Welcome to Rewatching Buffy, the part of the blog where I rewatch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Each Tuesday evening, you’re invited to join me as I attempt to rediscover what made me love this show 20 years ago.

Lover’s Walk

• Everyone got their SAT scores back! Happy day!
• Buffy did really well. Guess she can finally apply to any college she wants and leave Sunnydale forever.
• Just kidding. She’ll be going to a completely convenient college that just happens to exist in town that we never heard of until it becomes crucial to the plot of the show.
• Oh, and Spike returns.
• That should have probably been presented with more flourish…
• Spike is back!
• He’s extremely drunk and heads back to the burned down warehouse.
• Poor guy is all heartbroken. I guess he and Drusilla broke up.
• Meanwhile, Willow & Oz and Xander & Cordelia are planning a double date.
• That’ll probably go really well, what with Xander and Willow’s recent streak of inappropriate flirting and kissing.
• Giles is also excited about Buffy’s SAT scores and agrees that she could go away to college. Especially with Faith being a Slayer and still being in Sunnydale.
• Spike is still drunk. And stalking Angel now… He heads to the magic shop, looking for something to curse Angel.
• Clearly, Drusilla leaving Spike was all Angel’s fault.
• While he was in the shop, Willow came by to pick up supplies for an anti-love spell for her and Xander.
• Spike kills the shopkeeper and decides he’ll use Willow to cast a love spell for him and Dru. Brilliant plan.
• The Mayor is aware of Spike’s return. He wants him taken care of.
• While Willow attempts the spell, Spike knocks out Xander and kidnaps the two of them.
• He threatens to kill Xander unless Willow does the love spell he wants.
• Willow agrees to do what he wants, but she needs supplies.
• While Buffy is at the library training on her own, Oz and Cordelia show up worried about the missing Willow and Xander
• Joyce calls Buffy at the library to schedule a college talk and Buffy hears Spike’s voice in the background. Panic mode.
• Angel sees Spike pouring out his heart to Joyce (who is very understanding).
• She freaks out because she doesn’t realize that Angel isn’t evil. It’s all so confusing for Joyce.
• Buffy arrives and clears things up.
• Buffy and Angel agree to help Spike as long as he leads them to Willow and Xander.
• Meanwhile, Buffy has sent Oz and Cordelia to find Giles at some retreat in the woods.
• On the way there, Oz catches a whiff of Willow. Residual werewolf power… I guess.
• Back at the warehouse, Xander regains consciousness.
• Xander and Wilow begin making out because… reasons.
• Oz and Cordelia walk in on them because… he could smell where Willow was.
• Cordelia tries to head back upstairs, obviously upset at seeing Xander kissing Willow. The stairs collapse and she’s impaled by a steel rod.
• While Buffy, Angel, and Spike are getting more supplies at the magic shop, they’re attacked by some of the Mayor’s henchvamps.
• There’s a big fight in the streets. The good guys (& Spike) take down four of the vampires before the rest take off.
• Spike realizes that violence is fun. So he’s gonna go back to Dru, tie her up and torture her until she likes him again.
• And he confesses that Willow and Xander are at the factory.
• They try to make us think that Cordelia dies from her injury. But she’ll be fine.
• I mean, she’s heartbroken and her relationship with Xander is over. But she’ll be fine.
• Body Count: Humans – 1; Vampires – 4