"Prophecy Girl"
At the Bronze, Xander rehearses asking Buffy out
to the prom by trying his speech out on lovesick Willow. Meanwhile, Buffy
is having a closer call than usual with her vampire attackers. Giles reads
a frightening prophecy about the Master and the Slayer, and an earthquake
hits Sunnydale.
Buffy tells Giles about her attack, and lets him know that she's starting
to get scared. When Xander finally gets the nerve to ask her out, she turns
him down, saying she doesn't think of him "that way" and doesn't
want to spoil their friendship. Xander is somewhat shocked but shows his
jealousy of Angel when he realizes that she loves him. In the library, Giles
and Ms. Calendar discuss the prophecy: the earthquake, along with several
strange occurrences in Sunnydale, seem to confirm that the apocalypse is
near. Buffy overhears Giles telling Angel, "Tomorrow she'll face the
Master and she will die." Buffy freaks out and tells Giles she wants
to quit. More signs of the end appear: a roomful of students, including
Cordelia's new beau, are found dead at school, totally unnerving Willow,
who discovers their bodies. Buffy decides that even though she's afraid,
only she can try to save the world by facing the Master. She goes out with
a crossbow, and the Anointed One leads her to the Master. Meanwhile, Xander
enlists Angel's help in trying to protect Buffy.
The Master bites Buffy, and she drops into a puddle. This allows him to
break through to the "other side." Xander and Angel find Buffy,
and Xander is able to revive her using CPR. Meanwhile, Cordelia, Willow
and Ms. Calendar find themselves driving through a sea of vampires in the
streets. They try to escape to the library, but the undead follow them.
As they try to fight them off, a huge, horrific monster comes up through
the floor and attacks them. Buffy makes it back to the school and fights
the Master on the roof. She throws him through the roof window and he falls
through, getting impaled on the way down. He disintegrates, and the monster
and the vampires disappear with him.
"We saved the world. I say we party," exclaims Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.