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Thursday January 15, 1998

 * Buffy has a nightmare of Drusilla killing Angel at night. ("Surprise")

Friday January 16, 1998

 * Angel answers a knock at his door to find a distraught Buffy wanting to see with her own eyes that he's all right. Hearing that she dreamed Drusilla was still alive and killed him "right in front of her," Angel tries to comfort Buffy, to reason with her, but when her anxiety only seems to escalate, he simply kisses her. Totally diverted, Buffy melts into his arms and their embrace deepens until the Slayer reluctantly pulls away, saying she needs to get to school.


 * Walking across school grounds a little later, Buffy tells Willow all. The two friends wonder whether Buffy is ready to take her relationship with Angel to the next level and Willow is awed to hear that Buffy believes it's "sort of inevitable." They spot Oz. Buffy encourages Willow to go talk to him, then continues on her way. Transparently delighted when Oz asks her out.


 * Meanwhile, Spike, confined to a wheelchair and recovering slowly from his injuries, tries to talk Dru into having her party in Vienna to escape further interference from Angel and the Slayer. When Dru begins to fuss over the flowers, however, Spike indulges her with a peek into one of her presents. "It reeks of death," she purrs, then slams the box shut. ("Surprise")

Monday January 19, 1998

 * The next morning, her birthday, Buffy playfully tells her mom she suddenly feels "responsible, mature and level-headed" enough to become a licensed driver, to which Joyce replies with a wry, "Uncanny." But when Buffy continues to plead, she is stunned to hear her mother ask, "Do you really think you're ready, Buffy?" and to watch a plate slip from Joyce's fingers and shatter on the kitchen floor, eerily echoing details from her recent nightmare.


 * Before class, Jenny is surprised by her Uncle Enyos, come to remind her that she is Janna of the Kalderash people and must still fulfill her Gypsy obligations. She has been sent to Sunnydale to make sure Angel's curse remains intact, but the Gypsy elder woman can sense that Angel's pain is lessening.


 * Meanwhile, in the library, Buffy tells Giles, Willow and Xander that her dream is coming true. Giles agrees that a mad, powerful, undead Drusilla could pose a substantial threat and promises to spend the day further researching Dru's history for any clue to her activities or whereabouts. Buffy listlessly agrees to return at 7:00 that evening, and wanders away to keep herself occupied until then. Willow and Xander conclude that the current crisis puts the kibosh on their party plans, but Giles insists they celebrate regardless.


 * That night, Jenny intercepts Buffy returning to the library, saying that Giles has changed the plan and wants to meet her somewhere else. Recognizing that they are near The Bronze, Buffy suddenly spots vampire activity around a truck backed up to a well-lit loading dock, she goes to slay them she ecognizes the bespectacled Dalton from Spike's crew, but only has time for one taunt before the fight is on. With the battle abruptly inside, Oz—getting his first exposure to slayage as Buffy dusts then. Buffy, Angel and Giles immediately open it. Inside, to the puzzlement of all, they find a severed arm,, Angel explains his grim suspicion that Dru is attempting to bring back a powerful demon called the Judge, whose purpose is to rid the world of "the plague of humanity" by "burning the righteous down," leaving only evil demons alive.


 * Back at their lair, Dru threatens to poke out Dalton's eyes for losing her present, but Spike convinces her to give the hapless scholar one more chance to find it again.


 * Leaving Jenny to wait in the car, Buffy walks Angel up a dock to the pier where a tramp freighter lies at anchor. Neither of them is able to hold back tears when he gives her the Claddagh ring he chose for her gift. Buffy pleads with Angel to stay, just as vamps attack. In the ensuing fight, Buffy is thrown bodily off the pier and Angel leaps into the water after her, leaving Dalton and two vamp thugs to make away with the box containing the Judge's arm.


