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"When She Was Bad"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy destroys the bones of The Master

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 1
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
5V01
Original air date
September 15, 1997
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Mark Metcalf as The Master
Andrew J. Ferchland as The Anointed One
Dean Butler as Hank Summers
Brent Jennings as Absalom
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder

Episode chronology

← Previous
 "Prophecy Girl" Next →
 "Some Assembly Required"

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
"When She Was Bad" is the first episode in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written and directed by series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon. The narrative follows Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) returning from her summer vacation showing textbook symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, brought on by her encounter with The Master in the previous season's finale. The Anointed One (Andrew J. Ferchland) attempts to revive the Master with a ritual involving his bones. However he requires something from the Slayer and sets a deadly trap in motion.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon) and Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) are quizzing each other on film quotes on the outskirts of a cemetery; Willow is doing poorly. The pair comment on the quiet summer in Sunnydale since they buried the Master in the graveyard. A tender moment ensues when Xander playfully puts ice cream on Willow's nose, but just as he is about to kiss her, a vampire appears behind Willow. Xander intervenes and is barely holding out when Buffy shows up and kills the vampire. She tells her friends about spending the summer in Los Angeles with her father (Dean Butler). At home, her mother (Kristine Sutherland) is a bit uneasy about Buffy's shopping spree. Her father explains that he felt guilty when Buffy appeared distant.
At school, Principal Snyder (Armin Shimerman) expresses again his disgust with students (likening them to locusts) to Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head). Giles spots Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte) and slips away; an oblivious Snyder babbles on. Giles finds the gang and explains that although they have closed the Hellmouth, the mystical energy still attracts evil forces to the town. He asks Buffy to resume her training after school.
Whilst practicing, Buffy has a vision of the Master and begins furiously hitting a dummy. At night, she dreams of being killed by him when Angel (David Boreanaz) appears in her room to warn her of the childlike Anointed One. Buffy coldly brushes him off. He tells her he missed her and leaves before she can reply. The next day, the young Scoobies run into Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), who seems unmotivated to keep Buffy's identity a secret. Buffy heaps an insult on Cordy that her friends find "too good." At the Bronze, Xander and Willow wonder about Buffy's behavior. Willow tries in vain to recreate the ice-cream moment. Buffy then arrives in a very revealing dress and mocks Angel. She begins a slow, sensual dance with Xander that makes everyone squirm.
Meanwhile, the Anointed One and his acolyte Absalom (Brent Jennings), are forcing their vampires to dig up the Master's bones barehanded through consecrated earth.
Back in the club, Buffy leaves Xander hanging mid-dance. Cordelia confronts her outside and tells her to get over her problems. Buffy leaves and Cordy is kidnapped by two dark figures. They throw her into a basement with an unconscious Ms. Calendar. Buffy walks to the grave that holds the bones of the Master, and finds it dug up.
At lunch the next day, Giles shares Xander and Willow's concerns about Buffy, who shows up to tell them about her discovery. Giles remembers some revivification spells and Buffy is angered that he never told her. Snyder shoos away the students and tells Giles he would like to expel Buffy.
That night, the Scoobies learn that a revivification spell needs the blood of the "closest" person to the deceased. Cordelia's necklace, wrapped around a large rock, is thrown through the library window. Buffy leaves for the obvious trap, saying in frustration that she cannot look out for them while slaying.
Outside the basement where Cordelia was held, Buffy tries to pick a fight with Angel, who ignores her. Inside, they find one female vampire. Buffy realizes that the trap is not for her. At the same time, Giles realizes that the Latin text actually said that the ritual requires the blood of those physically nearest to the Master when he died – in other words, Giles, Willow, Cordelia and Ms. Calendar.
Buffy returns to the library to find a bloody Xander, who angrily warns that if anything happens to Willow, he will kill Buffy. They go back to the female vampire, whom Buffy tortures into confession by slipping her cross necklace down the vampire's throat. Buffy interrupts the ritual while Angel and Xander rescue the others. Before she leaves, Buffy smashes to bits the Master's bones with a sledge hammer, finally confronting her feelings over being killed (albeit briefly) by the Master.
The next day, Buffy apologizes for her behavior and is pleasantly surprised to find herself forgiven. Meanwhile, the Anointed One gazes at the scene of destruction, and simply remarks, "I hate that girl."
Cultural references[edit]
The movies Xander and Willow quote at the beginning of the episode are, in order: The Terminator, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Witness.
When the Scooby Gang go to The Bronze, the band Cibo Matto are onstage. Buffy dances with Xander while the band are playing their single "Sugar Water". Although the two songs they play were recorded before Sean Lennon had joined the band, he can be seen on stage with the band playing bass.
Continuity[edit]
This episode begins a tradition: in this and all subsequent season premieres, the teaser is set largely in (or beside) a cemetery.[1][2][3][4][5]
David Boreanaz is added to the opening credits.[6]
At the end of the episode Xander proposes mini golf and Willow counters that there is no course nearby. However, in a later episode, "Ted", Buffy, and her mother play miniature golf. The Mayor also suggests a game to Faith in "Enemies", however it is entirely possible that since these are later episodes, a golf course was added to the city in the intervening time. Or that Buffy, Willow and Xander are talking about walking distance, whereas Buffy's mom can drive.
When Buffy destroys the Master's bones - her first few hits are clearly visible enough to have destroyed most of his bones - but several scenes later Buffy appears to be destroying the same bones again.
This is the first episode where Cordelia shows her compassionate side after witnessing Buffy alienating Xander and Willow, implying that she is not as vain and self-centered as everyone thinks she is. Another episode, "Helpless," would have Cordelia again to be the compassionate person she actually is, and later on in the spin-off Angel as she matured.
Arc significance[edit]
In Issue 35 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight it is revealed that the Master has been resurrected as the protector of The Seed of Wonder, which is the source of all earthly magic.
Cordelia is reluctantly adopted into the Scooby Gang, though her participation will be lighter than other characters.
The episode serves as a parallel with the eventual season finale, "Becoming" – the gang wonder if Buffy has lost her soul, and her dialogue with Angel on the way to the Bronze foreshadows their eventual duel at the end of the season. The vampires luring Buffy into a false conflict so that they can mount an attack on her friends is also repeated in "Becoming", when Angel calls Buffy to a cemetery and spars with her while Drusilla and a team of vampires attack the library. When Buffy realizes Angel's trick, he mocks her with, "And you fall for it every single time!" referencing the attack in this episode.
Reception[edit]
"When She Was Bad" pulled in an audience of 2.9 million households. When the episode was aired as a repeat in November 1997, it actually scored a higher 3.1 million household rating.[7]
Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave "When She Was Bad" a mixed review. While he praised the opening and closing scenes as well as other smaller moments, he felt that it dealt with the characters' emotions "erratically" and was not positive towards Buffy's attitude and carrying over the Master plotline.[8] A review from the BBC called "When She Was Bad" "another excellent episode", praising how it tied up plot threads from the first season and developing the relationships between characters.[9]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (1998-09-29). "Anne". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 1. The WB.
2.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon (1999-10-05). "The Freshman". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 1. The WB.
3.Jump up ^ Marti Noxon, David Solomon (2000-10-26). "Buffy vs. Dracula". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 1. The WB.
4.Jump up ^ Marti Noxon, David Grossman (2001-10-02). "Bargaining, Part One". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 6. Episode 1. UPN.
5.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon, David Solomon (2002-09-24). "Lessons (Buffy episode)". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 1. UPN.
6.Jump up ^ BBC episode guide
7.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season". Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
8.Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (3 July 2008). ""When She Was Bad", etc.". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
9.Jump up ^ "When She Was Bad: Review". BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
External links[edit]
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"When She Was Bad" at TV.com


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Some Assembly Required (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Some Assembly Required"
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Daryl after being brought back from the dead

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 2
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
Ty King
Production code
5V02
Original air date
September 22, 1997
Guest actors

Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Angelo Spizzirri as Chris Epps
Michael Bacall as Eric Gittleson
Ingo Neuhaus as Daryl Epps
Melanie MacQueen as Mrs. Epps
Amanda Wilmshurst as Joy

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"Some Assembly Required" is episode two of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episodes was written by staff writer Ty King and directed by Bruce Seth Green. The narrative follows the Scooby Gang as they find body parts all over Sunnydale High School. They follow the trail of the clues to find something more gruesome. Meanwhile, Buffy confronts Angel about their relationship, Willow admits that she loves Xander to Buffy and Ms. Calendar and Giles' romance begins to blossom, as he asks her on a date. There's only one problem: their date is interrupted by Eric and his sinister plans.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Reception
4 Continuity 4.1 Soundtrack
4.2 Arc significance
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy is waiting for a vampire to rise when Angel appears. They end up arguing over their relationship, or lack thereof (along with Angel's inability to express his jealousy of Xander because Buffy danced suggestively with him in the previous episode), and Angel decides to leave. When Buffy tries to follow him, she falls face first into an open grave. A body was apparently dragged out from it earlier.
The next day, Buffy and Xander catch Giles practicing to ask Ms. Calendar out on a date. Giles hears Buffy's findings at the cemetery and fears someone is raising an army of zombies. Buffy goes to find Willow, who is signing up for the science fair and talking to Chris, the reigning champ. As Buffy approaches, Chris' friend Eric takes pictures of girls passing by.
Willow finds that the girl in question, Meredith Todd, died in a car accident along with two other girls. They head to the cemetery to investigate. Buffy tells others not to tell Angel because they are having problems. That night, Cordelia is walking to her car after cheerleading practice when she senses that someone is following her. She eventually hides in a dumpster and when she thinks it is safe to get out, she encounters Angel. He starts to help her out when they find an arm and other body parts inside the dumpster.
The Scoobies return to the library to find a frightened Cordelia clinging to Angel. They decide to abandon Giles' zombie theory and search the lockers of science students. They find medical books and an article on Meredith Todd in Chris' locker and a jigsaw of female body parts in Eric's locker. Chris and Eric are building some sort of dream girl.
In a secret lab, the two geniuses are almost finishing their creation, except for the head. Eric lines up three candidates: Buffy, Willow and Cordelia. Chris' brother Daryl comes out from the shadows, showing a grotesque appearance, and chooses Cordelia's picture. Daryl was a popular athlete who died in an accident years ago, and he was revived by his brother and promised a stay-at-home companion.
The next day, Giles stumbles as he tries to ask Ms. Calendar out, but she ends up asking him to the football game instead, where she continues to tease him. Meanwhile, Buffy and her friends discover that the crazy boys are missing a head; brain tissue decays at such a rate that they cannot simply go grave-robbing to get one, and must actually kill a girl to gain the head they need.
Buffy finds a lab in Chris' house and discovers their target. She runs off to warn Cordelia, and Daryl walks out of the shadows. In the locker room, Cordelia is getting ready when Chris comes up behind her. Eric places a bag over her head, but is beat up by Buffy. After Cordelia leaves, Chris tells Buffy about Daryl. They head back to his house, only to find Daryl gone.
Buffy and Chris head to the school. Daryl watches Cordelia under the bleachers. As Cordelia goes to a water fountain, Daryl drags her away. He and Eric head to an abandoned building, where Eric plans to behead her. Cordelia sees her old crush and screams. At the game, Buffy and Chris realize they arrive too late, but Chris tells her where to find Eric.
Meanwhile, Willow and Xander crash Giles' date. Chris tells them what happened, while Buffy rushes to the old science lab. In the ensuing fight, a burner is knocked over and starts a fire. Xander arrives with the rest of the gang and gets Cordelia out. Giles and Willow drag out an unconscious Eric. As Daryl is about to kill Buffy, Chris stops him. Daryl decides to die beside the unfinished work while everyone else escapes.
Afterwards, Jenny promises Giles a second date. While Buffy talks to Chris, agonizing about the decision he made when he first resurrected his brother, Angel arrives. Willow and Xander talk; he brushes off Cordelia when she tries to thank him for saving her life. Buffy and Angel leave together through the graveyard. Angel admits to his jealousy, and Buffy reassures him that she doesn't love Xander that way.
Cultural references[edit]
The Bat-Signal: The Bat-Signal is a light with the shape of a bat on it, which is shone into the sky in Gotham City to alert Batman that the police need his help. It is sometimes used colloquially for any lighting or signal for an emergency or an important event.
Frankenstein: This episode has many obvious allusions to Frankenstein, in which a college student, Victor Frankenstein, attempts to create life using the body parts of dead people. In the novel, Frankenstein’s creature, whom Frankenstein abandoned shortly after its creation, finds Frankenstein and demands that he create a companion for him, much as Daryl does in this episode. Similarly, in both the book and the episode, the companion is destroyed before its completion.
Sterile enough for government work: This is a play on the phrase ‘close enough for government work’, a disparaging phrase usually meaning that there is no reason or point in investing additional time in perfecting something.
Cyrano De Bergerac: Giles says to Buffy, "Well, thank you, Cyrano," alluding to the famous French play by Edmond Rostand, first performed in 1897, in which Cyrano tries to help his friend's courtship.
Reception[edit]
“Some Assembly Required” had an audience of 3.2 million households.[1]
Continuity[edit]
This episode features the first of three artificial girls in the series, the other two being April and the Buffybot, both made by Warren Mears.
At the game, the cheerleaders are shouting "Go Greenbacks Go." Though the Sunnydale High team are known as the Razorbacks, this isn't actually a mistake. As demonstrated by Herbert the Pig in "The Pack", the Razorback of the team mascot is, in fact, green.
This is the first episode to deal with the morality of bringing a person back from the dead, a theme which will become much more prominent in later seasons of the show, particularly Season 6.
This is also the first episode where Cordelia shows more than a grudging respect for Xander. They will date from the middle of this season to the beginning of the next.
Soundtrack[edit]
This episode features the debut of the Buffy-Angel love theme "Close Your Eyes" by Christophe Beck, which can be heard briefly during the final graveyard scene.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the beginning of Giles and Jenny's relationship, which will be a vital subplot for most of the season.
Trivia[edit]
This is the first episode in which Anthony Head recites the opening narration, "In Every Generation...", replacing the announcer who recited the lines in season one.
References[edit]
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1.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season."
External links[edit]
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"Some Assembly Required" at TV.com


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School Hard
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"School Hard"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Drusilla and Spike make their presence known

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 3
Directed by
John T. Kretchmer
Teleplay by
David Greenwalt
Story by
David Greenwalt
Joss Whedon
Production code
5V03
Original air date
September 29, 1997
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Andrew J. Ferchland as The Anointed One
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Alexandra Johnes as Sheila Martini
Gregory Scott Cummins as Big Ugly
Andrew Palmer as Lean Boy
Brian Reddy as Police Chief Bob Munroe
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Keith MacKechnie as Parent
Alan Abelew as Brian Kirsh
Joanie Pleasant as Helpless Girl

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"School Hard" is episode three of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The story for the episode was conceived by series creator and executive producer Joss Whedon and co-executive producer David Greenwalt, with Greenwalt penning the teleplay. It was directed by John T. Kretchmer, the second and final episode he directed for the show. The narrative intertwines two stories, one of Spike and Drusilla, legendary vampires from Angel's past, coming to Sunnydale and Buffy Summers's attempts to keep her mother and Principal Snyder from meeting at Parent-Teacher night, which she has to organize. Unfortunately for her, this is when Spike chooses to attack.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Principal Snyder assigns Buffy and Sheila Martini (Alexandra Johnes) to prepare the school lounge for parent-teacher night on Thursday. Whoever does the better job will not be expelled. Sheila's continued indifference puts even more pressure on Buffy, who already has a tough time balancing slaying with a social life.
That night, a new pair of vampires arrive in town, Spike and Drusilla, who interrupt a gathering by the Anointed One (Andrew J. Ferchland) to discuss The Master's (Mark Metcalf) departure. Spike promises to kill Buffy as he has killed two Slayers already. Drusilla is quite ill, having been injured by an angry mob in Prague.
While the Scoobies are busy preparing for the parents, Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte) show up to inform Buffy that Saturday will be the Night of Saint Vigeous, named after the leader of a vampire crusade, and that during that night, the natural abilities of vampires will be enhanced. Buffy is unimpressed.
Buffy tries to combine school and social life by studying French at the Bronze. Spike is there, too, and sends one of his minions to attack someone, prompting Buffy to fight the minion. He watches while Buffy kills his minion, then steps out of the shadows and tells her that he will kill her on Saturday. He later brings Sheila, who is enthralled by his bad boy charms, to the weak Drusilla as food.
Giles does not recognize Spike from Buffy's description. Angel walks in on the meeting and tells them that Spike is a large problem, and then leaves. Later, Giles finds a reference to Spike as "William the Bloody," and discovers that he has indeed killed two slayers already.
On Thursday night, the Scoobies are making weapons in the library while Buffy is preparing the buffet. She eventually fails to keep Snyder from her mother. Afterwards, a stern Joyce orders Buffy home just as Spike and the other vampires crash through the window, too impatient to wait for Saturday. In the ensuing fight, Buffy leads the adults to safety in the science room while Xander (Nicholas Brendon), Giles, and Ms. Calendar barricade themselves in the library. Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) hide in a utility closet. Xander is sent out to get Angel. Buffy takes command of the incredulous adults, tells them to stay put and climbs through the air ducts to reach the library and her weapons.
Buffy's location in the ceiling is discovered when Spike hears noises, and she has to avoid strikes made by the vampires to knock her down. After taking out the vampires trying to break into the classroom where the adults are, she runs into Sheila, who has been turned by Drusilla. At first, Buffy doesn't realize this, but she is able to stop Sheila's attempt to ambush her; however, Sheila escapes.
Xander returns to the school with Angel, who pretends to be his former evil self, Angelus. Though Spike first welcomes Angelus as a long-lost friend, he sees through the ruse and Xander and Angel are forced to flee but not before Xander hears Spike call Angelus his "sire" and "Yoda."
Buffy and Spike finally meet in the hall, and Buffy is almost bested when her mother shows up and hits Spike over the head with the flat of an axe. With the curse "Women!", he retreats. Joyce tells Buffy that she trusts Buffy to take care of herself, whatever Snyder may say.
Snyder tells the police chief to say that the trouble was caused by a gang on PCP. When the chief wonders if people will believe it, Snyder asks if the chief would rather that he tell the truth. Spike returns to the vampire lair, where the Anointed One demands penance for attacking too early. After starting to go through the motions, Spike simply throws the boy in a cage and pulls it into the sun, killing him. "From now on," he says, "we're gonna have a little less ritual and a little more fun around here."
Cultural references[edit]
The title of the episode is adapted from Die Hard, along with some plot elements such as Buffy crawling through the vents.[1]
Star Wars – Spike refers to Angel's having been his "Yoda".[1]
When Angel claims he has been pretending to be good in order to get closer to the Slayer, Spike remarks with a laugh that "people still fall for that Anne Rice routine."[1]
The way Spike scouts Buffy out at the party is similar to the way Arnold Schwarzenegger did in The Terminator.
Continuity[edit]
Spike's past friendship/rivalry with Angelus/Angel is elaborated upon in future episodes of both Buffy and its spinoff series Angel. "Fool for Love" and "Darla" reveal that, after being sired by Drusilla in 1880, Spike traveled Europe with Angelus, Drusilla, and Darla for eighteen years, wreaking havoc wherever they went. Although Angel left the group after being ensouled in 1898 ("Five by Five"), he rejoined them in 1900 China, where Spike killed his first Slayer (as seen in "Fool for Love"), but quickly parted company with them again ("Darla"); neither Spike nor Drusilla seem to have found Angelus' two-year absence worthy of comment at the time, perhaps because, for immortal vampires, such a timespan is comparatively brief. Per "Why We Fight," Spike and Angel last saw each other in 1943, fifty-four years prior to the events of "School Hard." Even almost a century after the fact, Spike does not initially know that Angel possesses a soul, since he clearly expects Angel to join him in his mayhem.
Spike refers to Angelus as his "sire", a fact later retconned when it is revealed that Drusilla is in fact Spike's sire, making Angelus his grandsire. Joss Whedon has said, however, that they both mean the same thing and that he always intended for Drusilla to be Spike's sire.[1] Plus, as clarified in "Destiny," while Drusilla turned Spike into a vampire, Angelus is the one who taught him how to be a vampire.
Despite Xander's earlier refusal to leave until he knew Buffy and Willow were ok, Willow and Cordelia are still in the janitor's closet after everyone has left.
Arc significance[edit]
Spike and Drusilla are introduced. Spike will become a major character in Seasons Four to Seven of Buffy and Season Five of Angel.[1]
Spike kills the leader of Sunnydale's vampires, saying, "From now on, we're going to have a little less ritual, and a little more fun around here!" The remnant of the Master's Order of Aurelius is thus dissolved, leaving Sunnydale's vampires with no overall hierarchy.
This episode reveals the fact that Spike has killed two Slayers in the past. These events are expanded on in later episodes: "Fool for Love", "First Date" and "Lies My Parents Told Me".
This episode contains the first hint that Snyder and the police force are aware of the supernatural occurrences in Sunnydale.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BBC episode guide
External links[edit]
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"School Hard" at TV.com


