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Buffy moves to Sunnydale and starts school at Sunydale High where she finds a few receptive people, and meets her new Watcher, Mr. Giles. She finds she is on a Hellmouth and it's not long before she is fighting vampires again and protecting her new found friends.

The Master, the oldest and most powerful vampire on the Hellmouth is hoping to escape his underground prison, the "Vessel" will feed upon the masses and give energy to the Master and he shall rise. The Vessel is sent forth and Buffy must stop the mass slaughter.

members of the school cheer leading squad become 'unable'. Buffy's ambitions to make the cheerleading squad suddenly become a danger to her life and it would appear Amy's mum is giving a little more support than necessary.

The Master is expressing interest in the "Annointed One" that will lead Buffy to her death, but Buffy has her interests on a boy in school. Can Buffy juggle her duties as Slayer with dating, or will it lead to another corpse in the morgue?

into the school talent contest under Giles' supervision, but People are falling dead and Organs are missing, and the local Ventriloquist's dummy is a little too life-like. The Scooby gang now have to face the terror of the talent contest.

seeking her revenge on Cordelia. Cordelia, of course, comes to Buffy for help, but Buffy finds herself in equal danger from a foe that she can't fight. For the first time the scooby gang encounter Cordelia's "compassionate" side.

Giles and Angel find that Buffy is doomed to face the Master and die. Buffy's horrifying discovery of this sends her into a sense of denial but Buffy can't ignore her Prophecy. She is killed by the Master but her half-drowned body is brought back to life by Xander. Buffy challenges the Master again, this time with renewed strength.

with her dad and she seems different, and it isn't just her haircut. Buffy seems to be contending for "bitch of the year" award even by Cordelia's standards. The annointed one is trying to resurrect the Master, and Buffy's friends seem to be the sacrifice, the same friends Buffy should be listening too and caring for.

on the build up to the Festival of St. Vigeous, and parent's evening in Sunnydale High. Spike, who exclaims that Angelus "was like a sire" to him, plans to kill Buffy but after failing, kills the Annointed One and takes claim over Sunnydale.

The Demon, Ehygon, is back to haunt Giles, Ethan, and his late friends who summoned him, but the Giles' denial of his past has meant that Jenny has been infected by the Demon which will almost certainly kill her unless something is done.

After Xander and Cordelia escape one of the assassins (and a passionate embrase) the gang find that Angel has been captured by Spike and his life is being drained to restore Drusilla to full strength. The two Slayers, allied and with the whole gang assault Spike and Dru and the assassins and Spike is crushed in the Church. Drusilla's strength has been restored and she pulls Spike from the Church wreck and quite clearly still insane.

It's Buffy's 17th Birthday and the gang have arranged a suprise party including Oz, but Spike and Drusilla have assembled "The Judge" who threatens to kill everyone living being. Buffy and Angel attempt to intervene but have to escape and they take refuge in Angel's home. Buffy and Angel make love that night but afterwards Angel awakes and runs out into the street in dire pain.

Angel has experienced a moment of true happiness and has lost his soul, and joins forces with the wheelchair-bound Spike, Drusilla, and the Judge. Buffy manages to defeat the Judge with Xander's help. After a fight with Angel, Buffy is unable to kill him and leaves him laying in pain.

Valentine's day and Xander is dumped by Cordelia so he decides to get Amy to cast a love spell. The spell however makes every other female to love him, not Cordelia, including Buffy, who is turned into a rat by Amy, and Xander's blood seems to be wanted by all.

Jenny has found the spell to give Angel back his soul, but is found by Angel and killed. Her body is put in Giles' bed who, after finding her, seeks retribution and single handedly burns Angel's warehouse down and gives Angel a beating but Buffy has to rescue him.

Angel has stolen the sarcophagus of Acathla who can swollow humanity in a single breath but they need Giles to tell them how to bring fourth Acathla's breath. As part of the raid Angel distracts Buffy and when Buffy manages to reach the Library Giles has been taken, Willow and Xander are need hospital attention, and Kendra has been slain by Drusilla for which Buffy is then arrested.

