Season 2

EPISODE 1: When She was Bad: It's been a quiet summer in Sunnydale. Buffy has been away in LA visiting her dad and vampire activity has been non-existent. Just as things start to get interesting between Xander and Willow with their first kiss, a vampire shows up to spoil the moment. The next moment Buffy shows up to dust the vampire, but not everything is back to normal. coming back to Sunnydale involves a lot of baggage, and Buffy seems distant to that of her normal self. It turns out that death and resurrection aren't easy things for a 16 year old to deal with. When the Anointed One exhumes the Master's bones to resurect him, Buffy's training gets as intense as her resolve gets nasty. But when Willow, Cordelia, Giles and Ms. Calender are abducted to complete the ritual, Buffy then leaps into Slayer mode and finally breaks down when it is all over, working through her emotional turmoil by pulverising the Master's skeletal remains.

EPISODE 2: Some Assembly Required: When the body of a girl killed in a car accident is dragged from her grave, and bodies start to disappear fom the morgue, and parts of corpses turn up in dumpsters, the consensus is that there is a legion of zombies roaming around or a flesh eating daemon on the loose. Actually it's a mis-guided year book guy, Chris Epps, and his friend Eric, who are trying to build a zombie dream woman for his undead and lonely brother, Daryl. while limiting their parts to deceased young ladies, Daryl thinks that Cordelia's head would make the perfect finish to his new girlfriend.

EPISODE 3: School Hard: Angel's old friends Spike and Drusilla turn up in Sunnydale looking for fresh blood and set up camp with the Anointed One. Spike says that he will kill the slayer on the night of St. Vigeous - a big day among vampires. Eager to kill his third slayer, Spike and some of his friends turn up at the school's parents evening looking for Buffy, but is hampered by Buffy's mother who whacks Spike over the back of the head with an axe. Irritated Spike takes out his frustration on the Anointed One, while the official story is that a gang high on PCP was responsible for the damage at the parent's evening.

EPISODE 4: Inca Mummy Girl: This time round the object of Xander's affections is not a giant bug, no this time it's a mummy who feeds on the life force of others to stay alive. Brought back to life when a trouble making student steals a plate from her crypt, the mummy decides to pass her self off as an exchange student that Buffy's mum was expecting. Though not with much luggage she did bring with her a man who keeps jumping out of bushes trying to return her to her tomb.

EPISODE 5: Reptile Boy: Cordelia's dating a smarmy guy whose charming friend Tom has his eye on Buffy, so Cordelia gets Buffy to join her at a Delta Zeta Kappa party. Suspicious of any male near Buffy, Xander infiltrates the party, but is soon discovered and thrown out, about the same time that Tom turns out to be not as nice as previously thought and drug's Buffy's drink. Awaking chained to a basement wall, in-between Cordelia and another girl, Buffy realises how twisted Tom is when he offers the girls as sacrifices to Machida, a half man, half snake demon.

EPISODE 6: Halloween: traditionally Halloween is a slow day for vampire activity, but when trick or treaters, start to become the characters they are dressed up as, things seem a little weird. Willow becomes a ghost, Xander becomes Rambo, and Buffy becomes a proper 18th century girl - like the ones Angel used to date. It turns out that all of the costumes originated from Ethan's costume shop, who not only dabbles in sells, but is an old acquaintance of Giles.

EPISODE 7: Lie To Me: It's tough enough finding out that your boyfriend was once a killer-let alone an active vampire-without having to hear details of his former loves. But things get even more complicated when Buffy learns of Angel's past infatuation with Drusilla and the things that he did to make her a vampire. Things get worse when an old friend of Buffy's, Billy 'Ford' Fordham, shows up in town and turns out to be the leader of a group of misled vampire wanna-be's. Ford makes a deal with Spike to trade Buffy for a set of fangs, but when Buffy hears of the plan and rushes to confront him, she walks right into a trap. Learning the truth behind Ford's obsession with immortality, Buffy escapes, with Ford left behind as Spike and Drusilla's 'dinner' guest.

EPISODE 8: The Dark Age: Philip Henry is frantically looking for Giles, but before he can find him, he is caught by a zombie. Identifyiny his friend at the morgue, Giles explains that they were both part of the same circle of friends who, in their younger days experimented with daemonic possesion. Identifying them by their tattoo-the mark of Eyghon-the daemon is back methodically possesing them, and killing them one by one. Costume shop owner Ethan returns, revealing more about his own and Gile's pasts. But while Buffy is protecting him, he double crosses her and tattoos the mark onto her and removes his own with acid. It turn out that Jenny Calender is the next to feel the wrath of Eyghin, when she gets in the body jumping daemon's way and becomes possesed. Miss Calender is freed when angel steps in to attack the daemon by letting it enter his body.

