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Welcome to the Hellmouth
In this episode, Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, California, hoping to escape her past in L.A. and also her destiny as the vampire slayer. But, Buffy finds she can't leave her destiny behind, because the librarian, Rupert Giles, is a watcher, one who prepares and trains the Slayer to fight the forces of evil. Besides that, a boy has been murdered by a vampire (Darla), but Buffy still refuses to be the Slayer. Buffy soon meets Angel on her way to the Bronze, and he gives a necklace with a silver cross on it, and warns her about The Harvest, the Master, and also the Hellmouth. When Buffy finally gets to the Bronze, she talks with Willow, and then tells her "to seize the moment." Willow takes this advice, and ends up leaving with a vampire. This is when Buffy finally realizes there is no escape from her destiny, and she goes to find Willow. Finally, at the end of the episode, Buffy fights Darla, Luke, and also the vampire who Willow left with. The episode ends with Luke going in to bite Buffy's neck.
The Harvest
This episode continues where "Welcome to the Hellmouth" left off. Buffy manages to get out of the crypt she and Luke are
in, before he is able to bite her, and then leaves to go save Xander, Willow, and their friend Jessie. Buffy manages
to save Xander and Willow, but Jessie ends up getting kidnapped. The next day at school, the Scoobies meet in the library,
and discuss what happened the night before. Buffy and Giles explain to them that vampires are real, Buffy is the slayer,
and that they can't tell anyone. Buffy then leaves to save Jessie, and Giles begins research on the Harvest. When
Buffy gets down to the sewers, she soon finds out that Xander had followed her down there. Eventually, the two find
Jessie, but when they get trapped in a room in the sewers, Jessie reveales that he has been changed into a vampire. Buffy
and Xander manage to get out of the sewers, and get back to the library to tell Willow and Giles what happened. Then, the
Scoobies figure out that the Harvest is going to take place at the Bronze. Before Buffy gets there, the vampires have
already begun to kill people, and help the Master rise from his mystical prison. Buffy then kills the vampires one by one,
and eventually kills Luke, causing the Master to stay trapped. The show ends with Buffy making jokes about getting
kicked out of school, and Giles saying that the world is doomed.
The Witch
In this episode, Buffy tries out for cheerleading, but finds that not even
simple things like cheerleading don't involve the forces of darkness. While at the try outs the first day, a girl's hands
start on fire, so the Scoobies mobilize, and begin research, finding that it wasn't the girl who caused her own hands
on fire. Buffy also learns that a girl named Amy is being pressured by her mother to become a cheerleader, and also
that Amy's mom was one of the best there ever were at Sunnydale High. After more incidents, of cheerleaders having
strange things happening to them, the gang figures out that there is a witch involved, and soon after figure out that
it is Amy. Then, being the first alternate, Buffy was then on the team, because many of the girls weren't able to cheer.
Soon after though, Amy casts a spell on Buffy that makes her very sick, and brings her close to death. After Giles and
Buffy go to Amy's house, they find out that it wasn't Amy casting the spells, but actually her mother, and that Amy's
mom had switched bodies with Amy, because she felt Amy was wasting her youth. Finally, at the end of the episode,
the two are switched back, the cheerleaders are all back to normal, and Amy's mom gets trapped in a cheerleading trophy,
because of her own spell.
Teacher's Pet
Buffy's biology teacher, Dr. Gregory is the only one who
believes Buffy isn't a compete failure, so it understandable that he is her favorite teacher. This is why she is so upset,
when he is found decapitated in the cafeteria's refrigerator. But, this isn't Buffy's only problem, a new vampire is in
town, and she believes he is responsible for Dr. Gregory's death. But, when this vampire runs and hides in the presence
of the biology substitute, Ms. French, Buffy becomes suspicious of her. Buffy eventually figures out that Ms. French
is some type of preying mantis, who needs virgins to fertilize her eggs. Xander happens to be one of the virgins she chooses,
and Ms. French drugs him and puts him in a cage, where later Buffy comes to save him, using bat sonar to confuse the mantis, and then kill it.
