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When She Was Bad Date: September 15, 1997 Written and directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Buffy, having been killed by the Master and revived by Xander, gets posttraumatic stress and turns against her friends. Her bad mood and worse judgment almost get everyone killed. |
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Some Assembly Required Date: September 22, 1997
Written by: Ty King Story: The science-nerd brother of a dead Sunnydale football hero has rebuilt the former gridiron star from various corpses, and now the Franken-jock wants a girl with a body to die for. |
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School Hard Date: September 29, 1997
Written by: Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt Story: On threat of expulsion, Buffy organizes a Parent-Teacher Night, an endeavor only slightly more pleasant than the latest arrivals in Sunnydale: Spike (James Marsters) and Drusilla (Juliet Landau). |
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Inca Mummy Girl Date: October 6, 1997
Written by: Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer Story: Xander's bad luck with women continues. This time he falls for Ampata (Ara Celi), a Peruvian exchange student who is actually a 500-year-old Inca princess recently transformed from her mummified remains. Ampata wants never to show her true age again, and will drain the breath from anyone to remain young. Also has the first appearance of Oz (Seth Green). |
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Reptile Boy Date: October 13, 1997 Written and Directed by: David Greenwalt Story: Buffy rebels from responsibility by attending a college fraternity party with Cordelia Unfortunately, they pledge the wrong party: Every so often, this frat sacrifices young women to a serpent-like dark lord. |
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Halloween Date: October 27, 1997
Written by: Carl Ellsworth Story: Buffy's crew takes some Sunnydale kids trick-or-treating, and everyone transforms into the characters of their costumes. Everyone, that is, except Cordy, who avoided the bewitching costumes of shopkeeper Ethan Rayne (Robin Sachs) - a man with a mysterious connection to Giles. The children behave like gremlins, and their teenage baby-sitters take on troublesome new identities. |
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Lie To Me Date: November 3, 1997 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Buffy's fifth-grade crush Billy "Ford" Fordham (Jason Behr) transfers to Sunnydale, with hopes of persuading Spike to make him and his Goth friends real vampires. |
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The Dark Age Date: November 10, 1997
Written by: Rob Des Hotel and Dean Batali Story: Eyghon, a "sleepwalker" demon (so called because it possesses the bodies of unconscious people and corpses) stalks Sunnydale, and it's all thanks to Giles. The bond between the Watcher and the enigmatic Ethan Rayne (episode 18) is explained: During their youthful days in London, the two thrill seekers toyed with the occult, allowing themselves to be possessed by Eyghon only to cast the demon quickly back into the netherworld. |
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What's My Line? Part 1 Date: November 17, 1997
Written by: Howard Gordon and Marti Noxon Story: Career Week at Sunnydale High usually means getting through those absurd aptitude tests with such questions as, "Do you like shrubs?" But this year Buffy must survive something far more sinister: the Order of Taraka, a lethal group of bounty hunters. Also new on the scene: the beautiful Kendra (Bianca Lawson), who claims that she, too, is a Slayer. |
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What's My Line? Part 2 Date: November 24, 1997
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Giles learns that the arrival of Kendra was triggered by Buffy's death ("Just a little!" she protests) during episode 12. Angel needs rescuing from Spike, who wants to sacrifice Buffy's love vampire to cure the ailing Drusilla. And Xander and Cordelia get trapped by a pile of flesh-eating worms. |
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Ted Date: December 8, 1997
Written by: David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon Story: Buffy walks into a marital monstrosity in the making: She catches single mom Joyce kissing some guy in the kitchen. It's Ted (John Ritter), a software salesman his co-workers call "the Machine." How right they are. Charming, a great cook and seemingly in love with Joyce, Ted is also a homicidal android. Only Buffy sees beyond the banality, and when he slaps her for sassing, she kicks him downstairs, apparently "killing" him. |
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Bad Eggs Date: January 12, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Cowpokes Lyle and Tector Gorch (Jeremy Ratchford, James Parks), who massacred an entire Mexican village and then became vampires, invade Sunnydale. Back at school, a science instructor attempts to impart a message of sexual responsibility by having each student carry around an egg (meant to simulate a baby). The assignment does change the students' behavior, but by demonic means: The eggs sprout parasitic tentacles that invade ears, turning the hosts into zombies. |
