Written by David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon ~ Directed by Bruce Seth Green
Buffy comes home to find the door open and unlocked. She hears her mom cry out and the rushes in to save the day. Only to find her mom making out with some guy. Her friends then come inside while Ted [this guy] fixes mini pizza's for them. Her mom and her go outside and talk. Buffy finds out a lot about what her mom has been doing lately. Buffy immediately gets bad vibes from this Ted and refuses to be nice to him. All her friends absolutly love Ted's cooking and Buffy is jelous. Later that night, Buffy goes out patroling with Giles. We see her whaling on some vamp and beating him to a bloody pulp as Giles puts it. He tries to get her to talk but she won't.
The next day, we see how Ted is affecting Buffy and she lets her friends know that there is something wrong with this guy. Xander however starts to make fun of how she's having parental issues. Then Ted shows up at school where he is installing new software. He also gives Willow the upgrades she wanted as well as asking the crowd to go minature golfing. Xander agrees for all of them. Later we see Buffy dressing Angel's hand. (from that daggar piercing his hand to drain his blood into Drusilla) Buffy is ranting how this guy drives her nuts and Angel tries to give her some sense in the matter. He convinces her to go and give this guy a chance. Then they make-out.
At the mineature golf place Ted reveals how he has a sense for what is right must stay right and what is wrong is wrong when Buffy hits a ball way out. Her mom says that they shouldn't count it but Ted insists that they do. He acts more like a real father than he does her mother's boyfriend. Buffy goes to get the ball and cheats by putting the ball into the hole. Ted spots her and then starts yelling at her. He then threatens to slap her and she gets kinda freaked. The next morning she tries to tell her mother but she refuses to listen to the truth. Buffy leaves, still choosing not to eat Ted's food.
The next day, Buffy asks Willow to check Ted out on the web. Xander then runs off to Cordelia and asks, "Do you want to go to the utility closet and make-out?" She responds with an "Okay." Buffy then goes to Ted's office to spy on him. She finds out that Ted is planning to marry her mother. That night, Ted makes dinner and Buffy asks if they are planning to get married. Her mother says, 'No.' And then Ted asks her how she would feel if they did. Buffy responds with, "I would feel like killing myself." She leaves to her room but really goes out searching for vampires. When she gets back to her room, she finds Ted sitting there having gone through her slayer drawer and reading her diary. They get into a fight and Buffy gets hit...Hard. She hits him back and they start to fight. Her mother shows up just as Buffy starts to beat up on him. He falls down the stairs and her mother finds him, dead.
Buffy is taken to the police but isn't charged with anything yet. The next day at school, Buffy is very upset with everyone staring at her. Her friends don't help much either. She goes home to find that her mother won't even look at her. Now that the slayer can't slay, Giles goes out to try and do the dirty work. Meanwhile, Xander, Willow and Cordy are out looking for evidence to prove Buffy didn't do anything wrong. Xander eats one of his cookies and then starts getting all mellow and loose. Willow puts the pieces together and they head to the Science lab.
Giles is then spoted at the park looking for vamps. Ms. Calendar then shows up to appologize for her behavior earlier. A vampire then shows up and Giles goes to bat with him. Ms. Calendar grabs the cross bow and aims but hits Giles instead of the vampire. Going to her room she mopes around. Then she tries to leave her room, but finds her window nailed shut. Turning around, Buffy finds Ted, alive and well in her room. They get into another fight. He starts to strangle her and she grabs a nailfile from her desk and stabs it into his arm. It turns out he is a robot. He shorts out a bit, then knocks Buffy out.
Willow finds that there are drugs in the food that make people cooperative and mellow. They then head to an address Cordelia found and find that this guy was married in 1957. He has a house under his lab. Xander finds four women, his ex-wives in the closet. Giles, still fighting with the vamp is shot in the back with the cross bow. He pulls it out and stabs the vampire with it. Jenny then takes him to the hospital. Back at Buffy's house, Ted goes downstairs to confort and take control of Buffy's mother. He scares the heck out of her and then tries to take her with him back to his house. Buffy then wakes up and makes a noise in the kitchen. Ted goes after her and gets waked in the face with a frying pan. This again, reveals his robotic looks. Buffy hits him again until he can't fight back anymore.
The next day we see Buffy and mother sitting on the front porch. Buffy tries to convince her mother that Ted isn't coming back without revealing he was a robot. Back at school Buffy is ready to go back to work only to find that she can't walk into a room without sounding an airhorn. Giles and Ms. Calendar have made up and are making out.