Xander then destroys the rest of the eggs, and the class gets a new teacher. And, the episode concludes with a mantis egg
cracking open.
The Pack
During a trip to the zoo, Xander goes into the hyena house, to help out a student who was being picked on. On the way back from the trip though,
Willow notices he isn't acting normally. Xander starts becoming mean, and even insults Willow. Buffy figures out, that Xander and the bullies were
possesed by the hyenas. Xander and the other possessed teens, end up eating a pig while it's alive, and the group (minus Xander), eat
Principal Flutie. Buffy manages to lure "the pack" back to the hyena house, where she finds out that he was the one who set up the possession
spell, because he wanted to be possessed himself. They managed to get the hyenas out of Xander and the bullies, and the zoo keeper ends up becoming possessed.
When he goes to attack Buffy, she throws him in with the hyenas, and they end up eating him. The next day, when Buffy asks Xander if he remembers any of
it, he lies and says he doesn't (to embarassed by the fact he attacked Buffy).
Angel
On her way home from The Bronze, Buffy is attacked by "The Three", sent after her by The Master. The Three are a strong group of vampires, and they manage to corner
her. Just before one bites Buffy, Angel comes to rescue her. They begin fighting, but one of the vamps grabs a metal rod off a gate, and cuts Angel with it. Knowing they
are to strong, Buffy and Angel run to the Summers' house. The get inside and are safe from The Three. Buffy then tells Angel's to take off his shirt, so she can
take care of his wound. Buffy and Angel begin talking, and Angel tells her he likes her, just before her mom
walks in. Buffy introduces Angel, saying he is her history tutor, and Joyce says it's time for him to go home now. Buffy and Angel pretend that he has left, and they sneak up into her
room together, because Buffy is afraid Angel will be attacked again.
The next day, they begin talking again, and Buffy thinks Angel has read her diary. He then tells her he didn't, but every time he is with her,
he wants to kiss her. They begin to kiss, but Angel reveals he is a vampire, and then jumps out of the window, when Buffy begins screaming.
The following day, Buffy tells Giles, Xander and Willow, and they read about Angelus,and the horrible things he did.
Later, Darla (Angel's sire and ex-lover), tries to convince Angel, to stop trying to be human, and kill the slayer like any other vampire would do. Darla later goes over to the Summers', and bites Joyce,
then hands her over to Angel. Buffy walks in seeing Joyce in his arms, and throws him out the window.
Buffy then goes to The Bronze to kill him, but when she offers to let him bite her, he refuses, and admits he didn't bite Joyce. Then, Darla walks in with two hand guns, and attempts to kill
Buffy herself. Angel then takes Darla by surprise, when he stakes her in the back, and she ends up a pile of dust.
The following night at The Bronze, Buffy and Angel kiss again, but say they need to stay away from each other, because it could never work between them.
I Robot, You Jane
The episode begins in Cortona, Italy 1418, where a cult is worshipping a demon, that promises them everything, if they love him. But, a group of priests banish "Moloch the Corruptor", into a book, but if they book
is read, Moloch will be released again.
Then, back in the present, Willow, Jenny Calendar, and two other boys, are scanning old books into the computer system, and they end up scanning the book which contains Moloch. Meanwhile, Willow has met a guy on the
internet named Malcolm. She is very into the guy, and even begins to blow off classes. Buffy goes to Dave, (a guy who knows a lot about computers), to have him help track down the e-mails. When she brings up Malcolm and
Willow, he gets very defensive, and says to leave them alone.
Malcolm, who is revealed to be Moloch, is now in the internet, after being "read" by the scanner. He wants Dave to kill Buffy. When he refuses, Fritz (another follower of Moloch), kills, and Moloch writes a note, to make it
look like Dave commited suicide.
Moloch then convinces Willow, who still believes he is Malcolm, to meet him. When she finds out, that he is a demon, who had now been put inside a robot, she refuses to be with him, and he then decides to kill her.
Jenny and Giles manage to bind Moloch in the robot, and Buffy then destroys it.
The next day, Xander and Buffy try to cheer Willow up, by telling her that they've both been interested in demons, but then come to the conclusion that all of their relationships on the Hellmouth are doomed.
