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Anne Date: September 29, 1998 Written and directed by: Joss Whedon Story: As the school year starts, Buffy is working at a diner and living incognito, using her middle name, Anne. But she decides she doesn't like toiling in anonymity once she gets locked up in a runaway shelter that happens to be a demonic realm. |
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Dead Man's Party Date: October 6, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Buffy gets the cold shoulder from her friends and family, who are still miffed about her brief disappearance. As they work out their differences, Buffy and Co. reunite to fight a demon named Ovu Mobani (the creature resides in a Nigerian mask brought home by Buffy's mom, Joyce). |
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Faith, Hope & Trick Date: October 13, 1998
Written by: David Greenwalt Story: Buffy bristles when Faith (Eliza Dushku), the new Slayer in town, charms everyone, including Buffy's new suitor, Scott (Fab Filippo). What's worse, Faith has been followed to Sunnydale by a cloven-hoofed bloodsucker named Kakistos (Jeremy Roberts) and his right-hand vampire, Mr. Trick (K. Todd Freeman). As it turns out, Faith's Watcher was killed by Kakistos, and Faith is on the run from him. |
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Beauty and the Beasts Date: October 20, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Buffy discovers a discombobulated Angel in the woods. Is he responsible for a series of recent maulings? Or is it a wolfed-out Oz? Or is it Pete (John Patrick White), an amateur Dr. Jekyll who has concocted a macho sauce that makes him go Hyde? |
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Homecoming Date: November 3, 1998 Written and Directed by: David Greenwalt Story: Buffy and Cordelia vie for Homecoming Queen, while Trick organizes Slayerfest '98. Attending this killer convention: a contingent from, a yellow-skinned demon and a vampire couple from the South. Harry Groener arrives as Mayor Richard Wilkins III. |
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Band Candy Date: November 10, 1998
Written by: Jane Espenson Story: The town's adults pig out on candy sold to raise money for the school band, then start acting childish. In fact, they hardly notice when the seemingly nice-guy mayor helps provide a gluttonous demon with the baby-eating monster's favorite snack. Makes for some interesting moments when Giles and Mrs. Summers get together. |
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Revelations Date: November 17, 1998
Written by: Douglas Petrie Story: Gwendolyn Post (Serena Scott Thomas) enters as Faith's new Watcher. She is seeking the all-powerful glove of Myhnegon - supposedly to prevent it from literally falling into demonic hands, but actually for her own not-so-benevolent purposes. Once donned, the glove can't be removed - a situation Buffy likens to her own feelings for Angel. Gwen turns out to be a Watcher-gone-bad and is the one after the glove. Faith is bummed out that her last two Watcher's ended up dead, even if one of them wasn't really a Watcher. |
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Lovers Walk Date: November 24, 1998
Written by: Dan Vebber Story: A lovelorn Spike kidnaps Willow and Xander because he needs Willow to place a love spell on Drusilla. But a guilt-ridden Willow (still in love with Oz) would rather brew up an "anti-lusting" potion for herself and Xander. |
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The Wish Date: December 8, 1998
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Cordy tells new student (and demon) Anya (Emma Caulfield) that she wishes Buffy hadn't come to town. Anya grants the wish, and in a Buffy-less Sunnydale, vampires rule. Undead couple Willow and Xander vamp it up, while a very unfashionable Buffy arrives in town with a scar on her . The climax involves: Xander killing Angel, Buffy killing Xander, Oz killing Willow, the Master killing Buffy. Anya loses her powers when Giles smashes her magic necklace, restoring order to Sunnydale. |
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Amends Date: December 15, 1998 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Angel is visited by "the First," an evil force that appears in the form of Angel's past victims. These evildoers urge Angel to kill Buffy and then himself. Meanwhile, Oz forgives Willow, but he declines her very special Christmas offering - herself. |
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Gingerbread Date: January 12, 1999
Written by: Thania St. John and Jane Espenson Story: A witch-hunt ensues when Buffy's mom finds two slain children. Actually, the kids are a demonic force just trying to stir up trouble, which is accomplished when the good moms of Sunnydale form MOO (Mothers Opposed to the Occult). The moms end up trying to kill Willow, Buffy and their witch friend Amy, who turns herself into a mouse (rat?) to escape, and ends up trapped as a rat (mouse?) because Willow can't turn her back. |