Angel is torturing Giles but finally uses Drusilla to hypnotise Giles and make him believe that she is Jenny, who manages to fool Giles into revealing the secret of Acathla. Spike joins with Buffy to kill Angel, but Willow, Cordelia, and Oz are trying to bring Angel's soul back. Joyce discovers that Buffy is a slayer and finds it difficult to handle, forcing Buffy to leave the house. Xander rescues a beaten Giles, while Buffy fights Angel to his knees who's soul is then returned by Willow at hospital. After a final kiss Buffy kills Angel to close the Mouth of Acathla. Buffy feels she has to leave and departs Sunnydale secretly in a coach and with a briefcase.

The emotional third-season opener finds the Slayer striking out on her own. After killing Angel and getting kicked out by her mom last season, Buffy fled Sunnydale. Hoping to find meaner pastures, she moved to the city where she intends to keep a low profile by assuming a new identity. But as Giles hunts for his missing pupil and the gang takes care of the slaying, Buffy is pulled back into the game when a devilish stranger begins preying on homeless teens. The encounter takes Buffy to Hell and back (literally), forcing her to examine the wreckage of her past and the anguish she's caused those she left behind.

As Buffy Sarah Michelle Gellar tries to make amends with her mom and the gang, a flock of unstoppable zombies pops up in Sunnydale. And when they crash her welcome-home party, Buff gets a chance to prove to her loved ones that she won't let them down again.

Just as Buffy tries to return to her normal life of going to school, hanging out with friends and saving the world, she is faced with the arrival of an ancient, cloven-hoofed villain (guest star Jeremy Roberts) and his blood-sucking sidekick, Mr. Trick. Another new Sunnydale arrival, Faith, helps Buffy in her battle against the unspeakable demons and ingratiates herself into every aspect of Buffy's life.

When a Sunnydale High student is found savagely mauled in the woods, Willow fears that Oz in werewolf mode might somehow be responsible for the violent murder. Meanwhile, Buffy secretly discovers that Angel has returned after 100 years of hellish torture, and she suspects that he is the murderous culprit.

With Cordelia flaunting her sure win in the race for Homecoming Queen, she awakens the Prom Queen from within Buffy, bwho tries to enlist the entire gang to help her show Cordy how it's done, but some of their allegiances may be elsewhere. Meanwhile, the blood-sucking Mr. Trick assembles a host of killers in Sunnydale for a thrilling hunt to the death to bring down the two slayers.

Buffy is forced to grow up even faster when Mr. Trick executes a devious plot to render the town defenseless by causing Sunnydale's adult population to inexplicably behave as irresponsible adolescents. Meanwhile, Buffy struggles to keep Angel's return and recovery a secret while her mom and Giles conspire to schedule her 24 hours a day.

Tempers run hot when the gang learns of Angel's return and Buffy's harboring this vicious killer, but they all must band together to fight a demon who has arrived in Sunnydale in search of a highly powerful weapon. Meanwhile, Faith meets her new watcher, a brisk Englishwoman who is disdainful of Giles' haphazard operations.

Just as Buffy enjoys a minute to revel in her S.A.T. scores and ponder her bright future, the underworld version of Sid Vicious, Spike, returns to Sunnydale a fallen man, a pathetic shell of his former self who has been left in the dust by his love Drusilla and is back to punish every one who is to blame, especially Angel. Meanwhile, Willow prepares a de-lusting spell to keep her and Xander's hormones in check during a double bowling date with Cordelia and Oz.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned-Cordelia, wanting to be rid of all things Xander and his spooky entourage, decides that all of her troubles started when Buffy moved to Sunnydale and wishes that historic event never actually happened. Not knowing that a an evil genie would grant her fateful wish, Cordelia is transported into an altered reality in which the Hellmouth is open and The Master is alive and ruling, with Willow and Xander as his undead minions.

