Buffy and Cordelia are having a no-holds-barred battle to become the
Homecoming Queen. Unfortunately the vampire Mr. Trick decides to turn the
competition into "Slayerfest '98" an assassination-game style hunt in which
various vamps and villians hunt Buffy and Cordy. Meanwhile, the Mayor takes
an interest in the deathmatch and arranges a meeting/kidnapping of Mr.
Trick, to introduce himself as the real power in town.
Harry Groener appears in only two, bookending the rest of the episode. Most
of the early eps only focused on the Mayor at the beginning and end of the
show. This was the debut of Mayor Wilkins (in the flesh, anyway, not just as
a vague reference), and he certainly knows how to make an entrance. In the
first scene he's established as a slightly weird anti-germ politician, but
it's obvious he's something more sinister by the way he terrifies his poor
deputy mayor, and in the end when he tells Mr. Trick he not only knows about
vampires but is on their side, it's clear we're dealing with one bad bad
guy. Stay tuned.
All the adults in Sunnydale revert to teenage behavior after downing the
school fundraiser candy bars. Buffy and friends uncover a plot to get the
adults out of the way while babies are stolen for an evil sacrifice (they
were rescued, natch), a plot orchestrated, of course, by his wickedness the
Mayor.
Following the formula, Harry appears at the beginning and end, first to set
up the plot with Mr. Trick (and to root around in his shrunken head
cabinet); then at the end to oversee the failed sacrifice, and to chew out
Mr. Trick after the plan falls through. Harry's creepiest episode yet, he's
absolutely ghoulish talking on his cell phone during the sacrifice, though I
really liked when he was threatening Mr. Trick. It turns out the whole thing
was a tribute for a demon who is torched by Buffy in the end...and the Mayor
is none too happy with this turn of events.
An episode revolving around the vampire Spike's desperate measures to win
back his lady love Drusilla, and the Scooby gang's efforts to keep him from
killing everyone in order to do it.
Only one, in his office, discussing with the deputy mayor what to do about
Spike, who caused some "shenanigans" last time he was in town. We find out
that the Mayor's sold his soul in order to get where he is today, but that's
about it as far as his plot development. This episode is such a Spike-fest,
Drusilla's not even in it.
"This year is too important to let a loose cannon rock the boat...loose
cannon, rock the boat -- is that a mixed metaphor? Boats did have cannons.
And a loose one would cause it to rock..."
Two children are murdered in a cult-style killing, and Buffy's mother is
deeply affected by it, spearheading an anti-occult movement with the other
parents. It turns out, however, that the whole thing is part of a plot to
get rid of Buffy and co.
Again, only one; the Mayor does the upstanding- citizen thing at a town
meeting when he denounces the killing. Still some debate as to whether he
orchestrated the "killings" in the first place.
The wild-child Slayer Faith pulls Buffy into her world of parties,
lawbreaking, and her mantra of "want, take, have". It's all fun and games
until somebody gets killed, and that somebody is none other than poor deputy
mayor Finch. Meanwhile the grossly obese demon Balthazar is hunting for an
amulet, partly to make himself powerful and partly to keep it away from the
Mayor, who, as Lard Demon tells Buffy with his dying breath, "when HE rises,
you'll wish I'd killed you all." Indeed, the Mayor is rising toward
something terrible: he performs an occult ceremony and orders Mr. Trick to
let a sword-wielding vampire loose on him. The vamp immediately lodges his
sword in the Mayor's head -- which heals together almost instantly. The
Mayor has become invincible and cannot be harmed for a hundred days until
the Ascension.
Wow, three this time. Definately the coolest is Harry's splitting headache
scene (ha ha!) though my Southern Baptist side had a difficult time dealing
with the pentacle- worshipping bit. (Of course, if I listened to my
churchgoing side I'd never see any good television. ;-) ) A very cool
episode all around, and a nice present after the drought of the past few
shows.
The murder of Finch is weighing heavily on Buffy's conscience, while Faith
seems not to care either way. The Mayor, meanwhile, finds that Finch was
keeping files on his activities and promptly goes about shredding them. The
news that a Slayer may have done the killing makes Wilkins very happy -- it
means he can go after the Slayers legally now. After much painful
confrontation, though, (and the dusting of Mr. Trick,) Faith makes the job
easy -- she bails from the side of the good guys and turns up at the Mayor's
door, offering her services.
