Buffy The Vampire Slayer : Season 3 : Episode Guide @ Blue Flashing Light
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Beauty And The Beasts.
It's Oz's time of the month, which means he has to spend three consecutive nights locked in the book cage of the library while someone watches over him. After Xander comes in to relieve Willow of her post, he lies down on the table and falls asleep. At the cemetery, Buffy patrols for vampires with Faith. Neither of them are close enough to the woods to detect a chase, which ends brutally for a boy named Jeff Orkin.
The next morning, Buffy, Willow, and Oz meet up with Scott and two of his friends: Pete and Debbie. Oz offers his old biology notes to Debbie, so they plan to meet up later. Buffy then heads off for her required therapy appointment with the counselor while Willow and Oz go to the library. To both Oz and Willow's dismay, Giles and Xander inform them of the murder that occurred the previous night. The fact that Xander slept through most of the night and the window inside the caged area is open does not bode well for Oz. Meanwhile, Buffy meets her counselor, Mr. Platt. While she's hesitant to discuss the full details of her reasons for running away, Buffy does come to respect Mr. Platt's helpful manner. After school, Buffy meets the others in the library and learns that Oz may have killed someone while he was a werewolf. Giles tells Willow, Xander, and Cordelia to go to the morgue and inspect Jeff's corpse, while Buffy must be on the look-out for the killer if it isn't Oz. He'll have Faith watch over Oz that night. At the morgue, Willow collects evidence which clearly indicates that Jeff was mauled by a savage animal. She then passes out due to the realization that Oz is the most likely suspect. Outside, Buffy encounters someone running wild through the woods. To her surprise, that someone is Angel. However, he's not exactly in his right mind, and he immediately attacks Buffy. They fight for a while before Buffy finally knocks him out. She then takes him to Spike and Dru's mansion, where she uses some of Dru's old chains to lock Angel up and keep him from escaping out into the woods. Unable to communicate with Angel, Buffy notices the burnt pattern on the floor that indicates the spot where Angel landed at the end of his return trip from Hell. Unable to spend the rest of the night at home, Buffy goes to the library and takes over for Faith.
Giles finds Buffy asleep in one of the library chairs the next morning. He notices the books she's been reading, which deal with demon dimensions and Acathla. After Buffy wakes up, she asks Giles if Angel could ever return from Hell, and if so, what would he be like. Buffy would rather not tell Giles right away that she found Angel. While Giles doubts the possibilty of Angel's return, he goes on to say that because time moves much faster in the other dimension, Angel would have been trapped there for an incredibly long time. After so many years of torture, he couldn't possibly be the same person mentally that he once was. Later, at lunchtime, Buffy joins Scott, Pete, and Debbie at their table. Unable to straighten out her feelings, Buffy leaves shortly and goes to the mansion. As soon as she rests a hand on Angel's shoulder, he goes berserk. Shaken by how much he's changed, Buffy heads back to Sunnydale High. Inside, Buffy goes to Mr. Platt's office and confesses that she truly needs help with all that's going on in her life. Unfortunately, she won't get any help from Mr. Platt, whom she soon discovers has been murdered, most likely by the same attacker that killed Jeff Orkin. After school, Pete pulls Debbie into the maintenance room to make out for a while. Inside, he notices that a jar once containing a glowing green formula is now virtually empty. Debbie tries to deny doing anything with it, but she soon admits that she got rid of it in order to help Pete get better. However, Pete convulses and transforms into a hideous, monstrous form of himself, proving to Debbie that he doesn't need the formula anymore. During this phase, Pete strikes Debbie in the face, knocking her to the ground. Pete then regains control of himself and changes back to his normal self before joining Debbie on the floor. Despite being struck by her boyfriend turned monster, Debbie has no problem excusing Pete's actions. Afterwards, Debbie meets Oz by the fountain to get his biology notes. Noticing the bruise on her eye, Oz stops Debbie from leaving right away by lightly grabbing her shoulder and asking if she's okay. From a distance, Pete watches this whole conversation.
With evidence indicating that Mr. Platt was killed during the day, Oz is off the hook. In the library, the group draws a connection between the two victims andDebbie. Oz tells the others about Debbie's bruised eye, which doesn't quite follow with the suddenness of Mr. Platt's death. This leads them to suspect Pete, both for the two murders and for striking Debbie. While Oz locks himself in the cage for the third and final night of the month, Buffy and Willow confront Debbie. Unfortunately, Debbie refuses to help them stop Pete. During the conversation, Angel breaks his chains free of the mansion wall and escapes. Buffy and Willow have no idea that Pete is in the library at that very moment, ready to kill Oz for touching Debbie. Pete changes into his monster form and rips the door off the cage. After throwing Oz around the library for a little while, the sun finally sets and the moon shines, allowing Oz to turn the tables on Pete. In his werewolf form, Oz is an even match for Pete's ferocity. The sounds of their battle alerts the others to the library. Buffy tries to knock them out with the dart gun, but shoots Giles instead when Debbie pushes the gun off to the side just as Buffy pulls the trigger. While the tranquilizer dart takes Giles out of the action, Oz and Pete break apart and escape into the school hallways. Willow and Faith take down Oz with the dart gun. Buffy chases Pete to the maintenance room, where she finds Debbie dead on the floor, murdered by Pete. Another fight ensues. Just as it appears that Buffy's about to lose the fight, Angel arrives and kills Pete. To Buffy's suprise, Angel manages to say her name before falling to his knees and embracing her.
