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Anne |
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Sunnydale
Cemetery. Evening. A body once known as Andrew Hoelich rises from its
grave, ready for a new life as a creature of the night. Standing in his
way is not the Slayer, but rather her closest friends: Willow, Xander, and
Oz. Unfortunately, without the powers that make Buffy special, the three
friends are unable to kill the vampire before it can escape into the
night. Afterwards, the group prepares themselves for the new school
season, which begins the very next day. They also wonder if and when Buffy
will return to Sunnydale after her unannounced absence since saving the
world from the Acathla threat. What they don't know is that Buffy is
currently living alone in an apartment in downtown Los Angeles. Buffy's
dreams are haunted by Angel, reminding of her of what she had to do in
order to stop Acathla. The next morning, Willow learns that Oz flunked his
senior year and needs to repeat it, Xander and Cordelia's anticipated
reunion has no sparks whatsoever, and Giles gets the latest in a long line
of leads concerning Buffy's possible location. Meanwhile, Buffy is working
as a waitress in a diner, under the alias of Anne. During work, she serves
a romantic couple of runaways. The girl's name is Lily, while the guy's is
Rickie. They both have each other's name tattooed to their forearms. When
Lily recognizes the waitress, Buffy denies any familiarity with the girl.
At one point, Rickie says to Lily the exact same words that Buffy heard
from Angel in one of her dreams. The next day, on the way to work, Buffy
passes by an old homeless woman who repeatedly says, "I'm no
one." Back in Sunnydale, Giles pays Joyce Summers a visit to inform
her that his latest search turned up empty-handed. Joyce expresses her
resentment toward Giles, blaming him for Buffy's distance from her own
mother. On her way home from work, Buffy runs into Lily again. Lily gets
Buffy's attention by calling her by her real name, then reminds Buffy that
she once went by the name of Chantarelle and was involved in a
vampire-worshipping cult. Buffy explains that Anne is really her middle
name. During their conversation, an old man rudely bumps the both of them
aside as he walks towards the street. When asked if he's okay, the old man
turns to them and says, "I'm no one." With that, he walks into
the middle of the street, then stops in the path of an oncoming car. Buffy
dashes into the street and pushes him aside just in time, but not before
the car collides and sends her slamming into the pavement. A few locals
offer to help her and call an ambulance, but Buffy quickly leaves the
scene without even a limp. On the way, Buffy meets a relatively clean-cut
man. His name is Ken, and he's handing out flyers for a shelter called the
Family Home. Meanwhile, in the Bronze, Xander chats with Willow and Oz
about their failure at vampire slaying. Seeing Cordelia enter the Bronze
with a few of her friends, Xander hatches a plan to use her as bait. The
next day, Lily visits Buffy at work and tells her that Rickie's been
missing for a while. Buffy reluctantly agrees to help, and they first
visit the local blood bank where Lily and Rickie often donated in order to
make some money. According to the doctor, Rickie hasn't been there in the
last few days, so Buffy and Lily agree to split up and meet up later at
Buffy's apartment. During a search in an abandoned building, Buffy finds a
dead old man with a bottle of Drain Cleaner next to his head. Since the
bottle is empty, the old man must have killed himself with it. However,
that's not the most disturbing thing: Buffy notices a familiar tattoo on
the man's forearm. It says "Lily", which means that this dead
old man was Rickie. Back at her apartment, Lily cannot believe the news.
She blames Buffy for bringing along some evil from Sunnydale, causing her
boyfriend's untimely death. Lily exits the apartment and meets Ken, who
tells her that Rickie is alive and staying at the Family Home. Relieved,
Lily follows Ken to the shelter. Determined to get to the bottom of
things, Buffy breaks into the blood bank after closing hours and finds
Rickie's personal file. Alarmed by the word "Candidate" stamped
in it, Buffy questions the doctor, who has just arrived on the scene.
Buffy gets the info that leads her to the Family Home, where she finds
Lily alone with Ken in a room. Before Buffy can find out what's going on,
Lily is pulled into the floor through a strange black pool. Buffy
struggles with Ken before they both fall into the pool. On the other side
of it, they crash down hard on the floor. While Buffy takes care of Lily,
Ken removes his mask to reveal the face of a demon underneath. He calls
the guards, and Buffy grabs Lily and tries to escape. As the guards give
chase, Buffy and Lily run into an enormous factory room. Hundreds of
missing runaways work slave labor, while the demonic guards watch them,
whips in hand. Ken and the guards catch up to them. With a swift swing of
his club, Ken knocks Buffy unconscious. Back in Sunnydale, Xander, Willow,
and Oz try to dust the vampire again, this time with Cordelia as bait.
While everyone assumes their hiding positions, Xander and Cordelia argue
over what they did or didn't do during the summer. Their fight is
interrupted by a scream, for the vamp has snuck up behind Willow and
attacked her first. Oz runs in to the rescue, but the vamp quickly knocks
him to the ground. Xander tries to drive his stake into the vampire's
chest, but they get their arms locked up, preventing Xander from thrusting
the stake any further. Cordelia charges the vampire from behind, and all
three of them fall to the ground. The vampire lands into the stake, and
immediately explodes into dust. This causes Cordelia to fall into Xander's
arms. They finally give in to their desires and kiss right then and
there.Buffy regains consciousness inside a prison cell. Lily, who's
sitting inside the same cell, believes they're in Hell. Buffy denies this,
but that becomes irrelevant as Ken explains their situation. Apparently,
they are in some alternate dimension outside of Earth, and time passes
differently here. According to Ken, one day on Earth equals one hundred
years in this dimension. Buffy puts the pieces together and realizes that
the disoriented old people she saw on the street must have been former
slaves in this dimension, including Rickie. Buffy, Lily, and several other
runaways are then led into a room. A demon guard tells them that they no
longer have any individual identities. He then asks a boy to identify
himself. When the boy responds with his own name, the guard beats him with
a club. Lily's next, and her answer is "no one". A few more
slaves respond in the same manner. The guard then asks Buffy. Instead of
giving the expected answer, Buffy finally comes to terms with who she is
and responds with her true identity, that of the Slayer. With that, Buffy
proceeds to fight and subdue the guards in the room. After telling Lily to
lead the others to the exit, Buffy runs out into the middle of the factory
and battles an endless number of demon guards. One after the other, Buffy
defeats them, until Ken grabs Lily and threatens to slice her throat with
a knife for Buffy's disobedience. Surprisingly, Lily pushes Ken off the
balcony while his back is turned, enabling Buffy to fight off the guards
holding her and climb to safety. At the exit, they encounter a heavy gate
which Buffy uses all of her strength to lift. Just as she's about to
escape herself, Ken tackles her. As he does so, Buffy is knocked towards
the outside of the gate, which comes crashing down on Ken's legs. Buffy
then takes Ken's club and smashes it onto his skull. After Buffy, Lily,
and the other runaways climb through the black pool, it seals itself.
Deciding it's time to go back home, Buffy gives her apartment and her job
to Lily. Buffy is confident that Lily can take care of herself from now
on. Before Buffy leaves, Lily asks her if she can use Buffy's middle name,
Anne, as her own. Buffy agrees and leaves. Back in Sunnydale, Buffy knocks
on the door to her home. After Joyce opens it, they stand there,
completely speechless. Finally, they embrace. For Giles and the rest of
the Sunnydale, the Slayer has returned. For Joyce Summers, someone more
important is finally home: her only daughter.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com |
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Dead Man's Party |
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After
unpacking the last of her belongings, Buffy stops by her mom's bedroom to
announce that she's heading outside. Joyce hangs up a Nigerian mask that
she got from a friend at her art gallery, then hesitantly gives her
daughter permission to go find her friends. Later, in a dark alley, Buffy
notices a shadowy figure roaming the alleys. Suspicious, she follows him
and accidentally draws his attention by stepping on an aluminum can. The
figure spins around and thrusts a stake at her, which Buffy easily blocks.
As she grabs the stake out of the man's hands and turns it towards him,
she realizes that it's Xander. Before either of them can say much, a
vampire appears and attacks the both of them. During the struggle, Buffy
hears Cordelia's voice on a walkie-talkie attached to Xander's waist. Soon
enough, Cordy, Willow, and Oz arrive on the scene, all decked out with
stakes and crosses. Buffy is surprised to see her friends work as a team
to get the vampire off of Buffy. One by one, though, they are knocked to
the ground by the powerful vampire. Finally, Buffy jumps in and finishes
the job, reducing the vampire to a pile of dust. After Buffy greets her
bewildered friends, they head over to Giles' apartment. The Watcher is
emotionally overcome with joy from seeing his Slayer safe and sound,
although he doesn't fully express it until he's alone in his kitchen. In
the living room, Buffy avoids discussion topics relating to what she did
over the summer. She then makes plans with Willow to meet somewhere the
next afternoon.The next day, Joyce and Buffy visit Principal Snyder in his
office. Despite Joyce's protests, Snyder refuses to readmit Buffy back
into the school. Afterwards, Joyce drops Buffy off at a coffee shop where
she plans to meet Willow. However, Willow never shows up. Buffy heads
home, and as she heads towards her front door, a woman steps out. She
introduces herself as Pat, a friend of Joyce's at the book club. Inside,
Joyce tells Buffy that she invited Giles and her friends over to dinner
the following evening. Buffy goes into the basement to get their fancy
company plates. There, she finds a stray cat that has been dead for a
while. Buffy and Joyce bury it outside. Later that night, after both Buffy
and Joyce have fallen asleep, the eyeholes of the mask in Joyce's bedroom
begin to glow. As they do so, the stray cat works its way out of the
ground as if it had never died. Overnight, Buffy dreams that she is
walking around the Sunnydale High campus. Nobody else is there, except for
Angel. She then wakes up and heads to the kitchen. The stray cat reenters
the Summers home, shocking both Buffy and Joyce. Giles arrives shortly
with a cage to capture the cat and bring it back to the library for
further study. After finding the cat in Joyce's bedroom, he notices the
Nigerian mask on her wall. He then informs Buffy that she is no longer
allowed on school grounds. At the library, Giles studies his demonology
text while the rest of the Slayerettes make plans for the dinner that
evening. By the end of their discussion, the intimate dinner has become a
full-blown party, complete with pot luck snacks and Oz's band. During the
discussion, Giles careless flips past a page without looking at it. On
this page is a picture of the same mask hanging in Joyce's bedroom. That
evening, Pat comes over to visit Joyce. Merely moments after Buffy shuts
the door, Oz's band, Dingoes Ate My Baby, arrives. Buffy was not notified
in advance that they had planned a huge party, but that's exactly what she
gets before long. After wading through dozens of people she's never even
met before, Buffy finds Willow near the band. Buffy pulls her over to a
quieter area and asks Willow if she's been avoiding her. Willow denies
this, then immediately leaves Buffy alone and heads back to where he band
is playing. On her way upstairs, Buffy briefly talks to Xander and
Cordelia, who are lost in their own world of nonstop smoochies. Buffy then
stops outside the kitchen, where Joyce and Pat are talking about having
Buffy back home. Buffy overhears her mom talking about how much more
difficult it is now that Buffy's home. Unable to take much more animosity
from her closest friends and family, Buffy goes up to her bedroom and
starts packing her bag again. Meanwhile, Giles finally finds what he's
been looking for in his texts: the picture of the Nigerian mask. Horrified
by what he reads, he calls the Summers home, but one of the partygoers
answers the phone, and the music is too loud for him to fully understand
what Giles is saying. Giles gives up and drives towards Buffy's home. On
the way, he accidentally hits a man in the middle of the road. Upon
getting out and inspecting the body, Giles realizes that this man died
long before he ever wandered onto the road. The corpse grabs Giles and
shoves him against the car. Giles watches in horror as he sees several
more zombies appearing from the shadows. All over town, corpses arise from
crime scenes, hospital beds, and even their graves, all with one
destination in mind: the Summers household. Giles finally fends off the
zombies and gets back in his car.Willow finds Buffy packing her bag in her
bedroom. Not long after they argue over Buffy's decision to run away,
Joyce enters the bedroom. Her reaction to seeing Buffy's packed bag is
much more heated. Buffy tries to get out of the house, but Joyce stops her
right in the middle of the main floor. As everybody gathers around and
watches, Joyce drops all her restraints and angrily chews out Buffy for
what she did (and didn't do) over the summer. Buffy tries to defend
herself, but Xander joins in and offers his own cold remarks. Just as it
seems that everybody is against Buffy and her whole world is caving in,
the zombies invade the household. They quickly and brutally attack and
kill several of the guests, while everybody else runs for their lives.
Many try to keep the doors and windows blocked off, while others just
panic in general. One of the zombies grabs Pat and drags her off down a
hallway. While Buffy, Joyce, Xander, and Willow run upstairs, Oz and
Cordelia hide in a downstairs closet. Upstairs, Joyce finds Pat lying flat
on the floor. They help her to her feet and into Joyce's bedroom. While
the group tries to keep the zombies from forcing the door open, Willow
checks Pat's pulse and realizes that she's already dead. Several moments
later, Oz and Cordelia step out of the closet and notice that all of the
zombies are now upstairs. They run into Giles, who has just arrived. He
explains that the mask contains the power of the zombie demon named Ovu
Mobani, or Evil Eye. All the zombies are after it, and whoever puts it on
will become the demon. Upstairs, nobody notices Pat as she suddenly gets
up. Surprised to see that her friend is alive, Joyce runs over, only to be
knocked to the floor by the zombie Pat. As Joyce and Xander look on, Pat
puts the mask on, which immediately molds to her face. Pat begins to
speak, except it isn't her voice anymore. It is the voice of the demon Ovu
Mobani, and the zombies that were previously trying to get into the room
are now paralyzed with fear by Mobani's presence. Buffy tries to attack
the demon, but it turns its head and flashes a brilliantly white light
which stuns Buffy. Unable to move, Buffy takes the powerful blow of the
demon hard. The demon then stuns Willow and moves in for the kill, but not
before Buffy recovers and pushes Mobani through the second story window,
along with herself. After they crash onto her backyard, Buffy tries to
avoid the demon's gaze by covering her eyes. Giles tells Oz to warn Buffy
that attacking its eyes is the only way to defeat Mobani. Oz runs out and
immediately falls victim to Mobani's stun flash. Buffy uses this moment to
her advantage and thrusts a shovel directly into the demon's eyes. It
cries out in horror, then vanishes, along with all of the other zombies.
After everybody regroups inside, nobody can bring themselves to spite
Buffy any longer, as she finally embraces Willow after so long. The
next day, Giles visits Principal Snyder's office and threatens to contact
state officials if Buffy isn't readmitted. When Snyder doesn't believe his
threat, Giles applies a little brute force to get his message across.
Later, Buffy and Willow meet at the coffee shop. Willow discusses her
experiments with witchcraft. They understand what each other has been
feeling during the past few months, and like the true friends that they
are, accept it.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Faith, Hope and Trick |
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A limo
pulls into the drive-thru at Sunnydale's Happy Burger restaurant. Inside
the limo are not your ordinary customers, but rather vampires in search of
the Slayer. One of them has cloven hooves in place of hands. On the way to
their new hideout, one the vamps, Mr. Trick, picks up a diet soda... and
the drive-thru employee himself. Later that night, Buffy dreams that she
is dancing with Angel in the Bronze. During their dance, Buffy's claddagh
ring slips off her finger and falls to the floor. Angel picks it up and
clutches it in his hand, so tightly that blood starts to pour from his
fist. As Buffy watches in horror, more blood seeps from Angel's chest in
the exact same spot that she drive the sword through months ago. The next
morning, Principal Snyder finally re-admits Buffy into Sunnydale High, due
to orders from the school board itself. Buffy needs to follow a few
conditions, one of which being her ability to pass make-up exams for all
the classes she missed last school year. A student again, Buffy visits the
library with Willow, where they find a variety of spell ingredients on the
counter. Giles tells Buffy that he needs to perform a binding spell on
Acathla to make sure the demon remains dormant. In order for the spell to
work, Giles needs to know the exact details of how Buffy defeated Acathla
and Angel. Buffy lays out the basics, leaving out the part where Angel's
soul was restored. Later that night at the Bronze, Buffy turns down a
dance offer from Scott Hope, a fellow student who's had his eyes on Buffy
for a while. Cordelia points out an interesting couple on the dance floor.
As Buffy watches them dance, she begins to suspect that the guy may be a
vampire on the prowl. As they head out of the Bronze, Buffy and her
friends follow them out. Sure enough, the guy is a vampire. What does take
the group by surprise is the girl's handling of the situation. Instead of
screaming and trying to run for her life, the girl proceeds to beat the
crap out of the vampire, stopping momentarily to greet Buffy by name and
introduce herself as Faith. This new Slayer then takes the stake out of
Buffy's hand and finishes off the vamp before heading back inside. While
the group listens to Faith's wild stories, Cordelia finally puts the
pieces together and realizes that Faith was called forth in response to
Kendra's death. Faith is unlike Buffy, but she's different than Kendra
also. Kendra was always uptight and on the defensive, while Faith is much
looser and a little wild. During their conversation, Faith informs Buffy
that her Watcher is currently at an annual retreat. Unaware of this
Watchers' retreat, Buffy takes Faith to the library to meet Giles, who
apparently has never been invited to any of the retreats. Buffy invites
Faith to dinner at her place. While Buffy takes one of her make-up exams,
Xander and Willow give Faith a tour of their school, pointing out all the
hot spots where they brushed with death. Elsewhere, in an abandoned
building, Mr. Trick explains to Kakistos how they could stay in Sunnydale
and still operate around the globe, thanks to the internet. Kakistos has
no interest in these matters. His only goal is to kill Faith, who caused
the huge scar running over his right eye. At the Summers home, Joyce is as
impressed with Faith as the rest of Buffy's friends are, if not more so.