At first I blew right over this episode because of the conspicuous lack of
Mayor (three scenes and holding) but over time I came to appreciate it. An
extremely dark and tense show, we get to watch the spectacle of Faith and
the steady downward spiral of her soul. Eliza Dushku is a really good
actress for being eighteen years old. She makes Faith totally harrowing and
sympathetic at once, making her the first character on Buffy (after the
Mayor) that I found myself caring about. And at the end, she joins up with
him!! I was cheering at the screen -- well, after scraping off the
gooseflesh. :)
A fun episode about the genie Anya bringing the vampire Willow from the
alternate universe Sunnydale. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with the
Mayor or the Ascension.
Only one!! He presents Faith with a groovy new apartment (and a
Playstation!) as a "present" for switching sides. A creepy-cute scene where
he fends off the oversexed Faith with, "Now, Faith, stop that. I'm a family
man." The Mayor has kids?! Now there's a scary thought.
Now we're talkin'! Faith gets reaccepted (sort of) to the Buffy gang, but no
one knows she's now working for the Mayor. She and he plot to rob Buffy's
vampire boyfriend Angel of his soul, hoping he'll kill Buffy. The Mayor
calls in a strange hooded being in for the job, unleashing "Angelus", the
evil Angel back on the world. The new couple proceed to kidnap Buffy, but in
the end...well, I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Let's just
say trickery abounds. :)
So far my favorite episode, not just because Harry's in almost every scene
(but it helps!) The Mayor has adopted the role of Faith's "daddy", playing
indulgent father figure to her pouting, sulky brat persona. He's playing her
like a fiddle; I think he plans on ultimately turning her to ashes with the
rest of Sunnydale on Ascension Day, but you never know. Part of the fun is
he acts like he's really enjoying playing daddy. You can't tell whether he's
faking or not. If he is he's having even more fun faking, which makes him
even scarier. The last scene is classic: "Two words that'll take all the
pain away. Miniature...golf." And this little cat falls down laughing.
"Now, first you load up on calcium. Then find this demon, kill the heck out
of him, and bring the books to me."
Buffy comes to realize that as long as she is the Slayer, her hopes of
leaving Sunnydale and having any kind of future are unlikely. With this in
mind she launches an offensive against the Mayor, who is awaiting a magical
box which will aid his Ascension.
Harry rocks. The more I watch this one, the more I love it. The "fatherly
advice" in the school (or what I like to call the Edna Mae speech) has got
to be one of the most important pieces of dialogue in the entire Mayor story
arc. There is much to be learned about Wilkins here if one listens closely.
The first question of course is whether this evil man could or did actually
love his wife. I argue yes, absolutely. The fact that he's still wearing his
wedding ring ninety years after the fact says a lot. One could argue that
it's the ring of a current, unnamed wife, but if that's so why bother to
mention Edna Mae at all? Why didn't he just say, "I've got a good woman at
home, boy is she gonna be surprised in a few weeks...." He mentions Edna
because she was the "big one", as close to the love of his life as he can
get. And he is bitter. That's clear from the way he talks of her growing old
and dying. His tone of voice is the tone of a bitter, widowed man. He
screwed up somewhere, he dropped the ball, he got her killed somehow and
he's still stinging over it. If Buffy was listening at all during this
speech (she probably wasn't, since the attack on Angel was so wicked) she
would have realized right then that human weakness was what might bring the
Mayor down. It's a great bit of dialogue that highlights the Mayor's
fascinating contrasts in a very short time. The entire episode is great, but
this is definitely the highlight reel.
(This speech just rocks...)
Mayor: Well, I wish you kids the best, I really do. But if you don't mind a
bit of fatherly advice, I, uh, I just don't see much of a future for you
two. I don't sense a lasting relationship. And not just because I plan to
kill the two of you, but you've got a bumpy road ahead.
Buffy: I don't think we need to talk about this.
Mayor: (chuckles) God, you kids, you know... you don't like to think about
the future, you don't like to make plans. But unless you want Faith to gut
your friend like a sea bass, you'll show a little respect for your elders.
Angel: You're not my elder. I've got a lotta years on you.