Nightmares
During Health class, a student named Wendal, is asked to read. Buffy drops her pencil on the floor, and notices a boy standing in the doorway. Then the entire class begins screaming when tarantulas start coming out of Wendal's book, and
the boy says "Sorry about that."
The next day starts out with Buffy worried about whether or not her father will come to pick her up after school, for the weekend, but Joyce assures her he loves her. Buffy then finds Willow and Xander, to find out if he found out anything
about the spider's, but when they walk into the library, they find that he was lost in the stacks.
After that, they go to talk to Wendal, who reveals that he has had a nightmare almost exactly the same as what happened in class the day before. While talking to him, Cordelia comes to inform Buffy that they are having a test in history.
Buffy rushes off to class, but before she can even get her name on the paper, the class is over. As the class empties out, she again see's the boy she had seen the day before.
In between classes, the boy is walking around the hallway, and see's a girl, going downstairs for a cigarette, and says to himself "you shouldn't go in there." When the girl gets down there, the girl is beaten up by a monster.
Buffy and Giles go to visit the girl in the hospital, and she tells them the monster said "Lucky Nineteen" before he beat her up. Then while leaving, a doctor says that a boy was beaten by the same man, but is now in a coma.
Back at school, Xander walks into class, and is suddenly naked. Then, Buffy is talking to Giles, and finds out he isn't able to read anymore. While looking in the paper, she recognizes that the boy in the hospital was the same boy she saw during
health and after history class. Then, Buffy's dad walks into the library, and takes her outside. Out there, he says that he doesn't want to take her on the weekends anymore, and that the divorce was her fault. He leaves her crying, and she again see's the
boy, Billy Palmer.
Xander and Willow come to tell Giles what happened, and Giles figures out that Billy is bringing the nightmare world into the real world through his coma.
Buffy goes to talk to Billy, and he tells her that "the Ugly Man" is after him. While running from the Ugly Man, Billy and Buffy end up in a cemetary, where it is nighttime. The Master grabs Buffy, and buries her alive.
Giles, Willow and Xander find her grave, and as Giles falls to the ground, a hand pops out, and Buffy comes back as a vampire.
The group then goes back to the hospital, to try and wake Billy. Billy says he can't wake up, and then the Ugly Man Appears. Buffy beats him up, and then tells Billy he has to face his own worst nightmare to wake up. Billy lifts the Ugly Man's face up, and everything is returned to normal.
Just then, Billy's baseball coach walks in, and Billy tells everyone that the coach was the one who put him in a coma.
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
The episode starts out, with Cordelia's and some of her friends discussing the upcoming May Queen event. Buffy accidently runs into them, and spill her stuff. As they walk away, she looks on wishing she could be doing something like May Queen herself. Later on, Cordelia's boyfriend is attacked by a
bat, but no one is seen holding it. Buffy goes into the locker room, after they take the boy out, and LOOK is written on the lockers.
After, Cordelia and her best friend Harmony are talking, when Harmony falls down the steps. After everyone runs over to her, she says she didn't just fall, she was pushed.
The Scoobies manage to figure out that an invisble person is after Cordelia, because her boyfriend and best friend are attacked.
During a flashback, a girl is trying to talk to Cordelia and her friends, but they keep ignoring what she says, and the girl gets very upset about it.
Buffy manages to find the invisible girl's hangout, and takes her yearbook as a clue.
Next, the invisible person attacks Cordelia's English teacher. Cordelia walks in on the teacher who is passed out, and manages to save her. On the chalkboard is written LISTEN. Meanwhile,
the Scoobies have figured out that Marcie Ross is the invisible person, and she was made invisible, because everyone ignored her. Cordelia then walks in, asking for help, because she realized the attacks were directed towards her.
Buffy takes Cordelia to get ready for the May Queen dance, but while she is dressing, Marcie manages to grab Cordy, and also tricks Willow, Xander and Giles into going into a room, which she fills with gas.
Marcie then knocks Buffy out with some type of drug, and brings her and Cordy to the Bronze, and ties them up with the final message in front of them LEARN. Marcie tells Cordy how she's going to mutilate Cordy's face, so people will always remember her, just like she's always wanted.