EPISODE 9: What's My Line? (Part 1): Buffy's classmates discover their own futures courtesy of career aptitude tests, meanwhile Spike is trying to get a vampire version of Giles to translate an ancient text that will restore Drusilla's health. also Spike has called upon the services of the Order of Tarak-a trio of daemon assasins to keep Buffy from interfering with his plans-or anything else ever again. With the first two daemons on a search and destroy mission for Buffy, the third is more interested in getting Angel and leaves him locked in a cage slowly filling with sunlight. The mysterious woman daemon confronts Buffy, battling her to a draw before introducing herself as Kendra-the vampire slayer.

EPISODE 10: What's My Line? (Part 2): Apparently Buffy's brief death at the hand's of the Master started off the next slayer to take her place. As the two slayers sort out the confusion this causes, Buffy discovers Angel's impending doom, and she and Kendra rush to save him, but when they arrive, Angel has already been handed over to Spike, who intends on sacrificing him as a means of restoring Drusilla's health. Menawhile the third daemon confronts Buffy at the career fair. The stress of everything causes Xander and Cordelia's relationship to change from hate to love, as they begin to make out in closets. The two slayers form an alliance as they team up to stop Angel's sacrifice and mistakenly leave Spike and Drusilla for dead.

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EPISODE 12: Bad Eggs: A high school parenting project intended to show the students just how difficult parenting is turns bad when the eggs the students have been given to look after begin to hatch. Inside the eggs are crawly Bezoars which attatch to their human hosts and tun them into zombie slaves harvesting more eggs. but Buffy discovers that her egg is rotten and along with Xander who hard boiled his egg, they are the only two unaffected. Their task is made all the more complicated when Lyle and tector Gorch-a pair of tough cowboy vampires turn up-and atttack Buffy while she is trying to free her friends from the Mother Bezoars control. Both Tector and Buffy are subsequently sucked into the Mother Bezoars slimy pit.....

EPISODE 13: Surprise: It's Buffy's Birthday and some things never change-the fate of the world is at stake as Spike and Drusilla gather the body of the Judge, an immortal Daemon so evil that he was dismembered and his parts spread across the far corners of the Earth to keep him from terrorising the planet ever again. Meanwhile Miss Calender is visited by her gypsy uncle, who instructs to insure that Angel, the vampire that killed her ancestor, keeps his cursed soul intact. With gypsies plotting the end of her love-life and vampires plotting the end of her life, and her friends planning the surprise party of her life' Buffy intercepts a box containig on of the Judge's arms. Calender suggests that Angel take the box to Asia to keep the Judge from being reanimated. As Angel is about to board the ship, Spike's minions overpower Buffy and Angel, to reclaim the arm. Exhausted from the day's events, Buffy and Angel go back to his place and give in to their desires. Having now experienced a moment of true happiness , Angel awakens in pain crying out Buffy's name.

EPISODE 14: Innocence: Buffy's night with Angel has extinguished his human soul and restored him to a blood thirsty vampire. Even the daemonic Judge can find no trace of decency in him as Angel rampages, leavind Buffy in tears and almost biting Willow. Meanwhile, Giles' relationship with Miss Calender is severed when her gypsy ties to Angel are exposed, and Willow is crushed when she discovers that Xander ahs been seeing Cordelia. Saving the world takes precedence however as Xander reverts back to his Halloween guise to gather the military hardware to stop the Judge.

EPISODE 15: Phases: Hairy, smelly, rude and a ravenous appetite-may sound like a typical teenage boy. Unfortunately the teenager in question is a also a werewolf who is terrorizing the town and no-one is quite sure who it is. While a loudmouth called Larry seems to be the best candidate, Xander uncovers his sensitive side and so takes him off the list of suspects. Aside from some bad manners and some property damage, the Werewolf turns out to be innocent and also Willow's new boyfriend Oz. It is actually vampires that have been slimming down the population of Sunnydale. The race is then on to save Oz from a werewolf poacher, but they have to find him first.

