First I had the VCR set to the wrong channel, so instead of recording the first episode of Season Seven, I got an hour of blank screeny goodness. Second, James Marsters was mumbling his lines, so I had no idea of exactly what he was telling Buffy in the sub-basement of Sunnydale HS v2.0. Fortunately, someone transcribed the scenes where Buffy discovers Spike, and whatever that was morphing into various past baddies speaks to Spike.
I think that last scene was not a glimpse of the season seven big bad. I think that was a visualization of his newly minted soul’s torments.
