The bullet that hit Tara

[nightshade]

When Tara was shot, I'm guessing by the blood it went right through her, but didn't get to Willow, where would it have gone? Would it just have fallen on the floor?

 

[white avenger]

When Tara was shot, I'm guessing by the blood it went right through her, but didn't get to Willow, where would it have gone? Would it just have fallen on the floor?

It's possible, though more likely, passing completely through Tara's body, it was deflected by her sternum or a rib on exit and embedded itself in a wall or the floor someplace.

 

[Still a Scoobie]

Given the angle (Warren being a storey below when he fired the shot and waving his arm about like a lunatic), it may even have ended up in the ceiling.

 

[thetopher]

True, even the smallest thing can throw off a bullets trajectory, even a pane of glass (despite what movies will tell you). It's unlikely that the bullet would go straight through and hit Willow unless it was a higher caliber.

 

[Ojuice5001]

From the fact that Tara was so close to the window, I think it went out the window.

 

[Still a Scoobie]

Oh, also ::crying2: must we dissect the saddest moment of television ever?

I'm going back to my happy place now.

 

[Blaze]

The whole bullet incident was not very well choreographed. From the angle Warran shot, it most likely would not have hit Tara. She would have needed to be standing literally in the window for that, and the bullet would have entered at a steep angle. Bullets can be deviated to an extent, but I don't think they'd change directions completely. After all, that's how the police evaluate crime scenes because they are somewhat able to reconstruct a bullet trajectory (unless Warren was too far away).

If the angle would have been maintained and let's say by some miracle it would have still hit Tara, it should have went upwards.

 

[Xin Rong]

The whole bullet incident was not very well choreographed. From the angle Warran shot, it most likely would not have hit Tara. She would have needed to be standing literally in the window for that, and the bullet would have entered at a steep angle. Bullets can be deviated to an extent, but I don't think they'd change directions completely. After all, that's how the police evaluate crime scenes because they are somewhat able to reconstruct a bullet trajectory (unless Warren was too far away).

If the angle would have been maintained and let's say by some miracle it would have still hit Tara, it should have went upwards.

Maybe it was like the 'magic bullet' that shot JFK 🙂

 

[Fuffy Baith]

The whole bullet incident was not very well choreographed. From the angle Warran shot, it most likely would not have hit Tara. She would have needed to be standing literally in the window for that, and the bullet would have entered at a steep angle. Bullets can be deviated to an extent, but I don't think they'd change directions completely. After all, that's how the police evaluate crime scenes because they are somewhat able to reconstruct a bullet trajectory (unless Warren was too far away).

If the angle would have been maintained and let's say by some miracle it would have still hit Tara, it should have went upwards.

I thought the same thing. Since he shots from the ground and the angle is high, how does it hit her in the torso? If it were to hit her at all it would have been in the head. Like you said she would have to be right up against the window. It is a really sad moment and I don't know where the bullet goes. On the floor I guess.

 

[white avenger]

I thought the same thing. Since he shots from the ground and the angle is high, how does it hit her in the torso? If it were to hit her at all it would have been in the head. Like you said she would have to be right up against the window.

As is the case with many subjects, what writers DON'T know about guns, bullets, and trajectory would fill volumes. Or, as James Stewart was told in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence," when the facts conflict with the story, print the story.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

I heard it on good authority that Warren was moving his arm upwards when he fired the bullet, so as shown in the film Wanted, the curvature of the bullets trajectory caused it to go up then across and to the side a bit so that it could go through the window then go horizontal to kill off Tara, then the bullet must have disappeared. The police were said to have done their thing (Xander said that I think). Was any mention of the police finding the bullet ever made?
Or it could have been that the trajectory of the bullet was altered when it ricocheted(?)
bounced around the room a bit (like 50 times).

Now, do you know how to have that part of the post forgotten? Simple really, end the post with this statement, 'but it killed Tara, yipee!'

 

[BuffyElevated]

Given the angle (Warren being a storey below when he fired the shot and waving his arm about like a lunatic), it may even have ended up in the ceiling.

This was my theory. I always felt like, since it came through her, it was probably either in the ceiling or the top part of the wall.

 

[Vamp Willow]

The bullet didn't leave Tara, in the next episode it shows Willow using magic to pull the bullet out of Tara's body.

Also, the bullet appears on the front of her shirt, where she was shot, this would have happened even if the bullet didn't pass all the way through. Again, the whole scene was badly choreographed, in terms of where Tara and Willow were standing and the bullet trajectory.

 

[white avenger]

The bullet didn't leave Tara, in the next episode it shows Willow using magic to pull the bullet out of Tara's body.

Also, the bullet appears on the front of her shirt, where she was shot, this would have happened even if the bullet didn't pass all the way through. Again, the whole scene was badly choreographed, in terms of where Tara and Willow were standing and the bullet trajectory.

The bullet extraction scene was Willow removing the bullet from Buffy in the hospital later, and the bullet that hit Tara passed from somewhere in her back, completely through her body, and out the front, causing blood to splatter on Willow's face.