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Surprise Date: January 19, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Buffy's approaching 17th birthday will be filled with surprises, including a revived Drusilla, who wants revenge on Angel for turning her into a vampire. Angel and Buffy make love and, thanks to that ancient gypsy curse, Angel loses his soul after the moment of bliss. Jenny Calendar, the computer teacher and Giles's love interest? Her real name is Jana, she's a gypsy, and she's been sent to keep an eye on Angel. |
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Innocence Date: January 20, 1998 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: The now-evil Angel joins his old cohorts Dru and Spike in a plot to revive a dismembered demon called the Judge. No matter: Buffy blows the Judge away, but hesitates to do the same to Angel, who blew her off. |
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Phases Date: January 27, 1998
Written by: Rob Des Hotel and Dean Batali Story: A werewolf is loose at Sunnydale, and dumb, sexist jock Larry (Larry Bagby III) is a suspect. But as Willow soon discovers, the wolf man is her man, Oz. |
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Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered Date: February 10, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Partly because she can't bear the social consequences, Cordy breaks up with Xander on Valentine's Day. He, in return, recruits Amy the witch (episode 3) to cast a love spell on Cordy just so he can reject her. The incompetent witch causes all women except Cordelia to desire Xander. |
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Passion Date: February 24, 1998
Written by: Ty King Story: Angel terrorizes Buffy by terrorizing her loved ones, sending mementos (pictures, dead fish) to prove his proximity. Jenny Calendar, meanwhile, tries to reverse the gypsy spell on Angel. Her good deed doesn't go unpunished: After a nerve-racking chase, Angel kills Jenny. |
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Killed By Death Date: March 3, 1998
Written by: Rob Des Hotel and Dean Batali Story: A flu-stricken Buffy checks into a hospital but can't escape her very real demons even there. This time, she battles Der Kindestod (roughly, "the child death"), a breath-sucking monster visible to children. The demon has been targeting sick kids, and Buffy's the cure. |
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I Only Have Eyes For You Date: April 28, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: The Sadie Hawkins Day Dance has a special meaning at Sunnydale High: In 1955, on the day when girls do the asking, a boy did the shooting, killing his teacher (and lover), Miss Newman, before turning the gun on himself. Today, their spirits haunt the halls, possessing others and forcing the reenactment of the crime over and over. When Buffy and Angel get taken - Buffy by the boy, Angel by the teacher - they reenact the fight, but this time with a happier (or at least more forgiving) ending. The troubled poltergeists can rest in peace. |
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Go Fish Date: May 5, 1998
Written by: David Fury, Elin Hampton Story: Sunnydale's swimmers are poised for a championship, and they are already winners at school. Principal Snyder allows the water boys to get away with anything and everything, from flunking computer class to attempting date rape on Buffy (and blaming it on her revealing outfits). So why are the strokers disappearing? The first clue comes when Angel bites a swimmer and spits out the bad blood. Later, we find that the swim coach tinkers with DNA to make his team the best. Problem is, they eventually turn into large fish monsters. |
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Becoming, Part 1 Date: May 12, 1998 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Where does Angel come from? This episode shows us, via flashbacks. The young rascal first gets vamped by recurring character Darla all the way back in 1753. Then he converts the convent girl Drusilla circa 1860, and gets cursed with a soul by gypsies in 1898. In contemporary times, the vampires try to unleash yet another ancient globe-gobbling monster, Acathla. Drusilla leads an attack on the school library, and Slayer Kendra is slain. |
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Becoming, Part 2 Date: May 19, 1998 Written and directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Willow, who got conked in the last episode during the library battle, emerges from a coma and casts the spell initiated by Jenny to restore Angel's soul. Despite Angel's new soulfulness, only his blood can close the portal. Buffy stabs him, sending her favorite bad boy to a much, much warmer climate. |
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