Season 2







When She Was Bad

Buffy returns to Sunnydale after spending the summer with her father in LA. Immediately the vampire activity begins again. It is evident something is bothering Buffy because she is acting like a 'bitca'. Master's minions are in the process of reassembling him. In order to bring him back to life, the minions must assemble everyone who was with him when he died - i.e. Giles, Ms. Calendar, Willow and Cordelia. Buffy, as usual, comes to their rescue.

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Some Assembly Required

Bodies of four teenage are stolen from their graves. When found, body parts are missing. Clues lead to Chris - a scientist who has become withdrawn since his brother, Daryl's death in a football accident. It turns out that Chris has resembled his brother and brought him back to life. With the help of his friend Eric, they are making Daryl a dream girlfriend, made so far out of the three girl. She does not have a head. They want Cordelia for that. When Buffy saves her she also becomes a target. She saves everyone. It ends with Buffy talking to Angel.

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School Hard

Buffy is threatened with expulsion - the only way around it is to plan parent-teacher night. Meanwhile a new demons are in town - Spike and his insane girlfriend, Drucilla. Even the anointed one won't cross them. While Buffy tries to keep her mother from Principle Snyder, Spike and some other vampires crash the night. The anointed one is annoyed when Spike fails to kill Buffy. Spike solves this problem by eliminating the 'annoying one.'

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Inca Mummy Girl

Sunnydale is involved in a exchange student program. During a field trip to the museum, a boy releases a mummy that kisses men and sucks the life out of them in order to survive. And Buffy's exchange student both meet this fate. The mummy then pretends to be Buffy's exchange student. But Buffy knows something is wrong. Xander falls for the mummy girl. In order to trap the mummy, the seal which was broken with her release must be put back together. Which is done just in time to save Xander from the terrible fate met by other men.

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Reptile Boy

Cordelia and Buffy attend a frat party. However, they are there in order to feed the master of the frat - reptile boy. Of course Giles and the gang, including Angel, get there in time to save Cordelia and Buffy. Which is lucky for Buffy considering she lied to Giles. Angel shows up at the bronze afterwards and asks Buffy out for coffee.

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Halloween

There is a new costume place in town where everyone decides to get their costumes. This proves deadly because the owner of the store, Ethan, has put a spell on the costumes that makes the wearer turn into what they are dressed as. Willow is a ghost, Xander is an army guy, and Buffy is an 18th century noblewoman. This is a little problem. Giles eventually breaks the statue which will break the spell. Ethan threatens to tell his secrets to Sunnydale and leaves.

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Lie To Me

A boyfriend of Buffy's from LA shows up in Sunnydale. He knows that she is the slayer. We next see him offering Buffy to Spike in return for immortality. Buffy is tricked into going into a warehouse where Ford is waiting for her. Angel had gotten a bad feeling about Ford and he enlists Willow's help. It turns out he is not registered in Sunnydale High school. At the warehouse Ford tells Buffy that he only has six months to live. When Spike and Dru and their friends show up, Buffy escapes by threatening to kill Dru. Ford is killed.

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What's My Line (2 Parts)

It's career week at school. Spike has discovered a way to cure Druscilla. Spike gets the bounty hunters to keep Buffy busy while he cures Drucilla. Giles figures out what's going on pretty quickly. The bounty hunters come - one is disguised as a door to door cosmetic salesman, one is an evil looking guy and one is a beautiful woman. While Buffy goes ice skating with Angel, the evil guy comes and attacks them. Buffy kills him and Angel identifies the ring the guy was wearing as The Order of Teraka - deadly assassins. Buffy goes to Angel's and Angel goes to a bar where the beautiful woman attacks him and locks him in a cage awaiting the sunlight. Xander and Cordelia go to Buffy's house to look for her and Cordy lets the cosmetic salesman in. And he turns into maggots and they have to hide in the basement. Angel is rescued by the guy at the bar only to be given to Spike and Druscilla. He is weak and can't fight them off. Back at Angel's the woman tries to kill Buffy. She introduces herself as Kendra the vampire slayer. Kendra was summoned when Buffy died (last season). When the new moon comes that night Spike will perform the ritual (Angel is needed) and Angel will die. Xander and Cordy kiss. Willow meets Oz. At the fair a policewoman tries to kill Buffy, shooting Oz instead. Buffy, eventually, finds Angel and saves him. The church collapses and Buffy and the gang believes that Spike and Druscilla are dead Dru's all better though, but Spike is injured.

