Overall Rating: 9.1 Matt: 9.2 Eric: 9.0 Written by: Ty King Directed by: Michael E. Gershman 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. Main guest stars : Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers, Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar, James Marsters as Spike, Juliet Landau as Drusilla, Danny Strong as Jonathan. Original broadcast date : February 24, 1998 My one-line description: I wonder who Angelus’ speechwriter is… "Passion", Angelus says in voice-over as he watches Buffy across the Bronze. She’s dancing with Xander, Willow and Cordelia. "It is born, and though uninvited, unwelcome, and unwanted," he continues, "like a cancer, it takes root." As the gang exits the Bronze, they pass by a necking couple. Unseen, Angelus lets the female fall to the ground, dead, and looks at Buffy walk away. "It festers, it bleeds, it scabs", he narrates; "only to rupture, and bleed anew…" "... it grows, it thrives… until it consumes", he finishes, watching outside Buffy’s window as she prepares for bed. When she’s sound asleep, he creeps up to her bed, looks at her… and sits down, caressing her face. "It lives", he resumes, "so it must die… in time." The next morning, Buffy wakes up and finds a envelope on the pillow next to her. In it is a lovely picture of her sleeping… At the library, Buffy reports Angelus’ visit to the gang. Giles notes that if you invite a vampire inside once, after that they’re always welcome. Cordelia panics as she realizes she invited him into her car. Buffy asks Giles if there’s a un-invitation spell, and he promises to look it up. Then some normal students come looking for books about something not undead, so the gang steps outside… There, he tells Buffy that obviously Angelus is taunting her, trying to provoke her. Buffy replies that once Angel told him about the things he did to Drusilla’s family… the gang start worrying for Joyce’s safety, and Buffy says she should tell her the truth. Giles advises her not to, but Buffy replies she has to tell her mother something. As computer class ends and the students file out, Jenny calls to Willow and asks her to fill in for her the next day – she might be late. Willow is honoured – and terrified. Jenny sees Buffy and Giles standing outside the classroom, and she greets them. Buffy doesn’t reply – she just asks Willow to join her. After the redhead has left, Jenny asks Giles how he’s been. He informs her about Angelus visiting Buffy in her room. Jenny guesses that Giles felt betrayed by her knowing about the curse on Angel, and explains why she was sent her. She admits there’s one thing she didn’t plan on – falling in love with him. She tells him she wants to make it up to him – but he replies he’s not the one she has to make it up to. At home, Buffy tells Joyce that Angel – that guy she used to date – has changed and is following her around. She asks her mom not to let him in if he shows up. Later, Buffy and Willow talk on the phone about the whole Angelus deal. As they talk, Willow absently taps fish food into her fish tank. Then, still chatting, she goes to her bed, where she spots an envelope on her pillow. She stops talking as she pulls out a gold chain, on which her tropical fish are strung… In Buffy’s room, Buffy and Willow huddle in the bed. Willow comments that she’s glad her parents didn’t get her a puppy… As they talk, Angelus looks at them through the window. He smiles and leaves. He rejoins Spike and Drusilla at the factory, where he enjoys his favourite sport – making fun of Spike, who is still in a wheelchair. Suddenly, Drusilla starts crying – she declares that an old enemy is trying to destroy their happy home. In the town’s magic shop, a juju man greets Jenny; she tells him she’s looking for an Orb of Thesulah. He gets it for her, and makes sure she knows it’s useless without the transliteration text. She replies that she knows, but that she’s working on transferring the Romanian liturgy to English. She adds that the Orb is a present for a friend of hers. She plans to give him his soul… The next morning, Buffy, Willow and Xander spot Jenny as they walk towards the school. Buffy walks up to her - and tells her to go right on feeling bad about what happened. She adds that Giles misses Jenny – he doesn’t talk about it, but she can see it in his eyes. Jenny tries to reply, but Buffy cuts her off and walks away. Giles informs Buffy he found a ritual to rescind the invitation to a vampire. Willow, Buffy and Cordelia try said ritual in Willow’s room that evening, nailing crosses around her window. Cordelia spots an envelope on Willow’s pillow, and gives it to her. Willow opens it, and gives it to Buffy – it’s a portrait of Joyce sleeping… That night, Joyce spots Angelus on her doorstep as she enters the driveway. He plays the obsessive boyfriend, trying to convince her to get Buffy to see him – he scares Joyce so much that she drops her grocery bags while fumbling for her keys. As she finally puts the key in the door, threatening to call the police, Angelus reveals he and Buffy made love… Joyce is floored, of course. She opens the door and stumbles inside, and Angelus tries to follow – but hits an invisible barrier. Buffy, standing there as Willow recites a latin incantation, tells him the locks have been changed… She closes the door. Jenny is working late at her computer terminal. Suddenly, she sees Giles watching her from the classroom doorway. She tells him she might have some news, and asks if she can see him later. He tells her to stop by the house. In the magic shop, the juju man gets a visit… from Drusilla. She’s eager to find out what he and Jenny talked about. Late at night, Jenny is still working at her computer. She gets a breakthrough, and smiles in joy while hitting the "print" command. As the printer spits out page after page, she ejects a yellow disk and