Passion
Buffy wakes up to find a charcoal drawing of herself sleeping left on her bed by Angel, and Willow finds her fish dead in an envolope in her bedroom. After their behest, Giles searches for a spell that will uninvite the vampire from the Summers and Rosenberg residences. The spell comes from Jenny, meant as a reconciliation gesture. angel meanwhile, plays the stalking ex-boyfriend role on Joyce, complete with mention of the fact that they made love, which leads to a rather difficult conversation between Joyce and her daughter. Meanwhile, Jenny is working to try and translate the spell that would return Angel's soul to him. Late one night, she finally does so, saving the file to a disk and printing it out. However, Angel has learned of this project, thanks to a prophetic vision from Drusilla, and destroys Jenny's computer and the printout, and brutally kills Jenny. He then places the body in Giles's bedroom, setting the place up with champagne and red roses, making it all the more devastating when he finds the corpse. The move backfires rather spectacularly, as Giles firebombs the Factory and manages to do some serious damage to Angel before the vampire gets the upper hand. Luckily, Buffy shows up and proceeds to pound Angel, though she is forced to cut it short in order to save Giles from the fire.
Jennt has a few heartfelt conversations with Giles("I know you feel betrayed." "Yes, well that's one of the unpleasant side effects of betrayal"), even admitting she loves him. Despite Buffy's anger at Jenny, the Slayer does encourage Jenny to try to reconcile with Giles because he misses her, even if he won't admit it. Her death puts Giles in full "Ripper" mode. The Angel-Drusilla-Spike triangle gets worse. Dru gets Spike a puppy that she names Sunshine, which makes Spike feel like he needs to be fed like a child, and Angel's jokes about Spike's wheelchair-bound condition grow crueler.
The Slayerettescast a spell that unvites Angel from the Summers house, the Rosenberg house, and Cordelia's car. When Buffy warns her mother about Angel possibly coming around, Joyce remembers him as, "the college boy who's tutoring you in history". Using a computer program, Jenny manages to re-create the spell that originally cursed Angel, but the only copy is on a disk that falls under her desk, where it remains until "Becoming, Part 1". At the end of the episode, Willow becomes the substitute computer-science teacher, a post she winds up retaining for the balance of the school year. The Factory, which has been vampire headquarters all season is desroyed by Giles, which will lead Angel, Spike, and Drusilla to take up residence in the mansion.
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