Mayor: Yeah, and that's just one of the things you're going to have to deal
with. You're immortal. She's not. It's not easy. (Reflectively) I married my
Edna Mae in ought-three and I was with her right up until the end. Not a
pretty picture. Wrinkled and senile and cursing me for my youth. Wasn't our
happiest time. (Pause) And let's not forget the fact that any moment of true
happiness will turn you evil. I mean, come on, what kind of a life can you
offer her? I don't see a lot of Sunday picnics in the offing. I see skulking
in the shadows. Hiding from the sun. (Walks toward Angel) She's a blossoming
young girl and you want to keep her from the life she should have until it's
passed her by. By God! I think that's a little selfish. (In Angel's face
now) Is that what you came back from Hell for? Is that your greater purpose?
(He stares at Angel for a moment, and then shakes his head in disgust.) Make
the trade.
As graduation (and the Ascension) approaches, Buffy and friends wonder if
they'll live to see college. Things get grimmer when they discover who the
commencement speaker will be (guess who), and when Anya the genie tells the
gang that she witnessed an Ascension 800 years ago. Meanwhile Angel is shot
down by a poisoned arrow and lies near death. The only thing that will save
him is to drain a Slayer's blood, which prompts Buffy to come gunning for
his shooter -- Faith. After a fierce rooftop battle, Buffy succeeds in
stabbing Faith, but Faith leaps from the roof into a truck headed out of
town.
Five, and they're all home runs. Adorable father/daughter moments with
Faith, which are creepy simply because you have no idea what the Mayor is
thinking -- is he planning to kill her? Does he really care about her? Is he
seeing Edna Mae when he looks at her in that dress? This is followed by a
really wicked confrontation in the library, the gang's inner sanctum, where
he threatens to eat Buffy and promises the others that their deaths will be
quick. And of course, let's not forget the icky-bleagh bug-eating scene (for
Groener's sake, I hope those were crab legs).
"That's one spunky little girl you've raised...I'm going to eat her."
With Faith's body gone with the truck, Buffy realizes Angel's only hope is
to drink Buffy's blood. He drinks enough that she falls into a coma and is
taken to the hospital -- the same hospital where a grief-stricken Mayor has
taken the comatose Faith. Realizing that Buffy is in the next room, the
Mayor attempts to kill Buffy, but is stopped by Angel. Threatening to deal a
world of pain to Buffy and Angel, he leaves, promising a second act.
Meanwhile in a coma-dream, Buffy sees Faith, and the second Slayer clues
Buffy into the Mayor's "human weakness". Waking from her coma, Buffy
understands what needs to be done and gets the Slayerettes together for a
battle plan. At the same time, the Mayor is briefing his vampire minions on
the Graduation layout, telling them to kill, not feed... "-- and boys? Let's
watch the swearing." The day of Graduation begins and the class of '99
assembles before a stage. Principal Snyder grumpily introduces the Mayor,
who launches into a seemingly dull but deeply meaning-laced speech. "There's
been grief. There's been loss. Some people who should be here today,
aren't," he notes darkly, giving Buffy a good hard stare. "But we are."
Suddenly a shadow falls over his face as the sun is eclipsed from the sky.
The second it goes completely dark the Mayor is doubled over by a
gut-wrenching pain. The Gavrok bugs are doing their work, and to the horror
of the senior class, the Mayor morphs into a thirty-foot-tall skull- faced
serpent. The beast immediately starts lunching on the guests, one of them
being the irate Principal Snyder. The graduating class tries to flee the
scene, but they are boxed in by the Mayor's vamps. But the vamps are in for
a surprise -- the senior class is armed to the teeth with crosses, stakes,
bows, arrows, flamethowers, ect. As the battle rages, Buffy gets the
serpent's attention with Faith's gift knife, still covered in Faith's blood.
"You wanna get it back from me?...Dick?" taunts Buffy. The serpent falls for
it, chasing her over the grounds into the school, crashing through walls
into the library -- which is packed with gunpowder and fertilizer. The
serpent realizes his mistake -- "Well, gosh!!" -- as outside Giles hits the
plunger; and the serpent, the library and most of the school explodes into
flames.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: God, how depressing. I know, I
know, they had to kill him eventually, but...gosh. Delayed by network
sensitivity and hyped to the status of the new Star Wars flick, it was
difficult for this episode to live up to expectations. Harry Groener was the
best thing in it, as was often the case this year. It takes a few viewings
to realize how many emotions the Mayor warp-speeds through during the
hospital scene: shock, murderous rage, anguish, and vengefulness, all in
less than five minutes. Gawd. Someone pleeze hand this man an Emmy!!