puts it aside. As she gets up, she comes face to face with… Angelus. He picks up the Orb of Thesulah on her desk, noting that it’s used to restore someone’s soul… He smashes it against a wall. Going to the computer, he tosses the monitor to the ground, where it starts burning. He takes some of the pages coming out of the printer, and realizes it’s the Ritual of Restoration. He tears them up and throws them into the fire; then, he turns on Jenny, in full vamp face. He leaps and slams her against the wall. She rises, looks at him in terror, and runs out into the hallway. As she flees, Angelus calmly follows her. He finally catches up with her, and snaps her neck. She falls to the ground, dead. Giles shows up at Buffy’s place, where Willow greets him. He asks how the ritual went, and she reports that it went fine – except for the Angelus-scaring-Joyce-out-of-her-wits part. She promises to tell Buffy he stopped by. Upstairs in Buffy’s room, Joyce asks her daughter whether Angel was the first. She tells Buffy that Angel is too old for her – she wishes her daughter would show more judgment. Buffy protests, but Joyce tells her that she can’t shut her out, because she loves Buffy more than anything in the world. Buffy’s touched. Giles enters his apartment, where romantic opera music is playing. Some roses are placed here and there, and a wine bottle is chilling in a bucket. A parchment note reads "upstairs". He goes upstairs, past the roses strewn on the steps, and the votive candles – and sees Jenny’s corpse lying on his bed. The smile slowly disappears from his face, gradually replaced by horror… The wine glasses and bottle he’s holding crash to the floor. Later, the coroner’s office workers wheel Jenny’s body away; a policeman tells Giles he has to come with them to the station to answer some question. Giles, in shock, agrees, but asks to make a phone call first. Angelus is outside Buffy’s house, spying into the kitchen. "Passion", he says in voice-over; "It drives some to distraction, some to despair…" The phone rings, and Buffy answers. Angelus watches in glee as she gets the news of Jenny’s death and sags to the floor. She lets the receiver fall away from her hand, and Willow picks it up. She also gets the news, and cries out; Joyce rushes to the kitchen and takes Willow in her arms as she weeps in grief. "It drives some to murder… and others to madness", Angelus finishes. Cordelia’s car screeches to a halt on a curb, and Buffy and Willow walk to it. Xander reports that Giles is no longer at the police station. Buffy asks Cordelia if she can drive them to Giles’ house. At his place, Giles is gathering weapons in a bag. He throws in a gasoline can, and then closes the bag. He steps outside, cold rage and determination on his face. On a table inside the house, we see a sketch of Jenny’s corpse. A few minutes later, the Scoobies arrive at Giles’ place. Buffy sees the portrait of Jenny; Willow reports that Giles’ weapons are all missing. Cordelia asks where Giles could have gone, and Buffy replies that he’ll go wherever Angel is. Xander rejoices at the thought of Giles killing Angel, and for once Buffy agrees with him. However, she adds, there’s a small problem – Giles is going to get himself killed. At the factory, Spike angrily berates Angelus for leaving Jenny’s corpse in Giles’ bed - he thinks it’s reckless. Angelus tells Spike that he has everything under control – and suddenly a Molotov cocktail hits the table, putting it on fire. The three vampires move away from it – and an arrow hits Angelus in the shoulder. Giles walks towards Angelus, retrieving a baseball bat from his bag. Not missing a beat, he ignites it in the flame, and hits Angelus square in the face with it. He starts pummelling the vampire with the bat, as Spike and Drusilla watch from the shadows. Suddenly, however, Angelus punches Giles, telling him he’s had his fun. "But you know what it’s time for now?" he asks. "My fun", Buffy replies. She hits Angelus and kicks him, hurting him almost as angrily as Giles did. Spike and Drusilla escape as the flames spread. Angelus punches Buffy and then takes off, looking to the gangway for escape. She jumps up to said gangway, catching up with the vampire. She quickly gains the upper hand, but suddenly she spots Giles, lying out cold in the middle of the flames below. Angelus takes advantage of her distraction to knock her down and leave. Buffy hesitates, but decides to go to Giles’ rescue. She drags him outside the factory. An angry Giles berates Buffy for coming – this wasn’t her fight. She slugs him in the face, hard, calling him a bastard. Holding back her tears, she asks if he’s trying to get himself killed; she says, pleadingly, that he can’t leave her alone. Not now. She can’t to this by herself. Giles looks at her, his anger melting into despair. She goes to him and hugs him, as he calls Jenny’s name. "Passion. It is the source of hope…" Giles returns home, and pauses in front of the door before pulling down the yellow police tape. "and the cause of despair…" "It is the source of life…" Giles lays some flowers on Jenny’s tomb. "And the cause of death." Giles and Buffy stand side by side in front of the tomb. He muses that he’s buried many people in his life, but Jenny was the first one he loved. Buffy apologizes for not being able to kill Angelus for him – for Jenny – when she had the chance. As she tells him she’s finally ready, cut to Willow, filling in for Jenny in computer class until they find a new teacher. She puts her lesson plan on Jenny’s desk, unknowingly knocking the computer disk containing the soul restoration ritual over the edge. It falls down and wedges itself in a tight spot between the desk and the baseboard. In voice-over, Buffy tells Giles that she knows now that nothing will bring back the Angel she fell in love with. Summary by OttsFiveByFive.