Buffy excuses herself from the dining table to talk with her mom in the
kitchen. Joyce suggests to Buffy that Faith could take over her duties as
the Slayer, but Buffy reminds her that it's her job until she dies. Joyce
is not happy to hear this, but she's slowly learning to accept it. After
dinner, Buffy and Faith patrol for vampires. During their patrol, they get
into an argument over Buffy's attitude towards Faith and the apparent fact
that she's holding something in. Suddenly, several vampires attack the two
Slayers. During the fight, Faith loses control on one vampire and
repeatedly pummels it without even thinking of finishing the job with a
stake. This leaves Buffy at the mercy of the other two vampires, who have
her pinned to the ground. As one of them moves in for the kill, he
mentions a name: Kakistos. Buffy succeeds in breaking their hold and
killing one of them, while the other gets away. She then pulls Faith off
of the brutally beaten vampire and dusts it with her stake. It seems Buffy
isn't the only one with personal problems. Buffy tells Giles about Faith's
actions the next morning at school. She also tells Giles what the vampire
said to her, and Giles immediately recognizes the name Kakistos. It's
Greek for "the worst of the worst". Kakistos is a vampire who is
so old that his hands have turned into cloven hooves. While Giles gets on
the phone to contact Faith's Watcher at the retreat, Buffy runs into Scott
in the hallway. He makes one last stab at trying to get Buffy out on a
date. Charmed by his efforts, Buffy finally accepts. Scott then hands
Buffy a box, saying it's a gift to represent their friendship. Buffy opens
it and finds a claddagh ring inside, exactly like the one Angel gave to
her that night on the docks. Overcome with emotion, Buffy drops the ring.
As it hits the floor in the exact same fashion that it did in her dream,
Buffy backs out of her date with Scott. Giles arrives and tries to help
her, but Buffy insists she's okay. Giles then reveals that Faith's Watcher
is not at the retreat -- Faith's Watcher is dead. Buffy tracks down Faith
to a sleazy motel. Buffy informs her that Kakistos is in town, which
causes a look of fear and dread to wash over Faith's face. She immediately
starts packing and starts to head out. Buffy stops her by mentioning her
Watcher, who was killed by Kakistos. They hear a knock on the door, and
Faith opens it. They are greeted by Kakistos, Mr. Trick, and a few of
their cohort vampires. Buffy shuts the door and escapes out the back with
Faith. The vampires chase them into a building. Seemingly safe for now,
Faith explains that she witnessed Kakistos murdering her Watcher. Just
then, Faith notices a couple of dead bodies on the floor. Buffy realizes
that they didn't escape the vampires, but were instead driven into the
building on purpose. As the vampires start to converge on them, Buffy and
Faith run into the middle of the floor. Buffy takes on several vampires
while Faith goes one-on-one with Kakistos. Paralyzed with fear, Faith
can't fight back while Kakistos grabs her by the neck and repeatedly
strikes her in the face. Buffy runs over to help, while Mr. Trick and a
female vampire decide to abandon their master and head out into town on
their own. Kakistos' body is so strong that Buffy's stake has no effect on
him. Faith takes a cue from Kakistos' mockery and picks up a huge pointed
beam. Before Kakistos can realize what she's doing, Faith drives it
straight through his heart, causing Kakistos to crumble into dust. The
next day, the Watcher's council approves Giles' request to watch over both
Buffy and Faith until a new Watcher can be assigned to her. Unable to keep
her secret any longer, Buffy tells Giles and Willow the whole truth about
what happened that night in the mansion. She explains that Willow's
attempt at the restoration spell worked, and Angel was cured before Buffy
drove the sword through him and sent him to Hell. After she heads out,
Giles tells Willow that there never was a binding spell to perform on
Acathla. He made the whole thing up so that Buffy would finally vent out
whatever's been eating at her from the inside all this time. In the
hallway, Buffy finds Scott and revives their plans for their weekend date.
Later that night, Buffy revisits the mansion
where Angel, Spike, and Dru once stayed. Back at the scene where Buffy
kissed Angel for the last time, she places the claddagh ring on the floor
and bids her final farewell to Angel. After she leaves, the floor of the
mansion begins to rumble. A bright light appears in the air, and the naked
body of a man falls out from it and onto the floor. He lies there, afraid
and shivering. It's Angel, who has returned from Hell... somehow.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Beauty and the Beasts |
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It's
Oz's time of the month, which means he has to spend three consecutive
nights locked in the book cage of the library while someone watches over
him. After Xander comes in to relieve Willow of her post, he lies down on
the table and falls asleep. At the cemetery, Buffy patrols for vampires
with Faith. Neither of them are close enough to the woods to detect a
chase, which ends brutally for a boy named Jeff Orkin. The next morning,
Buffy, Willow, and Oz meet up with Scott and two of his friends: Pete and
Debbie. Oz offers his old biology notes to Debbie, so they plan to meet up
later. Buffy then heads off for her required therapy appointment with the
counselor while Willow and Oz go to the library. To both Oz and Willow's
dismay, Giles and Xander inform them of the murder that occurred the
previous night. The fact that Xander slept through most of the night and
the window inside the caged area is open does not bode well for Oz.
Meanwhile, Buffy meets her counselor, Mr. Platt. While she's hesitant to
discuss the full details of her reasons for running away, Buffy does come
to respect Mr. Platt's helpful manner. After school, Buffy meets the
others in the library and learns that Oz may have killed someone while he
was a werewolf. Giles tells Willow, Xander, and Cordelia to go to the
morgue and inspect Jeff's corpse, while Buffy must be on the look-out for
the killer if it isn't Oz. He'll have Faith watch over Oz that night. At
the morgue, Willow collects evidence which clearly indicates that Jeff was
mauled by a savage animal. She then passes out due to the realization that
Oz is the most likely suspect. Outside, Buffy encounters someone running
wild through the woods. To her surprise, that someone is Angel. However,
he's not exactly in his right mind, and he immediately attacks Buffy. They
fight for a while before Buffy finally knocks him out. She then takes him
to Spike and Dru's mansion, where she uses some of Dru's old chains to
lock Angel up and keep him from escaping out into the woods. Unable to
communicate with Angel, Buffy notices the burnt pattern on the floor that
indicates the spot where Angel landed at the end of his return trip from
Hell. Unable to spend the rest of the night at home, Buffy goes to the
library and takes over for Faith. Giles finds Buffy asleep in one of the
library chairs the next morning. He notices the books she's been reading,
which deal with demon dimensions and Acathla. After Buffy wakes up, she
asks Giles if Angel could ever return from Hell, and if so, what would he
be like. Buffy would rather not tell Giles right away that she found
Angel. While Giles doubts the possibilty of Angel's return, he goes on to
say that because time moves much faster in the other dimension, Angel
would have been trapped there for an incredibly long time. After so many
years of torture, he couldn't possibly be the same person mentally that he
once was. Later, at lunchtime, Buffy joins Scott, Pete, and Debbie at
their table. Unable to straighten out her feelings, Buffy leaves shortly
and goes to the mansion. As soon as she rests a hand on Angel's shoulder,
he goes berserk. Shaken by how much he's changed, Buffy heads back to
Sunnydale High. Inside, Buffy goes to Mr. Platt's office and confesses
that she truly needs help with all that's going on in her life.
Unfortunately, she won't get any help from Mr. Platt, whom she soon
discovers has been murdered, most likely by the same attacker that killed
Jeff Orkin. After school, Pete pulls Debbie into the maintenance room to
make out for a while. Inside, he notices that a jar once containing a
glowing green formula is now virtually empty. Debbie tries to deny doing
anything with it, but she soon admits that she got rid of it in order to
help Pete get better. However, Pete convulses and transforms into a
hideous, monstrous form of himself, proving to Debbie that he doesn't need
the formula anymore. During this phase, Pete strikes Debbie in the face,
knocking her to the ground. Pete then regains control of himself and
changes back to his normal self before joining Debbie on the floor.
Despite being struck by her boyfriend turned monster, Debbie has no
problem excusing Pete's actions. Afterwards, Debbie meets Oz by the
fountain to get his biology notes. Noticing the bruise on her eye, Oz
stops Debbie from leaving right away by lightly grabbing her shoulder and
asking if she's okay. From a distance, Pete watches this whole
conversation. With evidence indicating that Mr. Platt was killed during
the day, Oz is off the hook. In the library, the group draws a connection
between the two victims and Debbie. Oz tells the others about Debbie's
bruised eye, which doesn't quite follow with the suddenness of Mr. Platt's
death. This leads them to suspect Pete, both for the two murders and for
striking Debbie. While Oz locks himself in the cage for the third and
final night of the month, Buffy and Willow confront Debbie. Unfortunately,
Debbie refuses to help them stop Pete. During the conversation, Angel
breaks his chains free of the mansion wall and escapes. Buffy and Willow
have no idea that Pete is in the library at that very moment, ready to
kill Oz for touching Debbie. Pete changes into his monster form and rips
the door off the cage. After throwing Oz around the library for a little
while, the sun finally sets and the moon shines, allowing Oz to turn the
tables on Pete. In his werewolf form, Oz is an even match for Pete's
ferocity. The sounds of their battle alerts the others to the library.
Buffy tries to knock them out with the dart gun, but shoots Giles instead
when Debbie pushes the gun off to the side just as Buffy pulls the
trigger. While the tranquilizer dart takes Giles out of the action, Oz and
Pete break apart and escape into the school hallways. Willow and Faith
take down Oz with the dart gun. Buffy chases Pete to the maintenance room,
where she finds Debbie dead on the floor, murdered by Pete. Another fight
ensues. Just as it appears that Buffy's about to lose the fight, Angel
arrives and kills Pete. To Buffy's suprise, Angel manages to say her name
before falling to his knees and embracing her.The next day, Buffy can't
find the words to console Scott, who lost two of his best friends without
ever knowing the truth about what really happened. Later that night, Buffy
watches Angel as he sleeps on the floor of the mansion. He constantly
flinches and trembles, apparently suffering from nightmares of his time in
Hell.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Home Comming |
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With
Homecoming approaching, Cordelia plans to start her campaign for the title
of Homecoming queen, while the rest of the gang debates on their mode of
transportation to the dance. Buffy, however, is still distracted by
Angel's recent return, so she takes off for the mansion shortly after
Scott asks her to the dance. At the mansion, Buffy assures Angel that
nobody else knows that he's back. To Angel's dismay, Buffy also tells him
that she's currently seeing another guy. Unfortunately, that statement
doesn't hold true for much longer, for Scott dumps Buffy the very next
morning. He explains that the down and depressed Buffy he knows now is not
the same Buffy he knew before they started dating. After Scott leaves,
Buffy wanders around outside of the school alone... and completely unaware
of the two German men who are watching her from inside a van. Using
state-of-the-art equipment, they transmit their visual to a lavish
mansion, where an old man receives the signal and shows the image of Buffy
to his boss: Mr. Trick. At City Hall, Mayor Richard Wilkins III learns
from his deputy mayor that two German brothers with impressive criminal
records have recently been spotted in Sunnydale. Their names are Frederick
and Hans Gruenshtahler, and they're the same two men who have been spying
on Buffy. The Mayor isn't too worried about this. In fact, he's more
concerned with cleanliness and personal hygiene, which he displays by
closely inspecting his deputy mayor's hands. Meanwhile, at Sunnydale High,
the senior class gets its pictures taken in the lounge for their fourth
and final high school yearbook. Buffy's a no-show, so Cordelia heads to
the library to tell her about the photo session. Before she can enter the
library, Cordy is distracted by her Homecoming queen campaign priorities
and completely forgets to inform Buffy. Inside the library, Buffy and
Faith plan to attend the dance together since Scott is no longer in the
picture. The next day, Buffy asks one of her favorite teachers from the
previous school year, Ms. Moran, to write her a recommendation to give to
Principal Snyder. Buffy needs the recommendation to fulfill one of the
conditions set by Snyder for her readmittance. However, Ms. Moran can't
even remember Buffy's name, let alone anything about her to merit a
written recommendation. Buffy's woes increase at lunch when she learns
from Xander and the others that she missed the yearbook photo session.
Upset with Cordy's irresponsibility, Buffy approaches the Homecoming queen
candidate and speaks her mind. Naturally, Cordy retaliates with her own
special brand of verbal abuse. This motivates Buffy to compete with Cordy
and run for Homecoming queen herself. Later that night, Mr. Trick
assembles a promising group of hunters at his mansion for an event called
Slayerfest '98. Included in this group of hunters: Frawley, a human hunter
with a rifle and a set of bear traps; Lyle and Candy Gorch, two
recently-married vampires; Frederick and Hans Gruenshtahler, the German
brothers who have been tracking Buffy's every move; and Kulak, a
yellow-skinned demon who keeps jagged blades inside his forearms. Mr.
Trick hopes this Slayerfest will see the end of both Buffy and Faith.
Meanwhile, at the Rosenberg residence, Xander helps Willow pick out a
dress for the dance while he tries on the tuxedo he'll be wearing.
Initially, they discuss their relationships with Cordelia and Oz. However,
after Willow puts on her best dress and Xander completes his attire, the
only thing on their minds is each other. While Xander gives Willow a brief
lesson on dancing, the two best friends lose themselves in the moment and
share a kiss. That moment is quickly interrupted when they both realize
what they've done, both to themselves and their significant others. The
next morning, Buffy learns that she'll be campaigning alone, since all of
her friends have already committed to helping Cordy. Buffy and Cordy kick
their Homecoming queen campaigns into full gear, hoping to outdo each
other in the race for the title. While Buffy convinces Willow to give her
a little help, Frederick and Hans listen in on their conversation. They
pay particular attention to Buffy's announcement that the limo will pick
up Faith first, Buffy second, and the rest of the group afterwards. Later
in the day, Buffy learns that Cordy has been paying some of the students
money to get their votes. This leads to another argument between the two
candidates, only this one ends on a much harsher note. Distraught, Willow
tells Xander that their brief tryst must be partly responsible for the
current feud between Buffy and Cordelia. Eventually, Xander and Willow's
conversation turns to the bigger problem at hand: what are they themselves
going to do now. Later that night, the limo stops at the Summers home to
pick up Buffy as planned. Buffy is surprised to find Cordy inside instead
of Faith. According to a note written by the gang, Buffy and Cordy will be
taking the limo to the dance alone so that they may work out their
differences before the crowning of the Homecoming queen. Included with the
note are a couple of corsages. The limo's destination is not the dance,
however, but rather the nearby woods. Buffy and Cordy step out of the limo
and notice a monitor and VCR set up on a table, along with a sign that
informs them to play the tape. Buffy and Cordy watch a recording of Mr.
Trick, who welcomes Buffy and Faith to Slayerfest '98. Apparently, they
expected Faith to be in Cordy's place. Before Cordy can clear up the
confusion, the monitor explodes, and the hunt begins. The first hunter
they run into is Frawley, who Buffy immobilizes by knocking him into one
of his own traps. Unable to free his leg, Frawley informs Buffy and Cordy
of the rest of the hunter group. While Buffy and Cordy take refuge inside
a cabin, Xander and Willow find themselves guilty and ashamed at the
dance, even after Giles commends them on their effort to resolve the feud
between Buffy and Cordy. In the cabin, Cordy finds a telephone which Buffy
uses to call Giles at the library. Buffy explains to Cordy that she's
running for Homecoming queen because she wants a high school memory that
doesn't involve her job as the Slayer. Suddenly, Kulak bursts into the
cabin and attacks Buffy. During their battle, Frederick and Hans approach
the cabin. They are being navigated by the old man, who is tracking Buffy
and Cordy with his computer system back at the mansion. The German
brothers fire an explosive device into the cabin, which causes Buffy to
stop her battle with Kulak and escape with Cordy. Kulak fails in his
attempt to get out of the cabin, and he is killed in the explosion. Buffy
and Cordy get up from the ground and head back to the library, unaware
that Lyle and Candy Gorch have knocked out Giles and are waiting for them
to arrive.While Buffy and Cordy head to the library, a pair of police
officers arrive at Mr. Trick's mansion and escort him away, against his
will. At the library, Buffy fights with Candy Gorch before dusting her.
Enraged, Lyle moves in to attack, but Cordy stops him short and launches
into an impressive speech that scares Lyle into taking off. After Giles
regains consciousness, he points out that he wasn't aware of the group
buying corsages for Buffy and Cordy. Buffy notices small electronic
devices in the corsages, which the old man must have been using to track
their movements. They hear the German brothers in the hallway, so Buffy
binds the bugs together with a bundle of wet toilet paper. After leading
one of the brothers into a classroom, she throws the mass of toilet paper
onto his back. The old man gives the other brother the coordinates, and
both Frederick and Hans proceed to shoot each other dead. Meanwhile, the
two police officers bring Mr. Trick to City Hall, where Mayor Wilkins
introduces himself. He reveals that he's quite aware that Mr. Trick is a
vampire, and he wants his help in eliminating the "rebellious
element" from Sunnydale. Mr. Trick realizes that the Mayor is
referring to the Slayers. At the dance, Buffy and Cordy finally arrive,
only to learn that neither of them is the new Homecoming queen, for the
other two candidates win the election in a tie.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Band Candy |
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Buffy's
S.A.T. is coming up, so Giles helps her study for it at the cemetery while
waiting for any vampires to rise from their graves. At City Hall, Mayor
Wilkins enlists Mr. Trick's aid for an upcoming tribute to a demon. Mr.