As Buffy and her friends make plans for a quiet Christmas vacation, Angel is haunted by visions of his violent, demonic past, including the ghost of Jenny Calendar. Meanwhile, Willow goes to great, seductive lengths to try to convince Oz that he is the one for her; and Xander painfully adjusts to his life without Cordelia.

Picking the worst possible night for a surprise "mother-daughter bonding" visit with Buffy, Joyce is haunted by the discovery of two murdered children and feels compelled to take drastic action. When Giles suggests that the killings appear to be an occult sacrifice, Joyce rallies the entire adult population of Sunnydale behind a Salem-like witch hunt, leading the murderous mob directly to Willow and Buffy.

For her upcoming 18th birthday, Buffy eschews her friends' offer of a big party, hoping to celebrate with quiet reflection and a traditional trip to the ice show with her father. But unbeknownst to Buffy, preparations are being made for a life-threatening rite of passage that drains the slayer of her powers and then entraps her with a powerful vampire foe that she must defeat in a defenseless state in order to pass the test.

Xander's lack of slaying superpowers has him feeling painfully expendable, but his quest to prove he's cool leads him to an unforgettable night that finds him consorting with fast women, raising the dead and rolling with a dangerous crowd that could put Sunnydale in a world of hurt. Meanwhile, Buffy, Giles and the rest of the crew engage in a furious battle with an all-female apocalypse cult that intends to reopen the Hellmouth and bring about the end of the world.

A taste of the wild life leaves Buffy wanting more, and while Sunnydale is being inhabited by a long-dead demon and his vampire minions, Buffy follows Faith into her irresponsible world of reckless slaying abandon. Meanwhile, Giles fights to maintain his sanity in the face of the pompous and stuffy new watcher while Willow, Xander and Oz ponder their options for life after high school.

Buffy is haunted by the consequences of her and Faith's reckless behavior as she battles with Faith's apparent lack of remorse to keep her from continuing on her destructive path. Meanwhile, the new watcher Wesley overrides Giles' objections and instructs Buffy and Faith to get to the bottom of the recent murder, while the Mayor and Trick are thrilled by the possibility of imprisoning a slayer for the murder.

Buffy and the real Willow must save the day when from the bleak alternate universe in which vampires rule Sunnydale, Willow's blood-sucking doppelganger is brought forth into this world and wreaks havoc and confusion on Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Buffy goes into full training mode so she can ace out Faith on the Watchers Council tests, while Faith's unholy new alliance is already paying handsome dividends.

Faith and the Mayor's secret alliance becomes an all-powerful triumvirate of evil against Buffy when they conspire to rob Angel of his soul. Meanwhile, Giles has unofficially resumed his role as Watcher, as Wesley is distracted from his sacred duties by Cordelia's amorous attention.

Since Faith's turn to the dark side seems to have put the proverbial kibosh on Buffy's chances of ever getting out of Sunnydale to go away to college, Buffy decides to launch an offensive and shut down the Mayor's plans for "Ascension." Meanwhile, plans for the future are the order of the day, as Willow tries to choose among a bevy of college acceptances, Xander prepares to hit the road on a Kerouac-inspired adventure and Buffy and Angel refuse to face the insurmountable obstacles to a successful life together.

Spring has definitely sprung in Sunnydale as talk turns to all things Prom, and while Buffy and Angel grapple with the impossibility of a future together, she is determined on keeping a villain intent on crashing the Prom from ruining her friends' perfect high school moment. Meanwhile, a chance encounter between Xander and Cordelia may have reopened their lines of communication, but he is saddled with a demonic Prom date, while Cordy only has eyes for the new watcher Wesley.

As Buffy, Willow, Xander, Oz and Cordelia ready for their long-awaited graduation day, the Mayor makes preparations for his Ascension and transformation into pure demon at the climax of his commencement address to the Class of 1999. With the fate of the world in true peril, Buffy is distracted from her purpose when Angel is weakened with a lethal poison, and it's slayer against slayer when Buffy faces Faith for what may be the last time.