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Helpless Date: January 19, 1999
Written by: David Fury Story: On Buffy's 18th birthday, Giles reluctantly begins a cruciamentum - an ancient ritual mandated by the Watchers Council in which a Slayer is rendered powerless, then pitted against a vampire. Buffy passes, but Giles fails his own secret test and gets fired as her Watcher. |
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The Zeppo Date: January 26, 1999
Written by: Dan Vebber Story: Xander thinks that his '57 Chevy Bel Air is the epitome of cool, and a new gang of guys wants him to be its "wheel man." However to join, you have to die. Xander is feeling left out from the group because everyone has some secret power (Oz-werewolf, Willow-witch, Buffy-slayer). But as the gang saves the world from the re-opening of the Hellmouth, Xander is off on his own save-the-world joint. |
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Bad Girls Date: February 9, 1999
Written by: Douglas Petrie Story: Buffy rebuffs her new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce (Alexis Denisof), and takes up with Faith, who thoroughly enjoys the art of slaying. But Faith goes too far, accidentally killing the mayor's aide. |
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Consequences Date: February 16, 1999
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: Buffy pushes Faith to confess to killing the mayor's aide, but Faith has developed a new bloodlust - for humans. The increasingly naughty Slayer even bonds with Angel, who knows a thing or two about bad impulses. |
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Doppelgängland Date: February 23, 1999 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: The former wish-granting Anya, now a math-flunking mortal, enlists an unsuspecting Willow to help recover her "power center." Instead, their spell prompts the return of Evil Willow from episode 43. Some interesting foreshadowing, as Good Willow says about Evil Willow: "I'm so evil and skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay." |
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Enemies Date: March 16, 1999
Written by: Douglas Petrie Story: Buffy and Faith's partnership in slaying is endangered when Buffy realizes that Faith is moving in on Angel. And when Angel fails to respond to Faith's seduction attempts, the mayor enlists a shrouded sorcerer to steal his soul. |
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Earshot Date: September 14, 1999 - Originally scheduled for April 26, 1999 "Earshot" was shelved following the Columbine High School shootings.
Written by: Jane Espenson Story: Buffy reportedly slays a demon and inadvertently takes on one of his powers: mind reading. Through the din of people's thoughts, she overhears someone making plans for a killing spree at school. In other developments, Buffy tries to mind read Angel to learn about his true feelings for Faith, but she finds that her new ESP doesn't extend to vampires. What is revealed during "Earshot" is that Joyce and Giles had sex during episode 40. |
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Choices Date: May 4, 1999
Written by: David Fury Story: Where will Buffy and Co. go to college? While the seniors struggle with that all-too-normal high-school demon, Mayor Wilkins concentrates on consuming some otherworldly power by chowing down on rare spiders. |
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The Prom Date: May 11, 1999
Written by: Marti Noxon Story: A conscience-stricken Angel dumps Buffy right before the prom, saying she deserves a regular relationship and that he'll leave town after the Ascension. Another prom disaster-in-waiting: A spurned boy named Tucker (Brad Kane) has trained brain-eating Hell Hounds to attack the revelers. |
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Graduation Day, Part 1 Date: May 18, 1999 Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Faith shoots Angel with a poisoned arrow (from atop the aptly named Sun Cinemas) and the only antidote is a good, long drink of Slayer blood. So Buffy tracks down Faith and wounds her, but the bad Slayer escapes. |
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Graduation Day, Part 2 Date: July 13, 1999 (Postponed from May in deference to the Columbine shootings) Written and Directed by: Joss Whedon Story: Buffy decides to cure Angel at any cost and makes peace with a comatose Faith (who visits Buffy in a dream to stop the mayor's Ascension). The Slayer attempts to save the vampire by forcing him to "drink" her almost to death. |
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