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Ted

John Ritter guest stars as Ted, Buffy's mother's boyfriend. He seems great; he cooks and is a computer specialist. Buffy's too smart for that and after many run-ins with him she's really worried. It turns out that the cookies Ted has been feeding everyone have a tranquilizer in them. Cordy discovers Ted has four wives. When he reads Buffy's diary, she accidentally kills Ted, but then he comes back. Xander, Willow and Cordy find Ted's dead wives in a closet. Buffy stabs him and discovers he's a robot. He goes to see Joyce but starts short circuiting. Buffy bashes him on the head and he's dead.

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Bad Eggs

Buffy runs into a cowboy vampire at the mall when she's supposed to be doing an errand for her mother. By the time she's done, the store is closed and Joyce is mad at her daughter's lack of responsibility. The next day they get to take care of eggs, as if they were babies, for a school assignment. Buffy's eagg hatches, and an icky thing comes out. She kills it and calls Willow, who says her egg is normal. The hatched egg however is beside her. Xander is fine; he boiled his egg. Cordy and Willow, possessed, knock Xander and Buffy out and put them in a closet with two eggs. Buffy, of course squishes them. We see that Giles is also possessed by an egg and he makes sure that Joyce is too. Buffy figures out what is happening the mother bazor, for whom the possessed people were working.

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Surprise

It's Buffy's Birthday. She dreams about Druscilla killing Angel and her mother dropping a plate and Willow sitting at a table with a monkey. Willow talks to Oz and he agrees to be her date for Buffy's birthday party. After Buffy tells Giles of her nightmare, he tells her that Dru could be alive. And alive she is. Jenny is a gypsy sent to keep Angel and Buffy apart. Oz finds out that Buffy is the slayer. The box, brought by a vampire, when opened by Buffy produces an arm that almost kills her. Angel explains that it is part of the judge, a demon that no weapon forged of man can destroy. He was taken apart and each part was put in a different part of the world. It seems Dru and Spike are reassembling him. Angel must leave with the arm immediately, so Buffy goes with him to the docks where they are attacked and the arm is taken. Angel and Buffy go to the factory to see how far they have gotten. The judge is complete and Buffy and Angel barely escape with their lives. They go back to Angel's where Angel says he loves her and they make love. Angel awakens a short time later and is in terrible pain. He runs out on the street calling her name.

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Innocence

Angel has lost his soul and is an evil vampire now. Buffy wakes up and he's not there so she goes home. Then when she gets to school she tells everyone that the judge is already assembled. Angel returns to the factory but this time the Judge can't kill him. Willow see Xander and Cordy kissing and freaks out. Buffy finds Angel at his house and he is rude and distant. Angel tries to kill Willow at the school but she is saved by Jenny. Buffy dreams about Jenny and being the salyer, figures it all out. The next day she goes to her class and asks her what she knows. Jenny tells her everything and they go to see her uncle who has been killed my Angel. Xander sneaks into a military base to steal a weapon he is sure will hurt the Judge. The Judge, Angel and Dru go to the mall so that he can get even stronger. Xander, Buffy and the rest of them show up and Buffy blows away the Judge. Buffy and Angel fight but she can't kill him.

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Phases

Willow meets up with Oz where he is looking at a cheerleading trophy where the eyes move (Amy's mother). A werewolf is in Sunnydale. He appears the three days around the full moon. The werewolf is Oz. Willow almost gets killed by him. He runs out of his house and is almost killed by a werewolf hunter. Angel kills one of Buffy's friends. Buffy eventually sedates Oz, and all is well.

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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

It's valentines day and Xander gives Cordy a heart pendant necklace and she breaks up with him. Xander is hurt and enlists Amy's help in putting a love spell on Cordy. Buffy receives flowers - from Angel. The note says "soon". The spell backfires. Everyone but Cordy loves Xander, even Dru. Amy is also affected and turns Buffy into a rat, which Oz has to hunt down. Xander and Cordy run away to Buffy's house where they are followed by a huge mob of girls, where Buffy's mom falls for him. Amy and Giles perform the reversal spell just in time to save Xander and Cordelia from being killed. It ends with Cordelia insulting her friends in favor of Xander.

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Passion

This episode focuses on the repercussions of Angel's transformation. Jenny is trying to restore his soul. Buffy realizes that she must find a way to revoke her invitation to Angle into her house. When it is found they perform the ritual just in time to save Buffy's mother. It can't work in the school, however, because of the banner over the door. Jenny has everything ready to restore Angel's soul. She has everything translated and saved on a disk and printed out when Angel appears. He destroys everything but the disk and kills Jenny, then brings her to Giles house for him to find. Just before he goes with the police, he calls Buffy and tells her. Angel is outside her window to watch her reaction. She is finally ready to kill angel. Giles goes to kill Angel but Buffy has to go save him. But she couldn't save him and kill Angel so gets away. Willow is the new substitute for Jenny and as she's cleaning up she knocks the disk between the desk and the filing cabinet.

