Season 2, Episode 13

Written by Marti Noxon

Directed by Michael Lange

Original Airdate: 19 January 1998

Cordelia "Surprise!"
Oz "That pretty much sums it up."
 

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

• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers

• Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar

• Brian Thompson as The Judge

• Eric Saiet as Dalton

SPECIAL GUEST STARS

• Vincent Schiavelli as Enyos Kalderash

• James Marsters as Spike

• Juliet Landau as Drusilla

SYNOPSIS

• Buffy wakes up and walks to the bathroom only to find that her bathroom is replaced by the Bronze. With Drusilla silently following her, Buffy walks through the crowds, encountering her mother and Willow before finally finding Angel. Suddenly, from behind, Drusilla stakes Angel. Waking up from this strange dream, Buffy is very concerned. She goes over to Angel's place before school. She tells him about her dream, and while she has to get to school, she has a hard time saying goodbye to Angel. At school, Buffy and Willow talk about whether Buffy is ready to take her relationship with Angel further. Willow goes to talk to Oz, and they make plans to attend Buffy's surprise birthday party together. Meanwhile, Xander tries to ask Cordelia to be his date to the party, but she doesn't want anyone else to know about her relationship with him. In the warehouse, Spike - although confined to a wheelchair - is on his way to recovery while Drusilla is as strong as ever. Meanwhile, Jenny is visited by her Uncle Enyos, who reminds her of her gypsy duties. Her responsibility is to make sure Angel's curse remains, and therefore Jenny, who's real name is Janna Kalderash, must keep Buffy from him.
  
  Buffy asks Joyce about getting her driver's licence, but Joyce responds with something she said in Buffy's dream and it scares Buffy. That night, Jenny tries to set Buffy up but her plan is ruined when Buffy spots several vampires and goes to slay them. After killing the last vampire, Buffy discovers the party that was planned. Oz witnesses the killing of the last vampire and is not terribly shocked. Jenny brings out a box which the vampires were transporting and they open it to find a hand. The hand however comes to life and strangles Buffy. After rescuing Buffy, Angel explains that he thinks Drusilla is trying to bring back a demon called "The Judge". This demon's intention is to kill everything with humanity and leave only demons remaining, so Angel suggests that he take the hand to another country and hide it from Drusilla.
  
  At the warehouse, Drusilla is threatening to poke Dalton's eyes out for losing her present. Spike convinces her to give him a chance and she does. Buffy and Angel go to the dock where Angel is to get on a boat. He gives her a claddagh ring and she tries to convince him to stay. As they are kissing, some vampires attack them in hopes of getting the box back. They fight, but Buffy is thrown off the pier and Angel dives in to save her. The vampires make it away with the box containing the Judge's arm.
  
  At the warehouse, Spike and Drusilla are having a party as they bring the Judge back to life. Everyone researches at the library to find out how to stop the Judge. After a dream reveals the location of the warehouse, Buffy and Angel go there and find Drusilla, but are captured. The Judge attempts to kill Buffy but she and Angel break free. At his apartment, Angel gives Buffy some clothes to change into. She begins to change and finds that she has a cut on her back. Angel looks at it and then she ends up crying in his arms. Worried that she may not have the opportunity again, Buffy kisses Angel, indicating that she wants to take their relationship to the next level. Later, after they've made love, Angel wakes up, apparently in a lot of pain. He gets up and ends up outside. Falling to the ground, he cries out Buffy's name. Buffy continues to sleep, unable to hear Angel's cries...

TRIVIA

• Brian Thompson also played Luke, the Master's disciple in the first episode.

CONTINUITY

• Jenny Calendar is revealed to be Janna, a Romany of the Kalderash clan - the same clan who cursed Angel by restoring his soul ninety years ago. She was sent by her people to make sure that the curse which restored Angel's soul almost a hundred years ago stays in effect, ensuring his eternal suffering and punishment. Unfortunately she wasn't aware of the whole sex clause, so she wasn't able to warn Buffy. This sets up her ultimate departure from the series.

• This is the first episode celebrating Buffy's birthday. Other episodes celebrating her birthday are Helpless, A New Man, Blood Ties and Older and Far Away.

• Spike is in a wheelchair due to the events of What's My Line? (Part 2) and Drusilla is at full strength. This is the first episode to feature the pair since that episode.

GOOFS

• How could Angel get an erection? Surely vampires have no heart beat, therefore no blood flow, therefore they can't get erections. Joss Whedon once joked that the show would have been over after season one if vampires couldn't have erections.

• Buffy's arm keeps moving around in different shots of her in bed.

• How did Angel get dressed so fast in between the time he woke up in bed and running outside in the rain?

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