26/09/2000 Buffy vs. Dracula
Giles tells
Willow that he's planning to move back to England since he's feeling less then vital to the work in Sunnydale. Meanwhile on patrol, Buffy runs into
a vampire who claims to be Dracula. Dracula turns out to have powers above and beyond the vampire norm such as the ability
to turn into a mist and then re-appear, and the ability to turn into a bat. The
gang sets about researching Dracula. Dracula visits Buffy during the night and drinks some of her blood but leaves her alive
and under his seductive spell. Xander runs into Dracula and also falls under his power and brings Buffy to him. Dracula claims
Buffy's power derives from evil and invites her to feed on him. She does but overcomes his mind control. She is able to slay
him as he re-appears from a mist but he keeps re-appearing and Buffy keeps slaying. Eventually he gives up. Buffy tells Giles of Dracula's comments about her power deriving from evil and her own feelings of hunting
vampires rather than slaying as a duty. Giles agrees to stay on to help research the nature of the slayer.
03/10/2000 Real Me
Buffy's
little sister puts forward her view on the slayer and her friends and feels nothing but contempt for all of them apart from
Xander. Dawn feels in the way when Buffy complains about having to take her school shopping when she is supposed to be training
with Giles. While on patrol, Buffy leaves Dawn with a babysitter, Xander and Anya, but she accidentally invites Harmony into
the house which Buffy does not respond to kindly. Harmony kidnaps Dawn to draw Buffy into a trap and Buffy is obliged to save
her sister, as usual. Meanwhile, Giles takes up tenancy in the recently vacated
magic shop in order for him to slip back into the role of Watcher.
10/10/2000 The Replacement
Are two
Xanders really better than one? We find out when a demon searching for the Slayer accidentally hits Xander with his weapon,
splitting him in two; one with all the positive aspects of his personality, the other with all the negative. While each of
them try to convince the Scooby Gang that the other is a demon, Buffy must find the real demon to put the Xanders back together.
17/10/2000 Out of My Mind
Riley is
in bad shape due to the drugs pumped into him by Prof. Walsh from the Initiative. A special government doctor needs to operate
on Riley before his body can no longer support his heart rate of 150. Riley, however, is doing everything he can to avoid
the medical treatment. It may be because he is scared of what the doctor may do to him, or he may just not want to be a normal
man again. It's up to Buffy to get Riley to the operating room on time, which of course she does, but someone else gets in
the way. Spike's plan is to force the doctor to remove the chip from his brain, therefore freeing him for slayer killing.
24/10/2000 No Place Like Home
Buffy's
mother continues to be sick and the doctors can't figure out why. Buffy finds a strange orb while on patrol and later the
security guard who pointed it out to her shows up in the hospital apparently crazy. Buffy suspects that there's a supernatural
reason behind her mother's illness and goes into a spell-induced trance provided by Willow which reveals Dawn fading in and out of reality.
07/11/2000 Family
Tara's about to celebrate her 20th birthday. Her family arrives — but not to celebrate the occasion.
They've come to take her home before she turns into an evil demon just like her mother did at the same age. When Glory sends
some Lei-Ach demons to take care of the Slayer, Tara inadvertently helps the demons toward their goal by casting a spell to keep her friends from seeing
the demon inside her. When the gang have a fight the resulting group of invisible demons, Tara lifts the spell to help them and they find out her secret.
Willow tries to stop her from leaving with her family, but Tara is convinced of what her father says about her. Spike ends the argument by punching Tara in the face and then flinching from the
pain, proving that she is a human.
14/11/2000 Fool for Love
When a vampire
impales Buffy with her own stake, she wants to find out how her predecessors have lost in battle. Because of Giles' lack of
info on the final battles of previous Slayers she turns to the only person she knows who has killed two: Spike. In exchange
for cash, he not only details why his victims lost their battles, but his personal history as a vampire. Meanwhile, Joyce's
condition worsens and she has to spend the night at the hospital.
Storyline
continued on Angel
21/11/2000 Shadow
Riley is
looking for Buffy at her house, but all he finds is Spike in her room smelling her sweater. Spike informs Riley of Buffy's
mom's illness and rubs it in his face that Buffy told the vampire about it before her own boyfriend. Riley goes to the hospital,
and Buffy gives him plenty to do, like taking care of Dawn and patrolling, but what Riley really wants is to take care of
Buffy. He ends up taking Dawn to an amusement park where they talk about a few things. Despite her good intentions, Dawn makes
Riley feel like he's not good enough for Buffy and that he can't compare to Angel. Later on in the episode he feels even further
away from being close to Buffy, and he goes and gets himself bitten by a vamp whore.
