Buffy is pleasantly surprised when a friend from her old high school shows up in Sunnydale. Then, she’s unpleasantly surprised when Ford catches her staking a vampire. Then she’s pleasantly surprised again when he tells her that he already knows she is The Slayer. Then she’s unpleasantly surprised when he tries to kill her by trapping her for Spike. Also, Willow sneaks Angel into her room and Giles goes to a Monster Truck Rally.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: November 3, 1997

Guest Stars:
Julia Lee (Chanterelle)
Jason Behr (Billy ‘Ford’ Fordham)

Trivia:

• Jason Behr (who played Ford) reunited with SMG in 2004’s The Grudge
• The fake vampire who greets Buffy when she visits the Sunset Club is actually Todd McIntosh, the show’s make-up supervisor.

Quotes:

Buffy: “It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song ‘I Touch Myself’…Of course, I had no idea what it was about.”
(minutes later…)
Willow: (realizes) “Oh, that’s what that song is about?!”

Buffy: “Does it ever get easy?”
Giles: “You mean life?”
Buffy: “Yeah. Does it get easy?”
Giles: “What do you want me to say?”
Buffy: “Lie to me.”
Giles: “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.”
Buffy: “Liar.”

Key Events:

• Buffy tells Angel she loves him for the first time in this episode.

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