Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 7, Episode 1: Lessons, Original air date: 9/24/02

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Buffy and Dawn are at the cemetery patrolling, where Buffy is teaching Dawn the finer points of slaying. It's basically a lesson in who has the power.

The next morning is Dawn's first day of school, at the newly reopened Sunnydale High School. Both Dawn and Buffy are nervous. Meanwhile, Willow is over in England with Giles learning how to control her magic. Willow feels something very evil in the ground.

At the high school, Buffy is wandering around after having dropped off Dawn to classes. Buffy runs into the spirits of some of her previous classmates, the ones that she failed to save. Later these same spirits attack Dawn, and her new friends Kit and Carlos. Eventually, with the help of a slightly insane Spike, she tells Xander to look for a talisman. He finds it in the girl's bathroom and destroys it, which destroys the evil spirits.

Later, the principal offers Buffy a job as a counselor. At the very end of the episode, we see Spike is being tormented by a being that shifts from the forms of Glory, to Adam, to the Mayor, to Drusilla, to the Master, and finally, to Buffy herself. The shape-shifter's last words echo Buffy words to Dawn from the slaying lesson at the beginning of the episode - "It's about power."

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