Trick just so happens to know a man who can help them.The next morning,
Principal Snyder enlists students to sell candy in order to raise money
for Sunnydale High's marching band, and Buffy and the gang are at the top
of Snyder's recruitment list. After Buffy convinces her mother to buy some
candy, she revives their long-standing debate over whether or not she can
get a license and start driving. Joyce remains uncomfortable with the
notion of her daughter behind a steering wheel. Buffy then heads off for
the library, telling her mother that she has some more training to do with
Giles. Joyce is not pleased with how much time Buffy has to spend working
with Giles. At the library, Buffy trains briefly with Giles before leaving
early, explaining to him that her mom wants her home early. Buffy then
visits Angel at the mansion, bringing along a container of blood from the
butcher shop. When Buffy finally goes home, she is surprised to find both
her mom and her Watcher waiting for her in the foyer. They both have
figured out that Buffy lied to them in order to go someplace else,
although Joyce suspects that place was the Bronze. Unhappy with the way
she's being treated, Buffy expresses how she can't fulfill both of their
demands for the amount of time they want to spend with her. After Buffy
goes to her room, Giles and Joyce relax on the couch, curiously eating one
candy bar after another. Elsewhere, these same candy bars are being
packaged in a factory. Overlooking the whole process is none other than
Giles' old rival, Ethan Rayne. Buffy, Cordy, Xander, Willow, and several
other students sit in study hall on Friday, waiting for their supervisor
to arrive. The staff member assigned to study hall this day happens to be
Giles, who is uncharacteristically late. While the students wait, Xander
and Willow engage in a forbidden game of footsie under their table,
apparently still hung up over each other after their kiss on Homecoming
week. Principal Snyder talks one of the teacher, Ms. Barton, into filling
in for Giles. Buffy is both surprised and dismayed to learn that Giles
never showed up, but she and the rest of the students are even more
surprised when Ms. Barton speaks to them loosely and freely, going so far
as to refer to their principal as "Commandant Snyder". After
school, Buffy goes to Giles' apartment to find out where he was, but that
soon becomes irrelevant when she notices that her mother is there as well.
Giles explains that he and Joyce have been working out a schedule to make
it easier for Buffy to spend enough time with the both of them. Joyce then
stuns her daughter by handing her the keys to her jeep, telling Buffy to
drive herself home. After Buffy grabs the keys and leaves, Giles lights up
a cigarette, dropping the charade that he and Joyce were putting on for
Buffy when she arrived just now. Not one to pass up on an opportunity like
this, Buffy picks up Willow in the jeep and drives off to the Bronze,
displaying a horrific driving ability along the way. At the Bronze, Buffy
and Willow immediately notice the vast number of adults present, which is
unusual for any given night at the Bronze. Even stranger is that all of
the adults are acting like rowdy teenagers, including Principal Snyder,
who acts like he's just one of the Scooby Gang. While Buffy and Willow try
to decipher this phenomenon, Giles and Joyce drink, smoke, and listen to
old LP's before heading out into town. Giles and Joyce stroll by the store
windows, one of which showcases a coat that catches Joyce's eye. Giles
breaks into the window and steals the coat for the new "girl" in
his life. A cop tries to stop them, but Giles makes short work of the cop
and takes his gun before leaving the scene with Joyce. Back at the Bronze,
Buffy decides that they need to get out and find some answers. As Buffy,
Willow, and Oz leave the Bronze and get into the jeep, Snyder follows them
into the car. Since time is definitely an issue, Buffy lets him tag along.
Meanwhile, adults all over town are acting like teenagers, just like the
people at the Bronze. Two guys even get into a drag race, and one of them
smashes into Buffy's jeep. After everyone gets out of the car, one man
runs by and steals Snyder's candy bar. Buffy realizes that there must be
something wrong with the candy. Buffy instructs Willow and Oz to get
Xander and Cordelia and head to the library, while she and Snyder drive to
the candy bar factory. Buffy and Snyder arrive at the factory, where a
huge mob of adults are gathered around the entrance to get more candy
bars. On her way to the entrance, Buffy is distracted by the sight of
Giles kissing Joyce right in front of her eyes. Unable to deal with them
at this moment, Buffy knocks out the workers and enters the factory, with
Giles, Joyce, and Snyder following closely behind. Inside, Buffy finds
Ethan, who wastes no time in running away. He tries to lose them in the
maze of candy bar boxes, but Buffy eventually finds him. Back at the
library, the rest of the gang tries to find some useful information, but
they can't do much without a good lead. Buffy learns from Ethan that his
job was mainly to divert the adults from the main objective, which is to
pay tribute to a demon named Lurconis. Oz and Willow discover that
Lurconis feeds on babies. Unbeknownst to any of them, a group of vampires
walk into the hospital nursery and steal four of the infants there. Buffy
and the others are too late in getting to the hospital. However, Giles is
able to recall that Lurconis means "glutton", and that they
should be able to find him in the sewers. They go down into the sewer
tunnels and find the babies, along with Mr. Trick, the other four
vampires, and the Mayor. As soon as Buffy and Giles arrive, Mayor
Wilkinson immediately flees the scene. While Buffy fights the vampires,
Giles and Joyce move the babies out of harm's way. During the battle,
Buffy throws one of the vampires into a large pool. A large rumbling soon
follows, and Lurconis, a huge serpentine creature, emerges from an opening
next to the pool and devours the hapless vampire. Mr. Trick challenges the
Slayer to a fight, but her Watcher intervenes and attempts to take on the
vampire. Mr. Trick easily tosses Giles into the pool and escapes. With
Lurconis coming back for seconds, Buffy detaches a fuel line and ignites
the open end on one of the torches that the vampires set up, creating a
giant blowtorch. As Lurconis emerges from the opening once again, Buffy
roasts the demon, sending it back into its dwelling. Afterwards, Mayor
Wilkinson expresses his disappointment in Mr. Trick's failure, warning him
not to make the same mistakes again. The following Monday morning, all the
adults in Sunnydale are back to normal. Buffy laments to Giles after
school about the disaster that was her S.A.T. They meet up with Joyce by
the jeep, which is still wrecked. Buffy is relieved that she was able to
stop Giles and Joyce before they went a little too far with their carefree
romance... or so she believes.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Revelations
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After
Dingoes Ate My Baby finishes its set during a particularly crowded night
at the Bronze, Oz joins Willow, Xander, and Cordelia at their table.
Hoping to divert attention away from her and Xander's uneasiness around
each other, Willow brings up the topic of Buffy acting differently as of
late. Cordy suggests that Buffy might have found a new man. Buffy stops by
briefly before heading off with Faith towards the cemetery for a
rendezvous with Giles. In no time, Buffy and Faith are battling two
newly-risen vampires while their Watcher observes. After successfully
vanquishing the vampires, a woman arrives on the scene. She criticizes
Buffy and Faith's performance, then identifies herself as Mrs. Gwendolyn
Post -- Faith's new Watcher. Upon returning to the library, Gwendolyn Post
informs Giles, Buffy, and Faith that she has been sent by the Watchers'
Council to serve as Faith's Watcher, as well as report back to the Council
about the situation in Sunnydale with Giles and Buffy. In addition,
Gwendolyn has information regarding a demon named Lagos, who has come to
Sunnydale in search of a deadly weapon called the Glove of Myhnegon. It's
apparent from the start that Gwendolyn doesn't have a great deal of
respect for Giles' abilities, as she mocks both his resources and his
efficiency. After Faith leaves with her newly appointed Watcher, Buffy
goes to the mansion for her own training session with Angel. In the heat
of the moment, they nearly kiss before Buffy pulls back at the last
second. As she leaves, Buffy casually mentions Lagos' name, which brings a
look of concern to Angel's face. Back at the library, Giles' frustration
steadily grows due to his difficulty in finding any relevant information
on Lagos. He vents that frustration on Xander, demanding that he either
help with the research or leave. Xander joins an exhausted Willow in the
search through the books, and they settle down behind one of the stacks.
One thing leads to another, and Willow is soon madly kissing Xander.
Completely lost in their passion, neither of them realizes that Giles is
merely a few feet away. His voice breaks them out of their spell and
brings them to their feet. Luckily, the librarian is too focused on the
book in his hands to notice what Willow and Xander were doing. Giles tells
them that he discovered the possible location of the Glove of Myhnegon:
inside the Von Hauptman family crypt in Restfield Cemetery. Xander
immediately volunteers to go to the cemetery and check out the crypt.
Meanwhile, Buffy and Faith decide to call it a night and postpone the rest
of their patrol through the numerous cemeteries of Sunnydale. While Buffy
heads home to sleep, Faith passes through Shady Hill Cemetery, where she
finds the demon Lagos rummaging through a tomb. Faith engages the demon,
but she quickly ends up on her back with the wind knocked out of her. She
can only watch as Lagos gives up his search through the tomb and walks
away. Finding the glove is the only thing on Lagos' mind. Over at
Restfield Cemetery, Xander arrives at the Von Hauptman crypt just in time
to see somebody walking out of the entrance. To his surprise, Xander
recognizes the person as Angel, who is carrying a wrapped object in his
hands. Without being noticed, Xander follows Angel back to the Crawford
Street mansion and witnesses yet another surprise through the window:
Buffy, with her arms wrapped around Angel... kissing him. After Xander
leaves, Buffy and Angel break their kiss and regain control of themselves.
Angel brings Buffy over to the object which he took from the crypt, then
unwraps it to reveal the Glove of Myhnegon. Angel stops Buffy from
touching it, warning her that the glove cannot be removed once you put it
on. At Giles' apartment, Gwendolyn Post relaxes while Giles locates an
illustration of the Glove of Myhnegon in one of his books. As they take a
tea break, Xander bursts in with an urgent announcement concerning Buffy
for Giles' ears only.Buffy enters the library the next morning with good
news about the glove, only to find Giles and all of her friends sitting
around the table with serious looks on their faces. After she sits down,
Giles tells her that her secret about Angel is officially out in the open.
Buffy tries to defend her stance, emphasizing the fact that Angel is no
longer the uncontrollable murderer that he became after his fateful
"moment of happiness". However, her friends refuse to accept
Buffy's excuses, especially Xander. Fed up with his accusations, Buffy
grabs Xander by the arm and questions his motives for wanting Angel dead.
Giles stops the debate and sends everybody back to class before things get
out of hand. Buffy follows her Watcher into his office and reassures him
that Angel got the glove before Lagos could find it. Giles, however,
doesn't want to hear any more of Buffy's excuses. He reminds her of how
Angel tortured him months ago. Giles then acknowledges the fact that Buffy
was wrong to keep Angel's return a secret from her Watcher, and she has
gravely disrespected him by doing so. Meanwhile, Gwendolyn pays a visit to
Faith's place. While assuring Faith that her intentions are pure,
Gwendolyn alludes to Giles' secret meeting with Buffy and her friends.
Faith is not pleased to be left out of that equation. Back at Sunnydale
High, Buffy finds Willow at her locker and asks if everything's all right
between them. Preoccupied with her own secret, Willow does not hesitate to
pardon Buffy for keeping Angel's return under wraps. Buffy then tells her
friend that she plans to wait in front of the Von Hauptman crypt and kill
Lagos when he arrives. Later that night, Faith finds Xander at the Bronze,
shooting pool by himself. Xander fills Faith in on the news that Angel's
back in town, the Glove of Myhnegon is in his possession, and Buffy has no
problems with any of this. Faith decides to kill Angel, and Xander is
eager to tag along. As they head towards the library, Gwendolyn enters
Giles' office and finds out that the Glove of Myhnegon has been found and
is currently in the mansion on Crawford Street. Giles then surprises her
with a spell he discovered that can destroy the glove. The spell creates a
living flame, which can incinerate the Glove of Myhnegon. After Giles
turns around, Gwendolyn picks up a statue and bashes him in the head
twice, sending him to the floor, unconscious and bleeding. At Restfield
Cemetery, Willow is about to divulge her secret to Buffy about her new
relationship with Xander when Lagos suddenly appears. After a rough fight,
Buffy grabs the axe from Lagos' back and uses it to chop his head off. As
they head back to the library, Faith and Xander arrive to collect a few
weapons from the armory in the bookcage. On their way out, Xander hears a
moan coming from Giles' office. He finds Giles on the floor, quickly
losing a lot of blood. Faith believes Angel did this, but Xander points
out the lack of bite marks. Faith doesn't care about that detail, and she
leaves for the mansion while Xander calls for an ambulance. Aware of the
method for destroying the glove, Angel completes the spell for the living
flame. He then turns around to see that Gwendolyn Post has entered the
room. She concocts a lie to convince Angel that the living flame can
strengthen the glove if the spell was miscast. As Angel turns his back to
her, Gwendolyn picks up a shovel and strikes the back of the vampire's
head, knocking him to the floor. Meanwhile, Buffy and Willow arrive at the
library, where paramedics are in the process of bringing Giles out to the
ambulance. Before he is taken away, Giles tells Buffy that she must
destroy the glove with living flame. Xander tells Buffy that Faith is
already on her way to the mansion, convinced that Angel needs to die.
Buffy tells Willow to find the spell for the living flame, then dashes
towards the mansion, where Gwendolyn is trying to open the locked chest
which contains the glove. Back at the library, Xander and Willow finish
the preparations for the spell and head to the mansion. Before Gwendolyn
can open the chest, Angel hops to his feet, his face morphed to its
vampire state. Gwendolyn breaks the shovel handle in half and tries to
stake Angel, but he easily knocks the weapon away and throws Gwendolyn
into the wall. As he moves in to grab her, Faith arrives and sees her new
Watcher about to be murdered by a vampire. Faith overwhelms Angel and is
about to finish the job when Buffy arrives and stops the stake's descent.
Buffy tries to convince Faith that Angel is not the enemy, but Gwendolyn
urges her Slayer to do her job. Faith and Buffy begin to fight each other.
Their battle takes them crashing through a window and into one of the
outside courtyards. Xander and Willow arrive in the midst of the fight.
Xander tries to stop them, but Faith tosses him aside and continues the
fight. Using the Slayers' distraction to her advantage, Gwendolyn opens
the chest and pulls out the glove and knocks Willow to the floor with it,
then puts on the Glove of Myhnegon, which latches itself to her arm. As
she raises the glove above her head and chants in Gaelic, thunder begins
to rumble over the mansion. The loud thunder stops Buffy and Faith, and
they turn their attention towards Gwendolyn. As they watch on, Gwendolyn
screams a command which causes lightning to strike the glove from the sky,
then fly out from the glove towards its target. Buffy and Faith dodge the
blast, but just barely. As Willow gets up from the floor, Gwendolyn turns
and fires a lightning bolt in her direction. Angel runs in and pushes
Willow out of the way of the bolt. Faith runs around the room to draw her
fire away from Buffy, who picks up a shard of the broken window and throws
it at Gwendolyn's gloved arm. The glass cuts right through her arm,
causing it to fall to the floor by Gwendolyn's feet. The dismemberment
causes the glove to fire again, but since it is now beneath her, the
lightning flies down from the sky and strikes Gwendolyn, burning her into
oblivion. The next morning, Oz, Willow, Xander, and Cordy talk in the
lounge about Buffy and Angel, as well as destroying the Glove of Myhnegon
with the living flame. Xander concedes that having Angel around again will
be fine as long as Buffy doesn't repeat the same mistakes that led to the
lifting of the curse. Buffy arrives and makes peace with Xander. Giles
then walks into the lounge and tells the group that Gwendolyn Post was
kicked out by the Watchers' Council a couple years ago. After school,
Buffy visits Faith's place. She tells Faith to not worry about trusting
her, but Faith still feels betrayed and is not in the mood for
conversation. As Buffy turns to leave, Faith begins to tell her something,
but decides to keep it to herself for now.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 8:
Lovers Walk
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Buffy
Summers surprises her friends with her S.A.T. scores, which are a combined
total of 1430. While everybody is fairly excited by this news, Buffy
herself is more concerned with the fact that she may have to consider her
future more seriously. Later that night, a car runs over the welcome sign
at Sunnydale's city limits. Completely drunk, a familiar figure tumbles
out of the driver's side door: Spike. Spike heads to the burnt-out factory
where he originally stayed with Drusilla before Giles' invasion forced
them to leave. Spike laments over his recent break-up with Dru as he
smashes one of her old dolls. The next morning, Xander convinces Cordelia
to join Oz and Willow on a double date at the bowling alley. Xander
notices that Cordy has taped pictures of herself and Xander, along with Oz
and Willow, to the inside of her locker door. After confirming the plans,
Oz follows Willow to her locker and gives her a pez dispenser with a
witch's head on it as an impromptu gift. Overcome with guilt, Willow
confronts Xander outside and tries to convince him that the double date is
a bad idea. In the library, Giles admires Buffy's S.A.T. scores while he
finishes packing for a retreat at Breaker's Woods. Buffy mentions her
mother's enthusiasm and encouragement to apply to major colleges across
the country. Giles agrees that Buffy should take advantage of this
opportunity, while Faith could keep an eye on Sunnydale. Elsewhere, the
deputy mayor informs Mayor Wilkins that Spike is back in town. Mayor
Wilkins agrees with his suggestion that they get Mr. Trick to send a
vampire committee to take care of Spike. Later, after school, Buffy and
Joyce discuss college plans. Joyce continuously mentions out-of-state
universities. Meanwhile, Spike goes to the Crawford Street mansion and
spies on Angel, who is reading a book inside. Still drunk, Spike passes
out on the floor of the garden. As the sun rises the next morning, Spike
is abruptly woken up by the sight and pain of his burning hand, which has
been ignited by the sunlight. He goes to a local magic shop in search of a
curse to cast on Angel. Spike hides as Willow enters. He looks on as
Willow buys a few ingredients for a de-lusting spell, which she hopes will
put an end to her affair with Xander. After Willow leaves, Spike feeds on
the shopkeeper and formulates a new plan to get what he wants. At the
mansion, Angel tells Buffy that she should look into college. This causes
Buffy to leave early. Later that night, Xander finds Willow working on
some sort of experiment in the science lab. While they wait for Cordelia
and Oz to meet them there for the double date, Xander realizes that Willow
is actually performing a spell. She tells him about the nature of the
spell, and Xander is not pleased with Willow's preferred method of dealing
with their situation. Suddenly, Spike appears to kidnap Willow. While
Xander fights Spike, Willow attempts to hit the vampire with a heavy
object. Spike grabs it out of Willow's hands and strikes Xander directly
in the head, knocking him out. Willow and Xander are then brought to the
factory and locked in the basement. While Xander lays on a bed,
unconscious and bloody, Spike demands Willow to perform a love spell that
will bring Drusilla back to him. Willow tells Spike that she still needs a
few additional ingredients and the right spell book. Back at Sunnydale
High, Cordy and Oz barge into the library where Buffy is training. Worried
about Xander and Willow's absence, they take Buffy to the science lab and
show her the aftermath of the fight. Buffy sends them to find Giles at his
retreat while she goes back to the library to properly equip herself for
the search. Before Buffy can enter the bookcage, the phone rings. It's
Joyce, and as Buffy listens, Spike enters the Summers' home. As soon as
Buffy hears the familiar voice, she drops the phone and runs home as fast
as she can. Joyce makes a couple cups of coffee while Spike tells her his
sob story about what happened between himself and Drusilla. Outside, Angel
approaches the house. He sees Spike sitting at the kitchen counter with
Joyce and tries to run into the house, but can't do so without an
invitation. Joyce is terrified to see Angel again, unaware that the real
enemy is standing right behind her. Distracted, Spike doesn't even notice
Buffy's entrance as she grabs him from behind and pins him to the counter.