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"Inca Mummy Girl"
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The mummy, Ampata, before being awoken

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 4
Directed by
Ellen S. Pressman
Written by
Matt Kiene
 Joe Reinkemeyer
Production code
5V04
Original air date
October 6, 1997
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Ara Celi as Ampata Gutierrez
Seth Green as Oz
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Henrik Rosvall as Sven
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson

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"Inca Mummy Girl" is episode four of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written by former series story editors Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer (penning their second and final script for the show) and directed by Ellen S. Pressman, inspired by the story of Momia Juanita, a real mummy discovered on the extinct volcano Ampato near Arequipa, Peru, in 1995.[1] The narrative revolves around a "cultural exchange" event at Sunnydale High, involving a museum exhibit, a dance, and foreign exchange students, two of whom stay with Buffy and Cordelia. After a class troublemaker is reported missing after the museum trip, the Scooby Gang investigates and finds the Incan mummy from the exhibit gone and the missing student mummified in her place. Meanwhile, Buffy must hide her identity as the Slayer and the mummy investigation from her exchange student, Ampata, who has a secret of her own.


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2 Acting 2.1 Starring
2.2 Guest starring
2.3 Co-starring
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
To prepare for Sunnydale High's cultural exchange program, Buffy visits an Incan exhibit with her schoolmates. She is paired with an exchange student with whom her mom signed her up. Xander becomes jealous when he learns that she will room with a guy.
The students learn that the mummy in the museum is one of a beautiful Incan princess, sacrificed by her people to save them from destruction. Willow and Buffy express remorse for the princess; dying before she could really live her life. After everyone leaves the museum, a class clown breaks the seal on a mummy while trying to steal it. The princess wakes up, for the curse is broken, and pulls the unfortunate student into her coffin. She mummifies him by a kiss on the lips. When the Scoobies rush to the museum, they encounter a sword-wielding guard and the remains of the missing student.
Buffy's exchange student arrives at the bus station, and the mummy girl sucks out his life, too. The 500-year-old becomes a beautiful teenager, and poses as "Ampata," the boy who was supposed to stay with Buffy (everyone simply assumes that the information was wrong on her gender). Xander is smitten with her, and the two begin a relationship. Giles asks "Ampata" to decipher the seal from her tomb, and she explains (reluctantly) that it describes a girl chosen to die to save her people, and a bodyguard who will keep her from straying from that path. She also tells Giles to destroy the seal completely; apparently it being rebuilt will end Ampata's life. This bodyguard appears again and again, trying to stop Ampata, until she finally manages to use her kiss on him in the bathroom, sucking out his life to keep herself from dying.
Buffy and Ampata bond over the tale of the Inca Princess, Ampata stating that the princess was forced into her "destiny" by her people, as they claimed she was the only girl of her generation who could save them; Buffy miserably notes that this parallels her own life. Xander asks Ampata to the dance to enliven her; she gladly accepts. Willow is downtrodden to find her crush with another girl when the guitarist (Oz) at the Bronze notices her. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles open Ampata's trunk and discover the real Ampata's body. Giles tries to piece together the seal while Buffy tries to save Xander from Ampata's deadly kiss. But Ampata feels too much for Xander and leaves for the museum. She tries to stop Giles from putting the seal back together. Buffy saves Giles, then Ampata starts to deteriorate as she tries to feed off Willow. Xander shows up and insists that if she must feed on anyone, it should be him; despite Ampata's feelings for him, she is quickly deteriorating back into a mummy, and is willing to kill him to remain alive. Buffy shows up to fight her, saving Xander, and in the battle, she weakens to the point of returning to her dead form.
Acting[edit]
Starring[edit]
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz as Angel (credited but does not appear)
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Guest starring[edit]
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Ara Celi as Ampata Gutierrez
Seth Green as Oz
Co-starring[edit]
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Henrik Rosvall as Sven
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Continuity[edit]
Xander asks, "You're not a praying mantis, are you?" Ms. French, Xander's crush in "Teachers Pet," turned out to be a giant She-Mantis.
This is the only episode of the second or third seasons from which Angel is absent.
This is one of only eight episodes not to feature at least one vampire, the others being "Witch", "The Pack", "I, Robot... You, Jane", "The Puppet Show", "Living Conditions", "Fear, Itself" and "Beer Bad".
Along with "Witch", "The Puppet Show" and "Nightmares", this is one of only four Buffyverse episodes in which Cordelia appears but Angel does not.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode features the first appearance of Devon and Oz. Devon will go on to appear and be mentioned in a number of episodes, while Oz will go on to be a central character and member of the Scooby Gang. This is also the first appearance of Oz and Devon’s band, Dingoes Ate My Baby.
This episode marks the first of several times Oz will spot Willow, before finally meeting her in What's My Line, Part 1. In this episode, through the crowd Oz spots Willow in her Eskimo outfit and is obviously smitten.
This episode marks the first notable appearance of Jonathan Levinson, a minor character who repeatedly pops up in Seasons Two, Three, Four, Six and Seven. In the early seasons, Jonathan often escapes near death situations through blind luck. In Season Six, he is one member of The Trio, with Warren Mears and Andrew Wells, who have plans to take over Sunnydale.
Reception[edit]
"Inca Mummy Girl" had an audience of 3.2 million households.[2]
References[edit]
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1.Jump up ^ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-08-30-ice-maiden-melt_x.htm
2.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season."
External links[edit]
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"Inca Mummy Girl" at TV.com


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"Reptile Boy"
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Buffy and Cordelia chained up as sacrifices to Machida

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 5
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
David Greenwalt
Production code
5V05
Original air date
October 13, 1997
Guest actors

Greg Vaughan as Richard Anderson
Todd Babcock as Tom Warner
Jordana Spiro as Callie Anderson
Robin Atkin Downes as Machida
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Christopher Dahlberg as Tackle
Jason Posey as Linebacker
Coby Bell as Young Man

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"Reptile Boy" is episode five of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written and directed by co-executive producer David Greenwalt. The narrative follows Buffy Summers, the Slayer, who is tired of being responsible and goes to a frat party where she's nearly devoured by a giant snake named Machida, whom the fraternity worship.


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2 Production details 2.1 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot[edit]
A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and flees into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, The Scooby Gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles presses her to train harder, but she just wants to be a teenager. The next day at school, Cordelia introduces Buffy to two college guys, one of whom invites Buffy to a party. She turns him down, claiming she is involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol and meets Angel, who smells blood on a bracelet on the ground. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she does not know what she wants in life. She runs off, upset.
Buffy decides to go to the frat party with Cordelia. She chooses not to tell Giles or Angel about her date. Later that night, Giles and Willow discover that the bracelet is from Kent Preparatory School, just outside of Sunnydale and where Buffy is partying. Angel appears and asks about Buffy. Willow tells the two men why Buffy lied to them. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.
At the party, Buffy tries to avoid drunken frat guys. Xander has sneaked in to protect Buffy, but other party-goers recognize him for a crasher and dress him up like a girl. Meanwhile, Buffy relents and decides to accept a drink. Drugged, she stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is lying unconscious. When they wake up, they find themselves chained in a basement as an offering for a reptile demon named Machida. Cordelia is chosen as the first victim, but Buffy distracts the demon and breaks out of her chains.
Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They enter the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy kills the demon, the frat guys are arrested, and Giles promises to stop pushing Buffy so hard. Afterwards, everyone gathers at The Bronze. Angel appears and asks to have coffee with Buffy sometime. She plays it cool.
Production details[edit]
In his DVD commentary for this episode, writer/director David Greenwalt says that when he wrote the episode he thought that he had invented a great demon name, Machida. He later realized that he had been inspired by the word Makita, which he had seen written on the drills carried by the show's grips.
The episode ends with the main villain frat-boy being led away by Angel while Cordelia upbraids him. In the original script, however, Machida emerges from the pit and eats him. This proved impossible for the production crew to do with the CGI of the time. David Greenwalt mentions in the DVD commentary that the CGI problems also ended plans for Machida to be a recurring villain.
Although Cordelia tells Buffy "Don't wear black, silk, Chiffon or spandex: these are my trademarks," Buffy shows up in a little black dress.
The fraternity house featured in this episode was filmed at the Wattles Mansion at 1824 North Curson Avenue in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California.
Cultural references[edit]
The opening scene of this episode is reminiscent of an early episode of the sitcom Friends, in which the characters watch a show in another language and make up the words themselves.
"You could join a fraternity of rich and powerful men—in Bizarro World," a fictional world in the DC Universe where everything is opposite to Earth; for example, Bizarro bonds lose money, which is considered a good thing there.
Tom refers to the 'drunken lout' who charges Buffy as "The Hulk".
Continuity[edit]
Cordelia's preference for older boys, first mentioned in "The Harvest", is reiterated here, though by the end of the episode, Cordelia appears to have, at least temporarily, changed her mind.
Angel is able to enter the fraternity house without an invitation as the fraternity brothers are only temporary residents.
Cordelia intimates to Xander that the only way he'll ever go to college is to deliver a pizza, foreshadowing his choice not to enroll in college in Season Four. Coincidentally, Cordelia will never go to college either.
Arc significance[edit]
At the end of the episode, Buffy agrees to have coffee with Angel, which marks the beginning of their formal dating relationship.
This episode marks the first of several fraternity-related supernatural incidents, most of which occur from Season Four to the end of the series - the last being season seven's "Selfless."
This episode also marks the first incident of students using magic to better their situation in life, which often occurs in later seasons and comes to the front in season six.
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Halloween (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Halloween"
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Willow, Buffy and Xander in their Halloween costumes, which have taken over their personae due to a spell

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 6
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
Carl Ellsworth
Production code
5V06
Original air date
October 27, 1997
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
James Marsters as Spike
Robin Sachs as Ethan Rayne
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell

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"Halloween" is episode six of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by freelance writer Carl Ellsworth and directed by Bruce Seth Green. The narrative follows Ethan Rayne, a Chaos worshiper, who sells Halloween costumes that transform their wearers into a more real version of that costume.


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2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy and Angel finally agree to a date, but Buffy is delayed at Pop's Pumpkin Patch by a vampire. Another vampire films the fight from hiding. As Angel waits at The Bronze, Cordelia shows up and starts talking to him. When Buffy finally arrives, she is turned away by Cordelia's sharp tongue. Cordelia continues to hit on Angel, unaware of his history.
The next day, Principal Snyder forces Buffy and her friends into chaperoning small children while they trick-or-treat. Buffy would rather take a break during the only slow night for vampires. Later, Larry, the school bully, threatens Xander while asking him about Buffy, who smashes Larry into a soda machine. Xander is angered by the damage that does to his reputation.
After Xander leaves, Buffy and Willow's conversation eventually turns to speculation about Angel's past. The two decide to sneak into Giles' office and borrow the passed-down Watcher's Diary. From this, they hope to learn more about what type of girls Angel used to be attracted to as a human. Buffy is slightly mopey after her date with Angel didn't fly, and is eager for information on how to win him over.
The gang has to dress up for Halloween. They head to Ethan's Costume Shoppe, where Willow gets a ghost costume and Xander buys a toy gun to go with his army fatigues from home. Buffy and Xander make up, but then she spies the most beautiful pink 18th-century gown—one that matches what she has spied from Giles' Watcher files on Angel. Ethan Rayne appears and makes her an offer she cannot refuse.
Spike is reviewing Buffy's fight. Drusilla comes to tell him that someone will make Buffy weak on Halloween night. Meanwhile, Ethan is chanting to a statue of Janus in the back room of his shop.
On Halloween night, Buffy persuades Willow to wear a black miniskirt and a long-sleeved crop top, but Willow's shyness returns; when Buffy goes to answer the doorbell, she covers up with her ghost costume. Later that night, Ethan's spell takes effect and everyone wearing a costume from his store turns into the respective persona. Willow becomes a real ghost, able to walk through walls, Xander a soldier, and Buffy an 18th-century noble woman.
With Buffy incapable of leading and fighting the threats around them and Xander is armed and skilled in combat because of the spell, Willow is forced to take leadership. She convinces Xander not to shoot at people, and fights under her orders. They find Buffy disoriented, frightened and confused by the modern world. Willow rushes them to Buffy's house, where her mother is conveniently not home. Outside, Cordelia screams and Xander rushes out to save her. They find that Cordelia has not changed into what she is wearing—a cat—because she bought her costume from another store. Willow goes to Giles for help. While Cordelia searches the house, Angel shows up and takes Buffy into the kitchen. As Angel tries to kill a vampire that has sneaked into the house, he reveals his vampire face. Buffy is horrified and runs from the house.
Arriving at the library by walking through walls, Willow, after scaring Giles by just showing up where there isn't a door, tells him about Ethan's costumes. They head to the shop, where Giles reveals that he knows Ethan. He orders Willow to leave and forces Ethan to tell him how to reverse the spell.
Spike is looking for Buffy, who enters an alley and meets Larry, now a pirate. Xander arrives to beat up Larry while Willow shows up to warn them of Spike. The gang tries to barricade themselves inside a warehouse, but Spike's gang breaks in. Just as Spike is about to kill Buffy, Ethan reveals the secret to ending the spell and Giles throws the statue to the floor, smashing it to pieces, breaking the spell. Buffy recovers to defeat Spike and he flees.
After being corporeal again, Willow, despite the ordeals, also feels confident, discarding her ghost costume and heading home. Oz sees Willow around town again, asking himself "Who is that girl?"
Buffy admits to Angel that she was trying to impress him. He tells her that he hated those people back then. The women were dull; he wanted someone exciting. They kiss. The next day, Giles returns to the store to find a note. Ethan has promised to return soon.
Continuity[edit]
A diary entry depicts a girl connected to Angel's past from 1775, when the entry also says Angel was an 18 year old human. This date does not fit with later flashbacks to Angel's early days. In the first part to the season two finale, "Becoming, Part One", the date when the vampire Angelus was sired is given as 1753. This date is also upheld in several episodes of the Buffy spin-off, Angel.
Arc significance[edit]
Cordelia learns Angel is a vampire.
Xander retains his knowledge and skills of an experienced soldier after Ethan's spell, thus becomes proficient with military hand-to-hand combat, tactics, and weaponry. This comes to use in later episodes.
This episode marks the first time that Willow takes command of the Scoobies, as Buffy has no recollection of who she is and therefore has no way of leading her friends. Willow will take command of the Scoobies again many times, most notable during the time between seasons 5 and 6. This episode also marks Willow, for the first time, learning how to assert herself.
This is the first hint at Giles's past, more of which is explained in "The Dark Age".
This episode marks the first appearance of Ethan Rayne, who will later be a recurring character. For the first time, we learn from him the former nickname of his old friend Giles, "Ripper".
This is also the first appearance of the school bully, Larry, who will appear in later episodes
Willow assures Buffy that Cordelia is not Angel's type, Buffy relaxes. However, in the television spin-off Angel, the characters Cordelia and Angel do eventually develop romantic feelings for each other.
This episode establishes that vampires show up on film, despite the fact that they have no reflections. This trait will continue until the series finale and crossover to the spin-off Angel.
External links[edit]
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Lie to Me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Lie To Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 7
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
5V07
Original air date
November 3, 1997
Guest actors

Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Jason Behr as Billy "Ford" Fordham
Jarrad Paul as Diego
Julia Lee as Chanterelle
Will Rothhaar as James

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"Lie to Me" is the seventh episode of the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It originally aired on November 3, 1997.


