05/10/1999
The Freshman
Buffy
moves into her dorm and attempts to adjust to college life. Everything around her seems to have changed without the constant
interaction with the gang she had in High School. With Giles becoming a 'gentleman of leisure', Willow getting more and more
excited about college and Xander still away on his road trip, she again believes that she must fight and survive on her own
when she discovers a gang of tough vampires operating on campus.
12/10/1999
Living Conditions
Dorm
life proves to be a challenge as Buffy has to deal with a roommate who is more than a little bit difficult. Kathy continually
imposes her idiosyncrasies onto Buffy and even begins to invade her dreams which has Buffy acting just a little too strange
about the situation. Buffy sets her sights on Parker Abrams, the first college guy to pay her any attention, but when Kathy
becomes more friendly with him than her, Buffy declares that she must kill Kathy.
19/10/1999
The Harsh Light of Day
Spike
returns to Sunnydale with his new girlfriend Harmony who is now also a vampire. Spike is searching for the Gem of Amara -
a stone which makes vampires invulnerable, which he believes is buried somewhere under Sunnydale. Buffy is preoccupied with
her budding relationship with Parker and sleeps with him but he proceeds to ignore her. Meanwhile Anya returns and throws
herself at a flabbergasted Xander.
Note
- Storyline continued on Angel
26/10/1999
Fear, Itself
To
help Buffy get over the pain of having been used by Parker, the gang head to a fraternity Halloween party expecting a few
cheap scares and a bit of harmless fun. Unfortunately, some accidental magic turns the party into a house of horrors where
everyone's fears come to life.
02/11/1999
Beer Bad
Still
trying to come to terms with Parker's womanising, Buffy starts to hang out at the college bar where she and a group of upperclass
students really regress when they start drinking a 'special' beer.
09/11/1999
Wild At Heart
Oz
escapes from his cage during a full moon and runs across another werewolf, the sultry, sexy singer Veruca; and wakes up next
to her naked in the wilderness the next morning.
16/11/1999
The Initiative
Spike,
after being captured by the commandos, is being held hostage by them in a hi-tech facility underneath the University. He manages
to escape and heads to find Buffy, whom he assumes is behind this. Instead, he finds Willow...
23/11/1999
Pangs
Angel
covertly comes to Sunnydale fearing Buffy is in danger after Doyle's vision of her in Angel.
While digging for a new Cultural Centre at the college, Xander falls into a sacred Indian burial area and releases
Hus, a vengeance spirit of the Chumash Indians, the original residents of the Sunnydale area. Buffy is busily planning a traditional
home cooked Thanksgiving while people around Sunnydale are being killed and Xander gets sicker and sicker. Hus summons a group
of warriors and they attack Buffy and the gang at Giles' house. With Angel's help they repel the attackers until Buffy finds
a way to kill Hus. As they sit down to dinner Xander lets it slip that Angel
was in town.
Note
- Storyline continued on Angel
30/11/1999
Something Blue
Willow,
in her attempt to get over Oz, casts a spell that ends up causing all sorts of chaos for the gang. Giles goes blind, Xander
becomes a demon magnet, and Buffy and Spike fall in love and get engaged.
14/12/1999
Hush
The
entire town of Sunnydale goes silent when a group of fairy tale demons called
The Gentlemen appear and steal everyone's voices. Without being vulnerable to the one thing that can kill them (a human scream)
they are free to steal the hearts of seven people. Buffy and gang must solve the mystery and overcome the bad guys without
being able to discuss anything.
18/01/2000
Doomed
Buffy
and Riley have to work out their relationship given their new understanding of what they do. An earthquake rocks Sunnydale
and Buffy worries that it could signify the end of the world. They find out about a group of demons who are in town collecting
sacred items which together have the power to end the world. When the plans of
the demons are uncovered, the gang must return to their former sanctum inside the dilapidated Sunnydale
High School (the library) to stop the Hellmouth from opening.
25/01/2000
A New Man
At
Buffy's 19th birthday party, Giles finally realises that he is a middle-aged man hanging around with a bunch of teenagers
and starts to get depressed about his life. He feels even more like the third wheel when he finds out about Riley and the
Initiative, which Buffy neglected to tell him about. When Ethan Rayne returns to town, instead of kicking his butt back to
England, Giles goes for a drink with him. The next morning
Giles wakes up and notices that he has turned into a demon.
08/02/2000
The I In Team
Buffy becomes
familiar with the Initiative and begins to work with them although they are still unaware of her true power as a Slayer. After
Buffy abandons her friends at the Bronze for a mission with the Initiative, Buffy and Riley consummate their relationship
unaware that they are being watched on a hidden camera by Walsh. Meanwhile, Giles and the rest of the gang remove a tracking
device the commandos shot into Spike's back.
