Season 2, Episode 10

Written by Marti Noxon

Directed by David Semel

Original Airdate: 24 November 1997

"A Slayer, huh? I knew this "I'm the only one, I'm the only one" thing was just an attention-getter."
Xander

REGULAR CAST

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers

• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris

• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg

• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase

• David Boreanaz as Angel

• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

GUEST CAST

• Seth Green as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne

• Saverio Guerra as Willy

• Kelly O'Connell as Norman Pfister

• Bianca Lawson as Kendra Young

• James Marsters as Spike

• Juliet Landau as Drusilla

CO-STARRING

• Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson

• Spice Williams as Patrice (Uncredited)

SYNOPSIS

• Buffy and Kendra are stunned to discover that they are both Slayers, and go to Giles for an explanation. Giles is just as stunned, but surmises that since Buffy was dead for a minute last year, a new Slayer was called. Buffy finds out that Kendra locked Angel up, and that he will become dust when the sun rises. They arrive at Willy's bar, but only find an empty cage. Willy has saved Angel from near death only to dump him in a sewer with Spike. Spike takes Angel back to his place where Angel will be used as a sacrifice to save Drusilla. Back at the warehouse, Spike hands Angel over to Drusilla who plans to torture him. Now that there are two Slayers, Buffy considers quitting and letting Kendra take over.
  
  Giles begins to bond with Kendra since Kendra seems more dedicated to the job than Buffy. Xander and Cordelia face even bigger problems when they find out that a make-up salesman that Cordelia let into the Summer's house is really a guy made of worms and a Tarakan assassin. They run and hide in the basement. After a while of waiting, a fight breaks out between the two that ends in a kiss. After realizing that they have kissed, Xander and Cordelia rush to get out of the basement. At school, Willow and Oz talk about their similar interests. Buffy is sentenced to be a police officer for her career and goes to a seminar about it.
  
  When the policewoman calls her name, she also pulls out a gun to shoot Buffy. Buffy misses the bullet and Oz gets shot instead as he tries to block Willow from getting hurt. Kendra then comes to Buffy's rescue. Then everyone gets together in the library, and Giles announces that Angel will die in this ritual to save Drusilla. Buffy freaks and says that Spike can do anything to her but when he messes with her boyfriend he's gone too far. Angel, meanwhile, is being tortured by Drusilla. She is pouring holy water on him as she vents about how he killed her whole family. She wants to make him feel guilty.
  
  Spike comes in and is ready to take Angel for the ritual. Angel starts talking about what Drusilla likes and makes Spike extremely mad. He is trying to get Spike to kill him without saving Drusilla. It almost works. Then Angel reveals how close him and Drusilla were and Drusilla tells him to shut up. When Buffy and Kendra start chatting about Slaying, Buffy proves to her that Slaying really is who she is. Later, Kendra and Buffy go after Willy to find out what happened to Angel. Kendra refuses to go because she thinks Angel is evil. Buffy goes with Willy at her side until Buffy is caught in a vampire trap. She sees Angel being sacrificed and goes after Spike to save Angel. Kendra shows up to help along with the rest of the Scooby Gang. Xander and Cordelia work together to kill the bug guy, which they manage by gluing him to the floor in his worm form.
  
  The Scooby Gang all work together in an intense battle to kill Spike's cadre of vampires. Spike starts a fire and then runs away with his girl, hoping that what blood he has from Angel will be enough to save Drusilla. Then Buffy throws an urn at Spike's head, throwing Spike and Drusilla into a large organ, crushing them. Later, the now more socialable Kendra leaves town, leaving Buffy as the chosen Slayer again. Unknown to Buffy however, her life is about to get worse as Drusilla has survived the battle and has been revived, and she effortlessly lifts a badly wounded Spike into her arms, vowing to make him strong again...

TRIVIA

• Seth Green said in an Ultimate TV chat that the line "I mock you with my monkey pants" was an idea that Alyson Hannigan had. She had dreamt that Seth said that, and Joss Whedon decided to include it. On the season four DVD commentary, Marti Noxon claims that the part after Oz' compliment about Willow's smile was all ad-libbed by Seth and Alyson. Willow references the events in Buffy's dream sequence in Surprise.

• Spike was supposed to die in this episode, but proved such a popular character that Joss kept on bringing him back. Actor James Marsters becomes a regular in season four's The Initiative.

• Spice Williams, who played Patrice, is for some reason uncredited for her work in this episode. She also plays inmate Debbie in Angel's season four episode Salvage.

• Buffy says, "Back off, Pink Ranger!" This is an in-joke, as Sarah Michelle Gellar's stunt double, Sophia Crawford, used to be the stunt double for the Pink Power Ranger on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

• Buffy warns Kendra not to watch the in-flight movie if it's got Chevvy Chase in it. This is a reference to Sarah Michelle Gellar's 1988 uncredited cameo in the Chase film Funny Farm.

CONTINUITY

• Buffy enters Willy's Place for the first time in this episode. She'll be there again in Amends, The Zeppo, Goodbye Iowa and Potential.

• The Slayer Handbook, which Giles claimed was non-existent in Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, is mentioned in this episode by Kendra. Giles thought Buffy was too complicated for one.

• Spike and Drusilla do not return until Surprise.

• This episode marks the first time that we see Giles and Willow stake a vampire, although it's likely that they've staked one before.

GOOFS

• Spike's ritual is supposed to happen on the night of the full moon. The next day Giles says it's happening on the night of the new moon and Kendra says "that's tonight."

• In the shots when Kendra is leaving, there are two different angles of Kendra and Buffy talking. Kendra's hair changes in each shot.

• Pfister's sleeve's length changes three times during the shot where he is reforming his hand.

• When Xander opens Buffy's front door, Cordelia moves in a quick shot from leaning against one side of the door frame to the other.

• Xander slams a book on a bug. The book is a white biology textbook. However when the camera cuts to a shot of all of them standing around the table the book is gone, replaced by an old book with a red cover.

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