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The episode opens on a playground at night. Drusilla approaches and talks to a young boy named James, intending to feed on him. Angel stops her and sends the boy home; realizing that if Drusilla and Spike remain in Sunnydale, a fight with them is inevitable, he tries to persuade Drusilla to leave town with Spike, to no avail. While Dru and Angel are talking, Buffy sees them from a distance, sparking her curiosity and her jealousy.
The next day, Jenny Calendar is teasing Giles about their date, which she is planning but won't give him any details of. Buffy reports her patrolling, but omits any Angel references. Later in class she passes notes to Willow about the Angel-Drusilla sighting while the rest of the class is discussing Marie Antoinette. In the hallways, Xander tries to make his way into the conversation but fails, just as another young man sneaks up behind Buffy and surprises her. She introduces him to Willow and Xander as her friend Ford (Billy Fordham), with whom she attended school in Los Angeles. He explains that his dad has been transferred and he's finishing his senior year at Sunnydale High. They make plans to go to the Bronze that night before Buffy walks Ford to the admissions office.
That night at the Bronze, Ford entertains Willow and Xander with embarrassing stories about Buffy. While getting drinks, Buffy runs into Angel. She asks what he did the previous night, to which he answers that he stayed in and read. She introduces Angel to Ford, whom Angel obviously doesn't trust from the beginning. The awkwardness prompts Buffy to ask Ford to take a walk with her and she says goodbye to her friend. As the two walk out, Angel is clearly jealous and confused as to what he's done to make her angry.
In the alley behind the Bronze, Buffy hears suspicious clattering around a corner. She asks Ford to go back and get her purse and then runs around toward the sound. Ford heads toward the Bronze just for a second before turning back and following Buffy, where he watches her stake a vampire. She makes up a lame story about cats, but Ford reveals that he knows that she is the Slayer, having found out shortly before she was expelled from Hemery High.
Later that night, Buffy and Willow are discussing the incident on the phone. Meanwhile, Ford goes to an industrial warehouse or building of some type. The door opens to a platform with stairs leading down to a large room, which looks like a dance club full of teenagers dressed oddly, many in gothic styles, listening to industrial music. Ford walks down the stairs and begins discussing the details of some unnamed event with his friend Marvin (aka Diego), who is upset about not knowing the details of the plan.
Also that night, Angel shows up at Willow's bedroom. She invites him in and awkwardly explains that she isn't supposed to have boys in her room. He asks for help tracking down Ford on the internet. Willow indirectly accuses him of being jealous, which he partially admits but insists that he knows Ford is trouble regardless. She quickly finds that Ford is not actually registered at Sunnydale High. Angel has to leave before her mom finds him, but Willow agrees to keep searching and to not tell Buffy what they are doing.
The next day at school, Willow is awkward and jittery when she runs into Buffy and Ford, but Buffy attributes it to coffee when Willow runs away. Next, Buffy and Ford run into Giles. who makes up a lame reason for giving Buffy his pager number in case she needs to reach him, prompting Buffy to tell Giles that Ford knows about her secret. He accuses her of using her identity to impress cute boys, but she explains that Ford already knew.
That night, Buffy gives Ford a tour of the small town, which brings them back to the school when they see two vampires running onto campus. They follow the vamps, but somehow one gets behind Buffy and attacks before she sees him. Buffy and Ford get separated in the scuffle, each one taking one of the creatures. Ford pins his to the ground and stands over it, telling her that he'll let her go if she tells him what he wants to know. After killing her vamp, Buffy finds Ford, who is now alone, and asks where the other one went. Ford claims he has killed it.
Meanwhile, Xander, Willow and Angel visit the industrial building used by Ford and his friends whose address Willow found associated with his name online. Claiming to be friends of Ford's, they are let in and see the strange cult living there. They notice a pro-vampire motif just before one girl starts a conversation with them about those she calls "the lonely ones." She explains that they are elevated, misunderstood creatures and Angel can't help but scoff at her delusions. She is offended and walks away. Angel claims to have seen cults like this before, and that they don't know anything about how real vampires live or dress. Ranting on their way out, they are overheard by Diego, Ford's friend.
Buffy goes back to the library and meets Giles, who is obviously not too upset about the interruption of his mystery date with Ms. Calendar that turned out to be monster trucks. They try to think about what the vampires could have been up to when Buffy sees a picture of Drusilla among Giles' research things. She recognizes it as the girl with whom she saw Angel two days before and asks who she is. Giles explains that she was Spike's lover, allegedly killed by an angry mob in Prague, but Buffy tells him that she is still alive and that she saw her with Angel. While they are discussing what Drusilla's meeting with Angel could mean, a vampire storms out of Giles' study with a book. She sprints for the door and makes it before anyone can stop her. Buffy recognizes her as the vampire Ford said he had killed.
At that moment, Spike and Drusilla are also discussing her meeting with Angel, but are interrupted when Ford sneaks in. After annoying Spike with horror movie clichés, Ford asks to be made a vampire, but the idea doesn't interest Spike, until Ford explains that he can give them the Slayer.
Later that night, Angel comes to Buffy's house to tell her about Ford's group, but she starts interrogating him about Drusilla before he can explain about Ford. Buffy demands the truth about her and her relationship with Angel. He explains that Drusilla was the worst of all the terrible things he did as Angelus. He is Drusilla's sire, but before making her a vampire, he took his time in torturing her into insanity by killing everyone she loved. She fled to a convent, but he followed her and turned her into a vampire the day she took her vows. Buffy is obviously upset by the intensity of Angel's past life, but accepts it. He tells her about the vampire cult Ford is in, but that he doesn't know their plans. She is upset that he, Willow, and Xander were doing recon behind her back, which creates an awkward silence.
At school the next morning, Ford asks Buffy to hang out again, but won't tell her what he has planned. Buffy pretends she doesn't suspect anything and agrees to meet him at 9. However, she doesn't wait to meet Ford as planned and goes to his club a little after six o'clock. He is explaining to his followers that they will be changed tonight, when Buffy comes in and tells him his plan isn't going to work. Someone closes and locks the door behind her, as Ford explains that it can only be opened from the outside and he was counting on Buffy figuring out his plan and coming to meet him. Ford's alarm beeps at 6:27, sunset, as Buffy pleads with him to let the others go. During her plea that he's doing something wrong, Ford interrupts to tell her that he has brain cancer and will be dead within six months; becoming a vampire is the only way he can avoid irrevocable death. He then admits to her that the other people will not be changed. They are just fodder.
Within minutes of sunset, the vampires arrive, led by Spike, who immediately begins feeding. The vampire worshipping teens are shocked by the violence of the creatures they had believed to be gentle and misunderstood. They quickly realize that the vampires have no intention of changing any of them. Buffy starts fighting Ford but the scuffle doesn't last long. She swings him into a metal beam and he falls down, out cold. While the rest of the vampires are feeding, Drusilla waits on the platform above the main area of the room near the door. Buffy sees her alone, rushes through the crowd and jumps up to the platform, where she immediately overtakes Drusilla and prepares to stake her. She yells out to Spike, who immediately orders everyone to stop feeding. Buffy demands that they let everyone go, which Spike agrees to. The former vampire worshippers flee and Buffy follows. Ford is still unconscious on the floor as Buffy closes the door, locking all the vampires inside with him. Ford awakens, and confronts Spike—the Slayer may have gotten away, but Ford held up his end of the bargain by handing her over. He demands that Spike holds up his end of the bargain and sire him.
A few nights later Buffy and Giles are waiting over Ford's fresh grave. Buffy is deep in thought and asks Giles if life ever gets easy. Just then Ford's vampire self emerges and Buffy wearily stakes her former friend. Giles asks Buffy what she wants him to say. She responds, "Lie to me." Giles replies:

Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats and we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy retorts, "Liar."
Reception[edit]
"Lie to Me" had an audience of 3.4 million households on its original airing.[1]
Cultural references[edit]
Buffy mentions a song by an Australian rock band:[2]

It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song "I Touch Myself". Of course, I had no idea what it was about.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode marks the first appearance of the character "Chanterelle", who will reappear in the Season Three premiere as "Lily" and will become a minor, recurring character in Angel under the name Anne Steele[2] (given to her by Buffy in "Anne").
The Scoobies become aware of Drusilla.[2]
This episode is also where Angel's connection to Drusilla is revealed.[2] He shows he retains affection for her by trying to persuade her to leave Sunnydale with Spike, not because he thinks he and Buffy can't fight them but because, despite their evil activities, he does not want to fight them.
The book stolen by the vampire will come into significance in "What's My Line", a two-part episode.
Willow invites Angel into her house.
Buffy tells Ford that, contrary to what he thinks about vampirism: "You die, and a demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks, and it talks, and it remembers your life, but it's not you." This notwithstanding, in most episodes (both of Buffy and of spin-off series Angel) Buffyverse vampires usually behave as if they are indeed the people they were in life, except considerably crueller and more vicious, and most non-vampires tend to treat them as if this were the case; Buffy herself sometimes falls into this fallacy, as seen in her behavior toward vampirized Harmony Kendall, Angel's soulless incarnation Angelus, and others.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season." <http://home.insightbb.com/~wahoskem/buffy2.html>
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d BBC episode guide
External links[edit]
"Lie to Me" at the Internet Movie Database
"Lie to Me" at TV.com


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"The Dark Age"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 8
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
Dean Batali
 Rob Des Hotel
Production code
5V08
Original air date
November 10, 1997
Guest actors

Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Robin Sachs as Ethan Rayne
Stuart McLean as Philip Henry
Wendy Way as Diedre Page
Michael Earl Reid as Custodian
Daniel Henry Murray as Creepy Cult Guy
Carlease Burke as Detective Winslow
Tony Sears as Morgue Attendant
John Bellucci as Man

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"The Dark Age" is episode eight of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written by Executive Story Editors Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali and was directed by Bruce Seth Green. The narrative follows Giles, whose friend has died, prompting the Scooby Gang to unravel his mysterious past; meanwhile, Buffy crashes into Ethan Rayne again.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Reception
3 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
A man is hurriedly making his way through the school grounds trying to find Giles, when he is approached by a demon woman whom he identifies as "Deirdre". The demon moves forward and strangles him, before falling to the ground and dissolving into a puddle of slime.
The next morning Giles awakens from a disturbing dream. At school, Buffy and Willow are seen playing 'Anywhere But Here' in which they recount their fantasies: Buffy is on a beach before sunset having her feet rubbed by Gavin Rossdale, Willow is in Florence at a restaurant eating ziti when she is joined by John Cusack. Giles tells Buffy to meet him later at the hospital where there will be a blood delivery, which attracts vampires. When Giles gets back to the library, a detective is waiting for him who informs Giles that there was a homicide on campus and the dead man had Giles' address on him. Giles identifies the body as an old friend from London. The body has a tattoo, which Giles says he does not recognize.
Shaken, Giles doesn't meet Buffy at the hospital, and she battles the doctor-dressed vampires alone until Angel shows up. She asks Angel to see to it that the blood gets to the hospital and goes to check on Giles. When Buffy goes to Giles' house to see what happened, he opens the door looking dishevelled and appears to have been drinking. He calls another friend Deirdre in London and finds out that she's dead too. As he rolls up his sleeves, we see he has the same tattoo as his friend. Meanwhile, the dead friend, Phillip, comes back to life in the morgue, his eyes flashing, and escapes.
On Saturday, Willow, Xander, and Cordelia meet with Jenny Calendar – Giles' girlfriend – for a computer class. Buffy shows up to express her concern about Giles' behavior. Cordelia mentions the police visit to the library, which had slipped her Cordelia-centered mind. In the library, Buffy finds Giles' former friend Ethan, the costume shop owner who had caused chaos on Halloween. As she calls Giles, Ethan mentions the "Mark of Eyghon". Giles says she's in danger, and the dead Phillip enters.
A panicked Giles shows up and, after a scuffle which leaves Jenny unconscious, Phillip turns into the green goo. The puddle touches Jenny; when she comes to, she seems normal but we see her eyes flash. Willow discovers the "Mark of Eyghon" in a book: Eyghon possesses the body of a dead or unconscious host. They figure out that the demon has jumped from Phillip's body to Jenny's. Possessed Jenny, looking and sounding increasingly like a demon (albeit, with a broad American accent), tries to seduce Giles at his apartment. When Buffy comes to the rescue, Jenny jumps out the window. Giles explains to Buffy that he ran with a bad crowd when he was young, and they used Eyghon as a temporary high – directing him in and out of each other's bodies.
But one friend died, then later the woman who killed Phillip, and now it seems the rest of the group will die, too. Buffy goes to the deserted costume shop to try to defend Ethan against Eyghon/Jenny, but he knocks her out, ties her up and puts the mark of Eyghon on her. He then pours acid on his own tattoo so that Eyghon will take Buffy instead of him. Jenny enters, completely demonic, and Buffy breaks free. Angel enters suddenly and chokes Jenny until she loses consciousness, whereupon Eyghon moves to the nearest dead body: that of Angel, a vampire – as Willow had planned. Two demons fight for control in Angel's body, and Eyghon is destroyed. Jenny returns to normal, but Ethan escapes.
Reception[edit]
"The Dark Age" had an audience of 3.7 million households on its original airing.[1]
Arc significance[edit]
This is the first episode to establish details about Giles' more "wild" youth, parts of which will occasionally return to haunt him throughout the series. This is also the first appearance of Giles' apartment, which will become the Scoobies' headquarters in Season 4.
In the third season episode "Enemies", Giles tells Xander his monetary expense (a bribe to Willy) can be reimbursed with a receipt; this may be a joke. In this second season episode, however, Buffy has to spend her own money to remove the tattoo inflicted on her by Ethan.
This episode provides another example of Willow assuming control of the Scoobies whilst Buffy and Giles are preoccupied or incapable of leading the group. Willow will assume leadership of the gang in several future episodes, and most prominently between seasons five and six.
Due to the events of this episode, Giles' and Jenny's relationship will never be the same again.
Angel saves Jenny's life, only for Angelus to kill her later in the same season.
Second appearance of Ethan Rayne, who was introduced in "Halloween" and will next appear in "Band Candy".
Buffy and Willow play their game again in the Season Eight comic "Anywhere but Here": their fantasies have Buffy approached by Daniel Craig while lying on the beach, and Willow trapped with Tina Fey in a cabin during a snowstorm; Willow having come out as a lesbian since this episode.
Eyghon reappears in the Angel & Faith comic series set during Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, in which it finally claims control of Ethan's and Giles's bodies as well as those of some Slayers, and is bonded to the final piece of Giles's soul that Angel needs to bring Giles back to life. Eyghon is able to take control of Spike now that it is on Earth in its true body, however it is unable to control Angel as there is three beings in his body at the time: Angel, Angelus and the rest of Giles's soul. Eyghon is finally slain when its true form is decapitated by Angel, and the last piece of Giles's soul is absorbed into Angel's body.
References[edit]
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What's My Line (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"What's My Line"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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The two vampire slayers: Buffy and Kendra

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 9 & 10
Directed by
David Solomon (Part 1)
David Semel (Part 2)
Written by
Marti Noxon (Part 1 & 2)
Howard Gordon (Part 1)
Production code
5V09 & 5V10
Original air date
November 17, 1997 (Part 1)
 November 24, 1997 (Part 2)
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Bianca Lawson as Kendra Young
Saverio Guerra as Willy the Snitch
Kelly Connell as Norman Pfister
Eric Saiet as Dalton
Michael Rothhaar as Suitman
P.B. Hutton as Mrs. Kalish
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Spice Williams-Crosby as Patrice