The episode is rumored to be the end of Angel and Buffy, the couple, as we know them. Angel heads to L.A. for his own show -- that is, if the Buffster can save his beautiful neck. Buffy and her slaying crew take on the mayor as he plots his demon ascension during their graduation ceremony. It'll definitely be more exciting than just grabbing a diploma and strolling across the stage.

PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS - A near-fatal run-in with a pair of oozy, mouthless demons unexpectedly leaves Buffy with the awesome ability to hear other people's thoughts, but this newfound power ultimately threatens to overwhelm and destroy her as the cacophony of thoughts isolates her from the rest of the world and drives her to the brink of insanity. When Buffy's clairvoyance unearths a potential mass murder plan at the school, Giles, Willow and the rest of the gang spring into action to locate the would-be killer and thwart a schoolyard massacre, while Angel endeavors to keep Buffy from spiraling into telepathy-induced madness.

Trying to adjust to the rigors of college life proves to be harder than Buffy imagined. She moves into a dorm, must contend with a less-than-stable roommate and the complexities of dating college men. On campus, Willow is overly enthused about college life and her ongoing romance with Oz, and Xander unexpectedly returns from his self-discovery adventure. Elsewhere, Giles seems to be enjoying his life away from being a librarian and a Watcher.

Dorm life proves to be quite an adjustment for Buffy when her roommate drives her crazy with her idiosyncrasies even invading Buffy¹s dreams and the gang must come together to find away to get her to move out. Away from the dorm, Buffy meets Parker Finch, a handsome older classman who is the first guy Buffy has been attracted to since her break-up with Angel.

The underworld version of Sid Vicious, Spike, returns to Sunnydale in search of the vampire version of the Holy Grail, a mythical relic that supposedly engenders the wearer with unimaginable powers, and it's up to Buffy to stop him. Meanwhile, Buffy is distracted by dating issues as she deals with her feelings for a new boy who happens to not be a blood-sucking vampire, but is equally as difficult to understand. Xander has romance issues of his own when his prom date from last spring, Anya, can't get the X-man out of her mind.

Buffy reluctantly agrees to join Willow, Oz, and Xander at a Halloween party where they stumble into a real-life house of horrors masquerading as an innocuous fraternity. Meanwhile, Giles is called upon to help out the college crowd when all he wants is to get into the spirit of the holiday.

When Buffy is befriended by a group of upperclassmen who convince her to drown her sorrows with them, bartender Xander becomes suspicious when Buffy and her new friends return to their primordial roots. Back at The Bronze, Willow is aware of Oz's attention being turned to a new performer, the sexual and charismatic Veruca.

Willow, sensing major relationship strain, observes Oz's eagerness to hang out with Veruca, the bodacious blond lead singer. Her suspicions lead to horrific reality after finding them locked together in an embrace one morning. She is inconsolable even after learning Veruca is a fellow werewolf and Oz was just trying to prevent her from harming others. Meanwhile, Veruca who isn't willing to be caged up night-after-night, splits campus. On a mad pursuit of her, Buffy encounters the G.I. Joe / vampire hunters and later tells Giles of her meeting. During their search, Oz deduces Veruca is going to attack Willow, and they rush to her rescue. Back in the chemistry lab, Willow prepares a spell that will torment Veruca and Oz. Deciding at the last minute that she can't go through with it, she stops the spell. In enters Veruca and the scuffle begins. But it's Oz to the rescue when he stops Veruca in werewolf mode. The next day, Oz packs his bags. Unable to balance the human and the werewolf within, he decides to go away and do some serious soul searching. A tearful departure with Willow ensues.

Unbeknownst to Buffy and the gang, Spike is captured by a commando squad for The Initiative, a mysterious underground laboratory beneath the streets of U.C. Sunnydale. Meanwhile, Buffy's Psych T.A., Riley, has a major slayer crush and turns to Willow for advice on ways to woo.

Unbeknownst to Buffy, Angel lurks in the shadows of Sunnydale trying to protect her and keep her safe, while her perfect Thanksgiving feast is disrupted by an army of Chumash Indians, the original inhabitants of Sunnydale, whose spirits have come alive to recreate the wrongs that were done to their people.

