"When She Was Bad" - 5V01
After spending the summer with her dad in L.A., Buffy returns to
Sunnydale, well, very unsunny. It seems her prom night massacre of the
Master -- during which she died and came back to life -- gave her more of
a wiggins than she admitted at the time. And to make matters worse, the
Master is not quite as dead as everyone had hoped. His minions assemble
with the Anointed One and plan to try to bring the Master back. This can
be done by assembling those who were with him when he died -- Willow,
Cordelia, Giles, and Ms. Calendar, the computer teacher who Giles is
stuck on. Angel warns Buffy about the Anointed One's powers, but she
ignores him. Besides being rude to Angel and nasty to Cordelia, she is
cold to Willow and Xander. She even tries to make Angel jealous by dancing
seductively with poor Xander, who buys her act. Xander finally tells
Buffy off when the vampires beat him up and start assembling the foursome
they need for their mission. Buffy rescues Willow, Cordelia, Giles and
Ms. Calendar, who are hung upside down and about to be killed. In order
to finish off the Master, Buffy crushes his bones. After this final act,
Buffy is purged of her fear and anger and starts sobbing as Angel holds
her. The next day at school, she apologizes to Giles for behaving so
badly, and is mortified when she realizes how rotten she's been to her
friends. But once she gets to class, Xander and Willow are quick to
forgive her, and the Three Musketeers -- or is it the Three Stooges?--
are together again.