Buffy Season II Episode Guide: What's My Line PtI

Dalton, one of Spike's vampire cohorts, attempts to translate a passage from the book that was stolen from Giles' office a while ago. They believe the passage contains a ritual that could restore Drusilla to full health. However, the book is written in a code that is undecipherable without the necessary items. Spike sends Dalton and another vamp to the mausoleum of Du Lac, the same saint who wrote the book they are attempting to translate. While Dalton retrieves an ancient artifact, the Cross of Du Lac, Buffy passes by on patrol and notices him inside. She waits for him to come outside, but before she can stake him, the other vamp attacks her from behind. Buffy stakes him, but by the time she turns around, Dalton is gone.

When Buffy returns to her home, she finds Angel waiting inside her bedroom. She expresses her sadness, for it is Career Week at Sunnydale High, and Buffy knows that she already has a job for the rest of her life. Angel notices a picture of Buffy in which she is very young and on the ice-skating rink. Buffy reminisces about her old passion for ice skating, so Angel offers to meet her at an ice rink after closing hours the next night. Elsewhere, at the warehouse, Dalton informs Spike of the Slayer's interference in his retrieval of the Cross of Du Lac. Fed up with her actions, Spike summons the Order of Taraka, a society of deadly assassins. Drusilla's tarot cards show that three newcomers will be arriving in Sunnydale soon. The first card depicts a cyclops, or one-eyed beast; the second a centipede; the third a leopard emerging from a bush. The bounty is placed on Buffy's head, and Dalton proceeds to decipher the ritual in the book.

The next day, several strangers arrive in Sunnydale. At the bus depot, a large, muscular man with one eye steps out of one of the buses. In Buffy's neighborhood, a salesman passes by the Summers' residence and knocks on the door of their next-door neighbor. He offers free make-up samples to the woman inside, who invites him inside and closes a door. What follows is a blood-curdling scream. Finally, at the airport, a runway traffic director investigates a disorganized cargo hold of one of the recently-landed planes. Without any warning, a woman attacks and knocks him unconscious before stepping out of the plane. Back at Sunnydale High, the results for the career assessment tests have been posted. Buffy has been assigned to the law enforcement seminar, while Willow's test results are suspiciously absent from the bulletin board. Buffy meets Giles in the library and tells him of the mausoleum robbery. This concerns Giles deeply, so the two of them go to the cemetery to investigate the mausoleum. After inspecting the broken chamber and Du Lac's name inscribed on the wall, Giles realizes that this is all connected to the book that was stolen from his office. While they return to the library, Willow is confronted by two men in suits who ask her to come with them to a secluded area of the school. Once inside the curtained room, they identify themselves as members of a computer corporation who have been monitoring Willow for quite some time. They are impressed with her skills and want her to consider a job with them. While they wait for the CEO, Willow meets the only other Sunnydale student who is qualified for the job: Oz.

Giles determines that the Cross of Du Lac was stolen from the mausoleum, although he isn't completely sure what it will be used for. Later that night, Buffy skates on the empty ice rink while waiting for Angel to meet her there. Out of nowhere, the one-eyed man attacks her, but Angel arrives just in time to break his hold on Buffy and give her enough room to deliver the death blow. Angel inspects the dead attacker's corpse and recognizes his ring as a symbol of the Order of Taraka. As Buffy and Angel share a kiss, the woman from the airplane cargo bay spies on them from afar. Seeing a girl kiss a vampire, the woman assumes that Buffy is a vampire and leaves the building. The next day, Buffy tells Giles of the events, and he informs her that the Order of Taraka is a society of assassins that will not stop coming at her until they complete their mission and collect their bounty. Indeed, as Giles speaks, the salesman spies on Buffy's house with a pair of binoculars through the window of their neighbor's house. The house's owner lays dead on the floor nearby, her body surrounded by maggots. Hundreds of maggots join together to form the man's arm as he reaches for his cup of coffee. Distraught, Buffy walks around town, wary of everyone around her. Unable to trust the safety of her own home, Buffy goes to Angel's apartment. Seeing that he's not there, she enters and falls asleep on his bed. Elsewhere, Angel enters a bar very popular among vampires. He asks Willy, the bartender, for information pertaining to the Order of Taraka's interest in Buffy. Before Willy can say much, the mysterious woman from the airplane cargo bay strikes Angel and tries to stake him. After a short fight, the woman traps Angel inside a cage in the nearby storage room. She locks the cage and alerts Angel of the sunrise, which is due in about five hours. Once it rises, sunlight will pour in through the window and fry Angel, who can't get out of the cage.

Xander and Cordelia go to Buffy's house in an attempt to locate her, for nobody knows where she is. While Xander checks upstairs, the salesman assassin arrives and offers free samples to Cordelia who lets him into the house. In the warehouse, the ritual for Dru's cure has finally been deciphered, and it appears that Angel is the key ingredient. Back at Angel's apartment, Buffy wakes up from her sleep just in time to avoid an axe swinging towards her head. Buffy and the mystery woman battle with equal skills, breaking the coffee table in the process. Confused as to what's going on, the woman asks Buffy who she is, only to get the same question in response. To Buffy's surprise, the woman answers, "I am Kendra... the Vampire Slayer."

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