Needless to say, my personal favorite part was the revelation that, at the
end of the day, the Mayor did genuinely care about Faith. Like many others,
I was sure that he would ultimately turn on her in the end, and it was a
pleasant, bittersweet surprise to see otherwise. Which is why her part in
Buffy's dream seems so out of place. Faith seemed to be enjoying the Mayor's
attentions as much as he enjoyed giving them; why would she sell him out?
I said I wasn't going to touch that dream sequence here. I lied!! :) Did
Faith's soul or essence or whatever visit Buffy's dream, or was Buffy all
alone? I'm torn on this, because it was a beautiful scene that I really
liked, but let me argue for the moment that no, Faith was not in there. Why?
The big argument is Faith gave Buffy the knowledge that human weakness would
bring the Mayor down. But Buffy already knows this. She knows it because the
Mayor's speech in "Choices" (remember Edna?) clearly showed that he had
human feelings and he could feel regret and loss. Maybe the knowledge is
subconscious (since Buffy wasn't really listening) but if she was looking
for a way to defeat the Mayor as hard as she claimed to be, she would have
picked up on that.
Another part that got me was when the Mayor briefs the vamps on the battle
plan and jokes about the speech he's been writing for a hundred years -- but
for once, he's so down he can barely bring himself to laugh. It's the eve of
the day he's been looking forward to his whole unnatural life, and without
Faith, he can't even enjoy it. The end came too quickly for me, I personally
felt the whole battle scene could have used more....I don't know, more. The
actual serpent itself didn't seem that impressive. Remember, this thing took
up four pages in that demon book. Would he have become larger if he'd eaten
more students? We'll never know. In the end, it's disappointing all around
simply because it's over. No more looking forward to Tuesday nights for a
Mayor fix. Fudge. Rest in peace, you villainous fiend you, wherever you are.
First a little back story: Buffy and pals have moved on to UC Sunnydale,
fighting vamps, demons and a sinister organization called the Initiative,
which has created a cyborg-demon-man called Adam. Buffy has her hands full
looking for the escaped creature, but her troubles are about to get worse:
in her coma, Faith is dreaming. In a pleasant park Faith picnics with the
Mayor, having a sweet old time before Buffy comes along and brutally knifes
him. Horrified, Faith runs from the dark and murderous Buffy, running into a
graveyard and hiding in an open grave. Buffy jumps in and Faith is the only
one who emerges from the grave as rain starts to fall. In real life, Faith
wakes up. She leaves her bed, finds a girl and discovers from her that eight
months have passed and the Mayor is long dead. Knocking out the girl and
stealing her clothes, Faith sets out for revenge on Buffy. Her first
confrontation with the college girl is broken up by the police, and after
roaming the streets, Faith is approached by a demon with a package. Killing
the demon, she finds a video tape and a box from the Mayor. Faith breaks
into a TV store and watches the tape, in which the Mayor tells her that if
she's seeing this, he must be dead (very Mission Impossible of him). He
tells her that without him to watch out for her there won't be a place in
the world for her anymore, and the gift he's left in the box should help her
go out with a bang. Opening the box, Faith finds a bizarre palm-fitting
device. Armed with this, she breaks into Buffy's mother's house and torments
Joyce, about to kill her when Buffy crashes in. The two Slayers engage in a
lengthy, vicious battle, during which Faith grabs Buffy's hand. The palm
device glows and suddenly Buffy knocks Faith unconscious, smashing the
device. When Joyce asks Buffy if she's okay, Buffy replies softly, "Five by
five" -- and an insane glint comes into her eyes. Faith has switched bodies
with Buffy.
Two very brief, but very heartbreaking appearances from the man. First that
beautiful picnic dream which, even with it's gory end, presents another
point against the Faith-helped-Buffy-at-Graduation argument. The two dreams
are very similar in that Buffy and Faith each dream of someone they care
very much about, surrounded by beauty, in an ideal light. Faith dreams of a
non-evil fatherly Mayor who takes her on picnics, Buffy dreams of a non-evil
Faith who's nice and a helpful Slayer. Both these dreams could be wishful
thinking on each Slayer's part. Were they? We may never know.
I personally think the videotape scene is the absolute best Mayor scene ever
on the show, not without subversivness but still very sad, and very sweet.
Now if only Mayor Wilkins could keep showing up as Faith's Obi-Wan Kenobi
every few episodes....
In the years since Season 4, Buffy has slayed many bad guys, come back from the dead, proven herself to be a good mommy and whatever. Now she has to face the supposed greatest monster of them all, the First Evil.
