Ted
Buffy comes home to find her mother kissing a strange man. He is introduced as Ted, and he and Joyce have been seeing each other for some time. Buffy is leary of this new man in her mother's life. Xander and Willow disagree-sure, he talks like a 50's sitcom character, but he's a magnificent cook, and her mother seems happy. But Buffy is not convinced, especially after he threatens her during a miniature golf game when the pair of them are out of sight of the others. When Buffy returns from a night of slaying, she finds Ted in her bedroom, having gone through her diary. She is justifiably angry at the invasion of her privacy, but her attempts to complain result in his striking her. That gives her the excuse she needs to wallop him-so much so that he falls down the stairs, dead. The police question her, and let her go for the time being. Buffy is devastated at this abuse of her powers as the Slayer. But then, while Xander, Willow, and Cordelia dig deeper into Ted's life-finding drugs in his cookies, marriages dating to 1957, and odd things in his closet-Ted himself turns up alive at the Summers' house. He turns out to be a robot, and what's in his closet are his four previous wives. Buffy kills the robot and her mother is shocked and yet relieved. Also, Giles makes an attempt to reconcile with Jenny, which she initially rebuffs. Later when Giles is doing Buffy's rounds in her place following Ted' apparent death, Jenny attempts a reconciliation and proves that love means never having to say, "I'm sorry I shot you with a crossbow bolt". Cordelia and Xander's tryst continues in secret, and Angel and Buffy indulge in smoochies while she helps him recover from his injuries.
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