Buffy, Xander and Dawn are unable to find Willow, whose return to Sunnydale is marred by a demon who relishes the skin of his victims.
Buffy is settling in to her counselor's role at the high school helping troubled teens and sorting out problems, but is left speechless when Cassie, a student, comes to her and calmly tells her that she (Cassie) has only a week to live.
Buffy meets her destiny in the series finale when she leads the Scoobies, the Potentials and Angel into the Hellmouth for a final showdown with the First.
Buffy's life is a mess when her mother discovers her secret life, and she's expelled from school and forced to make a heart-wrenching decision when both Angel's and Willow's rituals succeed.
Buffy's in LA, hiding from her friends, family and destiny, but she has to face who she is when something demonic is threatening kids living on the streets.
Buffy is infected with the uncontrollable ability to read minds, which threatens to drive her insane; it also unearths a plot to commit mass murder at the school, and the gang must save the day.
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Buffy is rescued by Angel, the mysterious stranger she met in episode one, from a trio of deadly vampires.
Buffy returns from her summer holiday acting a little strangely, she seems determined to irritate or estrange all her friends.
Buffy is rendered normal when her, Willow and Xander, along with the children they're escorting, are transformed into their Halloween costumes.
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The Master was supposed to be revived by his right-hand child, the Anointed One, but his plans were stopped by Buffy, and the Anointed One was later killed by Spike.
Buffy threw The Master through a skylight in the roof, and he was impaled upon the broken table leg.
However, the flashback to 1609 in the episodeDarla shows the Master already with his bat-like demonic visage, meaning he was far older than just 600 years by 1997, as this would have made the Master just 200 by 1609.
Buffy, Dawn, Willow and Tara gather to go over the few items Buffy managed to steal from the Trio's lair and they all realize that the rest of the group won't be helping since they all have other priorities or lack an interest to help.
Buffy patrols and fights with a couple of vampires and before turning to dust, one manages to kick her back into a tombstone, injuring her.
Buffy and Xander topple to the ground as the window to Willow's bedroom is broken and a bullet strikes Tara in the back as she's facing Willow.
Editor's note: This article reveals significant plot points for the final episode of "Buffy the VampireSlayer." Readers who have recorded the show for later viewing and fans from areas where the show has not yet aired might wish to read our spoiler-free preview article instead.
That was the challenge facing Joss Whedon and his team Tuesday in the final episode of "Buffy the VampireSlayer." The critically acclaimed show ended its seven-year run by averting yet another apocalypse and defeating the First Evil, an elemental force of nature that amassed an army of "uber-vampires" to take over the Earth.
Plot lines hinted at in the penultimate episode -- the return of Buffy'svampire ex-boyfriend Angel, the jealousy of vampire boyfriend Spike, and evil preacher Caleb's stubborn refusal to die -- were dispatched in the first few minutes.
Buffy must stop a heartbroken young woman -- a robot who was manufactured to be the perfect girlfriend -- from destroying the city.
Buffy is jolted by the reappearance of Riley, who needs her to help him -- and his new wife -- track a demon egg nest.
Buffy chats with a vampiric former classmate from college, Dawn talks with the ghost (?) of her mother Joyce, and Willow is visited by a ghost claiming to have a message from Tara.
Wanting to be rid of Xander for good, Cordelia comes to the conclusion that Buffy is the cause of all her problems and makes a wish that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale.
This episode is number six in Joss Whedon's list of his top ten favorite episodes according to The Last Sundown featurette in the season seven DVD box set.
Cordeliawishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale in the first place in the hopes that she'd never get tangled up in the supernatural and end up getting together with Xander.
When I first saw this episode I found myself wanting to see more of this Buffy's life and how she got to the point she was at.
What we need to see in an episode like this is a glimpse at how all the main characters would have turned out had Buffy not arrived, and the episode does just that.
This episode is a much welcome improvement for him, and is a major stepping stone in the show's early days.
This is the first episode to blur the lines between good and evil, which previously were defined: The Master and his minions on one side, Buffy and her friends on the other.
Buffy has been able to keep her mother in the dark about the truth, but this breech is clear that it will eventually crumble, something that plays out further in futureepisodes, which makes her survival worthwhile.
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Nightmares: This episode shows everyones worst nightmare: Cordelia is forced to join the socially maladroit chess team, Xander enters class clad only in his underpants, Willow is forced to perform onstage, Buffy gets flung into her grave, and Giles, visiting Buffys grave, gets a grab like nothing since Carrie.
Innocence--After Buffy shares an intimate moment with Angel which extinguishes his human souls, she is left with the realization that she must destroy the now-evil Angel who has transformed into his previous persona of Angelus.
Buffy tries to help, but she finds that both she and Angel are dealing with something far more complex than a simple haunting.
He's impressed that Buffy knows what a 'bastinado' is. (It's a rod that's used to beat the soles of the feet in Turkish prisons.) They discuss the requirements of Buffy's job and some of the things she may encounter.
Spike starts rambling to Buffy that he's a changed man. He hands a flashlight to Buffy and as their hands touch, she flinches away and has a flashback of Spike's attempted rape of her.
Buffy informs Spike of her distrust of him, and Spike claims he understands.
This wish allows Anyanka to create an alternate reality where the Master rose, Willow and Xander are vampires, Angel is their slave, and Giles, Oz, and Larry work alone to fight evil.
When Cordelia informs Giles that Buffy should have been in Sunnydale, he summons her and she battles the Master, but, without the help of her friends, Buffy is killed.
This episode is mainly inspired by the Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, in which George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) wishes he had never been born, and is then shown by an angel how much worse his loved ones' lives would have been without him.
Buffy, Xander and Dawn are unable to find Willow, who has inadvertently made herself invisible to her friends, and vice versa.
Buffy chats with a former classmate and current vampire, Dawn is visited by Joyce, and Willow is visited by an imposter pretending to have a message from Tara.
Buffy accepts a dinner invitation from Principal Wood, who reveals that he's a former Slayer's son; Anya is jealous when Xander has a date (who, as usual, turns out to be a demon).
Editor's note: This article reveals significant plot points for the final episode of "Buffy the VampireSlayer." Readers who have recorded the show for later viewing and fans from areas where the show has not yet aired might wish to read our spoiler-free preview article instead.
That was the challenge facing Joss Whedon and his team Tuesday in the final episode of "Buffy the VampireSlayer." The critically acclaimed show ended its seven-year run by averting yet another apocalypse and defeating the First Evil, an elemental force of nature that amassed an army of "uber-vampires" to take over the Earth.
Plot lines hinted at in the penultimate episode -- the return of Buffy'svampire ex-boyfriend Angel, the jealousy of vampire boyfriend Spike, and evil preacher Caleb's stubborn refusal to die -- were dispatched in the first few minutes.
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3- 9 3ABB09 8 Dec 98 The Wish 44.
5- 1 5ABB01 26 Sep 00 Buffy vs. Dracula 80.
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Meanwhile, Riley runs into a starry-eyed Buffy, who tells him that she is engaged to a much older man (although not as old as her last boyfriend).
The next day, Buffy must tell a baffled Riley that she made the whole thing up as a joke.
In the teaser Buffy mentions seeing Angel in LA only for 5 minutes - which is true, from her point of view anyway.