Episode 41 "Revelations" Summary
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After Dingoes Ate My Baby finishes its set during a particularly crowded
night at the Bronze, Oz joins Willow, Xander, and Cordelia at their table.
Hoping to divert attention away from her and Xander's uneasiness around
each other, Willow brings up the topic of Buffy acting differently as of
late. Cordy suggests that Buffy might have found a new man. Buffy stops
by briefly before heading off with Faith towards the cemetery for a
rendezvous with Giles. In no time, Buffy and Faith are battling two
newly-risen vampires while their Watcher observes. After successfully
vanquishing the vampires, a woman arrives on the scene. She criticizes
Buffy and Faith's performance, then identifies herself as Mrs. Gwendolyn
Post -- Faith's new Watcher.
Upon returning to the library, Gwendolyn Post informs Giles, Buffy, and
Faith that she has been sent by the Watchers' Council to serve as Faith's
Watcher, as well as report back to the Council about the situation in
Sunnydale with Giles and Buffy. In addition, Gwendolyn has information
regarding a demon named Lagos, who has come to Sunnydale in search of a
deadly weapon called the Glove of Myhnegon. It's apparent from the start
that Gwendolyn doesn't have a great deal of respect for Giles' abilities,
as she mocks both his resources and his efficiency. After Faith leaves
with her newly appointed Watcher, Buffy goes to the mansion for her own
training session with Angel. In the heat of the moment, they nearly kiss
before Buffy pulls back at the last second. As she leaves, Buffy casually
mentions Lagos' name, which brings a look of concern to Angel's face.
Back at the library, Giles' frustration steadily grows due to his
difficulty in finding any relevant information on Lagos. He vents that
frustration on Xander, demanding that he either help with the research or
leave. Xander joins an exhausted Willow in the search through the books,
and they settle down behind one of the stacks. One thing leads to another,
and Willow is soon madly kissing Xander. Completely lost in their passion,
neither of them realizes that Giles is merely a few feet away. His voice
breaks them out of their spell and brings them to their feet. Luckily, the
librarian is too focused on the book in his hands to notice what Willow and
Xander were doing. Giles tells them that he discovered the possible
location of the Glove of Myhnegon: inside the Von Hauptman family crypt in
Restfield Cemetery. Xander immediately volunteers to go to the cemetery
and check out the crypt. Meanwhile, Buffy and Faith decide to call it a
night and postpone the rest of their patrol through the numerous cemeteries
of Sunnydale. While Buffy heads home to sleep, Faith passes through Shady
Hill Cemetery, where she finds the demon Lagos rummaging through a tomb.
Faith engages the demon, but she quickly ends up on her back with the wind
knocked out of her. She can only watch as Lagos gives up his search
through the tomb and walks away. Finding the glove is the only thing on
Lagos' mind. Over at Restfield Cemetery, Xander arrives at the Von
Hauptman crypt just in time to see somebody walking out of the entrance.
To his surprise, Xander recognizes the person as Angel, who is carrying a
wrapped object in his hands. Without being noticed, Xander follows Angel
back to the Crawford Street mansion and witnesses yet another surprise
through the window: Buffy, with her arms wrapped around Angel... kissing
him. After Xander leaves, Buffy and Angel break their kiss and regain
control of themselves. Angel brings Buffy over to the object which he took
from the crypt, then unwraps it to reveal the Glove of Myhnegon. Angel
stops Buffy from touching it, warning her that the glove cannot be removed
once you put it on. At Giles' apartment, Gwendolyn Post relaxes while
Giles locates an illustration of the Glove of Myhnegon in one of his books.
As they take a tea break, Xander bursts in with an urgent announcement
concerning Buffy for Giles' ears only.
Buffy enters the library the next morning with good news about the glove,
only to find Giles and all of her friends sitting around the table with
serious looks on their faces. After she sits down, Giles tells her that
her secret about Angel is officially out in the open. Buffy tries to
defend her stance, emphasizing the fact that Angel is no longer the
uncontrollable murderer that he became after his fateful "moment of
happiness". However, her friends refuse to accept Buffy's excuses,
especially Xander. Fed up with his accusations, Buffy grabs Xander by the
arm and questions his motives for wanting Angel dead. Giles stops the
debate and sends everybody back to class before things get out of hand.
Buffy follows her Watcher into his office and reassures him that Angel got
the glove before Lagos could find it. Giles, however, doesn't want to hear
any more of Buffy's excuses. He reminds her of how Angel tortured him
months ago. Giles then acknowledges the fact that Buffy was wrong to keep
Angel's return a secret from her Watcher, and she has gravely disrespected
him by doing so. Meanwhile, Gwendolyn pays a visit to Faith's place.
While assuring Faith that her intentions are pure, Gwendolyn alludes to
Giles' secret meeting with Buffy and her friends. Faith is not pleased to
be left out of that equation. Back at Sunnydale High, Buffy finds Willow
at her locker and asks if everything's all right between them. Preoccupied
with her own secret, Willow does not hesitate to pardon Buffy for keeping
Angel's return under wraps. Buffy then tells her friend that she plans to
wait in front of the Von Hauptman crypt and kill Lagos when he arrives.