Something old, something new- Buffy is only one of many who must bear the repercussions of a spell gone awry when Willow, pining over the disappearance of Oz, tries to imbue herself with the power to have her will done. The fallout includes Buffy falling in love with Spike and planning to marry him, Giles going blind and Xander becoming even more of a demon magnet.

A silence falls over Sunnydale when otherwordly beings come to town and steal the power of speech from all the residents. Meanwhile, Riley gets is his first clue to Buffy's slayerside when they have a fight with the outside visitor, and Willow attends a wicca group that's not all she had hoped.

While Buffy and Riley grapple to come to terms with what they now know about each other, the reopening of the Sunnydale Hellmouth sends Buffy and the gang back to high school to prevent impending apocalypse. Meanwhile, Spike has lost all will to live without the ability to kill, but he grows heartened by the approaching end of the world.

Buffy and Riley explore the extent of each other's powers as they become more romantically entwined. Feeling left out these days, Giles turns to his old buddy Ethan Rayne for camaraderie, but Giles must rely on an unlikely source when he is transformed into a demon and mistakenly hunted down by an unknowing Buffy.

FRIEND OR FOE - Buffy's friends become hurt and concerned when her involvement with Riley and the Initiative becomes more intense. Meanwhile, Professor Walsh sends the slayer on a mission that brings her close to revealing a dangerous secret.

MOTHER MAY I- Buffy and Riley's relationship is put to the test when she investigates Professor Walsh's death and comes up against the Initiative's secret weapon. While Buffy is trying to find a way to save Sunnydale from rogue warrior demon on the loose, Riley becomes paranoid and delusional and challenges Buffy when he discovers that his mentor has been killed. Elsewhere in town, Spike has become the outcast among demons since he has taken up with the Scooby-Doo Gang.

ELIZA DUSHKU RETURNS AS FAITH IN A TWO-PART EPISODE- Buffy is preoccupied with catching the creature that attacked Riley, but her problems are just beginning when she learns that Faith has awakened from her coma and has gone seeking revenge to the only home in which Faith remembers Buffy living. Meanwhile, once she is set free, Faith receives a mysterious gift left behind from the Mayor.

Don't miss the edge-of-your-seat conclusion of a two-part "Trading Places" episode. Buffy, as Faith, battles to escape from the creepy Watcher's Council Special Operations Team who plan to send her to Jolly Old England, while Faith, as Buffy, insists on wreaking havoc on the lives of Good Slayer's friends and family unit. Since the hand-held switcheroo device has been destroyed, it will take the Wiccan powers of Willow and gal-pal Tara to figure out Buffy's true whereabouts. Of course, Faith will already do serious damage to the Buffster's relationship with Riley by then. But then again, Buffy's life does tend to resist all things average.

FANTASY VS. REALITY- Buffy, still reeling from the discovery that Riley was intimate with Faith, must put aside her personal emotions and summon the strength to uncover why the entire town thinks that former high school nerd, Jonathan, is Sunnydale's newest version of a superhero.

Life is good, but not if you happen to be attending a Lowell House Fraternity party. As it happens, a powerful supernatural force is unleashed during said party and we can guarantee that it won't be pretty. Seems a sexually frustrated demon from the Puritanical 1950's will run amok and apparently prude demons don't take kindly to make up sex. Buff and Riley will be locked in a permanently passionate if not naked embrace and it's up to the Scoobies to save the couple from their untimely demise. Though if you have to go, that seems like the way to do it.

OZ COMES HOME TO WILLOW - Willow and her friends are stunned when Oz returns to Sunnydale claiming he still loves Willow and has his full moon frolics under control. Meanwhile, Willow tries to sort out her feelings for Oz and finally tells Buffy about her new relationship with Tara. But when the moon sets, a transformed Oz is captured by The Initiative and an unlikely source breaks his alliance to come to the rescue.

