18. Halloween

Original Air Date: October 27, 1997
Written by: Carl Ellsworth
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green

Guest Cast:
Larry Bagby III (Larry)
Abigail Gershman (Girl)

It's time for Buffy and Angel's first actual date and she's late -- she's been off slaying, while, unbeknownst to her, an undead bystander has videotaped her actions for Spike to study.
But other matters need attending to -- Buffy, Willow and Xander have been shanghaied into being trick-or-treat chaperones for Halloween. Buffy's disappointed, as this is the one night she has heard on which the undead like to chill, and she was looking forward to doing nothing.
Buffy and Willow realize they know very little about Angel's personal life, and decide to steal Giles' watcher journals and read up about his past.
They stumble upon a picture of a beautiful noblewoman from 1775 -- when Angel was 18 -- and Buffy feels extremely inadequate.
While out costume shopping, Buffy finds a dress just like the one the noblewoman wore.
Xander decides to wear army fatigues, and Willow goes for a cheesy ghost costume.
Meanwhile, Spike is off watching the video of Buffy and his girlfriend Drusilla predicts Buffy will become weak on Halloween from some new outside force -- the costume salesman, who we see chanting to a statue by candlelight.
                                             On Halloween, Willow is persuaded by Buffy to dress like a hoochie mama.
                                             Buffy is delighted, but Willow chickens out and reverts to her ghost costume
                                             once again.
                                             While Buffy the noblewoman, Willow the ghost, and Xander the soldier are out
                                             with their little trick-or-treaters, things start changing, thanks to our chanting
                                             costumer, and the three become the characters they were pretending to be.
                                             Buffy, a simpering, weak Noblewoman, Xander a very profficient soldier and
                                             Willow, a very sexy Ghost! It's only Willow who remembers who they all really
                                             are!
Now that Buffy is no longer the slayer, Spike goes to kill Buffy.
Giles, with help from Willow, figures out that the costume shop is somehow involved,
and discovers the chanter -- who is actually an old 'friend', Ethan.
Ethan threatens to reveal secrets about Giles to Sunnydale, but Giles decks him and
demands to know how to break the spell.
As Giles shatters the statue, as instructed by Ethan, Spike is just about to kill Buffy.
In the nick of time, she returns to being Buffy the Vampire Slayer and pummels Spike, who runs off.
Once they're finally alone, Buffy tells Angel she dressed like that to please him, but he admits he hated those noblewomen -- he wanted someone exciting and interesting. They make out at last -- who said the undead don't like to have fun on Halloween?
                             The next day, Giles returns to Ethan's store, which is bare except for a note, which says,
                             "Be seeing you."





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