EPISODE 16: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: When Cordelia eventually succumbs to the peer presure of her mates and dumps Xander on Valentine's day, he then turns to Amy Madison-a witch-to help him get even. He then convinces Amy to cast a spell which will make Cordelia fall madly in love with him. Unfortunately, as is always the way the spell ends up misfiring, and every woman in Sunnydale apart from Cordelia begin to see Xander in a new light. His obssesive admirers include Willow, Miss Calender, Buffy, Buffy's mom and Drusilla, who will stop at nothing to have him-even if they have to kill him.

EPISODE 17: Passion: Angel's obssesion with driving Buffy mad gets all the more risky when he starts striking closer to her heart and home. His acts range from-sneaking into Buffy's bedroom and sketching her, telling Buffy's mom that he'd slept with her daughter and killing Willow's fish. When Angel discovers that Miss Calender is attempting to translate a spell to enable her to restore his soul, Angel shows up at the school, destroys her computer, burns the printout and vicously snaps her neck and then depositing the corpse in Giles' bed. When Giles finds the body, he snaps. Devestated by the news, Buffy and the gang rush to Giles' home, but he has already left to exact his Revenge on Angel. What goes unnoticed however is that the backup disc containing the spell Jenny was deciphering is sitting behind her desk.

EPISODE 18: Killed By Death: Buffy's slaying skills are reduced by a nasty strain of the flu bug that has half the school under the weather. Weakened by a skirmish with Angel' her friends manage to chase the vampire away and take the nearly unconcious Buffy to hospital. Afraid of hospitals since the death of her cousin Celia, Buffy's recuperation is furthered hampered by the appearance of a ghostly creatur named the Kindestod, who feasts on sick children-the only people besides Buffy that can actually see him. realising that it was Kindestod who killed her cousin Celia, Buffy swallows a dose of the virus to induce the feverish state that allows her to see the otherwise invisible monster before he can kill anymore innocent children.

EPISODE 19: I Only Have Eyes for You: As the Sadie Hawkins dance draws ever closer, disturbingly similar lover's quarels are becomig homicidal. Piecing the crime together through day dreams, Buffy deduces that it is a poltergeist reenacting the events of a murder suicide brought about by a student teacher relationship gone wrong in 1955. When the teacher ended the relationship, the obssesive young lover pulled a gun and shot them both. With his tortured spirit trapped in the school until his tortured soul is granted forgiveness. Giles leads an attempt at exorcising the ghost, but the gang is driven off and the school sealed by a swarm of wasps. When a strange voice summons Buffy back to the school, the ghosts use her and Angel as unwitting vessels to reenact the final murderous confrontation. With it's goal achieved the ghost is freed, leaving Angel and Buffy suprised and disturbed to find themselves in each other's arms again.

EPISODE 20: Go Fish: For the first time in 15 years, Sunnydale is on the verge of becoming state champions in something bar most deaths in one town. With the help of some steroid aromatherapy, the swimming team has been blowing the competition right out of the water. So Xander goes undercover as the newest member of the swim team, discovering the side-effect of the performance enhancer is that it turns the swimmers into slimy black fishmen. When Buffy confronts Coach Marin about his swimmming team's bizarre condition, he tries to turn her into fish food.

EPISODE 21: Becoming Part 1: During this episode Angel's past is revealed, from when he was bitten in Ireland, to his torturing of Drusilla in England, and the restoration of his soul by the gypsies in Romania, to living in the gutters of Manhattan. Though as his past is filled in, he staels an ancient sarcophagus with the power to such the whole of the world into hell. As Willow discovers the disc containing the spell to Restore Angel's soul, Buffy has already set out to destroy him. While en route to stop his evil plan all hell is let loose as Drusilla kills Kendra, who had been sent to help Buffy, Giles is kidnapped, Xander and Willow are injured and Buffy is then framed for the murder of Kendra.

EPISODE 22: Becoming Part 2: Not only is Buffy in charge of saving the world from becoming sucked into hell, she is also now on the run. While Giles is tortured into revealing the final part of the spell to open the portal to Hell, Buffy forms an alliance with Spike to get rid of Angel, who is not best pleased with the competition for Drusilla's attentons from Angel. The two come up with a plan back at Buffy's house where she dusts off avampire right in front of her shoched mother. Rushing to the manshion Spike knocks out Drusilla and drags her away with him. Buffy meanwhile gains the upper hand aainst Angel just as Willow completes the spell to restor his soul, but not before he has time to open the portal that only his blood can now close...

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