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"What's My Line" is a two-episode story in season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In Part One, Buffy endures Career Week at school while Spike hires assassins to kill her; a fierce fighter who identifies herself as "Kendra, the Vampire Slayer" shows up in Sunnydale. In Part Two, Buffy encounters Kendra, while Angel is taken by Spike for a ritual in which Drusilla is restored to health.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Part one
1.2 Part two
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 Reception
5 Arc significance
6 Continuity discrepancies
7 References
8 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Part one[edit]
As career week arrives, Buffy feels trapped and apathetic because the students around her are exploring their choices for the future, while her fate as the Slayer is already set in stone. Even so, she must join Willow and Xander in filling out career questionnaires. Spike works on a cure for Drusilla as she lays out Tarot cards. He becomes frustrated with Dru's childlike behavior and ruminates on Buffy's interference in his plans. Dalton, a vampire transcriber, is unable to decipher the book stolen from the library a couple of weeks earlier which contains a cure, but then Drusilla informs Spike that they need a key because the book is in code. The cards indicate the location of the key, much to the delight of Spike.
Buffy witnesses Dalton stealing an object from a mausoleum, but he escapes when she is distracted by another vampire. She enters her bedroom through the window out of habit, despite the fact that her mother is out of town for a few days, and finds Angel waiting to warn her of grave danger, and she notes with irritation that he does this a lot. He discovers her childhood obsession with Dorothy Hamill (Dorothy dolls, posters, and haircut), and offers to take her ice skating the following day. At school the next morning, the test results are revealed, much to the chagrin of Buffy and Xander. Buffy reports to Giles, and he is distressed and disappointed when she tells him about the theft from the mausoleum.
Spike and Drusilla examine the key stolen by Dalton, a gold cross. Spike decides to call the Order of Taraka, an ancient guild of assassins, to rid himself of Buffy once and for all. Back at school, Willow is taken into a secluded lounge area to be recruited by a leading software company, along with Oz, the boy who has been watching her for weeks. At the mausoleum, Giles realizes with concern that Josephus du Lac (a member of a religious sect that had been excommunicated by the Vatican) is buried there. He is the author of the book stolen from the library, and Giles believes the key was stolen from the tomb.
In the meantime, the assassins begin to arrive. A large, intimidating man exits a bus, and a door-to-door beauty salesman walks down the sidewalk past Buffy's house to her next-door neighbors'. He gains an invitation inside, the door closes, and the lady of the house screams. A young woman attacks an airplane worker in the cargo hold of a plane, escaping with little difficulty.
Giles tells Buffy, Xander, and Willow about the "du Lac Cross" which can be used as the key, and he enlists their help with further research. Buffy manages to keep her ice skating date with Angel. She is attacked while ice skating, and Angel arrives in time to help her fight off the assassin whom she kills with the blade of her skate. Angel, recognizing the assassin's ring, asks Buffy if she knows what it means ("I just killed a Super Bowl Champ?"), and then warns her that she should leave Sunnydale and hide. Angel is wounded and doesn't want Buffy to have to touch his vampire face, but she removes her gloves to touch his face with her bare hands, assuring him that she hadn't even noticed, and kisses him. The female from the plane watches from the shadows.
The assassin next-door to Buffy's house feeds on the body he had killed by disintegrating into hundreds of writhing mealworms which can reshape themselves into limbs at will. Buffy is paranoid and jittery, suspicious of each person who passes by in the hallways at school. As Oz passes her, she panics and pins him against a locker. Oz declares her to be a "tense person". Buffy arrives at Angel's empty home and falls asleep in his bed. Angel goes to Willy's bar for information, and Willy finally confirms Angel's suspicions that Spike is behind the assassins, but before Angel can leave, he is attacked by the mysterious female. They fight, and she locks him in a metal cage in front of an eastern window, with only a few short hours until sunrise.
Giles awakens Willow, who had fallen asleep ("Don't warn the tadpoles!" she exclaims, subsequently explaining that she has "frog fears"). He reveals that the missing manuscript is a ritual to restore a weakened vampire back to health. Xander and Cordelia enter Buffy's house, and Xander searches for her while Cordelia waits downstairs. She hears a knock at the door and lets in the mealworm assassin, again appearing as a make-up salesman promising free samples. In Angel's bedroom, Buffy awakes to find herself being attacked by the mysterious woman. They fight, and the woman tells Buffy that her name is Kendra, the Vampire Slayer...
Part two[edit]
Buffy and Kendra go to Giles for assistance in explaining their situation. They learn that Kendra is the slayer who was 'called' when Buffy temporarily died in her fight with The Master in "Prophecy Girl". Their discussion reveals that Kendra had locked Angel in a cage, leaving him to be dusted at sunrise. Buffy and Kendra arrive to find only an empty cage; Buffy fears the worst, but Kendra points out the absence of dust.
Willy (the bar guy) had saved Angel from near-death, only to dump him in a sewer with Spike. Spike takes Angel back to the warehouse, where he will be held until he can be sacrificed to restore Drusilla to full strength. Bound and gagged, Angel haplessly listens as Drusilla asks Spike to let her torture Angel. Although Spike briefly hesitates, he soon smiles and agrees, unable to resist indulging her whims. Meanwhile, as Buffy ruminates on the co-existence of two slayers, she entertains the possibility of quitting and letting Kendra take over her Slayer duties.
Giles begins to bond professionally with Kendra, who seems to be more dedicated to her calling than Buffy, on a professional, intellectual and academic level. Xander and Cordelia face even bigger problems when they find that the salesman that Cordelia let into the Summers' house is actually an assassin who can transform himself into thousands of mealworms. They run and hide in the basement, although before long they are fighting each other. After an unexpected kiss, Xander and Cordelia rush to escape the basement, running past the attacking worm-monster. At school, the career placement test has thrown Willow and Oz together, and they discuss their similar interests. Buffy, whose test results recommend a career in law enforcement, attends the career fair seminar to appease Principal Snyder. The police officer leading the seminar calls Buffy's name, but when Buffy identifies herself, the officer draws her gun and points it at the Slayer. Buffy avoids the bullet, which instead hits Oz as he pushed Willow out of harm's way. Kendra comes to Buffy's rescue, and they fight off the attacker. The Scoobies then gather in the library, where Giles announces that Spike intends for Angel to die in the ritual to restore Drusilla. Buffy angrily announces that Spike can do anything to her, but he had better not mess with her boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Angel is being tortured by Drusilla, both emotionally and physically; she pours holy water on him as she reminds him about how he killed her whole family. Spike comes in and announces that it is time for the ritual to begin. Angel taunts Spike with insinuations that Spike is unable to satisfy Drusilla, in hopes that Spike will kill him before he can be used to cure Drusilla. Spike is infuriated, but does not lose sight of the big picture. Meanwhile, Kendra gains a newfound respect for Buffy's qualities as a Slayer. Later, the Slayers go after Willy to learn what happened to Angel; they force Willy to take them to the location of Spike and Angel. However, Willy leads them into the assassins and they arrive too late to prevent the ritual. Buffy attacks Spike to save Angel, and Kendra and the Scooby Gang arrive to back her up. Xander and Cordelia work together in the hallway to kill the worm assassin; since he can only be destroyed in his "disassembled state", they lure the worms underneath a door into a sticky trap. Willow and Giles work together to stake a vampire while Buffy and Kendra fight several of their own. Spike starts a fire and rushes to rescue the unconscious Drusilla, hoping that the ritual has had time to cure her. However, Buffy prevents their exit, crushing them in falling rubble. She rushes to the floor to help the weakened Angel, while everyone watches in awe, and she helps him exit the building.
With the danger over, it's time for Kendra to leave. Buffy and Kendra discuss Angel (with Kendra admitting he's 'pretty cute') and also their position as Slayer. Kendra remarks that Buffy considers slaying to be a job when it isn't, it's a part of who she is. The two, now friends, say their goodbyes and Buffy is left with a new outlook on her position as the Slayer, as well as the knowledge that she is no longer alone in her calling.
At the remains of the church, Spike lies seriously injured under the rubble... when Drusilla rises, the ritual having worked and restored her to full power. She carries her partner out of the debris, promising to return the favor and make him as powerful as her.
Production[edit]
The hold of the plane in which Kendra arrived in Sunnydale was turned upside down and used as a sewer tunnel in later episodes.[1] The ice rink, called Iceland, is found at 8041 Jackson Street in Paramount, California, around 25 miles from where Buffy was filmed.[2]
Sarah Michelle Gellar is a fan of ice skating in real life, and lists ice skating as one of her hobbies,[3] which, according to writer Marti Noxon in the DVD commentary for the episode, is the reason ice skating was incorporated into the episode.
Bianca Lawson commented on her accent during her stint on Buffy in an interview with SFX magazine:
I really hated that accent! I got the part, and I didn't originally have an accent. Then, literally the night before, they said, "What about a Jamaican accent?" So it's one of those things where, y'know, I just had to put it on tape, but I didn't have a chance to get comfortable with it. And the thing is, certain things - if you say it properly [in Jamaican patois], people don't really fully understand it, so they would change things. They'd say, "Well, say it like this" and it's like, "Would that be accurate in that accent though?" "It doesn't matter because no-one's going to understand you!" So different people were giving their interpretations of it. I was like "But everyone's going to think that I'm doing it wrong!" So personally, I wasn't happy with the accent!
Seth Green mentioned in an Ultimate TV talk that the line "I mock you with my monkey pants" was initially dreamt by Alyson Hannigan. Joss Whedon decided to insert it in the episode. Marti Noxon said in her DVD commentary for the episode that all the lines after Oz's compliment about Willow's smile were ad-libbed by Seth and Alyson.
At the end of the episode, Buffy warns Kendra to not watch movies with Chevy Chase or animals while on the airplane. This is likely a reference to the Chevy Chase movie Funny Farm, in which Gellar had a small, uncredited role.
This episode is later referenced in the Season 8 issue, "Time of Your Life", when Buffy tells Melaka Fray's sister she "...thought about being a cop. A law. In high school. I took a test, said I fit the profile." after Buffy's career test results recommend a career in law enforcement for her.
Spike was originally intended to be killed off in this episode. However, due to his popularity with the fans and James Marsters' performance, Joss Whedon decided to keep him alive, instead having him paralyzed.
Cultural references[edit]
Dorothy Hamill: When Buffy talks about a "Dorothy Hamill phase," she means ice-skating since Hamill was an American ice-skater who won a gold medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: The software recruiter says to Willow, "The jet was delayed by fog at Sea-Tac, but he should be here any minute."
The Simpsons: Buffy says to Giles "Have a cow, Giles." She is playing on The Simpsons phrase used by Bart Simpson, "don't have a cow" (which means "don't get worked up").
What's My Line?: An American game show which ran from 1950 to 1975. Celebrity panelists tried to guess the unusual occupations of contestants through yes-or-no questions. The UK version featured the contestants miming their jobs.
My Fair Lady: After Dalton has a success, Spike says "By George, I think he's got it," playing on Henry Higgins' (played by Rex Harrison) singing line "By George, she's got it! I think she's got it!"
White Noise: Principal Snyder tells Xander "Whatever comes out of your mouth is a meaningless waste of breath, an airborne toxic event," which is a reference to the "Airborne Toxic Event" that Jack Gladney was exposed to in Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, White Noise.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: When Kendra challenges Willow, Buffy says "Back off, Pink Ranger". Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double, Sophia Crawford, was also the stunt double for the Pink Ranger.
The Beatles: When Xander finds out the identity of the mealworm assassin, he references the Beatles song, "I Am the Walrus".
Super Bowl ring: Buffy likens the ring worn by the Order of Taraka to that awarded to the winning team in the Super Bowl.
Molly Ringwald: Buffy says to Kendra "Possibly something from the Ringwald oeuvre." She is referring to 80s teen star Molly Ringwald. Ringwald was the star of several John Hughes films of the 1980s. Her "oeuvre" includes Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).
Reception[edit]
Part one pulled in 3.5 million households on its original airing, while part two had an audience of 3.9 million households.[4]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces the character of Kendra, the first vampire slayer besides Buffy to be featured on the show.
Buffy's death in "Prophecy Girl" activating a new slayer (thus allowing there to be two slayers) will remain important throughout the series, especially after the introduction of Faith.
Willow and Oz finally meet - having almost done so in previous episodes "Inca Mummy Girl" and "Halloween"
The term "Scooby Gang" is used for the first time, when Xander tells Cordelia, "You want to be a member of the Scooby Gang, you gotta be willing to be inconvenienced every now and then."
Willy’s Place is seen for the first time. The bar also appears in many other episodes including "Amends", "The Zeppo", "Goodbye Iowa" and "Family".
The bespectacled vampire, Dalton, later appears in "Surprise" and is killed by the Judge.
Darla asks Angel in the season one episode "Angel", if he believes Buffy would ever be able to kiss his 'real face'. She does in this episode.
Cordelia and Xander kiss for the first time.
The female Order of Taraka member is played by Spice Williams-Crosby, who will later play a prison inmate hired by another demon group, the First Evil's Bringers, to kill Faith Lehane in "Salvage."
Despite dialogue in this episode to the effect that the Order of Taraka never calls off an assassination once hired, the next episode, "Ted," reveals Angel to have persuaded the Order to do so with, apparently, no dire consequences.
Continuity discrepancies[edit]
In part one, during the conversation held between Buffy and Angel after she climbs in through her window, Angel walks in front of a small mirror hanging on the wall with pictures taped to it and you see his reflection, while only moments before there is a shot of Buffy talking to him while looking into a much larger mirror in which he has no reflection.
In part two, Kendra and the rest of the Scooby Gang found the church without Willy's help.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Golden, Christopher; Holder, Nancy, The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Simon & Schuster, p. 95
2.Jump up ^ Golden, Christopher; Holder, Nancy, The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Simon & Schuster, p. 96
3.Jump up ^ Episode Guide: What's My Line Part One, BBC
4.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season."
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: What's My Line, Part One
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: What's My Line, Part Two
"What's My Line (Part 1)" at the Internet Movie Database
"What's My Line (Part 1)" at TV.com
  "What's My Line (Part 2)" at the Internet Movie Database
"What's My Line (Part 2)" at TV.com



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"What's My Line"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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The two vampire slayers: Buffy and Kendra

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 9 & 10
Directed by
David Solomon (Part 1)
David Semel (Part 2)
Written by
Marti Noxon (Part 1 & 2)
Howard Gordon (Part 1)
Production code
5V09 & 5V10
Original air date
November 17, 1997 (Part 1)
 November 24, 1997 (Part 2)
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Bianca Lawson as Kendra Young
Saverio Guerra as Willy the Snitch
Kelly Connell as Norman Pfister
Eric Saiet as Dalton
Michael Rothhaar as Suitman
P.B. Hutton as Mrs. Kalish
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Spice Williams-Crosby as Patrice

Episode chronology

← Previous
 "The Dark Age" Next →
 "Ted"

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
"What's My Line" is a two-episode story in season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In Part One, Buffy endures Career Week at school while Spike hires assassins to kill her; a fierce fighter who identifies herself as "Kendra, the Vampire Slayer" shows up in Sunnydale. In Part Two, Buffy encounters Kendra, while Angel is taken by Spike for a ritual in which Drusilla is restored to health.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Part one
1.2 Part two
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 Reception
5 Arc significance
6 Continuity discrepancies
7 References
8 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Part one[edit]
As career week arrives, Buffy feels trapped and apathetic because the students around her are exploring their choices for the future, while her fate as the Slayer is already set in stone. Even so, she must join Willow and Xander in filling out career questionnaires. Spike works on a cure for Drusilla as she lays out Tarot cards. He becomes frustrated with Dru's childlike behavior and ruminates on Buffy's interference in his plans. Dalton, a vampire transcriber, is unable to decipher the book stolen from the library a couple of weeks earlier which contains a cure, but then Drusilla informs Spike that they need a key because the book is in code. The cards indicate the location of the key, much to the delight of Spike.
Buffy witnesses Dalton stealing an object from a mausoleum, but he escapes when she is distracted by another vampire. She enters her bedroom through the window out of habit, despite the fact that her mother is out of town for a few days, and finds Angel waiting to warn her of grave danger, and she notes with irritation that he does this a lot. He discovers her childhood obsession with Dorothy Hamill (Dorothy dolls, posters, and haircut), and offers to take her ice skating the following day. At school the next morning, the test results are revealed, much to the chagrin of Buffy and Xander. Buffy reports to Giles, and he is distressed and disappointed when she tells him about the theft from the mausoleum.
Spike and Drusilla examine the key stolen by Dalton, a gold cross. Spike decides to call the Order of Taraka, an ancient guild of assassins, to rid himself of Buffy once and for all. Back at school, Willow is taken into a secluded lounge area to be recruited by a leading software company, along with Oz, the boy who has been watching her for weeks. At the mausoleum, Giles realizes with concern that Josephus du Lac (a member of a religious sect that had been excommunicated by the Vatican) is buried there. He is the author of the book stolen from the library, and Giles believes the key was stolen from the tomb.
In the meantime, the assassins begin to arrive. A large, intimidating man exits a bus, and a door-to-door beauty salesman walks down the sidewalk past Buffy's house to her next-door neighbors'. He gains an invitation inside, the door closes, and the lady of the house screams. A young woman attacks an airplane worker in the cargo hold of a plane, escaping with little difficulty.
Giles tells Buffy, Xander, and Willow about the "du Lac Cross" which can be used as the key, and he enlists their help with further research. Buffy manages to keep her ice skating date with Angel. She is attacked while ice skating, and Angel arrives in time to help her fight off the assassin whom she kills with the blade of her skate. Angel, recognizing the assassin's ring, asks Buffy if she knows what it means ("I just killed a Super Bowl Champ?"), and then warns her that she should leave Sunnydale and hide. Angel is wounded and doesn't want Buffy to have to touch his vampire face, but she removes her gloves to touch his face with her bare hands, assuring him that she hadn't even noticed, and kisses him. The female from the plane watches from the shadows.
The assassin next-door to Buffy's house feeds on the body he had killed by disintegrating into hundreds of writhing mealworms which can reshape themselves into limbs at will. Buffy is paranoid and jittery, suspicious of each person who passes by in the hallways at school. As Oz passes her, she panics and pins him against a locker. Oz declares her to be a "tense person". Buffy arrives at Angel's empty home and falls asleep in his bed. Angel goes to Willy's bar for information, and Willy finally confirms Angel's suspicions that Spike is behind the assassins, but before Angel can leave, he is attacked by the mysterious female. They fight, and she locks him in a metal cage in front of an eastern window, with only a few short hours until sunrise.
Giles awakens Willow, who had fallen asleep ("Don't warn the tadpoles!" she exclaims, subsequently explaining that she has "frog fears"). He reveals that the missing manuscript is a ritual to restore a weakened vampire back to health. Xander and Cordelia enter Buffy's house, and Xander searches for her while Cordelia waits downstairs. She hears a knock at the door and lets in the mealworm assassin, again appearing as a make-up salesman promising free samples. In Angel's bedroom, Buffy awakes to find herself being attacked by the mysterious woman. They fight, and the woman tells Buffy that her name is Kendra, the Vampire Slayer...
Part two[edit]
Buffy and Kendra go to Giles for assistance in explaining their situation. They learn that Kendra is the slayer who was 'called' when Buffy temporarily died in her fight with The Master in "Prophecy Girl". Their discussion reveals that Kendra had locked Angel in a cage, leaving him to be dusted at sunrise. Buffy and Kendra arrive to find only an empty cage; Buffy fears the worst, but Kendra points out the absence of dust.
Willy (the bar guy) had saved Angel from near-death, only to dump him in a sewer with Spike. Spike takes Angel back to the warehouse, where he will be held until he can be sacrificed to restore Drusilla to full strength. Bound and gagged, Angel haplessly listens as Drusilla asks Spike to let her torture Angel. Although Spike briefly hesitates, he soon smiles and agrees, unable to resist indulging her whims. Meanwhile, as Buffy ruminates on the co-existence of two slayers, she entertains the possibility of quitting and letting Kendra take over her Slayer duties.
Giles begins to bond professionally with Kendra, who seems to be more dedicated to her calling than Buffy, on a professional, intellectual and academic level. Xander and Cordelia face even bigger problems when they find that the salesman that Cordelia let into the Summers' house is actually an assassin who can transform himself into thousands of mealworms. They run and hide in the basement, although before long they are fighting each other. After an unexpected kiss, Xander and Cordelia rush to escape the basement, running past the attacking worm-monster. At school, the career placement test has thrown Willow and Oz together, and they discuss their similar interests. Buffy, whose test results recommend a career in law enforcement, attends the career fair seminar to appease Principal Snyder. The police officer leading the seminar calls Buffy's name, but when Buffy identifies herself, the officer draws her gun and points it at the Slayer. Buffy avoids the bullet, which instead hits Oz as he pushed Willow out of harm's way. Kendra comes to Buffy's rescue, and they fight off the attacker. The Scoobies then gather in the library, where Giles announces that Spike intends for Angel to die in the ritual to restore Drusilla. Buffy angrily announces that Spike can do anything to her, but he had better not mess with her boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Angel is being tortured by Drusilla, both emotionally and physically; she pours holy water on him as she reminds him about how he killed her whole family. Spike comes in and announces that it is time for the ritual to begin. Angel taunts Spike with insinuations that Spike is unable to satisfy Drusilla, in hopes that Spike will kill him before he can be used to cure Drusilla. Spike is infuriated, but does not lose sight of the big picture. Meanwhile, Kendra gains a newfound respect for Buffy's qualities as a Slayer. Later, the Slayers go after Willy to learn what happened to Angel; they force Willy to take them to the location of Spike and Angel. However, Willy leads them into the assassins and they arrive too late to prevent the ritual. Buffy attacks Spike to save Angel, and Kendra and the Scooby Gang arrive to back her up. Xander and Cordelia work together in the hallway to kill the worm assassin; since he can only be destroyed in his "disassembled state", they lure the worms underneath a door into a sticky trap. Willow and Giles work together to stake a vampire while Buffy and Kendra fight several of their own. Spike starts a fire and rushes to rescue the unconscious Drusilla, hoping that the ritual has had time to cure her. However, Buffy prevents their exit, crushing them in falling rubble. She rushes to the floor to help the weakened Angel, while everyone watches in awe, and she helps him exit the building.
With the danger over, it's time for Kendra to leave. Buffy and Kendra discuss Angel (with Kendra admitting he's 'pretty cute') and also their position as Slayer. Kendra remarks that Buffy considers slaying to be a job when it isn't, it's a part of who she is. The two, now friends, say their goodbyes and Buffy is left with a new outlook on her position as the Slayer, as well as the knowledge that she is no longer alone in her calling.
At the remains of the church, Spike lies seriously injured under the rubble... when Drusilla rises, the ritual having worked and restored her to full power. She carries her partner out of the debris, promising to return the favor and make him as powerful as her.
Production[edit]
The hold of the plane in which Kendra arrived in Sunnydale was turned upside down and used as a sewer tunnel in later episodes.[1] The ice rink, called Iceland, is found at 8041 Jackson Street in Paramount, California, around 25 miles from where Buffy was filmed.[2]
Sarah Michelle Gellar is a fan of ice skating in real life, and lists ice skating as one of her hobbies,[3] which, according to writer Marti Noxon in the DVD commentary for the episode, is the reason ice skating was incorporated into the episode.
Bianca Lawson commented on her accent during her stint on Buffy in an interview with SFX magazine:
I really hated that accent! I got the part, and I didn't originally have an accent. Then, literally the night before, they said, "What about a Jamaican accent?" So it's one of those things where, y'know, I just had to put it on tape, but I didn't have a chance to get comfortable with it. And the thing is, certain things - if you say it properly [in Jamaican patois], people don't really fully understand it, so they would change things. They'd say, "Well, say it like this" and it's like, "Would that be accurate in that accent though?" "It doesn't matter because no-one's going to understand you!" So different people were giving their interpretations of it. I was like "But everyone's going to think that I'm doing it wrong!" So personally, I wasn't happy with the accent!
Seth Green mentioned in an Ultimate TV talk that the line "I mock you with my monkey pants" was initially dreamt by Alyson Hannigan. Joss Whedon decided to insert it in the episode. Marti Noxon said in her DVD commentary for the episode that all the lines after Oz's compliment about Willow's smile were ad-libbed by Seth and Alyson.
At the end of the episode, Buffy warns Kendra to not watch movies with Chevy Chase or animals while on the airplane. This is likely a reference to the Chevy Chase movie Funny Farm, in which Gellar had a small, uncredited role.
This episode is later referenced in the Season 8 issue, "Time of Your Life", when Buffy tells Melaka Fray's sister she "...thought about being a cop. A law. In high school. I took a test, said I fit the profile." after Buffy's career test results recommend a career in law enforcement for her.
Spike was originally intended to be killed off in this episode. However, due to his popularity with the fans and James Marsters' performance, Joss Whedon decided to keep him alive, instead having him paralyzed.
Cultural references[edit]
Dorothy Hamill: When Buffy talks about a "Dorothy Hamill phase," she means ice-skating since Hamill was an American ice-skater who won a gold medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: The software recruiter says to Willow, "The jet was delayed by fog at Sea-Tac, but he should be here any minute."
The Simpsons: Buffy says to Giles "Have a cow, Giles." She is playing on The Simpsons phrase used by Bart Simpson, "don't have a cow" (which means "don't get worked up").
What's My Line?: An American game show which ran from 1950 to 1975. Celebrity panelists tried to guess the unusual occupations of contestants through yes-or-no questions. The UK version featured the contestants miming their jobs.
My Fair Lady: After Dalton has a success, Spike says "By George, I think he's got it," playing on Henry Higgins' (played by Rex Harrison) singing line "By George, she's got it! I think she's got it!"
White Noise: Principal Snyder tells Xander "Whatever comes out of your mouth is a meaningless waste of breath, an airborne toxic event," which is a reference to the "Airborne Toxic Event" that Jack Gladney was exposed to in Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, White Noise.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: When Kendra challenges Willow, Buffy says "Back off, Pink Ranger". Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double, Sophia Crawford, was also the stunt double for the Pink Ranger.
The Beatles: When Xander finds out the identity of the mealworm assassin, he references the Beatles song, "I Am the Walrus".
Super Bowl ring: Buffy likens the ring worn by the Order of Taraka to that awarded to the winning team in the Super Bowl.
Molly Ringwald: Buffy says to Kendra "Possibly something from the Ringwald oeuvre." She is referring to 80s teen star Molly Ringwald. Ringwald was the star of several John Hughes films of the 1980s. Her "oeuvre" includes Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986).
Reception[edit]
Part one pulled in 3.5 million households on its original airing, while part two had an audience of 3.9 million households.[4]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces the character of Kendra, the first vampire slayer besides Buffy to be featured on the show.
Buffy's death in "Prophecy Girl" activating a new slayer (thus allowing there to be two slayers) will remain important throughout the series, especially after the introduction of Faith.
Willow and Oz finally meet - having almost done so in previous episodes "Inca Mummy Girl" and "Halloween"
The term "Scooby Gang" is used for the first time, when Xander tells Cordelia, "You want to be a member of the Scooby Gang, you gotta be willing to be inconvenienced every now and then."
Willy’s Place is seen for the first time. The bar also appears in many other episodes including "Amends", "The Zeppo", "Goodbye Iowa" and "Family".
The bespectacled vampire, Dalton, later appears in "Surprise" and is killed by the Judge.
Darla asks Angel in the season one episode "Angel", if he believes Buffy would ever be able to kiss his 'real face'. She does in this episode.
Cordelia and Xander kiss for the first time.
The female Order of Taraka member is played by Spice Williams-Crosby, who will later play a prison inmate hired by another demon group, the First Evil's Bringers, to kill Faith Lehane in "Salvage."
Despite dialogue in this episode to the effect that the Order of Taraka never calls off an assassination once hired, the next episode, "Ted," reveals Angel to have persuaded the Order to do so with, apparently, no dire consequences.
Continuity discrepancies[edit]
In part one, during the conversation held between Buffy and Angel after she climbs in through her window, Angel walks in front of a small mirror hanging on the wall with pictures taped to it and you see his reflection, while only moments before there is a shot of Buffy talking to him while looking into a much larger mirror in which he has no reflection.
In part two, Kendra and the rest of the Scooby Gang found the church without Willy's help.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Golden, Christopher; Holder, Nancy, The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Simon & Schuster, p. 95
2.Jump up ^ Golden, Christopher; Holder, Nancy, The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Simon & Schuster, p. 96
3.Jump up ^ Episode Guide: What's My Line Part One, BBC
4.Jump up ^ "Nielsen Ratings for Buffy's Second Season."
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: What's My Line, Part One
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: What's My Line, Part Two
"What's My Line (Part 1)" at the Internet Movie Database
"What's My Line (Part 1)" at TV.com
  "What's My Line (Part 2)" at the Internet Movie Database
"What's My Line (Part 2)" at TV.com