Only one, as the First Evil takes the shape of the Mayor to taunt Spike about wanting his soul back.
Buffy is sheltering a mass of girls known as Potentials from the First Evil or something, while all the other characters appear to be acting out one of those "orgies at Buffy's house" fanfictions that are so prevalent on the web. (Sorry, but that's about all I got from this...)
At last, the Mayor (or the First Evil pretending to be him) finally appears to Faith. Does he ask her why she decided to sell him out and go running back to Buffy's side after he housed her, gave her a knife, treated her like a daughter? Nope. Just warns her that Buffy will try to kill her again. (At this point, I wish his prediction had come true.)
(If you want to see how I would've done it, hasten to the Fanfic Page for a lesson on how to *really* tell a supervillian's tale.)
Buffy and Cordelia are having a no-holds-barred battle to become the
Homecoming Queen. Unfortunately the vampire Mr. Trick decides to turn the
competition into "Slayerfest '98" an assassination-game style hunt in which
various vamps and villians hunt Buffy and Cordy. Meanwhile, the Mayor takes
an interest in the deathmatch and arranges a meeting/kidnapping of Mr.
Trick, to introduce himself as the real power in town.
All the adults in Sunnydale revert to teenage behavior after downing the
school fundraiser candy bars. Buffy and friends uncover a plot to get the
adults out of the way while babies are stolen for an evil sacrifice (they
were rescued, natch), a plot orchestrated, of course, by his wickedness the
Mayor.
An episode revolving around the vampire Spike's desperate measures to win
back his lady love Drusilla, and the Scooby gang's efforts to keep him from
killing everyone in order to do it.
Two children are murdered in a cult-style killing, and Buffy's mother is
deeply affected by it, spearheading an anti-occult movement with the other
parents. It turns out, however, that the whole thing is part of a plot to
get rid of Buffy and co.
The wild-child Slayer Faith pulls Buffy into her world of parties,
lawbreaking, and her mantra of "want, take, have". It's all fun and games
until somebody gets killed, and that somebody is none other than poor deputy
mayor Finch. Meanwhile the grossly obese demon Balthazar is hunting for an
amulet, partly to make himself powerful and partly to keep it away from the
Mayor, who, as Lard Demon tells Buffy with his dying breath, "when HE rises,
you'll wish I'd killed you all." Indeed, the Mayor is rising toward
something terrible: he performs an occult ceremony and orders Mr. Trick to
let a sword-wielding vampire loose on him. The vamp immediately lodges his
sword in the Mayor's head -- which heals together almost instantly. The
Mayor has become invincible and cannot be harmed for a hundred days until
the Ascension.
The murder of Finch is weighing heavily on Buffy's conscience, while Faith
seems not to care either way. The Mayor, meanwhile, finds that Finch was
keeping files on his activities and promptly goes about shredding them. The
news that a Slayer may have done the killing makes Wilkins very happy -- it
means he can go after the Slayers legally now. After much painful
confrontation, though, (and the dusting of Mr. Trick,) Faith makes the job
easy -- she bails from the side of the good guys and turns up at the Mayor's
door, offering her services.
A fun episode about the genie Anya bringing the vampire Willow from the
alternate universe Sunnydale. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with the
Mayor or the Ascension.
Now we're talkin'! Faith gets reaccepted (sort of) to the Buffy gang, but no
one knows she's now working for the Mayor. She and he plot to rob Buffy's
vampire boyfriend Angel of his soul, hoping he'll kill Buffy. The Mayor
calls in a strange hooded being in for the job, unleashing "Angelus", the
evil Angel back on the world. The new couple proceed to kidnap Buffy, but in
the end...well, I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Let's just
say trickery abounds. :)
Buffy comes to realize that as long as she is the Slayer, her hopes of
leaving Sunnydale and having any kind of future are unlikely. With this in
mind she launches an offensive against the Mayor, who is awaiting a magical
box which will aid his Ascension.
As graduation (and the Ascension) approaches, Buffy and friends wonder if
they'll live to see college. Things get grimmer when they discover who the
commencement speaker will be (guess who), and when Anya the genie tells the
gang that she witnessed an Ascension 800 years ago. Meanwhile Angel is shot
down by a poisoned arrow and lies near death. The only thing that will save
him is to drain a Slayer's blood, which prompts Buffy to come gunning for
his shooter -- Faith. After a fierce rooftop battle, Buffy succeeds in
stabbing Faith, but Faith leaps from the roof into a truck headed out of
town.