Joyce watches in confusion while Buffy invites Angel into the house to
help with Spike. Spike tells them what he's done with Willow and Xander,
but he doesn't say where they are. Buffy and Angel reluctantly agree to
help Spike get what he needs for the love spell in exchange for her
friends' safety. Meanwhile, Oz picks up Willow's scent, so he cancels the
drive to Breaker's Woods and tries to find Willow and Xander instead.
Cordelia is not too comfortable with the fact that Oz still has a few
latent werewolf abilities even when it's not that time of the month. Buffy
and Angel follow Spike to the magic shop to get the ingredients. While
there, Spike mocks Buffy and Angel's attempt to be nothing more than
friends. Spike insists that they will forever be in love with each other,
just like he is with Dru. At the factory, Xander finally comes to and
learns from Willow everything that's happened. Realizing that their
situation is seemingly hopeless, Xander and Willow lay on the bed and
kiss, unaware of the fact that Oz and Cordelia have just arrived to rescue
them. Nobody can believe what they're seeing, and Cordy takes it the
hardest. As she runs back up the stairs, one of the deteriorated steps
crumbles. Cordy falls through the hole to the hard floor below. When
Xander looks down through the hole, he sees that Cordy is impaled on a
steel rod, which is sticking up from her torso. After gathering all of the
ingredients, Spike, Buffy, and Angel run into a large group of vampires
outside of the magic shop. One of the group's head vampires, Lenny, is not
too pleased with Spike's return to Sunnydale. A huge battle erupts on the
street. Outnumbered, the three retreat into the magic shop and seal off
the entrances. They miss one of the doors in the back, which is soon
opened by the invading vampires. As the battle spills into the magic shop,
Spike drives a stake through Lenny's heart, reducing him to dust. More
vampires bust through the window, but they are quickly thwarted off by the
vials of holy water thrown by Buffy and Angel. Spike is thoroughly
satisfied with the emotional rush from the battle, and decides to forget
about the love spell and win Drusilla back by being his old self. Spike
tells them that Willow and Xander are at the factory, then leaves.
Meanwhile, at the factory, Xander climbs down to the injured Cordelia
while Oz leaves to get help. Luckily, none of Cordy's organs were
punctured by the rod, but her distress over Xander's betrayal is beyond
repair. While Buffy comforts Willow about the whole situation, Xander
tries his own luck at the hospital where Cordy is recovering. He brings
her flowers and tries to apologize, but Cordy simply tells Xander to stay
away. Later, Buffy goes to the mansion and tells Angel that she won't
visit him anymore. Buffy can't get out of her mind what Spike said about
the two of them, so she decides to break off her contact with Angel. While
everybody somberly reflects to themselves about what happened during the
past few days, a jubilant Spike leaves Sunnydale once again.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 9:
The Wish
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Ridding
Sunnydale of one slimy demon provides little distraction for Buffy,
Xander, and Willow, who are still coping with the aftermath of their
relationship woes. Cordy is taking it the hardest, ignoring the vast
amount of answering machine messages left by Xander while burning all the
pictures of her ex-boyfriend. The next morning, Willow tries once again to
patch up her relationship with Oz. Unfortunately, he needs some space and
time to make any decisions on the matter. Cordelia arrives at school
dressed to kill, but she soon learns that all of her old friends still
have no respect for her, even after Xander Harris has left the picture.
Harmony introduces Cordy to Anya, a new girl in town, before harshly
insulting her former best friend. Anya takes an immediate interest in
Cordy's personal troubles. Later that night, Cordy and Anya go to the
Bronze, where Xander is also in attendance, along with Buffy and Willow.
After getting up to fetch a few drinks, Buffy notices Cordy abruptly
exiting, so she follows her into the alley. Before Buffy can get Cordelia
to open up and vent her problems, a vampire intervenes. The ensuing fight
sends Cordy into a nearby pile of trash. With the last straw exposed,
Cordelia identifies Buffy as the source of all of her troubles. As she
explains to Anya the next day, none of the bad things in Cordy's life
would have ever happened if Buffy never came to Sunnydale. Anya removes
her necklace and places it around Cordy's neck. Cordy declares her wish
that Buffy never made that fateful trip. At this point, Anya reveals
herself to be not quite human and says, "Done." A bright light
flashes, and suddenly the Sunnydale High campus is much less crowded than
it was a moment ago. Cordelia quickly realizes that Anya must have granted
her wish. However, this new version of Sunnydale is not as ideal as she
imagined it would be. There's a city curfew that coincides with sunset.
The Bronze is no longer the place to be at night. And Xander and Willow,
as Harmony tells her, are dead. Night falls as Cordelia wanders the
deserted streets of Sunnydale. She encounters Xander and tells him that
they have to get Buffy. Willow arrives, and Cordy learns that they are now
vampires. Before Xander can kill her, a familiar van pulls up to the scene
of the inevitable crime. Giles gets out, warding Xander and Willow off
with a cross. Behind him, Oz sits in the driver's seat with a crossbow
aimed at the vamps. Larry and a girl named Nancy get out of the van and
pull Cordy to safety. Giles gets back inside, and the van takes off.
Cordelia is brought to the library, which serves as the main base for the
resistance against the vampires. Meanwhile, Xander and Willow return to
the Bronze, which is now the headquarters for The Master and his minions.
The Master orders Xander and Willow to kill Cordelia before she can
contact the Slayer and interfere with his latest scheme. Back at the
library, Cordy finally comes to and tells Giles about her wish and that
they need Buffy. Unfortunately, neither of them realize that Xander and
Willow have infiltrated the library. Locked inside the bookcage, Giles can
only hopelessly watch as Xander and Willow sink their fangs into Cordelia,
draining her of all of her blood. After the vampires leave, Giles uses an
axe from his weapons cabinet to bust open the cage. Larry and Oz arrive,
informing Giles that Nancy is now dead. As they Pick up Cordy's lifeless
body to bring to the incinerator, Giles notices her necklace and removes
it. The next morning, Willow plays around with Angel, who the Master has
locked up in the basement of the Bronze as punishment. At the library,
Giles discovers through his books that the necklace represents Anyanka,
the "Patron Saint of Scorned Women". He realizes that Anyanka
must have granted a wish that Cordy made which resulted in the world
they're living in right now. Giles calls Buffy's Watcher in Cleveland and
leaves a message. While driving down the streets later that night, Giles
sees some vampires packing a group of humans into the back of a truck. He
wards them off with the cross, enabling the humans to escape. However, he
is knocked down from behind. Before the vampires can finish him, another
challenger enters the fray. Giles watches the vampires face defeat at the
hands of this newcomer, then realizes that this new girl is the one and
only Buffy Summers. After taking her back to his apartment, Giles informs
her of what he's learned concerning Anyanka. In order to reverse all of
her wishes and render her powerless, Anyanka's powercenter must be
destroyed. Buffy is clearly uninterested in this, and is more concerned
with taking out the Master. Buffy goes to the Bronze, which is now
deserted. In the basement, she finds Angel locked up behind bars. While
she doesn't recognize him, Angel knows exactly who she is from all the
time he spent secretly observing her in Los Angeles. Angel leads Buffy to
a factory where the Master has unveiled a machine that will revolutionize
the lifestyle of vampires everywhere. This device can drain a person's
body of all of its blood and dispense it into glasses and cups in mere
seconds. Buffy and Angel step in to put a stop to the festivities. While
Buffy fights the vampires head-on, Angel frees the human prisoners. In the
course of the battle, Angel, Xander, and Willow are dusted. While Buffy
continues to fight, Giles summons Anyanka and identifies her glowing
necklace as her powercenter. As he rips it from her neck and prepares to
smash it, the Master overpowers Buffy and snaps her neck, fulfilling the
prophecy in the Pergamum Codex in this reality as well. Giles smashes the
necklace, and suddenly Cordelia is standing in front of Anya again. Anya
realizes that she is no longer able to grant Cordy's wish. As Cordy walks
off, she passes by Buffy, Xander, and Willow, who are still alive and
well.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 10:
Ammends
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As
Christmas draws near, Angel begins to relive in his dreams the numerous
murders he has committed. One of his victims was a young man named Daniel,
whom Angel killed in Dublin in 1818. Unable to stay in bed any longer,
Angel ventures out onto the streets of Sunnydale and runs into Buffy,
who's doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. Angel's attention is soon
diverted from Buffy to a familiar face in the distance. Impossible as it
may seem, Angel recognizes this person as Daniel, the same man he killed
180 years ago. After Buffy tells her friends about her encounter with
Angel the next day at school, Oz finally decides to give Willow a second
chance at their relationship. Later that night, Buffy and Joyce shop for a
Christmas tree. While looking around, Joyce suggests that Buffy invite
Faith to their place on Christmas Eve. Buffy notices a small group of dead
trees that the salesman can't explain. At the motel, Faith turns down
Buffy's invitation, explaining that she already has plans to attend a
party. Meanwhile, Angel shows up at Giles' doorstep in need of help. Giles
invites him in, but not before he grabs a crossbow to protect himself
with. Angel wants to find out how and why he returned to Earth, but he is
soon distracted by the presence of Jenny Calendar in the apartment. She is
invisible to Giles, which adds to his confusion when Angel suddenly runs
out the door. Back at the mansion, Angel dreams about another moment in
time when he took the life of a servant named Margaret. After drinking her
blood, Angel looks up to see Buffy watching the whole event. Angel
suddenly wakes up... as does Buffy. Inside the mansion, Angel is haunted
by Jenny, Daniel, Margaret, and visions of his many other victims. Buffy,
meanwhile, tells Giles that she shared Angel's dream the previous night.
They decide to do some research in hopes of discovering the reason for
Angel's return to Earth. Xander and Willow show up shortly to aid in the
research. After a while, both Buffy and Angel fall asleep and share
another dream in which they make love in Buffy's bedroom. Their romantic
moment is interrupted by the vision of a man with no eyes. Before Buffy
can figure out what's going on, Angel bites into Buffy's neck, effectively
waking both of them up from their slumbers. Angel listens to Jenny as she
tries to convince him that losing his soul with Buffy again and killing
her will bring him the peace he desires. Giles shows an illustration of
three men with no eyes to Buffy, who recognizes the face from her most
recent dream. Called the Bringers, or Harbingers, these high priests can
summon The First. As Giles explains, The First is the name given to
Absolute Evil. Since it is not a physical being, Buffy cannot fight it.
Buffy and Xander visit Willy's bar, hoping to get some information on the
whereabouts of the Bringers. All they learn is that the Bringers might be
underground. Xander decides that they should go home and enjoy Christmas
Eve before resuming their search. With her parents out of town for the
evening, Willow invites Oz over to her home to watch a few movies. When Oz
arrives, he soon realizes that Willow has made a small change of plans.
Willow tells him that she's ready to sleep with him, but Oz knows that
she's only doing this as an extreme means of redemption. He turns down
Willow's offer, preferring to spend the night in a simpler way, like
kissing on the couch. Meanwhile, Faith shows up at the Summers' front
porch. Explaining that she thought twice about the party, Faith gives a
couple gifts to Buffy and Joyce. While Faith settles in, Buffy goes
upstairs to her bedroom to fetch their presents. She is surprised to find
Angel in her bedroom. However, he's a little out of it at this point,
staring longingly at her neck. Jenny stands behind Buffy, urging Angel to
take the final plunge, both symbolically and literally. Angel can't go
through with it, and he dives through Buffy's window. Back at the mansion,
Angel tells Jenny that he will end his own life, using the deadly rays of
the sun to do the deed. After entrusting Faith with her mother's safety,
Buffy goes to Giles' apartment in an attempt to find out where the
Bringers are. One of Giles' books contains a passage that indicates the
inability of life to grow above or below the Bringers. This leads Buffy
back to the suspicious group of dead trees she noticed a while ago. Using
an axe, Buffy breaks open a hole in the ground that she immediately
enters. Underground, Buffy finds the Bringers and makes short work of them
with the axe. However, Buffy isn't prepared to see the figure of Jenny
Calendar standing before her. Buffy listens as the vision of Jenny speaks
for The First, boasting its legendary might. Buffy has no time to
entertain The First, which tells her that Angel will die by sunrise. Buffy
runs back to the mansion to find Angel, but he is no longer there. She
finally locates him at the top of a hill which overlooks Sunnydale. Buffy
tries to get Angel indoors before sunrise, but Angel won't budge. He tells
her that he can't go on living, knowing that his very existence presents a
threat to the woman he loves so dearly. Buffy refuses to agree, expressing
her love for Angel and the self-hatred that goes along with it. Their
stand-off is unexpectedly interrupted by several flakes of snow falling
from the sky. Soon enough, a steady snowfall envelops Sunnydale for the
first time ever, preventing the sun's rays from reaching the ground below
and ending Angel's life. Nobody can explain it, but that doesn't matter to
Buffy and Angel. Some higher power, whomever or whatever it may be, has
given Angel yet another lease on life... on Christmas, no less.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 11:
Ginger Bread
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On a
typical night of patrol and slaying, Buffy's routine is unexpectedly
interrupted by the arrival of her mother. Joyce feels that it's time to
get a better understanding of her daughter's world by watching Buffy in
action. Almost as soon as Joyce arrives, a vampire enters the scene. After
Buffy chases him into the thick of the woods, Joyce discovers the bodies
of two dead children, one boy and one girl, at a nearby playground. A
strange symbol has been enscribed in the palms of their hands. While the
police investigate the crime scene, Buffy tries to console her distraught
mother. Buffy tells Giles about the murdered children in the library the
next morning. She sketches the symbol she noticed on their palms and shows
it to Giles, who believes it implies the handiwork of a cult. Buffy cannot
believe that humans are responsible for this as opposed to demons. At
lunch, nobody notices Joyce walking into the cafeteria and straight to the
gang's table. Buffy excuses herself and takes her mom into the hallway.
Joyce tells her daughter that she's organized a meeting at City Hall for
that night to discuss the murder. Dozens of parents attend, including
Sheila Rosenberg, Willow's mother. Willow can't believe she's there,
considering the fact that they barely communicate with each other. After
the Mayor delivers a textbook speech to the crowd, he invites Joyce to the
stand to lead them in a moment of silence. Instead, Joyce proposes a call
to action, declaring an end to the city's silence concerning the
ubiquitous dangers that plague Sunnydale. Later that night, Willow, Amy,
and their friend Michael gather together to explore their world of the
black arts. On the floor beneath them is the very same symbol that
appeared on the two dead children.At school the next morning, a group of
students harass Michael by his locker, stating their belief that witches
were responsible for the children's murder. Amy tries to fend them off,
but it's Buffy who gets them to back off. Giles finds Buffy and tells her
that witches may in fact be the prime suspects. The book that Giles needs
to research this further was checked out by Willow, so he asks Buffy to
get it for him. Buffy finds Xander sitting in the lounge, who points out
Willow's stuff. As she picks up the book, Buffy notices the symbol drawn
on Willow's notebook. She asks Willow to explain it, but their
conversation is cut short by the sudden commotion in the hallways. Under
Principal Synder's supervision, the local police inspect each and every
locker, looking for any signs of materials pertaining to witchcraft. After
Amy is escorted to the office, Willow tells Buffy that the symbol is for a
protection spell that she wanted to cast for Buffy's upcoming birthday. In
other words, the symbol and what it stands for are completely harmless. At
that moment, the cops open Willow's locker and ask her to come with them.