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"Ted"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 11
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
David Greenwalt
Joss Whedon
Production code
5V11
Original air date
December 8, 1997
Guest actors

John Ritter as Ted Buchanan
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
James G. MacDonald as Detective Stein
Ken Thorley as Neal
Jeff Langton as Vampire

Episode chronology

← Previous
 "What's My Line" Next →
 "Bad Eggs"

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
"Ted" is episode 11 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although she tries to take Angel's (David Boreanaz) advice to allow her mother (Kristine Sutherland) to have a man who is not Hank Summers in her life, Buffy is unable to warm up to Joyce's new boyfriend, Ted (John Ritter). When Ted shows Buffy a side of himself that he keeps hidden from the others, Buffy cannot find a way to raise her valid objections without seeming like the brat Ted considers her to be. When her escalating conflict with the man has apparently lethal consequences, Buffy's resentment turns to guilt. As her friends help unravel the mystery piece by piece, however, Buffy's guilt turns to fear—Joyce is in far greater danger than anyone, even Buffy herself, could have imagined.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy, Xander and Willow walk to Buffy's house, discussing the lull in vampire activity after the recent defeat (and presumed deaths) of Spike and Drusilla. Misinterpreting an odd situation, they find Joyce kissing a strange man. Joyce introduces her friend, Ted Buchanan, a salesman. He tells them that he has been seeing Joyce for quite some time now. He charms Willow and Xander with computer talk and cooking, respectively. Ted promises to make it up to Buffy for surprising her. Buffy becomes uncomfortable with Ted's 1950s sitcom mannerisms; this is not calmed by Ted's offer of miniature golf.
That night, Buffy beats a vampire to an unusually bloody pulp before killing him, worrying Giles that something is troubling her. She refuses to divulge, but Giles secretly has a good idea of what is happening ("...and charm your friends with their stupid little mini-pizzas-" "Erm, Buffy. I think this sub-text is rapidly becoming, uh, text..."). Later that night, Buffy asks Angel for his take on things, while she tends to the hand wound he sustained recently. He says that her mother needs a man in her life, and she should give him the benefit of the doubt. She reluctantly complies with this idea, due to slight distractions from his lips.
The golf outing goes poorly, as Joyce has revealed Buffy's anti-social behavior. When Buffy cheats, Ted lectures and threatens her with a slapping out of sight of the others, but his cheerfulness comes back full force when rejoining the others.
Joyce doesn't believe this incident happened, claiming Ted thinks the world of her. Buffy recruits her friends to spy on Ted. Under an assumed name, Buffy talks her way into Ted's workspace. He has never missed a day of work, doesn't get sick and is getting engaged. Indeed, Ted has a picture of Joyce on his desk, but the part with Buffy is folded under.
At dinner, Ted denies the engagement, but confesses to Joyce that he has hopes they will. Buffy slips out for some slaying and on her return, finds Ted has read her diary. He threatens to tell Joyce about the 'Slayer' unless she toes the line. She defies him and is slapped. In the resulting brawl, Ted falls down the stairs; Joyce rushes to him but he doesn't respond when she calls his name. She checks his pulse, looks up at Buffy and says "You killed him."
The day after a talk with the cops, Buffy is in a haze of guilt. Willow, Xander and Cordelia dig deeper into Ted's life—discovering Ted's cookies are drugged; Cordelia finds Ted has had four wives since 1957, all of whom have since "disappeared". That night, while Giles patrols, Sunnydale High teacher Jenny Calendar surprises him and apologizes for avoiding him. A vampire attacks and Jenny accidentally shoots Giles with a crossbow instead of the monster. Giles, only slightly injured, takes the shaft out of his own body and dusts the vampire.
Buffy again finds Ted, who as been unexpectedly reanimated, in her room; they fight again, and upon cutting him Buffy discovers that Ted is a robot. Ted knocks Buffy unconscious and escapes to find Joyce, but the damage he has sustained in the fight has left him erratic. Ted confronts an astonished Joyce, but as he malfunctions he reveals his true intentions; as Joyce resists, Ted becomes violent and knocks her out. Buffy then awakens, and knocks Ted out with a frying pan. Meanwhile, the Scooby Gang investigates Ted's bunker, decorated in 1950s style; Xander finds Ted's previous four wives—all dead. The next day, Joyce swears off men forever and says that from now on, the two Summers women shall be manless. Buffy suggests renting a chick flick.
The gang returns to school the next day, with Buffy cleared of all charges, and discussing their discoveries about Ted. Apparently, the real Ted Buchanan was a sickly and unsuccessful inventor in the 1950s whose wife left him. In desperation, he built a robot version of himself, "a better Ted", possibly to be the man he thought his wife should have. The robot then kidnapped Ted's wife and held her captive in his bunker until she died. The robot then sought out other women resembling Ted's dead wife and repeated the process again and again. He had done it four times.
All seems to have returned to normality... with the exception of Giles and Ms. Calendar kissing in the library.
Production[edit]
One of Willow's lines in the teaser was cut:[1]

Willow: I'm just saying that if Tennille were in charge, she would have had the little captain hat.
"Ted" was shot during the Halloween holiday. Many members of the cast and crew came to the set in costume; Kristine Sutherland (Joyce) wore 1950s clothes like Ted's first wife, and Sarah Michelle Gellar came as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, along with her dog, Toto.[1]
During the filming of the final confrontation between Buffy and Ted, both Sarah Michelle Gellar and John Ritter were ill. Gellar had the flu whereas Ritter had food poisoning from the night before.[1]
John Ritter claimed this episode influenced his understanding of his own stepdaughter.[2]
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy's struggle to overcome her guilt after believing she had killed a human marked the first exploration of this theme within the series. This would later become a dominant theme surrounding the character of Faith and her relationship with Buffy.
This episode marks the first appearance of human-like robots on BTVS. Robots play a major part later in the series, in season 5 and 6 with regards to the Buffybot.
References[edit]
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1.^ Jump up to: a b c Golden, Christopher, and Nancy Holder. The Watcher's Guide, Vol. 1. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
2.Jump up ^ Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Second Season on DVD. Perf. John Ritter. DVD. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2002.
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"Bad Eggs"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 12
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5V12
Original air date
January 12, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Jeremy Ratchford as Lyle Gorch
James Parks as Tector Gorch
Rick Zieff as Mr. Whitmore
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Brie McCaddin as Cute Girl
Eric Whitmore as Night Watchman

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← Previous
 "Ted" Next →
 "Surprise"

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
"Bad Eggs" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy must contend with vampire cowboys the Gorch brothers and the bezoar, a prehistoric parasite.[1]


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1 Plot
2 Critical Reaction
3 Trivia
4 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy and her mother Joyce are shopping at a mall when Buffy becomes distracted by a vampire leading a girl into a closed arcade. Buffy enters the arcade after them (ignoring her mothers request to pick up her dress), and fights off the vampire who is later found to be a semi-notorious vampire named Lyle who travels with his brother Tector.
At school the next day, Cordelia and Xander make out in a closet despite the fact they both continue to bicker and agree they do not want a relationship. Later that day in health class, the teacher, Mr. Whitmore asks the students to list consequences of sex, and Xander and Cordy list each other's faults as consequences. Finally Willow gives the intended answer - pregnancy - and Mr. Whitmore says to learn about parenthood, the students will pair off to take care of an egg. After class, Xander and Willow go to the library to give Buffy her egg, who was absent from class due to researching the vampire Lyle with Giles . Giles suggests that Buffy hunts with Angel that night, however the pair instead spend the night making out. That night, as Buffy goes to bed, her egg (which she dubbed "Eggbert") breaks open and an arm emerges, attaching itself to Buffy's face.
The next morning when she wakes up, the egg is back to normal. Back at the library, Giles comments on how both Buffy and Willow appear to be very tired and sluggish, both passing it off as a bad nights sleep. Xander tosses his egg nonchalantly in the air, worrying Buffy and Willow who are taking the project a lot more seriously. Xander eventually drops his egg, but it does not crack, due to the fact he had hard-boild it. Buffy and Angel go patrolling again that night, but ultimately spend their time kissing. They stop to talk and the subject of children comes into play. Angel reveals how he can't have children. Buffy is shocked, but that doesn't change how she feels for him. Meanwhile, at the school, a security guard enters the basement and finds a large hole in the wall, only to be knocked unconscious by Mr. Whitmore.
Arriving home, Buffy stumbles across her egg hatching. Suddenly a creature attacks her, attempting to attach itself to her body. However, Buffy finally manages to stab it with a pair of scissors, before phoning Willow to warn her. Willow ensures Buffy that she is fine, but her egg is seen to already be hatched. Joyce comes to Buffy's room and finds her awake and fully clothed, and angrily grounds her, with no after-school activities being allowed, apart from going to the library. The next day, the creature is seen to have attached itself to Willow's back. As Buffy, Willow and Cordelia meet up with Xander, he decides to eat his egg, only to find a dead creature inside. The group precede to the science lab to dissect the creature. However, Cordelia's egg hatches and the creature attaches to her, forcing her to knock Buffy unconscious, while Willow hits Xander over the head with a microscope. They drag Buffy and Xander to a closet, before Willow and Cordelia are joined by a large group of students who pick up tools and head into the basement.
Joyce arrives at the library to pick up Buffy, however she instead encounters Giles, who places a creature on her back. They both then go into the basement. Buffy and Xander regain consciousness and find two unhatched eggs in the closet. Buffy smashes them, before they go to the library. Buffy finds a book describing the creatures who attach themselves to and then control a host, under the instructions of 'the mother Bezoar'. Suddenly, Jonathan cries out in pain in the hall. They rush to help him, however find he has been turned into a host. They follow him into the basement and through the hole, only to find the host group digging up the mother Bezoar, who is laying numerous eggs. Xander pretends to be a host and follows Cordelia as she carries the eggs through a tunnel. He catches up with her and reluctantly hits her, before presumably destroying the eggs. Meanwhile Buffy decides to kill the mother Bezoar. However, Lyle and Tector arrive and fight Buffy. The fight eventually ends up in the working pit, where Willow orders the others to kill them. While fending off the hosts, Tector is grabbed by a tentacle and eaten by the mother Bezoar. Buffy is also grabbed by a tentacle, but she manages to pick up a pick-axe which she uses to kill the mother Bezoar, thus killing the creatures and freeing the hosts-causing them to temporarily pass out.
Outside, the hosts have no memory of the events, leading to Giles trying to convince everyone there was a gas leak. Joyce reunites with Buffy, but remembers that she was not in the library when she arrived. Joyce gives Buffy a lecture about responsibility, before confining Buffy to her bedroom. As the episode finishes, Buffy and Angel are seen kissing at Buffy's bedroom window.
Critical Reaction[edit]
AV Club said it offered a take on the same material as the episode "Ted", with its themes about good parenting. However they found it lighter in tone and more action-packed. It also advances the theme that sex has consequences, which relates to events later in the season when Buffy and Angel consummate their relationship.[2]
Trivia[edit]
This episode contains the first direct reference that Willow is Jewish (although there is a hint with her last name, Rosenberg).
Among the movies referenced in this episode are Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Tingler,[3] Alien, Children of the Corn, and The Wild Bunch (from which the Gorch brothers' names were derived).
Machiavelli, author of The Prince, is referenced by Giles to Xander.
Arc significance[edit]
This episode introduces the Gorch brothers, Lyle and Tector, as minor villains. Tector is eaten, but Lyle returns in season three's "Homecoming".
The physical relationship between Buffy and Angel is intensifying, foreshadowing the events of "Innocence".
Despite the fact, Angel told Buffy that it is impossible for vampires to have children, he eventually would father a son, Connor, with his sire, Darla (who would be resurrected in the series' spin-off's episode "To Shanshu in L.A."), and thus he and Darla would become the first vampires ever to conceive a progeny.
Angel asks Buffy if she ever thinks about the future and she replies that in her future all she sees is him. Angel's guilt over his inability to provide Buffy with a normal life or a fulfilling future foreshadows forthcoming events in their relationship in season 3.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Eggs (episode guide)". Fandango/AMG. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (July 24, 2008). "Ted, etc". AV Club. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
3.Jump up ^ "Episode Guide Bad Eggs". BBC Cult. September 2005. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
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Surprise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Surprise"
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Buffy and Angel begin to get intimate

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 13
Directed by
Michael Lange
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5V13
Original air date
January 19, 1998
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Brian Thompson as The Judge
Eric Saiet as Dalton
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Vincent Schiavelli as Uncle Enios

