Season Four Season Six
Buffy vs. Dracula
THE LAST SEDUCTION - Still searching for a normal life, Buffy is shaken by the awesome power - and more than a little star-struck - when she and her friends come face to face with the greatest vampire of all time, Dracula. While Buffy is powerless under Dracula's thrall, Xander becomes the dark one's emissary and leads his friends into peril. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Buffy, Giles is seriously contemplating returning to England as he feels she no longer needs his help.
Written by Marti Noxon
Directed by David Solomon
Real Me
SLAY, SISTER, SLAY - While Buffy and Giles heat up the training, Buffy and Dawn�s sibling rivalry gets them into trouble when a new gang of vampires target the slayer. Across town, when the magic shop is ransacked and the owner killed, Giles thinks he may have found a new hub for the Scooby gang.
Written by David Fury
Directed by David Grossman
The Replacement
NICHOLAS BRENDON'S IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHER GUEST-STARS When a crafty demon out Buffy hunting accidentally catches Xander in his sights, a mysterious Xander double is born. Two Xanders aren't better than one as the evil double quickly takes over Xander's identity, fooling everyone including Buffy, and starts living Xander's life with a flourish.
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by James A. Contner
Out of My Mind
STAND BY YOUR MAN - Buffy is in a race against time when the physical aftereffects of Riley's being used as a lab rat for months by The Initiative threatens his very life. When Riley stubbornly refuses help and goes into hiding, Buffy reluctantly turns to Spike for help, but he takes advantage of her situation for his own plot to rid his life of the slayer once and for all.
Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by David Grossman
No Place Like Home
ALL IN THE FAMILY? An unseen evil comes to Sunnydale that helps Buffy discover more about her newly arrived little sister Dawn and the girls are distressed and confused when their mom suddenly becomes ill without any clear explanation, medical or supernatural.
Written by Douglas Petrie
Directed by David Solomon
Family
LOVE DOES CRAZY THINGS - Willow feels betrayed when Tara's family makes a surprise visit to Sunnydale for her birthday threatening to reveal a shocking secret that could endanger all of their lives. Meanwhile, Buffy and Giles secretly try to learn more about the new evil that is hunting her and her family.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon
Fool for Love
ANGEL, DRUSILLA AND DARLA HAUNT SPIKE'S MEMORY - In an effort to learn about slayers' final battles, Buffy forces Spike to recount how he was able to kill two slayers. His flashbacks reveal his first meeting with his one true love, Drusilla, and how lovers Angel and Darla joined them.
Written by Doug Petrie
Directed by Nick Marck
Shadow
BUFFY MAY HAVE MET HER MATCH -In order to protect her sister Dawn, Buffy must face a horrible beast that has been conjured by the powerful demon Glory to help seek out "The Key."
Written by David Fury
Directed by Dan Attias
Listening to Fear
SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER PLANET TARGETS BUFFY'S MOM - As Buffy and Dawn help their mother prepare for brain surgery, a creepy extra-terrestrial demon becomes fixated on an increasingly disoriented Joyce and infiltrates the Summers' home.
Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by David Solomon
Into the Woods
ONCE BITTEN - Spike disrupts Buffy's one moment of peace after her mom's successful operation to expose Riley's late nights spent in the arms of a vampire, sending an upset and bewildered Buffy into a tailspin and putting their relationship in turmoil.
Written and directed by Marti Noxon
Triangle
XANDER IN THE MIDDLE - While Buffy recovers from losing Riley, emotions are charged between Willow and Anya when they are left in charge of the magic shop and Willow accidentally conjures an enormous troll that will force them to deal with their less than perfect friendship and their feelings towards Xander.
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by Christopher Hibler
Checkpoint
BUFFY vs. WATCHER'S COUNCIL - The Watcher's Council arrives in Sunnydale demanding Buffy pass an exhaustive review of her slaying skills or they will withhold critical information about Glory and have Giles deported back to England.
Written by Jane Espenson and Douglas Petrie
Directed by Nick Marck
Blood Ties
DAWN IS UNVEILED AS THE KEY - 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. Nicholas Brendon,
Written by Steven S. DeKnight
Directed by Michael Gershman
Crush
SPIKE CONFESSES HIS LOVE TO THE SLAYER - Buffy confronts Spike about his suspected crush and is appalled by his admission of love, and her brutal rejection sends him back into the clutches of Drusilla who has returned to Sunnydale intent on returning Spike to his killer ways.
Written by David Fury
Directed by Dan Attias
I Was Made to Love You
THE PERFECT WOMAN - Buffy must stop a heartbroken young 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.
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by James A. Contner
The Body
TRAGEDY SHATTERS BUFFY'S WORLD - Buffy and her friends are overwhelmed with grief and their lives are changed forever when they must deal with the loss of someone close to all of them.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon
Forever
ANGEL COMES BACK TO BUFFY - A grieving and confused Buffy falls into the loving arms of Angel who comes back to Sunnydale after he gets word about the death of her mother. Meanwhile, a distraught Dawn takes it upon herself to perform a magic spell to bring her mom back to life.
Written and directed by Marti Noxon
Intervention
FULL OF LOVE - Buffy travels to a sacred location on a solemn quest guided by the first slayer with the hopes of uncovering why she has become emotionally paralyzed and to help regain her focus towards slaying. Back in Sunnydale, unable to have the real thing, Spike builds a Buffy robot, who is a picture-perfect replica and so devoted to the rogue that it leaves the Scooby gang reeling and Glory's minions convinced he is the Key.
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by Michael Gershman
Tough Love
A MEMBER OF THE SCOOBY GANG IS SACRIFICED - Buffy must step up as the authority figure for Dawn now that their mom is gone, all the while fearful that Glory is closer to discovering the Key when a member of the Scooby gang is her latest victim.
Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by David Grossman
Spiral
BUFFY AND THE GANG FLEE SUNNYDALE - 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.
Written by Steven DeKnight
Directed by James A. Contner
The Weight of the World
WILLOW GOES INTO THE MIND OF THE SLAYER TO BRING BUFFY BACK - 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.
Written by Douglas Petrie
Directed by David Solomon
The Gift
FIFTH SEASON FINALE & 100TH EPISODE WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY JOSS WHEDON - 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.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon
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