he stuck by Anya and gave her courage and support in the end. He didn't need to tell Xander the half lie about Anya's death, Andrew saw that Xander needed to hear something, anything about his former love. I think it's a half lie because it's hard to tell from the episode, from the angles that we have of the fight if Anya was blocking someone from directly killing Andrew. The important thing is that she stayed with her friends and fought by their sides. Would you like to send me some feedback about what I've written or on my site? COMMENTS |
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" I know I get tired of being the other guy! I don't know if he does (Andrew, the character he plays). In one of our last episodes, it shows that he's just a follower, he doesn't think for himself. He's just looking for someone to lead him." Thomas 'Tom' Lenk BBC Cult Clips from the Buffy Dialogue Database DEMON:
We had a deal. You got what you wanted. Now give me what I want.
The head of the Slayer. Flooded (S6,Ep4) JONATHAN: Are we really gonna kill her? That's so sad. WARREN: Shut up, Whine-athan. ANDREW: But ... I, I don't want to kill Buffy either. JONATHAN: Yeah, she saved my life a bunch of times! Plus, she's hot. WARREN: It's her or us. I mean, we have to do it. ANDREW: We're talking about murder. WARREN: No, we're talking about staying alive, and since this is my mom's house, I think what I say goes. ANDREW: But aside from the moral issues, and the mess, we can get in trouble for murder. WARREN: Duh! You know, the last I checked, the authorities also frowned on bank robbery too. Genius! JONATHAN: I don't even know if we could kill Buffy. She's got super-strength. ANDREW: And, you know, killing people, this is not why we got together in the first place. JONATHAN: Yeah. We teamed up with one clear, super-cool mission statement. Remember? (Flash-cut to past) WARREN: So ... you guys wanna team up and take over Sunnydale? ANDREW/JONATHAN: (unison) Okay. (Flash back to the present) WARREN: Of course I remember. It was last month. JONATHAN: Then you know we have a mission! Shrink rays... ("TO
DO" list: Control
The Weather, Miniaturize Fort Knox, Conjure Fake I.D.s, Shrink
Ray, Girls, Girls, The Gorilla Thing) JONATHAN:
...trained gorillas. Workable prototype jetpacks ... and chicks,
chicks, chicks. I know that's the action I signed on for. Flooded (S6,Ep4) The First Evil WARREN:
Nice job. Conversations With Dead People (S7,Ep7) (camera pans up to a walking man in Spike-like boots & jacket. except it's Andrew) WARREN:
All right. Looking good. How do you feel? Never Leave Me (S7, Ep9) Getting Caught BUTCHER:
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While in the Sunnydale High School basement, The Bringers attack Buffy en masse and she defends herself with a flurry of punches and kicks. As Andrew watches her fight, he notices his camera sitting on a ledge by the door. He picks it up and starts filming. Buffy fights the Bringers, her moves are a deadly ballet. ANDREW: (v.o.) She is like a woman fighting for more than life. She fights like fighting is her life. It is the air she breathes and she knows she will win because there is no alternative. Buffy leaps to her feet and knocks out two of the Bringers with a simultaneous kick-and-punch combination. The one remaining conscious Bringer flees the room. BUFFY: It’s your turn, Andrew. Andrew puts down the camera as Buffy takes the dagger from her bag. ANDREW: So we figure what? I stand on the seal and hold the knife and like command it to stop glowing in Tawarick? Buffy doesn’t hand Andrew the knife. Instead, she starts circling the seal opposite him, her gaze cold. BUFFY: Or we could do this. ANDREW: (confused) What… BUFFY: Doesn’t really make sense, does it? Bringing you here to talk to it? This thing doesn’t understand words. It understands blood. Andrew panics, realizing where this is going. ANDREW: Blood opens it. You don’t want to open it. Opening it would be bad. BUFFY: Yeah, Willow did a little research. Turns out the blood of the person that awoke it— you— different kind of deal. It reverses the whole thing. ANDREW: How… how much blood? Are you going to…? BUFFY: I don’t know. Maybe not enough to kill you. ANDREW: So this is my redemption at last. I buy back my own bruised soul with the blood of my heart… but not… not enough to kill. BUFFY: Stop! Stop telling stories. Life isn’t a story. ANDREW: Sorry, sorry. BUFFY: Shut up. You always do this. You make everything into a story so no one’s responsible for anything because they’re just following a script. ANDREW: Please don’t kill me. Warren said Jonathan would be okay. I trusted him and I lost my friend. BUFFY: You didn’t lose him! You murdered him. ANDREW: (pleading) I know. But you don’t need to kill me. You said we