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Killed by Death

Buffy gets the flu and almost dies in an attempt to save her friends from Angel. She is forced to go into the hospital. There she sees a boy followed by a demonic looking man. She has a flash back to when she was younger and was in the hospital visiting her cousin who died. She walks down the hallway to see a young girl, recently deceased being wheeled out of her room. She sees the boy again and he tells her that Death is coming for them and grownups can't see it. Research proves to Buffy that that was how her cousin died. Buffy makes herself get the fever again so that she can see him and then she saves the kids by breaking his neck.

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I Only Have Eyes For You

A ghost is haunting Sunnydale and has led to the death of one person. Willow does some research that showes that a woman was killed by a student that she was having an affair with and then the student killed himself. Giles, meanwhile, in his grieving over Jenny is sure that Jenny is haunting the school. Willow decides that they must exorcise the ghost but before they can succeed they are chased out of the school by wasps. However Buffy is called back to the school where she finds Angel. They reenact the death scene, where she is the student. Of course, when she shoots Angel, he doesn't die and the cycle can be ended. The spirit leaves this realm. It ends with Spike getting up out of his wheelchair.

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Go Fish

The swim team is being transformed into monsters by the coach, using steroids in the sauna steam. It is turning the team into fish-like creatures. Including Xander who was trying to impress Cordy by participating in the swim team. At the end a simple blood transfusion saves those who have not yet changed and those who have changed are swimming out into the ocean.

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Becoming

In this episode we learn of Angel's beginnings. He was made by Darla in 1753. He meets up with Druscilla in 1860. In 1898 his soul was returned to him by a Gypsy woman because he killed a gypsy girl and must be punished for it. In Manhattan 1996 Angel is living as a bum. He is approached by Whistler, who is also a good demon. He offers Angel a chance to become something important but first he must see something. LA 1996- Angel watches as Buffy meets her watcher for the first time. After following her around for the day he tells Whistler that he wanst to do something worthwhile. Present Time: Giles visits a museum where a newly discover stone artifact has been found. Giles suggests they leave it alone until he deciphers the writing found on it. Dru, Spike and Angelus read about the artifact and Angelus immediately knows what it is. At school Willow is tutoring Buffy for her final exams when Buffy drops her pencil beside the desk leading her to find the disk that was lost when Jenny died. Willow looks at it and finds the curse to restore Angel's soul. Angel and the company go and take the statue from the museum. Buffy and Willow show Giles the curse and Willow says she'll do it. Xander is upset because he believes that Angel should suffer for what he has done. Buffy goes for a walk and meets Kendra who is there to fight another dark force. A vampire comes to Buffy while she is taking a final exam and tells her she must meet Angel that night. Willow performs the ceremony that night while Buffy goes to fight Angel. It doesn't take long to figure out that the fight was a ploy to get Buffy away from the library. While she was gone, vampires raided the library, knocking Willow and Giles unconscious, breaking Xander's arm. And Dru kills Kendra. When Buffy gets there it's too late. She is beside Kendra's body when the police arrive.

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The Becoming 2

The police officers rush into the library obviously thinking that Buffy killed Kendra. Buffy escapes and has to disguise herself. She goes to the hospital where she runs into Xander. They go to Willow's room - she's in a coma. Cordy comes to the hospital and Giles is missing - the vampires have taken him. Joyce learns that Buffy is a murder suspect. Buffy goes to Giles' and meets Whistler. He tells how Angel was supposed to stop Acathla not release him. Two officers spot Buffy as she is leaving but Spike saves her. He wants her help in stopping Angel so he can have Dru back. They go back to Buffy's where she is force to slay a vampire in front of her mother, causing her to explain everything to her mother. Giles, meanwhile refuses to tell Angel how to release Acathla. Joyce kicks Buffy out of the house and Buffy goes to the library to get the sword that Kendra brought with her. Principle Snyder is there and he expels her from school. Dru tricks Giles into telling the secret - Angel's blood. Buffy goes back to Whistler to find out how to close the vortex. Willow is performing the ritual and becomes possessed. Xander saves Giles. Spike beats up Angel and Dru attacks Spike. Angel gets away and pulls out the sword. Just before Buffy blows the final plunge the ritual is finished. Buffy stops realizing what has happened but it is too late. She kisses Angel one last time before plunging the sword into him and closing the vortex. Buffy goes home and packs, leaving her mother a note. She gets on a bus to destination unknown leaving everyone to wonder what will happen.

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