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"Surprise" is episode 13 of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot
2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 Production details
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Buffy has a vivid dream (a very undead Drusilla dusts Angel) which she fears is prophetic and realises that Spike and Dru may still be alive. Oz finally asks Willow out on a date. She accepts, but remembers the Scoobies are planning a surprise party for Buffy's 17th birthday and instead invites him to the party. Elsewhere, Dru, strong as Buffy dreamed, arranges her own gala event, while Spike, using a wheelchair but quite undead as well, directs his gang to collect scattered pieces of the demon Judge to reassemble for her present. Jenny Calendar gets a visit from a mysterious man who reveals Miss Calendar's Gypsy past, and they discuss her responsibilities in ensuring Angel's continued suffering. The man orders Jenny to separate Angel from the Slayer. On their way to Buffy's surprise party, she and Miss Calendar intercept a piece of the judge and bring it to the party, deducing Dru's plot. Following her Gypsy orders, Jenny encourages Angel on his mission to prevent the dire consequences of reassembly—he must take the Judge's arm by cargo ship to "the remotest region possible." While Angel gives Buffy a Claddagh ring for her birthday during their tearful parting at the dock, Spike's vamps manage to steal the arm back, scrubbing the mission. Later at the library, Buffy has another informative dream, and takes Angel to investigate the factory where Spike and Dru have their lair. They discover the Judge is fully assembled and activated, and Spike and Drusilla capture and taunt the two, debating who will die first. They narrowly escape into the sewer system, then return to Angel's apartment exhausted and drenched. Still suffering from successive threats of losing one another, Angel and Buffy confess feelings each has been trying to suppress. They make love for the first time and fall asleep in each other's arms. Suddenly, in a flash of lightning and a crash of thunder, Angel bolts awake and runs out into the storm, calling Buffy's name in anguish...
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
This episode begins a tradition of Buffy birthdays gone awry, although Buffy does not celebrate her birthday on-screen in the final season. The 12th or 13th episode of each season is traditionally when Buffy celebrates her birthday; her birthday takes place in episode 12 of Season Three ("Helpless"), episode 12 of Season Four ("A New Man"), episode 13 of Season Five ("Blood Ties") and episode 14 of Season Six ("Older and Far Away"). Buffy's birthday is not shown celebrated in Season One (it presumably occurred before the beginning of the half-long season) or in Season Seven.
Several important plot-lines begin in this episode. Oz and Willow have their first date, commencing one of the longest relationships on the show. Oz also learns about the supernatural forces that plague Sunnydale (which he easily takes in his stride, remarking that it actually explains a lot). Angel loses his soul and reverts to the evil and sadistic Angelus, the Big Bad of Season 2. Jenny's hidden motives are revealed, preluding her eventual untimely death - an event which has lasting effects for the Scooby gang. Spike and Dru are established as worthy adversaries, allowing for Spike's eventual return appearances in Seasons 3 and 4, and for his permanent membership as regular cast for Seasons 5, 6 and 7.
Buffy's birthday gift from Angel, her claddagh ring, not only comes to signify her lost love for the rest of Season 2, but also plays an important part in the beginning of Season 3, first as a resonant antecedent to Scott Hope's impromptu gift, and then as a mystical focus for Angel's return from Acathla's hell dimension.
Continuity[edit]
As revealed in this episode and confirmed in later episodes, Buffy's birthday is in late January, making her a Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius. The cusp day of Capricorn and Aquarius is the 20th of January, the air date of the following episode.
In the first dream, Willow says to a monkey, "L'hippo a piqué ton pantalon" (French: "The hippo stole your trousers"). This refers back to her conversation with Oz near the end of "What's My Line, Part Two," in which, intentionally absurd, he wonders if the hippo animal cracker is jealous because the monkey is the only animal cracker with pants, and asserts, "All monkeys are French."
Cultural references[edit]
Snakes-in-a-can: Xander references a popular practical joke.
Denny's: Xander's fantasy harks back to Cordelia's repeated predictions that he himself is slated for a brilliant career as a pizza delivery boy.
Faust: Angel losing his soul because he attains a moment of pure happiness is reminiscent of the German legend about Faust, a scholar who made a deal with the devil. In gaining all worldly things he agreed that, in return, if he ever attained a moment of pure happiness his soul would forever serve the devil.
Production details[edit]
Brian Thompson, who played the Judge, also played Luke in "Welcome to the Hellmouth". Both episodes were two-parters in which his character died in the second part.
Together with "Innocence," the show transitioned from Mondays to Tuesdays. This was the last episode to be played on a Monday—all subsequent episodes aired on Tuesday.
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"Innocence"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 14
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
5V14
Original air date
January 20, 1998
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Brian Thompson as The Judge
Ryan Francis as Soldier
Vincent Schiavelli as Uncle Enios
James Lurie as Mr. Miller
Carla Madden as Woman
Parry Shen as Student

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"Innocence" is episode 14 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is renowned not only as one of the most critically acclaimed episodes, but also has the distinction of being the highest rated episode in the series' history, attracting 8.2 million viewers as the series moved from its Monday timeslot to Tuesday.


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2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
3 Broadcast and reception
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
After making love with Buffy earlier that night, Angel escapes into the alley with a piercing pain in his heart, as his soul is ripped from him. When a kind streetwalker tries to help him a few minutes later, he quickly and gleefully kills her. When he shows up at the factory, Spike is surprised and Drusilla is pleased that the Judge cannot burn him—Angel has truly reverted to the evil Angelus. The three are clearly pleased to be together again - grinning and gleeful, Angelus kisses Spike on the forehead in the only friendly moment seen between them this season, while Drusilla claps.
While researching a way to defeat the Judge, a demon whom "no weapon forged" can harm, Xander and Cordelia get caught kissing in the library by a crushed and furious Willow. Buffy finally finds Angel in his apartment, not knowing that he is now Angelus, and he blows her off, laughing at her feelings as she weeps. Jenny is castigated by her Uncle Enios, who tells her that if Angel has one moment of true happiness, one moment where his soul no longer plagues his thoughts, that his new soul would be taken from him. Angelus terrorizes Buffy and the Gang at school, emotionally shattering Buffy. Later, as they discuss Angel's transformation in the library, Buffy realises that having sex with Angel is what's caused him to turn evil and leaves in distress, returns home and, heartbroken, cries.
Buffy has another dream in which Angel helps her realise that Jenny knows more than she's letting on. The next morning she confronts Jenny at school, who admits she is a member of the Clan Kalderash that cursed Angelus with his soul so long ago, and that if Angel ever felt a moment of true happiness, he would lose his soul (revealing to Giles that Buffy and Angel made love). When Buffy, Jenny, and Giles arrive at one of the clan member's homes for advice, they find that Angelus has brutally killed him, leaving Buffy a message written in blood on the wall - "Was It Good For You Too?", forcing Buffy to realize that she has to kill Angelus.
Xander hatches a plan using memories from being a soldier on Halloween, pretending that he is a private in the army and he is sneaking around with Cordelia. Oz declines to kiss Willow at her request, given that it's obvious she only wants to kiss to make Xander jealous. Willow's respect and feelings for Oz grow. The four return to the library with their "present" for Buffy. Jenny offers to help in the confrontation with the Judge, but Buffy refuses to accept her offer.
Tracking down the Judge at the crowded mall, Buffy and her team blow him to bits with her new "present" – a rocket launcher, while Angelus and Drusilla narrowly escape the blast. The Slayer stalks Angelus through the fleeing crowd and, when he ambushes her in a snack shop, they battle ferociously under the drenching fire-control sprinklers. Reaching a stand-off, neither of them is quite ready to kill the other, although Buffy does settle for kicking Angelus in the crotch. Giles drives Buffy home and she feels awful for putting her friends in serious danger from Angelus. Giles assures her that, although she did act irresponsibly, it is obvious that she and Angel loved each other and that he hasn't lost his trust in and respect for her. Later, Buffy and Joyce sit down to watch Stowaway. Joyce asks Buffy what she did for her birthday, and Buffy simply answers that she got older. Joyce lights the candle and tells Buffy to make a wish, but Buffy merely decides to let it burn.
Writing[edit]
In the commentary, when Joss Whedon is asked about his decision to turn Angel evil, he said that he feels it was necessary to keep the story fresh as viewers would quickly become bored with Angel and Buffy's relationship. Although the fan base wanted Buffy and Angel to be together romantically, Whedon says, "What people want is not what they need."[1]
In the DVD commentary, Whedon says the interaction between Buffy and Angel following their night of passion was supposed to have taken place outside of Buffy's house. However, he comments that the scene was simply not working as it was lacking intimacy and was thus later shot in Angel's house.
Arc significance[edit]
The Big Bad for season two, Angelus, has finally appeared.
Jenny's past and ulterior motives for being in Sunnydale are revealed.
This is the first instance where Xander reveals he has retained military knowledge after the events of the Halloween episode.[2]
Willow learns of Xander's and Cordelia's relationship.[2]
Continuity[edit]
Although Buffy gets the drop on Angel when she first learns he is a vampire ("Angel"), and tries to goad him into fighting her when she comes back from visiting her father in L.A. ("When She Was Bad"), it is not until he reverts to Angelus in this episode that they engage in their first actual battle with one another.
The rocket-propelled grenade launcher which Xander obtained would appear again in the episode "Him".
Spike calls Buffy "Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm" in the episode "What's My Line (Part II)", a reference to the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The 1938 Shirley Temple movie version has a song in it entitled "Goodnight, My Love" which is also featured in another Shirley Temple movie – Stowaway – the one Buffy and Joyce watch at the end of the episode.
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Innocence" was the highest rated episode ever for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, scoring a 5.2 Nielsen rating and a 6.7 overnight rating, with each ratings point representing 980,000 households. It was watched by 8.2 million viewers. The two-part story won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series, one of only two Emmys the series would win.
In Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 best Whedonverse episodes—including episodes from Buffy, as well as Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse—"Innocence" placed at #2, with the magazine saying, "It's as primal a metaphor for the terrors of sex as one could imagine, and it showed the audience, the cast, and Whedon himself just how high his little show about dusting vampires could climb."[3] Kristine Sutherland told BBC that this is her favorite episode as a fan.[4] Joss Whedon listed "Innocence" as his favorite episode of the series.[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Miller, Laura (May 20, 2003), The man behind the Slayer, retrieved 07//17/2007
2.^ Jump up to: a b BBC episode guide
3.Jump up ^ Bernardin, Marc; Vary, Adam B. (24 September 2009). "25 Best Whedonverse Episodes". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
4.Jump up ^ "Kristine Sutherland - Live Online chat". BBC. January 10, 2002. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
5.Jump up ^ Bianco, Robert (April 28, 2003). "Show's creator takes a stab at 10 favorite episodes". USA Today. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 15
Directed by
Bruce Seth Green
Written by
Rob Des Hotel
 Dean Batali
Production code
5V15
Original air date
January 27, 1998
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
Camila Griggs as Gym Teacher
Jack Conley as Gib Cain
Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell
Megahn Perry as Theresa Clustmeyer
Keith Campbell as Werewolf

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"Phases" is episode 15 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Themes
3 Production details
4 Continuity
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
"Phases" begins with Willow's increasing frustration that Oz shows no sign of wanting to get serious — not to mention physical — with her. Cordelia is frustrated with Xander because he keeps talking about Willow, even while making out in Sunnydale's lover's lane under a beautiful full moon. They are attacked by a werewolf that rips a hole in the car's roof. Giles points out that there have been quite a number of other attacks, though so far only animals have been killed. During high school gym class, it is revealed that at least two students have been bitten lately: Oz by a cousin who doesn't like to be tickled, and school macho Larry by a dog.
After some research, Giles finds out that a werewolf is a wolf for three nights — the coming night would be the second. Since the werewolf is human the rest of the month, it would be wrong to kill him. This, however, is not the view of werewolf hunter Cain, whom Buffy and Giles meet while looking for the animal in a part of the woods where Xander and Cordelia were making out: Cain is out for his twelfth pelt. Despite the contempt between Buffy and Cain, due largely to Cain's rampant male chauvinism, Giles and Buffy do learn that the werewolf will be attracted by "sexual heat" to places where teenagers hang out.
Buffy and Giles rush to The Bronze, where Cordelia and Willow are busy complaining to each other about their men when the werewolf crashes the party. Buffy tries to catch it with a chain but fails. Cain joins them and points out that it will be Buffy's fault if the werewolf kills anybody. A body does turn up the next morning: Theresa, one of the students that Larry was tormenting. Buffy is not the only one to have feelings of guilt. Oz wakes up in the forest, naked and confused after changing back from his wolf state before the viewers' eyes. Recalling the bite he got, he calls his Aunt Maureen, and bluntly asks if his cousin is a werewolf. The answer is yes.
Xander figures that Larry is the most obvious suspect because of the dog bite, aggressiveness and "excessive back hair". When he confronts Larry alone in the gym locker room, it turns out that he really is hiding something — his homosexuality. Xander unwittingly helps Larry out of the closet, leaving him with the impression that Xander is gay, too. Back in the library, Buffy suggests to Willow that she might have to make the first move if she wants to speed things up with Oz.
Buffy realizes that the reports of Theresa's body didn't mention any mauling. She and Xander get to the funeral home in time to watch her rise as a vampire. Theresa passes along greetings from Angelus before Xander stakes her. Buffy is left shaken by this and Xander comforts her, and it looks for a moment the two might kiss before they both regain control.
Cain busies himself casting silver bullets for the hunt. Willow takes Buffy's advice and visits Oz right before sundown. Oz is about to chain himself up, but lets Willow in the house. Her rant about the mixed signals he is sending is interrupted by him changing into a werewolf. She flees the house screaming, Oz in pursuit. Cain hears the wolf's cry and joins the hunt. The werewolf is distracted by a scent which Cain set as a trap, and Willow escapes and then finds Giles and Buffy, who are about to start the hunt for Oz with a tranquilizer gun. All parties meet in a clearing in the forest, and in the scuffle, it is Willow who shoots Oz, saving everybody. Buffy bends Cain's gun with her bare hands using Slayer strength, and tells him to leave Sunnydale.
At school the next morning, Larry thanks Xander, and Willow seeks out Oz to talk. She points out that she is not fun to be around three days out of the month either. Oz and Willow share their first kiss, leaving Oz a "werewolf in love".
Themes[edit]
In an essay exploring the feminist ethics of Buffy, Shannon Craigo-Snell uses this episode as an example of how the series examines the threat of sexual violence facing women and girls as a "problematic background against which women attempt to have satisfying relationships with men."[1] Craigo-Snell points out that this threat is embodied by the character of Larry, who sexually harasses Buffy (and other girls) during a gym class focused on self-defense, and the werewolf-hunter Cain, who says Buffy's failure to capture the werewolf is "what happens when a woman tries to do a man’s job." This theme is made explicit when Giles describes werewolves as "potent, extreme representation of our inborn, animalistic traits", predatory and aggressive with no conscience, and Buffy responds, "In other words, your typical male."
Production details[edit]
This episode is considered the first in a "trilogy" about Willow and Oz, followed by "Wild at Heart" and "New Moon Rising".[2]
Actor Jack Conley, who plays Cain in this episode, also portrays the recurring character Sahjhan in seasons three and five of Angel.[3]
The director, Bruce Seth Green, is not related[4] to the actor Seth Green (Oz).
Continuity[edit]
Oz becomes a werewolf, a defining characteristic of his character for the remainder of the series; but his werewolf attributes change.[3]
In the beginning of the episode, Oz admires the cheerleading trophy that contains Amy Madison's mother from the first season episode "Witch", remarking that its eyes "follow you wherever you go".
When speaking of the werewolf, Xander refers to his hyena possession experience from the first season episode "The Pack," leading Buffy and Willow to suspect that Xander could be lying of having no memories about it.
In this episode the werewolf hunter states he hunts and kills werewolves for their pelts. In the Angel episode "Unleashed", werewolves are shown to revert to human form on death, and to eat werewolf one must butcher them alive.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Craigo-Snell, Shannon (2006), "What would Buffy do? Feminist ethics and epistemic violence", Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 48, retrieved 9/7/2007
2.Jump up ^ Marti Noxon in DVD commentary to "Wild at Heart"
3.^ Jump up to: a b BBC episode guide
4.Jump up ^ http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001293/bio
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"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 16
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5V16
Original air date
February 10, 1998
Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Lorna Scott as Miss Beakman
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Jennie Chester as Kate
Kristen Winnicki as Cordette
Tamara Braun as Frenzied Girl
Scott Hamm as Jock

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"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is episode 16 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this episode, Cordelia breaks up with Xander after her friends mock her. Xander retaliates by attempting a love spell to "put her through the same hell", and he gets a little more than he had bargained for.


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2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
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Plot synopsis[edit]
During a patrol through the cemetery, Xander shows Buffy a silver necklace he intends to give to Cordelia the following night for Valentine's Day, however he is unsure if she will like the gift. The next day at school, Xander witnesses Amy Madison use magic to avoid a homework assignment, however he thinks little of it. Soon after, Giles runs into Jenny Calendar, however their relationship remains frosty, with Giles deciding talking to Buffy remains more important than making amends with Jenny. Giles warns Buffy that Angelus becomes particularly vicious around Valentine's Day, and suggests she stays indoors for the following nights. Meanwhile, Cordelia is insulted by Harmony and the Cordettes, revealing to Cordelia that her relationship with Xander is not as secret as she once thought.
Buffy remains at home watching movies with Joyce, however is unnerved when she receives a bouquet of flowers with a note proclaiming 'Soon', presumedly from Angelus. Meanwhile, the rest of the group are at the Bronze, where Xander finally gives the necklace to Cordelia. Although Cordelia is visibly happy, she breaks up with Xander under pressure from Harmony and her friends. Xander is heart broken, and fuelled by insults from Harmony and various other class mates, he decides to blackmail Amy into helping him cast a love spell upon Cordelia. However, the spell goes wrong, with Cordelia becoming the only female not to be affected by the spell (protected by her necklace).
The following day, Xander is shocked to find Cordelia repels his advances, and sadly retreats to the library. Xander consoles in Buffy, who suggests that the pair go out that night and comfort each other. As Buffy is about to kiss a confused Xander, Amy interrupts them and tells Xander she believes the spell went wrong, however she quickly begins to act similar to Buffy, so Xander rushes home. Arriving home, Xander finds Willow in his bed. She offers him her virginity and he flees.
The following day, all of the girls as Sunnydale High are under the love spell, with girls following Xander around the corridors and Harmony criticising a shocked Cordelia for breaking up with Xander. Xander seeks help in Giles, whom is appalled by Xander's foolishness, warning him that victims under love spells can become obsessed and even murderous. Jenny enters the library, intending to make amends with Giles, but she instead because infatuated with Xander. Giles drags Jenny to go looking for Amy, so that she can reverse the spell, while Xander barricades himself in the library. However, Buffy gets in and attempts to seduce a reluctant Xander. Amy also arrives, and becomes extremely jealous of Buffy, ultimately casting a spell that changes Buffy into a rat. Giles, Jenny and Oz arrive back at the library. An angry Giles orders Xander to go home, while he attempts to make Amy reverse the spell. Oz looks for the Buffy-rat to ensure that she isn't hurt.
As Xander is leaving the school, he finds the spell is becoming stronger, with the females now obsessed with him. He saves Cordelia from an attack by Harmony and a group of girls, however as they attempt to leave they run into an axe-wielding Willow who is intent on killing Xander for hurting her. Xander and Cordelia seek shelter in Buffy's home, locking Joyce out when she too falls under the spell. While in Buffy's room, Xander is pulled out of the window by Angelus, who intends to kill him as a 'present' for Buffy. However, Drusilla saves Xander, who instead offers him immortality. The mob of girls quickly arrive and Xander rushes into the house, and with Cordelia, barricades himself in the basement. While hiding in the basement, Cordelia is touched to learn that Xander performed the spell for her. The mob manages to break into the basement and begin to attack Xander and Cordelia, however Giles and Amy manage to lift the spell, leaving the girls dazed and confused. Cordelia then attempts to pass off the instance as a scavenger hunt. While Oz searches for the Buffy-rat, he finds Buffy has been changed back into human form.
The following day, the girls all retain their memory of the events, and while most appear to be dismissive (or choose to repress the memories), Willow's emotional history with Xander has left her furious, and she refuses to talk to him. Harmony cruelly insults Xander after he bumps into her, leading to Cordelia finally facing up to her friends and professing her desire to date Xander. Cordelia then leaves her friends arm-in-arm with Xander.
Continuity[edit]
The much-used phrase "Big Bad" is introduced, when Buffy refers to Angelus as the "big bad thing in the dark." The term "Big Bad" has since been used to describe the principal villain of each season of Buffy and Angel.
Arc significance[edit]
In this episode, Amy has begun practicing magic like her mother did. Among the spells Amy casts is the one which turns Buffy into a rat; Amy would repeat this spell (on herself) in "Gingerbread".
This episode demonstrates the extreme consequences that can be evoked by using magic for personal gain or satisfaction. This is a theme that will be explored in more depth later in the series.
This episode marked the first of Xander's three break-ups throughout the series, each of which would be followed by a botched attempt at vengeance: in this episode, Xander's awry love spell; in "The Wish", Cordelia's ill-fated plea to vengeance demon Anyanka; and in "Entropy", Anya's unsuccessful attempts to enact her own vengeance.
Giles tells Xander that people under a love spell can be deadly. This is shown in this episode when Willow and some of the women would rather kill Xander and Cordielia than being spurned. Also, in season seven episode "Him", when Buffy almost uses the rocket launcher used in season 2 episode "Innocence" to kill Principal Wood.
Xander dreamily reminisces about the events of this episode in the seventh season's "Him", which was also about a love spell — apparently having forgotten (or repressed) that the experience almost got him killed. That episode features a brief flashback of him and Cordelia being attacked in the basement.
When Spike suggests that Angelus rip Buffy's lungs out as a Valentine's Day "gift", Angelus replies that such an act lacks poetry. Spike immediately responds that it doesn't have to and whimsically asks what rhymes with "lungs". This may be an early reference to Spike's human background; in the Season Five episode "Fool for Love", it is revealed that William (Spike's human name) was a poet in 1880 London. His work was generally considered by his peers in the town to be worthy of nothing but ridicule, with one man commenting that he would rather have a railroad spike driven through his head than listen to another line of that "bloody awful poetry". Of particular note in "Fool for Love" is William's poem, recited at a society gathering, in which he has fudged a rhyme for the word effulgent (like lungs, not a word easy to rhyme with in romantic poetry).
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Passion (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Passion"
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Angelus holding the Orb of Thesulah, which will restore his soul

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 17
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Ty King
Production code
5V17
Original air date
February 24, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Richard Assad as Shopkeeper
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Richard Hoyt Miller as Policeman

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"Passion" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the fantasy-horror television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). The episode was written by Ty King and directed by Michael Gershman, who served as the show's cinematographer. It originally aired on The WB Television Network in the United States on February 24, 1998.
The premise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that an adolescent girl, Buffy Summers, is chosen by mystical forces and given superhuman powers to kill vampires, demons, and other evil creatures in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported by a close circle of family and friends, nicknamed the Scooby Gang. In "Passion", Buffy attempts to protect her close ones from Angelus and his murderous intent as Jenny Calendar continues to search for a spell to restore his soul.
"Passion" was highly praised by critics when it aired, and it is the only episode in the series to feature narration by David Boreanaz. It is frequently considered one of the best episodes in the series.


