High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Wild at Heart" is the sixth episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a BBC interview, writer Marti Noxon says she would have liked to direct this episode, as it was "close to heart" - particularly the metaphor that "most of us have a creature inside of us that makes us do things that we wish we didn’t do." She adds, "The whole issue of sexuality between men and women is kind of fraught because of the beast."