Meanwhile, at the magic shop Giles accidentally sells two very bad, powerful ingredients for a spell to a "young woman",
who turns out to be the all powerful lady who creamed Buffy the last time they fought. Buffy tries to stop her again, but
she's no match for the lady in red who's name we later learn is Glory. With her spell, Glory conjures up a big reptile with
the vision to seek out and find the Key. Once the snake finds out that Dawn is the key, Buffy must keep it from bringing the
news back to Glory.
28/11/2000 Listening to Fear
The Summers
women are at the hospital when the doctor informs Joyce she'll have surgery in two days. The rest of the gang go vampire slaying.
Willow and Tara are
camping out on the roof of a building watching the stars when a large object crashes down in Sunnydale. A mental patient who
has been released from the hospital is walking through the forest when a creature attacks him. At the hospital, the creature
climbs along the ceiling, undetected. Buffy and Joyce talk the doctor into letting Joyce go home until her operation. The
gang finds the location of the crash and the dead body of the released hospital patient. While everyone else goes to find
help, Riley calls Graham. He later advises the military officers who answer the call on how to deal with the situation. At the hospital, the mental patients are attacked by the demon. Buffy's mom continues
to act strangely and say things she doesn't remember. Dawn is hurt when Joyce calls her a "thing", but Buffy comforts her
and tells her to ignore the comment. The gang finds that a Queller demon has been summoned to kill crazy people. Joyce is
attacked by the demon who spits its slime onto her and Dawn comes to the rescue. Buffy eventually hears Dawn's scream and
goes after the demon. Buffy finds Spike stealing pictures from her basement, but can't yell at him as the demon attacks again.
Ben gets into his car at the hospital and Dreg is waiting in the backseat. Ben reveals that he summoned the Queller, to clean
up Glory's mess like he has done all his life. Back at the hospital, Joyce asks
Buffy for the truth about Dawn and she is wheeled away into surgery.
19/12/2000 Into the Woods
At the hospital,
the Scooby Gang awaits news from the doctor about Joyce's surgery and they are all relieved when the surgery is a success.
Dawn spends the night with Xander and Anya. With the house to themselves, Buffy and Riley spend a romantic evening together.
In the middle of the night, Riley sneaks out through the window and Spike follows him into an old building.
09/01/2001 Triangle
Giles goes
off to England to talk to the council about Glory. Meanwhile, Anya and the gang tend to the magic shop. While
attempting a new spell to assist Buffy with her slaying, Willow is distracted by her and Anya's constant bickering and accidentally conjures a troll. Actually
Anya turned the guy into a troll 1000 years ago when he dumped her and she was then offered the chance to become a vengeance
demon. The big, dumb guy goes around smashing things with his hammer until the gang is able to stop him and send him off to
troll land.
23/01/2001 Checkpoint
A team from
the Watchers Council show up in Sunnydale with some info on who or what Glory is. Before they allow Buffy the details however,
they want her to pass a series of psychological and physical tests. They even interview her very nervous gang of friends. Glory shows up at Buffy's house and has a chat with her about the Key and Buffy freaks
and takes Dawn and Joyce to Spike so that he can protect them. After being attacked by a group of human Knights who claim
they will send an army to defeat her if she continues to protect the Key, Buffy decides she's had enough and the Watchers
will have to play her way. Buffy lays down the law and the Watchers agree and
reveal to her what Glory is. Not a demon but a god.
06/02/2001 Blood Ties
Buffy finally
tells her friends about Dawn being the Key and they start acting weird around Dawn, which leads to her seeking answers. She
knows that crazy people know what she is, so she goes to the mental ward at the hospital. While she's there, she runs into
Ben. Ben freaks when she tells him she is the key and tells her to run away fast, but before she gets a chance to get away
from him, he turns into Glory.
13/02/2001 Crush
Buffy notices
that Dawn is spending a lot of time around Spike and surmises that she has a crush on him, which Dawn shoots down saying that
Spike has a crush on Buffy. Meanwhile a vampire has attacked the passengers on a train and Buffy is finding it hard to concentrate
on investigating with the thought that Spike is in love with her.