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2 Production and writing
3 Themes 3.1 Invitation and exclusion
4 Cultural references
5 Continuity 5.1 Arc significance
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Angelus's voice narrates a poetic evocation of "passion." Buffy peers out her window but sees nothing. After she drifts off, Angelus enters her room. Buffy wakes to find an envelope on her pillow, containing a charcoal drawing of herself. Buffy tells Giles about the drawing and asks if there's a spell to reverse Angel's invitation into her house. Because Angelus can enter her house at will, Buffy wants to tell her mother the truth to protect her until the reversal spell is in place. Giles discourages her.
Jenny explains to Giles that she was raised by the people Angelus hurt most. She explains that she lied to Giles and Buffy because she thought it was the right thing to do. Giles suggests she make things right with Buffy. Later, Buffy explains to her mother that she has been having problems with Angel. Buffy further explains that she'll talk to him if he shows up, but she warns Joyce not to invite him in the house. Later that night, Willow discovers that Angelus has been in her room too leaving behind another sick gift of dead goldfish hanging from some string and spends the night at Buffy's. Early that morning at the factory, Drusilla has a vision, detailing someone attempting to break up the newly reunited family. Meanwhile, Jenny goes to a Gypsy novelty shop to buy an Orb of Thesulah.
Buffy later confronts Jenny and explains that Giles misses her. They are then informed that Giles has found a spell to revoke a Vampire's invitation into any house. Later, Joyce pulls into her driveway and find Angelus waiting for her in the front yard. Joyce becomes agitated and panics while trying to get inside the house. Angelus starts to follow but he is unable to cross the threshold. Willow is shown reciting the spell, and Buffy shuts the door in his face.
When Giles finds Jenny staying late at the school, she explains she needs to work a little longer. Giles invites her over to his place after she's finished. Jenny keeps working to translate the ritual's text. At last, she is successful and saves the program to disk. She jumps to see Angelus sitting in the dark at the back of her classroom. Angelus picks up the Orb of Thesulah and smashes it. Searching for a way out, Jenny flees as Angelus lopes after her. She runs straight into Angelus' grasp, and he snaps her neck.
Giles returns home to find the place decorated with candles, wine and rose petals that mark a trail to the bedroom. In the background the duett "O soave fanciulla" from Puccini's La Bohème is playing. As Giles follows the trail to its end he finds Jenny's lifeless body. At Buffy's house, Angelus lurks outside. As the phone rings, he watches the Slayer answer, her face fall, and her body sink to the floor in a grief-stricken crouch. He watches Willow take the phone, listen, and burst into such wild sobs that Joyce rushes into the room to hold her. Cordelia and Xander drive to Buffy's house, where Buffy and Willow wait outside for them. The four of them drive to Giles' apartment to try to make contact. Meanwhile, Giles has gone back to his apartment to arm for battle. Piecing together evidence of Angelus' set-up and Giles' intent, the four friends argue about what to do.
At the factory, Spike argues with Angelus over his cat and mouse games with the Slayer when there's an explosive crash and the long dining table erupts in flame. Angelus, Drusilla, and Spike recoil and move to escape. Giles enters and stalks the length of the room, lights a baseball bat. When Giles raises a torch for a savage overhand chop, however, Angelus grabs him by the throat and lifts him clear off the floor. At that moment, Buffy enters the fray. She breaks Giles free of Angelus' grasp. Drusilla and Spike exit the building. Chasing a battered Angelus up onto the catwalk, the Slayer thrashes him nearly to pieces. Buffy looks down at the unconscious Giles, now completely surrounded by flames. As Angelus boosts her over the rail and makes his own escape, Buffy jumps down and half-carries Giles from the building.
Later that night, as Angelus' imparts the epilogue of his "passion" drama, Giles comes home his apartment. Laying down a sheaf of flowers on Jenny's Grave, Giles murmurs a few simple words and Buffy's eyes fill with tears. She apologizes aloud for not being able to kill Angelus when she had the chance. At the school, Willow gravely announces that she has been temporarily assigned to teach Ms. Calendar's class. As Willow sets her books on the desk, the backup disk Jenny created slides and falls into the narrow darkness between the desk and a filing cabinet.
Production and writing[edit]
According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar's death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angelus is not "just a little evil," he's not "grouchy," he's truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation. The series creator also jokes that the episode is a message to the actors: "Be very good, or I'll kill you."[1]
In an interview with the BBC, Anthony Stewart Head says this is his favorite episode, "because it was a beautifully shot episode and a beautifully written one."[2] He also provides the vocals to the music for the scene at Jenny’s grave.[3]
Themes[edit]
Invitation and exclusion[edit]
According to Noel Murray from The A.V. Club, a recurring theme in "Passion" is "the common feeling of being left out."[4]
Cultural references[edit]
When speaking about Giles seeking out Angelus for revenge, Xander refers to a B film by Russ Meyers: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
The backup disk Jenny created would later found by Buffy and Willow in "Becoming"
Jenny's death allows The First Evil to take her form in the episode "Amends."
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Chosen Collection DVD Set, Season Two, Episode 17, "Passion", 'Interview with Joss Whedon'.
2.Jump up ^ "Anthony Stewart Head Interview: Our favourite Librarian tells all", BBC, retrieved 09-12-2007
3.Jump up ^ Episode Guide, "Passion", BBC - Cult Television - Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
4.Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (July 31, 2008). ""Phases," etc.". The A.V. Club. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
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"Killed by Death"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 18
Directed by
Deran Serafian
Written by
Rob Des Hotel
 Dean Batali
Production code
5V18
Original air date
March 3, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Richard Herd as Dr. Stanley Backer
Willie Garson as Security Guard
Andrew Ducote as Ryan
Juanita Jennings as Dr. Wilkinson
Robert Munic as Intern
Mimi Paley as Little Buffy
Denise Johnson as Celia
James Jude Courtney as Der Kindestod

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"Killed by Death" is episode 18 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After flu lands Buffy in the hospital, she rescues fevered children from Der Kindestod, a demon that turns out to have killed her cousin when she was younger and which gave her a phobia of hospitals.
Plot synopsis[edit]
Weak with flu but reluctant to stay at home, Buffy patrols the cemetery. Xander, Willow, and Cordelia surprise her and she nearly stakes Xander. They urge her to go home, but the damage that Angelus has done so far continues to fuel her fire. Angelus appears behind her and attacks Cordelia. Buffy and Angelus fight until Angelus pins Buffy down. Willow throws a coat over his head and he is scared off by crosses that they all carry. Buffy collapses and the gang rushes her to the hospital. After being stabilized, she is admitted to the hospital for a few days against her will. Her mother reveals that Buffy has always hated hospitals ever since she saw her beloved cousin, Celia, die in one when she was eight years old.
That night, Buffy dreams of seeing a strange man follow after a young child. As she follows the man down the hall, flashbacks of her cousin's time in the hospital bring nightmares to mind. She awakes suddenly in the middle of the night and takes a walk down the hall. Two men exit the children's ward with a child that died that night. At the door, Buffy overhears an argument between Dr. Backer and Dr. Wilkinson about the doctors' experimental treatments on the kids. As she begins to leave, she encounters two children, who tell her that "Death" comes at night.
Angelus comes to visit Buffy, with flowers; but Xander defies him, pointing out that Angelus might not be able to kill him and the armed guards. Rather than fight, Angelus gives the flowers to Xander and leaves.
The next morning, Buffy tells her friends about the conversation she overheard. The doctor was trying experimental treatments on the kids in the children's ward that Dr. Wilkinson didn't exactly agree with. Since she is forced to stay at the hospital, she plans to find out what the doctor is up to and Xander volunteers everyone's help.
That night, Cordelia and Xander sneak into the hospital's record room and search for records on the girl who died in the night. Meanwhile, Giles and Willow search for information at the school library. Cordelia flirts with a security guard to distract him while Xander escapes with the records. Once outside, Xander expresses jealousy about the flirting, while Cordelia retorts with jealousy about Xander's loyalty to Buffy.
Buffy takes a walk and finds the little boy. He is drawing a picture of the man she saw in her dream. Willow digs up information on Dr. Backer at the library with Giles. She finds that he has a long history of controversial experimental treatments and investigations into his practices.
Dr. Backer goes to the children's ward with his latest experimental treatment. Before he can do anything, the evil creature invisibly kills him. Buffy tries to stop him, but is thrown aside.
In the morning, Buffy informs everyone that Dr. Backer is not the suspect and shows them the drawing that Ryan drew of the creature. Giles and Cordelia head back to the library while Xander remains on guard against Angelus. At the library, Cordelia finds a picture of Ryan's monster on the cover of a book; they learn that it is called Der Kindestod (German: 'the child's death'), a demon that absorbs the life force of sickly children, making it seem that they died of their illness. They report to Buffy by telephone, and she realises that Backer was murdered because he was curing the children and depriving the monster of food. Buffy also recognizes to her horror that this monster is what invisibly killed her cousin, whilst Buffy watched helplessly.
Buffy and Willow go to Dr. Backer's office, where they find that he was giving the children injections of the virus they already have, to stimulate their immune response. Buffy realizes that only sick people can see the demon, so she decides to infect herself with the vials of virus that the doctor was using on the children. Willow stops her, warning her that the vials are 100% pure and would kill Buffy instantly if she drinks them. Willow then dilutes the pathogen in some water so Buffy can drink it "safely". Buffy's fever rises sharply.
She stumbles to the children's ward but finds all the children are gone. They have gone to the basement to hide from Der Kindestod. After a few moments, Buffy sees Der Kindestod in the room and watches as he heads down to the basement. The door is locked, so Buffy and Willow rush to find access to the basement. Dr. Wilkinson summons guards to stop them; Willow feigns insanity so that they seize her rather than Buffy, who escapes. Buffy finds Xander and he helps her down to the basement. The children hide quietly, but Der Kindestod finds them and attacks Ryan. Buffy arrives just in time and fights off Der Kindestod. Just as he is about to kill her, she snaps his neck and she leaves, leaning on Xander.
Buffy finishes her rehabilitation at home with her friends. Her mother reluctantly waits on them all. Buffy receives mail from Ryan — a drawing of Buffy triumphing over a dead Der Kindestod.
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"I Only Have Eyes for You"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 19
Directed by
James Whitmore, Jr.
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
5V19
Original air date
April 28, 1998
Guest actors

Meredith Salenger as Grace Newman
Christopher Gorham as James Stanley
John Hawkes as George the Janitor
Miriam Flynn as Ms. Frank
Brian Reddy as Police Chief Bob Munroe
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Brian Poth as Fighting Boy
Sarah Bibb as Fighting Girl
James Lurie as Mr. Miller
Ryan Taszreak as Ben
Anna Coman-Hidy as 50's Girl #1
Vanessa Bednar as 50's Girl #2

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"I Only Have Eyes for You" is episode 19 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A ghost possesses high school boys (and Buffy) while his school teacher-lover possesses high school girls (and Angelus). The episode borrows its title from the song of the same name that is featured in several scenes.


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1 Plot
2 Production details 2.1 Continuity
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
This ghostly episode starts out at The Bronze where Buffy rejects the advances of a boy who's looking for a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance. She checks in with Giles at school, but first stops a male student from almost shooting a female student. They have no recollection of why they were fighting and the gun disappears. Principal Snyder blames Buffy for the incident. While waiting in his office, a yearbook from 1955 falls off the shelf. Willow gives Giles a rose quartz that she found in Ms. Calendar's desk. In class later that day, Buffy starts daydreaming about a relationship that a student had with his teacher. As she comes back to the present, she finds that her teacher has unknowingly written "Don't walk away from me, bitch!" on the black board. Later, Xander is grabbed by a monster arm inside his locker. Buffy helps him break away, but the arm then disappears.
Giles is intrigued by the possibility of a poltergeist. Meanwhile, Angelus, Spike and Drusilla have taken up home in a mansion where Angelus taunts Spike and flirts with Drusilla. Later that night, Giles witnesses the result of another argument in the school halls. The janitor shot a teacher who then fell over the balcony of the school, though only moments earlier they were cordial. Giles is convinced that Jenny is haunting the school.
Willow finds information on her laptop about a killing in 1955, where student James Stanley killed his teacher Grace Newman after she tried to break off their affair. In the cafeteria, chaos erupts as they find that the food has all been turned to snakes. The room empties quickly, and Cordelia is bitten on the face by a snake. Outside, Snyder talks to a man about the incident and reveals his knowledge of the Hellmouth. The principal is cowed by a mention of the mayor.
In the garden of their new home, Drusilla gets a vision about Buffy meeting with death. Tears just about pool up in Spike's eyes as Angelus holds Drusilla tight against him. Willow devises a plan to contain the spirits, and they head off to the school where they prepare though, Giles has already arrived and is trying to summon Jenny's spirit. Buffy hears music coming from the Music Room and goes to see Grace and James dancing there. James' face suddenly changes to a gory mess, startling Buffy. Cordelia looks in the mirror to find her face has turned a gory red color. On the stairwell, Willow begins to sink into the floor and Giles rushes to save her. Willow finally convinces him that the spirit is not Jenny. Everyone lights their candle and starts chanting the spell, but the candles blow out, and a swarm of wasps enter the school. Everyone rushes out to find the school surrounded by wasps.
Everyone recuperates at Buffy's while Buffy continues to show her anger towards James. She rushes off to the kitchen where she finds a sign for the 1955 Sadie Hawkins dance in her pocket. She heads to the school where the wasps part for her to enter. Willow finds the ad and everyone rushes after Buffy, but they cannot enter the school.
Angelus appears in the halls as Buffy, now possessed by James, and talks to him as if he were Grace. They continue the ghosts' argument with Angelus playing the role of Grace. At the climax, Buffy pulls out a gun and shoots Angelus. He falls off of the balcony as though dead. James (still in Buffy's body) rushes off to the music room where he plans to kill himself. Grace (still in Angelus) is not killed by the bullet as Angelus' vampire nature prevents him from dying of that. She wakes up and proceeds to the music room just in time to stop "Buffy" from pulling the trigger. They exchange apologies and kiss. The spirits, now able to pass on, leave their bodies. Buffy and Angelus break away from the kiss, and Angelus realizing what he has been doing, throws Buffy aside and rushes off.
At the garden, Angelus scrubs furiously at his body knowing how close he had been with Buffy. He then invites Drusilla out to feed while demeaning Spike and forcing him to stay behind because he is in a wheelchair. When they are gone, Spike stands up and kicks the chair aside revealing that he has healed from his spinal injury, and is looking for revenge on Angelus.
Production details[edit]
Series creator Joss Whedon has said that it was this episode that convinced him that David Boreanaz was an actor strong enough to have his own series.[1]
Marti Noxon, author of this episode, admits that she is haunted by the idea of ghosts which for her, are figurative expressions of the need for “repentance and second chances” that she perceived as being necessary thanks to “a difficult family situation”: “I realize that I was constantly telling the story of my family and fears,” she says. Noxon was also influenced in her storytelling by the movies Poltergeist and Truly, Madly, Deeply, which featured a widow who was unable to move on after the loss of her husband.[2]
Continuity[edit]
Coincidentally, in the scene where Willow is teaching the Computer Science class, the name "TARA" can be seen on the blackboard under "Detention" with "x2" next to it, a coincidence given Willow's relationship with another Tara in the future.
Also, in this episode, it is shown that Snyder, and at least part of the police force are aware that Sunnydale is built on a Hellmouth.
This episode marks the first reference to Mayor Richard Wilkins though not by name, a character who would go on to be the central antagonist of Season Three.
This episode marks the first appearance of the mansion that would serve as Angel's home throughout the remainder of this season, and the whole of the third season.
Willow's discovery of Jenny Calendar's magic files inspires her own interest in magic, which will become central to her character from thereafter.
Willow tells Giles that she was using Ms.Calendar's teaching plans which she'd left on her computer, the same computer Angel attempted to destroy in "Passion". However, he only destroyed the monitor.
The Flamingos' recording of the eponymous song, playing on a turntable in the music room, was not made until 1959, so it wouldn't have been available in 1955.
Angel would later refer to the events of this episode in the Angel Season Three episode "Waiting in the Wings" in which he and Cordelia are similarly possessed by the spirits of dead lovers.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Florez, Paul (April 2, 2007), JOSS WHEDON: A TO Z
2.Jump up ^ Christopher Golden, Stephen Bissette, Thomas E. Sniegoski (2000), The Monster Book, Simon and Schuster, p. 259, ISBN 0-671-04259-9
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"Go Fish"
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Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 20
Directed by
David Semel
Written by
David Fury
 Elin Hampton
Production code
5V20
Original air date
May 5, 1998
Guest actors

Charles Cyphers as Coach Carl Martin
Jeremy Vincent Garrett as Cameron Walker
Wentworth Miller as Gage Petronzi
Conchata Ferrell as Nurse Ruthie Greenleigh
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Jake Patellis as Dodd McAlvy
Shane West as Sean

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"Go Fish" is episode 20 of season two of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.





