In 3.05 Homecoming, the Mayor gives deputy Alan Finch some words of advice and encouragement. He says:

“you have all my faith.”

This line foreshadows Faith’s future, as Alan Finch’s life …

Joyce tells Snyder in 3.02 Dead Man’s Party that she’s prepared to fight to allow Buffy back into the school. She says:

“If I have to, I’ll go all the way …

In 7.04 Help, Cassie Newton is gifted with a second sight. She foresees several future events in that episode. She tells Buffy:

“I know that you’ll go someplace dark underground”.

She’s …

In 1.01 City of, Doyle says of Cordelia:

“You made a good choice. She’ll provide a connection to the world.”

This could be interpreted as a foreshadow of the fact that she …

The crazy guy who approaches Dawn in 5.02 Real Me tells her :

“You don’t belong here.”

We learn later in the season that crazy people can see Dawn for what she …

At one point in 5.07 Fool For Love, Spike says to Buffy:

“If you’re looking for fun, there’s death, there’s glory and sod all else, right?”

This could be a clue to the …

In a flashback to London (1880) in 2.07 Darla, we hear the following exchange:

Drusilla: “No. His head’s too full of you, grandmother.”
Darla: “Stop calling me that.”
Drusilla: “Don’t be cross. …

In 4.04 Fear, Itself, Gachnar tells Buffy, “They’re all going to abandon you, you know.” They do: in season seven’s 7.19 Empty Places, when everyone chooses Faith over Buffy. In the same …

Ever since the episode 4.22 Restless first aired, Buffy fans have been trying to work out if any of the dreams contained any predictions for future episodes. Several things came to …

There is dialogue within 2.19 Belonging that seems to foreshadow events that occur while the gang is in Pylea. The first occurs when Angel visits Cordy on set of her …

There are two significant references to the character of Dawn before she first appeared in 5.01 Buffy Vs Dracula.
In 4.15 This Year’s Girl, Buffy and Faith are making a bed in Faith’s …

Willow watched over Xander while he was in the library cage as a hyena in 1.06 The Pack. This was a practice run as she did the same sort of thing …

In 4.20 The Yoko Factor, Giles is seen singing “Freebird”. He sings the lines:

“If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?”

Clearly, leaving is on his mind, as …

In the episode 2.12 Bad Eggs, Buffy and Angel have the following conversation in a graveyard:

Angel: “You really don’t care what happens a year from now? Five years from now?”
Buffy: “Angel, …

The scene in 2.03 School Hard where Buffy talks to Joyce through a hole in the wall was propably the influence for the scene in 4.22 Restless where Buffy discovers her mother …

Vampire Willow’s attraction to women in 3.16 Doppelgangland is a foreshadowing of Willow’s future as she has a relationship with Tara from season four, and with Kennedy in season seven.

Willow: …

At the beginning of 4.09 Something Blue, Riley is helping some girls put up a sign in the University which reads “Lesbian Alliance.” This must be an effort to allude …

The tweed suit Spike wears for most of the episode 6.08 Tabula Rasa is similar to the one he wore in Xander’s dream in 4.22 Restless. It was in this dream that …

The First Slayer says to Buffy in 5.18 Intervention, “Love. Give. Forgive”. This is a foreshadowing for upcoming events: Buffy loves Dawn and tries to protect her, she then gives her …

Joss Whedon has said that Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn) actually visited the set on the day the “Be back before dawn” sequence was filmed in 4.22 Restless. This scene signified the coming …