Buffy is tied to a stake with rope around her midriff and hips. Depending on the camera angle being shown, her right arm is either held against her hips or free from the elbow down.
Near the end of the burning scene, just before Giles enters, there is a long shot of Buffy's double tied to the stake with flames around her. The ropes are around her middle, under her bust, and she has almost squirmed out of them. That it's a double is obvious because the hair and shirt are different than in the close-up of Buffy in the next shot. In the next close-up, Buffy (Sara Michelle Geller this time) has the ropes around her bust and is clearly restrained by them.
As a public building, City Hall would be fitted with a sprinkler system, which the flames around the girls would have set off.
Correction: this is not true. Sprinklers are not mandatory everywhere regardless of the type of building, public or private.
Correction: this is not true. Sprinklers are not mandatory everywhere regardless of the type of building, public or private.
When the team looks up old newspaper articles about murdered children, a German text from 1649 briefly flashes on the screen. The text does not make any sense, and looks like an electronic word-by-word translation of an English original.
At 23:23, during Willow's spat with her mom, there is a brief moment as the camera is tracking Mrs. Rosenberg when you can see over the top of the set behind her.