DAVID BOREANAZ GUEST-STARS IN A SHOWDOWN FOR BUFFY'S HEART - Buffy is even more certain of her love for Riley when Angel's surprise visit to Sunnydale brings Riley and Angel to blows. Meanwhile, Spike joins forces with Adam and devises a plan to tear the Slayer apart from her gang, leaving her wide open for her enemies to attack.

DEMONS ALL 'ROUND - Buffy's estrangement from her friends and Giles threatens to keep the group from stopping Adam's plan to design a master race of human/demon hybrids. Elsewhere, Riley is captured by Adam and learns that before Professor Walsh death, she had implanted Riley with a chip that could destroy his power and bond him to Adam forever.

THE CHEESE STANDS ALONE IN A SEASON FINALE- A primal animal force stalks Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles in their nightmares as they each come face to face with their worst fears. Buffy encounters the first slayer while a mysterious "cheese man" is present in all their dreams. This season finale has tons of foreshadowing and spoilers for the 5th season.

Season five kicks off with a bang! Still searching for a normal life, Buffy is shaken by the awesome power - and more than a little star-struck - when she and the Scoobies come face to face with the greatest vampire of all time. Dracula. While Buffy is powerless under Dracula's spell, Xander is the one who becomes the "dark one's" minion and actually leads his best buds into danger. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Buffy, Giles is seriously considering returning to England as he feels she no longer needs his help. One can only be a man of leisure for so long.

SLAY, SISTER, SLAY- While Buffy and Giles heat up the training, Buffy and Dawn’s sibling rivalry gets them into trouble when a new gang of vampires target the slayer. Across town, when the magic shop is ransacked and the owner killed, Giles thinks he may have found a new hub for the Scooby gang.

When a crafty demon out Buffy hunting accidentally catches Xander in his sights, a mysterious Xander double (guest star Kelly Schultz) is born. Two Xanders aren't better than one as the evil double quickly takes over Xander's identity, fooling everyone including Buffy, and starts living Xander's life with a flourish.

STAND BY YOUR MAN- Buffy is in a race against time when the physical aftereffects of Riley's being used as a lab rat for months by The Initiative threatens his very life. When Riley stubbornly refuses help and goes into hiding, Buffy reluctantly turns to Spike for help, but he takes advantage of her situation for his own plot to rid his life of the slayer once and for all.

We're finally going to find out what is behind that mysterious Dawn kid this week. An unseen evil pays a visit to Sunnydale and ends up helping Buffy discover more about her strange, secretive sibling. Seems Dawn is "The Key" to either great good or great evil, and certain forces out there wouldn't mind getting their paws on the kid in order to use her for their own naughtiness --including Clare Kramer, who joins the cast as a minion from hell, sent to destroy Dawn. Unfortunately, minions from hell are the least of the Summers family troubles. It looks like Joyce's health woes will continue, distressing the girls and totally confusing them when she falls ill again without any explanation, medical or supernatural. Has moms been taking her vitamins?

Just when we though it was safe for Willow to be happy again. It's Tara's birthday and the family unit pays a surprise visit to Sunnydale. Things go well until brother Donny reveals a shocking Tara secret that could endanger the lives of each and every Scooby. Things go from bad to worse when Glory, the devil in the red dress, recruits a new minion who she expects will help her take down the Slayer. Puh-leese. Obviously the evil broad still holds a grudge from back when Buff stole her holy man. Just watch out for those spiked heels. Meanwhile, Giles and Buffy hit the books and the streets in an attempt to learn about the evil that is haunting the new and improved Summers family.

When Buffy wants to learn more about Slayers of the past and their final battles she heads to the expert. William the Bloody (a.k.a. Spike) has "offed" two Slayers over the years and Buffy wants to know how. Do we really expect Spike to dish the real dirt? Given his latest fantasies and dreams, there's a good chance he will. So class begins for Professor Spike and his Slayer student, and his flashbacks reveal the goods. We'll witness Spike's first meeting with his true love Drusilla and how Angel and Darla ended up joining them to become the gruesome foursome.