 * Back at the lair, Dru's party gets underway and Spike presents her with the final piece to the puzzle, the Judge's head. When the last box is in place, the whole structure glows from within and opens down the middle, revealing the enormous, blue-skinned horned demon inside. At the factory, Buffy and Angel sneak along the catwalk and see Spike and Drusilla entertaining their guests below, among whom is a huge blue demon. Just as they realize what they are seeing, the Judge becomes aware of their presence. Buffy and Angel are immediately captured and brought before the Judge, Spike and Dru, but manage to break free before the Judge can kill them. Together, they escape. ("Surprise")


 * After making love with Buffy earlier that night, Angel escapes into the alley with a piercing pain in his heart, as his soul is ripped from him. When a kind streetwalker tries to help him a few minutes later, he quickly and gleefully kills her. ('Innocence")

Tuesday January 20, 1998

 * Morning after, Buffy returns home in the early morning.


 * Angel shows up at the factory, Spike is surprised and Drusilla is pleased that the Judge cannot burn him—Angel has truly reverted to the evil Angelus. The three are clearly pleased to be together again - grinning and gleeful, Angelus kisses Spike on the forehead in the only friendly moment seen between them this season, while Drusilla claps.


 * While researching a way to defeat the Judge, a demon whom "no weapon forged" can harm, Xander and Cordelia get caught kissing in the library by a crushed and furious Willow. Buffy finally finds Angel in his apartment, not knowing that he is now Angelus, and he blows her off, laughing at her feelings as she weeps. Jenny is castigated by her Uncle Enios, who tells her that if Angel has one moment of true happiness, one moment where his soul no longer plagues his thoughts, that his new soul would be taken from him. Angelus terrorizes Buffy and the Gang at school, emotionally shattering Buffy. Later, as they discuss Angel's transformation in the library, Buffy realises that having sex with Angel is what's caused him to turn evil and leaves in distress, returns home and, heartbroken, cries.


 * Buffy has another dream in which Angel helps her realise that Jenny knows more than she's letting on. ('Innocence")

Wednesday January 21, 1998

 * The next morning she confronts Jenny at school, who admits she is a member of the Clan Kalderash that cursed Angelus with his soul so long ago, and that if Angel ever felt a moment of true happiness, he would lose his soul (revealing to Giles that Buffy and Angel made love).


 * Xander hatches a plan using memories from being a soldier on Halloween, pretending that he is a private in the army and he is sneaking around with Cordelia. Oz declines to kiss Willow at her request, given that it's obvious she only wants to kiss to make Xander jealous. Willow's respect and feelings for Oz grow. The four return to the library with their "present" for Buffy. Jenny offers to help in the confrontation with the Judge, but Buffy refuses to accept her offer.


 * Tracking down the Judge at the crowded mall, Buffy and her team blow him to bits with her new "present" – a rocket launcher, while Angelus and Drusilla narrowly escape the blast. The Slayer stalks Angelus through the fleeing crowd and, when he ambushes her in a snack shop, they battle ferociously under the drenching fire-control sprinklers. Reaching a stand-off, neither of them is quite ready to kill the other, although Buffy does settle for kicking Angelus in the crotch.


 * Giles drives Buffy home and she feels awful for putting her friends in serious danger from Angelus. Giles assures her that, although she did act irresponsibly, it is obvious that she and Angel loved each other and that he hasn't lost his trust in and respect for her.


 * Later, Buffy and Joyce sit down to watch Stowaway. Joyce asks Buffy what she did for her birthday, and Buffy simply answers that she got older. Joyce lights the candle and tells Buffy to make a wish, but Buffy merely decides to let it burn. ('Innocence")

Tuesday, February 3, 1998

 * Willow and Oz seem to have the beginnings of a Thing, but, Willow complains to Buffy, Oz seems to be reluctant to make the first move. Meanwhile, Xander and Cordelia are making out in her father's car, which would be great if Xander would just stop yammering about Willow and Oz. Then he thinks he hears something, and now Cordelia's really getting miffed. Suddenly a hairy, clawed arm punches through the ragtop of the car. Cordy shakes the thing and drives off. ("Phases")