20/02/2001 I Was Made to Love You
Buffy is
very upset about Spike falling in love with her instead of a nice, good boy that she could date. Spike shows up at the same
party as Buffy, and he gets thrown out a window by a strange girl who has been wandering around looking for a guy named Warren. The whole slaying team agree that the girl is a robot because of the way she acts. Buffy pays a visit to
the girl's supposed boyfriend, Warren and finds out that Warren made the girl, April, to be the perfect girlfriend. April thinks only of Warren and devotes her entire existence
to making him happy. The only problem is that Warren doesn't want her anymore, he has fallen for a real girl and has been running away from the robot.
Killed
– Joyce Summers (natural causes)
27/02/2001 The Body
After finding
Joyce unconscious on the couch, a terrified slayer calls 911. Unfortunately, it's too late to do anything. The paramedics
tell Buffy that her mom had been dead for a while already. We see Dawn at school for the first time, and she's just getting
over the freakout she had after finding out she was the key. Rumors were spread and Dawn was hurt by them, but she feels better
after talking about it with a nice boy in her art class. Buffy interrupts this conversation though to tell her sister the
bad news. Everyone is devastated by this tragedy and they spend the episode grieving,
and dealing with their pain in all sorts of ways. Xander punches through a wall while Willow changes her outfit continuously. They are obviously
very shaken up, especially since they were all so close with Buffy and her family. Even Anya sheds her first human tears.
17/04/2001 Forever
After dealing
with the pain of Joyce's funeral, Buffy falls into the arms of Angel who has come from LA to pay his respects, and he consoles
her on the future and about getting her and Dawn's lives back together. Dawn becomes fixated on using witchcraft to resurrect
her mother and despite her best intentions, Willow actually helps her toward her goal. Dawn gathers information for a powerful spell and enlists
Spike to help her complete the task. He takes her to a witch doctor who gives Dawn some advice and warning. After collecting the final ingredient Dawn performs the spell. Willow warns Buffy about Dawn and she confronts her.
Dawn cries that she has no one, Buffy has been pushing her away since Joyce died and hasn't even cried yet. Buffy tells her
that when everything is over her mother will be truly gone, and she can't face that. Someone approaches the door and knocks
and Buffy rushes to let Joyce in, but Dawn, realising that she was wrong, breaks the spell. Buffy opens the door to an empty
porch, before turning to Dawn and finally crying with her sister.
24/04/2001 Intervention
Buffy and
Giles leave for the desert on a self-discovery/guidance quest led by the First Slayer. While they are gone, Spike decides
to have a little fun with his BuffyBot but the gang mistakes it for the real Buffy and think that she has gone crazy. Meanwhile, Glory's minions also mistake the Buffybot for the Slayer and, noticing
how it acts around Spike, begin to suspect that he is the Key.
01/05/2001 Tough
Love
While Buffy
tries to control a motherless Dawn and bring their lives back to some sort of normalcy, Tara is captured by Glory who is desperately trying to find the
Key.
08/05/2001 Spiral
Buffy, Willow, Tara, and Dawn nearly escape from Glory when
Glory's hit by a truck. Buffy and the Scoobies leave Sunnydale in Spike's RV to run from Glory, as Buffy realizes they'll
never beat Glory.
15/05/2001 The Weight of the World
The Slayer
in Buffy is catatonic due to Glory's abduction of Dawn so Willow psychically enters her mind. Willow goes through a loophole in Buffy's mind and sees several replays of Buffy's childhood when she
first sees her sister; and of Buffy as she is now smothering Dawn to death. Buffy's guilt over Dawn being kidnapped finally
proved to her that she is no match for Glory and she believes she killed Dawn herself.
Meanwhile, Glory vents her frustrations about being stuck on Earth to Dawn and is beginning to feel real human emotions
as the barrier separating her and Ben's psyches becomes weaker. She and Ben fight in a confusing switching back and forth
argument as he tries to help Dawn. Eventually, Ben is the one to give Dawn away to Glory, knowing that it is his life or hers. Spike, Xander and Giles are left to try to figure out how to undermine Glory's plans,
but the options don't look good. Buffy may have to end up choosing between killing her own sister or letting the world be
destroyed.
22/05/2001 The
Gift
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 but she needs Dawn's blood before her home dimension portal
can be opened. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Anya, Tara and Spike go to battle with the knowledge that they may not all survive.
Killed
– Ben (Murdered by Rupert Giles)
Killed
– Buffy Summers (She sacrifices herself to save the world)