Credited
Cast (Changed throughout season):
Sarah
Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
Allyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
Nicholas Bredon as Xander Harris
Marc Blucas as Riley Finn
Emma Caulfield as Anya
Michelle Trachenberg as Dawn Summers
James Marsters as Spike
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
Buffy vs. Dracula
Episode: 5.01
Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: David Solomon
Summary: Dracula comes to Sunnydale after
hearing of Buffy's reputation and attempts to seduce her to his
way of thinking...
First App.: Dawn Summers
Real Me
Episode: 5.02
Written by: David Fury
Directed by: David Grossman
Summary: Dawn writes down her opinions of
everyone in her life and gets captured by Harmony and her new
gang forcing Buffy to rescue her little sister.
The Replacement
Episode: 5.03
Written by: Jane Espenson
Directed by: James A. Contner
Summary: Xander is hit by the energy from a
demon wand and is split into two people - personifying his weak
and strong sides.
Out Of My Mind
Episode: 5.04
Written by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by: David Grossman
Summary: Joyce collapses and is taken to
hospital where the effects of the experiments the Initiative did
on Riley begin to surface. Spike tries, and fails, to have his
chip taken out and discovers that he has feelings for Buffy.
First App.: Ben
No Place Like Home
Episode: 5.05
Written by: Douglas Petrie
Directed by: David Solomon
Summary: Buffy discovers that Dawn is the Key
when a beast hunts down the last member of the order of monks who
put her into her human form.
First App.: Glory
Family
Episode: 5.06
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Summary: Tara's family come to town to bring
her back home but the Scoobies come to her defense and send them
away when she is proved to be quite human.
Fool For Love
Episode: 5.07
Written by: Douglas Petrie
Directed by: Nick Marck
Summary: Spike's past is revealed along with
his obsession with the Slayers he has killed in the past. His
feelings for Buffy become stronger but she rejects him.
Shadow
Episode: 5.08
Written by: David Fury
Directed by: Dan Attias
Summary: Joyce discovers she has a brain
tumor, Glory sends a magic snake to track down the Key for her
and Riley starts to take part in a vary dangerous past time.
Listening To Fear
Episode: 5.09
Written by: Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by: David Solomon
Summary: Creatures appear from the sky to
kill people who are showing signs of madness while Joyce is
becoming worse and worse as time goes by.
Into The Woods
Episode: 5.10
Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: Marti Noxon
Summary: Joyce's surgery is a success but
Spike reveals Riley's recent actions to Buffy who flips. Riley
leaves Sunnydale to work again with the government.
Triangle
Episode: 5.11
Written by: Jane Espenson
Directed by: Christopher Hibler
Summary: Willow and Anya argue over Xander
and accidentally create a troll who starts to wreck the town
leaving it up to Buffy to deal with the havoc it causes.
Checkpoint
Episode: 5.12
Written by: Jane Espenson & Douglas Petrie
Directed by: Nick Marck
Summary: The Watcher's Council arrive to put
Buffy through trials before they reveal any information about
Glory and the Key.
Blood Ties
Episode: 5.13
Written by: Steven DeKnight
Directed by: Michael Gershman
Summary: As Buffy and friends celebrate her
20th birthday, Dawn is traumatized to learn she is the Key and
runs away but Buffy and the Scooby gang must find her before
Glory does.
Crush
Episode: 5.14
Written by: David Fury
Directed by: Dan Attias
Summary: Spike reveals his feelings to Buffy
but is rejected and returns home to find Drusilla waiting for him,
leaving him with the choice between fighting evil, or being evil.
I Was Made to Love You
Episode: 5.15
Written by: Jane
Espenson
Directed by: James
A. Contner
Summary: Buffy must stop a heartbroken woman
who was manufactured to be the perfect girlfriend from destroying
the city and then finds herself comforting the creation over the
loss of love in both of their lives.
The Body
Episode: 5.16
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Summary: The Scooby Gang struggle to come to
terms with Joyce's death while Buffy feels useless for not being
able to do anything about it.
Forever
Episode: 5.17
Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: Unknown
Summary: Buffy and Dawn try to deal with the
repurcussions of their mother's death as the funeral draws near
and Angel arrives to help Buffy through her troubles as Dawn
tries to use a spell to bring her mother back.
Intervention
Episode: 5.18
Written by: Jane Espenson
Directed by: Unknown
Summary: Buffy leaves to try to come to terms
with her position as Slayer as she feels she is unable to love
while Spike's Buffybot starts to make the Scoobies worry about
Buffy's state of mind. Seeing Spike and "Buffy" so
close leads Glory's minions to believe that he is the Key.
Tough Love
Episode: 5.19
Written by: Unknown
Directed by: Unknown
Summary: Tara and Willow have their first
major fight as Buffy tries to prevent Dawn from being found by
Glory but important information is revealed when Tara gets
captured by the enemy.
Spiral
Episode: 5.20
Written by: Steven DeKnight
Directed by: James A.
Contner
Summary: Buffy explodes into action and takes
the gang on the road once Glory discovers that Dawn is the Key.
While on the run, things happen fast as Giles and Spike are
wounded, Dawn learns she has the power to destroy the universe,
and Willow stays close to an incoherent Tara.
The Weight Of The World
Episode: 5.21
Written by: Doug Petrie
Directed by: Unknown
Summary: Buffy slips into catatonia after
Glory kidnaps Dawn and prepares to bring about the end of the
world, so Willow uses her wicca talents to reach Buffy deep
inside her innermost secrets and subconscious fears.
The Gift
Episode: 5.22 - - 100th EPISODE
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Summary: Another imminent apocalypse is at
hand in Sunnydale. Buffy must square off against a true God when
Glory prepares to use Dawn to break down the walls between the
dimensions and unleash all Hell on Earth. Buffy, Xander, Willow,
Giles, Anya, Tara and Spike go to battle with the knowledge that
they may not all survive.
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