Later that night, Faith finds Xander at the Bronze, shooting pool by
himself. Xander fills Faith in on the news that Angel's back in town, the
Glove of Myhnegon is in his possession, and Buffy has no problems with any
of this. Faith decides to kill Angel, and Xander is eager to tag along.
As they head towards the library, Gwendolyn enters Giles' office and finds
out that the Glove of Myhnegon has been found and is currently in the
mansion on Crawford Street. Giles then surprises her with a spell he
discovered that can destroy the glove. The spell creates a living flame,
which can incinerate the Glove of Myhnegon. After Giles turns around,
Gwendolyn picks up a statue and bashes him in the head twice, sending him
to the floor, unconscious and bleeding. At Restfield Cemetery, Willow is
about to divulge her secret to Buffy about her new relationship with Xander
when Lagos suddenly appears. After a rough fight, Buffy grabs the axe from
Lagos' back and uses it to chop his head off. As they head back to the
library, Faith and Xander arrive to collect a few weapons from the armory
in the bookcage. On their way out, Xander hears a moan coming from Giles'
office. He finds Giles on the floor, quickly losing a lot of blood. Faith
believes Angel did this, but Xander points out the lack of bite marks.
Faith doesn't care about that detail, and she leaves for the mansion while
Xander calls for an ambulance.
Aware of the method for destroying the glove, Angel completes the spell for
the living flame. He then turns around to see that Gwendolyn Post has
entered the room. She concocts a lie to convince Angel that the living
flame can strengthen the glove if the spell was miscast. As Angel turns
his back to her, Gwendolyn picks up a shovel and strikes the back of the
vampire's head, knocking him to the floor. Meanwhile, Buffy and Willow
arrive at the library, where paramedics are in the process of bringing
Giles out to the ambulance. Before he is taken away, Giles tells Buffy
that she must destroy the glove with living flame. Xander tells Buffy that
Faith is already on her way to the mansion, convinced that Angel needs to
die. Buffy tells Willow to find the spell for the living flame, then
dashes towards the mansion, where Gwendolyn is trying to open the locked
chest which contains the glove. Back at the library, Xander and Willow
finish the preparations for the spell and head to the mansion. Before
Gwendolyn can open the chest, Angel hops to his feet, his face morphed to
its vampire state. Gwendolyn breaks the shovel handle in half and tries to
stake Angel, but he easily knocks the weapon away and throws Gwendolyn into
the wall. As he moves in to grab her, Faith arrives and sees her new
Watcher about to be murdered by a vampire. Faith overwhelms Angel and is
about to finish the job when Buffy arrives and stops the stake's descent.
Buffy tries to convince Faith that Angel is not the enemy, but Gwendolyn
urges her Slayer to do her job. Faith and Buffy begin to fight each other.
Their battle takes them crashing through a window and into one of the
outside courtyards. Xander and Willow arrive in the midst of the fight.
Xander tries to stop them, but Faith tosses him aside and continues the
fight. Using the Slayers' distraction to her advantage, Gwendolyn opens
the chest and pulls out the glove and knocks Willow to the floor with it,
then puts on the Glove of Myhnegon, which latches itself to her arm. As
she raises the glove above her head and chants in Gaelic, thunder begins to
rumble over the mansion. The loud thunder stops Buffy and Faith, and they
turn their attention towards Gwendolyn. As they watch on, Gwendolyn
screams a command which causes lightning to strike the glove from the sky,
then fly out from the glove towards its target. Buffy and Faith dodge the
blast, but just barely. As Willow gets up from the floor, Gwendolyn turns
and fires a lightning bolt in her direction. Angel runs in and pushes
Willow out of the way of the bolt. Faith runs around the room to draw her
fire away from Buffy, who picks up a shard of the broken window and throws
it at Gwendolyn's gloved arm. The glass cuts right through her arm,
causing it to fall to the floor by Gwendolyn's feet. The dismemberment
causes the glove to fire again, but since it is now beneath her, the
lightning flies down from the sky and strikes Gwendolyn, burning her into
oblivion.
The next morning, Oz, Willow, Xander, and Cordy talk in the lounge about
Buffy and Angel, as well as destroying the Glove of Myhnegon with the
living flame. Xander concedes that having Angel around again will be fine
as long as Buffy doesn't repeat the same mistakes that led to the lifting
of the curse. Buffy arrives and makes peace with Xander. Giles then walks
into the lounge and tells the group that Gwendolyn Post was kicked out by
the Watchers' Council a couple years ago. After school, Buffy visits
Faith's place. She tells Faith to not worry about trusting her, but Faith
still feels betrayed and is not in the mood for conversation. As Buffy
turns to leave, Faith begins to tell her something, but decides to keep it
to herself for now.
Episode Summary by: Alan Hufana
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