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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