Buffy runs to the library and discovers a similar scene. As the cops pack
up all of Giles' books concerning the supernatural, Buffy tells him about
the misleading symbol. Later that night, Buffy argues with her mother, who
is the founder of MOO (Mothers Opposed to the Occult). Buffy insists that
this matter be dealt with by the Slayer. However, Joyce doesn't believe
that Buffy's work is making Sunnydale any better. After Buffy takes off,
the two deceased children appear in the kitchen... very much alive. Joyce
listens to them intently as they beg her to make their murderers suffer.
Meanwhile, Sheila grounds Willow for getting into trouble at school. She
orders her daughter to stay in her room for the rest of the night. At the
park, Angel finds Buffy standing by the scene of the crime, which is now
decorated with flowers, candles, and pictures of the children from a time
when they were still alive. Buffy has not forgotten her mother's criticism
of the Slayer's effectiveness. Angel reassures Buffy that her destiny is
not in vain. During their conversation, Angel inadvertently alerts Buffy
to a mystery concerning the two children. She heads to the library and
finds Giles, Xander, and Oz trying to find any useful information on the
internet. Buffy shares her realization that nobody seems to know anything
about the two children, including their names or where they came from, and
yet their pictures were somehow available for use in MOO's campaign. Oz
sends an instant message to Willow, who then begins to search the web for
any files or articles relating to the two children. Apparently, the dead
bodies of these same two children have been repeatedly discovered once
every fifty years, dating all the way back to 1649. The oldest article
identifies them as Hans and Greta Strauss. Unfortunately, Sheila cuts off
Willow's computer access at this moment, forcing Giles and the gang to
figure the rest out on their own. Giles recalls a theory that many fairy
tales are based on actual accounts of the supernatural. Buffy fills in the
blanks, recalling the story of Hansel and Gretel, who must have been based
on Hans and Greta. Suddenly, Michael bursts into the library and tells
everybody that he was attacked by his own family. He also informs them
that Amy was taken from her home. Xander and Oz head towards Willow's
house while Buffy and Giles race back to the Summers home to warn
everybody. Back at the Rosenberg's, Willow answers the knocking at her
door and finds her mother... along with a group of angry parents who want
nothing but her death. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles interrupt another MOO
meeting. As they take Joyce into the foyer to speak with her alone, the
rest of the group sneak up from behind and knock Giles unconscious. Joyce
does the same to Buffy with the help of some chloroform. Buffy, Willow,
and Amy are tied to large stakes in City Hall, ready to be burned for the
crimes they've been accused of. Willow and Amy unsuccessfully struggle
with their restraints, while Buffy remains unconscious. Meanwhile, Xander
and Oz burst into Willow's room, which was left a total mess in the wake
of the angry parents. As they leave for City Hall, Giles is awoken by an
impatient Cordelia, who came to the house to find out what was going on.
They hurry to Giles' car and speed towards City Hall. During the drive,
Giles has Cordy mix together the ingredients for a spell while he tries to
recall the incantation from memory. Back at City Hall, Buffy finally
regains consciousness and realizes the situation she's in. Joyce refuses
to listen to her daughter's pleas. Amy escapes danger by transforming
herself into a rat and bolting out of the room, but Willow and Buffy are
still moments away from a fiery death. Just as the fire is about to engulf
Buffy and Willow, Giles and Cordy burst into the room. While Cordy
extinguishes the fire, Giles casts the spell on the two children, who then
combine and change into the true form of a tall, hideous demon. As the
parents realize the deception and try to escape, Xander and Oz approach
the scene via a ventilation shaft above the ceiling. Without the help of
the parents, the demon attempts to kill Buffy and Willow directly and
charges them. Buffy breaks the stake she's been tied to in half and leans
forward -- just in time to impale the demon. The silence that follows is
soon interrupted by the sight and sound of Xander and Oz falling down
through a weak spot in the ceiling and crashing down onto the floor.A
while after their near-death experience, Buffy and Willow discuss Sheila
Rosenberg's convenient memory loss concerning the demon, just like the way
Joyce Summers' memory used to operate before learning that her daughter
was the Slayer. Willow then makes another attempt at restoring the Amy rat
to human form. Unfortunately, Willow is going to need a little more
practice before she can pull this one off.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 12:
Helpless
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After a
training session in the mansion, Buffy and Angel get a little too close
for comfort. With her eighteenth birthday almost upon her, Buffy is
anxiously awaiting to spend some time with her father at an ice show.
Later, at the library, Giles leads Buffy through a study of vibratory
stones. Despite being a little fidgety, Buffy manages to concentrate on
one of the stones. Afterwards, Buffy battles with a vampire in the park.
Just as she is about to deliver the final blow, something surges through
Buffy's body, and she suddenly finds herself powerless. The vampire
quickly takes the upper hand, knocking her to the ground and turning the
wooden stake on the Slayer herself. Buffy panicks, but she is still able
to stun the vampire with a headbutt and push him off of her. She grabs the
stake and aims it straight up as the vampire leaps onto her. In an
instant, the vampire is nothing but dust. Giles enters the library the
next morning to find Buffy practicing her aim with throwing knives. As the
random placing of the knives on and around the target shows, the Slayer is
not herself. Giles ensures Buffy that she'll be okay. Outside, Buffy
downplays her friends' enthusiasm over the upcoming birthday, suggesting
that a party may not be the greatest of ideas, given her tainted history
with such social gatherings. Later that night, Buffy notices a birthday
balloon floating in her kitchen with what appear to be an envelope and
tickets attached to the string. As Joyce informs her that Hank won't be
able to free up enough time to take her to the ice show, Buffy folds up
the envelope without even opening it. Meanwhile, three men are hard at
work inside an old, abandoned boarding house. One of the men, Quentin
Travers, looks on as his two associates, Blair and Hobson, work on laying
bricks in several of the doorways. At the library, Buffy tries to
indirectly ask Giles to take her to the ice show, but he is more
interested in making her study the vibratory stones. After Buffy finally
gives up her futile effort, Giles instructs her to concentrate on the
fault inside the large blue stone. As Buffy stares at it, she suddenly
loses all touch with the outside world. Giles checks to make sure Buffy's
in a trance, then takes an injection kit out of his bag. He injects a
strange, green fluid into Buffy's arm. After he finishes the task and puts
away the kit, Giles waves his hand in front of the fault, breaking Buffy's
trance. Unaware of what just happened, Buffy decides to call it a night
and leaves Giles alone in the library. Outside of school the next morning,
Buffy notices a guy harassing Cordelia. Buffy walks up to the guy and
grabs him by the arm. However, she suddenly realizes that she doesn't have
enough strength to do anything to the guy, who casually shoves her to the
ground with that one arm. Buffy finds Giles in the hallway and tells him
about her disturbing loss of strength. Giles doesn't show a great deal of
concern, although he definitely knows why Buffy is going through this.
Giles speaks with Quentin at the boarding house, voicing his disagreement
with the Watcher Council's insistence on subjecting Buffy to the
Cruciamentum. The Cruciamentum is a test which all Slayers must endure
when they reach the age of eighteen in order to prove their instinctual
skills and resourcefulness. To do so, the Slayer must survive an encounter
with a vicious vampire while trapped inside a small space. In this case,
Buffy must defeat an insane vampire, Zackary Kralik, in the confines of
this boarding house. After Giles leaves, a loud, painful scream emanates
from Kralik's coffin. Blair and Hobson open the coffin and give Kralik his
pills. Giles returns to the library, where Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Oz
try to find any relevant info in the books that might explain her loss of
power. While Buffy continues to search for answers, Kralik's screaming
keeps Blair and Hobson from getting any rest. While Hobson takes a break,
Blair opens the coffin to learn that Kralik wants more pills. As Blair
goes to the kitchen to fill the glass with water, Kralik screams to cover
up the sound of his straightjacket ripping at the seams. Kralik then
tricks Blair into stepping close to the coffin and grabs him by the throat
with his freed arm before sinking his fangs into his neck. At the mansion,
Angel gives a book of poetry to Buffy for her birthday. Unfortunately,
Buffy is distracted by her power loss to fully appreciate Angel's gift.
Buffy fears that she may have lost what made her special. Angel consoles
her by confessing that he watched her long before she moved to Sunnydale,
admitting that he lived her then every bit as much as he does now.
Meanwhile, Blair rises in front of Kralik as a newly-turned vampire. He
picks up an axe and frees Kralik from his restraints. Giles stops by the
boarding house to check in on things, but nobody seems to be around. After
noticing blood on the stairway railing, Giles grabs a make-shift stake and
opens Kralik's tomb. Finding it empty, Giles goes to the kitchen and
discovers Hobson's dead corpse. Overcome by the grotesque sight and smell,
Giles runs out of the house. He needs to find Buffy, who is walking the
streets alone. She runs into Kralik, who grabs her jacket. Unable to fight
him as she normally would, Buffy turns and runs for her life. She tries to
climb over, then under a fence. Blair shows up and tries to pull her back,
but Buffy escapes and runs out into the middle of the street. Giles
arrives just in time, and Buffy jumps into his car. Back at the library,
Giles tells the whole truth to Buffy, showing her the syringe filled with
an organic compound of muscle relaxants and adrenal suppressers. He
informs her that the effects of the compound will wear off in a few days,
but Buffy is too furious to care about that right now. Giles goes on to
tell her that he just invalidated the test by telling her about it ahead
of time. Unfortunately, Buffy refuses to listen or forgive him. As soon as
Cordelia walks into the library to do some research for a paper, Buffy
asks her for a ride home. While Cordelia drives Buffy home, Joyce hears a
noise on her front porch. She goes out and sees Buffy's jacket draped over
a figure. Assuming it's Buffy, she bends down towards the covered figure.
However, it's not Buffy at all, but really Kralik. When Buffy arrives
home, she finds a polaroid of her mother and Kralik. She packs a large
amount of her slaying supplies into her bag and heads towards the mansion.
Tied to a chair and gagged, Joyce can do nothing but watch as Kralik takes
countless polaroids of her while rambling about his hatred for mothers.
Buffy walks in through the main entrance of the boarding house and looks
around. As she realizes that all of the other exits have been sealed by
bricks, Blair locks the main entrance, trapping the Slayer inside.
Meanwhile, Quentin visits Giles at the library and tells him that the
Cruciamentum has begun. Giles informs him that he disclosed all of the
information concerning the test, but none of that matters right now. He
leaves Quentin in the library and races towards the boarding house. Buffy
encounters Kralik and tries to take him out with her crossbow, but it's no
use. He chases Buffy through the house. She takes refuge inside a dark
room. When she turns the light on, Buffy sees that the walls are
completely plastered with photos of her helpless mother. She runs out of
the room, and Kralik finally traps her in the hallway. Buffy attempts to
ward him off with a cross, but Kralik is so insane that he actually enjoys
the pain it causes. Before he can bite into her neck, Kralik is suddenly
seized by his painful need to take his pills. He fishes the medicine
bottle out of his pocket. Spotting an opportunity, Buffy grabs the bottle
out of his hands and dives through a laundry chute. Landing in the
basement, Buffy finds Joyce on the chair. When Kralik reaches the
basement, Buffy tries to flee the scene with his pills. He rips the bottle
out of her hands and quickly grabs the nearby glass of water. After
swallowing the pills with the water, Kralik suddenly notices a burning
sensation inside himself. Buffy holds out an empty bottle of Holy Water.
The blessed water soon disintegrates Kralik. As Buffy works on freeing
Joyce from the chair, both Giles and Blair crash into the basement. Giles
finishes the vampire off, then leaves with Joyce and Buffy. In the
library, Quentin commends Buffy on her successful passing of the test.
However, he has bad news for Giles. Since he has demonstrated a
relationship with Buffy that the Council has deemed too close, like the
way a father loves his daughter, Giles is relieved of his duties as
Buffy's Watcher. Quentin then tells Buffy that she will be assigned a new
Watcher soon. Struck by this revelation of how much Giles cares for her,
Buffy calmly allows him to tend to her wounds. Back at home, Buffy's
friends try to make sense of Giles' being fired... especially Willow, who
almost refuses to believe the mere possibility of Giles losing his job.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com |
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Eppisode 13:
The Zeppo
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Combining
their unique talents and efforts, Giles, Willow, Faith, and Buffy defeat a
group of hideous, female demons. Xander, however, can only pick himself up
from the ground and commend his partners on a job well done. The others
agree that Xander should not be risking his life by constantly involving
himself in the battles. Of course, Xander just doesn't want to be left out
of the fun. Outside of school the next morning, Xander accidentally upsets
Jack O'Toole, the local psychopath. After successfully escaping the wrath
of Jack, Xander runs into Cordelia. She delights in pointing out Xander's
insignificance, seeing how all of his friends possess one special quality
that makes them fit in. Xander, on the other hand, has nothing to warrant
his involvement in the Slayer circle. Inside the library, Giles unloads
some bad news on Buffy. Apparently, the demons they fought the previous
night belong to an Apocalypse cult called the Sisterhood of Jhe. They
intend to reopen the Hellmouth, and there's no telling how soon that event
will occur. As for Xander, his main problem concerns finding a special
"thing" to help him fit in. The only "thing" that
Xander can come up with is a car, which he procures from his Uncle Roary.
Unfortunately, this brings little joy to Buffy and Willow, who are
preoccupied with the Sisterhood of Jhe's plan. Xander offers to help --
which only leads him to the local bakery to pick up some doughnuts.
Outside the shop, a beautiful woman by the name of Lysette admires
Xander's car. Dumbfounded by his luck, Xander offers to give her a ride.
Their impromptu date soon becomes an abyss of boredom for Xander, who
learns that Lysette's one and only interest is cars. When Angel enters the
Bronze, Xander immediately showers him with warm greetings, desperately in
need of an escape from his personal hell. Angel doesn't have time to help
Xander, for he's more intent on finding Buffy and warning her about the
upcoming danger. Buffy and Willow, meanwhile, come up empty-handed in the
research department. Unable to find anybody on the Watcher Council willing
to listen to him, Giles heads to the cemetery to contact the spirit guides
for any help. Buffy goes to Willy's bar later, only to find the place
trashed and the bartender bleeding on the floor. Willy warns Buffy that
the Hellmouth will be opened before sunrise. Upon leaving the Bronze,
Xander has another run-in with Jack. This time, he carelessly crashes his
car into another, from which Jack O'Toole emerges. Just before Jack ends
Xander's all-too-short life with a really big knife, a police officer
shows up. Instead of turning Jack in, Xander tells the cop that
everything's fine. Impressed by this surprising turn of events, Jack
invites Xander to hang out with him and his friends. Back in his car,
Xander drives Jack and Lysette to the cemetery where they're supposed to
meet up with Jack's friends. Unbeknownst to Xander and Lysette, Jack's
friends have a slight case of death. Lysette screams and runs for her life
after Jack uses a ritual to raise one of his friends, Bob, from his grave.
While Jack raises two more guys, Xander spots Giles, who was unable to get
any answers from the spirit guides. Xander offers his help again, but
Giles advises him to stay out of it. Xander's new "friends"
appoint him as their designated driver, then have him drive them to the
hardware store. While they break in and loot the place, Xander sees Willow
emerging from a magic shop with a bag full of ingredients. Once again, he
asks if the gang needs any help, but Willow doesn't tell him what he wants
to hear. After she leaves, Jack and his friends decide to initiate Xander
into their group. However, the sole requirement for initiation is Xander's
death. Xander argues that Jack isn't dead, who then proves him wrong by
revealing the bullet holes in his abdomen. Fed up with this party, Xander
makes a run for it, eluding the zombies quickly enough to get back in his
car and speed away. After a short drive, Xander sees Faith battling
another Sisterhood of Jhe member. Flooring the gas pedal, Xander rams his
car into the demon, then takes off with Faith. They take refuge in her
motel room, where Xander discovers that his night isn't over by a long
shot. The victory-less battle has left Faith all worked up, and the only
thing that can relax her is a physical encounter of a completely different
kind. After shedding their clothes, Faith does the deed with Xander in
bed... then kicks him out of the place as soon as they finish. Xander
notices that the bags left in the back seat of his car contain ingredients
for a bomb. He speeds back to the hardware store to Jack and the zombie
gang, but they're are long gone. Unsure of what to do next, he seeks out
Buffy for help. Xander finds her at the mansion with Angel. Their heated
discussion forces Xander to leave them alone and take care of matters by
himself. Meanwhile, Willow relocates werewolf Oz, who broke out of his
cage earlier and had to be tranquilized, to a safer part of the school.
