The Witch Written by: Dana Reston

After Buffy's biology teacher Dr Gregory is attacked by a giant praying mantis, a substitute Ms French arrives and seems to make all the guys trip over. She tells the class that she needs volunteers for making a model in the science and all the boy's hands shoot up including Xander. She chooses a jock for the first afternoon then Xander for the next. Next day Cordelia discovers Dr Gregory's headless body in the freezer. Buffy stakes out the park and sees a vamp with a claw in place of his hand. The vamp stalks Ms French but then runs away in terror. Buffy watches as Ms French's head turns around 360... She and Giles then conclude that she must be the praying mantis and hear that the volunteer jock has disappeared. Buffy warns Xander but he brushes her off and goes to volunteer that afternoon. At the sub's house Xander is drugged and dragged down to the cell in her basement. Giles finds that Ms French is a She-Mantis who lures virgin males then kills them. Giles gets a bat sonar recording which will hopefully distract the Mantis, while Buffy uses Claw vamp to find Ms French. When they find the house Buffy dusts him and finds Ms French is full mantis mode. Using the recording, Buffy distracts her until it is too late and Ms French is killed with a machete. Next day, unsuspectingly we find in Dr Gregory's closet a nest of eggs begin to hatch...

While training last night Buffy and Giles discover an engraved ring. Meanwhile at the Master's lair, he prophesizes that the Anointed One (Master's most powerful warrior and Slayer's greatest foe) will rise from the ashes of five dead people. Next day, Buffy is asked out by the shy and literary Owen, but Giles intervenes by showing that the ring is linked with a prophecy tonight. That night she patrols but finds nothing, while someplace else a van crashes. Five passengers survive but are killed by vampires. Owen and Buffy try once again to go out, but Giles hears of the accident and that one of the passengers was a wanted murderer. Giles believes that he is the Anointed One and leaves Buffy on the date , instead taking Willow and Xander to the morgue. At the morgue, Giles is trapped by vamps so Willow and Xander rush to find Buffy. Speaking in code, they tell her to go there for a dare and find Owen following them. While Buffy looks for the body, the vamp murderer rises attacking Owen, Willow and Xander. Owen tries to fight but is overcome easily. Buffy fights and throws the vamp into the cremation fire. Next day Owen is excited for their next date, but Buffy tells him 'lets be friend' to stop him getting killed. We then see the Master in his lair greeting the Anointed One who was actually a 8 year old boy from the accident.

I Robot You Jane Written by: Ashley Gable and Tom Swyden

Giles is supervising the Annual Talent Show, while the gang find themselves 'volunteering' for it. When one of the performers is found killed with her heart ripped out, the gang begin suspecting a  weird ventriloquist Morgan who carries a haunting dummy called Sid. But the next day they find Morgan dead with his brain missing and Buffy investigates. Buffy is backstage when she is attacked by Sid the dummy who they discover is possessed by a demon hunter who kills a group of seven demons who every seven years need a heart and brain to keep a human façade. He needs to kill this last one then his spirit can move on. The two decide to work together but soon find Morgan's brain left on a shelf. They discover that Morgan had brain cancer so the demon still needs a brain. They assume that the demon will be looking for a young smart person so they guard Willow. Meanwhile at the rehearsal, Giles is helping a boy with a magic trick where they use a guillotine to cut Giles's head. Unknowingly this is the actual demon. The gang figure this out and fight with the demon. Buffy decapitates the demon while Sid kills him and his spirit leaves the dummy. That night the reluctant gang perform a Shakespeare part on stage with Willow leaving hyperventilating.

As vampires become more rowdy and odd occurrences become frequent, Xander practices his speech to ask Buffy out. She turns him down.  After a good night of slayage, Buffy returns to the library finding Angel and Giles talking about an impending apocalypse. She overhears that there is a prophecy that she will face the Master and she will die. Horrified she becomes angry and quits the job. Another odd occurrence occurs when a school room is found with dead students, scaring Willow who found them. Deciding that she must stop the Master to protect her friends she dresses up in her prom dress and gathers her crossbow. Giles tries to stop her but is knocked out. The Anointed One leads her to the Master's lair, while Xander gets Angel to help find Buffy. She tries to fight the Master but is bitten and dropped into a pool of water. The Master tells her that it was her blood that actually gave him power to rise to the earth. Angel and Xander find her and give her CPR. She coughs and comes back to life with renewed energy. Back in the library the gang try to fight off vampires when a huge monster burst from the floor of the library (the center of the hellmouth.) Buffy reaches the top where she find the master looking through the glass top of the library. She throws him down through the roof onto a sharp piece of wood. He is dusted leaving a skeleton and the monsters are forced to retreat. Sunnydale is saved and the gang go out and party!