The next day, Buffy can't find the words to console Scott, who lost two of his best friends without ever knowing the truth about what really happened. Later that night, Buffy watches Angel as he sleeps on the floor of the mansion. He constantly flinches and trembles, apparently suffering from nightmares of his time in Hell.
Quotes
Willow: "He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and the parts of his
nature that were deeper than he, going back into the wombs of
time. The rabbit could not..."
Oz:
Willow: "Okay, uh, maybe we should try a less stimulating passage.
Xander: "Private Harris reporting for Oz-watch.
Xander: "Ah, "Call of the Wild." Aren't we reading the Cliff's Notes of
this in English?
Willow: "Some of us are. Anyway, it'll help you stay awake. It's good,
and very wolfy. It seems to sooth the savage beast.
Except for the part about rabbits.
Oz:
Xander: "Rabbis?
Xander: "No worries, I can handle the Oz full monty. I mean, not handle
handle, like hands to flesh handle.
Willow: "Okay, well, it's not for you. It's for me, 'cause I'm still
getting used to the half monty.
Xander: "Oh, good. Half? You and Oz? Which half?
Faith: "Nice place. Do you ever catch kids doing the diddy out here?
Faith: "Bet you and Scott have been up there kicking the gear shift.
Faith: "But you like him, and when you think about him, you get that
good down-low tickle, right?
Buffy: "Yeah, I guess, but... how low?
Faith: "You tell me.
Buffy: "How about not?
Buffy: "But he is... nice, and he's funny.
Faith: "And quite a muffin.
Buffy: "Blueberry. That crunchy, munchy stuff on top. But my most
favorite thing so far is that he doesn't seem to be any kind
of hell beast.
Faith: "All men are beasts, Buffy.
Buffy: "Okay, I was hoping to not get that cynical 'till I was at
least forty.
Faith: "It's not cynical. I mean, it's realistic. Every guy, from
Manimal to Mr. I-love-The-English-Patient has beast in him.
And I don't care how sensitive they act. They're all still
just in for the chase.
Scott: "Hey, Buffy. That's what I stopped you for, basically. Hey.
Buffy: "Okay. Hey.
Debbie: "Hi, Oz. Hey, you're not doing jazz band this year?
Oz: "Oh, can't take the pressure. It's not the music that's hard,
it's the marching.
Buffy: "We have a marching jazz band?
Oz: "Yeah, but, you know, since the best jazz is improvisational, we'd
be going off in all directions, banging into floats. Scary.
Willow: "He's just being Oz.
Oz: "Pretty much full-time.
Scott: "Well, we're not up to flowers. Are we? Up to flowers? Did I
miss flowers?
Buffy: "No. We're pre-posy. Definitely.
Debbie: "But I'm flunking senior bio, and my teacher says I have "success
issues."
Oz: "Senior bio? I kind of aced that final.
Willow: "And how did you do that? Oh, right, you showed up.
Giles: "Right. It's good to see you. Um, no need to panic.
Oz: "Just a thought: Poker, not your game.
Willow: "What's the deal, Giles?
Giles: "Now, bear in mind, most likely, there is no deal, but if -- if
there was a deal, then it would concern murder last night.
Willow: "Wolf-you, not you-you.
Xander: "Not to freak, I rested my eyes now and then, that's all.
Giles: "How long, exactly, did you rest your eyes for?
Xander: "A little now, a little then.
Buffy: "Buffy Summers, reporting for sanity.
Buffy: "Not too crazy? Those are your credentials?
Mr. Plat: "Everybody has demons, right?
Buffy: "Got to say I'm with you on that.
Mr. Plat: "Lots of people lose themselves in love. It's no shame. They
write songs about it. The hitch is, you can't stay lost. Sooner
or later, you have to get back to yourself.
Buffy: "And if you can't?
Mr. Plat: "If you can't... Well, love becomes your master, and you're
just its dog.
Buffy: "I'm afraid to ask.
Cordelia: "Oz ate someone last night.
Willow: "He did not!
Xander: "Oz does not eat people. It's more werewolf play. You know,
I bat you around a little bit, like a cat toy. I have harmless
wolf fun. Is it Oz's fault that, you know, side effect, people
get cut to ribbons, and maybe then he'll take a little nibble
and... I'm not helping, am I?