She then returns to the library to help Giles prepare a binding spell
which might take care of the Hellmouth demon. Neither of them are aware of
the four zombies in the boiler room beneath them. Jack's gang puts the
finishing touches on the bomb and leaves. Xander sees them walking down
the street. Needing answers fast, he pulls up between them and grabs one
of the zombies before hitting the gas. He learns that the bomb is in the
boiler room of Sunnydale High. Before Xander can get the info he needs to
disarm the bomb, the zombie's head connects with a mailbox and
instantaneously departs from its body. Xander reaches the school and runs
inside, completely unaware that the rest of his friends are in a
life-and-death battle with the Hellmouth demon in the library... again.
The zombies pursue Xander, who succeeds in taking them out one by one. In
the boiler room, Xander encounters a knife-wielding Jack, while the bomb
timer reads two minutes and counting. Xander dares Jack to let the bomb
explode and permanently end his days as one of the walking dead. Jack's
not ready to give up his lifestyle just yet, so he disarms the bomb. After
Xander leaves the boiler room, Jack has a fatal encounter with werewolf
Oz.The next morning, Buffy, Willow, and Giles look back on their epic
battle, while Oz tries to figure out why he's so full. Cordelia makes her
usual fun of Xander, but he now has a better outlook on his role in the
grand scheme of things.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com |
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Eppisode 14:
Bad Girls
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During a
typical night of patrolling and slaying vampires, Buffy and Faith
encounter a not-so-typical vampire wielding a pair of swords. They
successfully reduce the vamp to dust, but Buffy and Faith soon realize
that the two swords are nowhere to be seen. The swords have, in fact, been
brought to Mayor Wilkins' office by Mr. Trick. After looking them over,
Mayor reminds Mr. Trick and his deputy mayor, Allan Finch, of the upcoming
dedication and the hundred days which will ultimately lead to the
ascension. The next morning, in the school lounge, Willow proudly shows
her early admittance packets from several big-name universities to her
friends. After hanging around for a bit, Buffy goes to the library, where
she meets her new Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. When asked about the
previous night's patrol, Buffy describes the vampire packing the two
swords. Wesley scans through his books and quickly locates some
information on a fifteenth-century duelist cult called El Eliminati. They
once worked for Balthazar, an ancient demon, before he was apparently
killed. In order to explain their current presence in Sunnydale, Wesley
theorizes that they may be looking for an amulet that has been hidden in
the Gleaves family crypt. Just then, Faith arrives, meets Wesley, then
immediately turns and leaves. After Buffy catches up with her, Faith tells
her that they don't have to follow their new Watcher's orders. Later that
night, Buffy searches through the tombs inside the Gleaves crypt. Just as
she locates the amulet, she hears several voices approaching from outside.
As Buffy hides in one of the other tombs, the Eliminati vampires enter the
crypt and take the amulet. After they leave, Buffy gets out of the tomb
and is shocked by Faith's unexpected arrival. They go after the vampires,
following them underground. In the course of the battle, one of the
vampires attempts to drown Buffy in a pool of water. Thinking he has
succeeded, he releases his grip, giving Buffy all the opportunity she
needs to spring back to her feet and take the amulet back from the
vampires. The next day in the library, Wesley inspects the amulet while
Buffy heads to her chemistry class to take a test. The chem teacher, Mrs.
Taggert, leaves her students alone in the classroom, expecting them to
follow the honor system. Faith appears outside one of the windows and
draws a heart with a stake piercing it, signaling Buffy's early departure.
Willow and Xander try to keep their friend from leaving, but Buffy is gone
in no time. Faith leads Buffy to a vampire nest, where they give the
sleeping demons a rather rude wake-up call. Spirits high, Buffy and Faith
head to the Bronze afterwards and tear up the dance floor. Angel arrives
and pulls Buffy aside to warn her that Balthazar is still alive. When
Wesley appears on the scene, Buffy takes the amulet from him and gives it
to Angel for safe keeping. Later, at an abandoned warehouse, the Eliminati
vampires listen to their master, Balthazar, who is a horrendously bloated
demon sitting in a pool of water. Upset with one of his minions, Balthazar
uses telekinesis to draw the vampire's helpless body closer. Balthazar
then crushes the vampire's skull with his own two hands. Balthazar gives
orders to his head minion, Vincent. Outside, Buffy and Faith spy on the
gathering. In need of weaponry, Faith spots a hunting equipment shop
that's closed for the night. Buffy follows as Faith breaks into the shop
and proceeds to destroy some display cases containing weapons. Taking
Faith's lead, Buffy obtains a dagger for herself. However, their
shoplifting spree is cut short by a pair of cops with guns drawn. During
the drive back to the police station, Faith talks Buffy into helping her
kick the cage into the driver and his partner, causing the car to crash
and enable their escape. The next morning, Buffy checks the newspaper to
see if her run-in with the law is mentioned anywhere. Meanwhile, Mayor
Wilkins is attacked by Vincent in his own office. After Mr. Trick knocks
the vampire out cold, Mayor Wilkins wonders how the vampire slipped past
security. Instead of having the vampire killed, Mayor Wilkins orders Mr.
Trick to lock him up. Later, Willow is disappointed to learn that Buffy's
schedule doesn't include her. Faith arrives shortly to pick up Buffy,
leaving Willow alone. At Giles' office, Wesley criticizes the former
Watcher for his job performance with Buffy. Their argument doesn't go very
far before Giles notices the sudden presence of several vampires outside
the office. Elsewhere, Buffy and Faith head to the warehouse to take out
Balthazar and his minions. On the way, they encounter several vampires and
dust them, one by one. When a hand reaches out and grabs Buffy, Faith
throws the guy against a dumpster and drives her stake towards his heart.
Buffy realizes that this is no vampire, but it's too late as Faith's stake
plunges into the heart of Deputy Mayor Allan Finch. Within seconds, Finch
is dead. Deciding to flee from the scene, Faith and Buffy split up. Buffy
runs into Angel, who notices the blood on her hands. They head towards the
warehouse, where Giles and Wesley have been brought before the demon
Balthazar. Wesley attempts to save his own neck by offering the man who
has the amulet to Balthazar. Before any more information can be spilled,
Angel and Buffy arrive and battle the vampires. Frustrated, Balthazar uses
his telekinesis to bring Angel into his own hands. Thinking quick, Buffy
spots a lamp hovering above the pool. She sends it falling into the water,
electrocuting the obese demon. With his last breath, Balthazar warns Buffy
that a greater enemy's ascension is at hand. While Buffy and the others
puzzle over the meaning of Balthazar's dying words, Mayor Wilkins performs
the dedication ritual in his office. After completing it, he orders Mr.
Trick to release Vincent from his cage. Once freed, Vincent takes the
sword and cleaves the mayor's head into two halves. Vincent then watches
in shock as Mayor Wilkins' head reforms itself. Mr. Trick takes his cue
and drives a stake into Vincent's heart. Mayor Wilkins is now invincible,
and he will remain so for the hundred days leading to his ascension. Buffy
visits Faith's motel room the next morning to discuss their crime.
Disturbed by Faith's apparent lack of guilt, Buffy tries to convince her
that the victim's body will be found eventually. Faith tells Buffy that
she returned to the scene of the crime and dumped the body.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com |
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Eppisode 15:
Consiquences
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Buffy
has a nightmare in which she tries to escape the murky water while the
murdered Finch pulls her down by the ankle. Finally reaching the surface,
Buffy sees Faith, who immediately pushes her fellow Slayer back
underwater. After waking up, Buffy wanders down to the family room, where
her mother is watching a news report about the discovery of Finch's body.
At the library, Wesley orders Buffy and Faith to investigate Finch's
murder. During their discussion, Cordelia enters the library to check out
some books for an assignment. She takes an immediate interest in Wesley,
who doesn't realize how old she really is until Giles and the others fill
him in. After heading out, Buffy tries to convince Faith into coming clean
and confessing their crime. Faith reminds Buffy that they were both
involved, so if she goes down, she's taking Buffy with her. Buffy then
spots Willow and tries to talk to her. However, Willow is still stung by
Buffy's recent behavior. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilkins shreds all of Finch's
files that contain anything related to their dirty work. Mr. Trick listens
as Mayor Wilkins wonders if Allan Finch was conspiring against him
somehow. Later that night, Buffy and Faith sneak into Finch's office at
City Hall to see if they can find any info that might explain why he was
in the alley that night. They notice that almost all of his files are
gone, which leads Buffy to believe that a cover-up may be in the works.
Just as they're heading out, Mayor Wilkins and Mr. Trick enter the
building on the opposite end of the hallway. Seeing them together, Buffy
and Faith duck back into Finch's office, waiting for the Mayor and Mr.
Trick to pass by before running for the exit. Outside, Buffy expresses her
concern over Faith's apparently guilt-free conscience. She doesn't believe
that Faith is perfectly okay with murdering a man, but Faith says
otherwise. Faith believes that their nightly deeds as Slayers should put
them above the law. When Buffy returns home, she is greeted by her mother
and Detective Stein, who has come to ask her a few questions about the
night of the murder. Buffy lies and pleads ignorance to everything related
to the murder. Detective Stein leaves and visits Faith at her motel room,
where he gets a similar story. Meanwhile, Buffy tells Willow the truth
about everything that happened. Willow advises Buffy to go to Giles. When
Buffy arrives at the library, she finds out that Faith has gotten there
first and pinned the murder on Buffy. Buffy tries to convince Giles
otherwise, but he sends her to his office to deal with her later. After
Faith goes home, Giles assures Buffy that he's aware of Faith's lies.
While Giles tells Buffy that he has no intentions of involving the
Watcher's Council in this matter, Wesley overhears the whole conversation
from outside the office. Soon afterwards, he calls the Council in Britain
to alert them of the crime. The next morning, Buffy talks with Xander,
Willow, and Giles about what they should do with Faith. Feeling he has a
special connection with Faith ever since the night they slept together,
Xander volunteers to talk to her. In no time, Buffy, Willow, and Giles
figure out what happened between the two of them. While Xander heads
towards Faith's motel room, Willow cries over the revelation that her
first love has had sex with another girl. At the motel room, Xander tries
to help Faith see that what she did was wrong. With no intentions of
hearing any more of this, Faith shoves Xander onto the bed and jumps on
top of him. Unlike last time, however, Faith's desires are much deadlier.
She wraps her hands around Xander's neck and tries to squeeze the life out
of him. Before she can kill him, Faith is distracted by a sound at her
doorway. She turns her head just in time to see Angel swing a bat right
into her face. Later, Faith regains consciousness in the mansion. Noticing
that she's all chained up, Faith tries to come on to Angel. He leaves her
there alone momentarily while he goes to talk with Buffy in another room.
Angel believes that Faith is more dangerous than ever, now that she's
experienced murder by her own hands. After Buffy leaves to patrol, Angel
returns to the main chamber to talk to Faith. He tells her how he can
relate to her sinful desires. Unfortunately, Faith has no interest in his
attempts to help her. Suddenly, Wesley and several other men crash into
the mansion. The men subdue Angel while Wesley unlocks Faith's chains.
Immediately after unlocking the last chain, Wesley restrains Faith with
his own cuffs, informing the Slayer that she will be brought to Britain to
face the Council. In the truck, Faith tricks one of the men into getting
closer. She then beats him to the ground and threatens to snap his neck
unless Wesley frees her from the restraints. Wesley follows her orders. As
soon as she's freed, Faith knocks Wesley to the floor and jumps out the
back of the truck. Buffy returns to the mansion to find Faith gone and
Angel immobilized on the floor. Shortly, Giles, Xander, and Willow arrive
at the mansion. When they try to formulate a plan to save Faith, Willow
interrupts with her own objection to the idea of saving a guilty murderer
who has just tried to kill Xander. At that moment, a bruised Wesley
arrives at the mansion and tells them that Faith has escaped. Having an
idea of where she might be, Buffy goes to the docks. Sure enough, Faith is
on one of the boats, ready to flee the country. Buffy tries one last time
to turn Faith around and get help. They argue again, but this debate is
cut short by a surprise ambush. Mr. Trick and several of his vampire
cohorts knock Buffy to the ground with a large crate. With Buffy down for
the moment, Faith attempts to fight the vampires by herself. As Buffy
recovers, Mr. Trick takes advantage of her weakened state to try and kill
her once and for all. After dusting the last of the vampire henchmen,
Faith sees Mr. Trick about to bite into Buffy's neck. Quickly, Faith
rushes over and stakes Mr. Trick's heart from behind, bringing him to a
dusty end. At the library, Buffy talks to Giles about Faith's heroic act.
They believe that there may still be hope for Faith. Little do they know
that Faith plans on exploring her newly expanded horizons. Mayor Wilkins
gets a visit from Faith at his office. With Mr. Trick out of the picture,
Faith wants the available job. Intrigued, Mayor Wilkins lets her into the
office, shutting the door behind her.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 16:
Doppelgangland
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Fed up
with life as a mortal, Anyanka begs a demon named D'Hoffryn to create a
temporal fold that would allow her to retrieve her powercenter -- the
necklace she wore around her neck -- before it was destroyed. D'Hoffryn
has no interest in helping Anyanka and would rather see her live out the
rest of her life as a mortal. Anyanka pledges to find someone who will
help her. Outside of Sunnydale High, Willow hones her pencil-floating
skills while Buffy prepares for a traditional Slayer evaluation which
Wesley is conducting. Later, Willow is called to Principal Snyder's
office, where another student named Percy West is also waiting. Percy is
one of the star members of Sunnydale High's basketball team who just so
happens to be having trouble in history class. Principal Snyder orders
Willow to tutor Percy. Afterwards, Willow and Buffy go to the library.
While Willow heeds Giles' request to try to access the Mayor's computer
files, Faith returns with Wesley from the physical portion of the tests.
Faith takes note of Willow's computer search, and she later reports it to
Mayor Wilkins himself during a tour of Faith's new apartment. Decked out
with nearly everything she could ever want, the apartment leaves Faith
absolutely giddy. Back at Sunnydale High, Willow learns that Oz and his
band just returned from an out-of-town gig. Willow tells Oz that she may
have wanted to go. Oz replies with the expectation that Willow wouldn't
have wanted to miss a school day. Spotting Percy, Willow tries to arrange
a meeting time for their tutor session. However, Percy has a different
game plan which involves Willow doing all of the work for him. The last
straw for Willow comes when Buffy comments on her reliability. Tired of
being the goody-two-shoes of the group, Willow stalks off by herself. She
runs into Anyanka, who introduces herself as Anya, a friend of Cordelia's.
Willow's mood takes a turn for the lighter when Anya asks for her help in
performing a spell to create a temporal fold. Anya explains that she wants
to retrieve a lost necklace which was a family heirloom. When Willow and
Anya perform the spell, Willow sees visions of the alternate universe that
Cordelia visited when she told Anya that she wished Buffy had never come
to Sunnydale. Something goes wrong in the course of the spell. Instead of
pulling the necklace out of the alternate universe, the vampire Willow is
transported out just moments before Oz could dust her on the jagged wood.
While Anya futilely searches for the necklace, Willow leaves her alone to
try and figure out what she just saw. Elsewhere, the Willow from the
alternate reality awakens. After night falls, she ventures out onto the
streets of Sunnydale. Quickly realizing the vast differences surrounding
her, Alterna-Willow heads to the Bronze. There, she draws stares from
everybody in attendance, including Percy West. Provoked by Percy's
arrogance, Alterna-Willow shoves him over the pool table, then grabs him
by the throat and tightens her grip. Xander pulls Percy away before
noticing Willow's radical makeover. Thinking he's the Xander of her
reality, Alterna-Willow pulls him into her arms, running her hands all
over his body. It doesn't take long for her to realize that Xander is
still a living, breathing human. Buffy arrives and can't believe her eyes
when she sees Willow. When Alterna-Willow recognizes Buffy as the Slayer
who staked her beloved Xander, she turns and heads for the Bronze's exit.
Buffy tries to stop her, but Willow spins around with vamp face on. She
then takes off, leaving Xander and Buffy horrified and speechless. Outside
the Bronze, Alterna-Willow encounters two of Mayor Wilkins' vampire
henchmen, one of whom is named Alfonse. With the help of a little sadistic
brutality, Alterna-Willow convinces the vampires to work for her and
restore chaos to Sunnydale. Giles gets the word on Willow's untimely death
from Buffy and Xander. During their lament over the loss of their friend,
the Willow of their reality enters the library. Simultaneously confused
and happy, Buffy, Xander, and Giles embrace Willow, who by this point is
simply confused. While they tell Willow about her evil twin, Angel enters
the Bronze in search of Buffy. As he talks to Oz, Alterna-Willow and her
newly-hired cohorts invade the Bronze. After Angel leaves to get Buffy,
Alterna-Willow kills and drinks from one of the customers. Oz tries to
make sense of what's going on, but Alterna-Willow only remembers him as
one of the human rebels from her reality. Anya clears up everything for
the lost vampire, telling her that the Willow of this reality is the only
one who can bring her back to where she belongs. Meanwhile, Angel reaches
the library and walks right up to Buffy, Xander, and Giles. He doesn't
notice Willow standing in the corner as he tells the gang that their
friend is dead. Willow makes her presence known, sending Angel into the
pits of confusion as well. Realizing they have to stop whatever's about to
go down at the Bronze, the group leaves the library. Willow, however, is
reluctant to kill her alter ago. Remembering the tranquilizer gun, Willow
tells the others to go ahead while she heads back into the library. Before
she can get the gun, Willow encounters her mirror image, who has sneaked
into the library unnoticed. Intrigued by the idea of occupying a world
with her double, Alterna-Willow gets uncomfortably cozy with Willow, who
retaliates with a cross. Alterna-Willow knocks her over the counter. When
the vampire circles around the counter, she is greeted by a tranquilizer
dart right in the stomach. Buffy and the gang return and lock Alterna-Willow
inside the bookcage. Buffy then comes up with a plan to take care of the
vampires in the Bronze. Disguised in the outfit of her other self, Willow
prepares to infiltrate the Bronze and trick the vampires into walking
outside, one by one, and getting staked by her friends waiting outside. As
Willow enters the Bronze, Alterna-Willow wakes up in her prison. While she
notices her own change of clothes, Cordelia enters the library. Alterna-Willow
tries to talk her into opening the cage, but Cordy opts to use this
opportunity to talk about the secret affair with Xander. After an eternity
of rambling, Cordy finally opens the cage. Hungry for blood, Alterna-Willow
chases Cordy through the halls before cornering her in a restroom. Before
the vampire can close in for the kill, Wesley appears and fends her off
with a cross and holy water. Thwarted, Alterna-Willow turns around and
leaves. Meanwhile, Anya and Alfonse eventually see through Willow's
charade. Willow screams, signaling the others to storm into the Bronze and
battle the remaining vampires inside. During the fight, Alterna-Willow
arrives and pins Willow on the stage. After dusting Alfonse, Buffy leaps
onto the stage and drives a pool cue towards the vampire's heart. Willow
screams for Buffy to stop, and the Slayer is able to halt her weapon's
descent. After all of the customers evacuate the Bronze, Alterna-Willow
and Anya prepare for another temporal fold. Buffy does not agree with the
idea of returning a demon to its own reality where it can kill again.
