Anne (episode)

"Anne" is the first episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

After the events ending Season 2 where in Buffy kills Angel and sends him to a hell dimension to suffer, Buffy runs away from home and everybody she knew. She ends up in Los Angeles working as a waitress using the name Anne (her middle name) instead of Buffy. In the city she refuses to do anything related to her Slayer past and is mostly moping around between work and home. One day working at the diner she sees a girl who recognizes her. This girl named Lilly was saved from being eaten by Spike's gang of vampires in season two's episode "Lie to Me". Buffy denies it, trying to forget her past. Buffy's past, though, isn't so easily forgotten, as soon Lilly needs her help searching for her missing boyfriend. In the search for the boyfriend and then Lilly, Buffy stumbles onto an organization of demons who kidnap runaways and take them into their dimension. In this dimension time runs differently, in that years pass there but only hours or days in the real world. Buffy leads the slaves in rebellion, rekindling the fire that made her the Slayer. In the end, she gives her apartment and the name "Anne" to Lilly, and goes home to her mother and friends to face her past.

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Guest star Carlos Jacott who played Ken is one of only four actors to appear on Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. He appeared in "Bachelor Party", the seventh episode of the first season of Angel, and in the first two episodes of Firefly.