Lie to Me
After observing Angel talking to a strange, attractive woman, Buffy starts moping-right until the arrival of Billy Fordham, "Ford" to his friends. Buffy's former crush and best friend for many years at her old high school, Ford says he's transferred to Sunnydale High. In due course, Ford reveals that he knows that Buffy is the Slayer. A suspicious Angel has Willow check up on him, and they discover that he hasn't actually transferred and that he's part of a club that worships vampires and wishes to become like them. Ford's plan is to give Spike the Slayer in exchange for becoming a vampire-a preferred alternative to dying of a brain tumor, which is his expected fate. Buffy however, manages to turn the tables on him and prevent the club members from being massacred by Spike and Drusilla. The entire episode continues to turn on the theme of lies, and the title becomes particularly valid in the poignant conversation at the episode's end between Buffy and Giles, as she asks him to lie to her, to to tell her everything will be all right. Buffy is jealous when she seess Angel with Drusilla and latches onto Ford as soon as he arrives, even hanging around with him to the exlusion of Angel at the Bronze. Later though, she finally comes out and admits that she loves Angel. Spike has one of his vampires steal the du lac manuscript from the library(later used in "What's My Line?"). Buffy learns of Drusilla's existence; Giles had believed her killed in Prague("School Hard"). Willow points out to Angel that he's acted jealous in the past, and he seems to understand. Angel details how he tortured Drusilla and made her insane before he finally changed her into a vampire.
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