Willow responds by saying that she simply can't kill her. Before Willow
sits down to perform the ritual, she says her goodbyes to Alterna-Willow,
who says hers in a much more touchy-feely way. Afterwards, Alterna-Willow
is returned to the alternate reality... only to be grabbed by Oz and
dusted on the jagged wood. The next day, Willow contemplates living up to
her good girl reputation and never going out for fun again. When Percy
appears with the history paper completely typed out, Willow decides
otherwise.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 17:
Enemies
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After a
rather uncomfortable time at the movie theater, Angel and Buffy remind
themselves that they can still love each other completely without going
all the way. Their kiss is interrupted by the arrival of Faith, who has
been cleared by the Council to resume her Slayer duties. Buffy leaves
Angel to join Faith on a nightly patrol around town. In one of the
cemeteries, they encounter a demon who offers to sell them the Books of
Ascension for the price of $5,000. He mentions the Mayor's interest in
the books, which motivates Buffy to stop Faith from killing the demon.
Buffy wants to know more about these books and why the Mayor would want
them. After Buffy heads home, Faith reports to the Mayor about the demon
and his offer. Mayor Wilkins orders Faith to hunt down the demon, kill
him, and retrieve the Books of Ascension. In the library the next
morning, Buffy tells Wesley and the others about the previous night's
patrol. Following a tip from Willow, Giles locates a passage in one of his
texts that refers to the Ascension. On the supposed day of a previous
Ascension, an entire town was apparently wiped out. Cordelia enters the
library and indirectly asks Wesley out for dinner later that week.
Meanwhile, Faith tracks the demon all the way to the apartment where he's
been staying. She attempts to kill the demon with one stab of her knife,
but the demon doesn't give up so easily. After a rough struggle, the demon
finally dies, leaving his blood on Faith's hands. Faith stares at her
hands for a moment, visibly shaken. She then collects the books and
leaves. Later that night, Faith visits Angel at the mansion. She shows him
her hands which are still stained with the demon's blood. Angel listens as
Faith expresses her dismay over possibly losing control. Angel embraces
her for comfort, leading Faith to try to initiate a kiss. Angel backs off,
reminding Faith that his heart belongs to Buffy. As Faith leaves, she
gives Angel a small kiss on the cheek. This kiss is witnessed by Buffy,
whose arrival at the mansion goes unnoticed. At City Hall, Faith tells
Mayor Wilkins that she failed in her plan to give Angel the moment of true
happiness required to lift his soul. The Mayor decides to take another
course of action. The next day, Wesley instructs Buffy to take Faith and
find the demon. Xander arrives with the demon's address, which he obtained
by bribing Willy the bartender. Buffy is reluctant to bring Faith along,
who soon shows up and is filled in on their orders. Buffy and Faith enter
the demon's apartment and find his dead body on the floor. During their
assessment of the scene, Buffy senses something wrong about Faith's
behavior. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilkins summons a shrouded man to his office
for a special job, one that involves the removal of one's soul. Back at
Sunnydale High, Buffy tells Willow what she saw at the mansion between
Angel and Faith. Willow assures Buffy that she has nothing to worry about,
for Angel would never fall for Faith's moves. Little do they know that
Faith is at the mansion at this very moment, putting the moves on Angel
once again. When he places his hands on Faith's shoulders to let her know
that everything will be okay, she douses a dark liquid onto the center of
Angel's chest. The shrouded man suddenly appears out of nowhere and casts
a spell that surrounds Angel in a field of energy. Once Angel falls to the
floor, the shrouded man disappears. When Angel gets back up, he's in full
vamp-face, hungry for Faith's kiss. After they part lips, Angel knocks
Faith to the floor. He thanks her for turning him back into the evil
Angelus. Faith whips out her stake and forces Angel to listen to her. When
he finally agrees, Faith leads him to the Mayor's office... but not until
after they kiss again on the floor. At the library, Willow notifies
Wesley, Giles, and the others that her computer searches for the Mayor's
files have turned up as dead ends. Oz suggests researching the Mayor at
the Hall of Records. While Wesley, Willow, Oz, and Cordelia head to the
Hall of Records, Xander decides to patrol the streets for any further
information. Buffy, in the meantime, heads back home to prepare for an
investigation of Mayor Wilkins' office. At the office, the Mayor has a
hard time getting Angel's undivided attention. Angel tries to kill Mayor
Wilkins with a letter opener. However, the Mayor reveals his
invulnerability to the vampire. Mayor Wilkins then orders Angel and Faith
to take care of the other Slayer in town. On their way to Buffy's house,
Angel and Faith see Xander walking down the street towards them. Xander
tries to find out where they've been, but the only response he gets is a
right hook from Angel's fist. As Xander falls to the pavement,
unconscious, Angel and Faith continue walking without missing a step.
Joyce lets both of them into the house. Upstairs, Angel and Faith tell
Buffy that they have the Books of Ascension at the mansion, and
they want Buffy to be with them when they deliver the books to Giles. At
the Hall of Records, the gang locates an old photograph of Mayor Wilkins
that was taken a century ago. As Wesley realizes that Mayor Wilkins must
be over a hundred years old, Xander arrives to tell them about the return
of Angel's bad self. Wesley suggests that they inform Giles, but Xander's
news of Faith's involvement leads them to look for Buffy immediately.
Buffy follows Angel and Faith to the mansion. Once there, Angel reveals
his recent change in personality to Buffy. Attempting to escape, Buffy
finds her exit blocked by Faith. Angel knocks Buffy out cold, then ties
her up in chains. When Buffy comes to, Faith explains her reasons for
taking the path she's taken. Faith couldn't tolerate being in Buffy's
shadow ever since she arrived in Sunnydale. The popular belief that Buffy
is superior to Faith has driven the new Slayer to where she is today.
Buffy taunts Faith by claiming that she can stop the Mayor's Ascension.
Faith laughs this off, telling them that the Ascension cannot be stopped
and will take place, as planned, on Graduation Day. With this information
out in the open, Angel drops the evil Angelus act, while Buffy drops the
chains that were supposedly restraining her. When Faith realizes that it
was all a set-up, she shoves Angel to the side and attacks Buffy. Wesley,
Xander, and the rest of the gang arrive just in time to see Angel falling
towards them. As Angel and Xander go down, Buffy and Faith battle to a
stand-still, with a knife held up to each other's throat. Faith calls
Buffy's bluff, then runs out of the mansion. Mayor Wilkins comforts Faith
at her new apartment by reminding her that once the Ascension takes place,
her broken friendship with Buffy and the others will be irrelevant. At the
library, Giles thanks the shrouded man for participating in the scheme to
expose Faith and the Mayor's plans. The shrouded man announces that his
debt to Giles has been paid. After the shrouded man disappears into thin
air, Giles informs everyone that he introduced the shrouded man to his
wife -- thus, the debt. While Wesley and the others discuss the
newly-learned information concerning the Ascension and its date, Buffy
reminds Xander that Angel was only acting when he punched him. However,
Buffy doesn't seem so sure of her own words. Later, Buffy visits Angel at
the mansion. He assures Buffy that he never meant to take the act so far
as to hurt her. Disturbed by the harsh reminder of what Angel could become
again, Buffy insists that they put their relationship on hold for a while.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 18:
Ear shot
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On a
routine night of patrolling, Buffy encounters a pair of mouthless demons.
While she kills one of them on a table at the park, the other demon
manages to flee the scene. As she leaves, Buffy fails to notice the dead
demon's blood on her hand, which quickly absorbs into her skin.The next
morning, after learning from Willow that everybody will be attending the
basketball game later that night, Buffy decides to check out the itch on
her hand that's been bugging her all day. In the library, Giles finds an
article on the demon that Buffy killed. In it, he learns that physical
contact with the demons can cause an infection, in the form of an
assimilation of one of the demon's traits. Later that night during the
game, Buffy patrols the streets of Sunnydale by herself. She bumps into
Angel, whom she has been distant from ever since the trick they played on
Faith.While talking to her friends the next day in the lounge, Buffy
inadvertently hears Xander's own thoughts. On the way to the library, she
realizes that she can hear what each student is thinking. At the library,
Giles concludes that the demons must have communicated telepathically if
they had no mouths. Buffy uses her newfound trait to impress her teacher
in English class. During the class, Buffy hears some grim thoughts coming
from Freddy Iverson, one of the writers for the school newspaper. After
class, Buffy visits Angel at the mansion and tries to learn what's going
on inside his head. However, Angel informs Buffy that her power can't work
on a vampire's mind. He then tries to assure Buffy that he was never
tempted by Faith during the entire ordeal that revealed her affiliation
with the Mayor.Buffy returns to the library, where her friends have just
learned of the Slayer's new ability. Disturbed and intimidated by this
sudden intrusion into their privacy, Xander, Willow, and the others find
it tough to be around Buffy. In the hallways, Buffy starts to realize the
true downside to her mind-reading ability, for the abundance of thoughts
coming from all directions proves to be overwhelming. In the cafeteria, a
mental declaration to murder all of the students the next day is heard by
Buffy. She tries to identify the source of the thought, but the overflow
of thoughts causes her to pass out.Outside, Buffy regains consciousness
and tells the others about the murder plan she discovered. While Buffy
goes home to rest, the gang tries to locate the suspect. They try to
interrogate all of the prime suspects, but Oz has trouble tracking down
Freddy. Meanwhile, Giles and Wesley learn that Buffy needs to consume the
heart of the second demon in order to be cured of her mind-reading power.
With the Slayer out of action, Giles turns to Angel for help. After
hunting down the demon over the course of the night, Angel finally
succeeds in obtaining its heart. He brings it to the Summers' home and
feeds it to Buffy. Eventually, Buffy wakes up and discovers that she can
no longer read anybody's mind.Back at the school, Xander, Willow, Cordelia,
and Oz corner Freddy in the newspaper office. Upon learning that he has
nothing to do with the murder plot, Cordelia finds an announcement on the
desk from Jonathan that apparently admits to the planned killing. Buffy
arrives at the newspaper office just in time to help the gang search for
Jonathan. While Xander gets distracted by some tasty treats in the
cafeteria, Buffy runs out into the courtyard, where she spots Jonathan
assembling a rifle at the top of the clock tower. Running out of time,
Buffy takes the shortest route possible to the roof. Just as Jonathan
attaches the final piece, Buffy crashes into the room. Aiming at rifle at
Buffy, Jonathan tries to prevent her from getting in the way of his plan.
He tells her how fed up he is with how everybody treats and thinks of him.
Buffy responds by telling Jonathan that everybody has their own pain,
regardless of how good their lives may seem on the outside. When Jonathan
finally hands over the rifle, he shocks Buffy by telling her that he
intended to kill himself, not the other students.Inside the cafeteria,
Xander witnesses the lunch lady pouring rat poison into a large pot in the
kitchen. He runs out and warns everybody about the lethal lunch special.
Xander trips and falls to the floor, giving the lunch lady enough time to
tower over him with a large butcher knife in her hand. Luckily, Buffy
arrives on the scene and puts the lunch lady down for the count.Willow
learns from Buffy that things are going better with Angel, now that some
uncertainties about his feelings for Buffy are no longer an issue. After
meeting up with Giles, Buffy shocks him by revealing her awareness of his
escapades with Joyce while under the influence of the mind-altering candy.
Episode synopsis by Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com
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Eppisode 19:
Choices
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Mayor
Wilkins needs a favor, and to get Faith to do it for him, he gives her a
gift - a beautiful new dagger. He tells her that a package is arriving
tomorrow night from South America that is crucial to his ascension, and he
wants Faith to pick it up for him. Faith dutifully heads to the airport,
where a propeller plane lands in the misty night. A courier steps forth,
but before he can deliver the package, Faith shoots him through the back
with an arrow. She then gets into a limousine with the vamp-lackey who
brought her there and drives off.Buffy and Angel, meanwhile, are busy
slaying a couple of vampires. After they've finished them off, Buffy
laments to Angel that she feels she's in a rut. She's beginning to realize
that her future with Angel is going to have some limitations. Another
limitation she's thinking about is her college choice. Though she's gotten
into Northwestern, which makes her mother very excited, she knows she
still has obligations in Sunnydale, and doesn't know if she'll be able to
go away to college. Willow is also contemplating her college choices, as
she has recently received acceptance letters from Oxford, Yale, MIT and
Harvard, among others. Xander is thinking about hitting the road, a la
Jack Kerouac. Cordelia, as usual, has some snide comments for them
all.Buffy finally decides she wants to leave Sunnydale, and goes to Wesley
to tell him. Wesley tells her she can't leave Sunnydale, especially with
Faith gone bad and the Mayor's ascension coming up. Buffy asks him if she
could go if she can stop the ascension, which would mean Wesley and Giles
would only have to take care of the run-of-the-mill stuff, and she could
take care of the major stuff when she came home on breaks. Wesley and
Giles consider the possibility, but tell Buffy that to consider it
seriously, Buffy would have to stop the Mayor's ascension. She suggests
taking the fight to them - taking the offensive rather than just waiting
for it to happen to them. They all agree that it's a good idea, and Buffy
heads off to find out what Faith and the Mayor are up to. She heads to
City Hall, where she spies Faith bringing a big box inside.The Mayor is
quite excited to see the box. He has the box taken to a room upstairs and
secured. Outside, Buffy stops the limo that has just dropped Faith off,
smashes through the driver's-side window and yanks the driver through it.
She asks him about the box.When she returns to the Library, Buffy tells
everyone that the box is the Box of Gavroc. It houses demonic energy, and
the Mayor needs to devour its contents before Ascension Day. Xander,
Willow, Buffy, Giles and Wesley devise a plan to get the box, and start to
work.To get to the box, they will need a potion to break the shield that
protects it. Willow researches a formula, and Xander and Oz concoct the
potion. With the potion in hand, Buffy, Willow and Angel climb to the top
of City Hall, just above the room where the box lies. Opening the
skylight, they peer down at the box below. Willow recites a spell, then
sprinkles the potion down onto the box. The protective shield dissolves.
Angel then straps Buffy in a harness and lowers her through the skylight
and down to the box. When she grabs the box, an alarm goes off - and as
Angel tries to pull Buffy back up, the harness gets stuck. Two of the
Mayor's vamp-lackeys respond to the alarm and rush into the room. Since
the harness is still stuck, Angel drops down into the room to join Buffy
in fighting the two vamp-lackeys. After an extended fight, Angel and Buffy
knock down the vamps and run out of the room. Racing out of City Hall,
they jump behind a bush to hide. When a van pulls up in front of City Hall
and then speeds away, the vamps chase after it, thinking Buffy and Angel
are inside.The vamps return to City Hall empty-handed, and Mayor Wilkins
is not happy to find that the box is stolen. But while he's lost the box,
he's gained something - Faith has captured Willow.Back at the library, the
gang tries to figure out what to do about the box - and Willow. Xander
proposes an assault to get her back. Buffy suggests they can trade the box
back to the Mayor in exchange for Willow. Wesley doesn't think that's a
good idea; he argues that thousands of lives are at stake, and that
Willow's one life is not worth more. He argues that they must destroy the
box and stop the ascension, and find another way to get Willow back.
Buffy, who is quite upset, says there is no other way. Oz helps make the
group's decision when he slams a pot against the wall. He doesn't say
anything. He doesn't have to. They will make the trade.Back at City Hall,
Willow is trapped, and looking for a way out. One of the Mayor's
vamp-henchmen comes in, and menacingly readies to take a bite of her.