Giles: "We could ask Faith to watch over him.
Oz: "What, you're having a Slayer watch me? Oh, good, we're not
overreacting.
Oz: "Okay, you know that thing where you bail in the middle of an
upsetting conversation? I have to do that. It's kind of dramatic,
I know, but... sometimes it's a necessary guy thing.
Willow: "And I want you to do the guy thing, but...
Xander: "We're doing crime here. You don't sneak up during crime.
Cordelia: "Okay! Scarred for life. Oh god.
Xander: "This guy is pretty barf-worthy. Can't we be elsewhere?
Willow: "There are a lot of incised wounds, but they could be from anything.
Cordelia: "Anything with big, sharp teeth, and vicious...
Xander: "Do you want to go back to the car and wait?
Xander: "Okay, little too much excitement for the Willster here.
Faith: "Buffy, are you okay? What are you doing here?
Buffy: "Uh, bleeding internally, but I'll live.
Faith: "I was going kind of crazy in here, but I can get in a few
stakings before sunrise.
Buffy: "Knock yourself out. Not literally, though.
Buffy: "Oh, boy, Faith and her nutty books.
Giles: "Exploring Demon Dimensions," and "History of Acathla."
Buffy: "Yeah, and she still listens to heavy metal. Freaky-deaky.
Buffy: "This was vivid. Really vivid. Three-dimensional, sensurround,
the hills are alive.
Giles: "In my experience, there are two types of monster. The first can
be redeemed, or more importantly, wants to be redeemed.
Buffy: "And the second type?
Giles: "The second is void of humanity... cannot respond to reason or love.
Willow: "Glazed or cake? It's fun to watch them make them. They use
this spritzy thing, and they drop the batter into this...
Buffy: "Couldn't sleep, huh?
Willow: "I've been at Mr. Donut since the tv did that snowy thing. How
come you're the wakey-girl? I mean, this time it's not your
boyfriend who's the cold-blooded... Jelly donut?
Scott: "I can't back you on that lunch. Nutritional demerits.
Buffy: "Oh, my stomach doesn't want hard food today. But there's fruit in it.
Scott: "Those are marshmallows.
Debbie: "He'll make you start a dream journal.
Pete: "What's that, like a Barbie thing? "Dear Dream Journal, how
come Ken hasn't come around since he got that earring?"
Buffy: "He definitely marches to the beat of his own drummer. Actually,
I think he makes his own drums.
Scott: "My mom says that therapy can be completely helpful.
Pete: "Yeah, but your mom has the wattage of a Zippo lighter, Scott.
Scott: "I hope you realize I don't actually know these people. I just,
I thought you would like me better if I had friends, so I hired
them.
Pete: "Check out Scotty liking manic-depressive chick.
Giles: "This creature is especially brutal. I believe the phrase coined
by the coroner when describing Mr. Platt was "pureed."
Faith: "Which means that he was killed during the day.
Willow: "Yes! Sorry, I got... I've just been... It's horrible, horrible.
Giles: "Clearly, we're looking for a depraved, sadistic animal.
Oz: "Present. Hey, I may be a cold-blooded jelly doughnut, but my
timing is impeccable.
Giles: "We have two victims... Jeff Orkin and now Platt. Maybe there's
something they had in common.
Faith: "Missing internal organs.
Giles: "Besides that.
Giles: "Faith, you and I team. Willow, stick with Buffy.
Oz: "And I'll... go lock myself in the cage.
Buffy: "It's tricky, covering a fresh shiner like that. You know what works?
Debbie: "What?
Buffy: "Don't get hit.
Debbie: "I didn't ask for your help.
Willow: "Well, when are you going to? I mean, if Pete kills you, it'll
pretty much be too late.
Oz: "This is kind of a bad time.
Pete: "Well, I guess you didn't think about that when you put the moves
on Debbie.
Oz: "We talked, yeah, but it was move-free.
Oz: "I'm serious. Something's gonna happen that you probably won't
believe. Or you might.
Debbie: "He does love me. He does love me.
Willow: "I think we broke her.
Buffy: "I think she was broken before this.
Oz: "Time's up. Rules change.
Giles: "Ow!
Buffy: "Sorry!
Giles: "Oh, right. Bloody priceless.
Willow: "It's all over school what happened with Debbie and Pete. Except
for the Pete-was-a-monster part.
Oz: "Yeah, a freshman told me that Pete had eight iced cafe mochas
and just lost it.
Buffy: "That's better than the estrogen theory. I heard he took all of
his mother's birth-control pills.
Cordelia: "He didn't? Pete was a monster? Where have I been?
Xander: "In your special place, Cor, which is why I adore you.
Cordelia: "So it was a real killing? He wasn't under the influence of anything?
Buffy: "Just himself.
Cordelia: "Great. Now I'm going to be stuck with serious thoughts all day.