Angel gets to Giles, Willow and Xander, and manages to save them, and Angel turns of the gas.
At The Bronze, Buffy manages to escape her ropes, and fights Marcie. She manages to knock Marcie into a curtain, so Buffy can see her, just as some FBI agents come to take Marcie away.
After, Cordelia goes to thank the Scoobies, but after her boyfriend comes up to her, she blows them off again.
Finally the FBI took Marcie to a school, where they are going to teach her to be an assasin along with other invisible people.
Prophecy Girl
Xander and Willow are sitting at the Bronze, while Xander practices for asking Buffy out. When she doesn't show, they wonder where she is.
It turns out Buffy is fighting a vampire, and says she's already faced three that night.
Back at the library, Giles is researching prophecies about the Slayer's battle with the Master, and he finds something that disturbs him. Suddenly there is an earthquake, and below the surface, the Master himself is causing the earthquake to occur.
The next day, Xander finally asks Buffy to go to "The Spring Fling" with him, but Buffy says she doesn't want to ruin their friendship.
Jenny walks into the library, and tells Giles that last week a cat gave birth to a litter of snakes, a family was swimming in a lake, when the lake began to boil, and the night before a baby was born with his eyes facing inwards. She knows that these are signs of the apocalypse, and also tells
Giles she received an e-mail about the Annointed One, who the Scoobies thought was dead, (though he's been with The Master the whole time).
Then, Cordelia and her boyfriend are walking through the halls, talking about the dance the next day, when she see's Willow. She asks Willow if she'll set up the sound system, and if she does, she'll talk to her at the dance. Willow agrees, but is more concerned about Xander who was across the hall
looking depressed. He tells Willow, Buffy said no, then asks if Willow will go with him, but she rejects to, because she said it would be no fun being with him, when he'd be wishing he was with Buffy the whole time.
That night, Buffy goes to wash her hands in the school bathroom, but blood starts coming out of the faucet. She goes to tell Giles, but she then overhears him telling Angel that the prophecy about Buffy says that "tomorrow night Buffy will face The Master, and she will die".
Buffy begins sobbing, and tells Giles she doesn't want to die, and quits being the Slayer.
When she gets home, her mom shows her the dress she bought Buffy for the dance.
The following day, Willow and Cordy go to the school, to see where Cordy's boyfriend is. When they open the classroom door, her boyfriend falls out dead, and there are three more bodies in the room, with a bloody handprint on the TV as well.
Buffy is trying on her dress, trying to be a normal girl, when Joyce comes up and tells her that Willow was on the news.
Buffy goes to see Willow, and see's how hurt Willow is, and realizes she as to go face the Master.
Buffy goes to tell Giles she's going to face The Master. When he refuses to let her go, she knocks him out, and goes to look for the Annointed One. When she gets outside, he is already waiting, and he takes her down to The Master's Lair.
Xander goes to tell Angel about Buffy, and the decide they are going to help her. Meanwhile, the other Scoobies are trying to figure out where the Hellmouth will open. They think it is going to open under The Bronze, so Willow and Jenny go to warn everyone, but when they get outside, the find tons of vampires
heading towards the school. Cordy then pulls up, and drives them back to the library, through the school.
Buffy is trying to fight The Master, but he's using psychic powers to keep her from moving. He then grabs her, bites her, and lets her drown, while he goes to the surface, finally free.
Xander and Angel show up, but Buffy's dead. Xander does CPR, and manages to revive her, and she goes to find The Master, feeling stronger than ever.
Cordy gets them back to the library as vamps start to run in, and then the Hellmouth begins to open right inside.
Buffy, Xander, and Angel get back to the library. Buffy goes up to the roof, where The Master is watching as the Hellmouth opens. When he see's Buffy, he again tries using his psychic powers on her. She pretends like they still work on her, and then throws him through the window, onto a chunk of wood in the library below.
He dissappears, and all that is left are is bones, and the demon that was coming out of the Hellmouth was sucked back in.
Afterwards, everyone decides to go to the dance.