Willow floats a pencil behind him, and before he can bite, she uses the
pencil to slay the vampire. She then escapes from her shackles, and begins
to roam City Hall. Wandering into the Mayor's office, she finds the Books
of the Ascension in his closet and begins to read. She's so engrossed in
the books she doesn't even notice Faith walking into the room. Faith is
ready to kill her. Willow buys herself some time by talking to Faith about
the choices she's made to give up being a slayer, and that those choices
have left her alone, but she can still come back to their side if she
wants. Mayor Wilkins then walks in the room, interrupting the
conversation. He's received an interesting phone call . . A meeting has
been arranged for the school cafeteria. The Mayor brings Willow, and
Wesley, Giles, Angel, Oz, Xander and Buffy bring the box to make an
exchange. Before the exchange is completed, Principal Snyder breaks in on
the meeting, with two policemen in tow. One of the policemen, examining
the box, opens it - and a giant spider jumps out and gnaws on his face.
After snacking on the policeman, it scampers away - and lands on the
Mayor's face. Faith wrestles it off him, and since he's impervious to
harm, he quickly heals. Principal Snyder doesn't quite know what to make
of all of it. Buffy runs over and shuts the box, but not before another of
the spiders can escape. One of them lands on her back, and she falls
backwards to crush it. Spying another one along the wall, Faith kills it
with her dagger.After the exchange, back at the library, Giles asks Willow
what she can remember from the books. Willow says she can't remember much
- it was a little wordy for her - then with a grin pulls out a few pages
she managed to tear from the book. Though they now know more about the
Ascension, the Mayor has the Box of Gavroc again, which means they are
basically back where they started.Buffy is still thinking about dealing
with the Mayor, but her future is weighing heavy in her mind as well. She
tells Willow that she feels she'll never get out of Sunnydale. Willow,
though, says that might not be so bad - she's decided to stay at home and
go to UC-Sunnydale, and so they'll be able to stay together as friends.
Willow explains that she realized she wants to fight evil, and help
people, and she feels she can do that best in Sunnydale, which is why she
wants to stay. It's a good fight they're fighting, and she wants to keep
fighting it.
Episode summary from buffy.com
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Eppisode 20:
The Prom
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Buffy
wakes up to find herself beside Angel, on his bed in the mansion.
Exhausted after a night of patrolling, she apparently crashed at Angel's
instead of returning home. Before getting up, Buffy reminds Angel that the
Senior Prom is quickly approaching. Back at Sunnydale High, Xander is
approached by Anya, who has not yet regained her powers. Confused by the
wealth of human emotions inside her, Anya asks Xander to be her date to
the Prom. Aware of his situation and general lack of alternatives, Xander
accepts.While he tells the rest of the gang about this recent development,
Joyce pays a visit to the mansion. Angel listens as Joyce tells him about
the reality of his relationship with her daughter. Deep down, Angel knows
that what Joyce wants is also what needs to be done. Back at the library,
Giles futilely tries to keep everyone's mind focused on the Mayor's
Ascension plans. However, all Buffy and her friends can think about right
now is the upcoming Prom.Elsewhere, a boy inserts a videotape into a VCR
for the viewing pleasure of his "pet", a demon beast locked in a
cage that goes berserk as the tape begins to play. Later that night, Angel
has a nightmare that begins pleasantly with a wedding between himself and
Buffy. After they are wed, they head down the aisle and step out into the
sunlight. Angel then watches in horror as Buffy ignites into flames. He
can do nothing as the fire consumes her completely. After Angel wakes up,
he joins Buffy on a nightly patrol. While tracking down a vampire in the
sewers, Angel admits to Buffy that he can't maintain their relationship,
knowing what it will mean for her future. Buffy refuses to believe what he
is saying, but Angel makes it clear that he doesn't want her to spend the
rest of her life with him. As it slowly sinks in, Angel announces his
decision to leave Sunnydale after the threat of the Mayor's Ascension has
been eliminated. Later, Buffy tells Willow everything that happened.
Although they both understand and agree with Angel's intentions, Buffy
lets her tears flow instead of hiding her grief.Noticing Cordelia checking
out a dress once again in one of the shops, Xander enters the store and
pries into the matter. He soon learns that Cordy works there. Cordy's
family is now broke as a result of her father committing tax fraud for a
number of years. Cordy's verbal outburst is interrupted by the sudden
intrusion of the demon beast into the store. Xander tries to fight it, but
the beast tosses Xander aside and mauls a well-dressed boy to death. As
soon as its job is done, the beast looks at the remaining customers before
quickly exiting the store. At the library, Xander and the others review
the store's security video of the event. Cordy makes an observation that
the demon beast was seemingly interested in the tuxedoed boy only. During
the beast's exit, Oz spots a boy standing outside of the store with what
looks like a remote control of some sort. Using the Sunnydale High
yearbook, the gang identifies the boy as Tucker Wells. Upon figuring out
that Tucker's plan is to set the demon beast -- which Wesley identifies as
a hell hound -- loose on the students at the Senior Prom, Buffy vows to
take care of this matter personally and ensure a safe and happy Prom for
all.While everyone splits up to investigate, Buffy goes to a butcher shop
since the hell hound eats brains. She gets Tucker's address from one of
the employees. Buffy then notices that Angel is also there, buying a
supply of blood for himself. Angel tries to talk to her, but Buffy opts to
focus her attention on Tucker and his hell hound. She returns to the
library and tells the others that it's all in her hands now. After the
gang leaves to get ready for the Prom, a concerned Giles wonders what's
gotten into Buffy. She tells him about Angel's plans to leave her and
Sunnydale.As she clocks out for the night, Cordy finds out that Xander
helped pay off the dress she was hoping to wear to the dance. At the Prom,
Xander painfully listens to Anya's countless stories of male persecution,
while Wesley assists Giles in his chaperone duties. Cordy enters in her
dress, which draws Wesley to her in an instant. Arm in arm, they meet up
with Xander and Anya. Cordy subtly thanks Xander for his generosity.
Meanwhile, Buffy breaks into Tucker's house and encounters him in the
basement. After subduing him, Buffy notices the stacks of teen flicks --
some horror, some not -- on top of a nearby VCR. Tucker then surprises
Buffy by revealing three empty cages in an adjoining room. Buffy races
back to the school to stop the three hell hounds from completing their
mission. One by one, she kills them off, taking out the last one in front
of a bewildered student.With the hell hounds taken care of, Buffy finally
arrives at the dance to join her friends. Later that evening, during the
presentation of the class awards, Jonathan addresses Buffy in response to
an overwhelming number of write-in votes for a new category. Buffy listens
in pleasant surprise as Jonathan states the senior class' appreciation for
her life-saving deeds over the course of the past three years. Named the
Class Protector, Buffy steps up to the stage to receive her reward while
the entire class applauds. After the awards ceremony, Angel arrives in a
tux for one last dance with Buffy. In each other's arms, they enjoy what
little time they have left before the Mayor's Ascension arrives at last.
Episode synopsis by Alan Hufana, taken from the official WB Buffy website (closed) previously buffy.com |
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Eppisode 21:
Graduation day (part 1)
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Graduation
Day has finally arrived, and everybody has a different perspective on it.
Cordelia's concerned about the color of their graduation gowns, Buffy
doesn't quite get the whole graduation deal, and Xander, who woke up with
a bad feeling in his gut, fears he won't survive Graduation Day. He's
found out that Mayor Wilkins will be their commencement speaker.Faith
isn't concerned about graduation, but she does have an interest in
college. She pays a visit to Professor Worth, a professor at the college.
The Mayor wants him dead, and Faith handles the job.While enduring his
final classes, Xander mentions the Ascension to classmate Anya, and her
ears perk up. She knows about it, and Xander brings her to the library,
where Buffy, Giles and Wesley are trying to figure out why the Mayor
killed Professor Worth. Xander announces to them that Anya not only knows
something about the Ascension Ð she's the only living person who's been
to one.She tells them that about 800 years ago, in the Koskov Valleys
above the Urals, there was a sorcerer there who achieved Ascension. He
became the embodiment of the demon Lohesh, and she was there to witness
it. Lohesh, a four-winged soul killer, decimated the village within hours
Ð only a small handful of people survived. Anya explains that an
Ascension means that a human being becomes pure demon. She tells them that
all the demons that walk the earth are tainted, or human hybrids like
vampires, but that a pure demon is different. She doesn't think this
sounds like Lohesh, though, because the rituals are all different. Just as
she says this, the Mayor bursts into the library.The Mayor begins to talk
about how powerful he'll be once the Ascension happens. Buffy makes a
remark, and the Mayor responds by saying when the Ascension comes, he'll
eat her. Giles, incensed by this, stabs the Mayor with his fencing foil.
Of course, this doesn't affect the Mayor, who merely pulls the blade from
his chest and walks away, grinning about his commencement address.With the
graduation ceremonies fast approaching, everyone's getting nervous. Anya,
who has seen what an Ascension is like, plans to skip town, though Xander
tries to get her to stay and help. She proposes to him that he could leave
with her, and tries to persuade him to come, but he's committed to staying
to help his friends, and declines. Buffy is also anxious, and tries to
convince her mom to leave town, saying she won't be able to concentrate on
stopping the Mayor if she has to worry about her mom. She doesn't want to
leave, but Buffy finally convinces her. Willow, who is researching in the
hopes of finding a spell to stop the Ascension, is nervous, too. To help
her relax some, Oz plants a passionate kiss on her. Soon they are making
love. As they lie together afterwards, they both agree that everything
feels different now.At Professor Worth's apartment, Buffy is
investigating, trying to find some information that may be helpful, and
Angel comes to help her out. They gather a box of documents, and prepare
to take it to Giles. Outside the professor's apartment, Buffy and Angel
talk about their relationship, and Buffy expresses her frustration.
Suddenly an arrow pierces Angel through the back. We see that Faith has
shot the arrow. When Buffy tries to help Angel up, he collapses; he's
sweating, burning up. The arrow is poisoned, he tells her. In a panic,
Buffy rushes Angel back to the library.At the library, Giles and Wesley
are discussing why the professor's research was of interest to the Mayor.
He was doing research in old lava beds near a dormant volcano, and he
found a large carcass buried underneath by an eruption. In his paper,
Professor Worth suggests that the carcass may be some
heretofore-undiscovered dinosaur. Giles thinks that perhaps it could also
be a demon, which would explain why the Mayor would want to keep this kind
of information secret Ð if the carcass was a demon, then it means that
the demon can be killed, which would mean that the mayor is only
impervious to harm until the Ascension. Once he's in demon form, he could
be killed.Buffy brings Angel back to the library for help tended. Willow
is summoned to figure out what was on the arrow Faith shot Angel with.
Wesley contacts the Council to see if they can help, but he returns to
tell Buffy that they said they wouldn't help Ð it's not Council policy to
cure vampires. Buffy is defiant, but Wesley explains that they're talking
about laws that are older than civilization. Buffy says she doesn't care
how old the laws are Ð she's talking about watching her lover die. The
Council's orders, Wesley reminds her, are to concentrate on the Ascension.
Buffy says she doesn't think she's going to be taking any more orders,
from Wesley or the Council, and tells Wesley that she's not working for
them anymore. Wesley pleads with her, arguing that Faith poisoned Angel to
distract Buffy, and now the strategy is working. Buffy replies that she
has a strategy of her own, and Wesley is not in it. This is mutiny, Wesley
cries. Buffy says she likes to think of it as her graduation.Willow,
meanwhile, has figured out what the poison is Ð its Latin name translates
to "killer of the dead." Oz finds that the only cure for it is
to drain the blood of a slayer. Buffy has an idea Ð she'll get Faith's
blood, and she'll kill her first if she has to. No more playing around,
she says Ð she's ready to take on Faith to the death. Opening the closet
in the library, she removes a dagger Ð the one the Mayor gave Faith, the
one Faith used to kill one of the creatures from the Box of Gavroc in the
cafeteria when the box was exchanged for Willow Ð and takes it with her.
Oz and Willow figure out where Faith's apartment is, and Buffy heads there
for the confrontation. The Mayor, meanwhile, is busy preparing for the
Ascension by performing the Ritual of Gavroc. Sitting at his desk in his
office, he gleefully devours the creatures from the Box of Gavroc, feeling
stronger with each one he eats.Buffy arrives at Faith's apartment, and the
battle soon begins. The furious fight leads them crashing through the
window of Faith's apartment and onto a lower roof below. When they land,
Buffy slaps handcuffs onto Faith's wrist Ð and the other cuff is already
attached to her own wrist. The fight continues between the two handcuffed
slayers until Faith breaks the cuffs apart. Buffy staggers back, and pulls
out Faith's dagger. They tangle some more, and the fight moves toward the
edge of the roof. As they peer over the ledge, Buffy stabs Faith. Faith,
stumbling, steps on to the ledge, leans back and says goodbye, falling
back into a passing truck. Buffy rushes to the ledge, but she's too late.
The truck, with Faith, and her slayer's blood which Buffy needs to save
Angel, is driving away.
Episode Summary from buffy.com
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Eppisode 22:
Graduation day (part 2)
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After
the climactic battle on the roof of Faith's apartment building, Buffy
stands alone with the knife that may have killed Faith. As the reality of
not being able to use Faith's blood as a cure for Angel sets in, Buffy has
a moment of painfully quiet introspection, then leaves, having made her
decision internally. Just as Buffy descends the escape ladder, the Mayor
and one of his goons search the apartment looking for Faith. The apartment
is in a shambles, and although the Mayor tries to convince himself that
Faith will prevail in the fight, his fear is written all over his face.
Back at the library, Xander and Giles research how to defeat the Mayor in
demon form when Cordelia barges in demanding an explanation of why Wesley
has decided to leave the country. After Giles explains that Wesley is no
longer Buffy's watcher, Xander manages to convince Cordy to join in the
fight against the Mayor.Meanwhile, Willow cares for Angel back at his
hideout, but things don't look so good for Angel. When he wakes up from a
troubled sleep, he mistakes Willow for Buffy. When the real Buffy shows
up, she asks Willow and Oz to leave so that she can be alone with Angel.
When they leave, she explains to Angel that the only way for him to
survive is to drink her blood. Angel emphatically resists, but after Buffy
physically induces his vampire side to come out, he sinks his fangs into
her neck and drains her near to death. When Angel comes to and realizes
what he has done, he rushes Buffy to the hospital and demands that the
doctors treat her immediately.In the next room, the Mayor grieves over
Faith, who lies in a coma. When a doctor comes in announcing another girl
with 'severe blood loss' in the other room, he puts two and two together.
He walks very calmly over to Buffy and tries to suffocate her, but Angel
comes to the rescue. The Mayor warns Angel that at Graduation he will do
much worse to Buffy, then storms out. Just as the Mayor exits, Giles,
Xander, Oz and Willow meet Angel in the hall. Seeing that Angel's health
has been restored, they question Buffy's condition and Angel's sudden
recovery, and soon learn that Buffy's blood was the cure for Angel's
ailments. While both Giles and Xander both strongly disapprove of Angel's
actions, they know they must focus on the Ascension.In a strange and
surreal dream, Faith is alive and well, and gives Buffy some valuable
advice: 'human weakness' is the key to defeating the Mayor. Questioning
whether Faith's mind or her own mind is creating this fantasy, she drifts
out of her sleep and wakes up in the hospital. She wanders over to Faith's
bed and gives her an apologetic kiss, then meets the gang in the waiting
room. Startled to see her up so soon, they are even more startled when she
says that she is 'ready for war.'At the library, Buffy goes over her plan
with Giles, Angel, Xander, Willow, Oz and Cordelia. Wesley unexpectedly
walks in, and before Buffy and the gang can ostracize him, he explains
that he has not come back representing the council; he is back to help.
Meanwhile, the Mayor plans his assault with his vampire goons. The vamps
are told to hold the people in the area so that the Mayor can feed on them
once the ascension is complete.Back at the school, the gang goes to work
rounding up students to help with the battle. Willow grabs Percy and
Xander rounds up Harmony while Wesley and Cordelia share a hilariously
awkward romantic good-bye in the library. In another sort of good-bye,
Angel tells Buffy that if they survive the Ascension, he will not say
good-bye, he will simply leave.The big day finally arrives, and the
students file in wearing their crimson caps and gowns. Anxiety and fear
paint the faces of Buffy and the gang while Principal Snyder gives his
usual condescending banter, then introduces Mayor Wilkins as the honored
guest speaker. The Mayor begins his speech about graduation, ascension and
change, but before he can finish, the ascension begins.The moon eclipses
the sun, bringing darkness over the ceremony. And before a stunned crowd,
the Mayor morphs into a giant, twenty-foot dinosaur with a vicious set of
teeth and a ravenous appetite. But amid the ensuing chaos, the student
body is ready. Led by Buffy and a courageous Xander, the students rip off
their gowns to reveal an arsenal of weapons. They bombard the demon and
his vampire minions with flame-throwers, rifles, arrows, spears and swoads.
In the melee, the demon dips down and grabs Principal Snyder between his
jaws, and devours him. Buffy sees her chance, and orders the class to
retreat. Now one on one with the Mayor, she taunts him with the knife that
pierced Faith, and leads him on a chase through the high school. The chase
ends in the library, which is rigged with explosives. All the Mayor can
say is "Oh, gosh!" as he and the halls of Sunnydale High are
blown back into hell.In the aftermath, Giles congratulates Buffy on the
victory, and presents her diploma that he pulled from the wreckage. As
Giles leaves to check on the injured Wesley, Buffy spots Angel standing at
a distance. They exchange a long, painful look, but before Buffy can
approach Angel to say good-bye, he walks away and disappears into the
smoky haze. Later that night, Buffy, Xander, Willow, Oz and Cordelia take
a moment to reflect on the fact that they have not only survived the
battle, but they have survived high school.
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