could all get through this. BUFFY: I made it up. I’m making it all up. So what kind of hero does that make me? ANDREW: No, you’re doing a great job, really. Kudos. BUFFY: Yeah, well, I don’t like having to give a bunch of speeches about how we’re all going to live, because we won’t. This isn’t some story where good triumphs because good triumphs. Good people are going to die. Girls. Maybe me. Probably you. Probably right now. Andrew is close to tears. ANDREW: Don’t… please… Buffy drags him over to seal and holds him over it, the dagger raised to strike. BUFFY: When your blood pours out, it might save the world. What do you think about that? Does it buy it all back? Are you redeemed? ANDREW: No! BUFFY: Why not? He starts to cry now as he realizes he truly might be about to die. ANDREW: (sobs) Because I killed him. Because I listened to Warren and I pretended that I thought it was him but I knew it wasn’t. And I killed Jonathan. And now you’re going to kill me and I’m scared and I’m going to die. And this… this is what Jonathan felt. A tear rolls down Andrew’s face and falls onto the seal. When the drop hits the metal of the seal, it instantly stops glowing and goes dormant once again. Buffy releases Andrew and he collapses to the ground. ANDREW: It stopped. BUFFY: It didn’t want blood. It wanted tears. She is now kinder and gentler toward him than she has ever been in the past. ANDREW: Thanks. BUFFY: Sorry I had to— ANDREW: You weren’t really going to stab me, were you? BUFFY: I wasn’t going to stab you. ANDREW: What if the tears didn’t work? She says nothing, merely gives him a meaningful look, then walks out. After a moment, he picks up his camcorder and follows her. Storyteller (S7,Ep16) |
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Andrew sits on the closed toilet again in Buffy's house, talking to the camera. ANDREW: Here’s the thing. I killed my best friend. There’s a big fight coming and I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t even think I’m going to live through it. That’s probably the way it should be. I guess I… He sighs, then reaches out and switches off the camera. Storyteller (S7,Ep16) |
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ANDREW: It’s going to be bad, isn’t it? ANYA: Yeah. ANDREW: So how come you’re here? I mean, you could just go, right? ANYA: Yeah. I did once before. ANDREW: Before what? ANYA: Well, there was this other apocalypse this one time and… well, I took off. But this time, I don’t know… ANDREW: Well, what’s different? ANYA Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans before. But now I’ve seen a lot more, gotten to know people, seen what they’re capable of and… I guess I just realized how amazingly screwed up they all are. I mean, really, really screwed up in a monumental fashion. ANDREW: Oh. ANYA: And they have no purpose that unites them so they just drift around blundering through life until they die… which they know is coming yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens to them. They’re incapable of thinking about what they want beyond the moment. They kill each other, which is clearly insane… and yet here’s the thing. When it’s something that really matters, they fight. I mean, they’re lame morons for fighting but they do. They never… they never quit. So I guess I will keep fighting, too. ANDREW: That was kind of beautiful. You love humans. ANYA: I do not! ANDREW: Yes, you do. (sing-song) You love them… ANYA: Stop it! I don’t love them and I’ll kill you if you tell anybody. ANDREW: I won’t tell anybody. I won’t get a chance to, anyway. ANYA: I don’t know, you might survive. ANDREW: No, you might survive. You know how to handle a weapon and you’ve been in this world for like a thousand years. I’m not so… (sighs) I don’t think I’ll be okay. I’m cool with it. I think I’d like to finish out as one of those lame humans trying to do what’s right. ANYA: (smiles) Yeah. ANDREW: So… wheelchair fight? Chosen (S7, Ep22) |
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ANDREW: I just want to say how proud I am to die for this very special cause with you guys. He takes a sheet of paper out of his pocket and unfolds it. ANDREW: (tearful) There’s some people I’d like to thank, both good and evil. A shout-out to my brother Tucker who gave me the inspiration to summon demons and also— Anya yanks him down the hall by the arm. ANYA: (affectionate) Nobody cares, ya little monkey. Chosen (S7, Ep22) |
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As the new Slayers round the corner during the destruction of
the school and Hellmouth, the motion of the building rolls a dead
Bringer off Andrew who lies
bloody
and
beaten
beneath
him. He stares up at the girls in shock. Chosen (S7, Ep22) |
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