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2 Production 2.1 Writing
2.2 Allusions
3 External links

Plot[edit]
The Sunnydale High Swim Team is celebrating their latest victory with a bonfire party at the beach. Buffy sits on a rock watching the ocean, alone and apart from the other partygoers. Cameron, a member of the swim team, approaches Buffy and seems interested in her romantically, but their exchange is interrupted when Buffy breaks up two other swim team members, Dodd and Gage, as they are bullying Jonathan. The two bullies go down to the water's edge while Jonathan storms off, humiliated at being rescued by a girl.
The next day, Principal Snyder informs Willow that there have been difficulties in finding a computer science teacher to replace the murdered Ms. Calendar and that she will need to continue filling in as a substitute teacher. This pleases Willow, but Snyder also informs her that she must give Gage (Wentworth Miller), who is slacking off in her class, special treatment because he is a member of the swim team.
Meanwhile, Buffy comes to school with Cameron; he makes sexual advances that are unwelcome and Buffy put him off by slamming his head (nose-first) against the steering wheel. Snyder happens to be in the vicinity and witnesses the event, but he accepts Cameron's version of events and worries only about Cameron's ability to compete after the minor injury to his nose, as does Coach Martin, who is in charge of the swim team, and tells Cameron to hit the steam room and Buffy to dress "more appropriately."
Later, Rupert Giles informs Buffy that Dodd's remains were found on the beach; the Scooby Gang is in research mode trying to determine what killed him. Xander goes out for a drink and bumps into Cameron, who had still been on school grounds in the steam room; Cameron snaps at him and calls Xander a loser. Xander then takes the opportunity to ridicule Cameron for striking out with Buffy. Cameron rubs his elite status due to his swim team membership in Xander's face and goes to the cafeteria for a snack. A moment later, Xander hears him scream and goes to investigate, finding a ransacked cafeteria, Cameron's skin and a humanoid sea creature.
In the library, Cordelia tries to sketch the creature that Xander saw before running away. Buffy and Willow return, having been informed that Cameron and Dodd were the two best swimmers on the boys' team; after them was Gage. Having little else to go on, Buffy shadows Gage as the potential next target while Willow interrogates Jonathan. While Willow gleans nothing from her interrogation of Jonathan, Gage grows suspicious of Buffy when she follows him around. At the Bronze that night, Gage confronts Buffy about her shadowing him; she tells him, after trying to cover and failing, that he may be in danger. He does not believe her and leaves, only to encounter Angelus in the parking lot. Buffy fights Angelus off, noting as she does that Angelus was spitting out Gage's blood rather than drinking it.
The following day, Buffy, Willow and Cordelia sit in on swim practice, speculating on the meaning of Angelus' behavior. The girls speculate a type of drug within Gage's blood, somehow acting as a repellent to vampires but also as an attractant to the creatures they are finding. Gage waves to Buffy, feeling friendlier to her for having saved his life, and the girls discover that Xander has joined the swim team in an effort to get information from places the girls wouldn't have access to.
Buffy waits for Gage to exit the boys' locker room later and hears him cry out in pain; she charges in only to find Gage transforming into one of the creatures and others in the locker room with him. Buffy is wounded while fighting them off. Then Coach Marin enters and the gill monsters flee (although Marin is alone and unarmed). While Buffy is being treated for a bite from one of the monsters in Nurse Greenleigh's office, Marin is told that members of his team aren't being killed by the creatures, but are transforming into them. Buffy and Giles go hunting for the creatures in the sewers, but fail to find any. Meanwhile, Xander again hits the sauna and tries to find out what his team members are taking and how to get it. He finds out that what the boys are assuming are steroids is being pumped in with the sauna steam and that Xander is inhaling it as they speak.
It is revealed that Nurse Greenleigh is a co-conspirator with Coach Marin; they have been making experiments on the swim team with fish DNA that were originally made in Soviet Union in order to get a winning team. Nurse Greenleigh tries to put an end to the situation, but Coach Marin forces her into an open grate that drops into the sewers. The creatures that used to be the swim team members attack and kill her.
While Xander and Cordelia try to round up the rest of the swim team, Xander frets obsessively that his three exposures to the steam are already having an effect on him. He ducks into the locker room, and a creature emerges which Cordelia believes to be Xander. Xander himself emerges only a moment before the creature attacks Cordelia from the pool; they deduce that it was Shawn, the only swim team member they had yet to find. Giles locks the others into the cage in the library while Xander decides to go after Buffy, who hasn't returned yet from her part in the investigation.
This is because Buffy has confronted Coach Marin about the transformations. He, in turn, forces her at gunpoint down the same sewer access grate that he'd forced Nurse Greenleigh through. Buffy discovers Nurse Greenleigh's body and is surrounded by several creatures; she is fighting them off when Xander finds them. Xander knocks out Coach Marin - who is twice his size - long enough to pull Buffy out. (Note this is the second time - in one and the same episode - that someone has conveniently shown up at the last possible moment to rescue Buffy, of all people, from certain doom.) Coach Marin revives and attacks them; he knocks Xander's head in with a large wrench, but misses Buffy and trips through the sewer grate. The creatures attack and kill him, literally biting the hand that feeds them.
The next day, it is revealed that Xander and the other swim team members are undergoing plasmaphoresis to counteract the effects of the experimental drugs in the steam. The last scene of the episode shows the creatures have found their way out of the sewer and disappeared into the open ocean.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
Marti Noxon has said in several interviews that this episode was written to show how athletes who use steroids ruin their bodies.
Allusions[edit]
When discussing human remains found on the beach, Xander states that "this was no boating accident," a key line from the popular movie Jaws. He will quote another line from Jaws in "Graduation Day".
When Buffy saves a student from being hazed in ice water, the bully, secretly a monster, has a "Fighting Hellfish" tattoo, a reference to Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" which aired two years prior. Buffy mocks the tattoo.
When Cordelia refers to the monsters as being like "the creature from the blue lagoon", Xander corrects this to "black lagoon" and says: "The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields." This is a reference to the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon. The monsters in this episode are an obvious homage to the 1954 Universal horror film, Creature from the Black Lagoon
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"Becoming"
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The climax of the season finale, in which Buffy and Angel, tied by passionate love, are drawn in a swordfight.

Episode no.
Season 2
 Episode 21 & 22
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Featured music
"Full of Grace" by Sarah McLachlan
Production code
5V21
5V22

Original air date
May 12, 1998 (Part 1)
May 19, 1998 (Part 2)

Guest actors

Seth Green as Oz
James Marsters as Spike
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Julie Benz as Darla
Bianca Lawson as Kendra Young
Jack McGee as Doug Perren
Richard Riehle as Merrick
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Max Perlich as Whistler
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
James G. MacDonald as Detective Stein
Shannon Welles as Gypsy Woman
Zito Kazann as Gypsy Man
Ginger Williams as Girl
Nina Gervitz as Teacher
Susan Leslie as First Cop
Thomas G. Waites as Second Cop

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"Becoming" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's second season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, consisting of the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes. They are also the thirty-third and thirty-fourth episodes of the show overall. The two constituent episodes were split into two broadcasts; "Part 1" first aired on May 12, 1998 and "Part 2" first aired on May 19, 1998. The episodes were written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon.
The narrative features vampire slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) working to prevent Angelus (David Boreanaz) and fellow vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (James Marsters) from awakening the demon Acathla. As the narrative progresses Spike joins forces with Buffy in an attempt to preserve his love with Drusilla. Buffy also becomes a fugitive after being suspected of murder while Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) works to restore Angel's soul. Flashbacks show the past of Angelus, from being changed into a vampire in 1753, having his soul restored in 1898 (thus becoming Angel), to the year before the series began where he watched Buffy in Los Angeles from afar.
Production of the season finale was different from previous episodes as this was the first time that the show had been filmed outside of the usual warehouses or other locations. A studio was used to create the settings for the flashback scenes set in New York and Ireland. Actors Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz undertook training for the climactic sword fight between their characters.


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1.2 Part 2
2 Production details 2.1 Allusions
2.2 Joss Whedon
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Part 1[edit]
Giles visits a museum to examine a big stone block that it has just acquired; he finds an opening in the rock.
Buffy and Willow find the floppy disk containing Ms. Calendar's reconstruction of the curse that gave Angelus his soul. They are eager to attempt it so they can get Angel back. Giles warns that it will be difficult. Xander prefers to see Angelus killed, rather than risk leaving him alive merely so that Buffy can have a chance to get her boyfriend back.
Drusilla kills the museum curator while Angelus and his minions steal the stone block, which contains the demon Acathla, who came to suck the world into Hell. A virtuous knight had stabbed him in the heart before he could draw a breath, but someone worthy can remove the sword to awaken Acathla. Angelus wants to use Acathla to destroy the world.
Kendra, the new Slayer, returns to Sunnydale bringing a sword blessed by the same knight who stopped Acathla.
Angelus kills a human and uses his blood in an attempt to awaken Acathla, which fails. He then lures Buffy to a battle so that his minions can kidnap Giles, whom he plans to torture for the information he needs. In the library, Willow is attempting the curse when vampires attack. Giles is taken while Xander is injured and Willow is knocked unconscious under a bookcase. Drusilla hypnotizes and kills Kendra. Buffy arrives too late, and a policeman finds her with Kendra's body.
Flashbacks[edit]
Galway, Ireland 1753: Liam, drunk as usual, is killed by Darla, becoming the sadistic vampire known as Angelus.
London, 1860: Drusilla, a pious young woman who has unwanted visions, is psychologically tormented before being sired by Angelus.
Rumanian woods, 1898: In revenge for killing an unnamed Kalderash girl, Angelus is cursed with his human soul and becomes Angel.
Manhattan, New York 1996: Angel, now a derelict, meets a benevolent demon named Whistler who invites him to become a hero.
Los Angeles, 1996: As Buffy becomes the Slayer, Whistler points her out to Angel, who is inspired "to be somebody."
Part 2[edit]
Principal Snyder remarks to the police that "If there's trouble, she's behind it." Buffy breaks away, becoming a fugitive suspect.
Disguised, Buffy visits the hospital. Xander's arm is broken and Willow is comatose. Cordelia had escaped from the fighting. Meanwhile, Angelus tortures Giles for information and entertainment.
The police tell Joyce their version of events.
Buffy finds Whistler in Giles' apartment and they discuss Angel's reversion to Angelus. He reveals that Angel was destined to stop Acathla not awaken him. He is about to tell her how to stop the demon when Buffy, frustrated, leaves.
Buffy is nearly captured by police, but is rescued by Spike, who offers a temporary alliance. He has no wish to see the world destroyed, and he is jealous of Angelus' attentions to Drusilla; so he will help Buffy stop Angelus if she allows him and Drusilla to leave town. Buffy and Spike go to her house to talk, and meet Joyce, who has been told by police that Buffy is wanted for murder. Buffy is forced to tell her about vampires and her role as Slayer. Joyce insists Buffy must tell her everything and tries to prevent her from leaving. Buffy tells her mom that she wishes she could be a normal teenager, but that she has to go save the world, again. Joyce tells her daughter not to come back if she leaves the house. Buffy leaves anyway.
Xander sits by the comatose Willow and confesses his love for her, asking her to wake up. However, when she does, the first person she calls is Oz. Willow is determined to try the curse again. She sends Oz and Cordelia after her supplies, which had been left in the library after the attack. She sends Xander to tell Buffy her plans, hoping she can stall until the curse is complete.
Returning to the library to retrieve Kendra's sword, Buffy encounters Snyder, who gleefully announces that she is expelled.
Spike returns to the mansion, concealing that he has healed (from his injuries in "What's My Line") enough to walk. To keep Angelus from killing Giles, Spike suggests that Drusilla use hypnosis. She appears to Giles as Jenny, and he tells her that Angelus is the key. He must use his own blood, not someone else's, to awaken Acathla.
Buffy returns to Whistler, who tells her that if Angelus has awoken Acathla, only Angelus' blood can again defeat him, in the process sending both evil beings to hell. On her way to the mansion she meets Xander, who decides not to tell her about the curse; instead he says that Willow said to "kick his ass."
In the mansion, Buffy announces her arrival by decapitating a minion, before Spike surprises Angelus from behind, knocking him unconscious and proceeding to beat him brutally. However to his dismay Drusilla sides with her sire, defending Angelus and attacking Spike. Xander frees the injured Giles and they escape as Spike and Buffy fight against Drusilla and the remaining minions. Angelus regains his senses and succeeds in removing the sword from Acathla and he and Buffy then duel. Spike knocks a hostile Drusilla unconscious and escapes with her in his car, leaving Sunnydale. Angelus overpowers Buffy and continues to torment her. Just when he is about to deliver the killing blow, Buffy regains confidence and begins to beat Angelus.
At the hospital, Willow starts to weaken as she tries to restore Angel's soul. Just as she appears close to fainting, she suddenly regains strength, apparently possessed and incanting in Latin instead of English. She succeeds in restoring Angel's soul just as Buffy was about to kill Angelus. Buffy realizes that Angel is back and embraces him. Buffy then sees that Acathla is awake as he opens his mouth and creates an expanding vortex. When Angel, disoriented and oblivious to the vortex opening behind him, questions what happened and where he is, Buffy kisses him, professes her love for him and then drives her sword through him into the vortex. Angel, bewildered, is sucked into the closing hellish vortex.
The world is saved but Buffy, feeling her life shattered, leaves a farewell note for her mother, and boards a bus to leave Sunnydale.
The end credits finish with the Ghoul but instead of his normal "GRRR ARGH" he says "I need a hug!"
Production details[edit]
Allusions[edit]
Spike's description of the end of the world as "goodbye Piccadilly, farewell Leicester bloody Square" refers to the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams.[1]
Joss Whedon[edit]
The flashback to Los Angeles is taken directly from Joss Whedon's original script for the Buffy feature film. It is later published in comic format.
Continuity[edit]
When Buffy realizes that Angelus has lured her away from the library so that Giles can be captured, he gleefully points out that "she falls for it every single time!" This is a reference to the season's first episode, "When She Was Bad", in which Buffy followed a deceptive lead, allowing Willow and Giles to be kidnapped for the Master's restoration.
As the episode ends, the gang is left to ponder the sequence of events that took place at the fight. Although they are fairly confident that Angel's soul was restored (Willow "felt something flow through her" when performing the spell), they know (through Buffy's note to her mother) that Buffy has survived, and they know that the world has not ended, they know nothing else about the fight: whether Angel has survived, Spike's influence on the fight, or even whether or not Acathla was ever awakened. Giles would ultimately force Buffy to reveal these in Faith, Hope & Trick.
In this episode, a vampire burns up in indirect sunlight. In future episodes of this show and its spin-off, Angel, stronger and more direct sunlight becomes necessary for killing a vampire. Angel and Spike often survive in rooms that are more well lit than the one which killed the nameless vampire in this episode. The vampire may be newly "sired," however, and thus comparatively weak; similarly, the vampire is shown to be smoking from exposure to the sun before she enters the classroom where she burns up, implying that indirect sunlight would be enough to kill her in her weakened state.
In order to escape with Drusilla, Spike appears to suffocate her so that she is rendered unconscious. However, it is addressed many times in both Buffy and Angel that vampires do not need to breathe, and therefore cutting off an airway will do them no harm. He is, in fact, performing a sleeper hold on Dru, which cuts off the blood (or the vampire equivalent) to her brain.
When Angelus regains his soul and becomes Angel again, he tells Buffy that he doesn't know what's going on or remember anything. This is explained by the Romania flashback in Part One when Angelus is first cursed by the Kalderash people. When his soul first re-enters his body, he is disoriented and cannot remember everything he did as a vampire. The Kalderash elder tells him it will all come back to him soon, and he will always suffer from the memories. The same thing happens in Part Two when Willow restores his soul. He will have a brief phase before the memories come back, so he doesn't know that he killed Jenny or why they are there. Buffy stabs him before he remembers. The same pattern will occur later when loses and regains his soul in season four of Angel.
Arc significance[edit]
The story of Liam's turning is told in greater detail in the Angel episode "The Prodigal".
Joyce finds out that Buffy is the Slayer. It is revealed in "Normal Again" that Buffy had told both of her parents upon first being chosen. Like Joyce in this episode, they thought she was insane and had her committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Angel will not lose his soul and become Angelus again until "Awakening".
Xander refrains from telling Buffy of Willow's attempt to restore Angel's soul, instead dishonestly telling her that Willow said to "Kick his ass." His lie will not be alluded to until Season 7's "Selfless", when, during an argument over Anya, the subject of Xander's lie is briefly raised.
Willow pulls off the restoration spell in another development of her budding abilities as a witch, a crucial plot through the rest of the series.
Joyce invites Spike into her home, despite knowing that he is a vampire and has proven to be a dangerous enemy. He routinely takes full advantage of this invitation, particularly during Season 5, until Willow and Tara perform the disinviting spell in "Crush". However, he earns himself a re-invite before the end of that season.
Spike and Joyce meet for the second time. She asks him if they have met before, and he tells her, "You hit me with an axe one time; you know, 'Get the hell away from my daughter,'" referencing their interaction at Parent-Teacher Night in "School Hard".[1]
Spike plays a role in saving the world, marking his first alliance with Buffy.
Principal Snyder is seen asking to speak with the mayor Richard Wilkins, who becomes the Big Bad in the next season.
Kendra lends Buffy a distinctive-looking stake nicknamed "Mr. Pointy." Though Buffy uses the nickname in a few future episodes, the stake itself is only seen again, but not used, in Living Conditions.
When asked about the Orb of Thessulah by Willow, Giles says he has one, saying "I've been using it as a paperweight," in reference to Ms.Calendar's visit to the gypsy store in "Passion", in which the shop owner claims that he'd been selling Orbs to tourists as paperweights.
Along with "Fool for Love", "Darla" and "The Girl in Question", this is one of only four Buffyverse episodes in which all four members of the Whirlwind (Angelus/Angel, Spike, Darla and Drusilla) appear.
This is the last episode to feature the first version of the Buffy theme song. A higher quality re-vamped version is used from Season 3 onward.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b BBC episode guide
External links[edit]
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"Becoming (Part 1)" at TV.com
  "Becoming (Part 2)" at the Internet Movie Database
"Becoming (Part 2)" at TV.com



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