Wednesday, February 4, 1998

 * The next day, Xander's pretty sure it was a werewolf that attacked them. The prospect gives research-guy Giles a happy, and they decide they have to trap the werewolf rather than kill it because it's a person most of the time. In gym, Buffy and her friends discuss the way the full moon brings out the animalistic qualities in people. School bully Larry displays a bandage where he was bitten by a dog a couple weeks ago, and Oz sympathizes, noting that he was bitten by his young cousin. Larry displays his animalistic qualities by tormenting a girl named Theresa.
 * That night, Buffy and Giles search the local makeout spot for the werewolf, but are coming up empty when Buffy stumbles into an animal trap and is menaced by a man with a gun. Realizing that Buffy is not a werewolf, and leaping to some unsavory conclusions about her and Giles' presence in the park, the man introduces himself as Cain. He says he hunts werewolves for the high price their pelts bring in Asia, and explains that they're drawn to sexual heat.
 * Meanwhile, walking home, Theresa runs into Angel, who offers to escort her home. Buffy and Giles go to the local sexual heat hotspot, the Bronze, and just in time, too — the werewolf has dropped in (literally) and scared the patrons away. Buffy manages to get a chain around its neck, but it escapes into the alley, finding Theresa's body — and Angel. The two animals face each other warily.
 * Back in Giles' car later that night, Buffy hears a report of Theresa's death, linking it to the recent spate of "animal maulings." Buffy and Giles assume the werewolf killed Theresa, and Buffy feels guilty about not having stopped it when she could. They go home, abandoning the search for the night, and as the sun rises, the werewolf transforms into Oz, who wakes up naked in the woods with a bemused "Huh." ("Phases")

Thursday, February 5, 1998

 * Oz calls his aunt to discover if the cousin that bit him was a werewolf, and his suspicion is confirmed. He goes to the library to find Buffy and friends, but as he walks in he hears Buffy resolving not to let the werewolf kill again, saying that she'll have to kill it first. Oz clams up, and watches as Xander calls on his hyena experience to attempt to figure out who the werewolf could be. He decides it must be Larry the bully, and he goes off to confront Larry. Then as Buffy watches, Willow asks Oz to help her look stuff up, but Oz says he has to go and leaves abruptly.
 * Xander confronts Larry, who misreads Xander's suspicions and admits that he's gay, assuming Xander is too.
 * Later, Xander and Buffy, working on a hunch, go to the funeral home and confirm that Theresa was the victim not of a werewolf but of a vampire. Then Theresa, now a vampire herself, awakens, saying, "Angel sends his love," just before being staked by Xander. Shaken, Buffy and Xander share an intense moment.
 * That night, Oz prepares to shackle himself for the evening when Willow, acting on Buffy's advice, shows up at his door to make the first move. Oz tries to send her away, but as she watches he turns into the werewolf. Willow runs from Oz, and the chase attracts the attention of Cain the werewolf hunter. Something distracts the werewolf, saving Willow, who runs to the library and gets Buffy and Giles. Cain baits the werewolf with some raw meat and corners him, ready to shoot him, when Buffy and Giles show up with a tranquilizer gun.
 * Buffy and Oz fight, which keeps Oz from being shot by Cain, but Oz throws Buffy into Giles, knocking them both down. Willow shoots Oz with the Phenobarbital dart before Cain can fire a more fatal shot. Cain scoffs at Buffy's "spinelessness," but Buffy wrecks his gun with her bare hands and runs him out of Sunnydale.