Glory conjures up a nasty, evil beast that should help her sniff out "The Key." It's Giles who ends up inadvertently selling Glory the transmogrification artifacts. Hey-- sale's a sale. So it's up to Buffy to protect the little squirt. If you've spied the episodic promos running this week, you'll see that the kid is really in for it -- but we trust the Slayer will take care of business.

Extra-terrestrials take up residence in Sunnydale. As the entire Summers' family prepares for Joyce's brain surgery, a freakish interplanetary being becomes fixated on our patient-to-be. Seems it's pretty easy to infiltrate the homestead when the head-of-house is delusional and befuddled. This could be more dangerous than Dawn inviting vamps in the house.

ONCE BITTEN - Spike disrupts Buffy's one moment of peace after her mom's successful operation to expose Riley's late nights spent in the arms of a vampire, sending an upset and bewildered Buffy into a tailspin and putting their relationship in turmoil.

XANDER IN THE MIDDLE - While Buffy recovers from losing Riley, emotions are charged between Willow and Anya when they are left in charge of the magic shop and Willow accidentally conjures an enormous troll that will force them to deal with their less than perfect friendship and their feelings towards Xander.

BUFFY vs. WATCHER'S COUNCIL - The Watcher's Council arrives in Sunnydale demanding Buffy pass an exhaustive review of her slaying skills or they will withhold critical information about Glory and have Giles deported back to England.

SPIKE CONFESSES HIS LOVE TO THE SLAYER - Buffy confronts Spike about his suspected crush and is appalled by his admission of love, and her brutal rejection sends him back into the clutches of Drusilla who has returned to Sunnydale intent on returning Spike to his killer ways.

THE PERFECT WOMAN - Buffy must stop a heartbroken young woman who was manufactured to be the perfect girlfriend from destroying the city and then finds herself comforting the creation over the loss of love in both of their lives.

There's nothing Angel likes better than a damsel in distress--unless of course, the distressed damsel happens to be the love of his very long life, Buffy Summers. So when Angel gets word about the death of Buffy's mother, he returns to Sunnydale and a very distraught Slayer who falls happily (as happily as one can be while lamenting the loss of her mother) into his loving arms. While some look to the past for healing, others look to the future. Mourning in her own way, Dawn takes it upon herself to concoct a magic spell she believes will bring her mother back to life. We smell trouble.

Buffy's been a little out of sorts of late, what with the death of her mom and all. Slaying is the furthest thing on her mind, to say the least. In order to regain her focus, our girl heads out to a sacred location on a quest, guided by that freakish and very muddy, first-ever Slayer. Back at the Hellmouth, Spike's got Glory's minions believing he's the Key after he creates an unbelievably life-like robot. Unfortunately for the Scoobies, said robot is a picture perfect replica of Buffy--and it's totally devoted to Spike. Can you say ultimate confusion?

A MEMBER OF THE SCOOBY GANG IS SACRIFICED - Buffy must step up as the authority figure for Dawn now that their mom is gone, all the while fearful that Glory is closer to discovering the Key when a member of the Scooby gang is her latest victim.

BUFFY AND THE GANG FLEE SUNNYDALE - Buffy explodes into action and takes the gang on the road once Glory discovers that Dawn is the Key. While on the run, things happen fast as Giles and Spike are wounded, Dawn learns she has the power to destroy the universe, and Willow stays close to an incoherent Tara.

WILLOW GOES INTO THE MIND OF THE SLAYER TO BRING BUFFY BACK - Buffy slips into catatonia after Glory kidnaps Dawn and prepares to bring about the end of the world, so Willow uses her wicca talents to reach Buffy deep inside her innermost secrets and subconscious fears.

FIFTH SEASON FINALE & 100TH EPISODE WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY JOSS WHEDON - Another imminent apocalypse is at hand in Sunnydale. Buffy must square off against a true God when Glory prepares to use Dawn to break down the walls between the dimensions and unleash all Hell on Earth. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Anya, Tara and Spike go to battle with the knowledge that they may not all survive.