With Faith's body gone with the truck, Buffy realizes Angel's only hope is
to drink Buffy's blood. He drinks enough that she falls into a coma and is
taken to the hospital -- the same hospital where a grief-stricken Mayor has
taken the comatose Faith. Realizing that Buffy is in the next room, the
Mayor attempts to kill Buffy, but is stopped by Angel. Threatening to deal a
world of pain to Buffy and Angel, he leaves, promising a second act.
Meanwhile in a coma-dream, Buffy sees Faith, and the second Slayer clues
Buffy into the Mayor's "human weakness". Waking from her coma, Buffy
understands what needs to be done and gets the Slayerettes together for a
battle plan. At the same time, the Mayor is briefing his vampire minions on
the Graduation layout, telling them to kill, not feed... "-- and boys? Let's
watch the swearing." The day of Graduation begins and the class of '99
assembles before a stage. Principal Snyder grumpily introduces the Mayor,
who launches into a seemingly dull but deeply meaning-laced speech. "There's
been grief. There's been loss. Some people who should be here today,
aren't," he notes darkly, giving Buffy a good hard stare. "But we are."
Suddenly a shadow falls over his face as the sun is eclipsed from the sky.
The second it goes completely dark the Mayor is doubled over by a
gut-wrenching pain. The Gavrok bugs are doing their work, and to the horror
of the senior class, the Mayor morphs into a thirty-foot-tall skull- faced
serpent. The beast immediately starts lunching on the guests, one of them
being the irate Principal Snyder. The graduating class tries to flee the
scene, but they are boxed in by the Mayor's vamps. But the vamps are in for
a surprise -- the senior class is armed to the teeth with crosses, stakes,
bows, arrows, flamethowers, ect. As the battle rages, Buffy gets the
serpent's attention with Faith's gift knife, still covered in Faith's blood.
"You wanna get it back from me?...Dick?" taunts Buffy. The serpent falls for
it, chasing her over the grounds into the school, crashing through walls
into the library -- which is packed with gunpowder and fertilizer. The
serpent realizes his mistake -- "Well, gosh!!" -- as outside Giles hits the
plunger; and the serpent, the library and most of the school explodes into
flames.
First a little back story: Buffy and pals have moved on to UC Sunnydale,
fighting vamps, demons and a sinister organization called the Initiative,
which has created a cyborg-demon-man called Adam. Buffy has her hands full
looking for the escaped creature, but her troubles are about to get worse:
in her coma, Faith is dreaming. In a pleasant park Faith picnics with the
Mayor, having a sweet old time before Buffy comes along and brutally knifes
him. Horrified, Faith runs from the dark and murderous Buffy, running into a
graveyard and hiding in an open grave. Buffy jumps in and Faith is the only
one who emerges from the grave as rain starts to fall. In real life, Faith
wakes up. She leaves her bed, finds a girl and discovers from her that eight
months have passed and the Mayor is long dead. Knocking out the girl and
stealing her clothes, Faith sets out for revenge on Buffy. Her first
confrontation with the college girl is broken up by the police, and after
roaming the streets, Faith is approached by a demon with a package. Killing
the demon, she finds a video tape and a box from the Mayor. Faith breaks
into a TV store and watches the tape, in which the Mayor tells her that if
she's seeing this, he must be dead (very Mission Impossible of him). He
tells her that without him to watch out for her there won't be a place in
the world for her anymore, and the gift he's left in the box should help her
go out with a bang. Opening the box, Faith finds a bizarre palm-fitting
device. Armed with this, she breaks into Buffy's mother's house and torments
Joyce, about to kill her when Buffy crashes in. The two Slayers engage in a
lengthy, vicious battle, during which Faith grabs Buffy's hand. The palm
device glows and suddenly Buffy knocks Faith unconscious, smashing the
device. When Joyce asks Buffy if she's okay, Buffy replies softly, "Five by
five" -- and an insane glint comes into her eyes. Faith has switched bodies
with Buffy.
In the years since Season 4, Buffy has slayed many bad guys, come back from the dead, proven herself to be a good mommy and whatever. Now she has to face the supposed greatest monster of them all, the First Evil.
Buffy is sheltering a mass of girls known as Potentials from the First Evil or something, while all the other characters appear to be acting out one of those "orgies at Buffy's house" fanfictions that are so prevalent on the web. (Sorry, but that's about all I got from this...)