Friday, February 6, 1998

 * The next day, Willow tells Oz she's okay with his being a werewolf, and things are even happier between them when she kisses him. ("Phases")

Thursday, February 12, 1998

 * Xander has bought a silver heart necklace for Cordelia, which he plans to give her at the upcoming Valentine's Day dance at the Bronze in an attempt to introduce some sort of legitimacy into their "relationship." Buffy's less enthused about the dance — in the wake of what happened with Angel, she plans to spend the holiday vegging and pigging out with her mother. ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")

Friday, February 13, 1998

 * Cordelia finds herself ostracized by her friends, who say they know she's been seeing Xander. Xander notices Amy, the girl whose mother was a witch who switched bodies with her last year, apparently work some sort of witchcraft on Miss Beakman.
 * Ms. Calendar tries to speak to Giles in the hallway, but he avoids her on the pretext of having to speak to Buffy, which in fact he does have to do. It seems that Angel is given to particularly evil acts around Valentine's Day, and Giles warns Buffy to stay in for a few nights, to be safe. ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")

Saturday, February 14, 1998

 * Angel is indeed mulling over ways to "show his regard" for Buffy, and is also paying extra-close attention to Drusilla, which really doesn't sit well with the still wheelchair-bound Spike. For now, he just sends Buffy a dozen roses, with a card saying "Soon."
 * At the dance, a well-dressed Xander gives Cordelia the heart necklace, only to be thanked with a break-up. ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")

Monday, February 16, 1998

 * His pain increases at school the following days, when it is apparent that everyone at school knows that Cordy dumped him. Bitter, he blackmails Amy: He won't tell anyone about her newfound witchcraft if she casts a love spell on Cordelia for him as revenge. Amy says she needs a personal object to cast a love spell, so Xander demands the necklace back from Cordy and the spell is cast that night. ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")

Tuesday, February 17, 1998

 * The next day, though, Cordelia is just as snotty as ever to Xander. Xander bitterly stalks off to the library, where to his amazement Buffy offers comfort of a very physical kind. Then Amy interrupts, reporting that she thinks the spell misfired. Then she comes on to Xander, and now he knows something has gone seriously wrong. Rushing home, he finds Willow in his bed, wearing nothing but a flannel shirt. She tries to seduce Xander, but he runs away.
 * He explains his problem to Giles, and Ms. Calendar shows up, ostensibly to make up with Giles but then she starts drooling over Xander. Giles drags her off, ordering Xander to stay put, which he does. Then Buffy arrives, wearing nothing but a raincoat and begging Xander to "open his present." When he refuses, she gets angry, and then Amy arrives, and in a fit of jealousy Buffy punches her. In retaliation, Amy turns Buffy into a rat.
 * It seems the love spell has affected every woman in Sunnydale except Cordelia, who is attacked by her former friends for dumping their now-beloved Xander. While trying to catch the Buffy-rat in the library, Xander is punched by Oz, who then helps him up and volunteers to help catch the rat. Giles, disgusted with Xander, sends the boy home. On the way he sees Cordelia fighting off the mob and saves her, only to run into a second mob, led by an axe-wielding Willow. "I'd rather see you dead than with that bitch!" Willow sobs. The two mobs clash and in the confusion, Xander and Cordy run off to Buffy's house. Buffy's mom lets them in, but then starts to put the moves on Xander. Cordelia locks Joyce outside and they run up to Buffy's room — where Angel pulls Xander out the window.
 * Angel clearly plans to leave Xander's corpse as a Valentine's Day gift for Buffy, but Drusilla shows up and saves Xander — but she wants to make him into a vampire! Finally the mobs show up, and Cordy drags Xander away and down into Buffy's basement, where they barricade themselves in. Cordelia realizes that the spell was meant for her, but just then the mob breaks in. Oz trails the Buffy-rat down to the school's basement. Just as the rat nears a mousetrap, and the mob has Xander and Cordy pinned in Buffy's basement, Giles and Amy manage to break the spell. Oz is left with a naked Buffy, and Cordelia tries to convince the bewildered women that it was a scavenger hunt. ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")

Wednesday, February 17, 1998

 * Although Willow won't speak to Xander, all seems to be relatively normal in Sunnydale once again. And Cordelia stands up to her friends, claiming Xander as her man, "no matter how lame he is!" ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")