Killed
– Professor Walsh (by Adam)
15/02/2000
Goodbye Iowa
Buffy
and Riley get mutually suspicious of each other when Buffy reveals that Professor Walsh tried to have her killed. When Professor
Walsh is found dead things get even more out of hand, with the commandos quick to blame Buffy. Riley is even more agitated
when he sees Buffy with Spike and then again at Willy's Place. Riley progressively gets sicker and we learn that the commandos
have been taking medication to increase their strength. Meanwhile the man-demon-machine
Adam that Professor Walsh created is roaming Sunnydale and even Buffy can't seem to stop him.
22/02/2000
This Year's Girl
Faith,
still in a coma in the hospital, is dreaming of being pursued by Buffy. Riley, partially recovered from his encounter with
Adam leaves the Initiative infirmary and joins up with Buffy. While Buffy and gang plot how to go after Adam, Buffy finds
out that Faith has awoken. Faith wants revenge and confronts Buffy. A message from the Mayor and a mysterious device come
to Faith through a friend of the Mayor's (a demon who Faith kills). Later Faith goes after Joyce in her own home and of course
Buffy arrives to save the day. Faith uses the device with unknown powers before Buffy strikes her down.
29/02/2000
Who Are You?
After
Faith switches bodies with Buffy via the device that was left for her by the Mayor, she begins to slip into Buffy's life.
When the police try to take away Faith (Buffy in Faith's body) she is kidnapped by a special group from the Watcher's Council.
As Buffy tries in vain to convince them that she is not Faith, Faith in Buffy's body is out having a good time. Willow attempts
to introduce Tara to Buffy but when Tara senses that something is amiss they
perform a spell which uncovers the switch. The man/demon/machine Adam has determined
that his purpose is to kill and recruits some vampires to help. The vampires take over a church and both Faith and Buffy arrive
to stop them. Using a Katra that Willow and Tara conjured,
Buffy gets her own body back and Faith runs and disappears without a trace.
04/04/2000
Superstar
Buffy,
Willow, Xander and Anya are out hunting vampires and kill one of a pair. They
track the other to a nest and decide to call in the big guns and visit... Jonathan.
25/04/2000 Where the Wild Things Are
Buffy
and Riley are spending all their time in bed (and they're not sleeping). Their round-the-clock exploration of each other awakens
the spirits of children who were sexually repressed by their foster mother back when Lowell House was a home for orphaned
and runaway kids. Willow, Giles and Tara divert the angry
children while Xander and Anya go to try and stop Buffy and Riley.
02/05/2000
New Moon Rising
Tara
and Willow's relationship seems to be progressing when Oz returns to town. Through
his travels Oz has found a combination of charms, potions and meditation that allows him to avoid turning into a werewolf.
When Oz discovers that Willow and Tara are more than friends
he loses control and as a werewolf chases Tara.
09/05/2000
The Yoko Factor
Adam
enlists Spike to turn the gang against each other, leaving Buffy alone and helpless. Spike plays on their fears of how the
others perceive them, telling Xander that Willow and Buffy no longer think that they need him and that he would be better
off joining the Army; telling Willow that Xander and Buffy believe her experimenting with magick is just a phase; and elaborating
on Giles' own beliefs that he no longer needs to be in Sunnydale. Giles ends
up drunk while Buffy, Willow and Xander fight. Angel comes from L.A.
to apologize to Buffy after their fight over Faith in 'Angel' but he ends up fighting with Riley. Buffy sees Adam kill Forrest
and tells Riley. The distraught Riley goes to confront Adam while Buffy determines she has to face him alone.
Note
- Storyline continued from Angel
16/05/2000
Primeval
Adam tells
Riley that he has a behavior modification chip wired to his central nervous system behind his heart. Through the chip Adam
has control over Riley. When Buffy find Spike in Adam's cave she figures out that he intentionally tried to split up the gang.
Buffy tells the rest of them and the find that Adam wants Buffy to go to the Initiative as part of his plan. Xander suggests
that they need the power of all the gang members combined to defeat Adam and Giles agrees. The gang all break into the Initiative.
Killed
– Forrest (Decapitated by Riley)
Killed
– Adam (Magically Zapped by Super Buffy)
23/05/2000
Restless
Buffy, Xander,
Giles and Willow sit down to watch videos after defeating Adam. They enter a bizarre
dream world where they are pursued by a primitive force that they released via their enjoining spell. The force turns out
to be the spirit of the first Slayer who speaks through Tara in their dream world and is confronting
each of them with their deepest secrets and fears before killing them. Buffy eventually dispatches the primitive girl by ignoring
her and they all wake up.